Seeing that a dangerous chakra beast that could take their lives and send their souls to the Pure Land was coming their way, Seimei knew he had to act.
And he had to act fast.
He quickly snapped his head toward his friends and said, "Touma, Haneda. A powerful chakra beast, possibly one with S-rank danger rating, is coming here."
"We need to get out of here. Right now."
Feeling the urgency in Seimei's voice, both Touma and Haneda tensed immediately.
But Touma still asked, "Are you sure you detected correctly? How can an S-rank chakra beast, which usually stays within the core region of Deepwood Forest, come here, to the outer peripheral region?"
"Is it possible that it's just an AA-rank beast that is on the verge of reaching the S-rank. In that case, we can definitely fight it."
Seimei immediately cursed, "Fight my ass, you bastard."
"That chakra beast will reach here within a few minutes. If we don't get away now, we will lose a limb or two to retreat, given that we don't die right away."
Haneda had a solemn expression and asked, "Then why are we arguing here? Let's run."
Seimei shook his head grimly and replied, "Just running away won't work. A powerful chakra beast, especially one that reached the threshold of S-rank, can easily track us using our scent from miles away."
"If we want to run away successfully, we need to create a diversion and hold the beast here as long as possible while we get the hell out of here."
After saying that, Seimei reached out to his storage seal, which was curved into his bracelet, and retrieved three sealing tags.
He kept one and gave the other two to Touma and Haneda.
Although Touma and Haneda were confused, they took the sealing tags and looked at Seimei with a questioning look.
Seimei didn't keep them in suspense and immediately explained the function of the sealing tags.
"Alright. This here is the sealing tag containing the Chakra Isolation Seal, a special Fuinjutsu seal I have invented to prevent any ninja or chakra beast with a powerful sensory capability from detecting our chakra or chakra signature using their chakra field."
"As long as you don't use any Jutsu that causes significant disturbance in the chakra around you, this Fuinjutsu seal can help you conceal your chakra from other people's sensory range completely."
Next, Seimei retrieved a glass container and sprayed its liquid content several times on him while explaining, "And this is a special liquid that will completely mask your smell or scent."
"Just freaking spray it on your body multiple times, and it will do the trick."
Hearing this, Touma and Haneda nodded, took the spray, and applied it to themselves.
Seimei took a deep breath and focused his gaze toward the incoming chakra beast's location.
"Now, I just need to set up a diversion that will give us an ample amount of time to run away from its detection range and leave this forest."
Soon, Seimei formed a single-handed cross seal with his middle and index fingers and poured no less than 200,000 units of chakra into the Jutsu.
Puff!!!
An extremely stable and solid shadow clone, capable of taking several heavy hits and even lacerations, appeared beside Seimei.
Seimei looked at the shadow clone's eyes, and the shadow clone did the same.
Being an extension of Seimei's chakra, the shadow clone already knew what its job was.
It nodded at Seimei with a solemn expression. Finally, it activated the Body Flicker Technique and disappeared from its spot.
Its destination?
It was clearly toward the chakra beast that was approaching them.
Seimei explained to his friends, "My shadow clone will act as a diversion and try to buy us as much time as possible."
"Now, let's activate the Chakra Isolation Seal. It's about time we depart from this forest."
Touma and Haneda nodded.
Next, all three of them channeled chakra into the sealing tags, causing the sealing technique to activate and create an invisible barrier around them, completely isolating their chakra from a third party's senses or detection range.
With everything in place, the trio also activated the Body Flicker Technique and rushed toward the exit of the Deepwood Forest as quickly and silently as possible.
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While Seimei and his friends were rushing to get out of the forest as soon as possible, Seimei's shadow clone was moving to intercept the approaching wolf-like creature.
After a couple of minutes, the shadow clone finally saw the figure of the chakra beast without using the farsight ability of his Tenseigan.
After all, it was just a few hundred meters away from him.
The creature was a massive wolf with glossy, white fur that resembled snow. It was a little more than five meters tall and eight meters long.
It had long canines, sharp claws, and a pair of beautiful blue eyes as piercing as the winter chill, and a small crown-like structure over its head.
Overall, the chakra beast looked rather majestic.
But the massive reserves of chakra sitting peacefully inside its body, ready to burst with full power, made the shadow clone of Seimei realize the explosive strength hidden within its majestic form.
As Seimei's shadow clone was assessing the approaching beast, the beast's icy-blue eyes also locked onto him.
As soon as their eyes were locked, the shadow clone immediately broke out in a cold sweat. The sheer pressure and ferocity radiating from the chakra beast were enough to make others unable to move in fear and turn their legs into jelly.
But is Seimei, or to be precise, his shadow clone, the type of person who gets paralyzed by powerful opponents?
Of course not.
If he did, he would be the shame of all transmigrators.
What's more, he was just a shadow clone.
Even if he died, he would just dissolve into a puff of smoke while transferring all the experiences and memories to the main body.
So, what was there to be afraid of?
As long as he could stall the wolf, everything would be fine.
The main body had given him no less than 200,000 units of chakra. He could spam Ninjutsu all day. Fuck it, let's fight.
With renewed determination, the shadow clone of Seimei gathered and molded a massive amount of chakra and turned it into powerful Water Release chakra inside his throat.
Water Release: Water Severing Wave
In the blink of an eye, Seimei expelled a compressed, high-pressure jet of water from his mouth that carried enough power to slice through a block of thick steel like a hot knife through a block of butter.
The jet of water quickly rushed toward the wolf's body, ready to pierce through its head and torso.
But the wolf showed no sign of fear. It didn't even make any attempt to dodge the deadly jet of water.
Instead, its eyes gleamed for a second.
It stopped on its track, directed its snout toward the sky, and let out an ear-piercing howl.
"Aaaawoooooooooo!!"
At that moment, a surge of violent chakra emanated from its body, and the surrounding temperature dropped rapidly.
A gust of icy air blew around the wolf, covering trees, stones, leaves, ground, and everything else within a radius of a hundred meters in a thick layer of ice.
As for the deadly waterjet approaching it?
It turned into ice before it could even reach the wolf. In fact, the ice traced the water and spread toward Seimei, forcing him to cancel the Jutsu.
"Tsk!"
"It's going to be tough!"
Seimei's shadow clone clicked its tongue and assessed the current situation to create a proper battle strategy as soon as possible.
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