In Rōran, one of Liao Wu's Wood Clones remained at the ruins of the former Rōran, atop the sealing platform where Minato had sealed the Dragon Vein.
The Wood Clone studied Minato's Sealing Formula. It was a sealing formula of the Uzumaki Clan.
Minato possessed an astonishing, one-in-ten-thousand talent for Sealing Technique.
Even the Uzumaki Clan's strongest Sealing Technique—the Reaper Death Seal—was not something ordinary people could learn.
Yet Minato had mastered it.
Of course, any Ninja capable of becoming Hokage was already one in ten thousand.
Through Naruto, Liao Wu had learned most of the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Technique and could undo Minato's Sealing Formula.
He formed the hand seals in reverse, replicating the method Minato had used to cast the seal. Finally, he gathered Chakra at the tips of his five fingers and released the Dragon Vein's seal.
Once the Dragon Vein was unsealed, its immense Chakra surged into the sky like a Giant Dragon bursting forth from underground.
At the same time, the earth trembled faintly and soundlessly. There was no thunderous roar, only a subtle numbness rising from beneath their feet.
In the tribe where Sara's people lived, Sara's daughter Kira suddenly resonated with Rōran's Dragon Vein.
Kira froze in alarm. "What is this? Is it those people again?"
Naruto's team had once visited Rōran's ruins. At that time, the Dragon Vein's seal had broken once, and Kira had sensed it.
Kira had gone to investigate afterward, but the Dragon Vein had quickly been sealed again, with no abnormalities appearing.
But this time, the small town amid the dunes shook slightly, and several houses swayed with it. The trembling vanished after only a few breaths.
Kira was certain that the Dragon Vein had been unsealed once more and had to go take another look.
Kira set