At first light the next day, Qianyu woke up. He changed into an inconspicuous dark gray traveler's outfit and slung a simple pack over his back. Abin dressed in imitation of him.
This was the first time Qianyu had truly left Konoha since coming to this world.
They disguised themselves as a young scholar traveling abroad and his attendant, heading east along the main road. There were few travelers on the road, with only the occasional merchant caravan passing by.
Whenever they reached a secluded spot, Qianyu would stop to rest and take out Minato's research notes on the Flying Thunder God Technique.
When the scroll was unrolled, the dense sealing formulas and theories of space-time made one's head spin. Qianyu frowned and studied it word by word, line by line.
Thanks to the basic sealing techniques Abin had brought from old man Madara, he could barely understand some of the most fundamental principles of chakra coordinate positioning and spatial markings. But he was still far from grasping the core concepts, let alone using them. It was like reading a heavenly tome, leaving him to guess his way through it.
"Hey, Abin." During one rest stop, Qianyu put away the scroll and looked at White Zetsu, who was watching the path of some ants. "In your current human form, if other members of your kind get close, will they recognize you?"
Abin looked up. "Other White Zetsu like me, the special ones with their own thoughts, might sense the aura of one of their kind if they get really, really close. But they definitely won't recognize me. Afei is all over the place and impossible to predict, while his main body basically stays inside that big guy without moving. As long as we don't go looking for them or make