Secrets of the Ancestors, Origins of Reincarnation!

The White Snake Sage took a long pull on her pipe. Her golden slit pupils gazed into the distance. "Very well. At this point, it's time I told you a story few have ever heard..."

Riu listened intently. What the White Snake Sage was about to reveal was an ultimate secret untouched even by the original story of the Hokage.

"Orochimaru, why have you stopped? Keep massaging..." The White Snake Sage noticed that Orochimaru's hands had gone still and reminded him with a frown.

"Yes...!" Orochimaru resumed massaging her back, but he listened closely. A truth unknown even to him was about to come to light.

"Takamagahara, the sacred land where the Ōtsutsuki Clan dwells, was also the birthplace of our Three Sage Houses ten thousand years ago!" The White Snake Sage's opening words shook Yu and Orochimaru to the core.

"In sacred Takamagahara, my ancestor, the ancestor of Gamamaru of Mount Myoboku, and the ancestor of Katsuyu Myōmyō of Shikkotsu Forest were beings who had awakened long before humanity..."

"They learned to use chakra before humans did. Because of their affinity with nature, they went beyond using their own chakra and mastered the chakra around them—the power of nature. They were the Sage Ancestors of Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, and Mount Myoboku."

"Takamagahara was vast, and its chakra seemed inexhaustible. The Three Sage Houses each kept to their own lands and lived in peace. Over the centuries that followed, the humans born in Takamagahara gradually awakened as well. Their sages discovered a power called chakra lying dormant within them..."

"Even ordinary humans born in Takamagahara had immense chakra sleeping inside them. With a little training, they could reach the level of a Jōnin today. It was a gift of the place where they were born. Takamagahara was that blessed