"I hope you can help us get rid of the enemy's tracking. The enemy that White Fang Squad is currently encountering has very strong tracking abilities and is very cautious. It has been keeping a sufficient distance from us at all times, with the sole purpose of tracking us and determining our location.
They will not do it themselves, but will choose to use other people's hands to get rid of us. It is not surprising that as long as these guys keep following us, the enemy will keep coming.
There's no way around it. Nawaki is too potentially threatening to other ninja villages, and they all want to get rid of him."
Kirito spoke his request, his face showing a helpless expression.
His perception ability was indeed very strong, but he was not invincible. He could accurately perceive the location of the enemies secretly following the White Fang squad, but he was afraid that he was not powerful enough to eliminate these enemies, because he did not know who the enemies were who were hiding in secret.
He has only discovered two enemies so far, the ones who eliminated the Amegakure border troops he encountered at the border.
Therefore, he now needs someone with strong evasion and tracking abilities to help the White Fang Squad evade the enemy's tracking.
Jiraiya is undoubtedly a very good candidate.
In the original plot, Jiraiya is himself a ninja with super infiltration capabilities. It seems that he is traveling and collecting folk customs, but in fact, he has not spared any effort in bringing Konoha the latest information from outside the ninja world.
A ninja like this would definitely have very strong tracking skills.
What Kirito is interested in now is Jiraiya's art of hiding in a toad, which involves hiding inside a summoned toad and letting it sneak up on or evade enemies.
This is undoubtedly a very clever ninjutsu for tracking and evading.
In the Land of Rain, basically no one can detect a toad that is so common that it can be seen everywhere, once it jumps into the river.
Jiraiya also relied on this ninjutsu to sneak into the Land of Rain, and the reason he was discovered was because he came out of the summoned toad. If he had not come out on his own initiative, Nagato would not have noticed such a common toad.
"How do you want me to help you?"
Jiraiya said that if he agreed to help, he would help, and he didn't waste any time getting straight to the point.
"I heard from Tsunade-nee that when you were on a mission in the Land of Rain, you used a ninjutsu that allowed you to hide in the bellies of toads to evade your pursuers. It's called the Toad-Hidden Technique. I hope you can ask the ninja toads of Mt. Myōboku to help us evade our pursuers for now."
Upon hearing this, Kirito directly stated his request.
Jiraiya's face immediately lit up when he heard Kirito mention the Toad Hidden Technique, and he nodded and said, "You're quite perceptive, my boy. No problem, I'll quietly send a ninja frog over to help you evade the enemy's tracking."
The Toad Hidden Technique, a ninjutsu that can only be released using the Mt. Myōboku ninja toads, is his proud hiding and escape jutsu.
Back in the Land of Rain, Tsunade was often hunted down like Nawaki, but thanks to this jutsu, the three ninjas were able to escape from the enemy's encirclement many times without incident.
When he goes back to Konoha and sees Tsunade, he will definitely use this to get her to agree to go out with him.
Tsunade loves her brother very much, and he knows this very well. Tsunade will definitely give him face for this.
At the thought of having the opportunity to go on an intimate date with the hot and beautiful Tsunade in the future, Jiraiya's face could not help but reveal a happy and perverted expression, with saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth.
"Ahem, Jiraiya-sama, are you okay?"
Kirito saw Jiraiya's current expression of a pervert, and probably knew that Jiraiya was thinking something inappropriate, so he coughed to remind him.
Jiraiya was reminded by Kirito and instantly reacted. He wiped his saliva away with lightning speed, and once again looked serious and reliable. He said, "Apart from this, are there any other requests? We are both Konoha ninja, we are companions, and we should help each other in a foreign country. Besides, you and Nawaki are both Tsunade's dear younger brothers, just tell me."
In order to maintain a good relationship with Tsunade and avoid becoming estranged when he returns to the village in the future, he often corresponded with Tsunade while he was in the Land of Rain.
In the letters, Tsunade had deliberately emphasized that Nawaki and Kirito were both her dear younger brothers, and if he met them in the Land of Rain in the future, she hoped that he would be able to help them. He had promised in his reply.
Therefore, his current thoughts are not only to help Kirito and the others evade the enemy's tracking, but also to find out who is tracking them and then eliminate them.
The White Fang squad is undoubtedly carrying an important mission. Even if he doesn't look at Tsunade's face, he, as a currently idle person with nothing to do in the Land of Rain, also has a responsibility and obligation to help.
After all, no matter what, he is also a Konoha ninja who has inherited the Will of Fire.
"Jiraiya-sama, I know what you are trying to say, but this is unnecessary. If it is about eliminating the enemies who are secretly following us, I can actually do it myself. However, there are currently only two exposed enemies, and there are more enemies that are unknown. Since these people dare to provoke our White Fang Squad, they must be quite influential. It is too dangerous for you to go alone."
Kirito was a little moved when he heard Jiraiya say this, and then shook his head.
As he said, because of the existence of the Konoha White Fang, the White Fang Squad is a very powerful ninja squad, but even so, these enemies still dared to follow them in the background. Such enemies were either stupid or confident.
From the current situation, the second possibility is very high.
In fact, Kirito has already guessed who is behind the trouble, and it is most likely that old Yinpi who is still in the prison cell in Konoha.
The route of action of the White Fang Squad is a secret, but they were discovered just after leaving Konoha, then attacked, and then followed all the way here, so it can be seen that the enemy should have been eyeing the White Fang Squad from the beginning, and may even have laid a dense assassination plan, just waiting for them to jump into the pit.
He doesn't look down on Jiraiya's strength. If Danzo has cleverly united many outside forces in order to destroy the White Fang Squad, there is no difference between Jiraiya going up there directly and just going to deliver the goods.
If Jiraiya doesn't turn on Sage Mode and summon various powerful Mt. Myōboku toads to help, his current strength is roughly that of a ninja who is slightly stronger than an average elite jōnin.
He has personally verified this with the Thunder God puppet.
Because the shell does not use a single bit of chakra metal, but only some relatively precious bionic materials, the body strength of the Thunder God Puppet is actually average. Even if it is accelerated using the Lightning Stimulation Secret Technique, it cannot break through to the speed of a shadow class. As long as Jiraiya can successfully get close and hit it once, it may be scrapped.
However, with only the Sealing Technique: Adamantine Sealing Chain and the Lightning Stimulation Secret Technique, Jiraiya was unable to successfully hit the Thunder God Puppet once.
It can be seen that without activating Sage Mode, Jiraiya's speed and strength are only at the level of a normal elite jōnin, and the power of the released jutsu cannot break through the shackles of the Adamantine Sealing Chain formed by the Chakra Lock.
Kirito thus concludes that a Level 4 Seal Art: Adamantine Sealing Chain is enough to deal with elite jōnin.
"Ugh, I see. Then be careful,"
Jiraiya said with some annoyance, as he heard the hidden message in Kirito's words.
He couldn't refute Kirito's words, because the battle just now had proved that his strength was not yet strong enough.
A familiar sense of powerlessness once again arose in his heart, making him feel bad.
He hated being powerless. He had thought that he was now strong enough, but as it turned out, he was actually not strong enough.
The enemy was not even afraid of Konoha's White Fang, and his half-assed Sage Mode obviously could not allow him to deal with the danger facing Team White Fang.
There was no choice but to retreat from the difficult situation and do something within his power.
"I'm already grateful that you were able to help. You should go now and not let anyone else find your trail. There are a lot of eyes outside right now, but they are temporarily blocked by my sealing barrier and cannot see or hear what is happening here."
Kirito said gratefully.
"Okay, then you just wait."
Jiraiya quickly gathered his thoughts and gave a slight smile.
The next moment, he bit his right thumb and smeared the blood on the palm of his hand, then quickly performed a seal and used a summoning technique.
"Boom~" A sound was heard.
A white cloud of smoke appeared, and an ordinary-looking green-skinned toad appeared in front of Jiraiya and Kirito.
"Yo, long time no see, Toad Goro, I need your help again this time,"
Jiraiya immediately said with a smile as he saw the green-skinned toad.
Toad Goro, a special toad from Mt. Myōboku with a small pocket dimension inside its body, is precisely the reason why Jiraiya is able to use the Toad Hidden Technique.
"No problem, leave it to me, but who is this person? Do you want to go into the pocket dimension inside my stomach together?"
Toad Goro and Jiraiya were old friends, and he knew exactly why Jiraiya had summoned him. Without saying a word, he agreed to Jiraiya's request.
As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the Thunder God puppet beside him.
His senses told him that the beautiful woman before him, who matched Jiraiya's aesthetic taste so well, did not seem like a real human.
"Hello, Toad Goro-san. My name is Kirito Tosaka. The female warrior appearing before you is actually a puppet controlled by me. I believe we will meet for real soon. Now there is some urgency. Jiraiya-sama will tell you about it later. For now, please put Jiraiya-sama inside you."
Kirito explained with a smile as he manipulated the Thunder God puppet.
Toad Goro was startled to hear the beautiful woman, the Thunder God puppet, speak in a boy's voice, but when he heard Kirito's explanation, he couldn't help but stare with wide eyes. He looked at the Thunder God puppet in front of him in disbelief and said, "Really? Then why do I feel like this female puppet is alive? There's even a heartbeat inside her."
He was sorry for his lack of insight, but he really didn't see that the beautiful woman in front of him was a puppet. He just felt that she didn't look very human, but she was definitely alive.
The reason was that the surface of the female puppet was full of yang-attribute chakra with vitality, and there was the sound of a heartbeat inside. He even felt that the female puppet had body temperature. No matter how he looked at it, she didn't look like an inanimate, cold puppet.
"Of course it's real, but I can't go into details."
Kirito continued to smile as he answered, then easily removed the head of the Thunder God puppet.
At the same time, he couldn't help but feel that these toads from Mt. Myōboku had extraordinary sensing abilities. Things that he had never noticed before were immediately obvious to these toads.
As Toad Goro had said, there was indeed a heartbeat inside the Thunder God puppet, and that was because she had a living heart inside her, which was constantly providing the Thunder God puppet with yang-attribute chakra and maintaining the activity of the biomimetic materials on its surface.
Golem technique combined with Earth Grudge, this was an idea that had accidentally been born when learning both the Golem technique and the Earth Grudge Secret Technique at the same time.
Combining these two ninjutsu techniques was actually not difficult at all, and it could even be said that it went very smoothly, as if they complemented each other.
He just needed to create an environment inside the puppet that was suitable for the black line creatures created by the Earth Grudge Secret Technique to survive, and then transplant the heart that had been infested by the black line creatures into the puppet.
In this way, the puppet itself had the ability to generate its own chakra.
The black thread creatures created by the Earth Grudge Secret Technique are actually a special type of summoning beast, similar to the parasites of the Aburame clan, except that the parasites form a symbiotic relationship with the host, while the black thread creatures form a symbiotic relationship with the heart.
The black thread creatures can provide the heart with nutrients to continue living, and then use the heart to generate chakra, thereby maintaining their own generation and forming a good symbiotic cycle.
It is precisely because the Thunder God puppet has the Earth Grudge heart inside it that it gives the impression of being alive, so much so that Jiraiya initially mistook it for a real person.
Jiraiya was shocked to hear what Goro said, but when he saw Kirito casually remove the head of the Thunder God puppet, he was sure that it was a puppet, which completely dispelled his doubts.
He thought to himself, "Who did this kid learn his puppet techniques from that he can create such exquisite puppets? And the internal structure is estimated to be very simple. Toad Goro said that there was a heartbeat inside, so there is most likely a heart inside."
However, there was no time for him to ponder the intricacies of this. He saw that Toad Goro had opened his mouth and then reached his hand in the very back.
The next moment, Jiraiya's entire body was sucked into the body of the much smaller Goro.
"Goro-san, now please jump into the river and hide, and just follow Jiraiya-sama's instructions,"
Kirito said, feeling a sense of wonder.
Goro immediately obeyed, and with a single leap he jumped into the river, which was more than ten meters away.
Then, Kirito controlled the Thunder God puppet and clapped his hands together, and the sealing barrier that had enveloped the surrounding fifty meters instantly and rapidly disappeared.
The ninja who had been lurking outside finally saw the Thunder God puppet again.
"Where is Jiraiya?"
In the sky, on a large white bird full of the artistic sensibilities of ink wash painting, a black-clad man with a bird mask looked down with binoculars and wondered.
He is Rooster, one of the twelve members of the Root today, and the person in the Root who masters the secret technique of Super Beast Fake Painting. He is also one of the few ninjas in the Root who has mastered the ability to fly, and is good at reconnaissance and tracking.
With his rare flying ability, he can secretly track his enemies from high in the sky.
Even if the enemy discovers that he is tracking them, they are basically helpless.
He had received a message from Rabbit earlier, and immediately went up into the air to follow the Thunder God puppet. As a result, he just saw the Thunder God puppet meet Jiraiya, and then he was blocked by the barrier of the sealing technique cast by the Thunder God puppet, and he didn't see anything.
Now that the sealing barrier had disappeared, but Jiraiya was gone, he immediately realized that something was wrong.
Just as he was about to take out a scroll and use the Super Beast Fake Painting to create a carrier pigeon to send a message, he saw the Thunder God puppet on the ground suddenly turn into a puff of white smoke and disappear.
"Where did this woman go?"
Seeing the situation, Rooster immediately took out his binoculars and looked around the ground.
Ninjas from other ninja villages also emerged from the shadows one after the other, and then dispersed in tacit agreement to explore.
However, like Rooster, they were ultimately unable to find the slightest trace of the Thunder God puppet.
A living person had suddenly disappeared from their view, and after searching the surrounding area, they found no trace of him. Many of them were ninja who had mastered various sensory ninjutsu, and they had indeed discovered that the Thunder God puppet had disappeared from their range of perception.
This strange situation left many people baffled.
Meanwhile, in Kirito's room, the Thunder God puppet was standing right in front of him.
Like the two Sacred Beast puppets, Kirito had also carved a special summoning contract into the Thunder God puppet. As long as he used the Thunder God puppet to do what he needed to do, he could use summoning to bring it back from afar at any time.
"I hope everything goes well from here on out,"
Kirito looked at the Thunder God puppet in front of him, which looked just like a real person, and muttered.
The next moment, he re-sealed the Thunder God puppet and the other four humanoid puppets into the Storage Summoning Scroll, then walked out of the room and used the Yamanaka Secret Art Mind Body Transmission Technique to tell Jiraiya and the others what he had just discussed with them.
...
After all the ninjas who had been following the Thunder God puppet left with nothing, Toad Goro jumped ashore from the river and, under Jiraiya's guidance, quietly made his way to the border town where Kirito was.
In no time at all, Toad Goro arrived at the inn where Kirito was staying.
At this time, all members of the White Fang squad were ready. Their bodies were hidden within the sealing barrier temporarily set up by Kirito.
Once Toad Goro arrived at the scene, they sent out their shadow clones, which were also within the sealing barrier. Among them were a large number of Kirito, Chizuru and Hatake Sakumo, who had been transformed by Nawaki's shadow clone to pass themselves off as the real thing.
In an instant, many members of the White Fang squad came out of the inn and scattered to escape.
The other ninja from the Hidden Village who were guarding the outside all looked very unhappy when they saw this. Since the ones who left were all shadow clones, they could not tell which ones were real and which ones were fake. But they were not without a way to deal with it, and they also used shadow clones to track them.
"It seems these guys are planning to avoid our tracking, but there's no way you can escape."
From the shadows of a shop across from the inn, Rabbit watched as a large number of shadow clones from the White Fang squad left the inn, sneering coldly.
Then, he took out a small glass box from his body, inside of which was a strange beetle with a long nose.
The micro-scented beetle, this is the trump card that has allowed their Root to always follow the White Fang squad so closely in their wake.
This is a beetle with incredible olfactory abilities. And because it will only remember one smell for its entire life, it will have an extremely keen sense of the smell it smelled when it was born, and it will be able to smell it even if the target is far away.
"Huh? What's going on? Why isn't the micro-scent bug reacting this time?"
Rabbit looked at the fragrant beetle in the glass box. No matter how hard he tried to use his chakra to stimulate it, it didn't make a sound, and he was full of doubts.
The fragrant beetle's sense of smell had suddenly failed!
Realizing that the situation was beginning to spiral out of control, Rabbit hurriedly went to find Rat, the true owner of the fragrant beetle, and asked what was going on.
At that moment, an inconspicuous passer-by glanced at Rabbit's back, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
On the other side, an inconspicuous green-skinned toad was stealthily leaving the inn, then the border town, and finally jumping into a large river and disappearing.
...
The next day, early in the morning, in a small river on the border of the Land of Wind, Toad Goro jumped out of the river and opened his mouth, and the members of Team White Fang emerged one after the other.
"We are already in the Land of Wind. There are no other ninja in the vicinity, because the climate here is not suitable. I will continue on my way, so let's part ways here."
Toad Goro said to White Fang Squad and the others.
"Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Goro. This is a small token of my appreciation. Please accept it,"
Kirito said gratefully, and handed Toad Goro a white porcelain medicine bottle.
When Toad Goro saw that Kirito had a gift for him, he immediately stuck out his tongue to receive the white porcelain pill bottle, and then took out what was in the bottle to look at it. He discovered that it was some black pills.
Although Toad Goro looked ordinary, he was actually a well-trained summoning toad that could sense natural energy.
He now discovered that these black pills contained very pure natural energy.
"This is a new type of soldier's pill that I developed. It restores chakra much more effectively than normal soldier's pills. One pill is enough to restore the chakra of an elite jōnin within a few minutes. However, the side effects are a bit strong. After taking one, you cannot take another for two days, or your body will not be able to tolerate it. However, the strength of a summoning beast's body is stronger than that of ours, so you may be able to take several in a row without any problems."
Kirito explained the origin and effects of the black pills.
Toad Goro knew his stuff and knew that these special energy pills containing pure natural energy were very precious. He smiled contentedly and said, "I won't be rude, so I'll see you again if I get the chance."
After saying that, he swallowed the white porcelain pill bottle, then made a seal with his hands and disappeared into a cloud of white smoke.
"Leaving so soon? I was thinking of having him sign a summoning contract with me,"
Nawaki was dumbfounded when he saw Toad Goro leave so suddenly, and he said in frustration, "He just left like that?
After witnessing Toad Goro's incredible ability to hide people in an alternate space within its body, he wanted to sign a contract with Toad Goro. Along the way, he had talked to Toad Goro about this many times, but he had been rejected every time.
"It's not easy to sign a contract with the spiritual toad of Mt. Myōboku. As far as I know, there is only one person in the ninja world who has a summoning contract with this sacred summoning beast: Jiraiya. If you want to sign a contract with it, it would be more reliable to go to Jiraiya."
Kirito saw that Nawaki was still tirelessly trying to sign a contract with the spiritual power of Mt. Myōboku and decided to point him in the right direction.
To be honest, he didn't quite understand why Toad Goro had rejected Nawaki's request. Not to mention, Nawaki's identity was pretty intimidating. If Mt. Myōboku signed a summoning contract with Nawaki, it would be of great benefit to them, at least they could gain the friendship of the Senju clan.
He didn't believe that Toad Goro was unaware of Nawaki's identity, but on the way here, the other party repeatedly rejected Nawaki's request.
This really made Kirito feel puzzled.
Instead, Toad Goro deliberately wanted to sign a summoning contract with him and Chizuru.
Chizuru obviously didn't have a good impression of Toads and didn't hesitate to refuse.
He didn't refuse or agree.
"You're right, next time I see Jiraiya-niichan, I'll make sure to ask him to write my name in the Summoning Scroll of Mt. Myōboku,"
Nawaki said excitedly when he heard Kirito's words.
"Hmph, toads and other disgusting things are the worst. What's so happy about making a contract with something like that?"
Chizuru said disdainfully from the side.
"What did you say?"
Nawaki was unhappy when he heard this.
"Okay, this chit-chat is over. We are now within the scope of activities of Sunagakure, so we must be careful. Our mission is to destroy the transportation line that Sunagakure uses to transport supplies. Remember, this is a very dangerous mission. From now on, no one is allowed to speak casually."
Hatake Sakumo saw that the two were about to start arguing again, so he immediately put on a stern face and said: "Everyone, be quiet.
Nawaki and Chizuru quickly grew serious, and then shouted in unison with Kirito, "Huh?"
As soon as the sound of their voices died down, the White Fang squad, led by Hatake Sakumo, quickly penetrated deep into the Land of Wind and broke into the boundless sand sea.
...
Mt. Myōboku. Toad Goro quickly went to Sage Fukasaku's residence and said, "Sage Fukasaku, I have something to report."
"It's Goro. What's so urgent? Come in and have a drink. Take your time."
The next moment, the door opened and Sage Fukasaku said with a smile, before handing Toad Goro a cup of green liquid.
Toad Goro did not hesitate to drink the water in the cup, and even showed an expression of being unwilling to give up, but the matter was urgent, so he immediately explained to Sage Fukasaku the situation of Kirito and Chizuru.
He had run through the different dimension that swallowed the White Fang Squad and others last night, and of course he could deeply feel the natural energy from Kirito and Chizuru. He even discovered fluctuations of Sage Chakra within Kirito's body.
"You're not wrong, are you? There really is Sage Chakra in that ten-year-old human named Kirito Tosaka?"
Sage Fukasaku exclaimed in shock.
As a well-practiced immortal, and having taught the best of the human ninja to cultivate Sage Mode many times, he knew only too well how difficult and dangerous it was for humans to cultivate Sage Mode.
But today Toad Goro was telling him that two 10-year-old humans had successfully channeled natural energy into their bodies, and that one of them had even successfully cultivated Sage Chakra.
He found it hard to believe.
"It's true, please believe me, they hid inside my body's other space last night, I'm sure I didn't feel wrong, it was definitely Sage Chakra, and that kind of Sage Chakra felt very similar to the Sage Chakra in Toad Maru's body."
Toad Goro assured him with conviction.
Hearing Toad Goro say this, Sage Fukasaku's doubts were finally dispelled. He was well aware of the power of the alternate space within Toad Goro's body. Anyone who entered it would basically be unable to hide any secrets from Toad Goro's eyes.
However, it was just not possible for a ten-year-old human to cultivate Sage Chakra unaided and successfully enter Sage Mode.
Is this possible?
Suddenly, Sage Fukasaku's mind flashed back to the golden sage mentioned in the prophecy made by Toad Sage last night.
"Could he be the golden sage?"
Sage Fukasaku wondered in amazement.
Then, he began to doubt his own judgment, because what Toad Goro said about Kirito Tosaka, a mere 10-year-old human, being the golden sage who would bring disaster to the world just didn't make sense.
"Maybe the future is still uncertain,"
thought Sage Fukasaku.
However, Kirito Tosaka is currently just a 10-year-old human child, and he has not yet done anything evil. It is still too early to jump to conclusions like this, and he might even make a powerful enemy.
Regardless of whether Kirito Tosaka was the Golden Sage as the Toad Sage had said, with the strength he had shown so far, if he could survive, he would definitely become a very powerful ninja in the future, and might even reach the level of those two human heroes from the Warring States period.
As a super-neutral force in the ninja world, Mt. Myōboku definitely should not provoke such an enemy.
"If we can't make him our enemy, then we'll have to make friends with him. This human has cultivated Sage Chakra at such a young age, so he must be exceptional at cultivating Sage Arts. But in the end, he's just a ten-year-old human, so no matter how extraordinary he is, his achievements in Sage Arts cannot compare to the Sage Arts heritage of Mt. Myōboku.
I believe he will definitely be interested in the Sage Arts of Mt. Myōboku. If we can befriend him, Mt. Myōboku will definitely be able to leave behind a new legacy of Sage Arts."
Sage Fukasaku quickly changed his mind and decided to find an opportunity to invite Kirito to Mt. Myōboku. Using the mountain's spiritual arts as bait, he would get Kirito to sign a summoning contract with Mt.
Myōboku. He already had someone in mind to invite Kirito to Mt. Myōboku: Jiraiya, a human and a Konoha ninja, who was more than qualified for the job.
"But I still need to consult with the master about this,"
Soon, Sage Fukasaku thought of Sage Toad, and then he thought of the prophecy that Toad had made last night. He couldn't help but feel a little heavyhearted.
If that Kirito Tosaka really was the Golden Sage who would bring disaster to the world, would it really be a good thing for Mt. Myōboku to sign a summoning contract with him?
And, which was more powerful, the Prophet or the Golden Sage?