These two had gone far beyond a cunning rabbit with three burrows—they had three thousand!
Behind every portal lay an entirely new world or planet!
There might even... be another portal beyond the first!
"Go!"
The next moment, the two elders stepped through one of the portals, leaving Rono alone where he stood!
[Congratulations! You have successfully learned Otsutsuki: Three Thousand Gates!] [Congratulations! You have successfully obtained chakra 999999+!]
Another surge of immense power flowed into Rono's body.
"Three thousand portals? Interesting..."
A smile curled Rono's lips. Then—
"Sage Art: Pagoda!"
Without even forming hand signs, he filled the battlefield with thousands of summoning beasts formed from sage techniques!
These summoning beasts worked on the same principle as White Zetsu in the original story.
Rono had created them with sage chakra, which meant they were effectively parts of his own body.
Their senses of smell, sight, and hearing were all exceptionally keen, making them ideal for tracking people.
"Go through these gates, find them, and tell me immediately!"
At Rono's command, thousands of summoning beasts scattered and entered the three thousand portals at once!
For a moment, Rono's perception expanded to its fullest extent.
Everything those thousands of summoning beasts saw appeared simultaneously in Rono's mind!
Fortunately, Rono had already reached beyond Six Paths level and was not far from becoming a demigod!
Otherwise, he might not have been able to keep up with those thousands of images!
But Rono soon noticed something strange.
His summoning beasts had explored all the worlds beyond the three thousand gates.
Yet those worlds were either other planets or empty voids.
It seemed those two old bastards' life-saving sage technique was not as simple as he had imagined.
Among the worlds beyond these portals, there had to be spaces they had created