Chapter 105

【Shukaku: You guys, when you give examples, can you stop using me as the example?!】

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"Gama, White Snake, after all these years, you still haven't let it go?"

"That is all in the past."

"Old friends meeting — do we really have to fight and kill each other?!"

The Slug Sage saw the hostility between the two of them,

and immediately began playing the role of peacemaker.

"Friends? I've never heard of that."

"Our Ryūchi Cave has nothing to do with that stinky toad!!"

Clenching a pipe between his teeth,

the White Snake Sage glared viciously at the Great Toad Sage!

"That bunch of evil, stinky snakes from Ryūchi Cave."

"How could our Mount Myōboku ever be friends with them?!"

The Great Toad Sage was also unwilling to show weakness,

and said coldly.

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"I say, you two…"

"Now that you've met, can't you sit down and have a calm chat?"

"From now on we're all on the same side…"

"Fighting and killing would only hurt the harmony."

Just as the two great sages seemed about to come to blows,

a gentle voice appeared,

making the two great sages' hearts tighten.

An overwhelming pressure

forced them to stop the movements of their hands.

Neither of them could even open their mouth to speak.

Looking at Hashirama Senju beside him,

the Great Toad Sage's eyes nearly popped out of his head.

This guy has gotten stronger again??!

And he actually learned the Ryūchi Cave senjutsu?!

If not for seeing Hashirama Senju's appearance,

based solely on the aura emanating from Hashirama Senju,

the Great Toad Sage would have thought a second White Snake Sage had appeared.

Too fast…

This reincarnation of Asura —

the speed of his increase in strength was somewhat unbelievable.

Even when the Sage of Six Paths, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, was alive,

at this age,

he was absolutely not as strong as Hashirama Senju,

he didn't even have one-tenth of Hashirama Senju's strength!.

71. The Union of the Three Great Senjutsu!! Complete Mastery of Natural Energy!!

Feeling the astonishing pressure from Hashirama Senju,

the Great Toad Sage actually forgot for a moment what he was supposed to say!!

When Hashirama Senju was training in senjutsu at Mount Myōboku,

he had already proposed to him the idea of training in Ryūchi Cave senjutsu,

and at the time the Great Toad Sage thought he was merely joking!!

A person's energy is limited,

it is impossible to master everything.

Moreover, the senjutsu of their three great holy lands represented three different directions,

and there was nothing worth learning from one another.

So he did not believe Hashirama Senju could complete the Ryūchi Cave senjutsu training!!

Even if the Great Toad Sage and the White Snake Sage

were to train in each other's holy land senjutsu,

they could not complete it.

Yet Hashirama Senju actually managed to do it.

And in a very short period of time,

in the training of Ryūchi Cave senjutsu,

he had already surpassed the White Snake Sage??!

As for the training of Mount Myōboku senjutsu,

the Great Toad Sage admitted he could no longer tell how far Hashirama Senju had reached!!

And the White Snake Sage was no better off than the Great Toad Sage,

for he remembered clearly,

that Hashirama Senju had only just gone to Ryūchi Cave to ask him for senjutsu.

How long had it been since then?

He had improved again compared to when he left Ryūchi Cave,

How could such a person possibly exist?!!

The further one's strength progresses, the slower its growth becomes.

If he had only just begun practicing senjutsu,

Hashirama Senju having such a rate of improvement

would still be understandable to the White Snake Sage.

But Hashirama Senju's practice of senjutsu

had already surpassed his own while he was at Ryūchi Cave,

and in this short span of time, he had actually stepped up yet another level.

Could this fellow's rate of strength improvement truly be without limit?

The White Snake Sage felt that all of his own understanding had been shattered by the Hashirama Senju before his eyes!!

"It seems… I still underestimated you far too much."

"I thought that mastering Ryūchi Cave's senjutsu in an instant… and surpassing me… was already terrifying enough."

"But I never expected that in this short span of time, you would actually have risen another level."

"My premonition was indeed not wrong…"

"If there is someone who can completely master natural energy and truly reach the very end of senjutsu…"

"That person is not me… not Gamamaru… and not Katsuyu either — that person can only be you!!!"

The White Snake Sage sighed at length,

and grew all the more certain of the guess in his heart!!

And the Great Toad Sage and Katsuyu, standing to one side, hearing the White Snake Sage say this,

could not help but cry out in utter shock.

"What did you say??!"

"You're saying he completed the practice of Ryūchi Cave's senjutsu in a single breath, and even surpassed you??"

Seeing his two old companions wear such expressions, the White Snake Sage