manynovel Chapter 535 Battle of Mount Myōboku
Chapter 535 Battle of Mount Myōboku
Chapter 535 The Battle of Mount Myōboku (Part 3)
"Gamahiro!!"
Seeing his younger brother being engulfed by the flames and screaming in agony, Gamabunta panicked. Ignoring the injury to his right hand, he planted the giant short sword he had just taken to his left hand into the ground and quickly formed hand seals.
"Water Release: Gunfire Ball!"
Gamabunta opened his mouth wide, and as his pipe fell to the ground, several giant water spheres shot out from his mouth, heading towards the toad engulfed in flames.
"Your opponent is me!"
"Water Release: Exploding Water Wave!"
Kisame Hoshigaki leaped high into the air, his hands rapidly forming hand seals, and he spat out a torrent of seawater from his mouth. Like a burst dam, a large amount of seawater gushed out of Kisame Hoshigaki's mouth and quickly scattered in all directions after landing.
The seawater, like a tsunami, blocked Gamabunta's Water Release: Gunball.
"What?!" Hama Ken's eyes widened. He had never seen such a large body of water before. He quickly jumped up and landed on a higher hilltop.
The other Star Ninjas had already dispersed; the battle here was beyond the reach of ordinary ninjas like them, allowing Kisame Hoshigaki to truly showcase his skills.
"Such a massive amount of chakra—" Even Hyuga Hizashi was stunned, watching as the surging seawater quickly filled the entire depression.
Mount Myōboku itself is a humid environment with many water sources, but Kisame Hoshigaki's water-style ninjutsu with such a wide range still surprised many star ninjas.
In particular, some ninjas who came from the Anbu (Anti-Japanese Military and Political Department) held this Captain-Commander of the Anbu in high esteem.
"Wow—that's amazing!"
"Is this the Captain-Commander's true strength?"
"This is the first time I've ever seen the Captain-General go all out. It's terrifying."
"When the commander-in-chief used to discipline us, how much leniency did he actually show?"
Kakuzu landed on a large leaf floating on the water's surface, somewhat displeased with Kisame Hoshigaki.
"Hey, you brat, you've extinguished my Fire Release technique." The sea of fire he painstakingly created with the Composite Ninja Art: Flame Wind Chaos Wave was simply drowned by Kisame's seawater.
Although Gamahiro was indeed defeated, Kakuzu still felt somewhat frustrated.
However, the fact that this kid had such a large amount of chakra surprised even Kakuzu, who was nearly ninety years old and had seen a lot.
Unfortunately, if this guy weren't one of their own, his heart would be a good choice—this thought was quickly put off by Kakuzu.
He glanced at the figures of Menma and the others who had moved to the top of the waterfall behind him, and felt a deep sense of apprehension.
The pressure he felt from that boy was even greater than that from the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
"Oh dear, that's a bit too much." Kisame Hoshigaki, on the other hand, was like a fish in water. He leaped out of the water and landed on the white belly of the unconscious Gamabunta. He carried Samehada and stomped on it hard.
At this moment, Gamahiro was covered in burns, emitting a sizzling aroma of roasted meat. He had been completely knocked unconscious by Kakuzu's "Combined Ninja Art: Flame Wind Chaos Wave".
Gamabunta also leaped out of the water and landed on a small hill next to Gamabunta. Looking at the depression submerged by the sea and Gamabunta, whose white belly was turned up in the water, he was full of anger, with a pipe in his mouth.
The human ninjas on the other side were very strong, especially the guy with a shark-like face who wielded a strange ninja sword. His water jutsu was actually seawater, which made Gamabunta very annoyed. His skin was unbearably itchy after being soaked in seawater.
boom!
Just as Gamabunta was thinking about how to deal with it, a loud bang came from the direction of the temple, instantly attracting the attention of everyone on the battlefield.
Menma, Uchiha Hikaru, and Shisui also looked over.
Amidst a rumbling sound, the mountains below the temple collapsed and split open, and a giant toad, over three hundred meters long, slowly rose from the mountains.
It is entirely brown, covered with vegetation and moss, and blends perfectly into the mountainside.
The temple was merely an ornament on the toad's head.
"The Giant Toad of Rocky Abode?" Menma looked at the enormous toad, which could practically blot out the sky on Mount Myōboku, and softly uttered its name.
This is also the most mysterious toad of Mount Myōboku. It is so huge that even Jiraiya could only summon a part of its intestines. In the original story, Naruto never saw this toad when he was training with Jiraiya on Mount Myōboku.
It turns out that he has almost become one with the entire Mount Myoboku.
As the giant toad Iwaju appeared, toads from all over Mount Myōboku rushed towards it, and even many toads that had been captured and caged by the Star Ninjas became restless.
"Menma, something's not right with the natural energy in the air." Uchiha Hikaru keenly sensed the anomaly and immediately looked at Menma.
Menma naturally sensed the unease in the air.
He didn't speak, but simply fixed his gaze on the temple atop the giant toad's head.
Xiaoguang and Shishui also looked over.
Above the giant toad's head, the temple gate slowly opened, and an old toad, entirely orange with a cat's-eye stone bearing the character "oil" hanging around its neck, slowly jumped out.
"That is—" Xiao Guang's eyes widened, and his eyes instantly activated the Rinnegan. In the scarlet background, several concentric circles slowly bloomed like tree rings, and small branches extended from the edges of the six tomoe, as beautiful and deadly as rose thorns.
Her Rinnegan saw that the natural energy of the entire Mount Myōboku was surging wildly toward the top of the giant toad's head and into the body of that orange, old toad.
The natural energy surged into its body like rivers flowing into the sea, causing its chakra to increase exponentially.
"The Great Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku." Menma observed with great interest the phenomenon of Mount Myoboku's natural energy being siphoned off.
Although we never saw the Great Toad Sage make a move in the original story, he is, after all, the strongest among the three holy lands. Menma guesses that Gamamaru's strength should be no less than the Six Paths level.
Now that Mount Myōboku's natural energy is being absorbed by Gamamaru, it's clear that the opponent is preparing to go all out to stop them.
However, Menma found it strange that he didn't see Fukasaku and Shima, the two high-ranking members of Mount Myōboku who were second only to Gamamaru.
Could it be that Jiraiya summoned it?
Menma originally planned to have Uchiha Hikaru and Shisui as opponents of Fukasaku and Shima.
Whoosh—
Gamabunta and Gamaken also jumped towards the giant toad, landing on either side of it.
"My lord! These humans are ninjas from the Land of Stars, they—" Gamabunta was interrupted by the Great Toad Sage before he could finish speaking.
"I—know—" The Great Toad Sage slowly opened his eyes, which seemed to be perpetually sleepy.
As natural energy flows in, its wrinkled skin is regaining its elasticity at a visible speed, becoming smooth and plump.
Like a withered old tree that has regained its vitality after absorbing plenty of rainwater.
The giant toad immortal looked around, first seeing the depression that had turned into a large lake, then seeing the toads floating on the lake with their white bellies turned up, and finally focusing his gaze on the group of people with facial hair standing above the great waterfall.
"We finally meet—" The Great Toad Sage's voice drifted over from a distance of over a thousand meters.
"You are just like in my dream—"
"Oh?" Menma tilted his head, looking at the giant toad sage in a state of sudden resurgence that had never appeared in the original work.
"Well then, tell me more about it."
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"What exactly did you see in your dream that makes you so obsessed with interfering with me?"
He certainly knew that the Great Toad Sage had the ability to predict dreams, and he was also very curious about what kind of existence he was in the Great Toad Sage's dreams.
What kind of future could make this ancient toad, which has lived for over a thousand years, target me like this?