Three days.
This routine continued until the fifth day, when Katsuyu finally appeared again.
"Kid, how are you feeling now?"
"Not great. Stay a few more days, and I'll probably turn into a wild man."
Ronglin complained weakly. What kind of training was this? Every day, he ate wild vegetables, gnawed on tree fruit, then spent his idle time watching a real-life version of Animal Planet?
"You..."
Katsuyu froze, too stunned to say anything.
"Hahaha."
Ronglin laughed for a while before saying, "I know. I'm supposed to calm my mind down, right? But actually doing that isn't easy."
"Of course it isn't. Back then, Hashirama Sen—uh..."
Katsuyu spoke irritably, only realizing halfway through that something was wrong and hurriedly cutting herself off.
Ronglin looked at Katsuyu with a smile. Just as expected, Hashirama Senju had come here before. In the original story, where he had learned senjutsu had always been a mystery.
Many people had guessed that he learned it in Shikkotsu Forest. The Sage Modes of the Three Great Sacred Lands were all different, and Hashirama Senju's Sage Mode was clearly different from Naruto's and Kabuto Yakushi's.
The latter two had trained at Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave respectively, so the only remaining possibility was Shikkotsu Forest. Unfortunately, it had all been mere speculation.
But now, it seemed there was an answer.
Ronglin wasn't an idiot. Katsuyu had left him here to dry out for several days, making him eat wild vegetables, gnaw tree fruit, and watch a real-life version of Animal Planet every day. If he still couldn't understand her intentions, he might as well smash his head against a wall and die.
Unfortunately, achieving a mind as still as water was difficult, especially for someone like Ronglin. It was even harder for him. Too many things still