The second day after the ritual ended.
At the far end of Konoha lay the Uzumaki Clan compound, funded by Kushina and built under Tsunade's supervision.
Its surrounding walls were built entirely of brick and stone.
All four sides of the rooftops inside sloped downward, giving them an umbrella-like appearance. Their shape and architectural style matched the other buildings in the area completely.
Xuandou knocked on the gate. Led by a cautious survivor of the Uzumaki Clan, he headed toward the ancestral hall with Tsunade.
In the original story, because of Mito's marriage alliance, the Uzumaki Clan had sent clansmen here to teach sealing jutsu and built the Mask Hall, filling it with masks used for various sealing jutsu. The Shinigami Mask Xuandou needed had also been placed here.
However, in the original story, the Uzumaki Clan's decline had left this place long abandoned and rarely visited.
Everyone had forgotten these precious tools required for sealing jutsu. Only after Sasuke resurrected Orochimaru were they retrieved to release Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze, who had been swallowed by the Otherworld Shinigami.
Now, because of Xuandou's appearance, the situation here was somewhat different. In a way, he had indirectly changed the Uzumaki Clan's fate.
"After all these years, this is all that's left of the Uzumaki Clan!"
"Perhaps one day, there won't even be any clansmen left with a bloodline strong enough to use Adamantine Sealing Chains."
Tsunade surveyed the spacious, tidy Uzumaki compound, her gaze dimming.
The failure to carry on their bloodline was the situation every hereditary shinobi clan least wanted to face. Nothing was crueler than watching one's own clan decline little by little.
Yet both the Uzumaki Clan and her own Senju Clan were now in a precarious state, teetering on the brink of destruction.
They relied on