Chapter 36 Blood Seal

That night, Naruto gathered some sticks and leaves and prepared to start a fire.

He could have cremated the last body as soon as he found it, before the sun went down, but he felt that would be wrong.

He waited until the sun went down.

The warm firelight illuminated the land, dispelling the dust and smell of blood.

He carefully placed the tinder around the simple stone pyre, avoiding touching the bones.

When everything was ready, he sat down in front of the fire and tiredly made four seals: snake, dragon, rabbit and tiger.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

The flames rolled, enveloping the people of the Whirlpool Kingdom.

The color of the flames kept changing, from red to green, then to blue, and finally to white. The heat waves rushed towards him, burning Naruto's cheeks and eyes.

But he didn't look away.

He watched intently, watching the skeletons turn into ashes in the flames, and watching the ashes being picked up by the wind and drifting into the air.

When the last bone turned to dust, a strong wind suddenly arose, rolling the flames into a huge spiral, forming a brief white fire tornado, and then everything returned to calm.

Naruto lowered his head and blinked away the white spots in his eyes. His heart was beating so hard that it seemed like it was going to jump out of his chest.

At this time, a wolf appeared not far in front of him.

The wolf was huge in size, covered in black fur without a trace of other colors. From nose to tail, it exuded a chilling aura.

It looked at him with a calm and cold gaze. Its silver-white eyes had no pupils, but they were flashing with a strange light.

Naruto struggled to stand up, but just this small movement made him feel dizzy and his stomach churned. He knew that this was the result of the corrosion of the Nine-Tails' chakra, and he was almost reaching his limit.

If the wolf wanted to attack him, he would be powerless to resist.

However, the wolf did not move, it just stood there, waiting and watching quietly.

Somehow, Naruto felt that some ancient instinct had been awakened, an animal intuition from deep within his soul.

This intuition has never let him down. Whether facing the fate of the Whirlpool Country or the powerful Nine-Tailed Fox in his body, he chooses to believe in his intuition and believe in this animal instinct that transcends humans.

Despite being exhausted and covered in wounds, Naruto still managed to stand up straight and responded to the wolf with a firm look.

This time, the wolf finally moved. It shook its strong shoulders, bent its hind legs, and howled to the sky.

The howling of wolves resounded through the sky, shaking the entire island.

The air seemed to be impacted by some force and began to fluctuate violently. At this moment, the seal covering the island finally collapsed.

The island, which had been silent for hundreds of years, finally came back to life.

The sounds around gradually became clearer. The trees swayed in the wind, making rustling sounds. The strong wind howled through the valley like a wild beast that had escaped from a cage. Even the air seemed full of vitality, flowing and jumping.

Naruto turned around and looked at this land that had been dead and silent for hundreds of years, his heart filled with indescribable shock.

With a click, a ray of white light burst out from the stone under the wolf's feet, spreading rapidly along an invisible trajectory, and finally formed a huge pentagram pattern.

The light flowed like liquid starlight, extending along the trajectory of the chakra, and finally covering the entire square.

The light became more and more dazzling, and Naruto could hardly look directly at it. There was another loud bang, and the mosaic fragments and rubble on the square were instantly evaporated, replaced by a larger and more complex seal.

The wolf's gaze fell on Naruto once again, lightning streaking through the night sky, making the wolf's figure look even more majestic.

The dark clouds in the sky began to roll and gather, as if foreshadowing that a storm was about to come.

Naruto wanted to try to stand up again, but he was too weak to even take a step. The feeling of nausea rose from his stomach and rushed straight to his throat.

He fell to his knees, covering his mouth with his hands, but still couldn't stop the feeling of churning in his body. Finally, he spat out a mouthful of chakra that smelled foul.

His eyes were blurred and his consciousness began to become hazy, but he could still feel the oppressive and tense atmosphere around him, and the powerful force brewing above his head. It was a force that did not belong to this world, full of anger and destruction.

Naruto felt a powerful energy exploding around him. He gritted his teeth, grasped his clothes tightly, and tried to keep his balance.

He opened his eyes again and found that the wolf had come to him, his eyes focused and determined.

Like the animal spirit before it, it was here to help him. The wolf gently crawled under Naruto's arms and supported him with its body.

The man and the wolf came to the center of the huge seal, to the center of the pentagram.

Naruto thought that the violent chakra in the seal would devour him, but when he passed through the energy flow, he did not suffer any harm, which surprised him.

He wasn't sure if this was because of the changed nature of his chakra, or if it was because of the wolf's spiritual power protecting him.

When he came to the center of the seal, he found there was only a bunch of messy lines. There was no meaning at all, just some curves and slashes with no regular pattern.

But for some reason, he suddenly remembered the teachings of the Nine-Tailed Fox - powerful forces often exist in opposites, and true balance often exists in contradictions.

So he began trying to find order in chaos.

If no one reminded him, he might never be able to understand the mystery.

But in the end, he found the answer in those seemingly meaningless lines. They were the moon and the sun, the yin and the yang.

Another memory came to mind, the memory of Fengying -

The blood of the firstborn can calm the wrath of the storm.

Naruto bit his thumb and let the blood drip onto his palm.

Although that drop of black blood looked somewhat ominous, it still flowed with the power of the Whirlpool Kingdom.

He found the center point of the symbol, where the tip of the moon met the center of the sun, and then pressed his blood-stained palm hard on it.

There was a loud bang, like the sound of a drum, echoing between heaven and earth.

A purifying force spread out from under his feet, and the violent energy in the air dissipated instantly, and even the dark clouds above his head dissipated.

At the same time, a powerful force surged into Naruto's body, far beyond his ability to bear. He felt as if he was being pulled by an invisible force, falling into an endless abyss...