Seal!

What the hell was there left to do?!

Hinata wanted to shout that out loud.

Anyone who had painstakingly cultivated true qi for three years, only to discover in the end that it was practically useless, would be furious.

Especially now, when she seemed to be trapped, it was downright fatal.

"Do I have to seal this damned thing inside my body?"

Looking up at the ropes closing in on her from every direction, Hinata's mouth twitched.

Fortunately, this thing seemed to be an energy form. Aside from the psychological discomfort, sealing it inside her body should not be a big deal... right?

Hinata made up her mind. Once this incident was over, she would definitely get herself some kind of spatial ability. Otherwise, she would be far too passive if she encountered something like this again.

"As for Sealing Jutsu, do I have to learn it on the spot...?"

Although she had previously stolen—cough—seen others use Sealing Jutsu more than once, this was her first time seriously performing it herself.

Besides, she had no idea whether Sealing Jutsu could even be performed with true qi.

The good news, however, was that Hinata's control over true qi was extremely high. If anything went wrong, she could stop at once, so there was no risk of true qi backlash.

Besides, there was such a huge barrier outside, and it was covered in Sealing Jutsu. Wasn't that a ready-made example?

As for the target of the Sealing Jutsu, the entire subspace was the target!

With a dull thud, the Chōji Clan Leader, who had used the Expansion Jutsu to become no smaller than the giant corpse, was slapped away.

Tracing a beautiful arc through the air, the Chōji Clan Leader hit the ground, rolled twice, then slid several more meters before coming to a stop.

This had already happened several times. Several trenches in the surrounding area had been carved out by the Chōji Clan Leader.

The three clans of Ino-Shika-Cho were famous throughout both the Hidden Leaf Village and the Shinobi World.

The Akimichi clan's Expansion Jutsu, the Yamanaka clan's Mind Body Switch Technique that could invade another person's mind, and the Nara clan's Shadow Secret Technique.

That combination could control an enemy to death. It was disgustingly effective.

But now, they had finally encountered something that could not be controlled.

The Mind Body Switch Technique was completely useless. Then again, did the dead even have minds?

Although the Shadow Secret Technique had some effect, the gap in strength between the Nara Clan Leader and the giant corpse was too great. Combined with the giant corpse's partial immunity to Chakra, it simply could not be restrained.

Among everyone present, only the Akimichi Clan Leader could clash head-on with the giant corpse after enlarging his body.

But for some reason, this giant corpse possessed immense strength. The moment the Akimichi Clan Leader collided with it, he was sent flying.

If that were all, it would not have been much of a problem. After all, the heads of the Hidden Leaf Village's major clans were more or less all gathered here.

In other words, nearly all of the Hidden Leaf Village's peak combat strength was concentrated here.

The others might not know the Expansion Jutsu, but they could throw around B-rank and A-rank ninjutsu with ease.

Uchiha Fugaku's Fire Release was especially dazzling among those present.

Even the Hyuga Patriarch beside him could not help deactivating his Byakugan, inwardly cursing.

Yet after they went to great lengths to shatter the giant corpse, the thing actually reassembled itself into another giant corpse.

The sight of the giant corpse reassembling made everyone's eyelids twitch.

After all, the reassembled giant corpse was not made from that relatively intact corpse from earlier, aside from its missing head.

When they had shattered the giant corpse, the corpses making it up had already been blasted beyond recognition by all kinds of powerful ninjutsu.

And yet, it could still reassemble itself!

What was even worse was that, because those corpses had been practically dismembered, the newly assembled giant corpse looked even more "human"!

Legs stuck to legs, arms stuck to arms, chests and abdomens stuck to chests and abdomens; all manner of blackened blood and gore were squeezed together into a nauseating giant corpse. This time, it still had no head.

After the giant corpse reassembled itself, the atmosphere immediately changed.

Fortunately, the ones dealing with it were the heads of the major clans, whose knowledge far surpassed that of ordinary people.

Although the giant corpse could reassemble after being destroyed, it was still far from enough to drive them to despair.

Since they could not destroy the target, they would seal it!

The Sealing Squad was too busy to spare anyone, and even the Sealing Squad responsible for the Black Shadow Jinchuriki had gone to help seal the ropes. The clan heads could only do it themselves.

The ideal outcome would be to seal the entire giant corpse intact, but although it was sluggish and slow—

It was incredibly strong!

So they could only smash it apart again, then seal its pieces one by one.

Hyuga Hiashi stepped forward. "I'll do it."

He was in the best condition at the moment, because he had barely had any chance to join the battle earlier. After all, the Hyuga clan did not know many ninjutsu.

Relying on his greater agility, Hyuga Hiashi leaped up and struck each of the giant corpse's limb joints with a palm, then swiftly retreated.

Throughout the process, he did not even activate his Byakugan.

Since attacking the giant corpse's meridians and internal organs had no effect, there was no need to obsess over meridians.

The giant corpse tried to keep moving, but the next instant, sharp cracking sounds rang out from its limb joints in succession. Then, with a wet splat, it fell to the ground in five separate pieces.

The prepared clan heads immediately stepped forward and sealed each limb of the giant corpse one by one.

Only after the giant corpse had been completely sealed did everyone finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Then they looked toward the barrier and discovered that it had already shrunk considerably.

Before long, the ropes would be squeezed together by the barrier, and then it would be time to seal them.

Everyone watched the gradually shrinking barrier as they silently restored their Chakra.

The giant corpse had been successfully sealed outside, while Hinata had also more or less learned Sealing Jutsu within the subspace.

"Even though it's only the simplest Sealing Jutsu, I'm probably the only one who could improve it into something powered by true qi in such a critical situation. As expected of me!"

After indulging in a little self-admiration, she slapped both hands onto the ground.

"Sealing Technique!"

Countless runes appeared, then wrapped around the headless Blood Corpse formed from the pooled blood after Hinata had completely smashed it apart.

Under the Sealing Jutsu, the headless Blood Corpse gradually shrank. In the end, it turned into a bloody shadow and gathered onto Hinata's... clothes. A blood-soaked headless Blood Corpse suddenly appeared on Hinata's jacket.

Did anyone seriously think Hinata would seal those corpses inside her own body? What normal person sealed corpses inside their body?

Now that the corpses had been dealt with, all that remained was...

"This subspace..."

Hinata had wanted to simply seal the ropes and leave.

But there were so many ropes that she could not tell how many there were at a glance, and they appeared out of thin air in midair. She could not find their source at all, so she gave up on sealing them one by one. She could only set her sights on the entire subspace.

Fortunately, although the subspace looked large, it was only about three kilometers in diameter.

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