Could Deva Path Pain not defeat me and still want to?

After dinner and a short rest.

Maki watched her cousin Mingnü "sneakily" follow behind her father and slip into the meditation room.

She used to be curious about what the two of them were doing.

But every time, the answer had been that her father was personally guiding Mingnü's training.

After hearing that enough times, she gradually got used to it and stopped asking.

Chiri saw the scene but said nothing. She simply took Maki's hand and led her in the other direction. "Break time's over. Time to train."

Mingnü excitedly reported her results to Toji. "Lord Toji, by deducing the target's Reverse Summoning Technique, I've obtained its approximate spatial coordinates."

On this very day.

The double good news brought by Orochimaru and Hiruko had not been enough, nor had the third piece of good news brought by Tsunade. Now, Mingnü had brought him a fourth.

It was also the most time-consuming and most significant piece of good news.

The other three had given Toji the drive to push himself even further, while what Mingnü had given him was peace of mind.

People lived for peace of mind.

Once he dealt with the Great Toad Sage, the peace of mind that belonged to Toji Zenin would truly be his.

"Good!" Toji took a deep breath and asked in a low voice, "Where is it?"

"In the western part of the Land of Wind. We'll need to cross the ocean."

"Even with sufficient chakra and no stops along the way, a ninja would need at least a month to get there at full speed."

As she spoke, Mingnü raised a hand and pointed to the spread-out map of the Shinobi World.

The place she indicated was extremely far from the Shinobi World's continent.

Traveling from Konoha to Hidden Sand took only