Main World, British Continent, New Capital.
Deepest within the Imperial Palace, in the Dragon Vein chamber.
A warm, dark-golden glow filled the air, the lingering energy released after dragon vein power was converted through the runic formation cores. Dense sealing runes covered the walls, each flickering faintly, breathing slowly as though alive.
Toyotomi Yinglang's clone sat cross-legged atop the formation core in the center of the chamber, his eyes closed and his hands forming a complex, profound seal. Dark-golden dragon vein power flowed slowly around him like water, enveloping his entire body in a hazy halo.
This was not cultivation.
This was-construction.
The Great British Empire's National Fortune Formation.
Ever since the British Continent had been discovered, developed, and built up, this land had remained in the "blind spot" of every sensory method in the Shinobi World. The reason was simple-the distance was too great, far beyond the reach of conventional chakra sensing. But that was not enough. The Sage of Six Paths' Rinnegan and the Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku's prophecies were not conventional methods.
What Toyotomi Yinglang needed was absolute, total "invisibility" that no being could perceive.
So he had designed the National Fortune Formation.
With dragon vein power as its foundation, the British Continent's earth veins as its framework, and countless runic formation cores as its nodes, he would construct an enormous barrier covering the entire continent, capable of distorting perception. Not physical invisibility, but conceptual "nonexistence." Everything that happened on this continent would be blurred, confused, and concealed by the formation. The Sage of Six Paths would not be able to "see" this place, the Great Toad Sage would not be able to "prophesy" about it, and any being attempting to peer into this land would find only chaos.
"Whew-"
Toyotomi Yinglang slowly opened his