Tsunade and the others sped up their search in the designated direction.
Meanwhile, somewhere roughly ten kilometers from the Rescue Team.
Shihōin Naraku stood motionless.
From the outside, his body still looked completely intact, without a single wound. Even his clothes were undamaged.
Inside his body, however, his chakra was recovering at an extremely slow pace.
His Observation Haki was still functioning, though.
It was a mental sensory ability, independent of chakra and unaffected by the ninjutsu system.
Time Freeze could lock down his flesh, his chakra, and his ninjutsu, but it could not lock down the power of his mind.
What was more, the system was still in his Consciousness Space.
Even if the Ōtsutsuki Clan's treasure could freeze his body and mind, it definitely had no ability to affect the system.
And its inability to control the system meant that his soul and mind could not possibly be sealed or restrained.
So he could clearly sense the people approaching.
Eight people.
Four directions.
Spaced anywhere from several hundred meters to several kilometers apart, they maintained a cautious, orderly search formation.
The Rescue Team was moving fast.
At their current pace, it would not be long before they appeared before him.
Naraku did not know whether they had already discovered his location, but with the Rescue Team's sensory abilities, finding him would only be a matter of time once they came within about a kilometer.
The question was what they could do after finding him.
Naraku understood the level of Time Freeze very well.
The name of this sealing jutsu said it all.
What it froze was time, and time was the hardest thing in this world to fight against.
In the original storyline, Pushi had used this jutsu to seal Otsutsuki Toneri for a full ten thousand years.