"Ah? You could die in there too?!"
"No."
"Then what was that about?!"
"I was messing with you. What reward did you get?"
Jiraiya scratched his head. "A pretty strange reward: Sage Power. It lets me remain in Sage Mode indefinitely without disappearing after exhausting my natural energy."
Tsunade was extremely surprised when she heard about the reward. "That strong?! Senjutsu is what you're best at. Now that you can keep using it indefinitely, hasn't your strength taken a qualitative leap forward?"
Jiraiya laughed and scratched his head. "Hahaha, keep it low-key, keep it low-key. It's not as strong as you say."
But Jiraiya truly was delighted! Konoha really had something this powerful after all!
It could grant someone immense power out of thin air.
"Now you believe me, right? This is powerful alien technology, not something from our world."
"Aliens? How did this suddenly become about aliens? Didn't you say Big Brother Torikaze got this from an enemy?"
Tsunade nodded. "Yes, and the two don't conflict, do they? The enemy is an alien. They came from beyond the heavens and want to occupy the Shinobi World."
"It seems they began planning this a long time ago."
This news left Jiraiya bewildered for quite a while. He had traveled across the entire Shinobi World, only to find that he knew nothing in the end.
Tsunade had spent a year enjoying herself in this village, yet she understood more than a hard-training wanderer like him!
Jiraiya felt terribly unbalanced about that.
"Your information is way too advanced, isn't it?! Does everyone in Konoha know about this?"
Tsunade shook her head. "Not everyone knows. Only Konoha's elite ninja are allowed to know. I happen to count as one of them. Minato Namikaze and the others know too; you just never asked."
Fine,