Just as Kazama Ryojin's figure shot backward, he finished forming the Hand Seals and used a ninjutsu against "Kurogarasu":
Wind Release: Wind Blade!
The expected block never came.
"Kurogarasu" was struck by the Wind Blade and torn to shreds!
But the fragments weren't pieces of a body. They were sheets of paper.
The sheets rode the violent winds at the bottom of the pit and quickly drifted toward the Sunagakure ninjas.
"Watch out!"
Kazama Ryojin had only enough time to cry out. The next moment, a sealing paper slapped onto his back, instantly sealing his limbs and sending him sprawling to the ground.
Above the pit, the crack in the clay space slowly disappeared.
The others below had only just finished releasing their Wind Release techniques after hearing the warning when sheets of paper came whipping toward them with the wind. Caught off guard, they were sealed and knocked to the ground one by one.
"Ah!"
"What's going on?!"
"Watch out!"
Each of them managed a brief cry before being sealed.
Xingzhuo's Dance of the Shikigami worked so well with his Sealing Technique that sealing these people took almost no time at all.
So, as long as the Paper Clone wasn't destroyed immediately, the fate of everyone below was already sealed.
Throughout it all, Xingzhuo had been observing the area below with his Byakugan.
Once the outcome was certain, he cheerfully said to Yuto, "All right, everyone down there has been sealed."
"Yuto, use Earth Release to lift them up so I can get a better look at what's going on with these people."
Yuto nodded, then formed Hand Seals and slapped a palm against the ground. "Earth Release: Core Earth Exploration!"
The earth trembled again, just as violently as it had at the very beginning.
The only difference was