Chapter 234
Reinforcements arrived quickly.
Under the command of Hyuga Hizashi, several ninjas of the Hyuga clan used their Byakugan to carefully check everything within their field of vision.
The big businessman Karan stayed in the camp with his men due to some unexpected events.
"Sir, we have found traces of Sand and Cloud Ninjas nearby."
Hinata Hizashi leaped quickly on the tree trunk, landed in front of Lu Nie, and reported to Lu Nie the latest abnormalities he had discovered.
Obviously, the news inevitably leaked out during this period of time, attracting the attention of the Sand Ninja and the Cloud Ninja.
"Sand ninja? Who's leading the team?"
Lu Nie blinked. Now, almost all the elite forces of the Sand Village were invested in finding dragon vein nodes and using dragon veins to create oases. How could they spare the energy and manpower to go out of the village to carry out missions?
"It's Maki from the Sand Ninja." Hyuga Hizashi immediately said the name of the leading jonin of the Sand Ninja team.
"Where are the Cloud Ninjas?" Lu Nie was curious.
The movements of the Cloud Ninjas are indeed somewhat strange and unpredictable at the moment, as if they are revealing to the Ninja World their intention to continue to participate in the Ninja World War, but with other Ninja Villages being alert and cautious, it seems that they are just putting on airs to intimidate.
So now, although other ninja villages still have a certain degree of vigilance against the Cloud Ninjas, they will not pay too much attention to or worry about them as before due to the other party's silence, delay and unclear intentions.
Of course, all ninja villages want to find out what is holding back the Cloud Ninjas, including Konoha, which has sent a number of spies to the Cloud Ninjas.
However, the defense strength of the Cloud Ninja Village exceeded the expectations of all the ninja villages, and most of the spies were exposed under the high-intensity investigation. In the end, the only information that the major ninja villages could obtain was that the reason why the Cloud Ninja suppressed their desire for war and bloodsucking was because there was a problem with the Jinchūriki.
Because more than one spy had felt the power of the Eight-Tails when it was rioting. Almost every time, the Eight-Tails would riot and get out of control. The Fourth-generation Ai, who inherited the Raikage, put almost all his energy and time into suppressing the Eight-Tails.
Therefore, after receiving this information, all the unusual movements and abnormalities of the Cloud Ninja seemed to have a clear direction.
"Not sure, but they seem to be looking for something." Hinata Hizashi shook his head first, which meant that the visitors from the Cloud Ninja were not famous people.
"Sir, we have discovered an underground ruin. There is an energy reaction inside that faintly resonates with the Gray Stone you gave me."
The next moment, a Hyuga ninja hurried over from a distance and quickly reported the information about the discovery of the ruins to Lu Nie.
Lu Nie's heart was immediately delighted. While he asked Hizashi to gather his men, he took Itachi and followed the people to the place where the ruins were discovered.
Using the earth-style ninjutsu to dig out an underground entrance, Lu Nie led everyone to walk in the underground corridor.
“Is there really a country buried here?”
Asuma looked at the civilized architectural style around him and was slightly surprised. He had thought that the book was a bit exaggerated before. But from the magnificent buildings he saw, it was obviously not a small country, but a powerful country with great strength.
Because it has been buried underground for too long, with the passage of time and the movement of the earth's crust, the city has become one with the underground.
The passages in all directions and the corridors that penetrated into the stone walls were like a maze. Fortunately, Lu Nie, who held the Grayer Stone, had been able to transform it into a compass-like effect, constantly correcting and determining the location of the mineral vein. The Byakugan of the Hyuga clan ninjas could even find the most correct path that could lead directly to the destination from the corridors that stretched in all directions.
As Lu Nie pointed the way, Hyuga Hizashi led the way with his Byakugan, helping the team quickly check many dead ends and long roads, and finally accurately brought everyone to the destination.
Lu Nie led his men to the end of the corridor, where they saw a vast underground hall that was like a hemispherical square.
They stood at the broken exit of the tunnel. The veins around Hizashi's eyes throbbed as he looked around.
"Down there! There is a platform!" Hiashi pointed downwards.
The broken corridor and the height naturally could not pose any obstacle to Lu Nie and his team. With just a few leaps, they arrived at the platform that Hiashi pointed to.
It was made up of three cylindrical stone platforms put together to form a triangular platform. There were obvious traces of patterns on the three platforms.
"According to what is written in the book, this should be the place leading to the final destination." Lu Nie recalled what was recorded in the book and began to search on the stone platform.
Fortunately, the ancients who built these did not make any obvious concealments, and after careful searching, they soon found the suspected hub of the mechanism.
It was a circular pattern that was slightly different from the surrounding patterns and seemed to be movable and slightly sunken on the stone platform.
As it was moved and pressed down, the entire stone platform suddenly sank downwards like an elevator with a rumbling sound.
Lu Nie and the others on the stone platform pressed their feet tightly against the ground, watching as the stone platform supporting them sank, and a circular roof covered the sky.
The stone platform sent Lu Nie and the others underground, and a soft light spread all around.
"Are the lighting systems and machinery still functioning properly even now?" The people whose eyes were pierced by the sudden light covered their eyes slightly, somewhat shocked that the ruins were still functioning.
"Look there!" Hiashi pointed to the center of the underground, where a circular square was engraved with dense runes.
"It's a seal rune." Lu Nie walked forward, squatted down and observed the runes under his feet, and confirmed: "Just like the dragon vein, it is a seal used to suppress and seal some kind of huge energy."
"The reaction of the Grell Stone has become very strong! It seems that deeper here is where the Grell Stone vein is located." Itachi felt that the energy of the modified Grell Stone in his palm was beginning to become very active, and he couldn't help but speak out.
"What should we do next? Should we unlock the seal here?" Hinata Hizashi looked at the seal runes under his feet and asked Lu Ni tentatively.
At this point, he and the Hyuga clan ninjas had completed their mission. In this underground space, the effect of the Byakugan had been weakened to the extreme. There was an invisible force that blocked the Byakugan's detection and observation.
"This is a blood seal. Just like the dragon vein, it requires the blood of the royal family of that country to open and close." Lu Nie quickly browsed and read the runes, and based on his knowledge and understanding of sealing techniques, he determined what kind of seal it was.
"Royal bloodline?" Hiashi was stunned. That country had been destroyed for at least hundreds of years, or even nearly a thousand years. Even if there was still royal bloodline, where would they find it?
"It will take some time to crack it and make certain modifications to it." Lu Nie didn't care about the royal bloodline. As long as he could understand the sealing technique here and control and transform it, even if he was not a royal family member, he could achieve the corresponding cracking effect.
(End of this chapter)