Konoha's Destiny Twins

On August 12, Konoha 48, Shimizu and Emi returned to Konoha a full week ahead of schedule.

After the two of them went straight to the Hokage Building and handed over their tasks first, Megumi immediately returned to the Uchiha family's headquarters.

Apart from the war, this was the longest mission the little girl had ever experienced, and she missed home.

After Hui left, Qingshui naturally stayed.

"Yiyuki-kun, do you know what this is?" Orochimaru carefully observed the "hockey ball" in his hand and asked.

"have no idea."

In fact, Qingshui had vaguely guessed that the Fenghua family's secret treasure might be a broken branch left by the sacred tree. Somehow it survived in the ice and snow and has been surviving to this day. It was also knotted due to the cold environment around it. A fruit rich in ice escape chakra.

Moreover, this ice fruit of the Fenghua family can allow ordinary people to gain the power of ice to escape the blood inheritance limit. This is also similar to the chakra fruit of the sacred tree. Of course, the effects are vastly different. The former can only allow an ordinary person to advance to a chakra level of around the Jonin level. For the Land of Snow, this is a timely help, but in Qingshui's eyes, it is not enough. After seeing it, there was no need for him to expose the existence of this suspected sacred tree.

Let it stay quietly in that secret room in the Land of Snow forever.

"Okay, that's it." Orochimaru seemed to have some regrets, and then continued, "Just wait for the results in two months."

Two months? !

It’s already October!

Qing Shui then looked at the thick stacks of documents on Orochimaru's desk. There were all kinds of important things that the other party had reviewed or still needed to review. God knows how much time it would take to deal with these tedious official tasks. When these important matters were completed, How much time will be left for practice or scientific research afterwards?

From Orochimaru's brows, you can see a trace of fatigue on the other side. This village shadow is indeed not an easy job.

But no matter how hard and tiring it was, this matter still couldn't be left behind. Orochimaru had to be whipped quickly so that he wouldn't lose track of the progress of the "Corpse Bone Pulse" experiment.

"Can't it go any faster?"

"Are you in a hurry, April-kun?"

Can you do this if you are not in a hurry? If it’s really October, then the day lilies may be cold.

“Always want to get results quickly,

Otherwise, I’ll always be thinking about this…”

Orochimaru's golden vertical pupils just stared at Qing Shui.

"Yes, I'm in a hurry." Qingshui said helplessly, "So I have to trouble the Yondaime Hokage to work overtime."

"I also want to hurry up..." However, Orochimaru sighed softly, as if he was having some difficulty.

No, Orochimaru actually sighed?

Where has the usual energy gone?

"Tsunade is seriously injured."

Qing Shui was stunned.

How could Tsunade be seriously injured?

Who hurt her again?

Suddenly he recalled Jiraiya's sudden flash of chakra on his way back...

"Jiraiya is dead."

This time Qing Shui's eyes really widened, his face full of disbelief.

"impossible."

It was only Konoha 48 years, so how could something happen to Jiraiya?

"Absolutely impossible..." Qing Shui muttered to himself.

Did Tsunade not help Jiraiya?

No, since even Tsunade was seriously injured, it meant that the other party had indeed fulfilled the contract with him back then, and he was even injured because he fought side by side with Jiraiya.

Could it be that Minato didn't catch up?

You have to find Minato to find out what happened.

"It happened not long ago." Orochimaru said slowly and in a deep voice, "There are only a limited number of people in the village who know about it."

"In the end what happened?"

After Orochimaru's explanation, Qing Shui quickly understood what probably happened some time ago. Tsunade did go to the Land of Rain with Jiraiya, but Tsunade did not follow Jiraiya into the Hidden Rain Village. He was ambushed by Akatsuki in another city in the Land of Rain and was seriously injured. It was also thanks to the timely appearance of Kakashi, who was originally on a mission in the Land of Rain, that he was able to turn the corner.

But Jiraiya was not so lucky. Although Minato did rush to the rescue, it was a pity that it was too late. Because Jiraiya had stopped breathing when he arrived, and there were no suitable medical conditions at that time, Minato could only bring him to Mt. Myoboku through reverse channeling and let Toad Sage "petrify" him. .

And this "petrification" is naturally one of Miaomu Mountain's specialties. If a conventional practitioner absorbs too much natural energy, his body will gradually "frog" and eventually become completely "petrified". Jiraiya, on the other hand, skipped the process of "frog transformation" and achieved "petrification" instantly through the large amount of natural energy that Toad Sage sealed in a short period of time.

So the summary is that the Toad Sage of Mt. Myoboku preserved Jiraiya's human form by quickly "petrifying" him, and at the same time froze his life characteristics, allowing time to stop for him at this moment.

So Jiraiya is indeed dead, but in a sense he can actually be considered alive.

As long as the "petrified" state is lifted and the animal is rescued immediately, wouldn't it be possible to save it?

But when talking about the possibility of Jiraiya's resurrection, Orochimaru said with some helplessness: "Maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, or even decades later, who can guarantee it?"

"Is there nothing that Miaomu Mountain can do?"

"Not that I know of."

"You haven't either?"

"Yuyuki-kun, although I have researched on natural energy, it does not mean that I can even solve this problem." Orochimaru sighed and continued, "Even if there is really hope, then corresponding measures must be carried out. Only after research can we draw a conclusion.”

When he talked about Orochimaru's topic about natural energy, Shimizu immediately thought of Jugo. But in this 48th year of Konoha, how old is Jugo?

As for where Jugo was from, he had no clue. Even if Shimizu had asked Kakuzu to spend a lot of money to find Jugo early on, there was a high probability that he would never find him.

"So as long as there are materials that can use natural energy, that's fine, right?" Possible targets were still flashing through Qing Shui's mind.

"That's just in theory."

"But it's also a possibility." This is at least a reliable direction, and Jiraiya's situation is not completely hopeless, so Qingshui continued to ask, "What about his current life?"

"It is temporarily stored in Myoboku Mountain."

That's fine. For now, Jiraiya's stone statue is absolutely safe.

"Then let's do this for now." Qingshui was about to go to Minato for further details, but before leaving, he still reminded Orochimaru, "Don't forget the bone veins."

Orochimaru waved his hand and replied directly: "Two months."