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He figured that once his Medical Arts broke past their limits and advanced further through an epiphany, he might be able to resolve this effortlessly.
Tsunade frowned deeply and said quietly, "We'd better not let that bastard Jiraiya catch on."
"At least, he can't know about this until he's fully established a Contract with you and can trust you completely."
"Otherwise, who knows what reckless stunt he'll pull?"
She really didn't want to see Jiraiya storm Mount Myoboku in a rage, much less fall out with Konoha over it.
Xunjing nodded, his tone firm. "That was my plan all along."
Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief, shaken by the thought of what might have happened. "Good thing I never even got a foot in the door with Senjutsu back then. I couldn't get past the 'Integrating with Nature' stage, so I gave up early."
"Otherwise, if my genes had been contaminated too, wouldn't I have turned into a slug if I kept training?"
The more she thought about it, the luckier she felt.
When she summoned Katsuyu to help in a fight, she thought she was rather cute.
But actually turning into a slimy slug herself?
She would rather die.
All the frustration of failing to learn Senjutsu back then had now become a stroke of luck-perhaps every loss really did come with a gain.
"Oh, right!"
Something suddenly occurred to Tsunade, and she whipped her head toward Xunjing. "That bastard Orochimaru never actually trained in Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu back then either, because the risks were too great-if he failed, the Snake Sage would eat him."
"But I remember that over the past few years, he's already performed Soft Body Modification on himself and added snake genes to his body to develop his Great Snake Style Ninjutsu."
"Could that