The Battle Three Years Later

However, Xuan Ye also made a discovery while practicing Tai Chi Palm: it seems that the more he practiced Tai Chi Palm, the more difficult it became to improve. Now, with the amplification and weakening effects reaching tenfold, Xuan Ye felt that the improvement of Tai Chi Palm had become very slow.

Not only was Xuan Ye's progress in Tai Chi Palm slow, but the more he practiced, the more unfamiliar he became with this Tai Chi Palm Taijutsu. It was as if the more he practiced Tai Chi Palm, the more he discovered its Taijutsu depth and Taijutsu.

"Do you really want to have a fight? If you lose, you'll be very embarrassed, you perverted old man! One of the Sannin, the Toad Sage Jiraiya, actually lost to a kid who's only a teenager." Xuan Ye said, barely suppressing a laugh.

"Loss? Am I really going to lose?" Jiraiya said somewhat agitatedly. "We haven't even fought yet, how can I be sure I'll lose?"

"Besides, it's not just you who has made great progress in these three years. I have also made significant progress in the Tai Chi Palm Taijutsu. Now I can obtain a three-fold increase and a reduction, which means my strength has increased more than three times."

Jiraiya talked about his gains in the Tai Chi Palm Taijutsu, he became very animated and spoke at length.

"Alright, alright, stop, stop! Yes, yes, I know you've made a breakthrough in the Tai Chi Palm Taijutsu, but so have I! I can now achieve a tenfold increase and decrease in power," Xuan Ye said casually.

"Ten times!" Upon hearing his words, Jiraiya's mind was also extremely turbulent and he could not calm down. Although he knew that Xuan Ye had improved in the Tai Chi Palm Taijutsu, hearing about the tenfold increase and decrease again still made him unable to calm down for a long time.

"He's truly a monster; his talent is incredibly powerful!"

"With a tenfold increase and a weakening effect, plus Xiao Ye's own Elite Jonin strength, then fighting him will really be troublesome." Jiraiya thought to himself for a while.

"You perverted old man? What are you thinking! Do you want to have a fight or not?" Xuan Ye shouted at Jiraiya he saw him staring blankly.

"Hmph! Do you think I'm afraid? At the very least, I'm Jiraiya, one of the Sannin the Toad Sage, the Jiraiya Sage! I'm one of the veteran Kage Level in this Shinobi World. Do you think I'd be afraid of a mere brat like you?" Jiraiya hearing Xuan Ye's words, Jiraiya immediately lost his composure.

"Should we fight? If that's the case, let's just start!" Xuan Ye said in a low voice.

"The Lion Combo!"

Jiraiya began Hand Seals. He Hand Seals at an extremely fast speed, and the speed at which his chakra circulated within his body was also extremely fast. After the Hand Seals were completed, his hair grew longer and became very tough in an instant. It moved towards Xuan Ye's location, trying to bind him.

"The Lion Combo?" Xuan Ye clearly saw all of Jiraiya's movements and the sight of that silver-white hair coming towards him.

Xuan Ye smiled slightly. He wasn't nervous at all; in fact, he seemed quite relaxed. "Divine Eye, activate!"

Then Xuan Ye activated the Ninjutsu Divine Eye. After activating the Divine Eye, he could clearly feel the changes in his eyes. His eyes instantly felt cold, and everything he saw moved at a speed that was reduced by several times. Naturally, the speed of the Lion Combo was also reduced by several times.

"Hehe! At such a slow speed, it can't trap me!" Looking at Jiraiya using the Lion Combo, with his long, strong silver hair gradually approaching him, Xuan Ye lightly jumped up and landed on a branch of a tree that was about ten meters tall.

"Hehe! You perverted old man, do you really think that such a simple ninjutsu can bind me? If that's what you think, then you're really overthinking it." Xuan Ye stood on the trunk of the tree, which was more than ten meters tall, looking at Jiraiya below him.

"Hmm?" Suddenly, Xuan Ye's eyes narrowed. He looked at Jiraiya standing on the ground for a while and realized that something was wrong.

In an instant, he stopped staying on the trunk of that big tree and jumped to a foothold on the trunk of another big tree.

Just as Xuan Ye jumped away, a figure instantly appeared behind the trunk of the big tree. The figure was holding a constantly spinning round chakra ball and was throwing it at him.

"Wind Release: Rasengan!"

"Boom!"

In an instant, the trunk of the large tree exploded, sending countless pieces of wood flying everywhere. The tree was completely destroyed by such powerful destructive force.

Xuan Ye, who had jumped onto another large tree trunk, patted his chest, took a deep breath, and looked back with a smile. "Thank goodness, you perverted old man, your Rasengan is still quite powerful! I almost got hit! As expected, Kage Level ninjas are not so easy to deal with. If you're not careful, you'll fall down."

"Xiao Ye, your observation skills are still very strong!" Jiraiya stood on the trunk of a large tree and looked at Xuan Ye before saying this.

"Observational skills?" Xuan Ye smiled but didn't speak.

It wasn't that Xuan Ye had exceptional observational skills; rather, it was because during these three years, he seemed to have undergone a transformation in the ninjutsu of the Divine Eye, which allowed Xuan Ye to distinguish between Shadow Clone and the real body.

In his eyes, the Shadow Clone created by others were essentially just humanoid chakra, so Shadow Clone were of no use to Xuan Ye.

"Wind Release - Half-Moon Slash!"

Afterwards, Xuan Ye also chose to give Jiraiya a return gift. Since it was just the beginning, he would first give him a weaker one to try.

His wind-attribute chakra gradually became active, and gusts of wind appeared around his body. After the chakra circulation within his body was completed, a crescent-shaped slash several meters long appeared in front of him. This slash had powerful destructive force and cutting ability. Even a Kage Level powerhouse like Jiraiya would be easily cut in half by this crescent-shaped slash if he did not defend against it.

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, the crescent-shaped slash flew toward the trunk of the tree where Jiraiya was, carrying immense power and considerable speed as it flew.

"Wind Release - Half-Moon Slash?" Jiraiya's expression turned somewhat solemn as he looked at the Wind Release - Half-Moon Slash in front of him, which was a crescent-shaped slash. He felt that he had been underestimated!