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Chapter 504 The Old Toad's Prophecy

"Damn it, since you all want to stop me, then I'll destroy Konoha! You have no idea what they've done! A village like that should have been destroyed long ago!"

Tsunade frowned as she looked at the enraged Uchiha Sasuke. Jiraiya was the same; although he didn't know the specifics of what had happened, he guessed it must be related to the old man.

Jiraiya stood on the toad, his hands forming hand seals, and said to Uchiha Sasuke, "I don't know what happened, but I suspect it must be the old man's fault. That guy's gotten senile. I apologize for what he did. But no matter what, I will not let you harm the people of Konoha, much less destroy Konoha."

"asshole!"

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly, and his purple Susanoo raised a giant sword.

"Behold my kaleidoscope—"

"Sage Mode - Activated! In!"

Jiraiya formed hand seals, instantly activating Perfect Sage Mode, and spat out a final pillar of fire from his mouth.

"Diamond Lock!" Golden chains surged from behind Naruto, tightly binding Susanoo's arms.

"Wood Release: Advent of the Tree World!" Countless trees surged from the ground, firmly fixing Susanoo's legs in place.

Sasuke struggled fiercely, but the combined bindings of the Adamantine Sealing Barrier and Wood Release rendered him unable to move.

"hateful……"

Just as Sasuke was about to retaliate with all his might, a figure suddenly appeared behind him. It was Uchiha Mamoru. His Mangekyou Sharingan rotated slightly, and the surrounding space froze for a fraction of a second.

A punch landed cleanly and decisively on the back of Sasuke's head. Sasuke's vision went black, and his body went limp.

Susanoo dissipated. Uchiha Mamoru grabbed Sasuke by the collar and pulled him down from mid-air.

"We caught them."

He threw the unconscious Sasuke on the ground, and Naruto's Adamantine Chains immediately bound him tightly.

After the battle ended and the crisis was averted, Jiraiya, for safety's sake, pressed the Five Elements Seal onto Sasuke's body to ensure the chakra was sealed.

At this moment, Tsunade looked at Jiraiya with shock and confusion in her eyes, and asked again, "Jiraiya... how did you come back to life?"

Jiraiya scratched his head and chuckled, "I don't know either."

But soon, he put away his smile and his expression became serious: "However, Lord Gamamaru helped me convey a very important prophecy - a prophecy concerning the life and death of the ninja world."

"prophecy?"

Jiraiya nodded, his gaze sweeping over everyone present, but his focus fell on Naruto: "The twins of destiny, endlessly suppressed by evil, have not yet had time to grow up."

"A pair of eyes born of evil, born from disaster and love, will become the only hope for life in the ninja world!"

Let's jump to a day earlier.

Mount Myoboku, the sacred land of toads.

Old Toad Pill lay on the huge leaf bed, his wrinkles more mottled than they had been a decade or so ago, his breathing so faint it was like a lamp that might go out at any moment.

"Little Jiraiya... Little Jiraiya..." he murmured in his sleep, as if he was dreaming about something again, so he instinctively began to call out the familiar name.

Gamabunta squatted beside him, pipe in mouth, his eyes red-rimmed, and whispered a reminder: "Boss Gamabunta, Jiraiya is dead."

"In the end, the talisman only revived a physical body, but his soul had long since disappeared."

"We failed! People cannot be brought back to life."

"Wake up," Bunta said in a low voice, as if he were advising an old man who refused to accept reality.

Gamamaru suddenly opened his eyes, a glimmer of clarity flashing in his cloudy eyes. "No. Look, his soul has been returned."

The surrounding toads didn't take it seriously, assuming that Toad Pill had just gone mad again.

But then they discovered that the body that had been lying on the altar for many years without a soul had actually moved!

First, my fingers bent, then my eyelids twitched, then my chest began to rise and fall, and my breathing began to return to normal.

Jiraiya forcefully opened his eyes and moved his body to sit up.

To his surprise, he discovered that this body was much younger, even having recovered to its peak condition at twenty years old, and had fully adapted to natural energy, ready to enter immortal mode at any time.

He looked down at his hands, moving his fingers, his expression shifting from bewilderment to shock.

"Boss Gamamaru, thank you for saving our lives. However, we must return to Konoha now and tell the old man that Aburame Shisei is extremely dangerous, and we must be very careful!"

Just as he was about to form a hand seal and prepare to leave by spirit communication, the giant toad sighed and stopped him.

"Jiraiya, this is common knowledge now. He died back then, and it's been more than ten years since then."

"What? More than ten years later!" Jiraiya exclaimed in surprise.

However, before he could even express his surprise, the toad boss told him a prophecy.

"Jirai didn't have time to explain much. He dreamt that the ninja world was facing a life-or-death crisis. But the future scenes were fragmented and unclear!"

"But remember, the Twins of Destiny are being suppressed by evil and have not yet grown up."

"Eyes born of evil, born from disaster and love, but ultimately they will be the only hope for survival in the ninja world!"

"What exactly happened to our boss that caused Yu Yan to change so much?"

Jiraiya wanted to ask more questions, but the next second his body was enveloped by a powerful force.

The surrounding toads simultaneously cast a summoning spell, reverse summoning, to send him away from Mount Myōboku.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already standing on the outskirts of the Forest of Death.

Just then, they bumped into Uchiha Sasuke, who had come for revenge, and what they saw next was what happened next.

-

Back in the present, Uchiha Mamoru was shocked after hearing Jiraiya's story.

Currently, the only living beings who possess the Mangekyou Sharingan are Uchiha Sasuke, himself, and the missing Uchiha Obito.

Of all the eyes, Sasuke's are more battle-oriented. Obito's eyes, though mysterious, lack the power to turn the tide of battle.

So...

Do those eyes, born with evil, refer to himself?

He raised his hand, feeling the faint power of time at his fingertips; though very weak, it was there.

These days, the power of his eyes has been increasing constantly, and this increase has no reason to come; even his vision has begun to recover.

He guessed that the power of time reshaping had begun to recover and would soon be ready for the next use, or even become stronger.

He used this power to knock Sasuke Uchiha unconscious with a single punch. However, he hasn't told anyone about this. Some things he needs to verify himself.

At that moment, he sensed a tremor in the void…