Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 90 The Principle of Explosive Tags

They ate and drank their fill.

Li Yao lay on the sofa chair, suddenly becoming quiet, staring blankly at the white clouds in the distant sky.

Sometime later, Li Yao fell asleep.

This was the first time he had fallen asleep without having shadow clones watching over him.

Li Yao, asleep, had a calm expression on his face, as if he were carefree and had no desires.

Having suddenly arrived in this world, Li Yao was bewildered.

Before he could even adapt to this new world, he was subjected to the kind of perverse torture he had only ever seen in some twisted movies and TV shows in his previous life.

His mind had actually collapsed countless times, but he was able to maintain his self-awareness only because of the special nature of his consciousness.

The current silence is perhaps a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder.

night.

The bright moon rises high.

When Li Yao woke up, the expression on his face, which had been as still as a dead man's, began to show signs of life, and he seemed to be in good spirits.

He got up and sat down at the dining table, where he took out all his current belongings and placed them on the table.

There are seven soldier pills left, three sealing scrolls, and twenty explosive tags, which were obtained from the two Konoha ninjas who guarded the homes of nobles.

That's all the money he has. Not much.

However, they are all useful items.

There are three sealing scrolls: one seals the heads of three generations of daughters, one seals four roast chickens, and the other seals twenty bowls of eel rice.

Soldier's rations, an essential item for escape.

Detonation tag... Li Yao picked up a detonation tag and carefully sensed it. He had always been curious about the principle of detonation tags, and now he finally had time to sit down and study it properly.

"The paper is the same as the paper used for the sealing scroll; they should all be the same type of paper, both possessing the ability to store and stabilize chakra."

Although the black spell patterns on them are all different, their structures are similar, or even the same.

They are all in the same format as a simplified sun drawing.

The black spell patterns in the middle form a circle, inside which are written the characters "Explode" or "Seal". Then, several black spell patterns shoot out from the circle like rays of sunlight.

The specific sealing techniques may vary, but they all follow this format.

From this perspective, the explosive tag can also be seen as a sealing scroll that seals "explosion," a kind of explosive... bomb?

No, no, no, it shouldn't be a real bomb, but rather a kind of explosive ninjutsu.

I seem to recall an episode in the anime where Shikamaru took out a sealing scroll with the character for "water" written on it. After unsealing it, water was released from the scroll.

That probably doesn't mean sealing real water into the scroll, but rather sealing a water-style ninjutsu into the scroll. Releasing the sealing scroll is equivalent to releasing a water-style ninjutsu.

"Let's see if this is the case?"

With a thought, Li Yao condensed the "Explosion" chakra copied from the explosive tag.

"It's Fire Release chakra."

In the instant it coalesced, Li Yao sensed that the "Explosion" ninjutsu chakra sealed within the explosive tag was simply fire-attribute chakra and did not possess an explosive effect.

Therefore, the "explosion" seal only seals fire-attribute chakra.

Li Yao continued to sense the black magical patterns on the detonating tag.

"The explosion of the explosive tag is not because it seals a fire-style ninjutsu that can explode, but because the sealed fire-style chakra is transformed into an explosive ninjutsu through the black jutsu pattern of the explosive tag."

Li Yao had a guess in his mind.

He infused a little chakra into the explosive tag in his hand, and instantly felt a connection between himself and the explosive tag. He could make the chakra in the explosive tag flow at any time.

"So that's how the explosive tags are detonated."

Li Yao smiled, having already guessed the principle behind the detonation of the explosive tag.

He casually tossed the explosive tag ten meters into the air, and then, with a thought, the chakra within the black runes on the explosive tag began to flow, the character "爆" (explode) lit up, and the explosive tag was instantly ignited like gunpowder.

"bump!"

The aerial detonation talisman exploded into a ball of fire, creating a gust of hot wind that blew towards Li Yao, blowing his long black hair wildly.

"The power is not bad."

Li Yao nodded. In the Naruto world, most strong people don't have strong physical defenses. If an explosive tag is detonated close to them, it's common for them to lose a leg or arm.

Obito had one of his hands blown off by Konan's explosive tags.

Tsunade's younger brother is even jokingly referred to by Naruto fans as the only ninja in the ninja world to be killed by an explosive tag.

Li Yao waved his hand to disperse the smoke and dust brought by the hot air, and then picked up a detonation tag from the table.

This time, Li Yao was certain that the black jutsu patterns on the explosive tags functioned similarly to the hand seals used by ninjas when performing ninjutsu.

Ninjas transform their normal chakra into ninjutsu chakra of a specific nature by forming hand seals in a specific sequence, thereby releasing specific ninjutsu.

The explosive tag uses black patterns to allow fire-attribute chakra to flow within the fire-attribute black jutsu patterns, transforming it into fire-style ninjutsu chakra, thus releasing an explosive fire-style ninjutsu.

To put it simply, the black hand seals on the explosive tags are the process of forming hand seals. Chakra flows through them, transforming its nature, and finally forming the corresponding ninjutsu chakra to release the ninjutsu.

The same applies to sealed scrolls used to store physical objects.

Li Yao put down the explosive tag, picked up the storage sealing scroll, and after inputting chakra, the sealing formula on the storage sealing scroll lit up. Normal chakra flowed within it and transformed into a nature-change chakra, ultimately forming a ninjutsu.

Bang... After a puff of smoke, four roast chickens wrapped in lotus leaves appeared.

Li Yao inputted chakra again, activating the black seal on the scroll to convert chakra nature and release the corresponding ninjutsu, resealing the roast chicken.

The principle is the same as that of the explosive tags. Both involve chakra flowing and transforming through black jutsu patterns, giving the chakra a change in nature, forming a ninjutsu chakra that can put physical objects into a sealed space.

Extending this further, it seems that various sealing techniques are also similar.

No, that's not right either... Li Yao suddenly thought of the Vajra Lockdown and his black iron chains.

His black iron chains... well, wait a minute.

Li Yao suddenly frowned and thought about it carefully, then smiled knowingly.

"The principle remains the same."

With a thought, black iron chains and Vajra Locks shot out from Li Yao's left and right shoulders.

Upon closer inspection, the black iron chains and the Vajra Lock are actually ninjutsu chakra states formed after chakra is activated and transformed through black jutsu patterns.

Thinking about it carefully, the sealing technique that the Third Hokage and Danzo placed on him was always in an active state, which is the ninjutsu chakra state.

Therefore, the sealing chakra he copied already possessed the effects of sealing techniques.

The chakra within the explosive tag is merely normal fire-attribute chakra, without the flow of black jutsu patterns to form complete fire-style ninjutsu chakra. Therefore, what he replicated and condensed was simply the normal fire-attribute chakra left by others on the explosive tag.

If he could replicate and condense the Fire Release ninjutsu chakra activated by the explosive tag, he should be able to possess a Fire Release ninjutsu chakra that can explode.

Thinking of this, Li Yao walked to the edge of the platform and was about to activate the explosive tag in his hand by inputting chakra, but fortunately he managed to hold back in the end.

"That was close!"

Li Yao felt a cold sweat break out on his brow. His physical defenses were also weak. If the explosive tags in his hand detonated, he might become the second ninja to be killed by them after Nawaki.

With a thought, Li Yao put on the full set of black iron feather robes.

With the Black Iron Feather Robe, there's no need to worry about the explosive tags in your hands exploding.

"bump!"

Li Yao detonated the explosive tag. As the flames subsided, the black iron feather armor protecting his hands meant that the explosive force of the tag caused him no harm whatsoever.

At this moment, Li Yao paid no attention to the explosion. With close-range perception, he clearly sensed the fire-style ninjutsu chakra transformed through the black jutsu pattern the instant the explosive tag detonated.

Li Yao stretched out his right hand, and with a thought, copied and condensed the chakra of the fire-style ninjutsu that exploded from the explosive tag.

A ball of orange-red chakra formed in Li Yao's palm; it was the chakra from the Fire Release ninjutsu activated by the explosive tag.

However... Li Yao had a thought, and the fireball in his hand did not explode.

Li Yao frowned and thought for a moment, then glanced at the explosive tags on the table and had a guess in his mind.

The explosive tag is probably a ninjutsu similar to the Super Beast Imitation Drawing, which requires a carrier to achieve the final ninjutsu effect.

Condensing the fire-style ninjutsu chakra on the explosive tag is useless; you need chakra paper as a carrier to unleash an explosion like the explosive tag.

"Then...does the ninjutsu chakra on the storage seal scroll also need a carrier?"

Li Yao thought for a moment, then turned around and sat down, picking up another sealing scroll and opening it.

(End of this chapter)