Next, I'll tell you what happened in the Shinobi exam.

Originally, the last time I Airo for the middle ninja exam invited Konoha Village to co-hold the joint middle ninja exam, but Konoha Village refused the invitation on the grounds that it was out of place.

So in that time, the middle ninja exam was only invited to Sand Hidden Village, and some small ninja villages were invited to participate.

And Orochimaru is the lower ninja who pretended to be another ninja village to take the exam, and after passing the first written test, in the survival assessment of the Demon Desert, I Airo saw through Orochimaru's disguise.

However, at that time, Orochimaru's purpose of appearing in the middle ninja exam seemed to have been achieved, so he quickly retreated after being recognized by my Airo, and did not cause too much turmoil in Shayin Village.

After this incident, the result of the joint discussion among the high-level leaders of the sand is to hide the news that Orochimaru is still alive and not notify Konoha Village.

And this time, in order to show his sincerity, I still told this important information to Konoha Village.

After listening to the cause and effect of the antecedents and consequences, Tsunade immediately fell into deep thought.

Orochimaru didn't even die?

And why did Orochimaru go to the Demon Desert?

...

In the dark forest, a cave that should have been dark and silent shimmered brightly.

Under the candlelight, Orochimaru was holding a heavy book with a red cover and browsing with interest, and while browsing, he told Yakushidou next to him.

"Legend has it that there is a huge lake in Minnar that is not connected to any external waters, but the water in it is still green."

"And in the middle of this lake is a city-state called 'Ibo', and in this ancient city-state made of gray boulders lives an ugly creature as old as the lake."

"These creatures are strangely ugly in appearance, as green as a lake, with bulging eyes like frogs, protruding lips that can't be closed, and ears that are strangely shaped and unable to make sounds."

"They seem to have been rudely shaped in the early days of Hongmeng, and because they have always lived in that city-state surrounded by a quiet lake, and almost never set foot in the outside world, they are called 'Igbo'."

"As ugly as these Igbo are, they also have their own idol, a cylindrical statue carved out of a huge sea-green stone."

"This stone statue was carved by the Igor in the form of the great lizard Berkrug they worshipped."

"Whenever the moon is full, these Ibo people gather around the stone statues and perform terrible dances to show their worship to the great water lizards."

"And as time passed, the ancient hominids gradually excavated to the place where they could dig for precious metals, until they advanced to the Minar region, on the shores of the great lake inhabited by the Ipa people."

"Here, mankind built the prosperous city of Sarnas, across the lake from the Igbo city of the Igbo people in the middle of the lake."

"When the Sarnas saw the Igor in the middle of the lake, they were amazed. However, they didn't want these ugly creatures to wander the human world after dusk, so there was a little bit of abomination in the amazement. ”

"The humans of the city of Sarnas dislike neither the ugly Igbo nor the strangely shaped green statues of the city-state of Ibas, as if some of the land existed in the waking world, and some should exist only in the world of dreams."

"The longer I looked at the Ibo, the more hatred and resentment grew in the hearts of the Sarnas. And while facing the Igbo across the lake, the Sarnas learned that the Igbo were so weak that their jelly-like bodies could not stop spears and bows. ”

"So one night, the young warriors of Sarnas, taking advantage of the cover of night, quietly crossed the clear green waters of the great lake by boat, and arrived at the city of Ipbo in the center of the lake."

"That night, the warriors of Sarnas slaughtered the Igbo. Since no one wanted to touch the corpse of such an ugly creature, the Sarnas simply picked up the corpse of the Ipor with their spears and threw it into the lake. ”

"As for the various strange statues placed in the Ibo, the Sarnas did not like its shape, believing that it had no value in plundering, so they were thrown into the lake along with the corpses of the Ibo."

"But when they saw the great stone statue of the Iba idol, the Sarnas thought that this huge sea-green stone was rare in the whole of Minar and would be a good souvenir."

"So the young warriors saw it as the trophy of Sarnas's conquest of the Ibo, and prepared to bring it back to the temple in the city of Sarnas and put it up."

"But on the night the stone statue was enshrined in the temple in the city of Sarnas, something strange happened."

"The water of the Great Lake suddenly shimmered with a strange green light, and by the next day, the stone statue of the lizard in the temple had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the high priest of the temple on the spot, with a twisted expression of horror on his face, and a bloodstained finger writing the symbol representing the meaning of '1000' on the stone tablet."

"In the centuries that followed, the High Priest of Sarnath changed many times, but none of them were able to find the stone statue of the lizard that disappeared that night."

"The people of Sarnas enjoyed their wealth and glory by digging precious metals, and rare silk cloths, spices, precious stones, books, tools, and all kinds of luxury goods poured into the city of Sarnas with the opening of trade routes."

"The city, its power, beauty, and learning grew by the day, and they sent an army to conquer the city-states of Minar, and the lord of the city of Sarnas possessed the only throne in Minar."

"The Sarnas of that time can be described as the glory of human history, whether it is the palace or the temple of the city of Sarnas, the garden of the king or the colosseum of the nobles, it is an unprecedented extravagance."

"However, this does not mean that the city of Sarnas has completely forgotten its ancient history, and they celebrate the destruction of the city of Ibas every year with a grand banquet and pay tribute to the spirit of the warriors of Sarnas, who annihilated the Iba people."

"In this way, the people of Sarnas have spent thousands of years in the glory of miracles, and the city of Sarnas celebrates the thousandth anniversary of the destruction of the city of Ibo."

"On that day, the inhabitants of all Minnar came one after another, and under the marble walls were illustrious palaces and travelers' tents, all of whom had come to offer respectful gifts to the king of Sarnas."

"One of the travelers gave him a gift of a surprisingly large fish, caught from the lake near the city of Sarnas, the great lake where the city of Ipbo was ruin."

"The cook of the court carefully cooked this great fish, and served it on a gold plate inlaid with rubies, and brought it to King Sarnas."

"That night, while the city of Sarnas was singing and dancing, a thick green fog poured out of the great lake and enveloped the whole city of Sarnas."

"The travelers outside the palace were the first to notice the anomaly, and they broke through the bronze gates in such horror that they didn't even know why they fled."

"And at midnight, the bronze gates opened again, and the guests of other countries who had come to the feast rushed out of the city of Sarnas with terrified expressions."

"They chattered and spoke frantically about the terrible things in the palace of Sarnas, and the people in the banquet hall of the royal palace were no longer human faces, but monsters with protruding eyes, outturned lips, strangely shaped ears, and even strange dances."

"Those things are raging in the palace! With their front feet they grasped a gold plate encrusted with rubies, and a strange flame burned on the plate! ”

"It wasn't until the next morning, when the green fog returned to the lake, that a few brave travelers returned to the city of Sarnas, only to find that all of the 50 million inhabitants of Sarnas had disappeared overnight, along with all the precious metals excavated by Sarnas."

"But people also found that there was something more in the city of Sarnas, the statue of the great water lizard that had disappeared for thousands of years and was worshipped by the Ipas people, half-buried in the grass in front of the palace of Sarnas,"

"Since then, the statue has been worshipped by people all over Minar."

"But over time, the statue was stolen by thieves in the deserts of the Middle East, and eventually lost to some ancient ruins in the desert."

Speaking of this, Yao Shidou's eyes suddenly widened, and he muttered, "Could it be..."

"That's right."

"This stone statue I brought out of the Demon Desert is the one that depicts the great water lizard."