At the examiner's instruction, Naruto Uzumaki slowly walked into the arena. As he entered, a strange power began to spread throughout the examination grounds.
It was an unusual kind of Chakra, impossible to describe. There wasn't much of it, but it was incredibly potent. It was seven or eight parts similar to the Senjutsu Jiuming knew, yet also completely different.
Aside from Jiuming, no one else in the arena seemed to sense this strange Chakra. The spectators were still discussing Naruto's written exam score and his father, the Hokage.
"Am I the only one who noticed? Whose unfamiliar Chakra is this?"
Jiuming's gaze turned intense. As he looked at Naruto, he furrowed his brow and pondered.
At that very moment, Kurama, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes. His fox pupils were filled with astonishment, and his emotions surged so violently that even his Chakra began to run wild.
Kurama's unusual reaction caught Jiuming's attention. He focused his mind and entered his sea of consciousness, where he went to Kurama and asked, "Kurama, what's wrong? What did you sense?"
Kurama didn't answer right away. After carefully sensing it, his expression changed several times before he finally said, "I sensed the old man's Chakra!"
"No, I should say Chakra similar to the old man's!"
Hearing Kurama's words, Jiuming's pupils contracted. He knew who Kurama meant by the Old Man. There was only one person Kurama affectionately called that: the one who had split the Ten-Tails and created the Nine Tailed Beasts, the founder of the Ninjutsu Sect, the Sage of Six Paths—or, as he was also known, Hagoromo Otsutsuki!
"Chakra similar to the Sage of Six Paths?" Jiuming murmured, his expression grave.
He knew the secrets of this world. Jiuming had always known that the Sage