The genius of Naruto is a bit ordinary.

Hokage's office.

"Has it been confirmed?" Tsunade asked with a solemn expression after listening to Tenzo's report.

"Yes, Ying found one of the strongholds based on the connection between his curse seal and the other party, and it has been confirmed that it is indeed Orochimaru's stronghold." Tenzo said respectfully.

"Orochimaru." Tsunade heard this name, which was a little complicated. She hadn't heard this name for more than a year, and she didn't know what bad things the other party was secretly preparing.

"Can you confirm whether Orochimaru is in the stronghold?" Tsunade asked.

"In order not to alert others, after discovering its stronghold, we inspected it and returned. No trace of Orochimaru was found. During the period, the fox also used illusions to get the answer that Orochimaru had not been to that stronghold for a long time. ." Tianzang said.

"Is that so?" Tsunade closed her eyes and thought.

Finally, with a wave of his hand, a group of ANBU was handed over to Tenzo, with Tenzo as the leader, to encircle and destroy the newly discovered Orochimaru stronghold.

Tsunade looked at Tenzo who exited, and lost her mind to continue processing the documents. She walked to the window and looked at everything in the distance.

Tsunade finally understood why all past Hokages liked to stand in this position, because the entire Konoha could be seen from here.

"Orochimaru..." Tsunade murmured, thinking back to everything in the past, she really didn't expect that cold guy to take such a path. After a long time, Tsunade's expression became more determined.

"Now, it's Konoha's turn to cause trouble for you!"

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"Captain, has the order been issued?" Sasuke looked at Tenzo who had returned and asked.

"It's already down. Hokage-sama has decided to encircle and suppress Orochimaru's stronghold. If the encirclement and suppression can be successful this time, you will have a lot of credit." Tenzo looked at Sasuke, who was gradually growing up, and sighed.

"Okay." Sasuke nodded to express his understanding, and then said nothing more. He didn't care about this kind of merit. He only joined ANBU to improve his strength.

Over the past year, he has completely integrated into the life of ANBU.

During this period, Sasuke realized how lucky he was to have Kakashi as his instructor when he entered Class 7, and how lucky he was to have Tenzo as the captain after entering the ANBU.

Sasuke didn't realize the preferential treatment he received before, but when some people from different teams he had worked with demonstrated it to him with their lives, if they say hello today, they may be gone tomorrow.

Especially since Sasuke joined the ANBU who would perform some more dangerous tasks and do some dirty work.

Fortunately, their team has Tianzang, so generally speaking, as long as they don't go too far, safety can still be guaranteed.

And this time, it was also when Sasuke was performing a mission that he discovered that the curse seal sealed by Xia Li was becoming active.

Of course, it couldn't break through Xia Li's seal at all, but it could make Sasuke feel that the curse seal with the same origin existed around him.

And Sasuke knew that only Orochimaru could control this cursed seal, so he quickly used it to discover the relatively hidden stronghold, and that's what happened today.

Tianzang looked at Sasuke and smiled. He was still very satisfied with Sasuke's performance this year.

As for Sasuke's identity, most people actually know it in their hearts. After all, he is the only one in Konoha Village who has the Sharingan.

Moreover, the most important thing is that although the other party's personality is not difficult to get along with, although he is a bit withdrawn, he still has the necessary cooperation and will not resist orders.

Of course, strength is also one aspect. Sasuke was lagging behind when he first joined the team. At that time, it was not a matter of hard strength, but a lack of coordination.

Now he has become the second person in the team, and his strength has improved very quickly.

Although he still couldn't compare with that pervert Xia Li, he still lived up to his reputation as a genius.

Now, Tenzou has a headache. The Hokage has given him the task of encircling and suppressing the stronghold. He needs to think of a perfect method.

Although sacrifice is inevitable, it would still be good if the number of sacrifices could be reduced.

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night.

In the northern part of the Country of Fire, there is a dense jungle on an island near the coast.

A prison-like building is located here. Even though the island is so remote, this building is hidden under the ground.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to find this island, let alone accurately find this hidden stronghold.

But at this time, around this hidden stronghold, there were dozens of masked figures standing on the big trees nearby.

The leader Tenzo made a gesture, and the next moment most people entered the stronghold, including of course Sasuke.

"Be careful, hyenas, foxes, eagles..." Tianzang muttered silently, and then formed seals with his hands. His mission was to seal all possible escape routes for the enemy.

"Wooden Escape - The tree world is coming!"

The Anbu who broke into the stronghold also began their mission, which was simply a massacre. There were no innocent people in Orochimaru's stronghold.

While Sasuke used the Chidori Blade in his hand to deal with each enemy mercilessly, he rushed towards the direction with the deepest connection.

As Sasuke's teammates, the hyenas and foxes naturally followed Sasuke, and a small number of Anbu also chose this direction.

After all, they have also seen how powerful Sasuke is. In front of the Chidori Blade, all living beings are equal, and they are all cut one by one. It should be safer to follow him.

Sasuke actually understood why Xia Li liked to use a knife. It was indeed more convenient in ANBU tasks.

Soon, Sasuke came to a room that looked like a prison. The hot feeling of the curse mark on his neck told him that the connection he felt was inside.

Just when Sasuke was thinking about how to open this room...

"boom!"

Sasuke no longer needed to think about how to open it, because the prison was broken from the inside, and the broken walls hit the ground, stirring up a lot of smoke and dust.

A figure slowly emerged from the smoke.

When Sasuke saw the appearance of that figure, he couldn't help but shrink his eyes. It looked like a complete monster, with gray skin, sharp claws, and several unknown objects protruding from the back, and That crazy smile on the other person's face.

"Kill, kill you!" When the other party's eyes fell on Sasuke, he seemed to be even more excited and roared there.

And as he roared, the enemies who were still alive around him screamed in pain as if they had been tortured.

"what happened?!"

This sudden change caused all the ANBU to pause, and they couldn't help but move closer to the center to prevent the sudden change.

Then, they saw that those people also transformed into various monsters, similar to the monster that appeared at the beginning!

"So, without Xia Li's seal, would I look like you? It's really ugly." Sasuke couldn't help but murmured after looking at their appearance.