Jiraiya heard Uzumaki Kuming agree to go to Mount Myoboku to meet the Great Toad Sage. He immediately bit his thumb, swiftly formed Hand Seals, and performed the Reverse Summoning Technique.
After a dizzying whirl, Uzumaki Kuming and Jiraiya vanished from the Land of Rain.
This was Uzumaki Kuming's first time traveling through space. The scenery before his eyes suddenly went black, and the next moment, he found himself somewhere he had never been before.
Kuming and Jiraiya had arrived right in front of a gigantic waterfall. Yellow oil poured down from above into a pool at its base. In the middle of the pool stood a toad statue, which was also spouting yellow oil from its mouth.
All around the waterfall grew strange, brightly colored plants. Neither their shapes nor their size resembled anything in the Shinobi World.
Kuming had barely recovered from the journey through space when Jiraiya grabbed his sleeve and yanked him backward, making him stumble several steps.
"Why are you pulling me?" Kuming turned to Jiraiya, looking utterly confused.
Jiraiya nodded toward the pool of oil. "I'm saving you. If you get splashed by the oil over there, I'm afraid I'll never see you again."
Jiraiya's words made Kuming understand at once. The oil by the waterfall wasn't ordinary. It attracted Natural Energy. Anyone who hadn't mastered Senjutsu would automatically absorb Natural Energy if splashed by it, and once that unguided energy ran wild, it would turn them to stone.
Even if the symptoms were milder, they would still become violent for a while.
Kuming knew what the oil did, so he wasn't surprised. But Jiraiya found his reaction anything but ordinary.
"Why aren't you asking why you can't get splashed by that oil?"
"Or have you been to Mount Myoboku before?"
Jiraiya stared at