Ryūchi Cave.
With the disappearance of the White Snake Sage, Aoda, Manda, Garaga, and the four elder snake princesses,
it had long since descended into utter chaos.
Aside from some snakes that had left, countless serpents were engaged in the bloodiest and cruelest slaughter across this land.
Moreover, none of them were ordinary creatures.
Every snake had more or less mastered ninjutsu or Senjutsu, and their serpentine bodies possessed tremendous strength and resilience.
This made their battle high-intensity from the very beginning.
Their objective was simple: to fight for the position of sage of Ryūchi Cave!
These snakes, large and small, believed that the White Snake Sage and the others would not be returning.
And they were not wrong.
But that did not mean they had the right to lay hands on something that did not belong to them.
Imu stepped out of an air door.
Yet his footsteps made no sound at all.
It was as though there were a layer of invisible yet solid ground beneath his feet.
As a result, not a single snake fighting bloodily below noticed the changes in the sky above.
Imu did not care either. He neither stopped them nor wiped them out.
For one, this battle might force out some snakes with decent talent. For another, these snakes could be kept for use by the Sea Ninja Village; they would just need to be moved somewhere else later.
There was only one troublesome point.
The Shinobi World's Summoning Technique could not be used across a Star Gate. Therefore, when ninjas carried out missions in the Otherworld, they would probably have to seal their summoned beasts inside scrolls and carry them with them.
As for the Sea Star, Imu felt that the snakes of Ryūchi Cave and the toads of Mount Myōboku could