From the Navy Admiral to the Gotei 13

Forget it, as the Hokage, I must put the overall situation first. I will endure it.

Sarutobi Hiruzen forced himself to look away, then exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "What's the situation with learning Sage Mode on your own? Isn't that something only available in the Three Holy Lands?"

Jiraiya scratched his head and said, "I don't quite understand either, but it's said that this is a research he and Orochimaru came up with, but it's not yet complete. He didn't say much, so I didn't ask too much. When we met in the Land of Earth, he was very interested in Myoboku Mountain and wanted to go there to study, but I didn't tell him the address. I guess he plans to teach himself this time... right?"

"Orochimaru?" Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned slightly.

You are a Konoha ninja and my disciple. Why do you have to get involved with someone like Diarmait and study the Sage Mode with him?

Why don't you do something else with this time?

Look, because of this, he is now riding on your teacher's head...like.

Although he had a lot of things to complain about, Sarutobi Hiruzen also knew what kind of person Orochimaru was. He was just like Jiraiya. It was useless to say anything to him. He would just ignore it and might even find you annoying...

"Do you think it's possible to succeed? That guy's strength is already the 'strongest you've ever seen in your life'. If he learns the Sage Mode, wouldn't he be at the level of the Shodaime?" Sarutobi Hiruzen asked with some concern.

At the same time, I also felt a little regretful. What a powerful guy, it's a pity that he is not from Konoha.

This guy has an absurd and unruly personality. He is extremely dissolute, acts without any scruples, and is crazy, yet he is so powerful.

If he could master the Sage Mode, wouldn't he be able to ascend to heaven in the future?

If he really reaches the same level as the Shodaime, who in the ninja world can deal with him?

So even though there doesn't seem to be any conflict at the moment, and even the relationship seems to be quite good, Sarutobi Hiruzen is still quite worried.

Jiraiya pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "That shouldn't be possible, right? Theoretically, yes. If Sage Mode, the power of senjutsu, and natural energy were so easily mastered, the Three Holy Lands wouldn't have been able to maintain such a tight grasp on senjutsu for thousands of years. Throughout history, there have been countless people who have mastered such power, and each one of them was incredibly talented. Besides, Orochimaru himself doesn't know any senjutsu, and neither does Diarmuid."

I have to say that from these perspectives, Jiraiya's considerations are absolutely flawless and very reasonable.

Even Sarutobi Hiruzen thought it made a lot of sense and had no reason to refute it. He even suspected that the bastard Diarmait just wanted to sit on his head and enjoy the scenery, and was just making up an excuse.

But, neither he nor Jiraiya is a talent in the scientific field after all.

Even among scientific research talents, not everyone can reach the level of Orochimaru.

One thing that Orochimaru often does is to make things that everyone thinks are impossible possible.

Even if I don’t know any magic myself, I can still help Diarmait learn it on his own!

Even though it's so excessive, it shows how powerful he is!

"In that case, let him do whatever he wants." Sarutobi Hiruzen said after thinking for a while.

As if he could stop it if he wanted to.

Anyway, let me blow it first.

Jiraiya didn't bother to answer, but nodded and said, "I just came to say hello. I'm leaving now."

"Let's go, let's go. I'm annoyed just looking at you." Sarutobi Hiruzen waved his hand 2.9 and said with a look of disgust.

Just like that, Jiraiya said goodbye to his relatives and friends around him... and even to Diarmait, then left Konoha in a very casual manner, embarking on his own journey of collecting folk songs as a writer and searching for the child of destiny.

Diarmuid, on the other hand, was still above Sarutobi Hiruzen's head, feeling the power of nature and striving to truly master the Sage Mode as soon as possible.

That day, he asked Orochimaru to give him another bite to make the power of the curse more powerful. I, Didi, will no longer be a human being.

But Orochimaru still refused.

It's not that Orochimaru wants to hold Diarmuid back, but it simply doesn't make any sense.

In Orochimaru's words, this curse seal is nothing more than a key to help Diarmait unlock natural energy and open the door to the Sage Mode and the power of Sage Arts.

Now, the door has been successfully opened, but you haven't walked in yet.

At this point, it no longer matters whether there is a curse or not.

It's like if you have another key, you can't open one door into two doors! ?

One reason.

So at this point, Diarmuid still had to slowly study and experience the rest on his own.

Therefore, Diarmuid had no choice but to follow the 'orthodox' model of cultivating his mind through magical powers. He calmed his mind, sat cross-legged, and concentrated his thoughts, sensing the 'call' of nature, experiencing nature, integrating into nature, and mastering its power!

Chapter 531 Immortal Arts and Eight Gates of Dunjia.

“Hu…” Diarmait slowly exhaled and opened his eyes.

What caught his eye was the scenery of Konoha, but he had no interest in seeing it.

Instead, he looked down at his wrist, and sure enough, the cursed magatama mark on it had dissipated a lot.

When the curse seal completely dissipates, the 'key' that Orochimaru left on his wrist will completely disappear.

At that time, he would either have to ask Orochimaru for another blow, or he would have to rely on himself to "open the door".

However, judging by the current situation, Diarmait felt that he should be able to "open the door" by himself, without having to ask Orochimaru for another blow, which would be somewhat embarrassing, and Diarmait also had to save face.

As for the mastery of magic, or natural energy, Diarmait has gained some experience so far.

According to his own estimation, there are two types of people who want to fully master and learn the Sage Mode, and it is extremely difficult.

The first type is relatively normal ordinary people, like Jiraiya.

Learning Sage Mode will be difficult.

Even if he couldn't perfectly master the Sage Mode, his body would undergo a certain "frog transformation" when using the Sage Technique, and even if he wanted to condense the power of the Sage Technique and increase his endurance, he would need the assistance of two great Sages. Fukasaku and Shima were there to assist him.

The second type is people like Uzumaki Naruto, Senju Hashirama, and Diarmuid.

It's because their physique is very strong, their physical quality is extraordinary, and their vitality is strong, so the 'total amount' of natural energy they harmonize with is far greater than that of ordinary people, which is why it seems difficult.

This difficulty is not a difficulty in steps, but a difficulty in process.

For example, for Jiraiya, if the ratio he needs to blend is one, then he only needs to spend one time. Compared with Jiraiya, Diarmuid may need to blend one hundred. In this case, if there is no shortcut, he will have to spend a hundred times more time to complete this process.

As for shortcuts, there definitely are, but these 12 methods should all be found in the three holy places. Perhaps toad oil or something like that is itself a kind of "shortcut" material.

With Diarmait, he didn't have to think about it, there was no shortcut.

As for Hashirama Senju, Diarmait didn't know how long it took him to truly harmonize the balance between natural energy and physical energy to form a perfect Sage Mode, but if there was no help from the Wet Bone Forest, Diarmait believed that it would also be a very long process.

In comparison, people like Minato Namikaze are relatively "special".

In terms of talent, he is better than Jiraiya, but much worse than his son Uzumaki Naruto, Senju Hashirama, and Diarmait.

Neither a poor student nor a top student.

Therefore, he should be able to learn Sage Mode much faster than Jiraiya, and also much faster than Diarmait and others.

It can still achieve perfection.

The only regret is that the time he can maintain Sage Mode is naturally much shorter than that of Diarmuid and others.

Standing up from the portrait of the Third Hokage, Diarmait took off the pipe hanging on his waist. He didn't even need to light anything with an open flame. He just took a casual puff, and the tobacco in the pipe actually combusted on its own.

Obviously, this is an extremely skillful use of fire-attribute chakra.

As far as the eye can see, there is a guy in green tights, running around Konoha upside down. It is obvious that at this stage, the only one who can do this in Konoha is Might Guy.

"The Eight Gates Technique...?" Diarmuid murmured softly.

Although Might Guy used the Eight Gates Ninjutsu and opened up to the seventh gate, he was able to defeat the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist Village, who were considered to be the "most powerful" group.

But in fact, at this stage in Konoha, the Eight Gates Ninjutsu is still not taken seriously, at least on the surface.

In other words, this technique is not suitable for large-scale promotion.

The developer of this technique is unknown. It took Might Guy twenty years to master this technique and he passed it on to his son Might Guy.

This is what Diarmait now knows.

But in fact, what he didn't know was that this technique was found by the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, from some ninjutsu scrolls that had been passed down from generation to generation in the Senju family since ancient times.

However, when he found it, the technique was already in a fragmented state and incomplete. He roughly estimated that this technique should be very powerful.

But he is not very proficient in physical skills, so he did not learn it.

Out of love for the technique and consideration for the future of Konoha.

Senju Tobirama decided to find a master of physical skills to study and complete this technique.

The person he chose was naturally Matt Dai.

Might Dai is also a child from a commoner family, and he himself does not have much talent. It is true that he is a master of physical skills, but the reason why he became a master of physical skills is not because he loved physical skills at the beginning, but because as a commoner at the beginning, he had no other choice but to use physical skills.

Of course, his love for physical skills was indeed unmatched at that time. Senju Tobirama also noticed this and chose him.

Originally, Might Day didn't have much valuable stuff in his hands, but suddenly, the leader of the Senju family, the Hokage of Konoha, solemnly handed him the fragment of the Eight Gates Ninjutsu. Although it was only a fragment, for the commoner Might Day, it was the most precious thing he could get his hands on.

So, since then, Might Guy has spent twenty years studying this technique, and successfully completed the Eight Gates of Ninjutsu to the seventh gate. As for the eighth gate, he can only study it theoretically and has not really gotten involved in it, or in other words, he has not been able to fully master it, otherwise none of the Seven would be able to escape.

If he had not died in this war to protect his children, perhaps with Might Dai's talent and age, he would have been able to thoroughly research the eighth gate before Might Guy grew up.

Unfortunately, he still died. Fortunately, Might Guy had mastered the theoretical outlines of the first seven doors. Later, he successfully developed the eighth door.

Even after Might Dai's death, Konoha hadn't completely ignored the technique. The Third Hokage had solemnly included the Eight Gates of Ninjutsu in the Book of Sealing. Well, only seven of them were included.

The Eight Gates Ninjutsu never really spread, and the reason was not, as Diarmuid had guessed, that it was neglected and not taken seriously.

In fact, on the one hand, this is because it requires specialization for more than ten to twenty years before one can truly reach the state of opening the "Eight Gates". It is a technique that is easy to learn but difficult to master.

And it does require talent, not just anyone can learn it. Might Guy and Might Dai, and even Rock Lee who came after them, all seemed to have no talent, especially Rock Lee, who couldn't even use other ninjutsu. But in fact, their talent was just not obvious, and they all maxed out their taijutsu.

Secondly, the Eight Gates Ninjutsu is a technique that requires perseverance. It is not impossible to change to it halfway, but it is indeed difficult to complete it.

Finally, this technique is so powerful that it can easily get out of control.

This is also the real reason.

What is the purpose of promoting this technique? Naturally, it is because the people in power in Konoha have a strategic new power in their hands, which can play an important role at a critical moment, just like the tailed beasts.

So the question is, even the tailed beasts must be forcibly controlled to be considered strategic weapons, otherwise they will be a disaster.

So what about the Eight Gates?

How does one control it? Is it Danzo's cursed seal technique, the "Tongue of Eradication"?

I'm afraid that when I open six or seven gates, all the spells cast on my body by others will be forcibly destroyed, right?

Therefore, the Eight Gates Ninjutsu lacks strong control, so it is impossible to promote it on a large scale. That would lead to a situation where 'everyone is like a dragon', with a large number of individuals possessing extremely powerful powers, which is not a good thing for the village.

He dislikes you, is dissatisfied with a certain village management method, or has been treated unfairly inadvertently, and then he will try his best to kick you. Can you stop him?