Chapter 434: The Seal is Broken
Yomi stepped into the seal. Facing the gate formed by two giant Yin and Yang tomoe, he revealed an excited smile.
"My long-awaited Lord Mōryō!" Yomi chanted a spell, the unsealing words he had found in an ancient book.
As he broke the priestess's seal, the gate was forcefully shattered from the other side by a huge force. Countless streams of black energy rushed out wildly, and a consciousness arrived at the gate.
Yomi knelt on one knee. "Welcome back, Lord Mōryō."
The voice from behind the gate asked, "And you are?"
"I am Yomi. Many years ago, I had the honor of borrowing your power, my Lord."
"...Where is my vessel? Without a vessel, I cannot remain in your world for long."
"Please use my body!" Yomi cut open his own chest and abdomen. His body was empty inside; there was no heart, liver, spleen, or lungs, only an evil power of the same origin as Mōryō.
The voice from the other side of the seal laughed. "Very good. I accept your gift!"
"Stop!" Ino yanked hard on the donkey-cart's reins.
The poor donkey rushed forward two steps, slammed its head into a wall, and knocked itself out.
Ino ignored the donkey. She looked at the priestess Shion. "Has your seal been broken? I feel something that doesn't belong to the natural world has entered this world."
Are you the priestess, or am I the priestess?
Shion was speechless. This ninja from Konoha was so mystical. "I feel something that doesn't belong to the natural world has entered this world," you say. Who do you think you are? If you stand here and shout, do you think the natural world will answer you?
Ino looked at Naruto and Sasuke. "Don't you two feel anything?"
Sasuke's face was pale. He got off the donkey-cart, his legs weak. "I just feel dizzy, nothing else."
Naruto was so dizzy that his eyes were spinning. "Me too..."
Ashura and Indra have no reaction? There were too many people around, so it was not convenient to use knockout drops on Naruto. Ino wanted to ask her "big bro" for his opinion, but the timing was not right.
Fortunately, her "connections" were extensive. Ashura was not available, but she still had other channels.
She summoned a clone of the Slug Sage.
As soon as the small slug arrived, she asked anxiously, "Sage, do you feel anything?"
The small slug looked around. "If I'm not mistaken... the seal has been broken. There is the aura of Mōryō, a very large amount of it, entering our world."
All five great nations had legends of Mōryō. If this thing came over completely, it could indeed cause devastating erosion to the ninja world. Ino, who had once turned the Mist Village into a dead land with her "Underworld Path," had a lot to say on this matter.
Ino sent the Slug Sage away. The donkey-cart was gone, so the few of them could only quicken their pace and rush over on foot.
Taruho carried Shion on his back, and the few of them traveled quickly through the wilderness of the Land of Swamps.
In a valley, they stopped.
On the horizon, they first saw points of cold light, the sharpness of spears and halberds. Then came the sound of heavy footsteps, neat and uniform. Demon soldiers, like terracotta warriors, wearing helmets and armor, formed an infantry phalanx and marched from a distance.
Ino and the others jumped to the treetops to look. They saw an endless stream of demon soldiers in black helmets and armor coming out of the depths of the Land of Swamps.
"Mōryō has definitely broken the seal! His army will destroy the entire world." Shion was horrified. This was the situation she had wanted to avoid the most.
The demon soldiers, who looked like terracotta warriors, all turned their heads and looked in her direction.
Ino took Shion and moved a hundred meters to the left and right, and found that the soldiers' gazes were still fixed on them.
"These guys can lock onto your position. How are they locking onto you?" Ino looked Shion up and down. This priestess seemed like an ordinary person to her; there was nothing unusual in her perception.
"Could it be by the smell of your feet?" She looked at Shion's feet.
You should at least wear some shoes. Going around barefoot every day is really not proper.
Shion was a little annoyed. What's wrong with me being barefoot? Does it bother you?
Ino assigned tasks. "How about this: Naruto, you guys take Shion and run to a deserted place, lead these messy soldiers away, and I'll go to the depths of the Land of Swamps to seal that Mōryō."
Ino quickly made her judgment.
Shion disagreed. "You can't possibly seal Mōryō."
"I'm very good at sealing jutsu. I can even seal a Tailed Beast. I can't seal a Mōryō?" Ino felt that this priestess was underestimating her abilities.
She was indeed very good at sealing jutsu. The Four Symbols, Five Elements, Eight Trigrams, and a large number of the Uzumaki clan's sealing jutsu, she knew them all, and she could even innovate on the original basis. She didn't think her sealing jutsu was worse than the priestess clan's.
Shion's tone was firm. "Impossible. Only the priestess clan's sealing jutsu can seal Mōryō. This is a technique our ancestors obtained from a sage. It is a power in my bloodline. You... you can't do it."
She said it with such conviction that Ino began to have some doubts. A sage? Which sage are you talking about?
Could it be the Sage of Six Paths? She immediately became hesitant.
In the era of the Sage of Six Paths, there was no such thing as ninjutsu, genjutsu, or sealing jutsu. This little priestess was probably just bluffing, or had she been bluffed by her ancestors?
However, she had mentioned bloodline. Ino was not sure if her sealing jutsu could surpass the priestess clan's. The world of Naruto placed too much importance on bloodline.
The demon soldiers were locked onto Shion. Now, to take Shion into the sealing ground, the difficulty had increased a bit.
"I'll use the Transformation Jutsu to lure them away!" Naruto used a Transformation Jutsu and turned into Shion's appearance. He jumped and danced in front of the demon soldiers, but the terracotta-warrior-like demon soldiers completely ignored him.
"The Transformation Jutsu doesn't work. Let's just kill our way in." Sasuke's method was still so simple and brainless.
Ino pursed her lips. An ant can bite an elephant to death. If tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers charge over, even the Wood Golem can't hold on for long. With just you Team 7? It's useless even if Naruto creates ten thousand shadow clones.
"I'll do it. I'll lure these enemies away!" The young attendant with the eboshi hat and black-rimmed glasses, Taruho, stood up.
In the bewildered eyes of Naruto and Sasuke, the young attendant quickly formed hand seals.
"Secret Jutsu: Shadow Mirror Body Change Technique!"
His body began to shrink, his figure became slender, his black hair turned beige, and his chest bulged slightly. In two seconds, he had transformed from a young man into a beautiful young girl.
"Hey? What's with that expression?" Sakura was very puzzled. Isn't it just a Transformation Jutsu? What's the big deal?
Sasuke looked at the young attendant with his Sharingan. He felt a great shock and was too surprised to speak.
Ino coughed twice. Seeing that Sakura didn't understand, she explained, "Can't you see? This is a secret jutsu, not a Transformation Jutsu. His transformation... is a change from the inside out, a permanent one."
Sakura was stunned. A change from the inside out? What does that mean?
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