Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 149 Basic Incantations

Li Yao stepped forward, reached out and gently touched the barrier of the secret chamber, without rashly rushing in.

There is resistance... but not much.

With a little force, it can be penetrated.

But Li Yao didn't know what the consequences would be, so he dared not act rashly.

Who would dare to ignore the secret trap set by the Vortex Clan?

If the trap were a suicidal sealing technique like the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique used by Danzo before his death, Li Yao wouldn't be confident of escaping.

"Give it a try."

Li Yao instantly sensed the change in the nature of the barrier technique chakra, and then replicated the exact same pale gold barrier technique chakra.

Whether it succeeds or not depends on this.

Li Yao covered his entire body with the pale golden chakra he had created through replication.

"Hey, it worked!"

A slight smile instantly appeared on Li Yao's lips. After his entire body was covered with the same barrier chakra, his hand touching the pale golden barrier of the secret room could no longer feel any resistance.

"It seems that this kind of fixed barrier is different from the barrier that needs to be maintained by people. As long as the same barrier chakra is gathered, it is safe to pass through the barrier without triggering other pre-set traps."

Li Yao walked in naturally, gaining a deeper understanding of barrier techniques.

"That's great, Lord Li Yao is a member of our clan."

Unable to sense the pale golden chakra covering Li Yao, Gui Mo only saw Li Yao pass through the unique vortex barrier technique safely, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

She had only just realized that the opened inheritance chamber was equipped with a unique vortex barrier.

This is a special bloodline barrier technique that can only be passed by people of the Uzumaki clan.

Li Yao's ability to pass demonstrates that he possesses the bloodline of the Whirlpool Clan.

In this way, she wouldn't have to change her mind.

"Uncle, I've seen this. This is the basic sealing technique knowledge you're looking for. It explains the origins of many basic sealing techniques."

Xiao Yezi skipped over and grabbed a scroll about half an arm's length from the wall. Li Yao's eyes lit up when he heard about the basic sealing techniques. He took the scroll from Xiao Yezi and immediately sat down on the ground, eagerly opening it to read.

Upon seeing this, Li Yao became completely immersed in the ocean of knowledge about sealing techniques.

Seeing that Li Yao was watching intently, Gui Mo raised her hand to beckon her daughter over so as not to disturb him.

The mother and daughter went to the wall, took down the scrolls for Li Yao, and tidied them up one by one.

They had seen Li Yao's Blackwater Space before and knew it was a magical ninjutsu similar to a storage scroll, which could directly store the scrolls here.

The room wasn't large, and although there were many scrolls on the wall, there were only so many. Before long, the mother and daughter had taken down all the scrolls from the wall and organized them.

At this moment, Li Yao's face showed a complex expression of sudden realization, excitement, and contemplation, clearly still immersed in the ocean of knowledge about basic sealing techniques.

"I see!"

"The patterns on the sealing techniques are called incantations, and the basic incantations are actually a form of writing that embodies the laws of heaven and earth!"

Li Yao was amazed. This book of basic sealing techniques had opened the door to sealing techniques for him and unveiled the mystery of sealing techniques.

The black runes of the sealing technique are actually a kind of incantation.

These incantations were not created by humans, but were extracted from natural energy and then given a specific form using Yin and Yang chakra, thus forming incantations.

All sealing techniques are developed from various basic incantations derived from natural energy.

Few ninjas can sense natural energy.

On the contrary, the spirit beasts of the three holy lands are very good at sensing natural energy, and the earliest knowledge of sealing techniques came from the three holy lands.

"In that case, the reason why the Sage of Six Paths and his brother were able to seal Kaguya Otsutsuki is that they learned the relevant sealing techniques at Mount Myōboku, and then, in conjunction with the Rinnegan, they developed the Chibaku Tensei to seal Kaguya Otsutsuki."

Li Yao secretly made a guess.

As you continue reading, you'll learn that the Uzumaki clan highly regards the sealing techniques of Mount Myōboku, stating that the toad clan of Mount Myōboku possesses the most powerful sealing techniques.

However, the Uzumaki clan possesses the strongest sealing techniques in the ninja world.

The Uzumaki clan has a very special physique; they are probably the clan most capable of sensing natural energy among all ninja clans.

Because of this, the Uzumaki clan's ninjas, who can sense natural energy, use Yin-Yang Chakra to continuously perceive and analyze the basic incantations of various sealing techniques from natural energy, thus creating many powerful sealing techniques.

This is also why the Uzumaki clan's sealing techniques were ahead of the rest of the ninja world.

This is also why the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed.

So, how do these basic incantations derived from natural energy form sealing techniques?

The book states that natural energy encompasses the universe and nature, and that by applying the principle of Yin and Yang chakra that gives rise to all things, special incantations can be extracted from natural energy.

These special incantations, when infused with chakra, generate a unique energy that contains a portion of the rules governing natural processes.

For example, heat, space, wind, hardness, etc., are somewhat like the various rules, big and small, in the world of cultivation.

The essence of sealing techniques is to combine these special incantations in a specific order to form a process similar to hand seals for releasing ninjutsu. After being infused with personal will, it forms a sealing technique with special rules and abilities.

Similar to the principles of some bloodline limits, fire and earth merge to form Lava Release, and fire and water merge to form Boil Release.

Various basic incantations containing fundamental rules, when combined in a certain way, form a stable incantation loop. When infused with a certain will, they will form a complete sealing technique.

Take the explosive talisman as an example. The incantation on it contains three basic incantations: fire, wind, and earth. After being combined in a certain order, they form a stable incantation loop.

At this point, the spell loop is not yet a complete explosive tag, and inputting chakra will not cause it to explode.

A stable spell loop is like assembling a juicer with various parts, but whether you want to make apple juice, vegetable juice, or even fatty meat juice, you still need to put the corresponding ingredients into the juicer.

For a stable spell loop to become an explosive tag, the word "explode" needs to be clearly written in the loop, just like putting an apple into a juicer and extracting apple juice.

Write the character "爆" (explode) into a stable spell circuit, and after inputting chakra, the explosive tag will explode instead of potentially burning into flames or turning into a breeze.

Sealing techniques are basically composed of stable incantation loops and words infused with specific will.

For example, the sealing scroll that seals water-style techniques will have the character "water" or "seal" on it.

The Five Elements Seal will also contain the five characters "metal, wood, water, fire, earth".

This text doesn't necessarily have to be a specific character; it could also be a pattern. For example, the Bagua seal isn't a specific character, but rather a vortex-like pattern.

The words and images don't matter. The key is to inject specific will into a stable incantation circuit, so that the energy produced by the incantation circuit becomes the sealing energy you need.

Seeing this, Li Yao understood why he had been unable to successfully inscribe the Devouring Seal Array on his body.

It's because the circuit of the incantation he inscribed was unstable.

How can we stabilize the circuit of the Devouring Sealing Array inscribed on his body?

The simplest way is to sense natural energy. By using natural energy, you can clearly sense where the inscribed incantation path is not smooth or good, and then correct it.

This is the simplest, and also the most difficult.

Because Li Yao cannot sense natural energy.

Very few members of the Uzumaki clan can sense natural energy; there may only be one or two people in each generation, and sometimes not even several generations.

This shows that there are really not many people in the ninja world who can sense natural energy.

Aside from sensing the stability of the spell circuit through natural energy, all that remains is to learn basic sealing techniques, understand the properties of various basic spells, and their opposing and mutually supportive relationships.

Some basic spells are mutually exclusive, some reinforce each other, and some only reinforce a certain basic spell.

(End of this chapter)