Before that, I had to deal with this Nine-Tails Chakra.
The seal was probably about to give out.
After all, it was the Nine-Tails' Chakra...
As his gaze shifted, the smile at the corner of Chiba's mouth gradually froze, turning into a solemn, grave expression.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
At that moment, as Chiba's gaze settled, the temperature in his hand—which had dropped when the crimson Chakra faded—seemed to rise again. White vapor now billowed even more fiercely from between his fingers.
Clearly, the seal was nearly at its limit. The Nine-Tails Chakra inside had already begun to leak out. Before long, perhaps in just a minute, or perhaps a few more minutes, the seal would collapse.
It was not that the Eight Trigrams Seal could not seal the Nine-Tails Chakra. Given the seal's sturdiness and ingenuity, as well as the fact that it had evolved from the portion of the Four Symbols Seal system specifically designed for tailed beasts, the Eight Trigrams Seal was actually even more effective than the Four Symbols Seal at sealing tailed beasts.
The reason the Eight Trigrams Seal here was about to be burst apart by the Nine-Tails Chakra was not the seal itself, but the fact that its medium could not bear an Eight Trigrams Seal space filled with tailed beast Chakra.
It was not that the technique was too weak. The material of this scroll was simply too poor.
In fact, it was precisely because the Eight Trigrams Seal was powerful enough that it could seal tailed beast Chakra in a scroll like this.
After all, the requirements for sealing a tailed beast had always been harsh. In other words, becoming a Jinchuriki was never easy, especially for a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. From the first to the third Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, nearly all had been