Ice Soul Seal!!!

"Bastard!!! I'll kill you! I won't be satisfied until I've crushed you to dust! Roar! The great flying dragon Christina is angry! I'll destroy everything I see!!!!" With a flap of both wings, Christina flew over to Issui. She opened her mouth, and a massive torrent poured out, its raging waves surging forward and sweeping him away.

The force of the enormous torrent left Issui unable to react at all. Swept along by the water, his body slammed into one enormous tree after another, knocking down dozens before finally coming to a stop against a huge rock.

Issui felt as though this body was no longer his own. Every bone in his body felt as if it were about to break. If he hadn't regularly trained in Taijutsu, his body would probably have been crippled by now. All he wanted was to lie motionless against the rock. It wasn't that he didn't want to move; he'd lost even the ability to move his body...

"Pfft..."

As Issui lay there, he coughed up a large amount of blood. This must be the worst injury I've suffered since coming to the Hokage world. Maybe I'll die in a little while. I'm sorry, Hinata and Little Haku Haku. Goodbye. I'm such an unlucky guy. Why did I have to provoke this gigantic female dragon? Damn it, I'm actually going to be killed by my own summoned beast. I must be the ninja with the most humiliating death in the Hokage world. Even people who died strange deaths-choking on food, scalding themselves to death drinking water, dying of exhaustion in bed, drowning in the bath, getting hit and killed while walking... I've outdone them all. Who can top me? I've gotten myself killed. This is pure suicide.

Christina flew over to Issui and looked at his pitiful state: half-dead and half-alive, neither living nor dead, with life worse than death and death worse than life. She felt immensely satisfied. She picked up the little bug with one claw and swallowed him whole. Human flesh tastes much sweeter than the flesh of the monsters in the abyss. It's not often I get to visit the surface, so I'll catch a few more things for a feast. Once I've digested that little bug, I'll have to return to the abyss. I'd better enjoy myself while I can.

Gradually, Issui woke from his stupor. My injuries still hurt. Am I dead already? What a pitiful protagonist I am. I finally got hit by a car and transmigrated to the Hokage world, and now I'm going to die before I've enjoyed any happiness at all? The only thing worth remembering is that I slept in the same bed as Hinata, but we didn't do anything. The only time I touched a woman's breasts, she was a girl who hadn't even grown up yet. What an utterly miserable life. Maybe this is my fate. Just like Neji said, some people's lives are destined from the start.

No, that's not right. I still have to kiss little Hinata, have a few children with her, and grow old together, supporting each other. And there's Haku. I can't die like this. I can't. They're all still waiting for me.

But... but... can I do it? Maybe I should just give up. Being a man is exhausting. Maybe everything will be fine once I'm dead. I won't have to scheme against others and myself every day, or keep working hard at cultivation, only to kick the bucket in the end anyway.

No, that's not right. How can there be a rainbow without wind and rain? Isn't there a song called "Sunshine Always Comes Amid Wind and Rain"? Only after weathering storms can you see a rainbow. That's what life is. A life without setbacks isn't perfect; it's incomplete.

Wrong, that's wrong. A life with setbacks is ridiculous. After transmigrating, you should get all the beauties in the world and enjoy having them all, summon clouds with a turn of your hand and rain with another. All the beauties should be yours, all the ugly women someone else's. Your subordinates should all be powerful, your opponents weak. You should have whatever you want. You should be the incarnation of God, with everyone's fate in your hands, their life or death decided by a single thought...

No, that's not what I want. I just want to live a good life with three or five women I love, working at sunrise and resting at sunset each day, with happy children and grandchildren at home and plenty of fish and rice to eat. Then, if I'm capable of it, I'll go conquer the world, unite the entire ninja world, change its current state, and let it exist filled with emotion. After that, I'll enjoy the pleasures of childhood with my wives in the fields, watch the sunrise among the mountain peaks, and admire the sunset by the sea...

Ha ha, what an utterly boring idea. Is that all you aspire to? You should have a loli in your left hand, a married woman in your right, a mature beauty on your left leg, a fairy on your right, a * beneath you and a witch on top of you, surrounded by beauties everywhere, making merry every day and bedding several women in a single day...

No, I'm not a stud. Who thinks like that? Sure, I've fantasized about it before, but I can't do that every day. Even if I were the Jade Emperor, my kidneys would give out...

Tch, think about it. That's what a transmigrator's life should be. What the hell are those ideas of yours...

"Smack..."

Issui struggled to slap himself with one hand. At a time like this, I'm still fantasizing about these imaginary things. I actually had those thoughts? I never realized it before, but it turns out I want to be a stud too. Tch, forget it. Living a good life is enough. To hell with being a stud, I don't want that. Things are already great. I have little Hinata and Little Haku Haku, and that's already very comfortable. A few more and wouldn't a world war break out? I don't want a life like that.

Speaking of which, where am I now? Right, I remember that female dragon seemed to swallow me at the end. Am I in her stomach? How can I get out?

How about copying Naruto and using the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to burst her stomach? Damn, that won't work at all. This female dragon is incredibly sturdy; she's no rookie like Orochimaru's summoned snake. Forget it. I shouldn't waste my strength.

Right, I almost forgot about a powerful and overpowered bloodline Secret Technique, the Ice Soul Seal. It has a one-in-ten chance of success.

Now that I'm in this female dragon's stomach, I can use it as much as I want until it succeeds. I just hope I'm lucky enough.

The Soul Seal Technique was a Secret Technique Issui had comprehended upon awakening the third stage. It drew a person's soul out of their body and branded it with the user's own soul mark. A branded soul would obey the user's commands completely. Even after death, the soul would remain in the sealer's hands. But this forbidden technique had one major flaw: if the person didn't willingly accept the soul seal, the chance of success was only one in ten. It was entirely a matter of luck.

Although the technique was described as being used on a person, that didn't mean it could only be used on people. Any living creature with a soul could be targeted. In fact, the chance of success was somewhat higher with beasts, since they didn't have the complex thoughts humans did.

"Eye of Heaven-Frost, dragon-tiger-snake-dog, Secret Technique-Ice Soul Seal!!!"

When he completed the final hand seal, a silvery shadow dragon appeared before Issui. Snowflakes emerged from his body in waves and flew toward the white dragon, but in the end they all dissipated. This proved that Issui's Secret Technique hadn't succeeded. It had failed.

"Roar! You... what... what the hell is that?" Outside, Christina was enjoying her food when she suddenly felt as though her soul had been drawn out for a time. Something terrifying had nearly been branded onto it. It was too frightening. Could it be...

"Tch, one more time. Dragon-tiger-snake-dog, Secret Technique-Ice Soul Seal!!!" Issui said dejectedly, forced to form the hand seals again. He didn't know how many times his body could use it in its current condition, though. He had too many injuries. He would do his best. If he succeeded in sealing her, he'd have it good. He could have the white dragon heal his injuries, and he'd gain a free fighter as well. This time, the little white dragon Christina was going to miscalculate again.

After he completed the final hand seal, the shadowy white dragon appeared again, its dragon face full of terror. Waves of snowflakes emerged from Issui once more and flew toward the white dragon, but it failed again. Relief instantly filled the shadowy white dragon's face.

"Ah, please, could you stop trying to seal me? It was all my fault. Christina won't dare do it again..." When Christina's soul returned to her body once more, she looked utterly terrified, as though she'd encountered a great calamity. She hadn't expected Issui, as he was now, to have comprehended the forbidden technique Ice Soul Seal. It gave the user complete control over a soul: if the user wanted you to live, you lived; if the user wanted you to die, you died. Even death wasn't the end. Your soul would remain in the user's hands, never to be reincarnated!!!

In truth, this kind of Eye of Heaven could only randomly gain one Secret Technique with each advancement. But because of the power of Issui's transmigrated soul, he mastered all the Secret Techniques and forbidden techniques of each stage whenever he advanced. In the Frost stage, the chance of randomly obtaining the Ice Soul Seal was only one in ten thousand. Yet because of the peculiarity of Issui's soul, he comprehended them all. Come to think of it, if the Eye of Heaven were as formidable as Issui's, Heaven Village would probably be on par with the Five Great Nations by now, or even stronger. But the original Eye of Heaven could only comprehend one Secret Technique at each stage, a far cry from Issui's.

"Tch, now you know you were wrong? That won't do. I'm going to seal you no matter what. Dragon-tiger-snake-dog, Secret Technique-Ice Soul Seal!!!" Issui ignored Christina's pleas and carried on.

Unfortunately, it failed again...

"Again! Dragon-tiger-snake-dog, Secret Technique-Ice Soul Seal!!!" Issui formed the hand seals once more.

Another failure...

"Ha ha, go on, keep showing off. I almost forgot: that technique only has a one-in-ten chance of success. Looks like your luck is really bad. I doubt your body can take many more attempts either. Your chance of success is slim, especially against a flying dragon with a powerful soul like mine." Christina got over her fear. When she thought of the soul seal's failure rate, success was practically impossible...

"I don't believe it. I'll concentrate this time. Again! Dragon-tiger-snake-dog, Secret Technique-Ice Soul Seal!!!" Issui could only grit his teeth and try again.

This time, things changed slightly. The snowflakes that emerged from Issui's body all drifted down onto the shadowy white dragon, and this time they didn't disappear.

The snowflakes that had landed on the white dragon's shadow emitted a silvery-white light in an instant. The seal had succeeded. Issui felt the figure of a white dragon on his soul. That white dragon was Christina, and she was prostrate at his feet, trembling.

"Ha ha, it worked! Little Nana, let your master out, quick. And heal the injuries on my body while you're at it," Issui said with a laugh from inside the white dragon.