Chapter 976

At the same time, Naruko also sensed that the fox's power within her had begun to stir abnormally, but perhaps because it had been split into three portions and sealed separately by her family, this strange sensation that could almost affect her emotions gradually faded away from her!

"This fluctuation? Is it genjutsu…?" Just as Naruko was trying to act as if nothing were wrong so as not to worry her friends, she hadn't expected that Sanae had also sensed the anomaly.

Just like the restless tailed-beast chakra within Naruko's body, her Sharingan, which had never been activated before, was directly induced to open, but the three of them tensed up and stood on guard for a long time, yet no one appeared to attack them!

Hiss! "Then Kimimaro, please begin your performance… don't leave them any room to catch their breath. What we need is experimental material, not trouble."

In the depths of the jungle, a giant python coiled around the trees opened its mouth, and the long-missing Orochimaru, leading Yakushi Kabuto and Kimimaro, walked out from within it.

Thanks to the intelligence provided by Lin Cheng, during this period of seclusion, Orochimaru, who never stops, finally managed to find a way to resolve Kimimaro's kekkei genkai disease. Although there was no immediate effect, as long as the treatment continued over the long term, it could fundamentally solve this difficult problem. You have to know that for Orochimaru, making changes at the genetic level is not hard; what is hard is that after scrambling and rearranging an entire strand of genes, you can still restore the original individual.

"Lord Orochimaru… after this mission, may I trouble you to spare some more time?" Kimimaro unfastened the loose, easy-to-remove long robe on his body, and through the mutated bones of the Shikotsumyaku, pierced through his skin, transforming his entire body into a bone-spike monster!

"You know it would be troublesome, don't you?" Orochimaru narrowed his eyes with a somewhat mischievous glint. The reaction of the newly reborn Kimimaro was truly curious, but wanting him to perform surgery again? Heh heh."

"I'm sorry, Lord Orochimaru… I overstepped just now." Kimimaro, somewhat embarrassed, hurriedly admitted his fault, then hesitated for a moment, and as if having made a decision, withdrew the request he had been about to make.

Two arms, far more slender than his former self, trembled, and two sharp bone spears shot out from his palms. Now that he had become a girl, Kimimaro felt that he had actually become stronger.

She could control more bones on her body, and at the same time unlock more dances.

"Although a female body doesn't have the same strength as before, it has also given me greater agility. I understand Lord Orochimaru's expectations of me… I will absolutely not disappoint you!"

"Ahhhh!"

From somewhere in the forest came a faint scream, its ferocity causing all the genin from various countries still groping their way forward to involuntarily take a deep breath. Someone had already begun to act; only at this moment did everyone truly realize the cruelty of this second match!

"Go, bring over those marked ones. Calculating the time… this really is a good opportunity!" Turning a deaf ear to that distant scream, Kaguya-hime found a clean clearing. A delicate tatami mat and tea set appeared out of thin air with a wave of her hand. Kojizuo nodded, then vanished into the trees, no longer disturbing his mother, who was in a rare poetic mood!

This scream that almost pierced through the entire examination ground was produced by Kimimaro. Orochimaru's orders were absolute to her. In Kimimaro's simple reasoning, displaying her current strength as much as possible could be considered the greatest reward for Lord Orochimaru. Therefore, fully utilizing various skills on the enemy and using shocking facts to demonstrate it was the most direct way!

"Gruk!"

The three victims were pierced through from bottom to top by bone spikes erupting from the ground, but this did not kill them; the bone spikes very precisely avoided the vital organs!

Kimimaro expressionlessly examined the bloodstained 【Intelligence Scroll】 in her hand, then destroyed it without the slightest hesitation, and afterward left without looking back. As for the "works of art" she had personally crafted, they could no longer arouse her interest!

"The next target, is it over there?" Tying the forehead protectors carried by the three genin who had already become "works of art" around her waist—this was proof of her hunt… Until Lord Orochimaru calls a halt, she will continue hunting those utterly defenseless genin in this forest!

In the dense forest, quite a few people had already begun to position themselves. A Grass genin, his entire body in an utterly wretched state, was struggling to weave between the tree trunks, subconsciously touching the signal in his ninja tool pouch.

Whoosh!