What do you mean, the princess went behind her consort's back to ask her first love to marry her?

After Akaseki pointed out the exact location of the rendezvous—

"I'll scout it out first." Minato crouched down, formed hand seals, and pressed his five fingers to the ground.

Thousand Worlds Awareness Technique!

"Just as I thought..." Minato sighed.

"You found it?" Akaseki asked in some surprise.

"No. My sensory range already covers ten li around us, but I can't sense the cursed seal at all—

"Just what you'd expect from the village's sealing Jonin." What Minato was lamenting was that he still needed more practice.

As the hidden village with the most diverse and complete inheritance of techniques, Konoha lacked neither sealing techniques nor sealing Jonin. Their work wasn't something Minato could detect with the Thousand Worlds Awareness Technique at his current level.

After all, the Thousand Worlds Awareness Technique was a wide-area, long-range ninjutsu primarily used to sense chakra. Naturally, it had detected the Uzumaki Clan's unattended seals before, but ultimately, it wasn't intended to detect concealed targets deliberately hidden from view.

Konoha had put considerable care into setting up the examination grounds. A secret rendezvous point wouldn't be that easy to find.

However, once Team 7 followed the rendezvous instructions and approached, they soon spotted it with their own eyes—

It really was an enormous pagoda tree. Judging by the hollow in its trunk, most of the tree was already dead.

When Akaseki used the activation hand seals provided on the scroll to undo the seal, an entrance opened at the bottom of the person-high hollow.

Minato performed another sensory sweep at the sight. Although he was confident that even someone hoping to ambush them couldn't reasonably have arrived before them and discovered and undone the seal here, caution was essential on a mission!

After confirming that there was no one inside or nearby, the three entered.