A figure moved through a mist-filled mountain cave. As he walked, the fog before him gradually thinned, and a faint light shone from the distant end. Yet his stride did not change in the slightest as he continued forward at an unhurried pace.
Before long, he emerged from the cave and stopped at its entrance.
Brilliant sunlight poured down before him, making him instinctively raise a hand to shield his eyes. This utterly ordinary sunlight somehow made him feel faintly irritated.
After a while, he adjusted to the blazing sun, only to find that everything before him was still blurry.
Slightly puzzled, he removed the glasses from the bridge of his nose, intending to wipe them out of habit.
"Huh..."
Yet the instant he took off his glasses, he let out a soft cry of surprise. Without them, his vision had actually become clearer—no, clearer than it had ever been!
As he took in the unprecedented clarity of the world before his eyes, he was both shocked and delighted. He muttered, "The Senjutsu of Ryūchi Cave can actually correct my nearsightedness?"
There was no doubt that the person who had emerged from the cave was none other than Yakushi Kabuto, who had previously entered Ryūchi Cave at the risk of his life in an attempt to cultivate Senjutsu.
Just as in the original timeline, as one of the rare few in the ninja world with the aptitude to cultivate Senjutsu, Kabuto had mastered Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu with ease.
Even the White Snake Sage had been deeply impressed by this!
Kabuto's efficiency in absorbing natural energy had completely overturned the White Snake Sage's estimation of the upper limit of how much natural energy humans could absorb. Moreover, his compatibility with Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu was so extraordinary that it was as though