Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode.

Chapter 352 Madara Uchiha Begins to Clear the Area

"It seems that those toads are aware of their precarious situation, but I feel like I'm being taken advantage of by specifically naming me as their psychic contractor."

The next day, in Konoha, in the Hokage's office, Kirito lay on a sofa and said somewhat lazily.

Not long ago, his main body was conducting research on the giant Tenseigan for three days and three nights. He originally planned to continue the research, but Tsunade called him over and told him that he had to sign a summoning contract with Mount Myōboku.

Kirito himself wasn't very enthusiastic about this. He had already signed a summoning contract with the Ninja Cat Clan and Shikkotsu Forest, so he no longer had any need for summoning beasts.

As for the sage techniques of Mount Myōboku, he had little interest in them.

"Don't say that. Mount Myōboku is the strongest summoning beast force in the ninja world. Signing a summoning contract with them will definitely have its benefits. Besides, their Sage Mode has its unique features. For the sake of Konoha, just sign it."

Tsunade smiled wryly upon hearing Kirito's words.

Outside, countless ninjas yearn to sign a summoning contract with Mount Myōboku, but his younger brother regards it as worthless, even somewhat disdainful.

It has to be said that sometimes, comparing yourself to others can be really infuriating.

There was no other way; this time, Mount Myōboku specifically requested that her good younger brother sign a summoning contract before it would agree to formally ally with Konoha.

Clearly, Mount Myōboku allied with Konoha solely because it valued her younger brother's formidable strength.

It can be said that Mount Myōboku is actually allied with Kirito alone.

She knew in her heart that the reason why Mount Myōboku was allied with Konoha was because of pressure from Madara Uchiha, and not of its own free will. However, if Konoha could ally with Mount Myōboku, the benefits would ultimately outweigh the drawbacks.

Once Konoha forms an alliance with Mount Myōboku, it means that Konoha ninjas can go to Mount Myōboku to learn Sage Mode, which is a rare opportunity.

Although the number of people sent to train in Sage Mode is certainly limited, it will definitely further and rapidly improve Konoha's strength.

Kirito's method for cultivating Sage Mode is actually very good, but its requirements are also very high. It not only requires Kirito, the Sage, to provide the Sage Seal, but the cultivator also needs to have extremely high aptitude.

Finally, the method for cultivating Sage Mode that Kirito provided is difficult to master quickly.

She now knows from Kirito that he is the kind of person who is naturally suited to cultivating Sage Mode, and that he will naturally enter Sage Mode whenever he goes to a place with abundant natural energy.

This shows just how terrifying his talent is in cultivating immortal arts. Not everyone can achieve immortality at the age of eight like him. For others, without a complete inheritance and sufficient resources, they can forget about achieving anything in immortal arts in their entire lives.

Mount Myōboku is different; it has an excellent environment for cultivating immortal arts, as well as methods for rapid mastery.

Most importantly, their magical arts do not have very high requirements for cultivators.

This can be seen from the fact that Jiraiya was able to master Sage Mode.

"Sister, you can't say that. Since Mount Myoboku is asking us for help, we must be firm. We can't just do whatever they say. The initiative is in our hands. I personally think Mount Myoboku should show more sincerity. You're just too soft-hearted."

Kirito yawned softly, rubbed his sleepy eyes with the back of his fingers, and said.

Tsunade remained silent, a hesitant expression on her face.

But a few seconds later, her sharp ears caught Kirito muttering, "To put it bluntly, if Madara Uchiha were to deal with those old toads, wouldn't I be the one doing the work? Last time I asked them for help, that old toad refused. Now he's in trouble and wants my help, without even offering me a little something in return."

"Kirito, now is not the time to throw a tantrum. Mount Myōboku is showing us goodwill, so we can't take advantage of this and make exorbitant demands."

Listening to Kirito's rambling, Tsunade rubbed her forehead and gently tried to persuade her younger brother, who clearly had a lot of grievances against Mount Myōboku.

However, she was unaware of the incident where Mount Myōboku had embarrassed Kirito last time. Since Mount Myōboku had done such a thing before, she, as the older sister, really had to stand up for Kirito.

After all, Kirito was more important to her than Mount Myōboku.

"Don't worry, sister, I won't ask for an exorbitant amount. I just want to do business with Mount Myōboku properly."

Seeing that Tsunade was starting to loosen her grip, Kirito suddenly regained his composure and smiled slightly.

"Doing business?"

Tsunade asked, puzzled.

"Yes, doing business."

Kirito continued to smile, his eyes beginning to sparkle.

He personally wasn't particularly interested in the magical arts of Mount Myōboku, but he was quite interested in some of the local specialties.

For example, there's toad oil that can accelerate the training of Sage Mode, the Instant Water that has a magical teleportation effect, and the vast amount of historical documents about the ninja world accumulated at Mount Myōboku, etc.

. . .

Half a day later, Fukasaku, with a dark expression, formed a hand seal, released the summoning jutsu, and disappeared into Konoha as a wisp of white smoke.

His visit to Konoha was a successful alliance with the village, but he never expected Konoha to make such an outrageous demand, requiring Mount Myōboku to train five sages for Konoha within a year.

Such a demand was hard for this hermit of Mount Myōboku to accept. Hermits are not like cabbages; they can't be cultivated so easily. Mount Myōboku has a perfect way to cultivate human hermits, but the resources required to achieve it are not a small amount.

Even if the cultivator has good aptitude, Mount Myōboku still has to pay a huge price.

Take the most crucial cultivation resource, toad oil, for example. It has been accumulated little by little over thousands of years on Mount Myōboku. Every bit used is a bit less, and it is impossible to replenish it in a short period of time.

Also, there are so many ninja toads on Mount Myōboku. Fortunately, not all of them are qualified to cultivate sage techniques, otherwise the toad oil produced on Mount Myōboku every day would not be left over.

Therefore, when Fukasaku learned of the request, he immediately jumped up and refused sternly. However, he was met with a cold reception from the Fourth Hokage, Tsunade, who left him in the VIP room for half a day, responding with a strong and silent attitude.

Left with no other choice, he sought Jiraiya's help, only to be told that it wasn't Tsunade who was unwilling to form an alliance, but rather that the problem lay with Kirito Tohsaka, the human sage who harbored resentment towards their Mount Myōboku.

"Sigh~, in the end it was the actions of Mount Myōboku that angered him, otherwise he certainly wouldn't have had to pay such a high price."

After returning to Mount Myōboku, the hermit Fukasaku looked at the temple where the Great Toad Hermit lived and sighed.

The following day, a startling piece of news was simultaneously announced by both Konoha and Mount Myōboku: Konoha had officially formed an alliance with Mount Myōboku.

This news caused an uproar throughout the ninja world, shocking all the major powers.

In the Land of Waterfalls, at the old Root's new headquarters, Madara Uchiha soon heard this astonishing news from Black Zetsu.

"Lord Madara, the situation is dire! Those toads from Mount Myōboku have actually dared to form an alliance with Konoha. It's obvious they're going to oppose us."

Black Zetsu said with a cold face.

They had just destroyed Ryuchi Cave not long ago, and then Mount Myōboku allied with Konoha. They didn't believe there wasn't something fishy going on. They figured these toads must have discovered something and were worried that they would come looking for them and wipe them out, so they hurriedly allied with Konoha.

"I have no reason to worry. This was an outcome I had anticipated. It seems I put a bit too much pressure on these toads."

Madara Uchiha said casually, without feeling any pressure.

He has now successfully used the power of the Rinnegan to refine the corpse of the White Snake Sage into the Animal Path Pain. The original Animal Path Pain, the Third Mizukage, has been re-refined by him and made into the Hell Path Pain.

It must be said that the White Snake Sage was indeed powerful; the Animal Path Pain created from its corpse is currently the strongest of the three Pains.

By using the power of the Rinnegan and the Gedo Mazo, he successfully preserved most of the White Snake Sage's strength, thus giving Animal Path Pain the power of a Kage.

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Not only that, after he trained the White Snake Sage into Animal Path Pain, he successfully used it to find many escaped summoning snakes from Ryuchi Cave, then killed them and trained them all into Animal Path Pain's summoning beasts.

He currently commands thirty-six summoning snakes, each possessing at least near-Kage level strength. Among them, snakes like Manda, Ao, and Shinja even possess Kage-level combat power.

He now felt that he could sweep through all the major ninja villages except Konoha by relying solely on the White Snake Sage, Pain's Beast Path.

It can be said that he now controls most of the power that Ryuchi Cave has accumulated over thousands of years.

"Hehehe~, Lord Ban can sweep them all away by himself. Now that you have the resources of Ryuchi Cave, you will definitely put a lot of pressure on these old toads. Lord Ban, since these old toads have openly become our enemies, why don't we kill them all and then let your animal realm cultivate a larger army of summoned beasts?"

"Lord Madara, you have no idea how talented these old toads are at teaching Sage Mode to ninjas. They've now allied with Konoha, and Konoha might very well use this opportunity to have them teach Konoha ninjas Sage Mode. We absolutely cannot let them succeed."

Black Zetsu chuckled in agreement, then continued to act as Madara Uchiha's strategist.

Upon hearing this, Madara Uchiha was immediately tempted.

Destroying one Summoning Beast Holy Land greatly increases his available power; if he were to destroy another Summoning Beast Holy Land, he could certainly increase his strength even faster.

Moreover, Black Zetsu is right. The fact that Mount Myōboku has so openly allied with Konoha is clearly a sign that they want to oppose him.

Although Mount Myōboku did this because he was frightened, seeing Mount Myōboku openly opposing him still stirred up a strong murderous intent in him.

"Let these old toads roam free for a few days. I just wiped out Ryuchi Cave, so they're definitely on high alert right now. Kirito Tohsaka might even be lying in ambush there. Let's wait a while and let them relax their guard a bit. Send some White Zetsu who are good at disguise to monitor Mount Myōboku. They don't need to go inside; just keep an eye on things from the outside. Don't alert them."

Madara Uchiha pondered for a moment and then gave instructions to Black Zetsu.

Attacking Mount Myōboku was a must. He needed to make the other forces in the ninja world deeply understand the consequences of opposing him. If he couldn't suppress this evil trend of allying with Konoha and give Konoha more allies, things would be bad.

Not only Mount Myōboku, but also Iwagakure (Hidden Iwagakure Village) is like this.

Did those guys really think he didn't know that the two villages had secretly formed an alliance?

joke.

It just so happens that his Six Paths of Pain are currently missing the Human Path, the Hell Path, and the Preta Path, and that old bastard Onoki is qualified to become one of his Six Paths of Pain.

"I understand, Lord Madara. I will definitely handle this matter perfectly. With the Gedo Mazo gradually recovering, the White Zetsu's abilities are also improving by leaps and bounds. Victory will definitely belong to us."

Black Zetsu was pleased to see that Uchiha Madara had taken his advice to heart.

It finally succeeded in molding Uchiha Madara into the person it wanted. It was so gratifying to see Uchiha Madara abandon his principles and arrogance to embrace the darkness.

Madara Uchiha should be like this. Since he has chosen to be an enemy of the world, he should no longer be bound by anything. In order to achieve his ultimate goal, he should naturally resort to any means necessary.

Unfortunately, humans are creatures bound by emotions, and it is not easy to make them completely abandon their emotions and sink into darkness, especially powerful Uchiha ninjas like Madara Uchiha.

"By the way, tell the people from Kumogakure and Kirigakure to act as soon as possible. The plan has changed, and I need to obtain more tailed beast power quickly."

After Black Zetsu responded, Madara Uchiha added.

Seizing the secrets of Ryuchi Cave greatly increased his strength, but it also made him more eager to complete the Eye of the Moon Plan.

The power of the Rinnegan and the Gedo Mazo is indeed very strong, but in order to seize the power of Ryuchi Cave, he also paid a huge price. He had to let the Gedo Mazo absorb more tailed beasts to further strengthen the power of the Rinnegan and the Gedo Mazo so that he could quickly digest the power of Mount Myōboku after defeating it.

"Lord Madara, shall we attack both Kumogakure and Kirigakure simultaneously?"

Upon hearing Madara Uchiha's words, Black Zetsu was not surprised but delighted, and said with great excitement.

"Indeed, there is no need for these two villages to continue existing. I originally planned to keep them to deal with Konoha, but with the power of Ryuchi Cave, they have become dispensable."

Madara Uchiha gave a cruel smile and nodded in affirmation.

With the help of the Animal Path Pain, the White Snake Sage, and his summoned snakes, destroying a major ninja village would be no difficult task.

Since the Animal Path Pain can rival the power of a major ninja village, there's no need for him to utilize these difficult-to-control powers. He might as well eliminate them all to prevent them from discovering something amiss and forming an alliance with Konoha, thus causing him trouble.

Before a clash between two strong teams, isn't it only natural to clear the field first?

"Hehehe~, I can't wait to see these two ninja villages destroyed, Lord Madara. I will urge Orochimaru and Hiruzen to quickly improve the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and you will be satisfied with the power of these two ninja villages."

黑绝

(End of this chapter)