Zone 81 was 360 kilometers from the Main Camp, a journey of two or three days.
Mitaraishi Anko led the team more than fifty kilometers back, away from the combat zone, before heading north.
When they stopped to rest on the first night, Uchiha Ling finally had time to study Vacuum-Flow Wind Release.
He had obtained Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique from Clan Head Fugaku, and its power was quite impressive.
During Pain's invasion, ANBU had used the Wind Cutter Technique to slice through the Multi-Headed Dog's legs. Cutting through trees, rocks, and the like was no problem.
The Wind Cutter Technique used wind release chakra to compress air into an extremely thin layer, forming high-speed wind blades for cutting attacks.
Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere was far more sophisticated in principle.
Vacuum Sphere required three hand seals. First, it gathered a large amount of wind release chakra, then made that chakra abruptly collapse to create a vacuum.
The surrounding air would rush in to fill the vacuum. By directing that airflow, the user could instantly form a powerful jet of wind.
First, hand seals guided the flow of chakra, forming a ball of wind release chakra inside the mouth.
The user inhaled a large amount of air, and the ball of wind release chakra instantly compressed, creating a localized vacuum.
Then the user directed some air outward. The vacuum accelerated it, sending it surging out in an instant as an extremely powerful jet of wind. That was Vacuum Sphere.
Uchiha Ling could not use the original Vacuum Sphere, so he came up with a way to imitate it.
For the Tiger Seal, the thumbs, ring fingers, and little fingers of both hands interlocked, while the index and middle fingers stood upright, leaving a hollow between the two index fingers and