Chapter 61: Question: How to kill that snake? Urgent, waiting online!

The flames of war have already swallowed the Sakurahara fortress.

The sounds of battle cries, the clashing of metal from swords, and the explosions of Ninjutsu all blended together, turning into a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.

There are no pink cherry blossoms in Sakurahara during winter, only severed limbs and broken trees.

Orochimaru murmured, "Oh-ho-ho-ho, it is fortunate there are no cherry blossoms."

"If there were no cherry blossoms, they wouldn't be stained black by the smoke of gunpowder, mixed with blood and dust, dancing in disarray in the wind."

"How truly fortunate."

The Fourth Raikage roared, "Bastard, you stinking snake, fight me properly!"

Orochimaru laughed, "Oh-ho-ho-ho," and said, "Fool, I am fighting you properly!"

"But you, a muscle-head, insist on forcing a ninja like me to go head-to-head with you; don't you think you're the one who's gone astray?"

The Fourth Raikage continued to roar, "Go to hell, Yirai Shinrai Fu!"

Splat—!

Blood splattered and flesh flew, but Orochimaru's laughter continued: "Oh-ho-ho-ho, you missed your target, idiot."

The Fourth Raikage was even more furious, but the momentum of his roar had already withered quite a bit.

There was no helping it; the battle had started in the morning, and it had been a full six hours by now.

To fight for six consecutive hours against an Orochimaru who was slippery and impossible to hit, and who couldn't be killed even if hit—for the Fourth Raikage to still have the spirit to fight now was truly a testament to his iron will.

Look at the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee; isn't he already wilted?

It wasn't from exhaustion; it was from being fed up.

Six hours!

But at the nearby Sakurahara fortress, the battle was still raging intensely.

The fortress walls were already covered in scorch marks, and at several gaps collapsed by Earth Style, Konoha Ninja and Cloud Ninja were locked in a desperate struggle.

The Cloud Ninja relied on their formidable bodies and sharp Lightning Release Ninjutsu to forcefully charge the gaps.

The Konoha Ninja relied on their solid skills and systematic Ninjutsu to fight back against the enemy's offensive.

Both sides remained locked in a stalemate at the gaps, with corpses piled several layers thick, and blood flowing down from the top of the walls like a stream.

"Kill!"

A Cloud Ninja held a Short Sword, reinforced its sharpness with lightning chakra, and fiercely slashed through a Konoha Ninja's Headband and his head.

Before the blade could even be pulled out, another Konoha Ninja unleashed a Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique, blowing him into pieces here and there.

The next second, this Konoha Ninja was struck in the heart by a Lightning Style: Lightning Needle from who knows where, and he fell down, twitching all over, becoming part of the pile of corpses.

But generally speaking, in this kind of positional defense battle, the more numerous and aggressive Cloud Ninja held the upper hand.

Seeing that more Konoha Ninja were dying, and that many were clearly young children, the Fourth Raikage turned his head and mocked Orochimaru, "Orochimaru of Konoha, what is the use of hiding so well?"

"Your subordinates are about to be wiped out!"

"Today, Sakurahara will surely be trampled flat by my Cloud Hidden Army! Tomorrow, the Cloud Hidden Army will strike straight at Konohagakure!"

The roar of the Fourth Raikage Ai resounded across the battlefield, attracting all eyes.

Under the gaze of everyone, the muscles beneath his skin suddenly bulged, his entire body wrapped in pale blue lightning chakra, the electricity crackling, and his momentum climbed to another level.

The next moment, the Raikage's figure turned into a bolt of lightning, suddenly appearing at the gap in the Sakurahara fortress and charging into the Konoha Ninja.

With a single Lariat, he smashed out, sending several Konoha Ninja flying, the sound of their bones shattering clearly audible.

Seeing his big brother lose his composure and target ordinary ninja as a Kage, Killer Bee couldn't help but shake his head in sympathy.

Orochimaru was simply too slippery, so it was normal for his big brother to lose his temper, but if this got out, the Raikage's reputation would inevitably be greatly affected.

But there was no helping it; who told him to be the big brother?

No matter what his big brother did, he, Killer Bee, had to back him up!

Killer Bee pushed up his sunglasses and began to rap: "Yo~ yo~~ Raikage brother charges at the front, the power of the Eight-Tails has no end, the Konoha brats are too pathetic, they'll be saying goodbye very soon!"

While rapping, he drew his Seven Swords, pushing the seven-sword style of the Arakurubachi to its limit, turning into a blade storm, charging through the Konoha Ninja crowd as fast as lightning.

In the blink of an eye, over a dozen Konoha Ninja had their bodies slashed open, blood spraying out.

The blood splattered on Killer Bee's sunglasses stripped away his disguise as a funny rapper, exposing the true nature of a fierce and cruel jinchuriki.

Even more terrifying was the Eight-Tails Gyuki inside him, which cooperated by manifesting octopus tentacles behind him, heavily whipping the ground and the walls, expanding the gap a little more with every strike.

Seeing the Fourth Raikage playing dirty, Orochimaru did not rashly charge up, but instead cast his gaze toward the main force of the Cloud Hidden Army.

"Oh-ho-ho-ho, you have no shame, so must I, Orochimaru, have shame?"

"Yamanaka Chujiu once said, the best tactic is: you fight your way, I fight mine."

"Since you two can't do anything to me, you slaughter the weak Konoha Ninja; do you think my efficiency at killing is worse than yours?"

"I am, after all, the Orochimaru who has fought against Hanzo the Salamander!"

"Ninja Art: Myriad Snake Array!!"

Cold chakra erupted, and countless venomous snakes surged from the shadows beneath Orochimaru's feet, rushing toward the Cloud Hidden Army like a tide.

Ninja are not afraid of snakes, but when the quantity reaches the level of a tide, everything is different.

These summoned venomous snakes not only had fangs and could spray venom, but after being killed, they would "explode," spraying out their full cavity of poisonous blood, turning into a green Poison mist.

This type of snake was something Orochimaru had deliberately cultivated by imitating Hanzo's Poison mist; its greatest use was not to bite the enemy, but to create a Poison zone after dying, forming a battlefield environment favorable to him.

The Cloud Ninja did not know the secret of the venomous snakes and killed a large number of them with high efficiency, the result being that green Poison mist permeated the area, which even Wind Style could hardly disperse.

There was no ripple on Orochimaru's face, his golden slit pupils flashing with a calm and cruel light as he quietly watched the struggle of the Cloud Ninja under the permeating Poison mist.

It was as if he were observing an interesting battlefield experiment.

The killing efficiency of the thick Poison mist was simply too strong; in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people were clutching their throats, falling to the ground in agony, twitching and foaming at the mouth.

The Fourth Raikage Ai and Killer Bee charged into the fortress gap and hacked and slashed for several minutes, but together they hadn't even managed to kill fifty Konoha Ninja.

The Raikage Ai suddenly looked at Orochimaru, his eyes instantly as sharp as knives, the lightning chakra overflowing from his body becoming increasingly explosive and dense: "Orochimaru! You are courting death!"

Orochimaru sneered: "Ai, you were the one who acted shamelessly first, and can you really kill me?"

The Fourth Raikage was momentarily struck speechless.

Over the past few hours, he had tried every method, having split Orochimaru vertically, severed him horizontally, charred him with lightning, hacked him into ten thousand pieces, and...

But as soon as he stopped, a snake would emerge from nowhere, the snake would spit out a larger snake, and finally, it would spit out a slimy Orochimaru.

Truly, Ai really did not know what to do to kill Orochimaru.