Summoning Jutsu - Max Level

"Jiraiya, rest assured, my temper isn't exactly mild either. I just hope the toad doesn't provoke me," Qin Yu said with a smile.

"That's quite the boast," Jiraiya rolled his eyes and said, "Don't come crying to me for help in a moment."

"First, bite your index finger to draw blood, then sign your name. Once I perform the technique and the contract is sealed, you must never betray Mount Myōboku, or you will be turned into stone."

At the very end, Jiraiya did not forget to add a warning.

Looking at the scroll laid out flat, Qin Yu bit his finger. The moment blood welled up, he quickly wrote his name upon the parchment.

As Qin Yu pulled his hand back, Jiraiya rapidly formed seals with both hands. A five-colored light flared, and he pressed his palms directly onto the scroll.

White steam billowed as the seal in Jiraiya's hand instantly merged with Qin Yu's signature, transforming into an arcane sealing incantation.

When the light faded, Qin Yu felt a strange, inexplicable connection forming with a different dimension.

"Alright, the contract is successful. You can give it a try, but I advise you to be cautious—don't embarrass yourself." Jiraiya rolled up the scroll and slung it back over his shoulder.

"Right, I haven't learned the hand seals for the Summoning Jutsu yet. You might as well teach me while you're at it," Qin Yu remembered an important issue.

In this body, he had been a good-for-nothing for over a decade, barely recognizing basic ninjutsu, let alone a high-level technique like the Summoning Jutsu.

"You don't even know the seals for the Summoning Jutsu?" Jiraiya was somewhat surprised.

After all, he had only returned to Konoha to investigate after receiving word from Minato Namikaze that there was a peerless genius hiding in Konoha besides Qin Yu.

Now that Qin Yu was telling him he didn't know the Summoning Jutsu, it truly exceeded his expectations.

Seeing Qin Yu shake his head again, Jiraiya sighed: "Fine, I'll demonstrate it for you, but there's a ninety percent chance you'll fail on your first attempt, so don't take it to heart."

"Watch closely, don't blink—the Sage of Mount Myōboku, Jiraiya!"

Jiraiya began his theatrical chant, bit his right thumb, and his hands moved like spinning wheels, flipping through seals with incredible speed.

As the final seal was struck, Jiraiya slammed his right hand onto the ground.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

A spiderweb-like seal pattern instantly expanded, and amidst the swirling white mist, a figure about a meter tall appeared before everyone's eyes.

It was a toad wearing arm guards.

It looked somewhat similar to the toad Jiraiya summoned when he fought Kisame and Itachi Uchiha in the Original Work.

"Is this a summoning beast?" Uzuki Yugao's eyes lit up, and she said, "I've heard that once a contract is signed, summoning a beast on the battlefield means doubling your combat power."

"Plus, a summoning beast is a partner that will never betray you."

Qin Yu couldn't help but scoff internally at this statement.

If Manda knew about this, he would definitely grin and laugh.

Eating people, eating his own master!

Manda never joked around!

"Brother, are you confident?" Itachi Uchiha couldn't help but ask.

Qin Yu patted Itachi's head and smiled: "Are you waiting to see me make a fool of myself, too?"

"I'll try my best; perhaps I'll succeed."

As he spoke, Qin Yu communicated with the system inside his body.

"Ding! Detected that the host has learned the Summoning Jutsu. Would you like to max it out with one click?"

"Max it out immediately!"

Qin Yu issued the command.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host, Summoning Jutsu is now at max level."

A flood of information regarding the Summoning Jutsu poured into his mind, giving Qin Yu a sudden sense of clarity.

"Qin Yu, if you aren't confident yet, you can go back and practice; there's no need to rush," Jiraiya patted Qin Yu's shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't be discouraged. No one is a genius like me, succeeding on the very first try."

Looking at the overly familiar Jiraiya, Qin Yu rolled his eyes and said: "That was your first time summoning blindly, and you accidentally reverse-summoned yourself to Mount Myōboku, right?"

"I am not the same as you."

Jiraiya was stunned; this was his secret.

Aside from the Third Hokage knowing a little bit about it, he had only bragged about it to Tsunade.

No!

He had even shown off in front of Orochimaru.

It seemed he had even written it in Icha Icha Paradise.

The more Jiraiya thought about it, the more he realized it wasn't really a secret at all, so he simply stopped caring.

"Kid, you certainly have a big mouth. I hope you can still laugh when you see a tadpole without even legs later."

Beside them, Uzuki Yugao waved her small fist at Qin Yu, clearly trying to cheer him on.

As for Itachi Uchiha, he remained silent with his usual cool demeanor, but the look he gave Qin Yu held a hint of urgency.

"Hoo~"

Qin Yu exhaled a long, stale breath.

The blood on his right index finger had not yet dried; with a swipe across his palm, his hands began to fly like spinning wheels.

Witnessing this scene, Jiraiya's expression could not help but shift.

Originally, he had assumed that even if Qin Yu had truly learned the hand signs, his first attempt would be exceptionally clumsy.

However, the nimbleness of the hand signs before his eyes completely overturned their understanding.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

As the final seal was completed, Qin Yu backhanded his palm and slammed it violently against the ground.

Feeling eighty percent of the chakra in his body being drained away like a tidal wave, his expression involuntarily changed.

Bang!

A powerful sonic boom erupted, and amidst the swirling white mist that shot into the sky, three massive, mountain-like figures materialized out of thin air.

The shockwave brought about by the summoning rolled outward, making Uzuki Yugao and Itachi Uchiha feel as though they could not even open their eyes.

However, compared to them, Jiraiya nearly cracked his eye sockets in disbelief.

Staring at the three legendary combatants of Mount Myōboku—Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro—who had all been summoned at once, Jiraiya's face was filled with utter incredulity.

"Jiraiya, what on earth is going on? Don't tell me you ran off to join the Third Shinobi World War and ran into some troublesome foe, forcing you to summon all three of us at once," Gamabunta said, puffing on his pipe and exhaling a cloud of smoke. "This is going to cost you dearly."

"You'll need to find at least several thousand pounds of bugs, otherwise don't think you can just brush us off."

Gamaken and Gamahiro also could not help but glance around their surroundings.

However, in their perception, there was not a shred of danger to be found.

There were only two stunned individuals and a completely bewildered Jiraiya.

"Jiraiya, you should say something. There isn't a hint of danger here; you can't just summon us out of the blue and expect to send us away so easily," Gamahiro also could not help but speak up.