Chapter 221
Senfa·Goemon!
"Is it solved?" Jiraiya said uncertainly as he looked at the large area covered with kerosene that was flowing like magma and covered everything along the way.
"Not yet! Watch out!"
Fukasaku frowned. In its perception, it replicated the natural power in Jiraiya's body, like a firefly in the dark night.
puff!
A swirling, surging column of water stubbornly emerged from the boiling kerosene, followed closely by a human figure covered in flames.
The replica Jiraiya, whose entire body was covered in a layer of black hair and was severely burned, staggered and landed on the still warm rocks around him.
The boiling oil flowed slowly past his feet, and without the infusion of chakra, the temperature quickly dropped.
"What a mess!"
Feeling the warm ground under her feet, Tsunade, who was watching the battle from a distance and was not affected, frowned slightly.
Uh!
vomit!
The replica Jiraiya's charred body suddenly bent and vomited violently. An intact Jiraiya crawled out of the charred body with mucus.
Jiraiya, who was so sharp-eyed when he saw this scene, almost popped his eyes out!
What kind of Jiraiya version of Orochimaru's ninjutsu is this?
"It seems that the impostor can use not only your ninjutsu and senjutsu, but also Orochimaru's ninjutsu."
Faced with an alternative version of Orochimaru, Sage Fukasaku also finds it difficult to figure out his ability to survive.
"Then let's get rid of Orochimaru first..." Shima Sennin set his sights on Orochimaru, who was standing a few dozen meters behind Jiraiya, and wanted to get rid of this caster.
"Damn it, Orochimaru is even harder to deal with." Fukasaku Sage reminded quietly. In the brief battle with Orochimaru before, he had already been impressed by how difficult Orochimaru was.
"Then what do you say we should do? If we don't resolve the battle quickly, aren't you going to eat dinner tonight?" Shima Sage was furious. He turned around while standing on Jiraiya's shoulder and shouted while looking at Fukasaku Sage on the other side of his shoulder.
"Then let's use the sealing technique." Fukasaku turned his head and felt a headache. He regretted responding to Jiraiya's call this time.
"Then let's do it in one go..."
Just when Jiraiya made up his mind, his expression suddenly changed, and the two sages, Fukasaku and Shima, also showed surprise on their faces.
On Jiraiya's body, tumors squeezed out from under the skin, rushing left and right under the skin like living things.
Jiraiya only felt that the stable fairy energy in his body suddenly lost balance, as if there was a force that was affecting and destroying the proportion of his fairy energy.
When the body + spirit + natural energy are mixed in a stable proportion, they can obtain fairy energy, which is the Sage Mode of Myōbokusan.
But now the balance between the chakra extracted from the body and the natural energy absorbed into the body from the outside has been destroyed.
Not to mention Jiraiya was a little stunned, even the two great sages, Fukasaku and Shima, were encountering such a situation for the first time.
However, in this situation that seemed like a failure in practicing immortal arts, the two sages still relied on their experience and immediately dispersed the natural energy in Jiraiya's body, allowing him to exit the Sage Mode.
"what happened?"
Fukasaku stared at Jiraiya and asked. The stable and refined senjutsu energy had never shown signs of losing control unless it was used recklessly. At least in Fukasaku's hundreds of years of life, this was the first time he had seen someone who had successfully entered the sage mode and had multiple experiences in the sage mode lose control.
Shima Sennin opened his mouth and a tongue with a frog head stretched out from his mouth, sniffing something in the air.
"Dad, haven't you noticed that there is something in the air that can affect the natural energy and make it more active?"
"Make natural energy more active?" Upon hearing this, Shenzuo's expression suddenly became unpredictable.
Natural energy itself is violent and difficult to tame. Anyone who wants to master the Sage Mode, in addition to their own talent, also needs to spend a lot of time to feel and familiarize themselves with natural energy again and again, grasp the rules therein, and carefully mix it with the natural energy taken into the body in a certain proportion while maintaining the calmness and stability of their own mind and emotions.
This process is very difficult, and even with the care and protection of the immortals of Myoboku Mountain, the possibility of danger is still very high.
But as long as you can get a feel for it through repeated experiments, seize the opportunity, and constantly approach that ratio, you will eventually successfully enter the Sage Mode.
As long as you can successfully enter once and let your body and brain deeply remember the successful process, what remains is to master this process and turn it into instinct.
Generally speaking, as long as one can maintain the stability of the mixture of one's own chakra and natural energy, one can be considered to have successfully entered the Sage Mode. However, the closer one is to that perfect ratio, the less abnormalities one will have. On the contrary, because it is a sage technique adapted to toads in Myoboku Mountain, if the ratio is not perfect, some features of the body will become frog-like.
For example, the eye shadow and paint around Jiraiya's eyes, as well as the bulging nose. Of course, when necessary, you can also take the initiative to transform into a frog to gain some of the abilities of a toad.
But if the natural energy around and in the body changes, this stability will be broken, and adaptive training will be needed again.
This process may go smoothly, or there may be accidents, but no matter what, it will take a certain amount of time to re-enter the Sage Mode.
The bad thing is that the two sages, Fukasaku and Shima, have no idea whether there will be another accident after they enter the sage mode again.
If this is related to Orochimaru on the opposite side, then this is simply a targeted power to restrain the Sage Mode! If the rescue is not timely, the practitioner whose Sage Mode is broken will probably dig his own grave and become a stone statue under the infusion of natural energy.
"Look at that imposter."
Sennin Fukasaku pointed at the frozen replica Jiraiya opposite him; his body had already shown some signs of petrification.
He obviously wanted to perform the Snake Shedding Technique again to save himself from danger, but the riot of natural energy in his body caused his technique to fail. His mouth opened like a snake's kiss, and a petrified hand stretched out. Then his whole body was quickly covered with a layer of gray and turned into a stone statue, firmly integrated with the rock below.
Jiraiya was still terrified after seeing that scene. He obviously saw from the other person what would have happened to him if his natural energy had not been dispersed when he was in danger. "What did you do, Orochimaru!"
Jiraiya suddenly looked sensitively to his left front, and in a burst of golden distorted lightning, Orochimaru had already approached him in the lightning.
The expressions of the two sages, Fukasaku and Shima, instantly turned serious. The power and movement of the lightning just now made them feel fearful and frown.
That movement speed is faster than Jiraiya's speed in Sage Mode!
Looking at Orochimaru, who was still covered in colorful clothes, Jiraiya's expression also looked unhappy.
Sage Mode is his most precious treasure, and the only power he possesses that exceeds that of Orochimaru. But now, it seems that Orochimaru has found a way to deal with his Sage Mode.
Although Orochimaru has not acknowledged or confirmed it yet, Jiraiya firmly believes in his heart that Orochimaru has something to do with him being forced to exit the Sage Mode!
If you can't beat me, then seal my power, right?
It's something you can do, Orochimaru!
Jiraiya groaned inwardly with gnashing teeth. He was afraid that he would become the last one in the team again.
"The Immortal Poison! It is a byproduct of my research on natural energy by Tsunade, Lu Nie and I. It can make the natural energy in a certain area more active, violent and uncontrollable.
It will bring great pain and suffering to the person who possesses the power of nature. If rescue is not timely, his only fate is death. "
Orochimaru said without hiding anything. He and Lunai's current research has been focused on studying the power of the hollow, or the spiritization of energy and matter. This is a more complicated and troublesome research than natural energy, and the progress is slow.
If he wanted, he could now spend some time entering the Sage Mode of Longdi Cave, but the restrictions were too great and it was not perfect, and he had not yet adjusted his body to its best.
"What about you? You should also be in some kind of Sage Mode, right?" Sage Fukasaku also felt something strange in his body. Although the so-called Sage Poison would not put him in danger in a short time, he was still surprised that it could affect him, no matter how weak the effect was.
What surprised him even more was that Orochimaru also had rich natural energy in his body, but he did not suffer any backlash!
Is it because the other party has a way to restrain themselves?
How did he solve this so-called immortal poison? Did he have previous experiments, so he was familiar with the process of change in advance and had experience?
"This is the power I want to show you, Jiraiya." Orochimaru did not explain further.
"It seems that there are some things you don't want us to know." Sage Fukasaku understood a little, but he was not dissatisfied with Orochimaru's secrecy. He was not a person who liked to meddle in other people's affairs.
"Since we are no longer needed for the upcoming sparring match, let's go back, dad. I still have to prepare dinner!"
Shima Sennin retracted his tongue and urged. She didn't care about the upcoming class reunion between Jiraiya and Orochimaru. It was useless for them to stay anyway, and it would waste Jiraiya's chakra. She might as well go home. She still couldn't let go of the insect feast she was halfway through.
"Goodbye, Boss, Big Sister!"
Jiraiya did not try to keep them, and took the initiative to cancel the summoning and sent the two great immortals back.
"This is the power of the Hogyoku!" Orochimaru saw the two dissipating white smoke and then continued to say to Jiraiya. "The Hogyoku mode is a power mode that is more suitable for ninjas than the Sage Mode of the Three Holy Lands.
It is less dangerous and has a lower training threshold, but its potential and characteristics are more suitable for the characteristics of a ninja.
Don't you want to know why I can continue to maintain the Collapse Jade mode under the Immortal Poison? That's because the power of Collapse Jade can allow people's minds to finely control natural energy.
The colorful clothes on its outside are the power of immortal arts after the mixture of chakra and natural energy under the guidance of the broken jade. Everything is done outside the body, and there will be no alienation caused by absorbing natural energy into the body. "
Orochimaru did not explain in further detail, such as the sublimation of his own characteristics gained under the stimulation of the power of the Hogyoku, such as the evolution of the three magatama into the Mangekyo.
It was a different kind of power, similar to a bloodline limit. It summarized and refined one's own desires and power characteristics and then materialized them, giving them infinite possibilities.
Just like every pair of open kaleidoscope eyes, each one is endowed with different abilities according to the heart and desire of its owner.
Orochimaru's Hougyoku power is his replication power!
Because his greatest desire in his heart is immortality, and the one who gave him the possibility of immortality and allowed him to see the existence of the immortal species was the White Snake Immortal in the Longdi Cave!
Therefore, his earliest path to immortality was to replicate the White Snake Immortal. To this end, he made many changes to his body and soul and developed corresponding soul ninjutsu.
Although he later twisted and transformed his twisted soul and body little by little and turned to the new path after finding a better way to immortality, his original desire and dream remained unchanged from beginning to end.
He wants to master all techniques, wants to know all the secrets of this world, and wants to witness more new creatures in the future with an immortal attitude.
The Broken Jade responded to this desire deep in his heart and transformed this desire into a kind of power, which was materialized in the form of the technique he mastered.
He was as greedy as a snake, and the response of the Broken Jade could not completely satisfy his desires, so what materialized was just a specious seed.
Which direction to go and which ability to ultimately focus on depends on Orochimaru's own choice.
He chose to evolve himself into a perfect life!
A life more perfect than the White Snake Immortal!
Every choice along this path and every person and intelligence that might help him will be absorbed by him.
Give away the power, then take the other person's power back and integrate it into your own body.
This is a road of plunder and replication.
In the past, Orochimaru only wanted to achieve this by constantly changing his body, but now, with the power given by the Hogyoku, he can do more.
Of course, Lu Nie's Collapsing Jade only gives the soul the ability to change. If he wants to truly evolve to perfection, he needs another Collapsing Jade that acts on the body!
This was a path that Lu Ni had mentioned to him when he was young, to study and combine all bloodline limits.
Orochimaru took over this path and tried it according to the technique of Lu Nie to make the Collapsing Jade. The Collapsing Jade, which represents the mind, and the Collapsing Jade, which represents the body, are like the two attributes of yin and yang. When combined, they represent the infinite possibilities of all things.
(End of this chapter)