Gou is cultivating immortality in Hokage

The hazy mist slowly floated up, outlining attractive curves in the air. As a slight gust of wind came out, the curves disappeared in a flash, and the scattered fragments brought about a fleeting chuckle and a touch of gentleness. arc.

However, happiness is always short-lived and brings only endless emptiness and dullness.

Well, this is not me driving, but it comes from other people's feelings. Tsk~, opposite Konoha Hot Spring, a big man was lying in the corner of the room, carefully savoring the rare materials.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, the big man stood up. I saw that he was tall and tall, with long needle-like white hair like a lion's mane, a forehead protector with oil characters on his head, two red marks under his eyes, and short hemp shoes. He was really a big man. As the saying goes: If the mountain doesn't welcome me, I will go to the mountain, and the Immortal Miaomu will come.

A slight "swish" sound broke through the air, and the figure disappeared. A few beautiful figures opened the soup curtain, laughed softly, gradually blended into the crowd of Konoha, and disappeared on the street.

Konoha Village, Hokage Building, in the office, Hiruzen Sarutobi was holding a pipe and reviewing recent documents. The room was filled with smoke. Obviously, this work had been going on for a long time.

"Hahaha, old man, I'm here." Jiraiya didn't wait for the announcement, opened the door and barged in, leaning back on the chair carelessly, "Well, old man, you are always so busy. It's not your fault. Let others worry about it. I'm telling you, if you look like this, be careful of dying young."

Sarutobi banged his pipe heavily, and the veins on his forehead flashed away, "Jiraiya! How many times have I had trouble with you? If you have to knock on the door, remember to knock on the door. It's rare for you to come back, and you want to be angry with me when you come back. ."

Jiraiya waved his hand. "Come on, I didn't hide it on purpose. I don't believe you wouldn't know about it when I returned to the village."

"Hey, old man, what were you talking about last time? Did you say that Orochimaru was back? I heard that he was active in the country of Sichuan a few years ago, but we know each other so well that I have never been able to find him. .”

Sarutobi raised his pipe, took a deep puff, slowly blew out the smoke ring, and then said, "Now that I've come back, the village has made a plan to trap him. Although they succeeded in luring him, it's a pity that in the end they were still a little short of letting him." escaped."

Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief, "What about the casualties? He probably wouldn't be cruel to the village. After all, even though he defected, it was his fault in the first place and his actions were too crazy."

Sarutobi shook his head, "Only a few ANBU members were injured, and supplies were slightly damaged. Others are fine. Jiraiya, a lot of things happened during your absence."

"Someone in the village has created a wooden escape, and this time he is using it as an excuse to capture Orochimaru."

Jiraiya sighed. "Then what?"

"Huh? You don't seem surprised at all?" Sarutobi asked curiously. He knew his disciple well, and all his emotions were written on his face.

"We'll talk about this later. Teacher, please finish your words first."

"Yeah," Sarutobi nodded. "That's about it. Orochimaru's attack took place at the nursery base outside the village. He fled after the failure." Sarutobi pulled out a document and said, "The person in charge of the base is called Chiba. This guy just rebuilt a nursery. I’ve filed appropriation reports three times. The little guy is pretty good, but he’s too stingy and always thinks about the little money. I heard he was working in a ninja shop before.”

Jiraiya nodded in understanding. Then he asked: "How did the Wood Release come about? Did someone awaken the Blood Successor? In addition to Tsunade, are there people from the Senju family in the village? It can't be an experiment, right? You have been doing it for so many years. No results.”

Sarutobi also explained patiently: "This is quite simple to say, and it's not really Wood Release. Someone discovered a mutated plant. After channeling, it shares some of its abilities and can achieve some of the effects of Wood Release. Founder It’s that Chiba, he named him Teng Dun.”

"Is this vine escape very powerful?" Jiraiya asked.

"It's not bad. It can absorb chakra and transform, but it has obvious weaknesses and is afraid of fire. In a comprehensive evaluation, it is S-level, but it cannot reach the height of a powerful blood successor." Sarutobi commented pertinently.

Jiraiya nodded. "I got the prophecy information from Toad Sage. The wood escape will return to the world, and the black ocean will flood the world, which will bring great chaos to the ninja world. I am very concerned about the information about the wood escape, so I went back to Konoha to investigate."

As Jiraiya's teacher, Sarutobi knew about the lineage of Mt. Myoboku. Toad Sage had existed for thousands of years, and his prophecies had affected the situation of the ninja world several times.

But as a decision-maker, you will definitely not focus on predictions. Moreover, things like prophecy are vague and ambiguous in interpretation. However, the portions of Jiraiya and Myobokuzan are still quite sufficient, and it would be inappropriate to leave them alone.

"Then if you are determined to investigate, let's arrange for you to go to the Fujian Research Institute. On the pretext of investigating the Orochimaru attack, you can go directly to Chiba. That guy has a pretty good character. What's the matter? Just ask directly."

"But prophecies are vague and vague, so you don't have to pay too much attention to them. You have been searching for the Son of Prophecy for many years, but you still have no clues."

Jiraiya was still carefree. "Old man, you don't understand. Toad Immortal's prophecy is very powerful."

Sarutobi was also helpless. This disciple had worshiped at Mount Myoki when he was young, and he was convinced that Toad Sage was looking for the son of the prophecy. Since the death of Namikaze Minato, he had faded out of Konoha in the past few years and walked around the ninja world all year round.

Sarutobi stretched out his hand and channeled a vine, showing it to Jiraiya. "This is the attribute of Vine Release. His body is a mutated ivy with the attribute of Wood Release. Psychics can also share it."

As a member of Mt. Myoboku who has a close relationship with nature, Jiraiya is quite friendly to plants. After Tora's vine came out, he slowly caressed Jiraiya, showing his closeness.

"Haha, it seems that Mr. Tora likes you quite a lot." Sarutobi smiled.

The two chatted for a while, Jiraiya explained the information he had gained from walking in the ninja world for several years, and Sarutobi talked about the current situation in Konoha. Jiraiya travels around the ninja world all year round, often bringing important information. After joining Mt. Myoboku, and having no idea inside Konoha, Sarutobi still liked this disciple the most.

After hearing Chiba's information, Jiraiya became even more interested, especially when he heard Chiba's age. I immediately asked Chiba about her hair color and was slightly disappointed when she learned that it was black. In Toad Sage's dream, the prophesied child who saves the ninja world has golden hair.

It was already noon when Jiraiya arrived at the hillside of the institute. As one of the legendary Sannin, he was immediately recognized by his second-in-command, Naoto, and received a warm reception.

"You said Chiba, the boss went out early this morning, heading towards the forest." Naoto answered Jiraiya's question.

"Oh. What did he do?" Jiraiya asked curiously.

"Probably hunting or collecting herbs. Many of our daily meat and laboratory experiments were collected by him in the forest. The main research direction of our Tengdu Research Institute is plants, and he often goes to the forest. ." Naoto explained.

"Jiraiya-sama, don't worry, the boss will take a photo and make a clone of him at home." Naoto continued to explain. "But shadow clones rarely leave the research building. They are all experimental maniacs."

However, what was very rare today was that Naoto led Jiraiya around the small building but could not find the shadow clone. Kabuto was the only one taking Kimimaro to clean the bottles. I asked Kabuto and he said he didn't know either.

But Jiraiya was also eye-opening. There are all kinds of plant samples and strange variants in the laboratory, which are full of greenery. Having mastered the fairy mode, he can also feel that they contain vitality far beyond the outside world. Although some variations look weird.

At least a little relieved. It seemed that Sarutobi-sensei had not lied to him, the village had stopped human experiments long ago. When Jiraiya learned about the prophecy, his first reaction was that Konoha had restarted the wood escape experiment. This time, I came back in a hurry under the excuse of Orochimaru because I was worried about these things.

Really unable to find any trace of the boss, Naoto was helpless and took Jiraiya to visit the nursery base and medicinal material base. The focus was on Base No. 1, which was destroyed during Orochimaru's attack. The constant temperature barrier has always been there. Chiba originally made a plan to simplify the treatment. Not long after, the nursery that was destroyed was already covered with dense ivy vines. Moreover, Lord Tiger’s true root system is also secretly hidden here. Well, it can't be called secretive, anyway, everyone who should know knows it.

Naoto is also one of the only people who has contracted with Mr. Tiger, so he is naturally treated closely by Mr. Tiger. Even Jiraiya also felt the ocean of vitality. Chiba had already told Lord Tiger that he would not attack humans at will.

Although Jiraiya didn't understand, he was shocked. Unlike natural energy and chakra, life force inherently feels good. But it's of no use, after all, life force cannot be shared between different beings.

"By the way, what is the content of your research?" Jiraiya suddenly asked. The cultivation and planting part looks normal, the only thing I don't understand is the research content.

"It's a fusion experiment of chakra, mutant plants and vitality." Naoto replied. "A few of us helped before, but when Kabuto came, he thought we were clumsy and kicked us out."

"Kabuto is the kid I saw upstairs just now, the older one. He's a kid from the orphanage and a student at the Ninja School. He's a part-time job here."

"Who is that little one?" Jiraiya asked.

"That's Kimimaro. He came to join the boss before. The kid was not in good health, so he followed Kabuto and sometimes did some work." Naoto said what he had to say, and all his money was taken away.

"Hey? Do you all call him boss?" Jiraiya asked again. He came here to find out the situation.

"Well, it was requested by the director. He also brought us to grow medicinal materials." Naoto said guiltily. "But we didn't delay our business. We did it in our spare time. At most, it took up some space."

Um. Jiraiya didn't care much about this. Konoha is pretty good, and planting things can be considered self-reliant.

Jiraiya was more concerned about where Chiba was.