Chapter 787 Orochimaru and Chi

Orochimaru thought he was sure of his invitation.

Ever since the first encounter in the forest that day, he had been thinking about someone unconsciously, especially after he confirmed the natural energy mixed in those ninjutsu, his heart was even more fiery.

You know, natural energy is extremely difficult to master. In order to master natural energy, he didn't know how much suffering he had suffered in the Earth Dragon Cave, but he didn't expect that a child of a few years old could use natural energy freely and integrate it into ninjutsu. What kind of genius-level freak is this?

The only pity is that the other party is Uchiha, and he is also very close to Uchiha Itachi, the son of the patriarch of the Uchiha family. With his identity, it is difficult for him to contact the other party naturally.

However, he was not in a hurry about it, but spent several months patiently conducting a comprehensive investigation on the other party, and then as the investigation progressed, he found several surprises on the other party one after another.

Originally, he was unsure whether the other party was willing to leave Konoha with him. After all, the other party was doing well in Uchiha and might become the wife of the clan leader in the future. There was no need for her to become a traitor and be wanted by Konoha.

However, after what happened with Uchiha Shisui, he felt more confident. If the other party was not particularly concerned about the family, how could he come up with such an effective method?

As one of the two famous families in Konoha, he had studied Uchiha and even had a few pairs of Sharingan in his personal collection. With his identity, it was really easy to get a few pairs of eyes on the battlefield.

According to his research, Uchiha was actually a group that could easily go to extremes. Their emotions were either too restrained or too intense. As long as the other party was disappointed with the village like him, it would be a sure thing to take the other party away from Konoha.

But what he didn't expect was that in response to his invitation, the girl in front of him didn't mean to put her hand up, but just shrugged slightly.

"Sorry to disappoint you. I have no intention of leaving the village recently."

"...Really?"

Putting down his hand, Orochimaru narrowed his eyes slightly at the girl in front of him.

"But you should know that staying in the village will only hinder your growth. I think you should be aware of the village's fear of Uchiha, otherwise you wouldn't run outside to practice ninjutsu every once in a while. Your current strength should have reached the level of Jonin, right? But you have to stay in the ninja school with those mediocre people. Don't you think it's a bit of a waste of talent?"

"...Are you following me?"

"No, I just spent a little time making some small arrangements in all the places outside the village that are suitable for you to practice fairy arts. This is not tracking, it's just that you broke into my territory."

Looking at the girl in front of him, Orochimaru smiled.

"Natural energy is not used in the way you do. You should learn to integrate it into chakra and refine it into senjutsu chakra, rather than forcibly integrating it into ninjutsu, which will only lead to the loss of control and explosion of ninjutsu."

"Senjutsu chakra...?"

"Yes, senjutsu chakra."

Taking the subtlety of the girl in front of him as a surprise, Orochimaru nodded affirmatively.

"Your physique is very special. You are born to be able to sense and call upon natural energy. I have only seen you as such a person so far, but you use natural energy in the wrong way. If you continue on that wrong path, you will only go further and further astray. Leave with me, and I will teach you the correct way to use senjutsu..."

"You mean this?"

Before he finished speaking, the girl in front of him snapped her fingers while interrupting him in silence.

Accompanying the other party's action, the next moment, a wisp of orange-yellow flame appeared on the other party's fingertips. "This..."

Looking at the wisp of flame on the girl's fingertips, Orochimaru couldn't help but stand there in a daze.

The flames didn't really matter. The point was that he found that the flames were driven by the violent natural energy.

——This kind of thing was completely beyond his cognition.

"I can refine the fairy chakra, but my body is not strong enough now, so I want to find a new way."

While explaining, the girl shook her fingers casually, and then Orochimaru's face changed slightly.

At this time, in his perception, the natural energy that was originally inert around him was becoming violent and gathering rapidly between the girl's fingers. In just less than a few seconds, the natural energy condensed at the girl's fingertips reached a level that made him feel palpitations.

What really shocked him was that even with so much natural energy gathering, it was as obedient as a cat in the other party's hand. Those violent natural energies were extremely compressed into a point, becoming the energy source of the flame at the other party's fingertips.

...If left alone, the flame would burn for at least a hundred years without stopping just by the natural energy!!

"Get it? It's not that I can't, I just don't want to."

Flicking her fingers to extinguish the flame on her hand, the girl looked up at him, and at the same time as the flame on her fingertips went out, the violent natural energy that had been compressed into a point returned to inertia in an instant.

——The girl's arbitrary behavior was as if she was born to be the master of these natural energies.

If he was not sober now and confirmed that he was not affected in any way, he would definitely think that he was under an illusion.

"... What is your goal?"

After a long silence, looking up at the girl in front of him, Orochimaru formally regarded her as an equal to himself for the first time.

"Become Hokage? Let Uchiha rise again? Become the largest clan in Konoha?"

"No, strictly speaking, my idea is to change the entire ninja world."

Shrugging slightly, the girl looked up at him.

"I want to create a peaceful world without war, not the current deformed existence where even children of a few years old are forced to go to the battlefield."

"This unrealistic ideal... It seems that the negotiations have broken down."

Shaking his head with regret, Orochimaru sat down at the table again.

"But compared to this, I have another option, which is to take you away by force."

"...I admit that I am more interested in you now."