Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 545 The Death of the Great Toad Immortal

Kisame's body returned to human form, and his fins, tail, and gill slits slowly disappeared, revealing his original appearance.

The sharkskin that had merged with him flowed out of his left arm like liquid and returned to its original shape.

The barbs on Samehada's body trembled slightly, and it opened its mouth wide, seemingly sticking out its tongue in excitement.

Kakuzu walked over and looked at Jiraiya, who was covered in stab wounds, had little chakra left, and was still panting heavily. His blue eyes held a hint of interest as he let out a hoarse laugh: "Oh, not bad skills. You've taken care of one of the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya."

Kisame, shirtless, hoisted Samehada onto his shoulder. He glanced at Samehada with his shark-like eyes and said with a hint of dissatisfaction, "You make it sound like I took him down all by myself."

Strictly speaking, this battle was not unequal.

Although Jiraiya had two toad sages to help him enter Sage Mode, Kisame also had the advantage of the terrain and top-tier ninjas like Kakuzu and Hizashi.

In particular, Hiyori's Byakugan and long-range sniping are the key breakthroughs in the battle.

If Hizashi hadn't killed Fukasaku with that shot, making Jiraiya's Sage Mode unusable and forcing him into the water to fight Kisame, this battle would probably have lasted even longer.

Kakuzu looked down at Jiraiya, a dangerous glint in his eyes: "This guy's still alive?"

As he spoke, Kakuzu walked forward, seemingly wanting to completely eliminate Jiraiya.

However, Kisame stepped forward and used Samehada to block Kakuzu's path.

His shark-like eyes held a stern warning as he said to Kakuzu, "Keep your little schemes to yourself; after all, he is Minato-sama's teacher."

"Tch." Kakuzu scoffed listlessly and turned away.

How could Kisame not know what he was thinking?

Jiraiya, as one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha, was an important fighting force for the Hidden Leaf Village. During the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars, many outstanding ninjas from other villages died at his hands.

In the underworld, Jiraiya's bounty is quite high.

However, even though a top-tier ninja like him travels extensively, no one can truly threaten him.

After all, Jiraiya, who possesses the art of summoning spirits, could outrun Jiraiya even if he couldn't defeat him.

"Cough cough————"

Jiraiya lay on the ground, his body riddled with countless small holes, his red coat stained dark red with blood.

He turned his head with difficulty and looked at the lifeless Shima Sento not far away, his face full of grief.

Fukasaku and Shima were both teachers and friends to Jiraiya, but now they have died one after another before his eyes in a short period of time, which is a devastating blow to him.

At this time, the thick fog gradually dissipated.

Hijiri landed on Toad Hiro's belly with the large-caliber sniper rifle in his arms.

He slung his sniper rifle over his back, walked up to Jiraiya, turned him over, and examined his injuries.

"Cough—I never expected—in the end it was because of Minato—that I was spared from death—" Jiraiya was turned over and lay on his back, his eyes unfocused and his voice weak, as Hizashi examined his body.

"Hizashi—" Jiraiya turned his head with difficulty to look at his former friend.

"Lord Jiraiya, don't speak, I'm helping you stop the bleeding." Hizashi's expression was complicated as he took out a medical ninja tool kit from his waist pouch and rummaged through it.

"Cough cough—" Jiraiya coughed and gasped for breath, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

But he still asked the question that had been lingering in his mind: "Just now—when you first made your move—you could have just finished me off, couldn't you—?"

The shrew's hand paused slightly before he continued searching for medicine.

"How could that be? You are the teacher of both Minato and Naruto." As Hizashi spoke, he tore open Jiraiya's clothes and applied the medicine to the holes in Jiraiya's body.

The medicine made a sizzling sound when it came into contact with the wound, and Jiraiya's body trembled slightly, but he gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound.

Hizashi glanced at the soldier pills in his medical ninja tool kit, thought for a moment, and then decided not to take them out and feed them to Jiraiya.

He simply treated the external injuries and then let Jiraiya recover his chakra on his own.

Jiraiya gave a wry smile.

Did he escape with his life because of Minato and Naruto?

Jiraiya lay on Gamahiro's belly, the sound of waves crashing in his ears, and the distant clash of ninjutsu.

He looked at the sky over Mount Myoboku, a sky that was once clear and blue, but was now stained gray by smoke and dust.

Jiraiya knew that there was no way to reverse the situation.

At that moment, a green figure appeared in Jiraiya's field of vision, growing larger and larger.

It was Shisui who brought Susanoo over.

The green giant descended onto the water like a god, its wings slowly folding, creating ripples.

Then, Susanoo receded like the tide, revealing Shisui standing at its core.

"Lord Menma has ordered everyone to prepare to evacuate Mount Myōboku!" Shisui landed steadily, stepping on Gamahiro's belly.

He glanced at Jiraiya, who was lying there covered in wounds, and then said to Kakuzu and Kisame Hoshigaki, "Go and collect the corpses of those toads. They are research materials that the Academy of Sciences specifically requested."

"Okay, okay." Kakuzu muttered somewhat dejectedly, picked up the black robe he had just taken off, put it on, and vanished in an instant.

Kisame also took out a sealing scroll from his ninja tool bag, preparing to collect the corpses of Gamahiro, Shima the Sage, and the other toads into it.

As intelligent native creatures that possess the power to harness natural energy, these toads are invaluable research material.

Hizashi then carried Jiraiya on his back and headed towards the waterfall.

Jiraiya, being carried, squinted slightly as he saw more and more Star Ninjas urgently retreating from the waterfall.

Some of them carried bulging backpacks, some carried boxes, and some escorted captured toads.

They clearly searched and looted a lot of things on Mount Myoboku.

But now the situation seems a bit urgent, and everyone is evacuating this way.

A red Susanoo stands beside the great waterfall, its crimson chakra giant spreading its enormous wings and wielding a chakra sword hundreds of meters long, silently guarding the evacuation route.

That was Uchiha Hikaru's Susanoo.

Jiraiya gasped for breath and struggled to lift his head.

He saw that the battle between the giant toad immortal and the freckled face above the great waterfall was coming to an end.

Enveloped in a golden chakra cloak, Menma floated in mid-air, surrounded by six jet-black Truth-Seeking Balls that slowly rotated behind him, like a god.

These black Truth-Seeking Balls sometimes transformed into longswords, slashing at the giant toad sage opposite them, and sometimes into arrows, shooting at the giant toad sage opposite them.

Each of his attacks carried the power to tear through space, causing the surrounding air to tremble.

The Great Toad Sage opposite him was running out of Sage Chakra. Although he used Sage Technique to block wave after wave of attacks, he was also reaching his limit.

The skin that was once radiant is gradually aging, becoming wrinkled and dull again, like withered tree bark.

The Great Toad Sage seemed to sense Jiraiya's gaze. He turned his head slightly, glanced at Jiraiya who was being held hostage by the Star Ninja, and also saw the toad corpses being collected.

Gama Hiro, Gama Ken, Shima Senjin — and in the distance, the dismantled Rock Toad.

It looked up at the boy flying in mid-air opposite it, and slowly spoke, its voice aged: "What are you waiting for?"

The Great Toad Sage could sense that the opponent's chakra was so vast that it completely surpassed that of the Sage of Six Paths a thousand years ago, and even that of Kaguya Otsutsuki, who had eaten the fruit of the God Tree.

It could have moved to another dimension to eke out a living, but in order to ensure the survival of more of its people, and knowing that if it didn't die, the other side would definitely not let go of the toad clan of Mount Myōboku, it took the initiative to fight, just to delay the other side's cleansing of Mount Myōboku.

But the opponent's strength was enough to level the entire Mount Myōboku, yet they had been fighting me here for so long.

The giant toad immortal couldn't understand it.

Menma stood in the air, glancing at the retreating Star Ninja and Jiraiya being carried by Hizashi.

In this battle of Mount Myoboku, he could certainly raze the entire mountain to the ground single-handedly.

But that wasn't the outcome he wanted.

It's impossible for the Star Kingdom to let him do everything himself.

What he wanted was to cultivate the Star Ninjas' war experience to prepare for future crises.

Moreover, Mount Myōboku has existed for over a thousand years, possessing not only many secret techniques for cultivating Sage Chakra, but also the history of the ninja world, and some secrets that he may not even know.

Therefore, this war against Mount Myoboku was more of a "search, attack, and withdrawal" operation.

Search for resources on Mount Myoboku, annihilate the forces of the Mount Myoboku toads, and then withdraw as soon as possible.

Although the Star Ninjas inevitably suffered some casualties, they also gained valuable war experience.

Most importantly, Fukasaku and Shima, who had already escaped, chose to return to Mount Myōboku because of Jiraiya's arrival, so that Menma could eliminate them completely.

This battle was very fruitful.

As for the toads that escaped, most of them were small toads, and even if they grew up, they would not pose a threat to the current Star Kingdom.

"Everything is going according to plan." Menma turned his head and looked at the giant toad sage opposite him, whose skin had wrinkled again.

"Now that things have come to this, I'm quite curious. People like the Slug Sage of Shikkotsu Forest and the White Snake Sage of Ryuchi Cave don't seem to have interfered with the ninja world for thousands of years." Menma squinted slightly, sizing up the Great Toad Sage.

Why is Mount Myōboku interfering in the ninja world?

"A thousand years ago, it was about the brothers Hagoromo and Hamura."

"A thousand years later, provide Sage Mode to Iwagakure —"

In the ninja world, the three holy lands could have remained independent and had not faced invasion for thousands of years. Moreover, Shikkotsu Forest and Ryuchi Cave lived their own lives without actively interfering with the ninja world.

So Menma was very curious about what the Great Toad Sage, or rather, the toads of Mount Myōboku, were thinking.

The Great Toad Sage, in the form of a toad, squatted on one side of the waterfall, facing the problem of numbness, but remained silent.

After a long silence, the Great Toad Sage exhaled and slowly said, "Mount Myōboku—is merely trying to protect itself—"

"A thousand years ago, Kaguya planted the Divine Tree, which absorbed the natural energy of the entire ninja world. If we let her do that, it won't be long before the natural energy of Mount Myōboku is drained and depleted."

"The Hidden Stone Village a thousand years later is just one of the many contractors from Mount Myōboku who actively sought cooperation."

It paused, and the sound became even more distant, as if it were recalling something.

"In the future I dreamt of, the ninja world is destined to fall into an unprecedented war, and darkness will engulf the entire ninja world—"

"At that time, all order in the ninja world will cease to exist—"

The Great Toad Sage was still reciting his prophecy.

Those descriptions about darkness, destruction, and the end of the ninja world.

Mianma shook his head slightly, interrupting the Great Toad Immortal.

"Is the existing order in the ninja world good?" His question was direct, like a sharp knife that cut right through the Great Toad Sage's compassion.

The giant toad immortal fell silent.

It has lived for over a thousand years and witnessed countless changes in the ninja world.

But it never questioned the order of the ninja world.

The hierarchical system comprised of daimyo, nobles, ninja villages, and commoners.

In its view, the order of the ninja world has been operating in this way for thousands of years, so how can there be any question of right or wrong?

"The ninja world is at war every year, how many people have died, how many homes have been destroyed, and you don't care at all!"

The numbness in his voice gradually increased.

"Since you care so much about the fate of humanity, why don't you stop this war that has lasted for thousands of years!"

"Stop with your hypocritical pity!"

"The fate of the ninja world should be in the hands of humanity itself, not controlled by you toads!"

"Only a unified ninja world can bring peace and hope to humanity!"

"The darkness you foresee is nothing but a dream before dawn!"

Menma glanced at the waterfall below. The Star Ninjas had already evacuated, leaving only Hikaru's Susanoo guarding him.

"I sent Jiraiya to tell you to advise your Mount Myōboku not to interfere in the affairs of the ninja world, but you wouldn't listen!"

Mianma's voice carried a chilling killing intent.

"To call oneself humanity's guide? To interfere in human affairs!"

This is the real reason why Mianma was enraged and launched this war.

"Since you insist on interfering, then you must be prepared to bear the corresponding consequences!"

As he spoke, the six Truth-Seeking Balls behind Menma quickly flew into Menma's hand.

Menma raised his right hand and clenched it tightly. The six Seeking the Dao Jewels merged into one, and then emitted a dazzling golden light.

A lightsaber took shape in his hand, the golden lightsaber shooting straight into the sky, as if it would pierce through the heavens!

The Great Toad Sage looked up at the enormous sword of light that shot straight into the sky, sensing the massive chakra fluctuations within it, and had no will to resist.

"Every species has its own way of surviving."

The voice of the Great Toad Sage drifted over, carrying a sense of desolation as if he had seen through the ways of the world.

"Humans are merely the lucky ones among the myriad species on this planet —"

"Don't we also long to live in that once vibrant world, full of natural energy?"

"Unfortunately—everything is gone forever—"

With the Great Toad Sage's final sigh, the enormous lightsaber fell.

Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!

The giant lightsaber pierced through the Great Toad Sage's body and completely engulfed him!

The golden light that pierced through the heavens and earth continued downwards, cutting through the great waterfall, the mountain peaks, and the earth, and even the entire Myoboku Mountain alternate dimension was cut open by this light sword!

Wherever the "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion" passed, whether it was land, mountains, or water, it was neatly cut off.

Then, the entire Myoboku Mountain alternate dimension groaned under the strain and slowly collapsed.

The sky was ripped open by the "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion," revealing a chaotic and disordered void.

The chaotic energy from the void surged in like a tidal wave, devouring everything.

Mountains and rivers collapsed, rivers flowed backward, and the earth shattered into countless pieces, floating in the void.

The entire Myoboku Mountain alternate dimension seemed to be squeezed by an external force and began to collapse completely!