One of the first significant antagonists in Naruto was Orochimaru, who almost destroyed the Leaf Village and caused Sasuke to leave it. He is still alive and well at this time in Boruto, although almost all of the other antagonists in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden have vanished.
This is partly because Orochimaru has stopped attacking the community, but it’s also because he has repeatedly cheated on death. How has he managed to accomplish this, then?
The Journey of Orochimaru
Once among the strongest ninja in the Hidden Leaf Village, Orochimaru pursued immortality to fulfill his real mission of discovering all the secrets of the world. Aware that a human’s life is far too short to do this, he started testing on other ninjas. Eventually, Orochimaru devised a primitive method to accomplish this.
Instead of prolonging the life of his own body, Jutsu Orochimaru’s Immortality entails forcing his soul into other bodies and seizing control of them. He changes into his actual form, a gigantic white serpent, during the process.
Orochimaru alternates between bodies on a reasonably frequent basis, but his intellect stays intact. He employs a number of strategies to keep his surface appearance consistent after he shifts bodies.
Although he can only try the technique once every three years and likes to curse his favorite victims, Orochimaru appears to be able to utilize it on nearly everyone.The Immortality Jutsu has certain serious flaws, but the precise methods and requirements for doing it are not well documented.
First, there are hosts that are better suited for the procedure than others. Because he wanted control of his Sharingan eye and thought Sasuke Uchiha was strong enough to give him a full second life, Orochimaru sought him out as his host in Part 1.
When Sasuke failed to reach him in time, he was compelled to use a prisoner’s body, which after three years started to reject him. This caused Orochimaru to progressively deteriorate once more, and when he tried the jutsu again, Sasuke exploited this vulnerability to appear to kill him.
The jutsu was really reversed by Sasuke’s Sharingan, and Orochimaru was assimilated into the curse mark that he had placed on Sasuke. Orochimaru escaped the curse mark during Sasuke’s fight with his brother Itachi, but Itachi’s legendary Totsuka Blade locked him in place right away.
Sasuke voluntarily brought Orochimaru back to life by extracting his consciousness from the curse mark of another former pupil, Leaf Ninja Anko Mitarashi, even though it appeared that he was dead. He then disclosed that, despite the curse mark, his awareness never perished because he had witnessed a large portion of the intervening events between that time and Sasuke and Itachi’s struggle.
Therefore, it appears that a person who bears an Orochimaru curse mark never really dies. However, the fact that Sasuke brought him back to life seems to indicate that he is unable to do it on his own in this condition.
Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Kill Orochimaru?
The Immortal Orochimaru uses jutsu as one of his methods of survival, but physical changes also play a significant part. Orochimaru’s ability to regenerate is frightening; he can easily replace lost limbs and, in the event of a serious injury, even create a new body that is entire.
These techniques are referred to by Sasuke as the Power of the White Snake. Orochimaru can’t perform these methods indefinitely because they use a lot of chakra, but he doesn’t have to. Even by today’s standards, Orochimaru is among the most formidable ninja in the series—or ever.
Despite having his limbs (and thus his jutsu) severed by the Third Hokage, he managed to defeat Naruto in Tailed Beast Version 2 and hold his own against Jiriaya and fellow Sannin Tsunade. He was originally a member of the Akatsuki, who still viewed him as a real threat.
Orochimaru is even more powerful now than he was before having his jutsu restored, and he engaged in an even battle with the formidable Kara member Victor in Boruto.
Orochimaru hasn’t died because of his immense strength, Immortality Jutsu, and regeneration skills, which make it nearly difficult for him to pass away. However, since he developed an interest in Sasuke’s natural growth during his conflict with Itachi, he has steered his experiments in a more compassionate direction and is now occasionally an ally of the Leaf Village.
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