Chapter 691: A Senjutsu Genius Rarely Seen in Eight Hundred Years (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

“Go to Mount Myōboku? Muzuki, are you planning to learn Sage Mode?” Minato Namikaze asked.

Minato knew that Muzuki wanted to learn Sage Mode; Muzuki had previously sought out Jiraiya to understand it.

“Yes, I’ll trouble you, Minato,” Muzuki nodded.

He definitely had to learn Sage Mode. This was one of the few ways to enhance his strength, besides getting rewards from the system.

Muzuki not only wanted to learn Sage Mode, but he also wanted to understand the Sage Modes of all three Great Holy Lands.

The ideal scenario was for Muzuki to draw on the strengths of all and develop a new Sage Mode.

After all, the origin of these Sage Modes was Nin-Beasts, and perhaps for humans, they weren’t the most suitable.

Even if the development failed, it wouldn’t be a big problem; learning any Sage Mode would still be a gain.

“It’s no trouble, but Muzuki, since you want to learn Senjutsu, why didn’t you sign a contract with Mount Myōboku earlier?” Minato Namikaze asked, somewhat puzzled.

Ordinary people who want to sign a contract with Mount Myōboku must first find its location, then undergo training and trials to be eligible to sign.

But it was different for those like Minato Namikaze who were recognized by Mount Myōboku; they could directly have someone sign Mount Myōboku’s blood contract.

Given Fukasaku and Shima’s attitude towards Muzuki, Minato Namikaze felt that Muzuki should be able to be taken directly to Mount Myōboku to learn Sage Mode immediately after signing the contract.

“For various reasons, but it’s fine now,” Muzuki replied after thinking for a moment.

The Great Toad Sage was too mysterious, and he possessed the unique ability of prophecy in the entire Ninja World. This led Muzuki to not want to have any contact with the Great Toad Sage before he had the ability to protect himself.

Now that he had the ability to protect himself, it didn’t matter.

What if the Great Toad Sage could prophesy? His Celebi could travel through time.

“I see. Then Muzuki, you should sign the Summoning Blood Contract first; it will make coming and going more convenient,” Minato Namikaze didn’t ask for details but prepared to fetch the contract scroll.

Besides summoning contracted Nin-Beasts, Summoning Jutsu also had other wonderful uses.

For example, using the Summoning Jutsu in reverse, if conditions allowed, a Ninja could be teleported back to the location of their Nin-Beast.

Mount Myōboku was far from Konoha, located in a hidden place in the Ninja World. If Muzuki were to go there on foot, just the round trip between Mount Myōboku and Konoha would waste a lot of time, so reverse Summoning Jutsu was very important.

When Muzuki went to Mount Myōboku, he could use reverse Summoning Jutsu to get there. When he wanted to return, he just needed to notify Minato, and Minato could summon a Mount Myōboku toad, which would then use Summoning Jutsu to directly summon Muzuki back.

Minato Namikaze then quickly brought the Summoning scroll and unrolled it in front of Muzuki.

Muzuki thanked Minato, then lightly sliced his right index finger with his left hand, creating a blood mark on his right finger.

Muzuki then quickly wrote his name on the contract scroll and made a hand seal.

“Summoning Technique!”

Immediately after, Muzuki gathered a large amount of Chakra and began his first Mount Myōboku summoning.

Boom!

White smoke flashed, and a green old toad with thick, long white eyebrows appeared before the two, lying down.

“Oh, it’s Little Minato and Little Muyue. Little Minato, did you summon me suddenly for something?” Fukasaku asked, doing a carp jump to stand up.

He was just sunbathing on Mount Myōboku when he was suddenly summoned.

“It wasn’t me who summoned you; it was Muzuki,” Minato Namikaze explained.

“Little Muyue signed a contract with us!” Fukasaku revealed a surprised smile.

“As expected of Little Muyue, you summoned me on your first try. Come visit Mount Myōboku often in the future; my wife has always wanted to learn Cooking from you.”

Fukasaku had always hoped that Muzuki would come to Mount Myōboku to visit.

If he could make such delicious Cuisine with human ingredients that they disliked, what would he be able to create with ingredients they liked? It would be out of this world!

“Learning Cuisine is no problem. I also want to go to Mount Myōboku to learn Senjutsu, so we can exchange ideas then,” Muzuki replied with a warm smile.

Although it was just a life skill, the value of the chef skill even surpassed that of ordinary perfect-level skills; it was simply too convenient for building rapport.

“Learning Senjutsu? That’s fine. I happen to be quite free lately. When do you plan to learn, Little Muyue?” Fukasaku asked directly.

“I can go right away.”

Since coming to the Ninja World, Muzuki’s initiative had become very strong.

“Then, Little Muyue, let me know when you’re about to leave, and I’ll have things prepared over there,” Fukasaku said cheerfully.

Fukasaku then turned to Minato Namikaze and said, “Little Minato, do you want to come along? You can learn Senjutsu now.”

“I won’t. Let’s talk about it after Muzuki finishes,” Minato Namikaze shook his head.

Muzuki learning Senjutsu would divert some of his energy. This was the time for him, as the Hokage Assistant, to play his role. If he also went to learn Senjutsu, who would develop Konoha?

“I see. Then, goodbye for now,” Fukasaku nodded, canceled the Summoning Jutsu, and returned to Mount Myōboku.

Learning Senjutsu was not an easy or simple task. They wouldn’t force anyone to learn it; at most, they would only recommend it to contractors they favored.

After finishing his affairs, Muzuki packed a few things, then summoned Fukasaku and went to Mount Myōboku with him.

The feeling of space-traveling via Summoning Jutsu was almost identical to Flying Thunder God, so Muzuki immediately reacted upon arriving at Mount Myōboku, surveying his surroundings.

First to catch his eye was a vast expanse of giant, unknown plants.

Muzuki didn’t recognize this plant; he had never seen it in his previous life or in the Land of Fire. He guessed it might be a special plant unique to Mount Myōboku.

Although he wasn’t familiar with plants, if there were such special, giant plants, he should have some impression of them.

Besides the giant plants, the ground of Mount Myōboku was covered with many brightly colored large mushrooms.

They looked quite beautiful, but whether humans could eat them was another matter.

“Let’s go see my wife first; she’s really looking forward to seeing you, Little Muyue.”

Saying that, Fukasaku led Muzuki to his home.

“Oh, Little Muyue has come to visit! Welcome, welcome!” Shima, who had prepared the ingredients, saw Muzuki and greeted him with a joyful expression.

“It’s almost mealtime. Later, Little Muyue, you can see if my Cooking has improved.”

“It’s good to train after a full meal, Little Muyue. Let’s wait for my wife to finish lunch,” Fukasaku nodded.

Although he was a bit eager for Muzuki’s Cooking, Muzuki was a guest after all. They couldn’t possibly make the guest cook on his first meal; that wasn’t their way of hospitality.

“I’ll do it. I haven’t used these ingredients for Cooking before,” Muzuki said with a slight smile, offering proactively.

Muzuki was wary of the Great Toad Sage’s abilities, but he wouldn’t ignore Fukasaku and Shima’s kindness towards him because of it.

Moreover, it was good for Muzuki himself; eating bug Cuisine made with his chef skill was much better than eating Shima’s bug Cuisine.

“How can you? Little Muyue, you just arrived at Mount Myōboku,” Shima felt this wasn’t right.

However, at Muzuki’s strong insistence, Shima reluctantly agreed to Muzuki’s request.

“Such delicious Cuisine exists in the Ninja World!”

After taking a small taste of Muzuki’s bug Cuisine, Fukasaku was incredibly shocked. In over eight hundred years, he had never eaten such delicious bugs.

“Even the Great Toad Sage must not have eaten it,” Fukasaku thought of the Great Toad Sage.

But Fukasaku quickly noticed that Shima was already in a frenzy of eating, devouring the food rapidly.

Fukasaku immediately cast the Great Toad Sage out of his mind and also began to eat voraciously.

Anyway, Muzuki wasn’t just coming once, and the Great Toad Sage might not even be awake right now.

After eating and drinking to their fill, it was time for formal training.

Fukasaku led Muzuki to a place with many giant toad statues, first explaining the principles of Sage Mode and its precautions to Muzuki.

Although Muzuki had learned a lot from the original Naruto series, the real world’s content was much richer than the manga and anime, and Muzuki listened very attentively.

Chakra’s essence was an evenly mixed product of two types of energy: spiritual energy and physical energy.

The essence of Senjutsu Chakra was actually to add natural energy to that mixing process, maintaining a 1:1:1 three-way balance of the three energies.

Therefore, the first step in training Sage Mode was to sense natural energy.

If one couldn’t even sense natural energy, then naturally, there was no talk of absorbing it into the body and controlling it.

This was also why Senjutsu training had to be done in a Holy Land.

Muzuki didn’t know the situation at Ryūchi Cave or Shikkotsu Forest, but Mount Myōboku had toad oil that could help practitioners gather natural energy.

With the help of toad oil, practitioners could skip directly to sensing natural energy; the toad oil would automatically attract natural energy into the practitioner’s body.

This way, practitioners could control the natural energy by feeling it within their bodies, allowing for subsequent training while also reverse-engineering the first step, achieving the effect of rapidly mastering Sage Mode.

“Do you want to use the oil? It would be much faster, but the risk is greater,” Fukasaku asked.

He generally wouldn’t recommend using toad oil for people learning Senjutsu.

Because using toad oil for Sage Mode training required Fukasaku to watch intently, promptly using a special stick to disperse the natural energy, otherwise the risk was extremely high.

Fukasaku received no reward for Ninjas learning Senjutsu, so of course, he wouldn’t do such a thankless task.

Muzuki was different; he had just eaten Muzuki’s Cuisine and wanted to eat it again in the future, so he couldn’t treat Muzuki like an ordinary practitioner.

“Not for now. I want to try sensing natural energy first,” Muzuki refused.

Using toad oil would undoubtedly entrust his safety to Fukasaku, a feeling Muzuki disliked.

Moreover, he wasn’t in a hurry to fight Pain like Naruto, so he didn’t need to learn it quickly; he could take his time.

After all, he didn’t just want to master Sage Mode; his ultimate goal was to develop a new Sage Mode. Thoroughly understanding and mastering Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode was what Muzuki should do.

“The first and most crucial key is stillness. This stillness not only means you must stand still, but also enter a state of unity with nature, merging with it, sensing the earth and sky, sensing the flow of natural energy within the earth and sky…”

Fukasaku nodded and began explaining the core points of sensing natural energy.

After about two hours of explanation, Fukasaku let Muzuki try sensing, absorbing, and controlling natural energy on his own.

“Although it’s the first step, it’s the most important one. It usually takes a long time, so don’t rush, Muzuki,” Fukasaku reassured him beforehand.

The next moment, Fukasaku was stunned. In his perception, natural energy was slowly gathering towards Muzuki, being absorbed by him.

Fukasaku’s eyes widened, looking at Muzuki in disbelief.

To sense and absorb natural energy on the first try? What kind of Senjutsu genius, seen only once in eight hundred years, was this?

Muzuki was also a bit surprised, not expecting to have such unexpected talent in Sage Mode.

Ten seconds later, Muzuki frowned and voluntarily stopped the Mount Myōboku guidance method, ceased absorbing natural energy, and dispersed the natural energy within his body.

For some unknown reason, the natural energy within his body was repelling each other, not only interfering with his synthesis of Senjutsu Chakra but also disrupting his own Chakra.

With this stop, Muzuki showed a surprised expression.

There were still small pockets of natural energy continuously entering his body, but he was no longer using Mount Myōboku’s secret technique to absorb natural energy.

Muzuki, in his Transparent World state, quickly figured out the reason.

It was a Breathing Technique!

His constantly operating Thunder Breathing was absorbing natural energy into his body in a different way than Mount Myōboku’s secret technique.

“Could the Breathing Technique always have had this effect, but I couldn’t sense natural energy before, nor did I master the method of absorbing natural energy into my body?” Muzuki’s mind raced.

If the Breathing Technique had the ability to absorb natural energy, perhaps developing a new Sage Mode would be simpler than he imagined.

To verify his idea, Muzuki stopped the Breathing Technique, exited the Transparent World state, and only used Mount Myōboku’s secret technique to absorb natural energy.

With this withdrawal, not only did the absorption of natural energy stop, but Muzuki’s ability to even sense natural energy significantly decreased.

Originally, Muzuki sensed natural energy with 2k clarity; upon exiting Transparent World, it instantly dropped to 480p.

Although it decreased, he could still sense, absorb, and control it.

This time, Muzuki encountered no problems absorbing natural energy and successfully condensed Senjutsu Chakra very smoothly.

“You’re truly amazing, Little Muyue!” Fukasaku couldn’t help but praise him upon seeing this.

To successfully condense Senjutsu Chakra on the very first day—he had taught Senjutsu to so many people, and this was the first time he had encountered such a situation, especially since Muzuki hadn’t used toad oil.

At this rate, Muzuki might truly master Sage Mode in just three days.

“Little Muyue, did you encounter any difficulties just now? You suddenly stopped once in the middle before restarting,” Fukasaku inquired.

Natural energy, as an external energy, was different from internal spiritual and physical energy. High rewards also meant high risks, so all issues in Sage Mode training had to be treated with caution.

PS: Second update.

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