Wok Shadow Ninja

Chapter 367: The First Hokage's Sage Mode

"What interpretation?" Jiraiya took everything related to prophecies very seriously. The prophecy was his reason for living; this prophecy was more important than the Third Hokage, Orochimaru, and Tsunade combined.

Fukasaku shook his head. "I don't know. The Toad Sage is much older than me. I can go back and ask the Great Lord, but you know his situation; he's getting more and more confused."

Elder Fukasaku returned to Mount Myōboku, and there was nothing more for Jiraiya to ask.

Was it really an "illegitimate son"? No one knew.

Ino had no evidence to say it was a clone. Orochimaru had seen Tsunade berate Jiraiya twice. After knowing the whole story, Auntie Snake smiled without saying a word, choosing to stand on the side and watch both times. Except for not bringing melon seeds, peanuts, and a small stool, he fully embodied what it meant to be a bystander.

Fight! Fight as hard as you can!

Seeing Tsunade hit Jiraiya made Orochimaru feel particularly good. One day, he even reminisced with Anko Mitarashi about their past master-disciple relationship in a soft voice. The extremely hesitant Big Sister Anko ate ten more bowls of red bean soup to calm her nerves.

Orochimaru enjoyed watching the chaos. The relationship between Tsunade and Jiraiya plummeted.

Originally, the village was filled with a happy atmosphere, with newcomers like Asuma and Kurenai, Hayate Gekkō and Yūgao Uzuki, and Kakashi and Hanare walking down the aisle. There was even a spark between the old couple, Tsunade and Jiraiya. Now, with the "illegitimate son" appearing, that little spark was extinguished by Tsunade, who didn't want to be a "stepmother." The relationship between the two turned cold again.

Unlucky in love, Tsunade started drinking to drown her sorrows again.

To cheer her up, Ino took out thirty million ryo from the tuition fee given to her by Hikaru, whom she called "Hikaru Ten-Billion."

She gave it to Tsunade to squander over three days.

The truth is, the best way to solve being unlucky in love is to go home and rest, definitely not to go to the casino!

Tsunade lost everything. Seeing her last chip being taken away, she was in a foul mood. Under the double blow, she slammed the table in anger. As a result, a vine as thick as a finger grew from the corner of the solid wood gambling table. This vine quickly withered, but it still shocked Tsunade inexplicably.

This time, it wasn't Ino who used the Spirit Transformation Technique to send her Wood Release chakra. Although it was weak, it was ultimately her own. The Wood Release she had been longing for for many years had finally taken root in her own bloodline.

"I always thought only the Uchiha clan needed this kind of mental stimulation method. Can I do it this way too?" she asked her two disciples.

Both Shizune and Ino shook their heads, indicating they didn't know.

Shizune took a little of Tsunade's blood. After testing it, she found that her Wood Release had indeed awakened. At this time, the chakra activity in her body had increased by at least ten times.

Tsunade's bloodline originally had this information; it was just that she lacked Ashura's chakra, so she couldn't awaken Wood Release for a long time.

Ino, relying on the Spirit Transformation Technique, had repeatedly helped her harmonize her Wood Release chakra in the manner of Wood Release. The chakra pathways in her body had already remembered this feeling. With a slightly larger mental stimulus, the information in her bloodline was activated.

Referring to Ino's standard: Ino's Wood Release was lv3, Yamato's was lv1. Now that Tsunade had mastered this ability, it was about lv2.

She could use Wood Clone, Deep Forest Emergence, and Wood Dragon Technique, but not the Wood Human Technique. Tsunade's chakra was still not enough.

Even if she emptied her chakra, she couldn't summon one arm of the Wood Human.

To use higher-level Wood Release, she had to open her Yin Seal.

Tsunade was slowly getting familiar with Wood Release and then tried to add this elemental technique to her own moves.

The effect was only average. Her fighting style had long been set. The Monster Strength Fist and Heavenly Foot of Pain could solve most enemies. There was no enemy that couldn't be solved with one punch. If it couldn't be solved, then two punches.

Now, forcefully inserting Wood Release was, to be honest, a bit awkward.

Jiraiya came to train with her with a thick face. Tsunade gave him a good beating, and the relationship between the two old people returned to normal again, but the previous intimacy that was only a layer of paper thin had disappeared.

Jiraiya didn't care at all. After so many years, back and forth, he was used to it. If the favorability was gone, he could just earn it back!

Tsunade was, after all, a heroine among women. She showed off her Wood Release twice in public and received a lot of praise. Her depression from almost "becoming a stepmother" dissipated by more than half.

Ino didn't participate in the affairs of the two old people. She had also been studying Sage Mode these past few days.

The Sage Art of Shikkotsu Forest belonged only to the Slug Sage. This sage was a typical case of "when I'm full, the whole family is not hungry." Without the burden of clansmen, she naturally didn't need to spend time researching the popularization of Sage Art. Her Sage Mode, let alone humans, even animals couldn't learn.

Ino didn't understand the Sage Mode of Ryūchi Cave. As someone from Shikkotsu Forest, it was impossible for her to be recognized by Ryūchi Cave, and the same went for Mount Myōboku.

Ino could only take the most difficult path, which was to try to learn the Sage Mode of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

Hashirama Senju's Sage Art was not inherited from Shikkotsu Forest; his Sage Mode was something he comprehended himself.

The Second Hokage had some relatively positive records about this.

In general, it was that one day, when the Great Pillar was skipping stones, he felt that his chakra was still not enough! Not only was it not enough, but he felt it was little. He fell into great self-doubt.

Then, in the shocked eyes of his younger brother Tobirama, the Great Pillar communicated with the many plants in nature on a spiritual level, then used his own vast chakra as a foundation to harmonize natural energy and researched a Sage Mode unique to himself.

How to practice it specifically? What to do first, what to do next? The Second Hokage didn't write it.

It wasn't that the First Hokage was being secretive; it was that he couldn't say it! Maybe he himself felt it was very simple. Look, I clap my hands like this, and natural energy just "whooshes" towards me. Then I just casually harmonize it, and it's done. Isn't it simple?

Ino looked at the two pieces of paper in front of her. The brief description of just over a hundred words left her speechless. These were all the records the First Hokage had made about his own Sage Mode, just over a hundred words, not a bit of padding, concise to a fault.

The First Hokage's handwriting was vigorous and powerful. You could feel his broad-mindedness just by looking at the handwriting, but these descriptions were too vague.

The Second Hokage did make many annotations between the lines, but they were all things like "my big brother is an idiot" and "descendants, don't ever practice according to this."

Ino summarized it. The First Hokage's thinking was very simple. Don't talk to him about nature transformation, shape transformation, or chakra ratios—completely unnecessary! Open the chakra pathways and just do it! Forcefully absorb natural energy, and it's done!

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