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Chapter 135 Escape to Ryuchi Cave
Soon after, all the high-ranking members of Ryuchi Cave came before the White Snake Sage.

"This is outrageous! Not content with attacking Mount Myōboku, they now dare to target Ryūchi-dō! They're courting death! Quickly, gather all the men of Ryūchi-dō here. It's time for us to leave Ryūchi-dō."

The White Snake Sage roared furiously, looking as if he wanted to devour Uchiha and Tosei, but the words he uttered were incredibly weak and cowardly.

"Immortal, what has happened? Why do we need to leave Dragon Cave?"

Upon hearing the White Snake Immortal's words, the expressions of the snakes present changed drastically, and Tianxin Snake Princess immediately stepped forward and asked nervously.

They couldn't understand what had happened that had brought them to the point where they needed to flee Ryuchi Cave. In fact, the White Serpent Sage had already backed down without even fighting. After all, this was Ryuchi Cave, one of the three great sacred sites on par with Mount Myōboku.

Throughout history, who has ever dared to lay a hand on them?
Wait, attacking Mount Myōboku? Could it be...?

"It's Uchiha Kazuto, that beast, that madman! Quick, quick, gather all the snakes! They're coming! They're coming! You idiots, hurry up!!! What are you all standing there for!!!"

The White Snake Sage shook her head, then urged her urgently. She was afraid; she was terrified. This was only the second time she had felt fear and horror since Kaguya Otsutsuki's arrival.

She knew that Ryuchi Cave was no match for the current Land of Fire. Once those soldiers entered Ryuchi Cave, her fate would be extremely tragic. She didn't want to end up like the Great Toad Sage. She already knew what the Great Toad Sage was like now; it was truly a fate worse than death, where one could die and then live again, and then die again. Those madmen were trying to analyze the Great Toad Sage's ability to foresee the future.

Unfortunately, because the Great Toad Sage was such an important sample, and because those madmen didn't know whether the Great Toad Sage's ability to foresee the future was an ability ingrained in his genes or a special ability born under the stimulation of natural energy, they dared not destroy the Great Toad Sage's body, but instead kept patching it up.

She, the White Snake Sage, also possesses special abilities. If she were captured, she would surely suffer the same fate as the Great Toad Sage, entering into eternal torment. She didn't want that kind of future!
"Yes!"

Upon hearing this, the snakes present were shocked and retreated hastily. They quickly gathered all the intelligent snakes in Ryuchi Cave, then, under Orochimaru's control, used a summoning array to escape Ryuchi Cave with all their belongings.

They were afraid, they were terrified. Mount Myōboku was their cautionary tale. As one of the three great holy lands, Mount Myōboku was no weaker than their Ryūchi Cave, and might even be stronger. Even Mount Myōboku had been destroyed. How could they possibly resist? What could they possibly use to resist? Their lives?

He's gone mad! He's completely insane! How dare he attack our Holy Land? Even his ancestor, the Sage of Six Paths, never laid a hand on them. He always treated them with utmost courtesy. What gives him the right to attack?
Are you even more powerful than the Sage of Six Paths?

'Just you wait, Uchiha Kazuto! When you die of old age, I will definitely destroy the country you built, hiss!!!'

The White Snake Sage roared wildly in her heart. Her hatred for Uchiha Kazuto reached its peak. She wished she could run to Uchiha Kazuto's grave, eat people and drink alcohol, and completely destroy the Land of Fire. If it weren't for Uchiha Kazuto, why would she have led the snakes of Ryuchi Cave to escape? It's all Uchiha Kazuto's fault, that beast!

Ruthless, filled with boundless hatred, and then powerless; the White Snake Sage didn't even dare to appear before Uchiha Kazuto.

'If this were in the past, who would dare to lay a hand on their holy sect... Uchiha Kazuto!!!'

The other snakes in Ryuchi Cave were also filled with anger, desolation, and utter helplessness. This place, where they dared not even fight and fled at the slightest sound, was no longer a sacred place; they were simply like stray dogs.

But what could they do? Were they really going to stay in Ryuchi Cave, hold out, and wait to die?

You should know that even the White Snake Immortal was afraid of it.

……

Inside Ryuchi Cave, this once sacred place is now deserted, with only some empty buildings and mindless snakes wriggling and crawling on the ground. Suddenly, a black dot appears on the ground, and the next moment, like a spring, a large number of incantations surge out from the black dot, crawling, wriggling, and combining like leeches. Soon after, a huge magic circle appears in Ryuchi Cave.

Some snakes curiously crawled over and wriggled on the magic circle. The next moment, a terrifying suction force came from the magic circle, and the snakes' bodies began to passively extract chakra, and in the blink of an eye they were drained into dried corpses.

boom!
Thick smoke rose.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Roars echoed through the thick smoke, and the next moment, a group of incredibly brave soldiers charged out of the smoke.

"Did they all run away? A bunch of cowardly good-for-nothings, nothing but a bunch of disloyal beasts."

A toad stood where the White Snake Immortal had once been, and said with a sneer.

Unlike Toad One, whose loyalty is beyond question and who has risen from the ranks of beasts to become a legitimate citizen of the Land of Fire.

"However, the natural energy in Ryuchi Cave is truly abundant."

Soon after, some soldiers with Sage Mode sealing techniques inscribed on their bodies entered Ryuchi Cave to absorb the natural energy inside. This place, rich in natural energy, allowed them to accumulate natural energy at a faster pace.

Sage Mode has its limits. It's not that the more natural energy you absorb, the stronger you become. Essentially, it depends on whether you have enough chakra. Sage Chakra is a special energy created by a 1:1 ratio of natural energy to chakra. If you don't have enough chakra, no amount of natural energy will help. In essence, this world doesn't have a system for accumulating and training energy.

It's impossible for someone to absorb a large amount of natural energy and reach the Six Paths level. More often than not, the other person's chakra was already close to that level, and after absorbing natural energy, they delivered the final blow and directly reached that level.

Without chakra, natural energy is just like that. Moreover, after this period of research, researchers have discovered that there is a special connection between natural energy and chakra, much like the relationship between crude oil and gasoline.

(End of this chapter)