With Mount Myoboku ruled out, the only places left to learn senjutsu were Ryūchi Cave and Shikkotsu Forest, the other two of the Three Great Sage Lands.
Given Ye Ning's current relationship with Orochimaru, even if he asked to go to Ryūchi Cave to learn senjutsu, Orochimaru probably wouldn't refuse.
After all, he was currently Orochimaru's biggest benefactor, funding his experiments.
But Ye Ning didn't want to go to Ryūchi Cave.
The most fundamental reason was that Ryūchi Cave was just too sinister.
The short-tempered snakes there were already enough to give Ye Ning a headache, and that was without even mentioning the White Snake Sage, who had been around since the same era as the Great Toad Sage.
Compared to the White Snake Sage, Ye Ning even thought the Great Toad Sage seemed rather lovable.
With Mount Myoboku and Ryūchi Cave out of the running, it seemed that only Shikkotsu Forest remained...
Though the original story had never mentioned senjutsu in Shikkotsu Forest, if Mount Myoboku and Ryūchi Cave both had senjutsu, then surely Shikkotsu Forest, one of the Three Great Sage Lands, had it too?
What's more, the First Senju Hashirama's Sage Mode was believed to have been learned in Shikkotsu Forest.
"You want to learn senjutsu in Shikkotsu Forest?"
Tsunade furrowed her brows and looked at Ye Ning, puzzled.
She wasn't suspicious of how Ye Ning knew about Shikkotsu Forest or senjutsu.
She knew Ye Ning was close to Orochimaru, so perhaps he'd heard about it from him.
She was just a little surprised that Ye Ning had brought it up out of the blue.
"Yeah. I heard about senjutsu from Orochimaru, and it made me curious, so I want to learn it."
"Senjutsu isn't easy to learn."
Tsunade's expression grew more serious as she watched