Uchiha Feiyu did not particularly believe the Third Hokage's words, but he said nothing. Instead, he opened the Book of Seals, whose seals had mostly been released, and began examining it carefully.
Yet even with the seals undone, Uchiha Feiyu could not understand the contents of the Book of Seals at all. Aside from the descriptions beneath the names of the jutsu, everything else was nothing but garbled code.
Uchiha Feiyu looked up, his face full of confusion. The Third Hokage chuckled and said casually:
"After all, ninja techniques come in all kinds of strange forms. Even the Uchiha's Sharingan can copy and memorize techniques. To be safe, all jutsu contents are written in code. You can choose the techniques you need based on their descriptions, and then I'll give you the codebook for decoding them."
Hearing this, Uchiha Feiyu nodded slightly and inwardly sighed:
Whatever else may be said, ninja truly took intelligence work to the extreme. Under normal circumstances, the contents of the Book of Seals would be nearly impossible to leak.
Of course... no matter how sound the procedures were, they could not withstand people sabotaging things from within. Madara Uchiha and Orochimaru, for instance, had once been Konoha High Command figures practically considered successors to the Hokage. After they defected for various reasons, some of the Book of Seals' contents naturally leaked out as well.
The thought flashed through Uchiha Feiyu's mind, and he lowered his head again to carefully examine the Book of Seals.
Just as Uchiha Feiyu had expected, not only was Impure World Reincarnation absent, but even the Flying Thunder God Technique, which should have been in the first half of the Book of Seals, was not recorded. Clearly, though the Third Hokage had spoken generously, he had still held back quite a