Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 174 Spatial Nodes

After a satisfying meal, it's time to sleep.

This time I'm really going to sleep, nothing else.

We boarded a giant clay bird and flew to a height of 5,000 meters above the ground.

It's more reassuring to sleep high in the sky; who knows if Bai Jue is hiding below watching him on the ground?

"Uncle...how...did my mother die?"

While holding Li Yao to the side, Xiao Yezi suddenly asked about her mother's death.

When Xiao Yezi met Li Yao three years ago, she didn't ask him anything; at that time, she didn't have the courage to bring up her mother's death.

Now that she has a relationship with Li Yao and has someone to rely on, she can finally face her mother's death.

"She was sealed by the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique."

As Li Yao spoke, he raised his hand, and the chakra at his fingertips condensed into the unique black ink of the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique. He could feel the same spatial aura as the Black Water Space. The Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique is also a kind of spatial sealing technique.

When the ink from the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique released by the married woman Ayase dripped onto Li Yao's face, he copied the chakra of the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique.

He can now also use the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Chakra.

However, a vessel is needed to perform the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique.

This carrier is like a spatial node, which can seal all the things sealed by the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique into this spatial node.

Theoretically speaking, neither Takama nor the married woman Ayase died, but it was practically the same as if they were.

Because the coordinates of the married woman Ayase were also sealed inside the spatial node, even if Li Yao could open the node space and break the Four Symbols Sealing Technique, he still wouldn't be able to find the spatial node that sealed Gui Ma and the married woman Ayase.

Little Leaf, who has been studying the sealing techniques of the Uzumaki clan obtained from the inheritance base for the past three years, clearly understands this point as well.

A slight gloom settled over her, and she fell silent.

Li Yao patted Xiao Yezi's shoulder, giving her hope, and said, "Any sealing technique can be broken. As long as you can thoroughly study the Inner Four Symbols Seal, you will definitely find a way to rescue your mother."

"Really?" Xiao Yezi propped herself up, looking heavily at Li Yao. In the moonlight, her eyes were especially bright, as if she had grasped something called hope, and her whole body became full of vitality.

"Really." Li Yao nodded.

Both are sealing techniques that result in mutual destruction, but the Reaper Death Seal is even more advanced than the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique. However, Orochimaru exploited a bug to pull the Naruto F4 out of the Shinigami's stomach.

The same applies to the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique; there must be a way to find the spatial node coordinates of the seal, break the seal, and rescue Gui Mo.

"Uncle, quickly bring out the sealing scroll explaining the Four Symbols Sealing Technique! I need to learn it! I need to rescue my mother!"

Upon receiving Li Yao's affirmative answer, Xiao Yezi instantly became enthusiastic, wanting to continue studying the sealing techniques of the Uzumaki clan even late at night.

Li Yao pulled Xiao Yezi down, "Go to sleep, we'll study it tomorrow, listen to me."

It's so cold to sleep alone at night. You finally have a beautiful woman you can trust, wouldn't you be a fool not to cuddle with her?

"Okay, hehe." Seeing Li Yao's affection for her, Xiao Yezi obediently hugged Li Yao tightly. For her, Li Yao's needs were still more important.

As for Mom... I'm sorry, Mom, I'll definitely get up early tomorrow to save you.

The next morning.

Xiao Yezi got up very early, but not to study the Four Symbols Sealing Technique; instead, she was studying the physiological reactions caused by early rising in humans.

Li Yao was actually alright and didn't think that way. It was mainly because Xiao Yezi had gotten a taste for it and came up to him on her own.

It took them an hour to finally land from the air.

"Give."

Li Yao took out a scroll from the Blackwater Space and tossed it to Xiao Yezi. It contained information about the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique.

The Inner Four Symbols Seal belongs to the same category of sealing techniques as the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams Seal Techniques. The basic incantations are basically the same, and the only difference is the combination method.

Once you thoroughly understand the generation logic of these basic incantations, Xiao Yezi might be able to unleash the sealing spell that unlocks the spatial nodes of the Four Symbols Sealing Technique.

Xiao Yezi took the scroll and began to read it. While reading, she used her paper magic to conjure paper and experimented with combinations of basic incantations on it.

Li Yao wasn't idle either. After taking off his clothes, he created three shadow clones and had them inscribe a devouring seal array on his body.

Li Yaoying's clone and Xiao Yezi hadn't been waiting idly for Li Yao for the past three years; they had successfully transferred the Devouring Sealing Array inscription onto a human body.

Black runes condensed on Li Yao's body, like a tattoo, but different from a tattoo. The runes seemed to have merged with Li Yao's flesh, making it impossible to distinguish whether they were runes or black flesh.

Before long, the Devouring Seal Array was completed.

With a thought, Li Yao channeled one-third of his chakra into the Devouring Sealing Array for storage.

"It's huge; it can at least hold the entire Nine-Tails' chakra."

The Devouring Seal Array created a special chakra space within Li Yao's body, similar to the dantian space, but much larger.

Li Yao's dantian space is now quite large, capable of storing several thousand "calories" of chakra.

The chakra space of the Devouring Sealing Array can store hundreds of thousands or even millions of chakras without feeling much pressure.

"With this, I'll never have to worry about not having enough chakra again."

Li Yao smiled slightly, then conjured a traditional Chinese ink painting-style recliner and lay down, focusing on refining the spiritual chakra within his body.

The other three shadow clones were not dispelled.

A shadow clone refines genjutsu chakra, making it more illusory, harder to detect, and more difficult to resist.

Li Yao always felt that powerful illusions were truly unsolvable, so he would not give up on developing illusions.

A shadow clone extracts storage chakra, which is also known as black water space chakra.

After copying the chakra into the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique, Li Yao saw the possibility of giving the Black Water Space the ability to devour everything like a black hole.

He wanted to set the spatial nodes of the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique as the Black Water Space, and use the sealing method of the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Technique to devour all matter and seal it into the Black Water Space.

If this is possible, the Blackwater Space must be large enough to contain and devour anything that comes from the seal, and it must also be sturdy enough to withstand chakra attacks from those who enter.

Therefore, it is necessary to increase the nature strength of the Black Water Space Chakra.

The last shadow clone first condensed into an ink-wash flying bird, and then incorporated the chakra of the Four Symbols Sealing Technique into it.

Li Yao wanted to use ink-wash flying birds instead of people as carriers of spatial nodes to perform the Four Symbols Sealing Technique, turning the ink-wash flying birds into a black hole bomb that, once detonated, could devour all matter within a ten-meter radius of the seal.

Once developed, combined with his terrifying chakra reserves, Madara and Hashirama would both perish in the northwest without the enemy's knowledge.

This is the trump card.

Li Yao wouldn't detonate it easily; he would simply let his shadow clones develop it quietly. With his current chakra perception and sealing technique knowledge, it was quite possible that he could develop a new spatial node carrier to replace the human body.

The three shadow clones each performed their duties and worked hard to improve their strength.

Li Yao's main focus is on developing the Perfect Transformation Technique.

(End of this chapter)