radicalducati Chapter 20 The Yin Seal That Can No Longer Be Maintained
Chapter 20 The Yin Seal That Can No Longer Be Maintained
Tsunade stood by the window, staring at the cherry tree in the yard.
The scroll spread out on the table had been covered in dust for two days.
The final stroke of the Hundred Healings Technique was drawn and revised, and the chakra route for Creation Regeneration was drawn and painted over again.
A blank line is left at the end of the reel.
What Tsunade was holding was not a pen, but a porcelain bowl filled with wine.
It all started a few days ago.
Hiruzen Sarutobi brought good news to Mito Uzumaki.
Through their tireless efforts, they finally reached a friendly agreement with the Land of Whirlpools once again.
The Land of Whirlpools is willing to provide Konoha with talented members of the Uzumaki clan to help them pass on the Nine-Tails.
Mito Uzumaki no longer needs to worry about having no successor.
On this very day, she personally removed the Yin seal that she had maintained for many years.
After being relieved, Mito Uzumaki looked at herself in the mirror and felt somewhat unfamiliar with herself.
In particular, the iconic red hair of the Uzumaki clan has also disappeared.
The red hair that symbolized vitality turned black.
So Mito Uzumaki sought out Tsunade, wanting to have a talk with her.
"Xiao Gang."
Tsunade didn't turn around.
Mito Uzumaki stood at the doorway.
She wasn't using a cane or being helped; she wore a plain-colored kimono and her black hair was styled into two buns.
Her face wore her usual gentle smile.
It seems that most things in the world cannot cause her any emotional fluctuations.
Tsunade turned around, as if she had been nailed to the spot.
Mito is old.
It's not about getting old gradually, it's about getting old overnight.
All the traces that had been dissolved by the Yin seal returned to his face.
Wrinkled, sagging skin.
Or rather, this face should have looked like this all along, aged yet covered with kind wrinkles.
"Grandma Mito, what's wrong...?"
"I'm getting old, I don't have much energy anymore." Mito Uzumaki said in a tone as if she were talking about nice weather.
They seem completely unconcerned about their aging.
Upon hearing this, Tsunade anxiously pressed down on Mito's shoulder.
Chakra penetrates the meridians.
Smooth, stable, complete, everything is normal.
There was only one exception: the chakra of the Yin Seal within Mito Uzumaki's body was slowly dissipating.
It wasn't that Grandma Mito didn't have enough energy or didn't want to maintain it, as she claimed, but rather that she voluntarily stopped maintaining it.
Mito gently grasped her wrist: "Don't check anymore, Tsuna. Everyone has this moment."
"My day is coming soon."
Tsunade did not reply.
Aging is not a disease, and death is not a wound.
Even if Tsunade is now considered the strongest medical ninja in Konoha, it's all in vain.
"You still need to work harder on your Yin Seal training. Once you've stored up enough chakra, you can stay young forever. It's just that Grandma doesn't have the energy to maintain it anymore."
Tsunade repeated those two words in her mind.
maintain.
It's not that I lack the ability, it's that I lack the energy.
Mito was the strongest sealing technique master in the ninja world, and the Jinchūriki who had perfectly suppressed the Nine-Tails for decades.
Maintaining the chakra of the meager Yin Seal was effortless.
She just didn't want to continue.
Because Mito Uzumaki lived for too long.
It was so long that her husband died and her child died.
Now even her body is telling her: it's time to go.
"Hiruzen has found the last survivor of the Uzumaki clan. That day is fast approaching."
The Nine-Tails needs a new container.
Mito needs a new successor.
Everything is arranged.
All of this is beyond human control.
"No!" Tsunade's voice was soft, then suddenly rose in pitch.
"I absolutely disagree!"
She turned and rushed out of the room.
She dared not turn around, for fear that if she did, she would never be able to take another step.
When she was young, her grandfather Hashirama passed away, and when she was older, Tobirama Senju also lost his life due to the civil war in the Land of Lightning.
She has already lost too many loved ones.
Now she simply cannot accept the death of Grandma Mito.
So she kept running forward until she saw the Hokage Rock and then stopped.
Beneath Fire Shadow Rock, the stone statues of my great-grandfather and second great-grandfather stand quietly overlooking the village in the sunlight.
In Tsunade's memories, her great-grandfather is Hashirama.
With just a little force, the earth can shake and mountains can be moved; without the need for hand seals, wounds can heal.
That unreasonable vitality, that unpredictable self-healing ability.
Correct!
This is what she wanted.
It's not treatment, it's not repair.
It is creation.
She returned to her room and went into seclusion!
The Hundred Healings Technique stores unused chakra in the Yin Seal, granting extreme self-healing abilities for a short period after its release.
It creates regeneration, stimulates rapid cell division, and completes regeneration instantly upon injury.
The prototypes of the two techniques rapidly took shape in my mind, and the techniques flowed from my fingertips onto the scroll.
She succeeded.
She created the prototypes of these two techniques.
But she ultimately failed.
Because the effects of these two ninjutsu that were created ultimately went completely against her original intentions.
She made a cut on her arm with a knife.
Chakra circulates according to the technique.
It's healed.
Draw again, and heal again.
Repeat several times.
The healing speed was not slow at all.
But the number of cell divisions increased.
Each healing process comes at the cost of a lifetime.
In other words, these two techniques not only fail to stop aging.
It's even accelerating the depletion of lifespan.
Tsunade stared at the blank line.
The original requirement was to fill in "extend natural lifespan".
There's no need to fill it in now, because this ninjutsu is completely impossible.
In the days that followed, she basically never left her room.
Insomnia is common, and so is alcoholism.
Mito Uzumaki never came back.
She knew that Tsunade needed enough time to process this.
That way, when she leaves in the future, Tsunade might not be so heartbroken.
During that time, Rope Tree came by a few times, and she responded twice through the door.
However, there was absolutely no intention to open the door and see the rope tree.
She needs something else to fill her mind now.
Alcohol, work, anything.
Then Rope Tree came again.
This time, I brought a name.
"Sister, do you remember that Yakushi Nonou that Aunt Senju Tsuruko mentioned to you?"
Tsunade remembers.
Hezi had mentioned to her several times that there was a girl in the orphanage with exceptional talent.
Her chakra control is unparalleled among her peers, and she learns basic medical science even faster than she did at her age.
At that time, she was in seclusion, creating ninjutsu, and didn't take those words to heart at all.
Now that Nawaki has brought up the name again, Tsunade is even more curious.
Who exactly could persuade her, with both her older sister and younger brother from the Senju clan, to come and woo her?
"There's one more person! Qingyu! My friend!" Rope Tree peeked through the crack in the door, his voice filled with the enthusiasm of a sales pitch.
"I met both of them at school! Qingyu talks a little strangely, but he's definitely a good person!"
"Even Aunt Tsuruko says Nono's medical talent is amazing! Sister, you should meet her..."
"OK."
Rope Tree paused for a moment, then cheered and turned to run.
Tsunade leaned against the door frame, watching her younger brother's retreating figure.
Then he looked down at his hands.
A highly talented pharmacist named Nono.
There was another person named Qingyu, whom Nawaki said was his good friend.
Tsunade looked at her sleepy face in the mirror and slowly clenched her fist.
It's a good opportunity to bring him to meet Grandma Mito.
Let's see what kind of motives he's using to get close to Rope Tree.
If someone is malicious, her superhuman strength will show them what the consequences are.