Gamabunta jumped onto the super-large Wood Wall that Kairen had created earlier, and Kairen's shadow clones hurriedly scrambled to escape downwards.
Jiraiya looked at the somewhat panting Gamabunta beneath his feet and asked worriedly, "Are you alright? Bunta!"
Gamabunta snorted coldly, "I'm bleeding, how can I be alright?"
Jiraiya scratched his head, "Sorry for getting you involved in such big trouble!"
"Don't say anymore, I think you two should run quickly. Right now, neither of us is a match for this brat."
"He has already exceeded the scope of understanding for mortals; only the Great Sage can deal with him!"
"Run away?!"
Orochimaru softly recited these two extremely insulting words, then gazed at the fiery red giant in the distance.
Now they were facing the prospect of fleeing in defeat, but when had Orochimaru, one of the Sannin, ever run away?!
Even when facing the Demi-God of the Ninja World—Hanzo of the Salamander, he had never retreated a single step.
But at this moment—
Orochimaru narrowed his snake eyes, looking seriously at this fiery red giant. Kairen stood inside the diamond-shaped crystal on top of its head.
Clad in red battle armor, arms crossed, his face full of indifference and mockery, as if waiting for them to dance, just like Uchiha Madara back in the day.
A deep sense of powerlessness struck from his heart. How could he defeat such an enemy? How was he supposed to take over such a body?
Orochimaru fell into unprecedented despair.
He had treated Kairen as a delicious dish before, but after not seeing him for just a few days, the other party had taken off directly; the leap in strength was simply unscientific.
Orochimaru had always believed in science and did things according to methods.
But the science he held dear was being trampled vigorously by Kairen, telling him just how important talent was.
The guy just popped a hundred-meter-tall Susanoo to hack people on a whim; where did he put science?
Jiraiya patted Orochimaru's back from the side, "It's time to run for our lives. We must admit: the world belongs to the young!"
Jiraiya was open-minded; in the blink of an eye, he recognized that a child had surpassed him, one of the Sannin.
"Want to run?!"
Kairen sneered, picking up the Gatling hanging on the Susanoo's chest. Over a dozen huge muzzles aimed at Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
"Taste the blue-fire Gatling!"
Kairen suddenly opened fire.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang..."
Dozens of fiery red tomoe, the size of water tanks, were like dancing sharp arrows, instantly covering the large Wood Wall.
Immediately after, they gathered together and exploded.
"Boom rumble rumble..."
In the blink of an eye, the Wood Wall was blown down, and the entire Daimyo's mansion was blasted to pieces.
Kairen knew beforehand that Miroku, Koyuki, and the others had escaped the center of the battle, so he dared to attack the Daimyo's mansion.
At the moment of being blown down, Gamabunta used his massive body to shield Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
"Bunta!!"
Jiraiya shouted loudly.
"Ji... Jiraiya, be careful..."
After a round of explosions, Bunta was blown into serious injury, turning into white smoke and being beaten back to his old home, leaving only Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
Kairen's Susanoo flapped its wings, flying in the sky. He activated his Byakugan and looked down.
Amidst the smoke and dust, there were two chakra masses supporting each other.
Kairen raised the Gatling again.
Suddenly!
Kairen felt severe pain in his eyes. Traces of blood flowed from his eyes, and soon blood flowed from all his facial orifices.
This feeling... was like surfing the 3D zone all day in his past life, and being carefree in the uncensored zone.
Kairen propped up his eyes with one hand and said, "Overused my brain!"
Using a normal Mangekyou to control a Complete Body Susanoo was still too forced. Susanoo, this little vixen, was about to drain his energy dry.
Kairen wiped his head inside the Susanoo, directly restoring his whole body's state. Immediately after, he aimed the Gatling downwards:
"Let this round of cannon fire decide the fate of you two. Whether your lives should end or not depends on the will of heaven!"
They weren't women, and they weren't pretty, so Kairen had no reason to show mercy.
Even if he appreciated these two figures, their stances were different, so he still had to kill them.
Kairen's gaze focused, and he pulled the trigger. In an instant, hundreds of tomoe shot out continuously.
In a split second, they enveloped Orochimaru and Jiraiya, who were in the smoke.
Exposed to such an attack, both of them would be blown into snake jerky and toad jerky.
Orochimaru's eyes turned ruthless, and his hands formed seals: "Summoning Jutsu!"
In an instant, Orochimaru summoned over a dozen huge brown snakes, all brought out from Ryūchi Cave to serve as shields.
A group of brown snakes had just been sleeping soundly in Ryūchi Cave when they suddenly saw hundreds of tomoe containing high concentrations of energy coming at them.
The snakes: Σ(っ °Д °;)っ
"Boom rumble..."
Flames ignited, followed by the furious whipping of thunder against the earth.
After just one round of explosions, the dozen or so huge snakes turned into snake jerky.
The massive explosions continued to strike. Jiraiya used Earth Release to take Orochimaru into the ground.
Kairen's Yasaka Magatama had strong penetrating power, instantly blasting out a crater dozens of meters deep in the soil, heading towards the deep pit Jiraiya and Orochimaru had escaped into.
Jiraiya hurriedly pulled Orochimaru and used Body Flicker to get back to the surface.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of breaking wind rang out. A fiery red tomoe struck like a falling meteor.
Then it bloomed, like the light of the sun, seemingly purifying the filth of the world.
Jiraiya abruptly threw Orochimaru to the side.
Orochimaru looked at Jiraiya amidst the raging flames, his dark golden pupils widening to their limit: "Idiot! Idiot!"
"Boom rumble..."
A huge explosion rang out. Orochimaru's gaze lingered only on that greasy man with long white hair who was still smiling faintly.
As soon as Orochimaru landed, he Body Flickered and rushed into the smoke of the explosion again, muttering non-stop:
"Idiot! Idiot! Are you looking down on me?"
"My life-saving trump cards are countless, how could I be killed by an explosion?!"
"Damn idiot, don't die!!"
Orochimaru vigorously turned over the rubble in the ruins, but he just couldn't find Jiraiya's body.
Suddenly, his body shook violently. Jiraiya was of mortal flesh and blood; that violent explosion would have torn him into pieces in an instant. The other party was already—
Orochimaru stood frozen on the spot, a crystal drop flowing from his cold snake eye.
Laughable. Pursuing immortality, yet he still possessed emotions.
Life is so fragile, I—
"Hey! Orochimaru, I'm fine!"
A familiar voice rang in Orochimaru's ear.
Orochimaru turned around quickly and saw a blond young man supporting Jiraiya at a glance.
It was Minato!!
At the moment of the explosion, Minato had used the Flying Thunder God to save Jiraiya.
"Damn idiot!"
...
Kairen curled his lips in the sky. Sure enough, key characters in this kind of story couldn't be killed easily.
Kairen looked towards the sky and felt several gazes from afar.
Some came from underground, some from the sky, and some from even further places: the Three Great Sacred Places, the Pure Land, the Moon.
He could only sense Uchiha Madara among them; the rest were hard to confirm.
If there was a choice.
The Three Great Sages of the Three Great Sacred Places, the Sage of Six Paths who existed as chakra, Otsutsuki Hamura who possessed the Tenseigan, and even Otsutsuki Isshiki...
The big bosses behind the scenes wouldn't let Kairen destroy their story. The fact that they hadn't acted to teach Kairen a lesson yet was probably because they didn't want to interfere too much, afraid of destroying the operation of the world.