The feeling of passing through the invisible space to avoid obstacles again and getting on the ground made Shuimu feel relieved.

"The name Ryuchi Cave is indeed correct."

Snakes are called "earth dragons" in some places, and some habits of snakes are somewhat similar to the "dragons" in myths and legends. This place that obviously looks like an underground nest is indeed worthy of the name "Dragon Cave".

The dark corridor with many connections has some inexplicable light, allowing creatures with good eyesight to roughly see the surrounding environment.

Unlike the lush and bio-rich Myoboku Mountain in Mizuki's memory, this place is so desolate that it's a little scary.

Every few steps, there is a cave that looks like an altar room for giant snakes to rest. This is probably where the "descendants of snakes" live.

Along the way, Shuimu didn't find anyone stopping him, or even trying to make things difficult for him.

"Did he know I was coming back, or was he sure that I was safe? It seems like I was underestimated!"

Mizuki, who was in Sage Mode and emitting obvious natural energy and Sage Chakra, just barged into the nest uninvited, and it was really hard to understand why he was ignored.

Although he did not come here with any bad intentions, nor did he have any intention of fighting with these "long worms", but, given such a strange situation, he was afraid that these guys might have ill intentions towards him!

Shuimu couldn't help but feel alert, and then silently tested his own space-time ninjutsu...

"Everything is normal. It seems that there is no problem with the use of spiritualism."

The Holy Land of Spirit Beasts itself does not isolate spatial perception and does not affect the use of spiritualism.

Come to think of it, if they can't be summoned by spirits, how can these big guys be summoned to the ninja world?

After walking through the winding corridor, Shuimu finally came to a huge nest. To call it a nest actually underestimates the solemnity and majesty here. On a soft couch that was so huge that it was bigger than a palace and it was unclear whether it was a bed or a chair, a giant snake of unknown length was coiled and staring at the direction where Shuimu was coming.

The appearance of the giant white phosphorus snake was very similar to the original form of Orochimaru in Mizuki's impression - the white phosphorus snake, except that this giant white snake was many times larger, and it had a pipe in its mouth that was thicker than an ordinary pillar.

The White Snake Immortal, smoking his pipe in a strange posture, seemed to have known that someone would come.

"The Konoha ninjas... are finally here. I thought you guys had been bewitched by those stinky toads and no longer cared about the Ryuchi Cave!"

Ever since the connection with Konoha Village, the center of the ninja world, was cut off, the White Snake Sage has been thinking about restoring the connection and has had some ideas.

The young man who came to Ryuchi Cave not long ago seemed to be a follower of the previous contact, Orochimaru. Although he is very powerful, it is not clear whether he will be accepted by Konoha Village again in the future.

So although the White Snake Sage taught him some skills of snake magic, he did not give him the most important racial summoning contract, but continued to wait for the next opportunity, or for Konoha Village to contact him actively.

"It turns out that the legendary Ryuchidong also intends to contact Konoha Village. That's great."

There is no hindrance to the mission here, and the remaining time can of course be used to discuss other things.

"Young man, judging from your appearance and fighting posture, you should be the Konoha ninja who has mastered the Sage Mode - Mizuki. It is indeed a place where the fortune of the ninja world is favored, and there are endless strange geniuses."

The word "strange" was really rude, but Shuimu had no intention of reasoning with these giant snakes that were not even human.

Things went quite smoothly afterwards. A huge blue-striped snake appeared and handed the psychic contract scroll to Shuimu, and Shuimu's mission was completed.

Compared to the contract scroll, Shuimu was more interested in this giant green-striped snake.

"What's your name?"

"Green snake!"

"Oh, the name is really descriptive!"

Mizuki understood that this green snake should be the replacement that Ryuchidong sent to Uchiha Sasuke after the death of Manabu in the original work.

It is said that this green snake had received favor from Sasuke in the past, so he swore allegiance to Sasuke.

No one can tell the truth, but it seems very likely to be a deliberate arrangement.

Now, because Uchiha Sasuke did not defect, the green snake did not receive Sasuke's life-saving grace, but is still alive and well. It seems that the story in the original work was most likely a setup initiated by Ryuchido, who was waiting for Orochimaru to die and the Ten Thousand Snakes to be useless, before setting up a backup plan.

"What a shrewd bunch of guys."

Shuimu put away the spiritual contract scroll, then looked at the White Snake Immortal and said:

"In that case, thank you for your understanding."

“These are all small things!”

The White Snake Immortal, who had a bad temper, said impatiently.

"I am more interested in you. How about it? Are you willing to become the contractor of Longchidong?"

"Sorry, I'm not used to having an intelligent being watching me from behind all the time!"

"What a cautious little fellow."

The White Snake Immortal blew out a smoke ring.

"But who in the ninja world is not under the watchful eyes of fate? Even for us, it is difficult to resist the fate that has already been predetermined."

"Resistance?"

Mizuki's heart trembled. Even if the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was resurrected and spoke words of resistance to fate, it would not be as shocking as when it came from the mouth of the White Snake Sage.

"As expected, they are all a group of guys who can't bear to be lonely."

Looking at Shuimu who seemed to be deep in thought, the White Snake Immortal asked with great interest:

"It seems that you are not completely ignorant. You are able to comprehend the Sage Mode by yourself. You are indeed not an ordinary person. Although the connection is very weak, the aura of the Dragon Earth Cave is very strong on you, and..."

The White Snake Immortal looked at the butterfly wings behind Shuimu meaningfully.

"This is derived from Orochimaru's Eight-Headed Technique, right? Speaking of which, it was with my guidance that Orochimaru perfected this spiritual practice secret technique. I didn't expect to see traces of this technique on you."

If it weren't for this trick, the illusion traps set up in the space corridor would have made Shuimu extremely embarrassed. Perhaps in the illusion space, some secrets of Shuimu could be known. Unfortunately, the White Snake Immortal still underestimated Shuimu's strength.

"That means there is still a deep connection between us!"

"Fate? Those bald monks have only a vague understanding of the harshness of fate, yet they dare to talk nonsense. Humph..."

Showing a sense of superiority with disdain, the White Snake Immortal continued.

"Although I don't know how much you know, you are an insider. If you want to get some information from me, you can exchange it with something of equal value..."