Orochimaru, who had quietly slipped away from the Battlefield, was actually extremely weak.
Although the Edo Tensei, which pursued ultimate control, used the Impure World's own Chakra during battle,
controlling its movements still consumed a considerable amount of Chakra, especially when all three Impure Worlds were powerful individuals.
Coupled with the previous heart-piercing blow from Hidan, Orochimaru's condition was already not good when he stood up again.
Afterward, the high-intensity battle, combined with enduring an enhanced Shinra Tensei, would have surely killed Orochimaru if he hadn't maxed out his life-saving skills.
At this point, he might have been completely dead, only relying on the preparations he made with White Zetsu to await his resurrection.
If possible, Orochimaru was unwilling to reincarnate, unless he could obtain Itachi's body.
The secret of Chakra he had discovered not long ago made Orochimaru unwilling to give up this body, which had been strengthened multiple times.
This attempt to 'steal a chicken but lose the rice' left Orochimaru in a rather unpleasant mood.
Orochimaru, now in the form of a small white snake, found an abandoned snake cave and burrowed in, slowly recovering.
After recovering some Chakra, the small white snake began its work.
He needed to dig out a suitable space to recover his human form after a while.
As the small white snake diligently dug a hole underground, he suddenly dug into a void.
Orochimaru, with his rich experience in underground base construction, immediately recognized it as one of the ventilation shafts for an underground space.
Orochimaru, who knew the Ninja World map by heart, carefully recalled that there had been no recorded settlements here, with no villages or towns nearby.
It seemed that during the Third Shinobi World War, this place had even become a Battlefield.
The small white snake revealed a human-like smile.
Indeed, no matter where he went, he always found interesting things!
After slowly blocking it, Orochimaru accelerated his recovery.
More than ten hours later, Orochimaru, almost fully recovered, transformed back into a small white snake and crawled down the ventilation shaft.
A few minutes later, Orochimaru arrived in an enormous cave.
Looking at its extremely crude style, and the cave that was opened by sheer brute force without any architectural beauty,
Orochimaru's face showed some disappointment.
Such a place, he thought, wouldn't have anything good.
With the mindset that since he had come, he couldn't do nothing, Orochimaru still explored the entire underground cave.
As a pioneer of science in the Ninja World, Orochimaru naturally wouldn't explore by merely looking with his eyes, listening with his ears, and touching with his hands.
From a sealing scroll spat out by a large snake, he took out paper and a pen, wrote quickly, and then put them back into the sealing scroll.
"Have White Zetsu prepare the equipment on the list within half an hour."
He then released the summoning.
Just ten minutes later, the snake reappeared, spitting out a large sealing scroll, as tall as a person and as thick as a bucket.
Orochimaru opened it, and a pile of equipment appeared; after quickly debugging them, Orochimaru activated the equipment and began exploring the cave.
After various detection instruments were activated, Orochimaru quickly constructed the structure of this underground cave in his mind based on the data.
After understanding its structure, Orochimaru wore a single-sided eyepiece, connected to an earplug, with the other side connected to the lamp in his hand.
He meticulously scanned every space, officially beginning his exploration.
First, naturally, was a dark room that Orochimaru was extremely interested in based on the structure; it was blocked by stones, and judging by its shape, this dark room initially seemed to be a completely enclosed space except for the ventilation shaft.
Upon entering, Orochimaru saw that inside, apart from a stone bed, there was nothing else.
The senses can miss a lot of information, so Orochimaru did not immediately exit, but rather used the lamp in his hand to illuminate every part of the dark room.
A remarkably tiny fragment in the corner caught Orochimaru's attention.
After gently picking it up with tweezers, Orochimaru placed it into a test tube and continued his exploration.
After two passes, besides the initial fragment, Orochimaru only found a few strands of broken hair; having been weathered by time, the original hair had already disintegrated.
If it weren't for the instrument's detection results, Orochimaru would have mistaken them for dust.
Leaving the room satisfied, Orochimaru went to the wide area of the cave and began to examine the fragment he had first discovered.
The result was quite unexpected.
Orochimaru had this item in his hand and had studied it before.
White Zetsu's body tissue!
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