Actually, Mizuki doesn't like ramen very much. It's not about whether it tastes good or not, but because ramen is too similar to instant cup noodles. Mizuki used to feel like vomiting after eating instant noodles, so he has a psychological trauma about it. If he is not really hungry, he usually won't think of eating ramen.
Four people squeezed on a bench at Ichiraku Ramen to eat ramen, which was not a happy thing, especially Mizuki who was sitting next to Naruto. The soup splashed all over him when Naruto sucked the noodles. It was not a good feeling. Naruto's generous way of eating was really ugly.
Looking at the pile of empty bowls next to Naruto, Mizuki finally understood why Uzumaki Naruto's physical strength was always so amazing. His appetite alone was not something that ordinary people could match.
Mizuki wiped the soup that splashed onto his face with his hand, and then said to Naruto, "I originally thought that Naruto-kun was trained by Ebisu, but I didn't expect that it was Jiraiya-sama who taught him personally. You are really lucky."
"Eh? Could it be that the lecherous sage is some extraordinary person?" Naruto continued to shout without restraint.
Jiraiya, who was standing by, heard Naruto calling him a lecherous sage in front of outsiders, and corrected him with dissatisfaction: "I've said it many times, it's Jiraiya, the Toad Sage of Myoboku Mountain, not some lecherous sage~"
"It's almost the same, don't bother about it. He's obviously a lecherous immortal." Naruto said indifferently.
"Naruto-kun, Lord Jiraiya is a great man who taught the Fourth Hokage. There are countless Konoha ninjas who want his guidance." Seeing that Naruto didn't care, Mizuki also revealed some information.
"Really? Is the Lecherous Sage so strong? Although I know he is much stronger than Sensei Ebisu, but, does that mean he is a better ninja than Sensei Kakashi?" Naruto still didn't quite trust Jiraiya, who had a bad image.
"You know now, kid." Jiraiya was so arrogant that his nose was about to rise to the sky, "The Toad Sage is not just a name for nothing!"
Naruto drank up the last bit of soup in the bowl of noodle soup like a whirlwind, put the bowl down, pointed at Zina and said, "Since you are so powerful, then teach me some powerful ninjutsu quickly. Stop dilly-dallying and peeping at me every day. I will come to find you tomorrow morning, don't run away, you lecherous immortal." After saying that, Naruto, who was full, ran home and went to sleep.
"You haven't even paid yet, and you've eaten so much. You're really impatient." Looking at Naruto going away, Jiraiya couldn't help but complain, then he turned to Mizuki and said, "So, Mizuki, what do you want from me?"
"I really can't hide it from you, Lord Jiraiya." Although meeting Naruto and Jiraiya was a coincidence, Mizuki also wanted to take this opportunity to find out some information that only Jiraiya, the only known person who can use the Sage Mode, might know.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
"It's about the Sage Mode." Mizuki said.
"Sage Mode?" Jiraiya was surprised to hear this word, "It seems that you are not an ordinary ninja. Not everyone can know this."
"There are no real secrets in the ninja world. As long as you want to know, there will always be a way."
"Hmm." Jiraiya didn't delve into it further, "No matter where you heard about the Sage Mode, it's not something you can access right now."
"I know, Lord Jiraiya. To learn the Sage Mode, first of all, I cannot meet the requirement of a huge amount of chakra." Mizuki agreed with Jiraiya's statement. With Mizuki's current level, if he forcibly touched the Sage Mode, he would either turn into stone or become a madman.
"It seems that you know much more than I thought." Since it is not a momentary impulse, I believe he will not make any excessive demands.
"As far as Lord Jiraiya knows, how many people in the world can use Sage Mode?" Mizuki asked curiously.
"Huh?" Mizuki was not asking about training, which surprised Jiraiya. "As far as I know, I am the only one who has mastered it. Orochimaru also seemed to have tried it before, but it seems he did not succeed."
"So little?" Shuimu asked himself.
"That's not the case." Jiraiya explained, "Sage Mode itself is an extremely dangerous ninjutsu. Without the assistance of a summoned beast, it can't even sense natural energy. Eh? You know natural energy, right?"
Mizuki nodded. "If Jiraiya-sama is the only human who can do it with the help of the summoned beasts, then why is there more than one Sage in the recorded summoned beast tribes? Whether in terms of numbers or high-end combat power, there shouldn't be so few humans who can do Sage Mode."
Hearing Mizuki's question, Jiraiya thought for a while and said, "I can't answer you this. Although I don't know where you got this information, I think the induction of natural energy should be the key." Without the toad oil, Jiraiya's fairy technique would be out of the question. Without Jūgo's bloodline limit flowing out of the Ryuchi Cave, there would be no Orochimaru's curse seal, and naturally there would be no snake fairy technique of Kabuto Yakushi.
"Logically, although the natural energy absorbed by different senjutsu may be slightly different, as part of the same ninja world, even spirit beasts can do it, so why can't humans, who are the spirits of all things, do it?"
"How would I know?" Jiraiya was not interested in something that required too much reasoning. "Maybe the ninja world doesn't like humans, haha~"
"The Ninja World doesn't like humans?" Mizuki muttered to himself. Maybe it was just a joke from Jiraiya, but it was not impossible. If you think about it based on this premise, some things can actually make sense.
"Is the key to this the sacred tree?"
It is certain that the sacred tree is the seed of foreign invasion for the ninja world, but in the original work, Uchiha Madara said that the sacred tree was worshipped as a god by humans. If this is also true, then the matter is serious.
A bold guess is: the sacred tree was the beginning of foreign invasion, and humans who believed in the sacred tree as a god unknowingly became accomplices. In this world where supernatural powers are manifested, the tremendous power generated by the spiritual beliefs of all mankind directly turned into nutrients for the growth of the sacred tree, contributing to the birth of the fruit of the sacred tree.
If this is just speculation, then there is another piece of evidence, which is the nine tailed beasts. As the essence of the sacred tree that has been stripped of the Outer Path Demon Statue, the nine tailed beasts are immortal. As a collection of human negative will, even if they are destroyed, they will be reborn in another place after a few years. If Mizuki's assumption is correct, the tailed beasts are part of the collective will of all mankind. Unless humans perish, the tailed beasts will not be destroyed.
"The spirit of all things? What a joke. After all this time, in the eyes of the world, we humans are nothing but traitors."
No wonder in Mizuki's experiment some time ago, the clone of Uchiha Sasuke, infused with cursed chakra, felt like a natural enemy. If there are spirits in the world, they would not like humans at all.
Seeing Mizuki lost in thought, Jiraiya said, "Speaking of sages, humans are not without them. Wasn't it the Sage of Six Paths who separated yin and yang and the five elements and established the order of the ninja world?"
"Six Paths Sage? That's right." Shuimu agreed perfunctorily.
"The Six Paths Sage, the hero of the ninja world, is he the first child of destiny, the first generation savior? He caught the thief Kaguya Otsutsuki, intercepted the sacred tree that symbolized the murder weapon and stolen goods, and cleaned up the mess of the world. No wonder, in addition to the descendants of traitors, there are also a small number of people who are descendants of meritorious service! Ashura, Indra, Senju and Uchiha, Uzumaki and Hyuga, they are destined to be the families favored by the world. Only the ninja village they established is the world hegemon, and only those related to them can barely learn the Sage Mode. It's not that others don't work hard enough or are not talented enough, but their bloodline is not pure enough. "