"Orochimaru~ Where are you? I have something I want to ask you!"

As soon as the teleportation landed, Ashes started yelling loudly, but when Ashes saw the person in front of him, he couldn't help but froze. Is the person in front of him... really Orochimaru?

A child in his teens, with long black hair, if it weren't for the two eye shadows on his face, and the fact that his soul was Orochimaru's soul aura, Ashes would have thought that the person in front of him was one of Orochimaru's illegitimate sons.

kind of people...

He raised his eyebrows slightly. Before, he just locked on Orochimaru's soul aura and didn't pay much attention to it, but now... came in front of this guy and carefully observed Orochimaru's soul. Ashes couldn't help but open his mouth.

, looked at Orochimaru and asked in surprise, "Oh my God! What have you... done? How can you be so proud of yourself?"

Orochimaru, who was facing the ashes, saw the sudden appearance of the ashes. He couldn't help but show an innocent smile unique to a child. He opened his hands and smiled at the ashes and said, "Master ashes, you see, I succeeded... I succeeded in fading away."

The skin of a mortal..."

After looking up and down, carefully looking at the current Orochimaru, Ashes couldn't help but frowned, then sighed and said helplessly, "Although I can probably guess that your kid will one day go there."

This step, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly... You have mastered this technology, and you are now an artificial human... or the Philosopher’s Stone."

"Exactly, as you said, through the materialization of the soul, using the properties of the Philosopher's Stone, abandoning the original body and transforming into what it is now, it took a lot of effort on my part~ I originally wanted to

I invited you to witness my transformation process, but unfortunately, something unexpected happened and I had to complete the evolution directly..."

Saying this, bursts of electric light suddenly appeared on Orochimaru's body. In front of the ashes, Orochimaru in his child state began to grow taller little by little, just like normal growth, but this speed was faster.

Thousands of times!

In the blink of an eye, Orochimaru had transformed into a young man... Looking at his body, Orochimaru smiled with satisfaction, smiled at Ashes and said, "I just missed my childhood self, and sure enough,

, it’s more comfortable like this~”

Gently raising his eyebrows, Ashes involuntarily stretched out his hand and grabbed Orochimaru's shoulder. Just looking and feeling was not enough to fully understand Orochimaru's soul. Now Ashes was completely seduced by the guy in front of him.

I got curious and couldn't help but want to investigate...

Seeing Ashes reaching for his palm, Orochimaru showed a proud smile and allowed Ashes to explore his secrets without any resistance~

As Ash's hand pressed on Orochimaru's shoulder, Ash's soul also entered Orochimaru's body along the arm, and he carefully studied the strange existence in front of him...

After a while, Ashes let out a long breath, his soul exited Orochimaru's body, and his arms slowly retracted.

"No matter how many times I feel your soul, Lord Ashes, I will always be shocked by its greatness..."

After being praised so much, Hui Jin couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Don't come here, now it's not so much that you are shocked by me, it's more that I'm shocked by you... You kid, you're really quite capable! You can actually make your own

The soul is so pure!”

The Philosopher's Stone is... a very strange thing. It is made from human souls. Simply put, it is a miracle built with human lives.

Although it is a miracle, there are also drawbacks. Just like although those alchemists make their souls powerful through the Philosopher's Stone, they will also be resisted by the refined humans...

But the current Orochimaru has no such trouble at all. What he does is completely different from those alchemists. He purifies the souls he harvests, and then uses them to strengthen his own soul, and finally completes his soul.

Refined into the Philosopher's Stone.

Although the results look the same, their essence is completely different. Those artificial humans... are like towers made of sand, while Orochimaru... is more like a monolithic boulder. They are not of the same grade at all~

"What should I say? As expected of you, Orochimaru, you can think of such a method... I am really convinced. Fortunately, there is no door to truth in this world, otherwise you kid would definitely have to carry the door home and treat it as your own.

The front door."

Shrugging his shoulders lightly, Orochimaru said with a relaxed expression, "Thanks to you, Ashes-sama. Let's not talk about this anymore. You just said...if you have anything, please ask me. How can I help you?"

After hearing these words, Hui Jin finally remembered that he had come to see Orochimaru for something serious. After nodding hurriedly, Hui Jin said seriously, "Actually, this is the case. We captured Nagato and Konan, what about this matter?"

You know it!"

"Yes, I know, Kabuto gave me a detailed copy of what happened..."

"That's good. After catching Nagato and Konan, the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization jumped out and wanted to take away Nagato's Rinnegan."

Hearing this, Orochimaru suddenly tilted his head, looked at Ashes and raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Let me guess, you killed A Fei, and now I don't know what to do next... Is that so?"

Is that wrong? After all, Fei just announced his challenge to the five major ninja nations and started the Fourth Ninja War. Now that the Ninja War has been aborted, you... or everyone in Konoha Village is a little at a loss..."

"Um...that's pretty much the situation. Originally, I thought...this matter actually doesn't matter, but Jiraiya and the others told me about the international impact~ There are a lot of relations between the five major ninja countries, so

I'm coming to find you..."

Looking at Ashes' helpless expression, Orochimaru couldn't help but chuckle, shrugged and said seriously, "They are always like this, living under the constraints of rules, so they can only be ninjas for the rest of their lives... Can they do that?"

To be as free and easy as you or me...but this is also their choice~"

"So...do you have any idea? How to solve this little problem? Well, after all, you are from Konoha Village, and you are also an undercover agent of the Akatsuki organization. There should be some way, find someone to take the blame or...

"

Hearing this, Orochimaru suddenly chuckled, raised his head and looked at Ashes and said with a smile, "Lord Ashes, do you know why I suddenly transformed myself?"

Looking at Orochimaru who answered the question, Ashes shook his head slightly and said with a confused expression, "I don't know, but...does this have anything to do with the current problem?"

Orochimaru lightly shrugged and said helplessly, "Because my identity as an undercover agent was discovered, I had to kill two people traveling with me, so... I had no choice but to do this."

"So, you mean..."

"Yes, I was discovered. Now I should be classified as a traitor or dead among the members of the Akatsuki organization. Now even if I show up again, I will not be trusted. So it is a pity that the Akatsuki organization

I really can’t help you much.”

Rolling his eyes suddenly, Hui Jin looked a little helpless and couldn't help complaining in a low voice, "Oh my god, why are all these bad things piled up together... Can you leave a way out! This is terrible.

Okay~ Konoha Village will take the blame personally."

"However... although I can't help in any aspect of the Akatsuki organization, on the other hand... I feel that I can still contribute to some extent."

Seeing Orochimaru change the subject, Ash's eyes couldn't help but brighten. He looked at Orochimaru expectantly and asked, "Oh? In what aspect? What can you do?"

With a slight cough, Orochimaru looked at Ashes and said seriously, "Master Ashes... Actually, you don't have to worry about these things. Although Nagato was caught and A Fei was killed by you, the Akatsuki organization is not that simple.

Organization, the situation inside is very complicated..."

"No...the leader at the front desk has been arrested, and the mastermind behind the scenes has been killed. What else can the Akatsuki organization do?"

Hearing this, Orochimaru turned around, took out a piece of information from a drawer and handed it to Ashes and said, "This... I believe Lord Ashes, you have also read it~"

After looking at the information, Hui Jin nodded slightly and said, "Yes, you showed us the list of members of the Akatsuki organization."

Orochimaru nodded lightly, stretched out his hand to flip through the information in Ashes' hand twice, turned to one of the pages, pointed at the person on it, smiled at Ashes and said, "Then... Sir Ashes, can you please catch this guy?"

Or killed?"

Looking at the pitcher plant-like guy in the information, Hui Jin lightly shrugged and said, "Not yet...but what happened to this guy?"

Orochimaru smiled slightly, pointed at the pitcher plant on the information and said lightly, "Then... this guy can definitely take on what you need... the responsibility of taking the blame. Even... he might have shouldered the blame in the first place.

Here~"

Hearing this, Hui Jin couldn't help but froze, looked at the pitcher plant in the information, and showed a puzzled expression at Orochimaru...

Orochimaru smiled slightly, then flipped through the information in his hand and pulled out the information about Fei and Nagato. He pointed at the two leaders on the surface and the black hands behind the scenes and asked softly, "So... Master Ashes, what do you think about these two people?"

What is your approximate age?”

"About thirty to forty years old...Is there any problem?"

"Yes, as you said, the age of these two people cannot be more than fifty years old, but... Jue~ do you have an approximate age of this person?"

Hearing this question, Hui Jin shook his head slightly and said, "Who can say for sure...this guy is not a human being, how can you tell their age just from their appearance~"

"As you said, this person doesn't look like a human... You can't tell his age from their appearance, so... from another angle, judge from the time when they first appeared? Do you still remember... the first time you saw such a person?

Guys, when was it?"
Chapter completed!