Sage Mode Is Good Though

Tsunade was startled by Oguri Hayashi's words.

She hadn't expected Oguri Hayashi to know about such things.

Before this, Sage Mode was discovered by the toad sages. If it were a skill unique to the protagonist, then after Kabuto and the First Hokage used Sage Mode, it would mean that Sage Mode wasn't exclusive to Naruto. As a successor of Shikkotsu Forest, it was natural for Tsunade to know Sage Mode.

However, looking at it from later generations, she didn't know Sage Mode.

Clearly, she hadn't learned Sage Mode. Oguri Hayashi knew this but still asked her about it because he had some questions he wanted to ask Tsunade, and could only start with a topic.

"You know about Sage Mode too?" Only successors of Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, and Mount Myōboku could know about Sage Mode, but it wasn't impossible to learn about it through other means.

"I know a little, but not much. I want to know the specific operational patterns of Sage Mode." Oguri Hayashi's ambition was great, but he didn't tell Tsunade. However, Tsunade could vaguely understand his ambition from his words.

Did he want to learn Sage Mode?

Tsunade said with a mocking smile, "Give up. Sage Mode is not as simple as you think. Even among our Sannin..."

Tsunade suddenly stopped speaking. Sage Mode was an important secret. Ordinary ninjas had never even heard of it, let alone understood its power. When Naruto was training Sage Mode, he could already defeat the Nine-Tails with only half of its power. This meant that Jiraiya, who possessed Sage Mode, already had the combat power of a Tailed Beast.

Coupled with Hiruzen Sarutobi and the current Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina Uzumaki, a village with three combatants of this level was as stable as Mount Tai.

Moreover, the complete Nine-Tails and Sage Mode were not simple matters. Both the identity of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and the user of Sage Mode were top secrets within a ninja village. Tsunade would not reveal them so easily.

"I see. Have the three of you tried it? Is Orochimaru's face like that because of Sage Mode?" Although Orochimaru's Ninjutsu were all self-created and looked snake-like, that wouldn't cause his face and eye corners to have snake-skin-like features. However, if it were Sage Jutsu, it would be understandable – the side effects of Sage Jutsu caused by being contaminated by the Sage Chakra from Ryūchi Cave.

It now seemed that Orochimaru's reason for studying Jugo was that the path of Sage Jutsu had failed.

Instead, Jiraiya, who appeared to be unpolluted, had succeeded.

Indeed, Jiraiya could become the Third Hokage's disciple, and in some ways, he was a genius.

"Can you summon Katsuyu so I can ask her? I have some questions about Sage Jutsu." Like the Rasengan, Sage Jutsu theoretically had no entry barrier. However, in reality, all ninjas guarded their secret techniques jealously, fearing that other ninjas would learn them. To access these secret techniques, one first had to be their direct disciple, or a direct disciple's disciple, and so on.

However, after thinking about it, Tsunade realized that even if she taught Sage Jutsu to Oguri Hayashi, he wouldn't be able to learn it. This required sufficient natural energy, which was said to only exist in Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, and Mount Myōboku. Since that was the case, it wouldn't hurt to let him understand a little.

Since Oguri Hayashi knew that Konoha had ninjas who practiced Sage Jutsu, he would probably be hesitant to act rashly.

She didn't hesitate to summon Katsuyu. Katsuyu had been her method of contacting Konoha these days. She didn't hide the Reverse Summoning Jutsu from Oguri Hayashi either.

Oguri Hayashi didn't stop her from doing so.

"Lady Tsunade," the slug said, looking at Tsunade. "Do you have any orders?"

"Yes, I have something I want to ask you," Oguri Hayashi asked his questions.

He used to think that the Rasengan required Wind Release Chakra to be cultivated, but in reality, all chakra natures could cultivate the Rasengan and incorporate chakra nature transformation. He knew that his memories could not be taken as gospel. While his past memories could recall most of the plot of Naruto, when it came to actual Ninjutsu cultivation, one had to unify knowledge and practice, and combine it with the actual situation.

It was like in History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, where only the most rigorous training and the highest talent could allow the Martial Arts Masters to achieve the combination of Ki in the Unity of Motion and Stillness, and the Unity of Motion and Impact.

But after obtaining the secret manual, Oguri Hayashi found his own way to cultivate a tranquil Ki, transforming lightning chakra into the Ki of motion, and easily achieving a Unity of Motion and Stillness. This made him understand that although a secret manual was a secret manual, how to practice it still required one's own ideas and methods.

Wisdom could make his training methods twice as effective, but even so, some things had to be combined with the actual situation.

For example, Sage Jutsu now.

Although Sage Jutsu was good, it wasn't what Oguri Hayashi needed. To take a most direct measure of combat power, after completing Sage Mode, Naruto's combat power surpassed that of the Nine-Tails' normal chakra. However, the Raikage of past generations could directly suppress the Eight-Tails in their bodies.

From the perspective of direct combat power, his path was clearly more powerful than Sage Mode.

Of course, if his body were combined with Sage Mode, it could indeed unleash immense power, but the risk of Sage Mode was somewhat great.

He just needed Katsuyu to resolve some of his doubts.

After all, how similar was the so-called Sage Mode to the Unity of Heaven and Man emphasized in Chinese martial arts?

And Hayato Furinji's [My Style] of the Invincible Superman also mentioned the ultimate concept of martial arts, which should be the ability to sense nature and achieve Unity of Heaven and Man.

In fact, the Invincible Superman had already been extremely close to this state at times, and Chinese martial arts had also mentioned the concept of Heaven-Man Induction and Unity of Heaven and Man many times.

If he could truly prove that the Sage Mode of Chakra and the Unity of Heaven and Man were the same concept, then Oguri Hayashi would know what his future path would be.

As a "friend" of Tsunade, Katsuyu naturally answered Oguri Hayashi's questions without reservation. Oguri Hayashi's understanding of the concept of Sage Jutsu became clearer and clearer, and the concept of Sage Mode in his mind became more and more defined.

"I see. I understand a little now," Oguri Hayashi said with a thoughtful expression, nodding. "Thank you, Katsuyu."

"You're welcome."

Katsuyu shook its tentacles. "Then, Lady Tsunade, if there's nothing else, I'll be going back now."

"Yes, you may go," Tsunade said. Watching Katsuyu disappear in a puff of white smoke, Tsunade turned to Oguri Hayashi and asked, "What did you understand?"