The petrified Demonic Statue of the Outer Path still had many corpses hanging from it. Its body was covered in bloody wounds, shriveled and dried into mummies.
Red and dark-red blood pooled in the basin below, and a foul stench spread throughout the entire space.
The scene was like hell itself—bloody and cruel.
But Obito had long since lost his humanity and remained unmoved.
He clasped his hands together and began forming hand seals.
These seals differed from the ninjutsu hand signs of the Shinobi World. He had read them from the First Elder's memories.
Even Obito had not expected the seemingly righteous First Elder to know so many similar forbidden techniques.
Forbidden techniques, as in techniques of evil.
There were quite a few methods, such as using vast amounts of blood to break seals, gathering countless Byakugan to create a Giant Tenseigan, sacrificing the many to fulfill the few.
Obito spent a full five minutes forming the seals. He was unfamiliar with them all.
After finishing the seals, Obito slapped his palm onto the dark-red water.
The surface began to ripple like a rising tide.
The surface formed from blood gave off a rushing sound.
Small whirlpools began appearing across the water's surface, as though some special energy was being nurtured within them.
Then, all that energy transformed into ancient characters Obito had seen before but did not recognize.
They slowly floated into the air.
Before long, the entire space was filled with densely packed characters.
Those characters gradually drifted toward the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
They all attached themselves to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
At that moment, countless chain-like seal patterns appeared across the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
The characters condensed from blood collided with those chains, gradually dissolving them.
After