From Demon Slayer: Thunder Swordsman

Shaking his head, Tachibana Hatake ignored Jiraiya who was lost in thought behind him and just followed the two frogs on their way.

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Ten minutes later, Fukasaku and Shima brought Hatake Tachibana and his group to a temple deep in Mt. Myoboku.

Feel the rich natural energy here, and the old toad deep in the temple, which looks old but has infinite energy inside.

While running his infinite simulation ability, Hatake Tachibana frantically analyzed the old toad's combat power, he slowly followed the two frogs leading the way in front of him, gradually approaching the big toad immortal...

"Young man, where are you from? Are you from another planet in the sky like the Otsutsuki clan?"

An old human voice suddenly sounded in Hatake Tachibana's mind, and soon after, a giant toad sage in the image of an old toad appeared in Hatake Tachibana's mind.

"Big Toad Immortal? What did you see from the future?" Hatake Tachibana also conjured up a figure in his mind and asked the Big Toad Immortal in front of him.

The spirit of the Great Toad Immortal pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "The future has changed. There are many people who were supposed to die, but their fate has changed because of you. But I can't tell whether this change is good or bad for the future of our world."

"The change has already happened. The birth of another ending is inevitable. No one can stop it... It seems that we can only place our hopes on you. Should I believe you? Hatake Tachibana? Or an alien from another planet?"

"Based on your style of doing things over the past ten years, I think I can trust you... Promise me, Hatake Tachibana! You must stop the Otsutsuki clan and don't let this planet be destroyed by the Otsutsuki clan..."

After saying this, the spirit body of the Great Toad Sage turned into a golden light and dissipated in Hatake Tachibana's mind. Then, a memory that did not belong to Tachibana was quietly received by Hatake Tachibana's mind.

The memory left by the Great Toad Sage is very long. It contains a lot, from the birth of the Great Toad Sage, to the process of discovering the secret of natural energy on this planet and transforming it into fairy energy, as well as his acquaintance with the Six Paths Sage - Otsutsuki Hamura, and the final battle with Otsutsuki Kaguya...

Feeling this huge capacity of memory, Hatake Tachibana's spirit body slowly closed its eyes in its mind and quickly received it.

Fortunately, Ju's mental strength is strong enough, which does not prevent him from doing two things at the same time.

Just at this moment, Fukasaku and Shima, who were leading everyone towards the depths of the temple, suddenly stopped in unison.

The two frogs paused for only a moment, then turned around and looked at themselves and said:

"You may not be able to see the Great Toad Sage today. The Great Toad Sage has just fallen asleep. However, the Great Toad Sage just asked us to bring a message to little Jiraiya."

Jiraiya was not surprised that the Great Toad Sage suddenly fell asleep and disappeared.

Having practiced in Myoboku Mountain for many years, he already knew the habits of the giant toad sages. He was still talking to them in the last second and fell asleep in the next second. This was not the first time that this had happened.

"What did the Great Toad Sage say to me?" Jiraiya asked out of curiosity.

Fukasaku and Shima looked at each other, then said in unison:

"Little Jiraiya, your mission has been completed. You have done very well. From now on, don't look for the child of prophecy anymore. Take control of your own life! Don't leave any regrets for yourself..."

When Fukasaku and Shima said this, Jiraiya stood still on the spot!

Hearing Erwa's words, Hatake Tachibana glanced towards the depths of the temple in surprise. Hmm... this old toad is really asleep.

But it was a good thing after all, Hatake Tachibana thought as he looked at Jiraiya again.

Seeing Jiraiya still in a daze, Fukasaku and Shima Erwa ignored him and just turned their heads to look at Minato Namikaze who was eating melon and said:

"Yellow-haired boy, come with us!"

"We two will personally teach you the magic of Myoboku Mountain. This is also the order of the Great Toad Sage."

Then, the two frogs bowed to Hatake Tachibana who was standing beside Minato Namikaze and said, "My most distinguished guest of Mount Myōboku, the Great Toad Sage has already told us that you can walk freely in Mount Myōboku. This is the summoning scroll of my Mount Myōboku. You can freely command any toad in Mount Myōboku if you need it."

After saying this, Toad Sage Fukasaku pulled out a small scroll from his sleeve and presented it to Hatake Tachibana with both hands.

Hearing this, Hatake Tachibana nodded, took the scroll, and then said, "Thank you. When the Great Toad Immortal wakes up, please tell him something. I will do my best to bring a better future to this world."

After saying this, Hatake Tachibana just nodded to Namikaze Minato, then left the temple without looking back.

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The purpose of his trip to Myoboku Mountain has been achieved, no!

It should be said that the Great Toad Sage gave him a more perfect choice. Next, he only needs to find a place with abundant natural energy in Myoboku Mountain and concentrate on studying the Sage Mode.

He wanted to create his own sage mode just like the big toad sage did back then.

The Great Toad Immortal was able to create something from nothing back then, and he was able to do it, so why can't he?

Moreover, he now also received gifts from the Great Toad Immortal.

We are already standing on the shoulders of giants. Since there are traces to follow, Hatake Tachibana naturally has the confidence to do better.

Therefore, he should also create his own Sage Mode!

Moreover, Hatake Tachibana already had a preliminary idea in his mind.

Since the breathing method can exhale and absorb the air around him, can he improve the breathing method to absorb the natural energy of heaven and earth?

Natural energy is actively absorbed by the pores, mouth and nose all over his body. This absorption efficiency must be more efficient than it being passively absorbed by the body, right?

If his idea is feasible, then can his highly efficient absorption method make his own energy never exhausted? And completely replace the chakra in his body with fairy energy, a higher level of energy?

Let him reach the eternal immortal mode! Or in other words, the eternal immortal body?

Also, can natural energy be integrated with domineering energy to produce a higher level of energy?

If all the chakra in his body can really be converted into another more advanced fairy chakra, then!

Can the fairy chakra energy, which is a higher level than the current chakra, and the colorless domineering aura in his body be integrated into one?

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All these thoughts, like brilliant sparks, constantly radiate in Hatake Tachibana's mind!

Chapter 39: Sage Mode Flying Slash

Somewhere in Myoboku Mountain, on an unknown cliff.

At this time, Hatake Tachibana was already on the cliff, using the ninja sword in his hand to stab a wide and deep pit that was more than ten meters deep.

The place for practicing the Sage Mode had already been chosen, and Hatake Tachibana did not waste any time. He just sat cross-legged in the deep pit on the cliff.

Immediately afterwards, he tried his best to control and perceive the rich natural energy that was everywhere in this world.

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What is Sage Mode?

By absorbing a certain proportion of natural energy, "Senjutsu Chakra" is created in the body. This is a state in which natural energy can be used. This state can use natural energy to strengthen the caster's own chakra.

It can enhance attack and defense, and at the same time, it can use natural energy to increase the range of the caster's physical attack and perception ability. The "senjutsu chakra" created by combining natural energy with one's own chakra can also greatly enhance the power of the caster's own ninjutsu, physical skills, and illusion techniques.

Moreover, Senjutsu Chakra, a higher level of energy than Chakra, can cause irreparable damage to the Ten-Tails and its Jinchūriki. In other words, Senjutsu Chakra can cause damage to enemies at the Six Paths level.

In other words, the energy of immortal arts is a kind of energy that is not inferior to the power of the Six Paths, and Gamamaru, also known as the Great Toad Sage, was able to participate in the century-long battle to seal Kaguya Otsutsuki because of his powerful energy of immortal arts.

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After successfully completing the Sage Mode, the caster's body will also undergo certain changes. The most obvious feature is the appearance of eye shadow (called facial makeup), which means that the Sage Mode is successful.

In the original work, Naruto's steps in learning the Sage Mode are to use the toad oil unique to Mount Myoboku to enhance his perception of natural energy, and then master the trick of absorbing natural energy.

Once Naruto's body gets used to natural energy, he won't need to use anything else. He can absorb enough natural energy from the surrounding environment by himself. This can be seen from here.

The most difficult step in practicing Sage Mode is to sense natural energy through yourself!

And this happens to be the ability that Hatake Tachibana has already mastered!

It must be said that with the mastery of infinite BUG-level perception ability, no matter which world Ju is reborn into, as long as he is given some time, he can stand at the top of that world.

Since Tachibana was born in this Naruto world, when he was still in his infancy, Tachibana Hatake, when he practiced chakra for the first time, he had already keenly sensed that there was a trace of natural energy involved in the synthesis of human chakra.

It's just that at that time, Hatake Tachibana didn't have a thorough understanding of the characteristics of chakra and the Sage Mode. It was not until today, after receiving the gift from the Great Toad Sage - the "Sage Mode Training Experience Package", that Hatake Tachibana finally understood it completely.

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After just six hours, the natural energy within a radius of several hundred meters that was invisible to the naked eye of ordinary people, like a flood that broke through the dam, rushed violently into the cave where Qi Mu Ju was sitting cross-legged!

It flowed endlessly into Hatake Tachibana's body...

The next second, there was a flash of golden light!

With the markings on his forehead gleaming, Hatake Tachibana has completed the initial training of the Sage Mode and has temporarily transformed into a Sage body.

Feeling the chakra inside his body that had been transformed into fairy energy, Hatake Tachibana nodded with satisfaction.

Hatake Tachibana was not surprised at the speed of his practice of Sage Mode. You know, in the memory of the Great Toad Sage, the Six Paths Sage Otsutsuki Hagoromo completed the practice of Sage Mode in just one day.

And he, this cheating time traveler, also got the "experience package" of the Big Toad Immortal, and completed his own Immortal Mode in just six hours. It's reasonable, right?

But for Hatake Tachibana, this is just the first step. After all, this is Myoboku Mountain, one of the three holy places in the Naruto world. The natural energy here is hundreds of times richer than that of the outside world.

You know, the speed at which Hatake Tachibana absorbs natural energy is already very fast because of his huge spiritual body, his body that has been nourished by domineering aura for many years, and the blessing of the "infinite" perception system.

In Myoboku Mountain, whether he is maintaining the sage mode or using celestial energy, it is very convenient to replenish natural energy, but what if he goes to the outside world?

The thin natural energy in the outside world, even for him now! It is impossible to maintain the immortal mode all the time and reach the level of eternal immortal body!

This is also one of the main reasons why practitioners of the Sage Mode, such as Hashirama Senju, Jiraiya, and the future Naruto, cannot maintain the Sage Mode for a long time in the outside world.

As for the secondary reasons!

That is, their spiritual and physical energy cannot be sustained for long.

However, for Hatake Tachibana, this spiritual energy and physical energy are as abundant as the ocean.

If Hatake Tachibana wants to maintain the eternal sage mode in the outside world, he can only further improve his efficiency in absorbing natural energy, which is what he had imagined before!

Improved breathing method! Use breathing method to actively absorb the natural energy hidden in the heaven and earth.

Therefore, Hatake Tachibana still needs to continue to polish and study his breathing method and improve it into Breathing Method 4.0 that absorbs natural energy. However, this step can now be carried out in the outside world.

After all, improving the breathing method 4.0 is not something that can be achieved overnight.

However, when Hatake Tachibana thought about using breathing techniques to absorb natural energy, he suddenly discovered something interesting.

That was back in the Blue Star period, in his homeland, ancient China. It was rumored that there were people who practiced cultivation. What they practiced were the three treasures of the human body: "essence, energy, and spirit." Don't the essence, energy, and spirit just correspond to the energy of this magic?

Jing represents the physical energy of the human body, Qi corresponds to external natural energy, and Shen refers to the spiritual energy that governs everything!

So, when essence, energy and spirit are united, one can become an immortal?

Not knowing whether it was a coincidence or his own imagination, Hatake Tachibana just smiled and shook his head without thinking about it too much.

Immediately afterwards, Hatake Tachibana left the deep pit and leaped onto the cliff.

From the ninja tool bag on his waist, he took out the Myoboku Mountain special summoning scroll that the Toad Sage, Fukasaku, had given him. After unfolding the summoning scroll, Hatake Tachibana, who was still in the Sage Mode, did not make any seals.

Just by extending a part of his spiritual body, he was able to sense the marks of all the toads recorded in the Myōboku Mountain at this moment in the spiritual scroll in his hand, including... the great toad sage - Gamamaru!

In other words, if necessary, Hatake Tachibana can summon the Great Toad Immortal to provide him with help...

However, the amount of chakra required to summon the Great Toad Sage is a bit astonishing, it is simply a huge amount...

And it must be chakra of fairy energy!

This is something that even the Jinchūriki can't do, right?

Unless it is the Jinchūriki in Sage Mode...but if that is the case, then if the Big Toad Sage is summoned, I am afraid that even the Jinchūriki in Sage Mode will be sucked dry, right?

So what’s the point?

It is useless when facing ordinary enemies. Even when facing an enemy of the level of Six Paths Madara, Tachibana Hatake feels that Madara is not qualified enough. With such a huge amount of fairy energy chakra, there is no need to summon the Giant Toad Sage. Madara can be killed by just a strong attack.

"Unless we are facing the Otsutsuki clan? This old guy is quite nice..." Thinking of this, Tachibana Hatake couldn't help but speak out.

Immediately afterwards, Hatake Tachibana didn't hesitate and randomly picked a big toad that looked pretty good.

From within Hatake Tachibana's body, a trace of fairy chakra flowed into the summoning scroll, and there was a "bang..." sound.

Accompanied by a burst of white smoke rising, a huge emerald green toad with two swords on its back and a yellow belt wrapped around its waist appeared in front of Hatake Tachibana. The size of this huge emerald green toad was about the same as that of Gamabunta.

"The most distinguished guest of Mount Myōboku, I wonder if you need Gamahiro, what can I do for you?" Gamahiro, with two swords on his back, bowed and looked at Hatake and said.

Hatake Tachibana smiled and nodded, and said softly: "Hello Gamahiro, I want to leave Myoboku Mountain, can you take me back to the ninja world? Preferably in Konoha Village."

Hearing what Hatake Tachibana said, Gamahiro was stunned for a moment, and then he said, "I'm sorry, my dear guest from Myoboku Mountain, I can't do this, but with this Myoboku Mountain Special Spiritual Scroll, you can enter and leave Myoboku Mountain freely."

"Oh...what should I do?" After asking this question, without waiting for Gamahiro's answer, Tachibana Hatake concentrated his mind and launched an infinite simulation pre-reading ability. Through the infinite ability, Tachibana Hatake had already seen in advance the method of using this Myobokushan special summoning scroll.

However, Hatake Tachibana still patiently waited for Gamahiro to finish his explanation, then looked at Gamahiro and said with a smile:

"Thank you, Toad Hiro!"

"Seeing that you are also good at using a knife, we are destined to be together. I may have to trouble you in the future. Today I will teach you a move. Do you want to learn?"

"Hmm?" Hearing this, Gamahiro lowered his head and glanced at the short sword on Hatake Tachibana's waist...

Well, to be honest, Toad Guang felt that the knife was too short to be used as a toothpick, and it couldn't even scratch the dirt on its body.

But this man was the Great Toad Immortal after all, the "most distinguished guest of Mount Myōboku" appointed by the Great Toad Immortal. Toad Hiro couldn't refuse Hatake Tachibana, so he just pinched his nose and nodded in agreement.