"This is going to take a while…" Muttered Bakorio before he took a deep breath and started splitting his chakra into three parts and transforming it into wind earth and fire respectively, then he started mixing them at different ratios…

For mixing two types of chakra, he only had to go through 100 possibilities. But now, he had to go through an enormous 10000 Possibility!

He started from a ratio of 1:1:98 an it took him a whole day just to go through 100 hundred possibilities and finish with a ratio of 1:98:2. However, all of them failed… Not to mention he had to rest from time to time since his hands kept becoming a mess from the explosions he had to endure

"It seems like I'm going to spend a while here…" Muttered Bakorio with a sigh before staring at his reflection in a stream… It has already been more than three months since he entered this place. Naruto and Sasuke have probably already joined the ninja academy at this point… He felt bad for not meeting them for a long time but he decided to take care of them after he's done with the huge mess hiding behind the curtains of the darkness of the world…

"Let's take it one step at a time" Thought Bakorio before taking a rest to restore his chakra… He spent two more months, and during this time, the monkeys of this mountain started to get used to the continuous sounds of explosions…

"Now I understand why the use of Kekkei genkai isn't allowed, that was probably the biggest hint those monekys gave to pass this test… It's impossible to achieve this result through Kekkei genkai and the person must mix the elements at their base form to succeed…" muttered Bakorio with a grin on his face after reading a notification that appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations host on learning Dust chakra transformation]

"Let's test it out" Bakorio stretched his hands out and created a circular shape with them, and focused on transforming his chakra into dust (particles).

A white cube of light that had a sphere inside of it appeared in front of him, and he aimed it at a distant rock and launched it… The result was that rock transforming into nothing! This is the power of dust release, it could break the connections between atoms and transform an abject into free particles… Hence its name, dust release…

Right after this show of skill, the monkey king Enma approached Bakorio and said nervously "Please don't aim that recklessly…"

Bakorio chuckled at him and said "Don't worry, I'm just testing it out that's all"

"Yes sure, I know what happenes when you test your crazy ideas" replied Enma… They got close during these long months of interacting together, and after watching over Bakorio for this long, Enma wasn't even surprised that he succeeded… The kid in front of him was simply a monster!

"Thankfully I found the correct ratio sooner and didn't have to spend 100 days here…" said Bakorio which made Enma glare at him "People wish they could live in our sacred ground and you are saying you want to leave?"

"Who would like to live in a place filled with monkeys throwing their poop at each other?" Replied Bakorio which made Enma freeze before he yelled "They did it again! I will make sure to teach them a lesson later"

Bakorio chuckled at him before he said "So, when can I start learning sage arts"

Enma finally remembered his purpose here and said "That's right, follow me, I will take you to the peak of the sages…"

'Peak of the sages huh…' Thought Bakorio before shooting a look at the tallest peak of this mountain… This mountain had the shape of a hand, having five peaks in total, each monkey tribe lived on one of the peaks while the peak of the sage was the tallest one of them all and only sages can live there…

….

After following Enma, Bakorio found himself in front of a shrine, and surprisingly, the three statues he encountered during his previous tests were placed at each of the four corners of the shrine, and right now there was a fourth one as well that had a staff made of gems in his hands…

"The sages are waiting for you, I won't accompany you any further" Said Enma, and Bakorio nodded at him before he entered the giant shrine.

Inside of it there were Four Giant thrones and on each of them sat A sage of the monkey tribes, they were the crimson sage, the wisdom sage, the perception sage, and finally the smiling sage…

"Young man, congratulations on successfully passing the trials in record time, your talent truly leaves us old sage speechless" Spoke the wisdom sage with a friendly smile, although Bakorio noticed that not all the sages held the same level of friendliness toward him especially the one from the long-armed tribe… The smiling sage.

Bakorio clearly sensed through his Jikininki the emotions of that guy and they indicated that he couldn't wait to rip Bakorio's head off if he could…

'Interesting' he thought before he said "Well, they are tough indeed, but I was lucky and managed to pass them…"

"No, luck was in no way involved, although I appreciate your humbleness" spoke the wisdom sage once more as Bakorio frowned since he felt a weird sensation… His nature-related abilities were attracting him toward something and it seemed to be hidden under this shrine.

The wisdom sage as if noticing this spoke "Is there something that bothers you inside our shrine before we finish the assessment?"

Bakorio feeling the friendliness from this monkey decided to tell him the truth and said "not that it bothers me, I just feel like something with a very strong natural aura is around and I feel attracted to it…"

"Oh" Exclaimed the wisdom sage and the others had similar shocked expressions. After all, the only thing Bakorio could have sensed was the sky stone, but they made sure to hide it using so many formations that limited any leakage of its aura, not to mention that only those who become true sages are told of its existence so Bakorio knowing it means that he really felt attracted by it.

'What kind of affinities does this kid possesses? What a monster' thought the wisdom sage who didn't know that Bakorio had an ability called one with nature and another one called the blessing of nature which granted him a great increase in his affinity toward natural things

And the sky stone was one of the rarest natural treasures so Bakorio felt naturally attracted to it because of this.

'Could he be the kid of the prophecy that would ring down the darkness? But I already saw his future and he will surely fall for the darkness...' thought the wisdom sage, feeling confused… 'Should I really keep believing the future? The great toad sage's incident of not being able to read Bakorio's future shouldn't be taken lightly… that darkness shouldn't be taken lightly' Thought the wisdom sage before he took a deep breath and made a decision… a decision unwise unlike his name!

"You are probably attracted to the natural treasure of our species, the sky stone! It's the same thing that created the clone you had to fight in your trial of self. However, I won't let you see it unless you fully master our sage arts"

Bakorio was surprised by such a treasure existing, however the other sages were even more surprised than him as the smiling sage immediately stood up and yelled "Wisdom sage what are you doing? This is not what we agreed to"

"Indeed, this is beyond our agreement" Said the perception sage coldly, while the crimson sage watched silently… In just an instant, all masks were dropped and the sages showed their true emotions towards Bakorio who didn't care at all and was only thinking

'A natural treasure huh? maybe I can finish my meditation advancement quest with it…'