Ōtsutsuki Heng told Kitahara Kaede to stop.
"Once I activate the formation, I'll have to leave. I won't come back in until the designated time. Good luck."
Kitahara Kaede nodded seriously.
Then, Ōtsutsuki Heng spread his hands.
Tiny sparkling crystals fell from his palms one after another.
The little crystals floated in the air, forming a strange pattern.
Once the crystals had arranged themselves, they suddenly turned to dust.
A stone pillar rose from beneath Ōtsutsuki Heng's feet.
There was a handprint at the very top of the pillar.
Once the pillar stabilized, Ōtsutsuki Heng pressed his hand onto it.
Then, the entire small courtyard seemed to come alive.
It burst forth with a faint glow.
It even carried a dreamlike, illusory feeling.
At first, Kitahara Kaede found it rather gentle.
But after Ōtsutsuki Heng left,
Kitahara Kaede could no longer remain calm.
Because an enormous formation appeared on the ground.
It was incomparably intricate. After the formation on the ground appeared,
a layer of formation also appeared in the sky.
After the two layers of formation emerged, four more formations appeared around them.
They tightly enclosed the entire small courtyard.
The light gradually intensified.
At that moment, Kitahara Kaede suddenly felt a force within his body being drawn out.
He frowned tightly. That force was anything but ordinary to him.
It was the power of time he had obtained from the Dragon Vein in the ninja world.
It was also the foundation that allowed him to travel through time and space in the ninja world.
Yet it had been activated here.
The power of time was drawn out by the powerful formation.
If it were merely an upgrade to his own power, that would be fine.
What he feared was that his power of time would be completely extracted.