Chapter – 478 Fujin vs Orochimaru

The current Edo Tensei is different from the Edo Tensei used by Kabuto during the Fourth Great Shinobi War. There are two reasons for this, first is that the development of Edo Tensei Jutsu is not advanced enough so the Jutsu is still in the premature stage and the second reason is that Orochimaru has added several restrictions on the Edo Tensei to make sure that the reanimated beings remain in his absolute control, this is why several abilities of Edo Tensei are not in Orochimaru's control.

For example, unlike Kabuto, the current Orochimaru can not occupy the bodies of Edo Tensei. And directly perceiving the battle situation through the Reanimations is somewhat difficult for Orochimaru because he can not carry out ultra-long-distance remote control of the Edo Tensei.

Of course, this also has its advantages, as Orochimaru's location can not be perceived by the Edo Tensei either unlike what happened with Kabuto.

In the cannon, Kabuto established a long-distance chakra connection with all his Edo Tensei, as a result, his location was perceived by Uchiha Itachi who came to him and directly gave him a shot of 'Izanami' to undo the Edo Tensei Jutsu which became one of the major turning points of the fourth great Shinobi War.

Anyway, because Orochimaru can't occupy the body of Edo Tensei on the battlefield, therefore, he can not confirm the exact battle situation at the moment, but through observation from distance, and the fact that the forest has returned to calm; he judged that perhaps the battle has really come to an end, and Fujin has been defeated.

"It seems the presence of Yuhi Kurenai became the cause of Fujin's defeat… it works for me I suppose, now I can also study the secrets of Magnet Release Kekkei Genkai. Plus, this fight also gave me a lot of data and insight on the shortcomings of Edo Tensei… and I know how to improve this Jutsu further." Muttered Orochimaru with a thoughtful look, then he raised his hands to weave the hand signs in order to put back the Edo Tensei inside the coffin.

Boom Boom Boom Boom

But just as he prepared to remove the Edo Tensei, the earth trembled…

Orochimaru's eyes condensed, his hands came to an abrupt halt, and he muttered to himself, "Is he still not defeated?"

As soon as his voice fell, a shocking scene appeared in front of him.

Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish

Amidst the sound of ground rumbling and wind-cutting, countless sharp and thick bone spears rose from the ground. These bone spears were so sharp that all the trees blocking them were instantly pierced and shredded into multiple fragments.

"Shikotsumyaku…?!!" Orochimaru was startled when he realized that someone was using this rare Kekkei Genkai, and muttered, "It isn't Fujin but someone else? Is there anyone else here? Could it be Kaguya Takashi of the Akatsuki Organization?"

The pale white bones were still coming out of the ground, and soon these bone spears reached the Shrine and pierced through the stone walls of the Shrine.

In the blink of an eye, the endless green forest became an endless white bone forest, wherever eyes could see, only sharp white bone spears were visible, even the tall tree on which Orochimaru stood wasn't spared and the Bones soon spears reached him.

Orochimaru's figure shook and dangerously avoided the bone spear that suddenly appeared under his feet, but even then, the Bone spear managed to cut his cheek slightly and continued to rise high above.

Orochimaru landed a little distance away and looked at these bone spears with a dignified expression, then tried to locate the new enemy who was using Shikotsumyaku.

While Orochimaru was trying to locate the new enemy, suddenly a figure appeared on a bone spear behind him, the figure raised the bone blade extending out of the palm of his hand, and slashed it horizontally without any hesitation.

Slash… puff…

The bone blade was slashed across and soon brought a bloody flower.

Although Orochimaru was able to perceive the sudden appearance of the person behind him because of sensing the body heat, it was a step too late because the enemy's speed was too fast. He did manage to dodge the attack, but he was still harmed as the person behind him managed to cut his back deeply to the point that inner bones were visible.

'Dodged it huh?' the person didn't care and again merged back into the bone spear.

Orochimaru, who has retreated sharply turned around and barely managed to see the person who attacked him, and noting the identity of the person, he can't help but frown, "Fujin?!"

Although, he didn't clearly see the appearance of the person and soon lost trace of his presence, however, Orochimaru was quite certain that it was Fujin.

'Fujin also has Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai?' Immediately Orochimaru's heart shook, and he muttered to himself, "Fujin can not only use Magnet Release but also Shikotsumyaku? Two Kekkei Genkai at the same time? Was he born with two Kekkei Genkai similar to Terumi Mei of Kirigakure or has he stolen them from different Kekkei Genkai shinobi similar to Hiruko by using Chimera Jutsu?"

Both doubts are reasonable but their implications are different… now is not the time to delve too deeply into this matter, so after suppressing the doubts in his heart, Orochimaru looked around with utmost vigilance.

Orochimaru knows the Jutsu the other party is using, it is one of the secret Jutsu of the Kaguya Clan, the name of this Secret Jutsu is 'Dance of the Seedling Fern' and it is one of the strongest Jutsu of the Kaguya Clan. Once this Jutsu is used, a forest of bones will appear and this entire bone forest will become the opponent's area of control. With this Jutsu, Fujin can freely shuttle from one bone spear to another without any worry of being perceived by the enemy.

The only shortcoming of this Jutsu is that it has high chakra consumption and places a heavy burden on the body of the user, even the Patriarch of the Kaguya Clan dare not use it casually and even if he is in a serious pinch, the Patriarch would only use it as a last resort.

Orochimaru looked around vigilantly and didn't really care about the injury on his back as the wound on his back was quickly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The wound on his back was indeed fatal, but was only for ordinary ninjas, for Orochimaru such a wound is nothing, after all, he has mastered the 'Secret Technique of Physical Regeneration' and the 'Forbidden Technique of Living Corpse Reincarnation.' Orochimaru can unscrupulously squeeze the potential of the body without a care in the world, and even if the upper limit of maximum cell division in the body is exhausted it's not that big of a deal for him as all he has to do is change the vessel.

Boom Boom Boom

While Orochimaru looked around vigilantly, the battle between Hashirama and Fujin's Bone Clone was still going on. Trees and Bone Spears were fighting against each other and it was a total mess.

Attracted by the sound, Orochimaru glanced at the far end.

At this moment, the Edo Tensei Hashirama and Tobirama were entangled in the forest of trees and the forest of bones, which is completely meaningless, after all, the main enemy is there, so Orochimaru decided to call them here. As long as those two Edo Hokage were to arrive near him, Orochimaru has the confidence of winning the battle by dragging it out until Fujin's Chakra reserves are exhausted.

But just as he revealed his intention to weave the hand signs to summon the Edo Tensei here, hundreds of figures appeared out of the Bone Spears around him and all of them rushed towards him.

'Multi Bone Clone Jutsu? How high are his Chakra reserves?' Orochimaru immediately reached this conclusion and immediately crouched towards the ground, and spat out countless snakes from his mouth.

'Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!'

Tens of thousands of Giant Snakes appeared out of Orochimaru's mouth and rushed towards hundreds of Bone Clones of Fujin. As they reached closer and closer to Fujin's Bones Clones, the snakes opened their mouth out of which Kusanagi-like blades appeared and stretched towards the Bone Clones.

'Dance of Willow!'

None of the Bone Clone was panicked, they just crouched down and several bones appeared out of their bodies, and in this state, all the Bone Clone started to dodge or defended the Kusanagi-like blades, at the same time, starting a snake-killing spree.

While the Bone Clones were busy dealing with the ten-thousand snakes, the main Fujin, who was still hidden inside a Bone Spear, appeared out, and after weaving the hand seals, he shouted, "Typhoon Release: Great Consecutive Bursting Extreme Winds!"

Immediately, under Fujin's control, a massive tornado intense enough to even dwarf the likes of Complete Body Susano'o was summoned with himself as the center and everything including the tens of thousands of giant snakes, large bone spears, and even all the bone clones in the vicinity were affected by the high-speed strong winds of the tornado and were instantly shredded into countless pieces and engulfed by the Tornado.

'Typhoon Release? Another Kekkei Genkai, it seems my guess is indeed correct!' Orochimaru thought upon noticing the appearance of such a massive tornado, he didn't dare to be careless in the face of this Jutsu and immediately used 'Hiding in the Surface Technique' to hide under the ground and then traveled towards the eye of the storm in order to exploit the weakness of this Jutsu.

The eye of the tornado is the weakness of this Jutsu as there are no winds in the center, so the user is left defenseless here, and Orochimaru intends to exploit this weakness.

But how could Fujin not know such an obvious weakness?

So, the moment, Orochimaru entered under the surface area of the eye of the storm the Bone Spears that were still present in the ground immediately started to grow, but different from before, this time, the bones did not grow like spears or blades, instead, they grew like fibrous roots in order to kill Orochimaru, and if not kill then make him come out of the ground.

The moment Orochimaru noticed the bone Roots spreading under the ground and restricting his movements by continuously attacking him, Orochimaru was again surprised and immediately ejected himself out of the ground and then jumped upwards.

Since currently the two of them were in the eye of the tornado so Orochimaru still intended to use this opportunity and immediately after weaving hand signs, he shouted again, 'Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld!'

Under Orochimaru's control, the ground in the surrounding turned into a large swamp, so the bone spears that were standing high inside the eye of the storm immediately started to sink.

Of course, Fujin had to continuously jump from one Bone Spear to another in order to not get swallowed by the Swamp that was spreading.

Seeing that Fujin was jumping around from one Bone Spear to the other maintaining his balance in order to stay away from the swamp, Orochimaru smirked and immediately stretched out both his hand towards Fujin, 'Many Hidden Shadow Snake Hand!'

Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish

With the sound of breaking wind, dozens of large snakes shot out of Orochimaru's sleeves and pounced on Fujin.

However, even before those dozens of large snakes could approach Fujin, they were all chopped into countless pieces by Fujin's white hair that had elongated and took the form of multiple sharp blades.

And Fujin didn't stop there, immediately after dealing with the Many Shadow Snake Hands, he controlled his long white hair and shot hundreds of large Hairs Senbon towards Orochimaru, 'Hair Needle Senbon!'

Orochimaru's expression shrank as soon as he saw countless hair needles coming toward him but soon returned to calm.

As one of the Legendary Sannin, Orochimaru has also seen Jiraiya use this Jutsu countless times and knows that dodging this Jutsu by the virtue of speed alone is almost impossible so the only method to counter this Jutsu is by blocking it, of course, that's the case for most of the Shinobi, but not for him.

'Slithering Snake Mode!'

Orochimaru turned the lower half of his body into a snake's tail then opened his mouth to appear out of it in order to avoid the range of attack, then again opened his mouth but this time the Kusanagi Blade stretched out towards Fujin at lightning speed.

The Hair Senbon of course did their job and pierced Orochimaru's body, but the original Orochimaru had already escaped out of his body by transforming his lower body into a snake.

At the same time, the Kusanagi Blade was coming towards Fujin at a lightning speed, of course, Fujin wasn't all that panicked, and hardened all his bones to the utmost degree.

The extended Kusanagi Sword couldn't successfully pierce through Naruto's Four-tailed Kyuubi Cloak, so how could it pierce through the extremely hardened bones in Fujin's body?

But Orochimaru didn't think so and seeing Fujin's foolish actions, he smirked, "Hehe… you are mine now!" After all, only an idiot would try to resist the attack of Sword of Kusanagi head-on, right?

And just as Fujin expected, the tip of the Kusanagi Blade reached near his heart and tried to pierce through, but couldn't because the bones were extremely hard and dense.

"What?! But how could it be possible!" This time Orochimaru was really shocked. He never expected that the bones of Fujin could become as hard as the Kusanagi Blade! This is simply unbelievable!

It must not be forgotten that this Sword of Kusanagi in Orochimaru's stomach is also a legendary Blade, it can even cut through the Adamantine Staff: Enma of Sandaime Hokage, yet it couldn't pierce through Fujin's bones. Just how hard are those bones? The degree of Orochimaru's shock can be imagined.

Fujin didn't have any change in his expression, just as the tip of Kusanagi's Blade touched his chest, he controlled the bone around his chest to wrap around the tip of Kusanagi's blade to make sure that Orochimaru can't dodge his next attack, then stretched out both of his hand and shouted, 'Ten Finger Drilling Bullets!'

Whiish Whiish Whiish Whiish

One after another Ten bone bullets rushed towards Orochimaru who was hanging in mid-air.

Orochimaru's expression shrank, he immediately released the Sword of Kusanagi out of his stomach, then dropped towards the ground, but Fujin was prepared, and he has already used the next Jutsu, 'Art of the Raging Lion's Mane!'

Instantly, under Fujin's control, his long white hair again stretched out towards Orochimaru who was in mid-air.

Orochimaru hurriedly weaved hand seals, and shouted, 'Fire Release: Flame Bullet!'

Immediately, Orochimaru spat out fire from his mouth to burn the hair that was coming toward him, and of course, he succeeded.

As Fujin's hair that was coming towards Orochimaru was burned by the Flame Bullet a thick smell of protein being charred covered the air. And immediately after defending, Orochimaru stretched out his hand to take back Control of the Sword of Kusanagi.

The Sword of Kusanagi that was earlier piercing Fujin's chest, rotated under Orochimaru's control, but it seeing that it really couldn't penetrate, Orochimaru had it retract back and held it in his hands as he landed on the ground and looked at Fujin with a vigilant expression.

As for why couldn't Fujin take control of the Sword of Kusanagi? Obviously, because it seems to be spiritually bonded with Orochimaru, cutting that spiritual connection is not impossible but it would take time, and time is something Fujin can not dedicate in the middle of a high-intensity battle.

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