Chapter 197: Unsealing the Six Pillars
During the Sengoku Period, Ninja Clans were numerous.
Among them, the Uchiha were a very unpopular group, known as the madman Ninja clan.
They fought fiercely and held deep grudges.
Of course, the most hated Ninja clan was actually the Kaguya Clan, which was Kimimaro's Family.
They were originally in the Land of Fire and had a decent relationship with the Hyuga Clan.
However, for commissions, they desperately took on missions and were known as the mad dogs of the battlefield.
Even the Uchiha couldn't stand them.
Those guys would charge in and start biting immediately; if they didn't have weapons, they would use their bones as weapons.
While fighting, bones would suddenly sprout from the opponent and pierce you. They had a high incidence of Bloodline Disease, and everyone on the battlefield just wanted to have a pure, thrilling fight before they died.
You fight to stay alive or improve your quality of life, but they might be doing it purely for the thrill.
How do you fight that?
The Uchiha could trade injuries for lives and never backed down from anyone.
The Kaguya Clan, on the other hand, sought to trade their lives for injuries; if you flinched, you died.
Later, the Senju and Uchiha really couldn't take it anymore, so they took the lead in uniting with the Sarutobi, Ino–Shika–Chō, Hagoromo Clan, and other Ninja clans to drive the Kaguya Clan out.
By the seaside, they were heavily beaten again by the Uzumaki Clan and the pursuing Senju and Uchiha Clans.
Finally, they were forced to go to the Land of Water and play island raiders with several Ninja clans there.
How could those families in the Land of Water, who had been isolated for so long, have seen such mad dogs?
After taking a beating, they had to say thank you for not killing them and allowed the Kaguya Clan to enjoy noble status in the Land of Water, just like several other great families.
At this moment, Naruto was near the former site of the Kaguya Clan.
There was a river channel nearby connected to an underground river; Uchiha Hikari's sealing location was right here.
That's what it said on the scroll given by the Third Hokage.
Back then, Ninjas from the Senju Clan feigned a retreat to this place, and then thirty Ninjas from the Sarutobi Clan worked together to use the Sealing Technique: Grand Three-Directional Seal to control her.
They wore her down for several days but couldn't kill her, so they helplessly joined forces to use a Sealing Technique to completely Seal her away.
It sounds like a myth.
Naruto saw two points from the scroll.
Thirty Sarutobi Ninjas joined forces to perform a Three-Directional Seal and fought for several days without killing her.
This meant that Uchiha Hikari was very strong.
If she could keep Susanoo active for several days, it also meant her ocular power was ridiculously strong.
If she held out for several days without using Susanoo, that would be even more impressive.
Naruto felt there might be some exaggeration in this, and quite a bit of it.
Also, Sealing Jutsu were really quite sinister.
Dozens of Ninjas surrounding her, and in the end, they couldn't kill her and had to resort to Sealing Jutsu.
The key point was that Sealing Jutsu were indeed reliable.
After entering the underground river, the environment suddenly became dim, damp, and cold. The river water gurgled not far below his feet, making hollow echoes.
The air circulation was poor, carrying the smell of earth and minerals.
Relying on his powerful perception, Naruto didn't spend much time.
He quickly locked onto an exceptionally conspicuous giant rock.
This rock was dark gray all over, with a strange shape and a protruding top; overall, it looked a bit like a thumb, standing lonely on a relatively flat beach on one side of the underground river.
Except for the somewhat abrupt 'Thumb Stone' itself being relatively intact, almost everything as far as the eye could see was 'pitted and scarred' from battle, as if this place had been repeatedly plowed by countless Ninjutsu.
Although these traces had gone through long years and were eroded by water and moisture, they could still be clearly identified as left by fierce combat.
The power of time had failed to completely erase these marks, allowing one to imagine the brutality and persistence of that encirclement battle years ago.
Naruto walked to the 'Thumb Stone,' reached out, and gently touched the cold, rough stone surface.
He could feel extremely weak but exceptionally ancient and resilient Sealing Technique fluctuations faintly coming from inside and beneath the rock.
Unlike the violent battle traces around it, the sealing power here was like roots buried deep underground; though silent, it still maintained a complete structure.
"This is the place."
Naruto whispered, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.
The core of the Seal of Uchiha Hikari, who had been sealed for over a hundred years, was beneath this strange stone, or rather, the stone itself was part of the Seal.
Naruto held his breath and focused, pushing his Chakra perception to the limit, carefully 'reading' the ancient Sealing Technique formulas contained within the 'Thumb Stone' and the surrounding ground.
Soon, his brow relaxed.
"So it's a composite Sealing Technique Formation..."
Naruto muttered to himself, a look of realization flashing in his eyes.
The so-called composite Sealing Technique Formation was not a brand new, unknown powerful single technique, but rather a combination, nesting, and superposition of multiple known, relatively basic powerful Sealing Jutsu according to specific positions, sequences, and energy circuits.
It was like using multiple different locks and chains to bind something layer by layer.
At this moment, Naruto recognized every Sealing Technique formula used in this composite sealing Formation he'saw,' and understood its core principles and the keys to breaking it.
"This makes it simple."
A confident curve hooked at the corner of Naruto's mouth.
The most direct and effective way to deal with this 'jigsaw' type composite Seal was not to forcibly impact the entire Formation, but to find its core energy nodes and technique connection points to perform precise 'disassembly' and 'diversion.'
Without hesitation, Naruto took a deep breath and focused his mind.
"Kurama Mode: On!"
A golden Chakra cloak instantly covered his body, slit pupils appeared, and powerful Chakra fluctuations spread out with him as the center, shaking the surrounding rock walls and causing some dust to fall.
Immediately after, he clapped his hands together heavily in front of his chest.
"Wood Release: Six Pillars Unsealing Formation!"
Along with his low shout and the frantic infusion of Chakra, the ground shook violently.
Six giant wooden pillars, as thick as utility poles, deep brown in color, and engraved with complex Wood Release runes on their surfaces, broke through the rock and soil and rose from the ground.
They stood precisely on the six key nodes of the composite sealing Formation that Naruto had perceived.
As the wooden pillars formed, a soft green light began to glow at the tops, the light flowing down the pillars and creating a strange resonance with the ancient Sealing Technique formulas beneath the ground.
"Release!"
Naruto kept his hands clasped, his mind highly concentrated, controlling the six wooden pillars to begin their 'work.'
The six wooden pillars seemed to transform into six efficient'sealing formula absorbers' and 'energy diverters.'
The ancient sealing runes scattered underground, in the rock walls, and even integrated into the rock itself, began to slowly 'break' and 'peel off' from their original positions like peeling wall paint, under Naruto's precise Chakra guidance and the attraction of the wooden pillars!
But these broken rune energies did not dissipate; instead, they turned into streams of golden, blue, or black energy, like guided streams, converging towards the nearest wooden pillar, then quickly climbing up along the patterns on the pillar's surface, and finally being branded onto it.
In just a few moments, the surfaces of the six originally deep brown wooden pillars were covered with dense sealing runes flashing with various faint lights.
As these basic runes that made up the composite Seal were forcibly absorbed, peeled off, and transferred by the wooden pillars, the structure of the originally indestructible ancient sealing Formation, which had been running for untold years, began to rapidly disintegrate and fail.
Chakra circuits broke, binding force fields dissipated, and isolation barriers collapsed... "Crack... crack-crack..."
A series of subtle but clear cracking sounds rang out, seemingly from deep underground.
It wasn't the rock cracking, but the 'concept' of the Seal itself snapping.
When the last key binding rune was also completely absorbed by the wooden pillars.
"Hum..."
Light flared brightly.
The grand composite sealing Formation that had imprisoned and sealed Uchiha Hikari for long years was completely undone under Naruto's precise and efficient 'disassembly.'
The Thumb Stone slowly shattered.
A black-haired young girl stood up unsteadily.
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