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Chapter 231 The Sealing Techniques of the Uzumaki Clan

During this period, ninja clans or roaming ninjas with unique skills kept joining Sunagakure... The sudden appearance of so many strangers in the village made the original villagers feel a little uneasy.

However, those ninja clans or wandering ninjas who joined later felt particularly at ease.

The more this is the case, the more it proves that Sunagakure truly wants to expand its scale, rather than having ulterior motives.

Yumi Uzumaki also noticed this phenomenon and began to hesitate.

As Wochao Village was destroyed, she was summoned by the clan chief and sealed the information about the clan's sealing techniques and barrier technology in her mind.

But she didn't tell Ryuji.

In her eyes, Ryuji was just like the ninjas who destroyed Uzushio Village for their sealing techniques; they were simply after their sealing techniques, only they used different methods.

They were pretended to be taken to the city of government offices to lower their guard before they tried to get information from them or used torture to extract confessions.

But such a thing has never happened since I came to Sunagakure.

On the contrary, they... a group of women and children, often received care and help from the villagers. Gradually, the other members of the Uzumaki clan truly integrated into Sunagakure and regarded themselves as part of Sunagakure.

"Perhaps we can entrust these things to him!"

The old clan chief's parting instructions were not that the sealing and barrier techniques should not be given to others, but rather to trustworthy people who would not bring disaster to the ninja world... Ideally, this information should be used to buy space for the survivors of the Uzumaki clan to live.

And the Uzumaki clan already has a place to live...

However, if you don't make a choice, you might lose it.

Although the ninja world has not yet announced any joint action against Sunagakure, the conversations among the village's ninjas reveal the dissatisfaction and hostility towards Sunagakure and the entire ninja world.

Combined with Sunagakure's aggressive recruitment of ninja clans and construction of puppets to rapidly expand its power, even ordinary people who were completely unaware of the situation felt the impending pressure.

The shadow of war loomed over the mechanical city, and a suffocating atmosphere permeated the entire city. Yu Mei felt that she could no longer remain uninvolved.

So, she found Ryuji.

……

"Is there something you need from me?"

Long Er glanced at the woman standing in front of him and vaguely guessed her purpose.

He never believed that the Uzumaki clan's sealing techniques were all lost... or rather, he believed that the sealing techniques were lost, but that some of the Uzumaki clan survivors must know where they were lost or buried.

However, he also understood that if he tried to find something that no one in the original story ever got in the end, he would definitely get nowhere.

Moreover, since the survivors of the Uzumaki clan have already joined Sunagakure, those things will eventually become part of Sunagakure.

It's not that Sunagakure stole things from the Uzumaki clan, but that someone from the Uzumaki clan later mastered sealing techniques... As members of Sunagakure, if they mastered sealing techniques, wouldn't that mean Sunagakure possessed sealing techniques?

Sunagakure was originally a brother village.

If someone from the Uzumaki clan becomes the Kazekage in the future, that will be due to their own abilities.

Yumi Uzumaki said, "I wanted to tell you about the sealing techniques of our Uzumaki clan."

"Just as I thought."

Ryuji suddenly understood, but he kept a straight face and put on a serious expression.

The sealing techniques of the Uzumaki clan were inherited from the Sage of Six Paths, and they are of great importance to him at present. If the Uzumaki clan's seals and barriers are applied to the Mechanical City, the entire Mechanical City's defense system can be improved by at least two layers.

It may not sound like much, but considering the sheer size of the entire mechanical city and the technological foundation it has already accumulated, it is quite extravagant.

Yumi Uzumaki swallowed hard and delivered her prepared speech.

"First of all, I apologize to you for deceiving you. The sealing technique has always been kept in me in a special way. The reason I didn't give you the sealing technique at the time was because I didn't trust you, and I hope you can understand."

Long Er nodded and said, "This is only human nature, there's no need to say more, it's completely understandable."

Yumi Uzumaki breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the answer she wanted, and then continued, "I know the current situation is somewhat unfavorable for our Sunagakure."

She used the word "we".

And this is precisely proof of a sense of belonging.

"Therefore, I also hope that our Uzumaki clan can contribute our strength to Sunagakure. Our clan's sealing techniques were sealed in a special place in a way that only I know about. Only I can break those sealing techniques; any other method will only destroy what is inside."

Long Er thought about it and realized that this method was indeed more reliable. He would have done the same if he were in that situation.

This lends a degree of credibility to what Yumi Uzumaki said.

Where is that place?

"In the Land of Whirlpools, in a long-abandoned ruin, I can only pinpoint its exact location once I get there."

After hearing what she said, Ryuji stood up: "There's no time to lose, let's set off for the Land of Whirlpools immediately."

As Ryuji followed Yumi Uzumaki to the ancient ruins of the Land of Whirlpools, other ninja villages gradually accelerated their actions.

The Sand Village began to aggressively recruit ninja forces from outside, which made them feel a sense of urgency.

In order to speed up the construction of their own Sky City, the village reduced the number of missions they were assigned to, and had the ninjas also participate in the construction.

For a time, the ninja world seemed to have entered an arms race, with all the major ninja villages embarking on a vigorous construction boom.

The war that follows will be unlike any other form of warfare.

As a large number of artisans were conscripted, even the lives of ordinary people were gradually affected, and the atmosphere of war, which was originally unrelated to ordinary people, began to weigh on them.

Meanwhile, the daimyo who supported their respective ninja villages also felt the pressure.

Although it was just a war between ninjas, the cooperative relationship between the nation and the ninja village meant that they would also be affected.

If their own ninja village is defeated, they will lose their defense capabilities and will be at a disadvantage when attacked by other countries... Even worse, the victor might send their own ninja village to participate in the attack.

If the situation were to develop to that point, these daimyo would become stepping stones for other countries.

Therefore, even after a long period of war that led to economic hardship, no daimyo was stingy with a single penny and contributed their utmost to help their own ninja villages develop.

Even the former minister and current daimyo of the Wind Kingdom, who had just taken office and didn't care about the lives of his own people, was like that.

(End of this chapter)