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This incident once really piqued Orochimaru's curiosity.
Moreover, Uchiha Gen was Tsunade's disciple. If he got involved, there was a high chance that Tsunade would also get wind of it.
"Interesting, really interesting! It seems that Tanzō has offended someone he shouldn't have in recent times!"
However, he soon stopped paying attention to this matter.
After walking away, he stuck out his long tongue and licked his lips, murmuring playfully in a low voice, "Who on earth did this?"
The crucial point was that this person was actually an Uchiha.
He felt that he was just a little bit short of success, but he always failed to grasp the key point.
This really troubled him.
"Forget it. I'd better come up with another way!"
"What a pity. This matter must on no account be known to her, let alone involve her. Otherwise, she will definitely turn against me."
"However, I heard that Tsunade recently took in an extraordinary disciple who shows extremely strong talent in the Mystical Palm Technique. I wonder if it'll be of any use?"
After all, Orochimaru still couldn't believe that a child over 3 years old, who had only been studying with Tsunade for a few months, could really assist him in this matter.
The threshold of the Mystical Palm Technique would be too low in that case.
Although word got around from the Ninja Hospital about how incredible Uchiha Gen was, Orochimaru adopted a conservative attitude towards this information.
"If I could get Tsunade's help, the success rate should actually be quite high."
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Inside the Hokage's office,
Tanzō pushed the door open and walked in, then immediately closed the door.
Then, before The Third Hokage could utter a word, Tanzō preemptively said, "Hiruzen, it seems it's time to root out the spies in the village!"
"They have actually started brazenly manipulating public opinion, trying to smear me and create chaos within the village. It's simply outrageous."
The Third Hokage: "..."
Do you really think I'm a fool?
How could you even spout such nonsense?
"You....."
Just as The Third Hokage was on the verge of speaking.
"Bang!"
The next instant, there came a loud explosion behind Tanzō.
The Third Hokage saw the door of his office shatter into pieces, and a foot, along with countless door fragments, crashed directly onto Tanzō's back.
"Pfft!!"
Right away, Tanzō was sent flying with a kick, and a mouthful of blood spurted out in mid-air.
"Which bastard...."
In mid-air, Tanzō, shocked and seething with anger, forcefully turned his head to see who the culprit was.
As it turned out, he just met Tsunade's cold and menacing gaze.
Tanzō immediately swallowed the rest of his words.
Of course he knew what this woman had come for.
He could feel that if he dared to curse Tsunade at this moment, this crazy woman might just seize the opportunity to kill him.
He could only suppress the grievance and anger welling up in his heart, shut up, and continue to fly towards The Third Hokage by inertia.
He thought The Third Hokage would catch him.
Who would have thought that this crafty old fox, The Third Hokage, would simply use the Body Flicker Technique with his tobacco pipe in hand and vanish from the spot, scurrying to the side.
Not only did he dodge the reverse blood spurted by Tanzō, but he also evaded Tanzō himself who was smashing towards him.
"Whoo! So dangerous! So dangerous!"
The Third Hokage simultaneously heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. Then, he met Tanzō's gloomy gaze.
The Third Hokage returned a look to Tanzō, as if to say, "Tanzō! I'm doing this for your own good!"
"You saw Tsunade's state just now. If I don't let her beat you up to vent her anger, I'm worried she'll just kill you directly."
"For the sake of your life, just bear with it!"
What?
Tanzō, you say you were wronged?
You didn't conduct the Wood Release experiments, and you didn't touch the body of the First Hokage?
Don't I know whether you did it or not?
Did you forget that we dug out the body of the First Hokage together?
It's just that the experiment failed later, and we put it back together.
But I didn't expect you to secretly touch the body of the First Hokage again.
Thinking of this, the Third Hokage was also quite dissatisfied with Tanzō in his heart.
The dodge just now might have been intended to deliberately warn Tanzō.
Because Tanzō had overstepped his authority behind his back.
Tanzō instantly understood the meaning in the Third Hokage's eyes. He felt so aggrieved!
He felt deeply betrayed.
The Third Hokage had always been like this, constantly stabbing him in the back and making him take the blame.
It's too much.
That's why he wanted to become the Hokage even more.
Then, switch places with the Third Hokage and shift all the dirty deeds and blame onto him, so that he could also experience his own grievances.
"Bang!!"
With such thoughts in mind, Tanzō directly smashed through the wall in front of him and almost fell from the third floor.
"Cough cough!"
After a long while, spitting out blood, he stared at Tsunade with a gloomy face and said, "Although you offended me, I still have to say that I didn't offend the First Hokage. Those are just rumors."
Tsunade stared coldly at Tanzō for several seconds without uttering a word, then said in a cold voice, "This is just a small lesson for you today. Don't let me find out that you really did these things, and don't let me find evidence. Otherwise, watch out for your life!"
After saying that, Tsunade didn't even look at the Third Hokage and just turned around and left quickly.
The Third Hokage: "..."
Did Tanzō take the hit for me, or was Tsunade aiming at Tanzō from the start?
The Third Hokage thought it should be the latter.
No! It must be the latter.
After all, he was Tsunade's teacher. She wouldn't treat him like this.
At this time, Tanzō looked at the Third Hokage and said coldly, "Hiruzen, are you satisfied now? Is this the good disciple you taught? Does she still have me, the assistant to the Hokage, in her eyes?"
"Come on!"
After hearing this, the Third Hokage slowly picked up a pinch of tobacco from the tobacco pouch and stuffed it into the pipe.
Using only one finger, he utilized Chakra to transform its nature and condense a tiny flame to light the tobacco.
He took a few deep puffs, making a "puff puff" sound.
Then, he sat down on the sofa next to him, looked at Tanzō and said, "We both know what the truth of the matter is."
"You deserve what happened this time! No matter how unhappy you are in your heart, you have to endure it."
"You should be glad Tsunade doesn't have any evidence, so she's still restraining herself. Otherwise..."
At this point, ignoring Tanzō's gloomy expression, The Third Hokage shook his head and said, "Anyway, I'm warning you again, stop this, Tanzō! The Wood Release experiments won't work. We already verified that back then!"
"Stop being so stubborn!"
"Honestly return The First Hokage's body, and I can pretend nothing happened."
Not to mention that Tanzō couldn't succeed, even if he could, The Third Hokage wouldn't allow it.
He definitely didn't want to see a Tanzō who mastered Wood Release.
If that were really the case, it would be much harder for him to control Tanzō.
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When Orochimaru thought of Uchiha Gen, he couldn't help but think of his disciple Nawaki.
Orochimaru not only slightly raised his head but also looked at the distant sky. The corner of his mouth curled up slightly, and he murmured in a hoarse voice, "I hope you can protect the people around you this time, Tsunade."
He had seen many geniuses. Wasn't he also a genius?
But even geniuses have to abide by the basic principles.
On Orochimaru's side,
even if Uchiha Gen was extremely talented, he probably wouldn't be able to help with this kind of thing until several years or even a decade or more later.
Yeah! That was on the premise that he could survive until then.
Orochimaru knew very well that Tanzō was very interested in this kid.
He wasn't very interested in these things right now.
At present, the Wood Release experiments have reached a crucial stage.