"Tsunade, are you alright?"
"Bastard Yagyu, don't get cocky!"
"Dan Kato was actually killed... damn it!"
"Did Dan Kato's Spirit Transformation Technique fail too?"
The Third Hokage and the others, who had rushed to the scene, saw the state of things and shouted out one after another.
"Oh~ Everyone is here!"
"Plan 1: Secretly poison—Failed!"
"Plan 2: Seal with barrier ninjutsu—Failed!"
"Plan 3: Control with Mind Body Switch Technique—Failed!"
"Plan 4: Soul erasure with Spirit Transformation Technique—Failed!"
"That means you should be moving on to Plan 5 now, right?"
Yagyu tilted his head, sizing up the Third Hokage and the others as he spoke nonchalantly.
"Oh~ That's right! You've transferred the Yamanaka clan ninjas over here again. It seems you haven't given up on Plan 3 yet!"
Yagyu's heart stirred; his Observation Haki detected the Yamanaka clan ninjas appearing in the surroundings.
"Cut the crap!"
Tsunade shouted in annoyance, moving her body to charge at Yagyu again.
With a lazy expression, Yagyu used his Elementalization, letting Tsunade pass right through him.
However, just as Tsunade passed through him, a black marking on her clothes caught Yagyu's eye.
It was the Flying Thunder God technique formula. Yagyu had spotted it by chance.
"I knew it..."
A playful smile appeared on Yagyu's face as he looked into the distance.
His Observation Haki told him that Minato Namikaze was standing on top of a building far away.
"Climbing high to gaze far... and holding a telescope?"
The corners of Yagyu's mouth curled up, a teasing smile on his face.
His vision blurred, and Minato Namikaze appeared beside him.
Minato had been observing the battle between Yagyu and Tsunade. The moment Tsunade and Yagyu were incredibly close, he instantly teleported there.
"Four Symbols Seal!"
Minato Namikaze's hand, condensed with black runes, unceremoniously slapped towards Yagyu.
Yagyu glanced at Minato Namikaze calmly. A mocking smile appeared on his face as his body transformed into countless light particles and shot out.
On top of a distant building, Yagyu looked at Minato Namikaze with disdain and said, "This is your Plan 5: Flying Thunder God Technique combined with Sealing Jutsu, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yagyu's body turned into light particles again and flew out. In the blink of an eye, he appeared in a nearby alley, where golden light suddenly bloomed.
Boom!
An explosion rang out, and a Yamanaka clan ninja flew out in a wretched state, crashing to the ground with a thud, dead instantly.
Yagyu walked out of the alley with his hands in his pockets, shaking his head helplessly. "Your coordination is terrible!"
"You should have had the Yamanaka clan ninja use the Mind Body Switch Technique to control me the moment Tsunade got close."
"Then Minato Namikaze could suddenly appear, and you could seal me away."
"I think this tactic is pretty good. Do you want to try it? It would be more useful than attacking me while I'm talking."
Yagyu spoke slowly, offering suggestions to the Third Hokage and the others.
This suggestion sounded reasonable, but in reality, it was complete nonsense.
Being theoretically useful meant nothing; the operational difficulty of such a tactic was sky-high.
With the Yamanaka clan's reckless "charge forward like a wild boar" attack style, expecting them to seize such a subtle opportunity in battle was simply impossible.
The Yamanaka clan's secret techniques were just too unreliable; otherwise, they wouldn't have partnered with the Nara and Akimichi clans.
Only when the Akimichi clan opened up the situation and the Nara clan restrained the enemy's movements could the Yamanaka clan use their secret techniques with absolute certainty.
Unfortunately, Yagyu's special abilities rendered the Akimichi and Nara clans useless, leaving the Yamanaka clan to struggle on their own.
Without the support of their teammates, the success rate of their secret techniques was already greatly reduced.
Asking them to time their attacks precisely in battle was harder than killing them.
Just as Yagyu spoke, pitch-black patterns appeared on the ground nearby.
Runes of a sealing jutsu spread across the ground, rapidly approaching Yagyu.
The black patterns drew a circle around Yagyu, forming a seal intended to trap him.
However, with a light-speed movement, Yagyu escaped the moment the sealing jutsu activated.
"A sealing jutsu? So scary!"
"As expected of the sealing jutsu passed down through generations of the Uzumaki clan. Truly scary!"
Yagyu's body reformed nearby. He looked at a red-haired girl not far away and spoke nonchalantly.
Sealing jutsu were very powerful; they could seal basically anything.
Even an immortal existence like Kaguya Otsutsuki could be sealed away.
However, the drawbacks of sealing jutsu were also obvious. Even top-tier sealing jutsu like the Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei had the weakness of requiring physical contact to activate.
As for the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Danzo used in the original story, that was even more of a joke.
There were signs as soon as the seal activated. The time between the signs appearing and the seal initiating was enough for the enemy to retreat leisurely.
"You bastard!"
Kushina Uzumaki stared at Yagyu angrily, her red hair floating without wind, making her look terrifying.
Golden chains surged from her body, their sharp spearheads stabbing toward Yagyu.
"Sealing Jutsu: Adamantine Sealing Chains? Interesting!"
Yagyu looked curiously at the golden chains whistling toward him. After a thought, he didn't dodge or resist.
He wanted to see the difference between his Elementalization and the Hozuki clan's Hydrification Technique.
The Hozuki clan's Hydrification Technique allowed their bodies to turn into water, but they were countered by the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
The Uzumaki clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains could ignore the liquefied bodies of the Hozuki clan and attack their main bodies directly.
However, Yagyu's Elementalization was different. Kushina Uzumaki's Adamantine Sealing Chains passed right through him.
The golden chains didn't hit Yagyu's true body and caused him no harm whatsoever.
"No effect!"
"Young maiden of the Uzumaki clan!"
"Your Adamantine Sealing Chains don't seem able to hit my true body!"
Yagyu spoke slowly, having realized what was happening.
Both the Hydrification Technique and Elementalization allowed a person's body to transform into flowing natural elements.
But their principles were different; one couldn't classify them together just because they looked similar.
The Hydrification Technique was a ninjutsu; the body turning into water was caused by chakra transformation.
The Adamantine Sealing Chains could suppress chakra, so they could attack the true body of someone using Hydrification.
Yagyu's Elementalization, however, had nothing to do with chakra; the two were different power systems.
Therefore, the Adamantine Sealing Chains couldn't suppress his Elementalization.