The hot summer day makes people's clothes gradually cool down. Although it is not raining, there are many people on the street who open colorful parasols and stand on their heads to resist the light coming from above.
Drivers sitting in cars are always much better off than pedestrians on the street. At least they have air conditioning to relieve heat.
Shikamaru turned his head and looked at the surrounding environment with great interest. Wearing a sweatshirt and a ponytail, he stood under the scorching sun without taking any measures to escape. He seemed to ignore the hot weather and nothing.
He is eye-catching, and pedestrians passing by him occasionally pay him attention.
So familiar, yet so strange.
Cars, women in beautiful and cool clothes, pedestrians talking on the phone while walking... It's noisy and lively, but also makes people miss it.
After all, this has become an out of reach memory. Shikamaru thought of this, sighed, suddenly stretched out his hand, and quickly grabbed the neck of a man who just passed by. The man who was caught off guard still wanted to make a move, but Shikamaru couldn't.
As he put more force on his hand, he heard a creepy "click" sound. The man who had been struggling a moment ago was already a cold corpse. After Shikamaru let go, he fell limply to the ground.
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"...!"
Pedestrians who noticed Shikamaru's movements were slightly startled. Several young women in cool clothes screamed first and quickly backed away. People who were a little further away who were not sure of the situation heard the screams and saw someone shouting "Kill."
"Lay!" and other words were running around, trying to imitate him first. In the blink of an eye, a vacuum zone appeared next to Shikamaru. This area continued to increase, and it rapidly radiated to the surrounding areas in the shape of a snowball.
Shikamaru ignored the chaotic crowd and just stood there with a calm expression, as if he was not the one who suddenly attacked passers-by before.
The originally crowded street became completely deserted in a matter of seconds, except for one person who stayed where he was like Shikamaru.
Wearing a dark gray long-sleeved kimono, the long black hair is in sharp contrast to the pale face, and the tawny eyes are flashing with residual heat and madness. Even if we don't mention that this person is still lingering in the square at this time, with a look on his face.
Different from the calmness of ordinary people, his appearance can also make people notice something abnormal at first glance.
"Orochimaru..." Shikamaru looked at the man in front of him with a half-smile and said, "Should I call you that, or should I call you a substitute?"
The other party did not answer Shikamaru's questions, and his eyes through his long hair carried an increasingly fierce meaning. It was obvious that he still lacked something compared to the real Orochimaru.
This is Shikamaru's spiritual space, or strictly speaking, this can only be regarded as the world in Shikamaru's dream. Everything here is constructed based on Shikamaru's subconscious and memory, and is accompanied by the ray of soul or the power of Orochimaru's curse seal.
Speaking of spirituality, it lurks here.
The research on the Four Symbols Seal and the Eight Diagrams Seal has been completed. After many days of speculation and study, Shikamaru finally has a better grasp of sealing Orochimaru, and can also use this to seal his own spiritual energy.
At this time, the "Orochimaru" in front of Shikamaru is not as smart as him and has his own consciousness, but he instinctively understands the situation at this time and the way to solve the situation.
Whoosh!
Orochimaru took the lead in taking action and jumped forward slightly. He was already lying on the ground, as if he had no bones in his body, and like a weird python, he was able to quickly approach Shikamaru by squirming with his body.
The meandering Orochimaru kept moving to dodge as he approached Shikamaru. The already weird way of moving forward made it harder to grasp the route. Seeing this, Shikamaru didn't bother to attack Orochimaru with flying props. With a palm of his right hand, a ball of light erupted.
A blue light group gradually formed, and inside it seemed to be a miniature typhoon roaring and raging.
Rasengan!
Bang!
After Orochimaru approached him, Shikamaru directly pressed the Rasengan in his palm. Although Orochimaru missed by turning his head to avoid it, the Rasengan hitting the ground still caused great damage and momentum, and he lost his restraint.
The huge energy tore through the ground, sending out a series of shocks and bursting out strong airflow, intending to knock Orochimaru away.
At the critical moment, Orochimaru twisted his neck in an exaggerated manner as if he was about to break his bones, then quickly stretched his neck and bit Shikamaru's shoulder.
"Just in time!" Shikamaru sneered, and stabbed Orochimaru's head with the kunai he had already prepared in his left hand. There was no blood splashing and flowing, and there was no groan after death. The broken skin and muscles were shaking.
Under the power of the force, Shikamaru slowly returned to his original state. Shikamaru suddenly didn't realize it. He grabbed Orochimaru's neck with his right hand, and the kunai in his left hand mechanically stabbed Orochimaru again and again.
This is a contest between pure spirits. The appearance of the body is just a projection in the consciousness. Unless the spirit collapses, it cannot be killed. The rules and techniques are of little use. It is better to fight with injury for injury.
Life comes with practicality.
There is no skill in the fight between the two. They just attack each other with punches and kicks, with almost no evasion or defense. Only those with stronger willpower can win in this kind of confrontation between spirits.
, if Shikamaru wants to use this kind of behavior to gradually wear away the spirit of defeating Orochimaru, he doesn't know how long it will last, but this is Shikamaru's home court, will he act recklessly without measures and plans?
As the two people entangled and fought, the sky no longer looked like the clear sky before. The sun's light gradually faded, and the color slowly turned to dark red. The sky seemed to be rendered by this color, constantly assimilating, and one after another
Huge runes spread out from the sun like chains, wrapping the street where Shikamaru and Orochimaru were fighting from all directions, like a birdcage reaching into the sky.
By the time Orochimaru reacted and noticed the abnormalities around him, the cage had already formed and was shrinking, approaching him and Shikamaru. He instinctively realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly struggled to escape from Shikamaru's cage.
Entangled.
But how could Shikamaru let him get his wish? Instead, he took advantage of the situation and stepped forward to attack, stabbing Orochimaru's vitals with two kunai in his hand.
roar!
Realizing that he could not easily get rid of Shikamaru's entanglement, Orochimaru couldn't help roaring, his body under the wide kimono expanded rapidly, but the clothes were torn to pieces in the blink of an eye, and his body bulged like a balloon, as if it would be torn apart at any time.
laugh!
With a harsh tearing sound, a huge snake head suddenly tore open Orochimaru's thin and transparent skin, and a big snake with a color as pale as paper snaked out of it as if shedding its skin.
The body of the big snake grew rapidly at an astonishing speed visible to the naked eye. At the same time, as it roared, one by one it emerged from its trunk.
Eight different techniques!
Isn't that huge strange snake with eight heads the same as the Yamata no Orochi in the myth of an island country in Shikamaru's previous life?
The Yami no Orochi grew very fast, and Shikamaru did not take the opportunity to attack it to stop its growth. In just a moment, the height of the big snake was equal to that of a small building not far away, and Shikamaru was on top of it.
The bottom is already shaped like an ant.
Seeing this, Shikamaru laughed out loud. If Orochimaru didn't make himself so huge and conspicuous, it would still cost him a lot of effort, but now it is easier to be captured by the power of the sealing technique. Moreover, this is his jingjing.
In the divine space, even if Orochimaru's power is amazing, he is still no match for him!
Repeated trials and challenges have made him the master of his own spirit!
Shikamaru's shadow moved as if alive, wrapping his body around his feet like water, making Shikamaru's entire body, except for his eyes, covered in darkness that seemed to be able to swallow light.
"This feels so good!" Shikamaru murmured to himself. His mouth was covered by a black shadow, so he could not speak. However, as he thought, this emotion echoed in the entire sky, like thunder, and also seemed to be...
The gods hidden in the clouds talk to themselves.
The darkness was rolling, and Shikamaru's body gradually became larger under the power of the black shadow wrapped around his body. Two balls grew out of his back at the same time, finally breaking free from the invisible shackles and turning into two jet-black wings.
Shikamaru's body grew faster than Orochimaru's Yamata no Orochi. By the time the bat-like wings on his back formed, his body was already as big as Orochimaru's Yamata no Orochi in front of him.
Whoosh!
Shikamaru clapped his hands together, and suddenly made a fist with his right hand, as if he had grasped something. When his hands separated, there was already a tachi made of pure black shadow tightly held in his hand.
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In the reality outside the spiritual space, Shikamaru was sitting cross-legged in an empty room at home that had been cleaned up. The floor was covered with dense runes, vaguely forming a Bagua pattern. Shikamaru himself was sitting in it, looking back and forth.
The left and right are facing the four directions, and the yin and yang are facing the center line of his body.
Although the Bagua seal can be cast without these calligraphy and painting runes, it can still play some auxiliary role.
The Bagua seal relies on the combination of two four-image seals to function, but it is not a simple overlap. There needs to be room in the seal, so that the sealed power can leak out and be used by the recipient.
Shikamaru's purpose is to use the Bagua seal to seal Orochimaru's spirit and part of Shikamaru's own spiritual energy. He can keep the former and have a use for it, while the latter, after the seal is successful, has the energy that has already completed a qualitative change and is stored in it.
After a period of accumulation in the body, Shikamaru's idea of using the Muji technique became a reality.
Bagua seal!
The shadow clone left behind by Shikamaru was paying attention to the status of the main body. Seeing that the cloud pattern produced by the curse seal had unconsciously covered Shikamaru's body, he did not stop any longer, formed a seal with his hands, and pressed a palm on Shikamaru's body.
The location of the curse mark on the back of the neck.
The runes almost all over the floor seemed to be alive, and they rushed to gather where Shikamaru's shadow clone's palm was pressing.
One by one, the runes penetrated into Shikamaru's skin and disappeared, and the cloud patterns of the curse seal on his body also gradually retreated. When the curse seal dissipated and the runes disappeared, a round of rune patterns different from the evil-sealing seal emerged from Shikamaru.