"Gulp."
Jiraiya swallowed hard.
"Y-you... how could you follow me here?"
This was the Reverse Summoning Technique!
It was an absolute bulwark built upon the exclusive contracts and spatial coordinates passed down through Mount Myōboku for a thousand years!
Even the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, a master of Space-Time Ninjutsu, could never have forced his way into this sacred land with Flying Thunder God without signing a contract with Mount Myōboku!
Yet this man had followed his lingering spatial ripples, torn through them like paper over a window, and strolled right in!
This was no longer a question of strength. This was someone who completely disregarded the rules.
"Was that supposed to be difficult?"
Yue Uchiha sounded as casual as if he were commenting on the pleasant weather.
"Every door has a keyhole, and wherever there's a keyhole, there's always a way to make a key. The encryption algorithms for your summoning beasts' sacred lands are far cruder than those at the Dragon Vein nodes in Rōran."
As Yue spoke, he wandered without a care through this place hailed as one of the Three Great Sage Lands.
Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima could no longer afford to worry about their exhaustion. The two old toads leaped onto Jiraiya's shoulders, bracing for a formidable enemy.
"Jiraiya-boy, be careful! He can forcibly tear through Mount Myōboku's barrier. His strength is even more terrifying than what we just witnessed!" Sage Fukasaku warned in a low voice.
"Damn it... am I really going to die here today?" Jiraiya gritted his teeth and quietly gathered what little chakra he had left.
Yue Uchiha, however, paid no attention to their battle-ready stances.
He closed his eyes slightly and took a deep breath of Mount Myōboku's natural energy, so dense it was almost tangible.
"So this is