Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 894 Finally meeting
underground.

Feeling the violent vibration coming from the fall of Toad Bunta above his head, Qingming swam deeper again for a distance from the heart.

At this point in time, he doesn't want to be exposed.

It is foreseeable that the battle above will become more and more intense, so he must take some precautions in advance.

Fortunately, Qingming himself has sufficient chakra and has mastered the "Earth Escape: Fish Reflection in the Earth" technique to a high level.

In this way, coupled with his powerful mental strength, even if he hides deeper, it will not affect his ability to spy on the battle above.

Time passes minute by minute.

Just as Qingming expected, the initial confrontation between Manshe and Gamabunta was just the beginning.

Next, as Orochimaru and Jiraiya joined the battle one after another, the intensity of their fight began to rise sharply.

In a short while, most of the forest above was destroyed.

Among them, a large number of trees were chopped down by the short sword swung by Gamabunta, and the air was filled with poisonous mist spewed by thousands of snakes.

It can be said that the environment is extremely harsh.

Fortunately, none of these things affect Qingming.

He just hid underground and watched everything quietly.

It has to be said that Orochimaru and Jiraiya are worthy of being the legendary three ninjas. They have extremely rich combat experience, and there are many things that are worth learning from them.

This benefited him a lot in this battle.

Unfortunately, such high-intensity confrontation is destined to not last long.

Otherwise, he could study for a while longer.

About a quarter of an hour later.

Orochimaru and Jiraiya distanced themselves from each other again.

At this moment, the conditions of the two were much worse than before.

Standing on Gamabunta's back, Jiraiya looked at Orochimaru, knowing that if he delayed any further, he might lose the chance to bring Orochimaru back.

So, he thought about it, looked at the Toad Bunta under his feet, and whispered: "Bunta, can you withstand the attacks of the two of them?"

Upon hearing this, Gamabunta immediately started to curse. Asking him to fight the two people on the opposite side alone, what a joke!
However, just as it was about to speak, it suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and glanced at Jiraiya above its head, and said, "Jiraiya, are you going to use that trick?"

"Ah."

Jiraiya nodded.

"Suck~~~"

Seeing this, Toad Wentai took a deep puff of his pipe, paused for several seconds, and then slowly exhaled: "Hu~~~"

After the smoke dissipated, it said in a somewhat helpless tone: "Okay, I'll do my best, you hurry up."

"No problem, thank you so much, Bunta!"

After saying that, Jiraiya did not hesitate, and immediately put his thumb into his mouth again and bit it, and performed the "Summoning Technique" for the second time.

bang~
As a cloud of chakra smoke dissipated, a toad standing up appeared on each side of Jiraiya's shoulders.

One of them is a male with dark green skin, orange-yellow horizontal pupils, and a dark brown short robe. He also has a thick white rope belt around his waist, a string of large red prayer beads around his neck, and a dark blue headband with the word "oil" written on it. He is the elder of Myōboku-Sennin Fukasaku!
In contrast, the other toad is smaller, a female, with yellow-green skin, light-colored flower-like markings on its back, and a pair of eyes with round pupils, and looks very kind.

It was wearing a light-colored apron-like dress with a purple cloth belt tied around its waist. It was none other than the wife of Fukasaku Sennin and another elder of Mount Myōboku - Shima Sennin!
When Qingming saw these two people, he understood that the thing he was most looking forward to was about to happen. Jiraiya was preparing to use his last resort and perform the "Sage Mode".

Unlike Hashirama Senju's 'Sage Mode' which can be used right away, Jiraiya needs to keep his body 'still' for a while before performing this technique.

During this period, Sennin Fukasaku and Sennin Shima will assist him in absorbing natural energy.

Of course, this "stillness" does not mean that you cannot move at all, but it requires physical and mental calmness.

But even so, Jiraiya's actions would be greatly restricted.

Mobility is the most important ability of a ninja. If the enemy is someone else, it may be possible to fool him.

But Orochimaru can't.

As a friend and companion for decades, he is very familiar with Jiraiya's 'Sage Mode'. Once Jiraiya shows signs of wanting to use this technique, he will definitely be interrupted.

This is also the reason why Jiraiya had never tried to perform this technique before.

Only after summoning Gamabunta as his helper did he dare to make the attempt.

Even this may not necessarily lead to success.

Of course, Qingming absolutely hopes that the other party will succeed.

Underground, after Qing Ming confirmed that Jiraiya was about to use the "Sage Mode", he immediately concentrated and carefully sensed the energy fluctuations in the surrounding air.

As we all know, there are two prerequisites for learning the "Sage Mode". One is that your own chakra volume is large enough, and the other is that you can sense natural energy.

There is no need to talk about the latter. If you can't even sense the natural energy, then what's the point of absorbing it?

The former can allow the ninja to integrate natural energy more smoothly, so that the whole person will not be assimilated by natural energy after absorbing just a little bit.

For ordinary ninjas, especially those who have access to the three holy places, the latter is relatively easy to achieve, because the three holy places have things similar to toad oil that can help ninjas perceive natural energy.

But the former is not the case. The amount of chakra depends largely on the ninja's qualifications.

Compared to the requirements for learning the 'Sage Mode', it is difficult for an ordinary ninja to reach the 'huge' requirement in terms of chakra.

However, Qingming is just the opposite. The amount of chakra is nothing to him.

Now, his chakra limit has exceeded 600,000 points, which is enough to take the risk of absorbing some natural energy into the body.

Even if that doesn't work, he can continue to increase his chakra amount by constantly tapping into his body's potential.

For him, the most difficult thing to achieve is the latter, that is, sensing natural energy.

Different from the rich natural energy in the three holy places, the concentration of natural energy in the outside world can be said to be very thin. Qingming has tried to sense the so-called natural energy countless times, but found nothing.

Now, he wanted to take advantage of the time when Jiraiya used the 'Sage Mode' and the concentration of natural energy around him was passively increased, so as to sense this so-called natural energy.

Qingming believed that as long as he could catch the tail of natural energy, he could remember this feeling.

Then, when the conditions are right, he will be able to easily absorb it into his body, thereby creating a 'Sage Mode' that is unique to him and also belongs to mankind.

When he thought of this, Qingming's heart couldn't help but become hot, but he quickly suppressed his inner excitement, maximized his own perception, and carefully monitored everything around him.

(End of this chapter)