People are in Konoha, scientific achievements are followed by blood

Holding the replica of the Death Mask in her hand, Yayoi thought silently.

The sealing technique exerted by Orochimaru has a deep connection with Yayoi's own technique.

Therefore, he is capable of cracking this technique, it just takes some time.

Yayoi did not forget the purpose of coming here, so he put away the mask and continued to look at the scenery in the main hall.

After the destruction of the Whirlpool Kingdom more than ten years ago, and the two recent arrivals of Orochimaru, after two waves of looting, there are basically no valuable artifacts in this temple.

The eight most valuable Death Masks have long since disappeared, leaving only the murals on the four walls of the main hall.

Yayoi could only stare at the contents of these murals with wide eyes.

The content of the mural was quite strange, very different from what he imagined. It did not depict ninjutsu or ninjas, but wizards, ghosts and gods, and other strange stories that were very different from the normal painting style of the ninja world. It was somewhat similar to the ruins of the Kingdom of Demons.

There are four murals, the general contents are:

In the first painting, on the left side of the screen, two young men are chased by an invisible darkness and approach a stone portal in the shape of an evil spirit.On the right side of the picture, that is, on the other side of the ghost gate, are eight ferocious-looking ghosts and gods, and a sun radiating lines of light on all sides.

In the second painting, on the left side of the screen, one of the men was seemingly eaten by ghosts and gods, while the other man was overtaken by darkness and dragged into the source of darkness, underground.On the right side of the ghost gate is a young woman in mourning clothes and a sun.

In the third painting, the scene changes, the darkness recedes, and the ghost gate disappears. Only the ghost that eats people sits and lies on the ground.An old woman wearing the same mask as the ghost and god held a rib and cut open the ghost's belly.A young man crawled out of the belly of the ghost. It was the man who had been swallowed before. There was no sun in this painting.

The fourth painting is a group of people wearing wooden masks and holding ribs, dancing a weird dance around eight people dressed as ghosts and gods. This time there is still no sun in the painting, but there is no sun. A full moon adorned with radiating lines.

This dance form is very similar to the Nuo sacrifice activities in ancient China. It is called Nuo dance, also known as ghost drama. It is a twin that combines religious culture and drama culture.

However, the masks worn by the people in the murals are not like the "Nuo noodles" used in sacrifices, but closer to the "Noh noodles" carved from cypress wood in traditional Japanese dramas.

There are some unknown ancient text chapters engraved in the intervals between each mural.

Seeing this, Yayoi keenly discovered that one of the eight ferocious-looking ghosts and gods looked exactly like one of the 27 masks in his laboratory.

"The contents of these murals always give people an inexplicable sense of déjà vu..." An unreliable idea came to Yayoi's mind:

'Could it be that Orochimaru just based on these murals, he whimsically developed the decryption technique to seal away the zombies? ! '

At this time, he also recalled some of the 'minor details' he had seen in the memory of the heretic demons. Weird folk activities similar to this seemed to have been popular in the world before the arrival of the sacred tree.

In fact, the power system of the ninja world is not entirely derived from the sacred tree brought by Kaguya Otsutsuki.

When the Six Paths Sage Otsutsuki Hagoromo fought against his mother Kaguya, he once mentioned that he had practiced 'senjutsu' with Tomamaru of Mt. Myoboku, and the power to save Otsutsuki Hamura's life was also restored with chakra. The power that Myobokuyama possessed before it spread.

From this point of view, the Uzumaki clan's corpse-sealing technique inherited to a certain extent some local technologies passed down from ancient times.

However, after having such a convenient thing as chakra, some ninjutsu transformations were made over a long period of time, and the current form was formed that is both a sealing technique and a psychic technique, full of ritual and yet A special ninjutsu involving something as weird as the Shinigami.

After memorizing the contents of the murals, Yayoi studied the murals for a long time, and at the same time used his fingers to clasp the ropes on them, but found nothing new.

"It seems that there is nothing of value here anymore."

Yayoi sighed. After two waves of looting by the forces of the Kingdom of Destruction and Orochimaru, it was considered very rare to have these four murals left here.

Especially Orochimaru, after perfecting the art of reincarnation in the dirty land, he is a ruthless person who knows how to pick up graves.

Thinking of this, Yayoi left the shrine and walked in another direction.

The place he was going to was the Uzumaki clan's cemetery. The port, shrine, and cemetery were located on the same straight line.

The shrine is different from the temple in that it is quite far from the cemetery.

Under the bright moonlight, at a glance, there are square columnar stone tablets standing on the cemetery. The name of the tomb owner is engraved on the front, and some smaller and longer text chapters are engraved on the side, which seems to be the life story of the tomb owner.

There are also long decayed wooden boards inserted behind many stone tablets. The wooden boards symbolize Buddhist pagodas and are called Zutappo. There are some incomprehensible ancient characters written on them.

By the moonlight, Yayoi carefully distinguished and found that many of the characters engraved on the stone tablets were ancient characters that were different from the normal characters in the ninja world.

This made Yayoi a little confused. When he was in the Land of Rain, although his parents taught him the ninjutsu of the Uzumaki clan, they did not tell him about this kind of writing.

I'm afraid, even among the Uzumaki clan, only a few people know this kind of ancient writing, such as the old people who specialize in carving monuments.

Some of these unidentified tombs already show signs of being excavated. Needless to say, these are almost 100% the work of Orochimaru.

After secretly cursing Orochimaru, Yayoi bowed slightly to the cemetery, then left without any regrets and walked in the direction from where she came.

He held the mask left by Orochimaru in his hand, and his fingers lightly traced the lines on the mask's surface.

After touching the location of the seal, his expression became thoughtful.

It had been over a year since he had completely cut off contact with Orochimaru.

'That guy Orochimaru, could it be that he was influenced by me and tried the reincarnation ninjutsu in advance, and then killed himself...'

Yayoi had a hunch that the death mask that Uncle Snake deliberately placed here might be the clue he deliberately left.

"The question is, why did this guy conclude that he would definitely come to the ruins of Uzushio Village?" Yayoi was a little curious.

You must know that this time when the ship docked in the Kingdom of Whirlpool, it was a perfect coincidence. It was a complete accident.

"When the seal is released, you will know what tricks he is playing..."