A thousand years of gathering Natural Energy had left Gamamaru with a terrifying amount of Senjutsu Chakra, enough to rival the Nine-Tails.
And not the Nine-Tails after it had been split into yin and yang halves, but the Nine-Tails at full strength.
That only made Uchiha Yi more interested in Gamamaru.
While Uchiha Yi sensed his surroundings on Mount Myōboku, Sage Fukasaku studied him with curiosity. In fact, all the toads there were watching him.
This was the first time an outsider had ever come to Mount Myōboku!
And the Great Toad Sage himself had invited him.
Of course, they had heard of Uchiha Yi. The Summoning Beasts of the Three Great Sage Lands were hardly cut off from the world. Besides, both Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze were on fairly good terms with him, and they knew how strong he was. He was practically a second Madara Uchiha.
But seeing him in person left them stunned. They had assumed Uchiha Yi relied solely on his Mangekyō Sharingan. They had never imagined he had mastered Sage Mode. It bore traces of Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode, yet he had already developed it into something of his own.
Uchiha Yi's Sage Mode was now distinctly different from those of the Three Great Sage Lands.
How had this human done it?
Uchiha Yi had already set foot on the path of a sage. Perhaps one day he really could become a second Sage of Six Paths.
Sage Fukasaku was the Great Toad Sage's right-hand man and the one who now ran Mount Myōboku. By the time he was born, the Sage of Six Paths had already died, at least as far as the world knew.
But he had grown up hearing many secrets about the Sage of Six Paths. He knew things outsiders did