Chapter 287
Senju Tobirama felt like he was dying again. If his will had not been strong enough and he had not been solemnly reminded by Lu Ne and the others beforehand, he might have sunk into that empty but magnificent world.
Everything he loved was there, like a beautiful illusion that made people so addicted that they didn't want to wake up.
But Senju Tobirama finally broke free from the influence of the Hogyoku, woke up from the illusion deep in his consciousness, and opened his eyes.
A layer of colorful energy coat suddenly appeared on his body after he opened his eyes. A special power, mixed with chakra, filled his body at this moment.
"Is this the Collapse Jade Mode?"
Senju Tobirama spread out his hands, lowered his head and looked at his palms and body wrapped in the energy coat, feeling the power in his body that was far higher in quality than chakra, and sighed.
He had overestimated the power of Collapse Jade as much as possible beforehand, but now, after truly possessing this power in his body, he discovered that the upper limit of Collapse Jade's power was somewhat beyond his expectations.
As a ninja, he had already reached the pinnacle of what he could do, but the power of the Collapsing Jade easily allowed him to break through the so-called upper limit of ninjas. As for its limit, he could not touch it for the time being, nor could he imagine it.
Even when the Hogyoku mode enveloped his entire body, Senju Tobirama had an illusion that his own body was limiting the true power of the Hogyoku. The huge amount of chakra in his body had somewhat affected the true power of the Hogyoku.
Simply put, the mixing ratio and the amount of chakra limit the power of his Hōgyoku. The amount of chakra becomes a bucket that carries the power of Hōgyoku.
Is it because this piece of broken jade is meant to break through the limits of the soul?
"It seems like it was successful? Do you want to try your new power?" Orochimaru looked at Senju Tobirama, who was covered in the Hougyoku mode, with interest. He was curious about what kind of power he had awakened from the Hougyoku.
"Alright."
Senju Tobirama glanced at Orochimaru upon hearing this, and he knew exactly what he was planning, but he did not refuse. Although as a ninja, it is best to keep your own intelligence information confidential, but if you are strong enough not to care, or if you are a partner you can trust, then it doesn't matter.
Senju Tobirama's strength is not so strong that he doesn't care about the leakage of his information, but at the same time, he doesn't trust Orochimaru that much. The reason he agreed is only because this power can only be obtained by Kagawa and Orochimaru, and Orochimaru, who made this request, is the fourth generation Hokage of Konoha.
Since even he was resurrected by them, of course Senju Tobirama was very open-minded.
"Don't resist!"
Senju Tobirama instantly appeared next to Orochimaru, put one hand on his shoulder, and then disappeared from the underground base in an instant.
"are you going?"
Tsunade looked at the two people who disappeared, curled her lips, and her eyes fell on Lu Ni who was standing beside her.
"Send the Collapse Jade to the Living Slug Immortal. It still needs to transform." Lu Nie shook his head and pointed at the Collapse Jade whose interior was still bright, and responded.
The power of the Collapsing Jade was of great interest to the sages of the three holy places. After a deal and negotiation, the three holy places each paid a certain price to obtain the right to use the Collapsing Jade. Information about ninjas, Otsutsuki, and the Six Paths Sage was part of the deal. In addition, they also needed to allocate a portion of their power when necessary to serve as materials for forging spiritual tools for their respective contractors.
In order to decide who would get the first right to use the Collapse Jade, the three major spiritual holy places fought for many times. In the end, it was the Living Slug Immortal who got the first right to use the Collapse Jade.
It's not that the Living Slug Immortal has the strongest fighting power, or anything else, it's simply because he has a relatively kind personality and doesn't fight with the world, while the holy places of the other two immortals have a lot of friction and are wary of each other. No one trusts that the other party will come to cause trouble after using the Collapse Jade to gain another evolution.
So after many battles with no clear winner, the Big Toad Immortal and the White Snake Immortal simply gave in and gave priority to the Living Slug Immortal who had been watching the show, and asked it to promise that after it used the Collapse Jade to evolve, any remaining party would also gain the power of evolution by using the Collapse Jade, and if they wanted to start a war, the Living Slug Immortal must step forward to stop it.
This is the contract agreement reached by the three immortals.
As for how long it would take for the Broken Jade to transform itself, the immortals didn't care about that. Even though it looked very old, like an old and immobile giant toad immortal, the vitality in its body was strong enough for it to live for a long enough time.
Their long lives give them plenty of patience.
Tsunade summoned a small slug and handed the Hogyoku to its head. After the tentacles on the slug's head wiggled twice, it moved its body and swallowed the Hogyoku into its stomach in one gulp. After saying goodbye to Tsunade and Kane in a soft and sticky voice, its body turned into a ball of smoke with a bang and disappeared.
"I want to go back."
After doing all this, Tsunade nodded to Luna. Recently, she was busy "educating" the resurrected Rope Tree and couldn't extricate herself. If she was not worried about the accidents in the awakening ceremony of the second generation, she would not have come to this underground experimental base exclusively for Orochimaru.
But since Second Grandfather had successfully awakened and the Collapsing Jade had been sent back to the Wet Bone Forest, she was too lazy to wait here for Orochimaru and the others to come back. Rope Tree was still waiting for her at home.
"I'll wait for them to come back." Lu Nie chose to stay.
He didn't think the two could fight for long, because the one that had awakened consciousness was Orochimaru's original body used for research, and his sub-body used specifically for fighting had always been in the village.
Orochimaru was definitely curious about the Hougyoku mode of Senju Tobirama, but after testing out the other party's ability, he no longer had any desire to fight or compete. After all, the original body's desire to study was much stronger than the other two sub-bodies, and he was unwilling to waste time in meaningless battles.
In fact, Lu Nie’s guess was correct. He didn’t have to wait too long before the two disappeared people reappeared in the underground base.
The two men even looked like they had just gone out for a stroll and came back, without even any signs of fighting left on their bodies, and it was obvious that they had stopped fighting.
"What an amazing ability." Orochimaru exclaimed in admiration, seeming to be somewhat envious and greedy of the awakened ability of Senju Tobirama.
"It's nothing more than restraining ninjas and ninjutsu." Senju Tobirama shook his head. The battle with Orochimaru also made him familiar with his awakened abilities. His talent and obsession were mixed together by the power of the Hogyoku, and he eventually awakened an ability similar to the Rinnegan, which could restrain ninjas and ninjutsu.
Of course, he has yet to delve deeply into and hone his newfound powers, and once he becomes familiar with his abilities, perhaps he will be able to undergo a transformation.
(End of this chapter)