"The Three Great Sage Regions, right?"
Uchiha Gen rolled his eyes as he spoke.
The Three Great Sage Regions, divided into three parts-even an idiot could guess where those three stone tablets were.
"But I'm curious. How did you get into Shikkotsu Forest and Mount Myōboku? Although they're all yōkai and all call their homes sage regions, those three should hate one another, shouldn't they?
With that snake smell all over you, wouldn't you get killed the moment you entered Mount Myōboku? After all, those frogs on Mount Myōboku act like gangsters."
There was a hint of curiosity in Uchiha Gen's eyes. Surely Orochimaru hadn't modified himself into a frog or a slug again. That wasn't very realistic.
After all, toads were one thing. Even Mount Myōboku itself might not know how many toads it had.
But Shikkotsu Forest was different. The slugs within Shikkotsu Forest seemed incredibly numerous, but ultimately, they were actually just one.
So it was clearly impossible for Orochimaru to sneak into Shikkotsu Forest.
"Heh, Gen, I imagine you don't know that there is actually a kind of tiny life in the shinobi world that exists everywhere, invisible to the naked eye.
They are extraordinarily minute life-forms, smaller than the finest dust. They don't depend on chakra to exist, and can reproduce and proliferate on nothing but the nutrients between heaven and earth.
Mountains and soil, flowing water and air, even human skin, internal organs, and tissue-traces of them are everywhere.
Ignorant commoners know only that they fall ill and develop fevers, or that their wounds fester. They don't know that most ailments are rooted in the activity of these microorganisms.
These microorganisms have no fixed form, and there are countless varieties, each with different habits.
Most are gentle by nature. They inhabit all things, maintaining