"Tsunade!" she shouted.
"Who do you think you are, trying to go into such a dangerous situation!"
Jiraiya was Konoha's current pillar of strength, the strongest person besides Tsunade. If something happened to him, Konoha's combat power would almost be directly reduced.
"Of course I know, but it's okay, Tsunade. You should know I have a special way to deal with it."
Jiraiya didn't care, patting his chest to assure her.
"You mean... Sage Mode?"
513. Jiraiya enters the field, Jiraiya falls!
Sage Mode, a special battle mode in the Naruto world. This battle mode allows the user's chakra to become stronger and greatly improves perception and combat abilities. It can be said to be a very powerful cheat. Currently, the known Sage Modes are only inherited by the Three Great Sacred Places, namely Mount Myōboku, Shikkotsu Forest, and Ryūchi Cave, three major summon animal families.
The so-called Sages in these places are just a group of giant creatures who learned to use the natural energy of this world from ancient times. They learned to use the power of the earth earlier than humans, and it is actually the same as chakra.
In Wang Xiaoming's view, ordinary chakra is a relatively inferior chakra produced by the human body, a weakened version of the chakra fruit produced by the Divine Tree extracting the power of the earth. Then there is the tailed beast chakra, a high-level chakra produced after being purified by the Divine Tree. And sage chakra, the so-called natural energy, is the most primitive power belonging to the earth.
To put it bluntly, the so-called Sage Mode is when a ninja possesses chakra in their body while also directly absorbing the power of the earth. If the body cannot withstand the power of the earth, it will petrify. If the body can withstand the power of the earth, then they have successfully learned Sage Mode. The Sage Modes of the three major bodies are different because they absorb the power of the earth in different ways, which leads to the different manifestations of ninjas who practice Sage Mode.
But no matter what, once Sage Mode is activated, they will become incredibly powerful, directly soaring to the Kage level. And if you are already at the Kage level, you can directly become a Super-Kage through Sage Mode.
Jiraiya can wander around the ninja world and play everywhere because he has Sage Mode, and his combat ability is incredibly powerful. This is his trump card.
"The more dangerous the place, the less likely it is to let the people below try it out, because they have no defensive capabilities. Only people like us can try it out. If even we can't resist it, then no matter how many people below are sent, it will be useless."
As a strong person, Jiraiya's words were correct. Those who clearly know that their subordinates are not the opponents of the other side, but still let their subordinates go up one by one, have no other use besides making useless sacrifices.
"Leave it to me with peace of mind!"
Standing at the forefront of the Sunagakure and Konoha allied forces, Jiraiya bit his finger and then quickly formed hand seals.
"Summoning Technique!"
Two toads wearing clothes appeared on his shoulders, one on each side.
"Oh, little Jiraiya, long time no see."
"Long time no see, two Sages."
Jiraiya greeted them.
"Hmm? Why are there so many people this time? Little Jiraiya, has something big happened?"
"Yes, I need the two Sages to help me enter Sage Mode. I need to enter a dangerous place."
"No problem."
When Jiraiya enters Sage Mode, he needs some time to prepare, and he himself cannot enter it alone. He needs two toads to help him enter together.
With the help of the two toads, he successfully entered Sage Mode. Entering Sage Mode, he opened his eyes and looked at the distant Divine Tree, immediately sensing a huge black shadow at the root of the Divine Tree.
"What is that?"
After sensing it, Jiraiya exclaimed in surprise for the first time. The two toads on his shoulders also opened their mouths in surprise. In their vision, there was a huge black shadow lurking under the Divine Tree, hidden under the sand. A large area of sand was dyed black, and the black area stopped right in front of Jiraiya, which was the area where Ebizō and the others had fallen, as Chiyo had said before.
"Jiraiya, did you find something?"
Tsunade saw Jiraiya's movements and felt that something was wrong, so she came over to ask. The ninjas behind also all looked at Jiraiya.
"I saw a dark guy hiding under the Divine Tree. The entire surrounding area was dyed black by it, and this blackness stopped right in front of us."
"So, are you saying that my brother was put to sleep by that black guy?"
Chiyo also walked over, looking at the distant Divine Tree. She couldn't see the darkness below, but that didn't stop her from looking at it with hateful eyes.
However, that mass of darkness seemed to sense their gaze. The darkness suddenly surged, and then Jiraiya and the two toads saw a pair of eyes flashing with dark red light suddenly glaring at them.
Hehehe ~ ~ ~
There were even some gloomy laughter sounds coming out.
"Little Jiraiya, you heard that, right?"
"Ah, I heard it, it's laughter, right? What exactly is that?"
"Not sure, but I didn't sense any chakra there. Clearly there's no chakra, but it gives me a very terrifying feeling. What exactly is that?"
"We can only go over and take a look."
Jiraiya formed hand seals, preparing for defense.
"I'll go over and take a look. If there's a problem, I'll come back immediately."
"Be careful."
Tsunade could only give such an instruction, and then watched Jiraiya walk forward.
Jiraiya, carrying the two toads and using Sage Mode, stepped onto the dark area.
"No problem, little Jiraiya, I don't feel any attacks."
The toad on his shoulder immediately gave an answer.
"Okay, then I can move forward with peace of mind."
Jiraiya stepped in with his other foot, both feet stepping into the black area, and there was still no problem.
After confirming that there was no problem, Jiraiya looked up at the black shadow, the dark red eyes still staring at him.
Jiraiya lowered his body, then accelerated and sprinted directly towards the Divine Tree.
Let me see what you are…
Bang——
Jiraiya fell to the ground, and the two toads on his shoulders were also thrown out. The one man and two toads were all lying on the ground, and then there was no sound.
"Jiraiya!"
Tsunade immediately shouted, preparing to rush up to save him.
"Hokage-sama, you can't go!"
Kakashi quickly stopped Tsunade, then looked at Chiyo next to him.
"Please, Chiyo-sama, help us bring Jiraiya-sama back."
Everyone who understands, understands what puppets are.
"Leave it to me."
Chiyo released her puppet, which flew out directly, bringing Jiraiya and the two toads all back and placing them in front of Tsunade.
Tsunade looked at Jiraiya lying in front of her, snoring loudly and even blowing bubbles from his nose, and couldn't help but frown.
Just like Ebizō, his chakra is normal, his body is normal, and his brain is normal, but he's just asleep and can't wake up. How exactly is this done?
Chiyo looked at Jiraiya from Konoha, who had even activated Sage Mode, but still fell directly, and immediately showed a satisfied smile.
That's right, that's how it is. That way, it's fair.
At the same time as Jiraiya fell on the Wood Leaf side, in the northwest direction, the Rock Ninja who came from the Land of Rock also fell one by one on the sand. Also falling were the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water, who came from the northwest direction. The Raikage even fell directly to the ground. As for the Land of Water, because so few people came, they watched the Raikage fall directly and didn't dare to go in.
The five major ninja villages instantly lost several major combat forces the moment they arrived, and for a time, they didn't dare to go in.
514. Orochimaru Returns
"Can anyone explain what's going on with this damn place?"
The Raikage's temper has always been the biggest among the five major villages, but this time, it wasn't his turn to lose his temper, because he was lying in his own tent, snoring loudly, the sound of which even had a vibration effect, extremely powerful.
So, taking the Raikage's place to get angry was the Third Rock Shadow. This old man, who was even older than the Third Hokage, was still sitting in the position of village chief.
Of course, the most important thing was that the reason he was angry was because his granddaughter was also asleep. The future Rock Shadow, Kurotsuchi, who was still just a girl, rushed to the front and fell the fastest. After falling, the Rock Shadow used Earth Release to save her, but he couldn't wake her up no matter what he did.
After the five major villages were unable to figure out what was going on, they could only start to act around the Divine Tree, wanting to investigate what was going on. As a result, they found each other. The five major villages, which had originally set out at different times, eventually came together.
The Rock Ninja with the oldest qualifications here was naturally the most qualified to speak.
Then, as soon as he opened his mouth, he started spraying.
"Guys from the Wood Leaf Village, did you do something?"
The first one targeted was Wood Leaf, or rather, this was a habit that everyone basically had. Everyone would habitually target Wood Leaf, after all, Wood Leaf was the largest and most prosperous of the five villages, and everyone had basically been beaten by Wood Leaf, so if they could target Wood Leaf, they would target Wood Leaf first.
"Hey, Onoki, old man, what do you mean by that? We also have losses here!"
"Who knows? This kind of controlling technique looks like a genjutsu, and genjutsu is something that you Wood Leaf guys like to play with the most."
Onoki had a look of disdain, as if he didn't like genjutsu very much.
"Isn't the Uchiha clan in your village the most fond of playing with this kind of thing... Oh, sorry, I forgot, the Uchiha in your village are almost dead~~ Hehe~~~"
Onoki's mocking smile made Tsunade very uncomfortable. The destruction of the Uchiha clan was a huge loss for Wood Leaf, and even became a joke for others, and all of this was done by the previous Third Hokage and Danzo.
"We didn't do anything."
"Who knows? After all, when the Raikage shared the news with the outside world, Wood Leaf was the only one whose Jinchuriki didn't have any problems."
"But now our Jinchuriki is also gone."
"Is he gone, or is he being hidden by you? Who knows."
"Tch, old thing."
Tsunade wanted to hit someone, but it was obvious that it was not suitable for infighting here. Without figuring out what was going on with this tree, they couldn't mess around themselves.
"Everyone, now is not the time for us to have internal strife. Let's quickly figure out what's going on here."
The Cloud Ninja Village people were very anxious. Although they were hot-tempered, they were even more worried about how their Raikage would be able to wake up. If they couldn't wake up, the Cloud Ninja Village, which had lost two Jinchuriki and a Raikage, would be greatly weakened.
"Currently, we only know that there is a black shadow lurking below the Divine Tree. That black shadow is affecting everything around the Divine Tree. Once you enter that range, you will be affected and then fall asleep."
"Black shadow? What black shadow?"
Onoki asked suspiciously.
"It's not clear. This was discovered by Jiraiya, one of the Three Ninja. As the price of the investigation, Jiraiya also fell."
"Hoh~~ Jiraiya, one of the Three Ninja, has also fallen? It seems that this was indeed not done by the people of Wood Leaf."
Onoki couldn't help but laugh. Jiraiya, as one of the Three Ninja, was considered a veteran Shadow-level ninja. The ninja world all knew this guy. Such a major combat force has fallen, which can basically be used to clear Wood Leaf's suspicion, because if the other party really wanted to do something, then the price would be too high. Jiraiya being attacked at this time would be directly dead.
"So, is there a way to get rid of that black shadow?"
"We are a full three kilometers away from that black shadow. This three-kilometer range is the influencing factor of the black shadow. Unless we can directly attack that black shadow with a long-range attack, we simply cannot touch him."
Three kilometers is the range of influence of the Nightmare. This is a very large range of influence. Within this three-kilometer range, whoever the Nightmare wants to put to sleep will fall asleep, unless the Nightmare is lifted, otherwise they will not be able to wake up.
Ninjutsu with a range of three kilometers, sorry, as of now, none of the ninjas here can do it. Although Onoki has an extremely powerful Bloodline Elimination, unfortunately, his move does not have a range of three kilometers.
As for the chakra weapon that Cloud Ninja Village is developing, it cannot be done at present, so they don't have any long-range weapons either.
In fact, if there was a Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, they could easily solve this problem. Three kilometers is just a matter of a Tailed Beast Bomb, but the problem is that there is not a single Tailed Beast here, they simply cannot act!
It can be said that a group of people are at a loss, completely not knowing what to do.
Just when a group of people were at a loss, Kakashi suddenly appeared behind Tsunade.
"Hokage-sama, our people have discovered Orochimaru's踪迹 on the periphery."
"Orochimaru?"
Tsunade frowned.
"He's here too?"
"Orochimaru? That bastard actually dares to show up!"
Chiyo angrily stood up directly from her seat and rushed to Kakashi's in front of her.
"Where is he?"
"He's on the periphery. After being discovered by us, he's fighting with our village's Guy."
"This old woman will go and catch him!"
Orochimaru killed the Fourth Kazekage of the Sand Ninja Village. Although Rasa was weak on the one hand, Orochimaru killing him caused the Sand Ninja Village to lose a Kage. Chiyo definitely had to find trouble with him. After receiving the news of Orochimaru's location, Chiyo rushed out directly, and the remaining people also rushed out together. They wanted to see what Orochimaru was going to do.
A group of people rushed out of the tent and quickly saw Orochimaru. On the desert, Orochimaru was fighting with Guy. What surprised everyone was that Orochimaru, who was originally good at ninjutsu combat, was actually competing in taijutsu with Might Guy this time. The two of them turned into two afterimages in the desert, constantly engaging in hand-to-hand combat, which surprised the onlookers.
"When did Orochimaru become so good at taijutsu?"
