Sealing Technique

Shiraishi Yoshijo felt so comfortable that a strange sound escaped his lips.

That hand left his chest.

Shiraishi Yoshijo instantly plummeted from heaven to hell.

The sense of loss radiating from his body left him completely at a loss.

He looked at Mei and stammered, "Th-this is life force?"

"Impossible, how could such a thing exist? What exactly did you do?"

At this moment, Shiraishi Yoshijo's expression was incredibly vivid; he could not comprehend what had just happened at all.

He knew that in the story, Chiyo of Sunagakure could use a reincarnation ninjutsu.

But that was a forbidden technique that required converting one's own life force into another's, resulting in the user's death upon completion.

The technique Mei had just used on him was definitely not that; it felt more like her own innate ability.

The ability to manipulate life force?

Shiraishi Yoshijo's gaze instantly turned fervent, and he stared at Mei with a perverted grin.

"To think Lady Mei possesses such an ability—this is truly astonishing. Is this something I could learn?"

Mei spoke with a cryptic smile, "Who knows? How about it, are you willing to raise a few more Butterfly Seeds?"

"I have already replenished all the life force you lost just now."

Hearing that Mei still wanted him to raise Butterfly Seeds, Shiraishi Yoshijo's expression gradually returned to calm.

"Even if you replenished my life force, my chakra reserves couldn't possibly support that many Butterfly Seeds at once. At most, I could only raise one more."

"Since I asked you to raise them, I have naturally thought of a solution for you."

Mei tossed a scroll to him.

Shiraishi Yoshijo took the scroll and began to examine it carefully.

The scroll depicted a diagram of a human model, densely marked with countless acupuncture points.

Having studied medical ninjutsu for the past two years, Shiraishi Yoshijo was no stranger to the human body's acupuncture points.

After carefully observing the marked points, an answer gradually formed in his mind.

As he continued to flip through the pages, it appeared to be some kind of sealing technique.

Shiraishi Yoshijo had not yet mastered the basics of sealing techniques and could not understand it, so he could only close the scroll and look at Mei.

"The acupuncture points marked on the human model all seem to be dual points, but I don't understand the sealing technique."

"Even if you understood the sealing technique, you wouldn't be able to cast it on yourself."

"Then what is the point of showing me this scroll?"

Mei did not answer his question and instantly appeared outside the main hall.

"Follow me."

Shiraishi Yoshijo followed closely behind her until they reached the plaza.

The plaza was already covered in black ritual markings that had appeared at some point.

Ten people stood around the perimeter, and among them, Shiraishi Yoshijo even saw his grandfather, Shiraishi Yukihito.

"Casting this sealing technique requires extremely high control over chakra; one must raise at least three Butterfly Seeds to possess that level of control."

"Go sit in the middle of the plaza, and I will have them perform the sealing technique on you."

Shiraishi Yoshijo exhaled a breath of stale air, not moving immediately.

He wasn't an idiot; he could see that Mei had been prepared for a long time, and her motives were definitely not simple.

"Why are you doing this for me?"

"I said I wouldn't harm you; I just want you to become stronger as quickly as possible."

"Can you really not tell me the favor you need?"

"I certainly won't tell you now."

"What will happen if I refuse?"

The smile vanished from Mei's face. She stared at Shiraishi Yoshijo and said, word for word, "Then I will kill you."

So that's how it is?

Shiraishi Yoshijo understood that he no longer had any room to choose.

He walked to the center of the plaza and sat down cross-legged with a resigned air.

"Take off your clothes and lie down."

Mei's cold, detached voice reached him once more.

Shiraishi Yoshijo sighed and began to undress.

The ten people around the plaza began forming hand seals, and the black spell patterns gradually began to glow.

After waiting for about five minutes, Shiraishi Yoshijo noticed that the black spell patterns seemed to come alive, slithering up his body like snakes.

They began to take shape according to the acupuncture points marked on the scroll.

The sealing process was incredibly slow; Shiraishi Yoshijo waited from dusk until dawn, and from dawn until dusk again.

It took a full forty hours for the sealing jutsu to be completed.

Once the seal was finished, Shiraishi Yoshijo put on his clothes and looked at Mei, saying, "I think we need to understand each other a bit better."

Seeing that the sealing jutsu was complete, a smile appeared on Mei's face once again.

The two returned to the main hall.

"Whatever you want to know, I will tell you whatever I can."

"What exactly is that sealing jutsu for, and what exactly are you?"

"You came looking for a sealing jutsu last time to solve your chakra capacity problem, right? This sealing jutsu can make your chakra reach an unimaginable level."

"As for me, I am a butterfly, of course."

Shiraishi Yoshijo took a deep breath. "I don't feel any increase in my chakra, and you say you're a butterfly, but all the Ninja Butterflies here were transformed from humans. Who exactly were you before you turned into a human?"

Mei laughed, appeared before him in an instant, and reached out her hand.

Shiraishi Yoshijo was stunned for a moment before reaching out his own.

When their hands clasped together, a massive surge of chakra flowed from Mei's hand into his body.

This chakra was so overwhelming that Shiraishi Yoshijo felt as if his body were about to burst.

His meridians could not bear the strain, and some of the smaller ones began to rupture.

Shiraishi Yoshijo's eyes went wide. "What are you doing?"

"Stay calm. Try to guide the chakra to the acupuncture points covered by the sealing jutsu."

Shiraishi Yoshijo followed her instructions, and it took over an hour to finish guiding that surge of chakra.

Once things finally calmed down, he said, drenched in cold sweat, "Is this a sealing jutsu that stores chakra inside acupuncture points?"

He hurriedly sat cross-legged on the ground and began to carefully sense the seals on the acupuncture points within his body.

One, two... he didn't open his eyes until he had counted to three hundred, looking at Mei with a face full of shock.

That surge of chakra from just a moment ago had only filled three acupuncture points. If he were to fill all of them...

Shiraishi Yoshijo couldn't even imagine how much chakra he would possess.

He also couldn't imagine how he could possibly stay alive after possessing that amount of chakra.

If he were to truly undo the seals, the sheer force of the chakra he had just received would be enough to blow his body apart.

If all three hundred acupuncture points were unsealed, he would likely be reduced to dust in an instant, leaving not even a scrap behind.

This was simply not an amount of chakra a human could withstand, and he would have no way to control such a volume.

Even with his monstrous chakra control, it would be impossible.

Mei tossed him a scroll and said, "This is the method for using the sealing jutsu. In the future, use your ability to absorb chakra to take it from others, then guide that chakra into your acupuncture points to seal it."

"If you want to use the sealed chakra, you can undo the seals one acupuncture point at a time. As you grow stronger, you will be able to undo more seals."

Shiraishi Yoshijo's mouth twitched. "How am I supposed to control such a massive amount of chakra after undoing the seals?"

"That is why I told you to raise more Butterfly Seeds. The chakra control ability granted by the Butterfly Seeds can perfectly solve that problem."

"You certainly have thought this through for me. Does sealing this much chakra in my body have something to do with the favor you want me to do?"

"Of course. And this is already the simplified version."

Simplified version?

Shiraishi Yoshijo truly didn't know what to say.

"There is one more question you haven't answered: who exactly were you before you became human?"

"I am your ancestor, of course."

Shiraishi Yoshijo began to take deep breaths, struggling to suppress the urge to curse.

"I don't know what favor you want from me, but it must require a massive amount of chakra."

"You must know that I would die the moment I undid all the seals. So, are you just using me as a tool?"

Mei squinted her eyes and smiled. "You aren't as stupid as you look. Don't worry, I told you I wouldn't harm you. After all, your aptitude is quite good."

"In the future, you can find people with special constitutions and bring them here. I can perform the sealing on them, and then they can die in your place. Wouldn't that be nice?"

Shiraishi Yoshijo was stunned for a moment, slowly beginning to grasp the implication.

He said thoughtfully, "You want me to teach the secret arts to others?"

To control that amount of chakra, one must possess monstrous chakra control.

Such control is only possible by inheriting the secret arts of the Ninja Butterflies.

But is this really okay?

The secret arts are the foundation of his clan's survival; if he teaches them to others, how is he supposed to play his own game?