"Fukasaku, Shima! Run! Hurry, run! Get out of here, I'll hold them off, I'll hold these monsters back!"
The Great Toad Sage roared, spinning up the vast reservoir of senjutsu chakra accumulated within his body. An immense, terrifying aura instantly surged from him; his scars vanished in the blink of an eye, and his aged body, weathered by time, began to revert to its youthful vigor under the powerful baptism of senjutsu chakra.
Life was beginning to burn away! The Great Toad Sage knew that if he wanted to alter the prophecy and change fate, a price had to be paid. His choice was to use his very life to carve out a path of escape for the toads of Mount Myoboku, reversing their doomed fate of destruction.
Chapter 39