Chapter 35

Then honestly go work for Myoboku Mountain.

What's going on with this Hashirama Senju???

【Orochimaru: Looks like this First my lord, he completely doesn't buy into Myoboku Mountain's act at all... These stinky toads probably didn't expect that their pitch wouldn't work at all...】

【Fourth Raikage: What the hell is this crap??!! Isn't fate supposed to be in one's own hands?? I never believed in fate!!】

【Madara Uchiha: Hmph!!! Only the weak would believe in this kind of utterly baseless nonsense!!!】.

31. This Asura reincarnation seems a little different!!

Young Hashirama furrowed his brow as he looked at the Sennin Fukasaku before him.

This visitor from Myoboku Mountain,

was a little different from what he had imagined.

He had assumed Myoboku Mountain would offer him some substantial help.

Instead, the moment they arrived, they hit him with a charlatan-style con!!!

And this attitude,

made young Hashirama very displeased!!!

They came to visit him, to offer him help,

as if it were some tremendous favor bestowed upon him??!!!

……

So the ancestors dealt with this bunch of charlatans?

As for this kind of talk about prophecy,

in young Hashirama's eyes,

it was complete nonsense!!!

And at this moment, Sennin Fukasaku seemed to sense the doubtful gaze from young Hashirama.

He knew well,

that if he didn't produce something real now.

Then this operation would fail,

relying solely on this verbal pitch,

he probably wouldn't truly earn Hashirama Senju's trust.

"Young man... do you know..."

"In this world, besides chakra, there is another cultivation system."

"Once this cultivation system is mastered, it can unleash power even stronger than chakra..."

"And it doesn't conflict with chakra training; the two complement each other, producing an effect greater than the sum of their parts."

A mysterious, unfathomable smile appeared on Sennin Fukasaku's face.

Since young Hashirama was training so hard and diligently,

he naturally craved power as well.

And now, presenting him with a cultivation system completely different from chakra,

one that could make him even stronger,

Sennin Fukasaku didn't believe young Hashirama wouldn't be tempted!!

Sure enough,

after hearing him say this,

a look of interest appeared on young Hashirama's face.

Chakra cultivation is the only known major cultivation system in this world,

bar none.

Before the era of ninja,

this world was ruled by samurai.

And ever since chakra appeared,

samurai gradually faded from the stage of history.

Now someone was telling him,

there was a cultivation method in this world even more powerful than chakra.

Young Hashirama was naturally very interested.

Seeing the young man across from him take the bait, Sennin Fukasaku smiled inwardly.

He knew that after throwing out such bait,

the young man across from him couldn't possibly resist.

"Chakra, this kind of energy, is not native to our world."

"It came to our world due to some accident."

"And before it appeared, there was another kind of energy that had always existed in this world."

"It's just that very few people could master and wield it."

"But our Myoboku Mountain's Great Toad Sennin was blessed with extraordinary talent."

"Through his diligent research, after countless years, he ultimately mastered this energy."

"This energy is born of heaven and earth, existing in every corner of this world."

"The Great Toad Sennin named it natural energy!!!!!"

"And the techniques for cultivating this energy, we also call senjutsu!!! …"

GLOSSARY:

【Madara Uchiha, Orochimaru, Hashirama Senju, Madara, Hashirama, Raikage, Kage, my lord, chakra, senjutsu, ninja, Myoboku Mountain, Sennin Fukasaku, Great Toad Sennin, natural energy, Asura】

At this point, a deep look of pride appeared on Fukasaku's face.

In this world,

there are only three places that have mastered the way of cultivating this energy,

and their Mount Myōboku is one of them!!!

【Orochimaru: Jiraiya... do you normally deal with these charlatans?】

【Jiraiya: Orochimaru!! What charlatans?! The Great Toad Sage's prophecies are still very accurate!!!】

【Orochimaru: Then tell me, what's this about the Child of Prophecy? Are there really that many Children of Prophecy in the ninja world?】

【Tsunade: I can see it now — every toad on Mount Myōboku is a first-rate swindler...】

【Tobirama Senju: Big brother, I remember Mount Myōboku visited you more than once, didn't they? They seemed very eager to form an alliance with you...】

【Hashirama Senju: Hmm... that did happen, but I'd forgotten all about it... They can't go three sentences without mentioning the Child of Prophecy. I really couldn't stand it.】

【Naruto Uzumaki: Huh... so Uncle First was also a Child of Prophecy? But I remember Jiraiya-sensei saying I was the Child of Prophecy...】

【Minato Namikaze: Naruto... did Jiraiya-sensei also tell you that you were the Child of Prophecy? It seems he told me the same thing...】

【Jiraiya:............】

【Fourth Raikage: I suddenly feel a bit of sympathy for the Third Hokage... three disciples — one defected to become a mad scientist, one developed hemophobia and won't come back to the village, and the last one got swindled straight into becoming a charlatan.】

As Fukasaku explained,

the expression on young Hashirama's face grew stranger and stranger...

"So... now you know how powerful Sage Mode is, right?"

"But this mode is far too difficult for ordinary people to handle."

"The process of cultivating senjutsu and mastering natural energy is exceptionally arduous..."

"Of the humans who came to our Mount Myōboku to train, ninety-nine percent turned to stone — all because they failed in the cultivation process..."

"The funniest thing is that there are people who know about natural energy and still try to master senjutsu on their own through trial and error..."

"That is simply the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard..."

"... WTF!!!! YOU!!!! YOU!!!!!??"

As he spoke, a proud and self-satisfied smile appeared on Fukasaku's face.

After laying out how powerful senjutsu was,

he seemed to already picture young Hashirama begging him to teach him how to cultivate senjutsu.

But when he turned his head and saw the strange markings that had appeared around young Hashirama's eyes and on his forehead,

his eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets.