Tsubasa looked down at his still-childish palms; the calluses from seventy years of writing runes on parchment scrolls had long since disappeared. He suddenly laughed and said, " Yueqing, I'm still that boy. I consider myself an adult now. Do you know how many Sealing Jutsu I've broken in there? The spacetime paradoxes in the last three volumes of the * Thousand Mechanisms Seal Manual *, the Soul Anchoring Method in the * Twelve Chapters of the Soul Contract *..."
"Alright, you've gone completely mad!" Yueqing's eyes suddenly reddened. "For three months, the Land of Water's warships have blockaded all of the Land of Whirlpools' ports. My father's right arm was severely injured by Water Release, and my mother prays at the ancestral hall Tenten..." She choked back tears as she released her grip, the half-bandage peeking out from under her handkerchief still seeping blood. "And you, inside, you've driven yourself mad. When I go in to talk to you, you ignore me!"
The corridor fell silent. Tsubasa suppressed his turmoil and slowly came to his senses, recovering from the shock of creating the Soul Reincarnation Technique. Only then did Tsubasa notice the injury on Yueqing's arm and hurriedly asked, "How did you get hurt? Who hurt you? Is there another battle outside?"
Tian Yueqing: The key is that no war has broken out. It's just that the Land of Water, relying on its powerful navy, has blockaded all of the Land of Land of Whirlpools' ports. The Land of Whirlpools is a peninsula country, and its main economic activity comes from fishing at sea. Today, my father went to attack them from the water and was seriously injured. I was also injured while trying to save my father.
"Take me to the city wall." He suddenly spoke, his voice unusually deep for a young man. Seeing Yueqing hesitate, he added, "I have a way."
As we climbed the Sea-Gazing Cliff, the setting sun was turning the sea blood-red. A fleet of more than twenty warships, like black beetles, completely surrounded the port of the Land of Whirlpools. Various powerful Water Release attacks ravaged everything on the shore, leaving the fishing village in ruins.
"These days, we've tried fire attacks, Water Release, even sending assassins to dive and sabotage the ships..." Yueqing clutched her blood-stained handkerchief, her nails almost digging into her palms. "But the ninjas of the Land of Water are incredibly powerful underwater. Every attack was repelled by them using various methods. Faced with their overwhelming strength, our Land of Whirlpools had no choice but to abandon our coastal defenses."
Tsubasa silently gazed at the sea, his divine sense spreading out like a fishing net to lock onto the warships. He said to Tian Yueqing, "Tell my father-in-law, I'm going to destroy the warships of this Land of Water. I'll make them all sink to the bottom of the sea and feed the fish."
The coastline of the Land of Whirlpools shimmered in the twilight. Tsubasa with his toes and soared into the sky like an arrow. The gale howled past his ears. He squinted and spread his divine sense across the sea like a fishing net. Dozens of warships bearing the emblem of the Land of Water moved slowly like black beetles.
"I'll show you!" Tsubasa sneered, and the black iron scroll at his waist moved without wind. These days, he had been diligently practicing Sealing Jutsu in the Setsuna Splendor Space, and the Chakra within his body had long been like a surging dark river, finally finding an outlet. True energy condensed into clouds beneath his feet, and he streaked across the sky like a purple lightning bolt, speeding towards the enemy ship.
A cloud of water suddenly burst from the deck of the lead warship, and a dozen ninjas dressed in blue outfits emerged from the water. "Trash from the Land of Whirlpools, how dare you come to your death!" The leading ninja threw three poisoned Shuriken, their cold light drawing eerie arcs in the twilight. Tsubasa spun rapidly, his sleeves fluttering, and a sealing rune lit up, instantly freezing the Shuriken in mid-air, turning them into dust.
"Is that all you've got?" His voice carried a hint of mockery, yet it sent a shiver down the spines of all the water ninjas. Before he finished speaking, Tsubasa had already closed in, the dark purple Cursed Seal in his palm shining brightly. Those self-proclaimed elite Water Release were child's play before him; with a simple sealing gesture, the surging water dragon was compressed into a tiny droplet, hovering at his fingertips.
" Water Prison Technique!" Three more ninjas joined forces, Hand Seals to trap Tsubasa in the center of a giant water sphere. However, before they could even show a smug smile, the surface of the water sphere suddenly became covered with golden runes, and with a "boom," it exploded, the powerful shockwave sending the three of them flying. Tsubasa touched the broken water droplets with his toes, appearing like a ghost behind another ninja, and gently tapped the back of his neck, sending him plummeting into the sea like a kite with a broken string.
The battle intensified, and the warships of the Land of Water raised defensive barriers, their giant water cannons beginning to charge. Tsubasa, however, remained calm, rapidly Hand Seals and chanting. "Seal - Time-Space Imprisonment!" In Setsuna, time seemed to freeze across the entire sea, the water cannons poised to fire and the menacing Water Release all suspended in mid-air.
He moved calmly between the warships, leaving a sealing rune at each stop. The moment time resumed its flow, those seemingly indestructible warships began to groan under the strain. Spiderweb- like cracks appeared on the decks, and the keels creaked painfully. Finally, to the horror of the water ninjas, one by one, they sank to the bottom of the sea.
"Run! Run!" The remaining water ninjas, no longer arrogant, jumped into the sea and used Water Release to escape. Tsubasa, however, was not about to let them go easily. He raised his hand and unleashed the " Soul-Chasing Life-Claiming Seal" he had learned from Yueqing. Golden chains burst forth from the water, pulling back and killing the ninjas who tried to escape.
When the battle ended, countless pieces of wreckage floated on the sea, and the sea breeze carried a faint smell of blood. Tsubasa hovered in the air, watching the scattered figures fleeing in disarray in the distance, a satisfied smile playing on his lips. This battle not only removed a major threat to the Land of Whirlpools, but more importantly, it finally gave him the opportunity to apply the Sealing Jutsu he had learned during this time to actual combat.
Tsubasa soared through the air into the clouds, beginning his survey of the Land of Land of Whirlpools ' waters. Arriving at the next port, he looked down and saw countless black dots surging towards the Land of Whirlpools.
"Let's test this improved version of the Runic Dragon-Trapping Formation on you!" Tsubasa two fingers together at his brow, and seven crimson-gold runes exploded in the air. A light barrier as solid as a copper wall suddenly rose on the sea below, and the first three enemy ships crashed into it. The water ninjas on the decks didn't even have time to Hand Seals before they were sealed into ice sculptures. He was secretly delighted; this improved version of the Land of Whirlpools's advanced rune sealing array was truly worth the effort, its power far exceeding the original.
Just as he was feeling smug, three water blades shot in from the side. Tsubasa spun around to dodge, and the chain lashed out with a "whoosh," drawing golden light in the air. " Adamantine Chains!" Runes crawled along the chain, binding the three attacking water ninjas like dumplings. He hadn't used this move since learning it, and this was the first time he'd used it to bind living people. Seeing their terrified struggles, he suddenly understood what the sealing scroll meant by "a seal leaves the enemy a way out"—even though the bound ninjas lost their ability to resist, they could at least still breathe.
The battle progressed more and more smoothly. Tsubasa darted across the battlefield like a golden peregrine falcon; wherever his chains touched, enemy ship masts, covered in runes, turned to rubble in the blink of an eye. Water Release, barely formed, were sucked into mist by the sealing array in the air. Taking advantage of his distraction, an enemy general wielding a sword attacked from behind. He swung his chains backhand, and as the runes exploded on the blade, he suddenly remembered the saying from the classics, "It is easy to overcome skill with brute force, but difficult to overcome brute force with skill." He realized that true Sealing Jutsu were not about brute force, but about finding the opponent's weakness and using minimal force to overcome maximum strength.
After a day of patrolling, Tsubasa finally felt relieved when the last enemy ship sank into the sea. His bones felt like they were falling apart, but he felt a strange, exhilarating satisfaction, like drinking ice-cold plum juice on a sweltering summer day. Counting the more than three hundred wrecked ships floating on the surface, he suddenly understood the meaning of the old saying, "What you learn from books is never enough"—those rune incantations he memorized in secret chambers could never compare to the tangible feeling of runes resonating with blood when he personally bound an enemy.
The setting sun dyed the sea blood red. Tsubasa touched the newly added runes on the rune chains and grinned. After this battle, the rune chains seemed to have become more intelligent, like having gained a perfectly compatible old partner. It seems he needs to practice more with these clueless water ninjas in the future. Maybe one day, he can become the sealing god worshipped by the Land of Whirlpools, a sealing god feared by all the gods of the world.
In this battle Tsubasa destroyed over three hundred enemy ships and killed more than seven thousand ninjas, with only a few scattered water ninjas escaping. Throughout the battle, he used Sealing Jutsu, fully demonstrating the strength of Sealing Jutsu master. Combining theory with practice made his Sealing Jutsu skills even more solid.
When he returned to the Land of Whirlpools as the sunset glowed, the city walls were already filled with cheering citizens. Yueqing stood at the front of the crowd, looking at that extraordinary figure radiating an ethereal aura, her eyes filled with pride and heartache. Perhaps, this was the man she would love in this life—he would never stop striving to become stronger, and he would fight with all his might on the battlefield to protect those he cared about.