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Chapter 128 The First Time, Jiraiya's Test: Infiltrating Amegakure!

late at night.

Xiao Nan fled the town.

Jiraiya couldn't catch up with Konan, so he returned to the inn, clearly feeling down. This tall man obviously had a lot on his mind.

"Kagura".

"You should go back to Konoha first!"

Jiraiya looked at Akihara Kagura and decided not to tell him about tonight's events, lest his disciple get involved in these troublesome matters.

Since Jiraiya planned to go to the Land of Rain and Amegakure to investigate, it would be easier for him to sneak in and gather information alone, as it might be inconvenient to bring this disciple along.

How could Akihara Kagura possibly agree?

After all, all the troubles that have recently arisen were orchestrated by Akihara Kagura; his goal is not to return to Konoha!

"What happened?"

Akihara Kagura frowned and immediately began to work backward from the result: "Wasn't Jiraiya-sensei always tracking Orochimaru? Did he find out anything tonight?"

"It's much more troublesome than I imagined..."

Jiraiya suddenly felt a headache coming on when he thought of his old friend and his disciple colluding together and joining the same organization.

Looking at the headache-stricken Jiraiya, Akihara Kagura continued to work backward from the result: "I remember Jiraiya-sensei mentioning to me that Orochimaru must have joined a powerful organization, and that this organization has very powerful figures?"

"Not the powerful kind..."

"They're not powerful, they're just... unique..."

Jiraiya rubbed his forehead, completely at a loss for how to speak to Akihara Kagura. In the end, he sighed and revealed some of the truth.

In short

"I ran into Konan tonight, which means that Nagato and the others may not be dead, and it's very likely that they're in the same organization as Orochimaru."

After Jiraiya finished speaking, he immediately relaxed and said in a deep voice, "My plan to infiltrate the Land of Rain and Amegakure to gather intelligence is far too dangerous..."

"My power..."

"This should be able to help Jiraiya-sensei, right?"

Akihara Kagura opened her palms, then slowly clenched them into fists: "We all saw it last time, Orochimaru joined a powerful organization, and another member of that organization was also quite dangerous. Luckily, I arrived in time..."

"..."

Jiraiya had to admit that Akihara Kagura was very strong.

However, if they infiltrate Amegakure this time, they might encounter the ninja demigod Hanzo of the Salamander. Both the venom of the salamander and the power of Hanzo are very dangerous...

"This time, we might run into Hanzo the Salamander."

Jiraiya reminisced about his youth, recalling scenes from the Second Shinobi World War: "Hanzo of the Salamander was quite a dangerous enemy..."

Speaking of which…

The title of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha is actually a humiliation.

This is because Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade were defeated by Hanzo of the Salamander during the Second Shinobi World War, and Hanzo referred to them as the Legendary Sannin of Konoha.

However, the ninja world did not see this as a humiliation, but rather as recognition of the weak by the strong. From then on, the name of the Three Legendary Sannin of Konoha gradually began to spread throughout the ninja world.

"I've heard of it..."

"Hanzo the Salamander, known as the demigod of ninjas."

"If Hanzo of the Salamander was the mastermind behind Orochimaru and my fellow disciples, and a group of people attacked Jiraiya-sensei under Hanzo's command..."

Akihara Kagura casually pinned the blame on Hanzo of the Salamander, making Jiraiya imagine the scene before continuing, "If I were here, I could at least be of great help, and in a critical moment I could even help Jiraiya-sensei escape using the Flying Thunder God Technique."

"..."

Jiraiya nodded in agreement.

With just Dust Release, Wood Release, Lava Release, Flying Thunder God Technique, and Sage Mode, Akihara Kagura would definitely be able to hold her own against a village's Kage.

It's just the Flying Thunder God Technique...

This kid is a great helper for infiltrating and providing backup!

"If all else fails, I can still lend a hand..."

Akihara Kagura seemed like a student considering his teacher's needs, but his next sentence immediately revealed his true nature: "I heard that the Land of Rain is currently engaged in a civil war. I can go to the battlefield and kill more Rain Village ninjas to attract their attention, which will also make it easier for Jiraiya-sensei to infiltrate and investigate intelligence..."

"..."

Jiraiya's forehead twitched.

After hearing what Akihara Kagura said before, I thought this disciple had become reliable, but I didn't expect that she would still have such outrageous thoughts!

"Come with me."

Jiraiya had made up his mind to bring Akihara Kagura along, reminding him, "Prepare plenty of Flying Thunder God kunai. Let's mark the Flying Thunder God outside first."

"If they really are Hanzo the Salamander behind them..."

Jiraiya sighed softly, realizing that the matter had suddenly become quite troublesome.

Kagura Akihara, finding it inconvenient to reveal Nagato's information, simply shifted the blame onto Hanzo of the Salamander: "Orochimaru and that puppeteer are very strong... Are ninja demigods really that strong? That they can command so many followers?"

"Very strong!"

Jiraiya nodded seriously.

Even though many years have passed and Jiraiya is no longer the same person he once was, he still feels lingering fear of the danger posed by Hanzo the Salamander, especially since Hanzo's summoning beast, the Salamander, can release a highly toxic mist that only a skilled medical ninja can neutralize.

If you accidentally get poisoned...

This time, there was no one to help them detoxify.

The land of rain.

The base of the Akatsuki organization.

After returning to the base, the first thing Konan did was to see Pain and tell him about how she had gone to accept a mission commission, only to encounter Jiraiya setting a trap instead.

Jiraiya is still investigating the Akatsuki organization.

Konan frowned, recalling her encounter with Jiraiya. "This time, it was he who set up the trap to lure us in. Although I escaped, he has already discovered my identity and will likely find out about the Land of Rain soon..."

"Jiraiya-sensei..."

Payne's voice held a hint of nostalgia for the past, but he also felt a pang of regret for his teacher's obsession, believing that the teacher could never be one of them: "If Jiraiya-sensei really finds out where we are and this base, then kill him."

Now...

Actually, it wouldn't be easy for Pain to kill Jiraiya.

Pain was powerful enough, but killing a ninja and defeating a ninja are two different things, just as he could defeat Orochimaru but not necessarily kill him.

It would be easier to kill Jiraiya if all six of Pain's puppets were gathered together and their unique abilities were utilized.

"Yes."

Konan nodded, obeying Pain's orders, but then raised a question: "What if our recent assignments encounter another trap set by Jiraiya...?"

"It's okay to take on commissions."

Payne glanced at Konan and whispered, "Send anyone else there. Konan, don't go out and risk your life anymore. Let's continue recruiting and building up our strength."

the other side.

Jiraiya brought Akihara Kagura into the Land of Rain.

Akihara Kagura sensed the unique weather changes in the ninja world, where it rains almost all year round, causing the rivers in the Land of Rain to overflow year-round.

As the civil war intensified, Kagura Akihara could always find corpses floating in the river, no matter where she went, and she lost all interest in fishing.

"War is always so cruel."

Looking at the floating corpses, Jiraiya took the opportunity to educate his disciples: "Behind these corpses, who knows how many lonely and helpless families are..."

"so…"

Akihara Kagura nodded, fully agreeing with her teacher's point of view, and offered her own interpretation: "We must kill everyone who might cause a war in the future."

"..."

Jiraiya felt a bit of a headache.

Because this disciple's views always seem to make sense yet are also quite wrong, leaving people unable to refute them but also unable to agree with them.

Jiraiya gradually realized that his disciple's starting point was actually correct, but his actual implementation was too extreme.

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Jiraiya could only teach Akihara Kagura this way, hoping to instill a little compassion in his disciple: "Perhaps those who started the war were also forced to do so for survival..."

"Jiraiya-sensei, your inclinations..."

Akihara Kagura immediately seized on the loophole in her teacher's words.

"..."

Jiraiya immediately realized that what he had said was really a bit off; it seemed like he was making excuses for the instigators of the war!

For example, Sunagakure...

After all, in every Shinobi World War, the ninjas of Sunagakure couldn't hold out any longer, and their first action was to attack Konoha, wanting to invade the Land of Fire and seize its rich land.

Everyone in the ninja world knows that Sunagakure is desperately poor and keeps reducing the number of ninjas in order to survive. But the Konoha ninjas can't sacrifice the interests of the Land of Fire and their own ninjas just because they pity Sunagakure's poverty, can they?

"So just do as I say!"

Kagura Akihara sighed, ceasing to pursue her teacher's mistake, and continued, "If someone wants to wage war against Konoha just to survive, then killing them all is enough; it kills two birds with one stone..."

"How... is this calculated?"

Jiraiya looked at Akihara Kagura with some confusion.

Akihara Kagura looked at Jiraiya and explained earnestly, "By killing all those people, we not only resolved the crisis that threatened to break out into war, but also solved the problem of their survival!"

"..."

Jiraiya felt a sense of familiarity.

That makes a lot of sense, but something still doesn't quite add up, does it? Once someone is dead, they certainly don't need to worry about survival anymore…

"Let's go to Amegakure."

Jiraiya gave up on continuing to discuss the issue of war with his disciples.

After all, Jiraiya didn't have a solution in mind for the constant wars that broke out in the ninja world. He could only pin his hopes on the prophesied child that the Great Toad Sage had foretold in his dream, the one who could change the fate of the ninja world.

Rain-Hidden Village.

This is a village built of reinforced concrete.

Because the village receives abundant rainfall year-round, the wooden houses had to be built with reinforced concrete to prevent them from rotting from water damage.

In addition, in order to facilitate drainage during the rainy season, a wide network of sewers has been built inside Rain Village, with an uncountable number of drainage pipes.

These drainage pipes are very wide, allowing people to pass through unimpeded. However, there are so many of them that anyone could easily get lost without a familiar Amegakure ninja to guide them, and could run into patrolling Amegakure ninjas and be surrounded and killed at any time.

The entire Rain Village was under heavy security.

The tall water pipes were filled with ninjas on duty.

Jiraiya looked up at the heavily guarded Amegakure and began testing his disciple: "If we want to infiltrate now, do you have a way?"

"a lot of."

Akihara Kagura was already very skilled at this kind of infiltration and reconnaissance, and could easily come up with a bunch of methods: "Find a Rain Village ninja, leave the Flying Thunder God mark on him, and then use the Flying Thunder God technique to teleport in directly."

"Not bad..."

Jiraiya nodded in approval.

This disciple's thinking is quite normal.

"Spiritual communication!"

Jiraiya clasped his hands together in the summoning hand seals and said softly, "I'll teach you a new method. As long as you summon the toads of Mount Myōboku, you can hide inside their bellies and let them swim across the water. That way, no one will notice..."

Before he could finish speaking...

A bright green toad appeared in the summoning circle. The toad suddenly opened its huge mouth and swallowed Jiraiya whole with a mouth that didn't match its size.

"Kagura".

Even while hiding inside the toad's belly, Jiraiya didn't stop instructing his disciple: "Try what I taught you. Use the summoning technique I taught you skillfully, without alerting anyone, and infiltrate Amegakure."

[System Notification]: [New task (Jiraiya): Utilize your summoned beasts skillfully to infiltrate Amegakure without alerting anyone.]

After saying that, the bright green toad darted into the water and swam into Amegakure Village through the sewer pipes, unnoticed by anyone along the way.

When the toad appeared in Amegakure, it slowly opened its mouth, and an arm suddenly stretched out from its mouth, followed by Jiraiya's entire body!

"Infiltration successful."

Jiraiya crouched on the water's surface, quite satisfied with the successful infiltration, and asked with some curiosity, "Hmm? Hasn't Kagura's little toad gotten in yet?"

Outside Yuyin Village.

Akihara Kagura didn't really want to use this method.

It might even require Jiraiya to give up teaching him this method.

"Spiritual communication!"

Akihara Kagura quickly clasped her hands together and formed a hand seal, summoning a gigantic toad. The giant toad sage looked drowsily at the person who had summoned it.

"I need to sneak in without alerting anyone."

Akihara Kagura pointed to the misty Amegakure in the distance and casually slapped a veil on Jiraiya's head, saying, "This is Jiraiya-sensei's test for me. Surely the Great Toad Sage can't even handle something this simple?"

"..."

The Great Toad Sage pondered in silence for a while, seemingly never expecting such a trivial matter to come to it, as it had always been preoccupied with matters of great importance, the rise and fall of the ninja world.

The giant toad immortal thought for a moment, then produced a crystal ball from who-knows-where, and slowly said, "A celestial spirit favored by nature, I will use this crystal ball to observe and guide you to a safe path..."

This is the tool the Great Toad Sage uses to observe the ninja world. He can use the crystal ball to observe the scenery outside, and in most cases, he can even find a person's location by knowing their chakra.

Using this ability to observe Amegakure and find a way to infiltrate it would be incredibly easy for the Great Toad Sage.

even…

The Great Toad Sage was even able to personally send Akihara Kagura inside.

"There's no one on this road..."

"I can hide behind this pipe..."

"There's a ninja in this street, we can hide first..."

"We must not alert anyone."

Kagura Akihara emphasized the requirements of her mission, and softly defended herself, "Besides, we'll be using the summoning toads of Mount Myōboku during the infiltration, but the Great Toad Sage should know that I'm not familiar with the other toads either..."

"Jiraiya's test is really tough..."

The Great Toad Sage exhaled, having observed the situation in Amegakure for a long time using the crystal ball. He seemed to sense the difficulty of this trial: "Let's go, we'll go through this passage. This should allow me to enter."

"This crystal ball's abilities are truly outstanding..."

Akihara Kagura made a compliment, seemingly with ulterior motives.

"Sometimes it's impossible to observe specific people."

The Great Toad Sage shook his head, panting as he stated the crystal ball's flaw: "There are some people whose fates cannot be observed; their whereabouts are always unknown..."

Today's exercise volume...

This is quite a lot for the Great Toad Sage.

After all, this giant toad immortal is already over a thousand years old.

Using the observation crystal ball, the Great Toad Sage discovered the defensive loopholes in Amegakure and, after much difficulty, finally delivered Akihara Kagura to Jiraiya's side.

"Ah, this is..."

Jiraiya's jaw almost dropped.

"The Great Toad Sage".

Akihara Kagura glanced at the giant toad sage beside her and, unusually, offered a compliment: "The summoning toads of Mount Myōboku are indeed very helpful for infiltration and reconnaissance. We didn't disturb anyone along the way; it was practically like we just walked right in..."

"Whew...it's been a long time since I've exercised like this..."

Looking at the stunned Jiraiya, the Great Toad Sage, before dispelling the summoning, panted heavily and offered his opinion: "Little Jiraiya... next time... could you try to assign this little guy some tasks that are suitable for us to do together..."

First update!

The law of Mount Myōboku seems to be that regardless of whether the other party is evil or not, as long as they pass the test of Mount Myōboku, Mount Myōboku must sign a spiritual contract with them and respond to their call...

(End of this chapter)