Flying Thunder God Stage Two is a self-created technique that Minato Namikaze improved, inspired by Sealing Technique.
It incorporates Sealing Technique into the original Flying Thunder God, allowing the Flying Thunder God formula to be carved onto certain objects in a way that prevents it from disappearing or being removed.
For example, if he carves it onto your stomach, it will never wash off, and you will always have a coordinate existing there.
If you're not careful, Minato Namikaze could follow that formula and flash over to slit your throat. Of course, this is just a hypothetical scenario.
If it's carved onto your arm, you could just cut off your arm... There's another method: fighting fire with fire, using Sealing Technique to counter it. If you seal the Stage Two formula, you won't have to worry about some sneaky person teleporting in front of you in the middle of the night to slit your throat.
After all, Sealing Technique is a panacea; it can even seal memories, let alone a mere coordinate...
Uchiha Nagi was examining a three-pronged Kunai. Although this one was carved with the formula, it was the one from the future, the one Minato used to seal the Dragon Vein.
Due to the passage of over a decade, a small part of the formula on it had been damaged, so there was no need to worry about Minato flying over through it.
However, the formula used to seal the Dragon Vein was still intact. Uchiha Nagi continuously analyzed and deciphered the formula with his Mangekyo, but it was a bit slow.
His Sharingan was very fast at copying Ninjutsu when he saw someone perform it in person; he might copy it in just one or two attempts. But conversely, for something carved onto a Kunai like this, he had to analyze and dissect it himself after copying, so it was a bit slow.
He stopped copying after reaching a certain point, just like no matter how many books you read, it's not as good as having an experienced master teach you hands-on for a few days.
"I'll still wait for the Yellow Flash to release his Sealing Technique..." Uchiha Nagi sighed, putting the Kunai into his pouch.
He wondered if Minato Namikaze would be too worried about him acting like a sneaky person to slit his throat, and thus wouldn't dare to use his Flying Thunder God Kunai anymore, haha...
At night, Uchiha Nagi, Kimimaro, and Yukihime stayed in a civilian house. The owner of the house hadn't been there for a long time, as a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the floor. Yukihime was happily cleaning with Kimimaro, armed with rags.
To her, everything was so new. Leaving the Daimyo Palace, traveling in the desert, and even time-traveling to Rouran Country over a decade ago. Cooking her own food and cleaning her own space were things she couldn't have imagined before.
As a princess of a Daimyo, a useless person who had everything handed to her, it wasn't that she didn't want to move, but various rules and regulations prevented her. So, after escaping the Daimyo Palace, she completely let go of herself.
Watching Yukihime, who had gotten herself completely covered in black, Uchiha Nagi said speechlessly, "If you don't know how to clean, let Kimimaro do it. You're just making it dirtier..."
Yukihime shook her head like a rattle drum, "No, I want to do it myself. I'm not the Daimyo's princess now, I'm just Yukihime."
After saying that, she enthusiastically started cleaning again... Uchiha Nagi shook his head and ignored her, sitting at the table to read. This book was a Buddhist scripture from the Ninshu Sect that Yukihime had written from memory. Uchiha Nagi couldn't see any difference between the scriptures in it and ordinary Buddhist texts.
However, the fact that Yukihime, through years of reading, had accidentally cultivated that state of becoming one with nature, meant that the scripture was correct.
It was only that the reader couldn't comprehend it... However, Uchiha Nagi had a good mindset and wasn't in a hurry. There were still many years until Black Zetsu saved his mother. Was it when Naruto was eighteen years old? In his own timeline, Sasuke was still an eight or nine-year-old child, and it would be several years until he graduated from the Ninja Academy.
Moreover, just prevent Obito from collecting the Rinnegan, or simply destroy the Rinnegan. Without it, he couldn't activate Six Paths Mode, and even less could he use Infinite Tsukuyomi to save Kaguya.
After a while, Yukihime and Kimimaro finally finished cleaning. They wiped their hands and came over to Uchiha Nagi.
Yukihime asked curiously, "By the way, during the daytime celebration, there were so many people, but why does it seem like everyone is hiding at night??"
Uchiha Nagi said indifferently, "Because of Chakra. Those with stronger bodies were captured by Mukade and secretly turned into human puppets. Those without value as materials were thrown into the factory to do manual labor..."
"Most of the people you saw at the celebration during the day were puppets. In reality, they had already died; it was just Chakra threads, invisible to ordinary people, controlling their movements..."
Hiss—
Kimimaro and Yukihime both gasped. They saw so many people in the city during the day, but they were all fakes?
"Then... didn't the people here notice? The Ninja and guards here..." Yukihime stammered.
"It's likely that the guards and Ninja here were already dealt with by Mukade..." Uchiha Nagi said.
"Teacher, if he can control so many people, why does he still hide and conceal himself...?" Kimimaro asked another question.
"Perhaps he's wary of Hidden Sand Village. If Mukade suddenly destroyed the entire Rouran Country, Hidden Sand Village would surely go crazy..."
Uchiha Nagi smiled, "Living as a rat underground for too long, he can't stand the sunlight. Even if he obtains the Dragon Vein, he's still not confident enough in his own strength. This is because he knows his weaknesses better. As long as the Dragon Vein is cut off, he's like a rootless weed, blown away by the wind..."
Mukade wants to be king and dominate? Dream on. Without the Dragon Vein, he's just a Jonin. And from various signs, he's created some kind of Wi-Fi-like device that can draw energy from the Dragon Vein and transmit it to his body.
But in reality? Once the Dragon Vein is cut, he's finished. That's why he could clearly overthrow the small country of Rouran but didn't dare to act. He even used a large number of puppets to put on a celebration, and who knows who it was for. He even had to make Sara's death look like an accident, how speechless.
"Then, Teacher, are we going to kill Mukade tomorrow? To avenge the people here?" Kimimaro asked.
"Tomorrow, we'll see. If that Konoha squad doesn't stop us, we'll defeat Mukade and go back. As long as he can't control the Dragon Vein, the repulsion of time will automatically send us back to our own world..."
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Rouran Country is neither big nor small. To accommodate the increasing population, many tall buildings were built to reduce the ground living area. Tall buildings are not uncommon in the Ninja world; for example, the Land of Rain is full of skyscrapers... Rouran Country, however, had limited oasis area covered by the Dragon Vein, so most of the land had to be used for growing crops, which is why they built many tall buildings for residence.
Konoha's elite squad, Akimichi Choza, Shibi Aburame, and Kakashi, who had a mission, were all present tonight, gathered with Minato Namikaze. During the day, Kakashi, who was about twelve years old, went out to gather intelligence and discovered a Ninja using Wood Release, who was Yamato, having traveled through time with Naruto. He then secretly followed him.
Later, he discovered that the opponent was a Konoha Ninja, so he didn't make a fuss. After completing the mission to investigate the location of the Dragon Vein, he came to report to his teacher.
Around the bonfire, the four sat together sharing their information.
There was nothing else to eat but water and the extremely unpalatable soldier pills. When on missions outside, Ninja's food was usually this stuff.
"Is that so? You found the location of the Dragon Vein. That's good. Tomorrow we'll go defeat Mukade. Kakashi, you secretly protect Sara and see if she can find a way to cut off the Dragon Vein..."
"Understood."
After arranging everything, Minato Namikaze seemed preoccupied. He had picked up all the Flying Thunder God Kunai from the day, as they were his livelihood, and if he lost them, he couldn't fight the upcoming battle. However, Minato took a precaution: he put the Flying Thunder God Kunai in his bag, and then placed a Sealing Technique on the outside of the bag.
This way, even if Uchiha Nagi wanted to secretly fly over and slit their throats, he couldn't. The versatile Sealing Technique was that incredible.
Everyone else was asleep, and Minato was on night watch, looking at the bonfire with a heavy heart. Choza, who hadn't slept yet, sighed and walked over to comfort him.
"Minato, still thinking about what happened today? Maybe what the other party said isn't true..." Choza said, patting Minato Namikaze's shoulder.
"What the other party said isn't necessarily true. Maybe he just wants to disrupt your mind and affect your judgment..."
Minato Namikaze gave a wry smile, "Maybe, but I always feel that what he said is true, and it was obvious that he didn't seem to have any killing intent when he fought me during the day; instead, it was like he was learning something..."
"So, in the end, he said those words. Perhaps in the future, something major really happened in Konoha, and it was related to the Nine-Tailed, which led to the Uchiha clan's extermination, and that's why he hates Konoha so much..."
"However..." Minato Namikaze raised his head resolutely, "No matter how terrible things are, I will face them one by one and protect my beloved Konoha and everyone..."
More importantly, his girlfriend, because she is the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki. If something happened to the Nine-Tailed, something would naturally happen to her... If he had only heard Uchiha Nagi say that he died fighting for Konoha, he might not have been so upset. But when he heard that his beloved girlfriend died with him on the same day, he couldn't sleep at all.
Minato Namikaze's intelligence analysis was top-notch, his IQ was frighteningly high, and his talent was also very strong. He had long deduced that Naruto had a certain relationship with him. That familiar feeling, the yellow hair, plus the Nine-Tailed Chakra within him, everything was telling him that what Uchiha Nagi said might be true.
Because only if Kushina died would the Nine-Tailed be transferred to a new Jinchuriki. Although he tried not to think about whether the child named Naruto Uzumaki was his and Kushina's descendant in the future, the more he didn't want to know the truth, the more he couldn't stop his mind from racing...