Candy was fiddling with the small Gunbai that Ryou had given it; this small Gunbai really suited Candy well.
The original Gunbai was designed for humans and didn't fit Candy; it couldn't pick it up with one paw and needed two paws to lift it.
But now, Candy could pick up the small Gunbai with just one paw.
And the mechanism capable of reflecting Ninjutsu was still there.
The stronger Candy was, the stronger the Ninjutsu it could reflect.
Suddenly, Manda arrived at a cave in Ryūchi Cave. It pointed at the cave ahead with its snake tail and said, "Lord Ryou, Ichikishimahime's trial grounds are in the cave ahead."
Ryou nodded and glanced at Manda.
Although Manda was controlled by Ryou, it didn't belong to Ryou; its allegiance was to Ryūchi Cave.
Ryou had not signed a contract with Ryūchi Cave, so he couldn't summon it.
Manda could be summoned away by Orochimaru or the Snake Sages of Ryūchi Cave at any time.
Ryou could now sign an individual contract with it, which would allow him to summon Manda at any time.
Just like how Boruto signed an individual contract with Garaga in Boruto.
Contracts for a Summoned Beast holy land like Ryūchi Cave include comprehensive contracts and individual contracts.
A comprehensive contract is the ancestral contract scroll of Orochimaru's family.
As long as you sign it, you can summon all the Summoned Beasts of Ryūchi Cave; if conditions permit, you can even summon the White Snake Sage.
Then there is the individual contract; as long as you have a summoning scroll, you can sign a contract with a Summoned Beast.
Ryou said to Candy, "Candy, give me a summoning scroll; I'm going to sign Manda!"
Candy nodded; the series of scrolls that Ryou used were all made by Candy.
Among them, the summoning scroll was the most important and sold for a high price on the market.
The paper used to make summoning scrolls must be chakra paper, which is a type of paper that can only be produced by trees that feed on chakra.
A high-level summoning scroll can be sold for an astronomical price on the black market.
Candy used to be stingy when making them, as it didn't dare to use too much.
But now that it had the Great Tree of Takigakure, it could be more generous.
Because the Great Tree of Takigakure was a tree that fed on chakra, and its branches could be used to make chakra paper.
Candy could now make any scroll at will.
Space scrolls, Sealing Jutsu scrolls, summoning scrolls, Ninjutsu scrolls...
It carried the Gunbai on its back and took out a blank summoning scroll to toss to Ryou.
Ryou caught it and immediately jumped off Manda's back with Candy.
Ryou spread the summoning scroll out in front of Manda.
"..."
Manda was silent for a moment; it knew what this meant. Ryou wanted to bypass the holy land scroll of Ryūchi Cave and sign an individual contract with it.
Manda didn't want to sign; once it signed, it would truly become Ryou's slave snake.
Seeing Manda silent, blue Lightning Release currents appeared on Candy's paws. Manda had a stress reaction as soon as it saw Lightning Release.
It hurriedly dripped its blood onto the scroll.
The summoning scroll absorbed Manda's blood and returned to its previous blank appearance.
Ryou immediately bit his finger and wrote his name on the scroll...
Manda was sorrowful; it had truly become Ryou's slave now.
Ryou rolled up the summoning scroll and knocked on Manda's head with a cold smile, "Manda, from now on, you are my slave snake."
"If you dare to disobey my orders, I will skin you and make a snake-skin bag."
Manda lowered its arrogant head.
At this point, it had nothing to say and could only go through the process and just take it!
Ryou tossed Manda's summoning scroll to Candy and told it to put it away.
Ryou stroked his chin and looked at Manda.
He actually had another idea, which was to use public resources for private gain, that is, to separate Manda from the contract system of Ryūchi Cave so that Orochimaru couldn't summon it.
In the future, only Ryou could summon Manda.
As long as Manda remained within the contract system of Ryūchi Cave, it wouldn't be safe for Ryou to summon it.
He had a virginity complex; even when going to a brothel, he had to ask if the prostitute was a virgin beforehand.
Even if she wasn't, he would try to choose one who had fewer customers.
It was impossible to separate Manda from the Ryūchi Cave system, but it was possible to separate Manda from Orochimaru.
Minato had a Jutsu called Contract Seal.
This Jutsu could sever the relationship between the enemy and the Summoned Beast, making it impossible for the enemy to summon that Summoned Beast again.
In the original work, Minato used this Jutsu to strip Obito of his summoning contract with the Nine-Tails.
If Ryou possessed this Sealing Jutsu, he could break the summoning relationship between Orochimaru and Manda and use Manda for his own private gain.
Ryou looked at Candy, "Candy, do you have Contract Seal?"
Candy looked at Ryou speechlessly, "Do you think I'm an omnipotent cat? That I have everything?"
Ryou touched his head; he had really treated Candy as Doraemon.
Candy said, "My Sealing Jutsu are all very low-level seals, not even as good as the Magnet Release seal you and Shukaku have."
"If you want to seal it, then go capture Kushina!"
For Sealing Jutsu in the Shinobi World, look to Konoha; for Sealing Jutsu in Konoha, look to the Uzumaki Clan.
How strong is the Sealing Jutsu of the Uzumaki Clan?
In the original work, Killer Bee said that the Four Symbols Seal alone surpassed the Iron Armor Seal that Kumogakure had explored for generations.
Not to mention the Eight Trigrams Seal, Adamantine Sealing Chains, and the Reaper Death Seal that were above the Four Symbols Seal!
"Capture Kushina and bring her back?"
Ryou stroked his chin; currently, Kushina was the person most safely protected by the Allied Forces.
Instead of hoping to capture Kushina, it was better to hope that Snowy would steal Konoha's scroll of seals.
"Forget it, I won't think about it anymore, let's go pass the trial!"
Ryou stopped thinking about using Manda for private gain.
It really wasn't necessary to go to such trouble because of Manda.
Manda's stats were indeed those of a top-tier Summoned Beast, but at Ryou's level, he could control the opponent with just a glance.
Ryou told Manda to guard outside, and he took Candy into Ichikishimahime's cave.
As soon as Ryou and Candy entered the cave, they were shut in by a huge stone door. The stone door had many irregular indentations, and there were colorful crystals scattered on the ground.
These colorful crystals seemed to correspond to the uneven indentations on the stone door.
There was also a debuff; Ryou's chakra was being drained by this cave.
However, this draining was very slow; compared to Ryou's vast chakra, it was simply like metabolism.
Let her drain it.
Just as Ryou was looking at the crystals, Ichikishimahime's voice came from the cave.
"Trial-taker, congratulations on passing the first trial!"
Ryou was stunned; he had passed the first trial just like that? You have to know that Tagorihime had announced that they hadn't passed the first trial.
But looking at Ichikishimahime's attitude, being able to arrive at the second trial alive meant passing.
That's right, the trials of Ryūchi Cave didn't have such strict standards; they were all left to these Snake Sages to do as they pleased.
It was originally an anime creation; after Boruto signed a contract with Garaga, Garaga never appeared again.
Anime original content is just official fanfiction.
Ichikishimahime said again, "Trial-taker, I am the examiner for your second trial. I will test your wisdom."
Ryou crossed his arms, somewhat proudly, "Come on, I will let you see my unique wisdom!"
Wisdom is the enemy of the god of wisdom, and knowledge is the bait floating on the surface of the sea of ignorance.