"Mount Myoboku!"
Mingye fell into deep thought. After a moment, he spoke again.
"The Sage has always said that he would only teach me true Sage Method after I expelled all the chakra from my body. But you've seen it too, Sage—I bear the bloodline of the Uchiha clan. Chakra has seeped into my very bones like a seed!"
The White Snake Sage fell silent for a moment before offering him a meaningful warning.
"If you want to forcibly cultivate Sage Method in your current state, it isn't impossible. But think it through carefully. Once you do this, there will be no turning back!"
Mingye took a deep breath and asked again.
"Then how far can I go?"
The White Snake Sage could not be bothered to say much more. The instant Mingye asked that question, he had already made his choice. There was no use saying anything else.
"Forsaking Sage Arts to cultivate Sage Method is merely another kind of breakthrough. As for how far you can go, even I can't say. But slaughtering Tailed Beasts should be effortless!"
"I see. If that's the case, then it will do. My strength must increase. Sage, please teach me the true Sage Method!"
Mingye bowed ninety degrees to the White Snake Sage, earnestly begging to train. He felt a little sorrowful as well. After all, he needed power now. Though Sage Arts and Sage Method differed by only one word, the former pursued immortality and the eternal endurance of all things, while the latter sought only boundless might and the power to look down upon all. Yet it damaged the body. By choosing the latter, the course of his life might truly have been set in stone—but he had no other choice.
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