Shimura Danzō said, "Enough idle talk, Uchiha Xuantou. It's time to send you on your way!"
Whoosh-
Under Xuandou's gaze, Danzo formed hand seals, and shadows fell across the faces of the Root members.
Then a cold, damp presence emerged.
White mist billowed within it, with what seemed to be a figure flickering in and out of sight. Even looking straight at it, he could not seem to see it clearly, making out only a pair of crimson horns.
A sharp pain stabbed through Xuandou's heart. He immediately took Uchiha Hikari with him and flashed into the sky.
"This is... the Reaper Death Seal?"
Xuandou's expression tightened, and he exclaimed in disbelief.
As Kushina's husband, Xuandou naturally knew about the Reaper Death Seal, the S-rank forbidden soul-sealing technique passed down through the Uzumaki Clan.
As far as he knew, the Reaper Death Seal offered the caster's own soul as a sacrifice in exchange for the Otherworld Shinigami's intervention.
The target's soul would be trapped inside the Shinigami's belly for all eternity.
Cut off from all resurrection ninjutsu, the soul would suffer eternal torment.
However, the most important restriction of this ninjutsu was that the Reaper Death Seal could not be used in the Pure Land to harm the souls there.
Likewise, balancing its various costs and restrictions was the immense power of this ninjutsu, which traded one life for another.
But from what Xuandou could see...
Since Danzo had cast the Reaper Death Seal so decisively, it meant he had already overcome the costs and restrictions of this S-rank soul-sealing jutsu.
At the very least, the cost would no longer be as great as before.
"So that stabbing pain just now came from the Otherworld Shinigami?"
In a flash, Xuandou rapidly shifted positions while activating Shinjutsu: Divine Concealment with a