But...
Kushina had just prepared to perform the Dead Demon Consuming Seal when she immediately stopped.
"No, it... has its eyes on me."
She pointed at the Death God mask that had fallen to the ground not long ago and spoke seriously before continuing:
"I can feel that if I perform the Dead Demon Consuming Seal again,
the Death God will immediately take my soul and do nothing else.
So, do I still need to perform this technique?"
Kushina did not know what Feng was thinking, but she was still counting on him to revive her. So even if performing the Dead Demon Consuming Seal next would cause the Death God to seal her away, she still asked for Feng's opinion.
"What if we switch masks? Use a different Death God?"
Feng pointed at the dozens of Death God masks of varying sizes hanging on the wall.
"No. I don't know why, but it seems they'll all immediately take my soul after I perform the Dead Demon Consuming Seal."
"I see... Then forget it. Looks like using Impure World Reincarnation to exploit the Death God's loophole won't work."
Hearing that, Feng turned to Uchiha Mikio, deeply disappointed.
At the same time, he felt helpless. He had originally wanted to use techniques absent from the anime to bulldoze through the plot, but reality was unwilling to give him a quick clear.
"Mm, looks like there's no chance to wreak havoc in Konoha.
The next time you summon me, it can only be when the Uchiha have risen to greatness."
Uchiha Mikio did not know what "exploiting a loophole" meant, but he understood the current situation and roughly grasped the meaning. He also felt somewhat disappointed.
But only somewhat. Causing trouble in Konoha would only make him feel satisfied; it was not what he wanted most.
What he wanted most was for the Uchiha to prosper and become illustrious.
And from the looks of it, there was no problem with that. Feng could make it happen.
He had also made an agreement with Feng: after he returned to the Pure Land, Feng was not to disturb him again.
But once the Uchiha had prospered and become illustrious, Feng had to use Impure World Reincarnation to bring him back once more. He wanted to witness the magnificent sight of his clan's prosperity and glory with his own eyes.
Clap, clap.
"Hey, everyone, although our attempt to toy with the Death God failed,
don't forget that was only an uncertain attempt, not our main objective."
At that moment, Feng smiled and clapped his hands, looking at the others.
After drawing the gazes of Uchiha Mikio, Kushina, and Uzumaki Ayaka toward himself,
he spoke again:
"Kushina, since the Death God didn't seal you away, I'll leave extracting the Nine-Tails from Minato and sealing it into my body to you.
Ayaka, you're not needed for sealing the Nine-Tails this time, but watch carefully and learn properly.
We may need to seal other tailed beasts in the future, and then we'll be relying on you.
Senior Mikio, please stand guard outside and don't let anyone disturb us."
Feng assigned tasks to the three people before him one by one.
The three did not say much and each did as instructed.
"Uchiha Feng, lie down and expose your stomach.
That will make the seal more stable and safer."
Coming before the still unconscious Minato Namikaze, who had not been awakened from his Impure World Reincarnation, Kushina gave him a tender look. Then she turned to Feng and spoke calmly.
Feng obediently lay down.
The Uzumaki were professionals when it came to sealing tailed beasts. He respected the opinions of professionals.
Once he was lying down, five golden chakra chains suddenly burst from Kushina's back and stabbed straight into Minato Namikaze's body.
"Roar!! Kushina?!! It's you, you damned woman!!"
Not long after, a miniature Nine-Tails, only about the size of two hands, was pulled out of Minato Namikaze's body.
Along with it came the miniature Nine-Tails' furious roar.
"Bastard! You vicious woman, where are you planning to seal me this time?!"
It looked at Feng lying on the ground;
at Kushina in front of it, who had captured it with Adamantine Sealing Chains;
and at Uzumaki Ayaka standing nearby, her distinctive red hair impossible to miss.
The Nine-Tails understood its current situation almost instantly. With two Uzumaki standing here, what else could they possibly be doing?
"Nine-Tails, hehe, long time no see.
This time, it's not me. It's this young man."
Looking at the furious Nine-Tails, Kushina cheerfully pointed at Uchiha Feng lying on the ground.
She did not hate the Nine-Tails.
After all, back then, neither she nor the Nine-Tails had wanted what happened. One had not wanted to become a Jinchūriki, and the other had never wanted to be sealed away, yet both had been forced into lives they did not want.
During their more than ten years of forced coexistence, human and beast had continued to dislike each other and argue often, but they had come to roughly understand each other's helplessness.
Even though she and Minato had ultimately been pierced to death by one swipe of the Nine-Tails' claw, she understood that the main culprit back then had been the masked man.
Thus, now that they had met again, Kushina, no longer the Nine-Tails' container, could face it with a smile.
As a tailed beast capable of sensing good and evil, the Nine-Tails naturally understood that Kushina was not responsible for its misfortune or imprisonment.
After Minato Namikaze used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to split it into the Yin Nine-Tails and Yang Nine-Tails,
the Yin Nine-Tails before them, which had been sealed within the Death God's body, had originally thought it would spend the rest of its fox life with Minato inside the Death God's stomach.
Yet only two years later, familiar Adamantine Sealing Chains had dragged it back into the world of the living.
Having just emerged from Minato's body and seen daylight again, the Nine-Tails had planned to thank its former Jinchūriki.
But then...
Kushina harbored no ill will, and the Nine-Tails could even sense that she was in an exceptionally good mood.
But she was going to seal it again!
The Nine-Tails' mood instantly soured, and it flew into a rage.
"**Damned Kushina! You're even more of a bastard than your Minato.
Remember this: no matter whose body you seal me into this time, I won't let him have an easy time.
Hahaha!! You'll regret this!!**"
The furious Nine-Tails kept roaring. After leaving Minato's body, its miniature form gradually grew larger and larger.
Kushina had originally intended to answer, but Feng raised a hand to stop her.
"Kushina, don't get distracted. Focus on sealing the Nine-Tails into me."
Since Kushina was counting on Feng to revive her in the future, she obediently fell silent and focused on sealing the Nine-Tails.
Feng, meanwhile, did not stop talking. Looking at the Nine-Tails being sent into his body, he continued:
"Hehe, Kurama, don't be so quick to get angry.
The reason I'm sealing you into my body is that I have no other choice.
We can talk later. If you're still dissatisfied after we talk,
then you can get angry then. It'll only take a few minutes.
As the leader of the nine tailed beasts and Hagoromo's most beloved child, I doubt you lack even that much patience."
With one sentence, Feng revealed the Nine-Tails' true name, one that no one had called it for thousands of years, while also giving it a small dose of flattery.
At the same time, mentioning the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo, told the Nine-Tails that Feng knew a great deal.
So the Nine-Tails fell silent.
A long while later, when it was nearly sealed into Feng's body, it finally spoke coldly:
"Tell me truthfully later how you know about me and the old man.
Otherwise, I'll make you regret becoming a Jinchūriki."
As soon as it finished speaking, Kushina said, "Four Symbols Seal, seal!" Then she held her hand over Feng's stomach, and the Nine-Tails' figure completely merged into Feng's body.
"Alright, you've now become the Nine-Tails' Jinchūriki.
Remember, don't let your emotions fluctuate too severely, and don't use too much of the Nine-Tails' chakra.
Otherwise, you'll lose control and attack everyone around you indiscriminately."
Kushina looked at Feng and warned him.
As for the Nine-Tails being called Kurama, she was no longer a Jinchūriki and did not care in the slightest.
The future Feng had promised her was too tempting. She only hoped nothing happened to him midway through.
"Kurama?"
Having become a Jinchūriki, Feng reached out and touched the Four Symbols Seal pattern on his stomach, calling softly.
"Kid, it's time for you to explain. Let's talk."
After Feng spoke, no one answered aloud, but a voice only he could hear echoed within his heart.
"Hehe, please wait a little longer. I need to say a few words to Kushina first."
Feng spoke softly, then stood and looked at Kushina.
"Kushina, as far as I know, Minato used the Eight Trigrams Seal formed from the Double Four Symbols Seal to seal the Yang Nine-Tails into Naruto.
So, do you know that Eight Trigrams Seal? If you do, help me change mine into that kind of seal as well."
As Feng said this, his eyes were filled with anticipation.
After seeing the Nine-Tails, more memories concerning the Nine-Tails and sealing it had surfaced in his mind.
That was why he had remembered the Eight Trigrams Seal.
It was an excellent thing. It could convert the chakra leaked by the Nine-Tails sealed within the body into the Jinchūriki's own chakra.
Right after Naruto graduated from the Ninja Academy, his chakra reserves alone were equivalent to those of a hundred Kakashi.
That was not something the Uzumaki bloodline alone could accomplish. The Eight Trigrams Seal had contributed the most.
After all, if the Uzumaki bloodline had really been that powerful, their country would not have been destroyed and their clan nearly wiped out.
"The Eight Trigrams Seal... I... I... How could I possibly not know it?
Don't you know Minato's sealing techniques were taught by me?!"
Kushina spoke rather emotionally, but there was no confidence in her tone at all.
"...I understand. If you don't know it, then forget it.
Anyway, the principle is just two Four Symbols Seals. I'll have Ayaka study it slowly later."
Feng smiled faintly and ignored Kushina.
As for awakening Minato Namikaze beside them and asking Minato, the creator of the Eight Trigrams Seal, for help, Feng did not consider it at all.
Given Minato's talent, intelligence, and devotion to Konoha as its Hokage,
Feng feared that soon after awakening him, he would have to face the Fourth Hokage in an Impure World Reincarnation state.
"Kushina, sorry, but next I'll return you to a dormant state.
If nothing unexpected happens, then the next time you awaken, you'll be reunited with Naruto.
Also, let me add this: my mother was actually an Uzumaki too. Perhaps we might even be related."
Feng spoke again. As he spoke, he resealed the somewhat dumbfounded Kushina inside the coffin of Impure World Reincarnation.
He gave her no opportunity to speak again, while Uzumaki Ayaka, who had remained at the side, revealed an expression of sudden realization.
*No wonder Feng rescued me and my daughter from that hellhole in Kusagakure.
No wonder he treated me so well. He never drew my blood, and even though he said it would cost me my life, he never did it.
So that was it. Half his bloodline is the same as mine—he's an Uzumaki too.*
Ayaka thought so honestly, and Feng did not care about her wild speculation.
After sealing Kushina away, he immediately slapped the last Copy Card in his hand onto Minato.
After copying the Flying Thunder God Technique — Minato Namikaze Version, he used it on the spot.
In an instant, the Flying Thunder God Technique, which was like teleportation, along with Flying Thunder God: Second Step, Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder, and Minato Namikaze's various other methods and experiences in using the Flying Thunder God, were imprinted in Feng's mind as though he had personally studied and used them for more than a decade.
Minato Namikaze's Impure World Reincarnation body had completely outlived its usefulness to Feng, so it remained dormant as it was sunk into the earth.
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