#70 - Chapter 70: The True Mystery of Combined Spiritualism
“Royal Flush!!”
“A 3!”
“Hahahaha, I win again! Pay up, pay up!”
Naruto, his face dark, took out one hundred taels from his wallet and handed them to Jiraiya.
“One hundred taels?”
“Bombs double! You said so. You threw one bomb just now, I threw two, so that's eight hundred taels in total! Cough up the money!”
“......”
The sins he created, Naruto could only swallow with broken teeth!
He never expected Jiraiya, who was playing Fight the Landlord for the first time, to be so good!
Except for losing the first game, he hadn't lost a single one after that!
In a game of two-person Fight the Landlord, Naruto had lost seven games in a row!
“My luck is bad today, I'm not playing anymore!”
Seven games of Fight the Landlord had cost Naruto almost five thousand taels!
If he didn't stop, he wouldn't be able to keep any of his remaining tens of thousands of savings!
Jiraiya also knew when to stop, and happily stuffed the money into his clothes.
“This game is good, we'll play again in the future!”
“Boss lady, check out!”
“Okay, that's a total of......”
Hearing Jiraiya's voice, the boss lady walked over with the bill, only to find that only Naruto was sitting there.
And in Jiraiya's place, there was only a frog doll left!
“That old man actually wants me to treat him after winning money!”
Naruto looked at the frog doll left by Jiraiya using the Substitution Technique, his mouth twitching. Enduring the heartache, he took out another thousand taels to pay for the drinks.
He seriously suspected that Jiraiya was extorting him in the name of cultivation!
In just one day, he had lost nearly ten thousand taels!
If he played with Jiraiya for a few more days, wouldn't he become a pauper?
Leaving the izakaya,
Naruto saw Jiraiya standing with his arms crossed, leaning against the wall of the izakaya, trying to look cool!
“Still going to cultivate?” Naruto asked expressionlessly.
Jiraiya looked at the night sky and said with a deep expression, “It's already so late, let's end today's cultivation here, but...”
“But?”
“I'm hungry.”
“......”
......
The next day, Naruto overslept.
He lay in bed without the slightest intention of getting up!
Rather than going to cultivate with Jiraiya, he would rather stay at home and binge-watch dramas!
But things didn't go as he wished. If he didn't get up, someone would come to wake him up!
“Get up, Naruto!”
Jiraiya sat by his window, eating steamed buns and drinking soy milk. “How can a young man your age sleep? Get up and come with me to cultivate!”
Naruto was silent for a few seconds, then expressionlessly got out of bed and mechanically brushed his teeth and washed his face.
Jiraiya could see the helplessness in Naruto's heart, which made him curl his lips into an imperceptible smile.
In his opinion, Naruto's strength was already strong enough, and he couldn't teach him much in this regard.
So he planned to teach Naruto something deeper—willpower and emotion!
Jiraiya believed that someone who could bring change to the future ninja world must not be a lifeless person!
He might not be noisy, he might not be extroverted, but he must be loyal and righteous, and have life ideals!
But he couldn't see these things in Naruto... Perhaps there were some, but not many.
Jiraiya could sense Naruto's lack of emotional expression, so he wanted to let Naruto come into contact with things that could stimulate people's emotions and desires more.
But Naruto was still too young after all, otherwise he could have taken Naruto to do some more interesting things.
A few minutes later, Naruto took care of everything, changed into new clothes, and looked at Jiraiya and asked, “What kind of cultivation are we going to do today?”
“Hmm... let's do some simple hand seal practice this morning.”
Jiraiya handed Naruto a breakfast and said, “Your foundation in this area is still too poor. I don't know how your Chunin teacher taught you before.”
The image of Iruka flashed in Naruto's mind,
In fact, he should have taught well, but... he never attended Iruka's class.
After eating breakfast, Jiraiya took Naruto to the bathhouse for hand seal cultivation.
Naruto practiced hand seals, while he took materials on the side. Both of them were very busy!
Thus, the morning time passed quickly,
At noon, Jiraiya treated Naruto to a barbecue worth two thousand taels. When paying, Jiraiya once again left a small frog substitute.
Naruto walked out of the barbecue restaurant with the little frog substitute and asked Jiraiya, “Where are we going later? Are we still going to the hot spring hotel?”
“No, Follow me!”
As expected of a ninja who travels around, his English is impeccable!
It's a pity that Jiraiya can't rap, otherwise he might be able to form a rap alliance with Killer Bee.
Naruto even thought of the name, it's called—the YaBee Combo!
Because YaBee... LOL...
Before long, Naruto followed Jiraiya to the waterfall where they had cultivated yesterday.
Just as Jiraiya was about to start today's cultivation, he suddenly heard the sound of girls playing!
“This voice! This voice!”
“There are pretty ladies!!”
The excited Jiraiya instantly jumped into the bushes, took out his binoculars, and transformed into a material master!
“......”
Listening to Jiraiya's occasional 'hehehe' laughter, Naruto helplessly found a more comfortable spot next to him and started watching dramas.
Rather than following Jiraiya to cultivate, he was quite happy to see Jiraiya being attracted to other things.
Because during this time, he could have some peace and quiet.
An hour later, the two young ladies left the waterfall after playing tiredly.
Only then did Jiraiya reluctantly turn around and look at Naruto, who was motionless as if in a daze.
‘This guy is really calm.’
Others can't see Xiao Ai's virtual interface, so in Jiraiya's eyes, Naruto had been sitting motionless in place for an hour!
This also gave Jiraiya a new misunderstanding of Naruto's temperament!
This young man—is terrifyingly calm!
“Then let's start cultivating now!”
Jiraiya woke up Naruto, who was still watching the drama, and called him over.
“How was the hand seal practice this morning?” Jiraiya asked.
Naruto didn't answer, but quickly repeated the hand seals that Jiraiya taught him.
“Very good, then let's continue practicing—Summoning Jutsu today!”
“Still practicing Summoning Jutsu?”
Seeing Naruto's confusion, Jiraiya explained, “Although you have already learned this ninjutsu, the true essence of Summoning Jutsu is not summoning, but summoning beasts!”
“If you want to exert the true power of this ninjutsu, you also need to establish a bond with the toads of Mount Myōboku, so that you can summon the summoning beast you want at any time!”
In simple terms, learning Summoning Jutsu means that Naruto can summon all kinds of different toads at any time, but he can't summon whoever he wants!
For example, Gamabunta was subdued by him last time. If Naruto wants to summon it this time, he can use Summoning Jutsu to transmit the summoning information to Gamabunta.
If Gamabunta has nothing to do, there is a high probability that he will accept the summoning.
But if Naruto wants to summon another toad this time, and this toad doesn't know Naruto, then it will probably reject Naruto's summoning, leading to the failure of Summoning Jutsu!
