Shifting his gaze from the scroll, Seimei channeled Earth Release chakra on the ground.

And within the blink of an eye, the flat ground in front of him began to twist. The rocky ground surged upward before reshaping itself into a makeshift pillar of one meter in height with a smooth, plain surface—perfect to be used as a temporary table.

Seimei didn't use any Jutsu to reshape the earth. He didn't need to.

After all, it was just a basic application of Earth Release nature transformation.

A ninja who had developed their Earth Release nature transformation affinity to at least LV2 would be able to do it with some effort.

And with the LV3 earth affinity, the ninjas could do what Seimei just did with ease.

After all, most Earth Release Ninjutsu relied on molding, reshaping, and reconstructing the very essence of Earth.

For Seimei, whose Earth chakra nature transformation affinity had been developed to LV6, altering and reshaping the earth and dust particles around him was as easy as breathing.

After setting up the temporary table, Seimei put the summoning contract scroll on the flat surface of the makeshift table and opened the scroll.

He carefully read the content of the summoning contract and studied the Fuinjutsu seals carefully before nodding with a satisfied expression.

"The sealing technique and runic patterns etched here may be very different from the usual Fuinjutsu seals used by us to draw a summoning contract, but it's still mostly made of 361 fundamental sealing runes."

"The other runes I didn't exactly recognize at first are auxiliary runes derived from the 361 fundamental runes."

"But after a brief study, I can confidently recognize their purpose and function."

"It's similar to the secondary runic characters of the Uzumaki Sealing Technique's texts, just a bit cruder."

"That's natural. After all, the secondary or the auxiliary runic characters of the Uzumaki Sealing Techniques have been refined over and over for thousands of years."

"Meanwhile, the nature beasts with little to no generational heritage usually learn their own sealing techniques from scratch after reaching a certain level of power."

"That giant wolf might be old. But judging from its character and the information it leaked during our conversation, it shouldn't be older than a few hundred years—five or six hundred years at most."

"Hmm? I will ask its age after we form the summoning pact. For a beast this old, it should have plenty of useful knowledge that we might not know yet."

"Alright. The final inspection is complete. There's no problem with this summoning contract. It's time to take the final step."

With that, Seimei put his palm in the middle of the contract seal and poured approximately 200 units of chakra into it.

Humm… Humm…

The seal in the summoning contract greedily devoured the chakra Seimei had just supplied before all the runes and the entire seal started emitting faint blue light.

A light breeze stirred around the summoning contract. With a low hum, the glowing runes and seals seemed to pulse, as if they had broken through their mundane state and come alive.

The contract had been activated.

Now, he just had to follow two more simple steps to complete the contract signing process on his end and wait for the giant wolf to approve it.

Only by doing this would the wolf finally become his summon.

However, watching the entire process unfold before his eyes, Seimei's thoughts couldn't help but drift to a certain thought.

He smiled slightly before muttering, "The process of signing a summoning contract feels more like signing a magical contract from a fantasy world of sword and magic."

He couldn't be blamed for this.

According to his past life's memory of Narutoverse, signing a summoning contract only needed the ninjas to bite their thumbs and splash a little bit of their blood on the contract.

In the anime, even signing summoning contracts with the legendary toads and the slime Katsuyu from the distant Sage Lands, only needed ninjas to add their names to the already prepared summoning contract scrolls.

The entire process was mundane. It looked pretty simple.

However, after he was transmigrated into the actual Shinobi world, he finally understood the intricacies of the summoning contract.

Signing a contract required your chakra, genetic signature (typically obtained through blood), and your name.

This would form a connection between you and your intended summoning beast.

An inexplicable connection that wouldn't be severed unless one of them truly died or severed the connection through mutual consent.

The connection could even allow the ninja and the summoning beast to feel each other's emotions.

Although these new, unknown, and mysterious things sparked endless curiosity, they no longer surprised him.

After all, this was an alternative Narutoverse. Many things are still fundamentally the same. Yet, there are many differences.

A whole new world, urging him to explore and reach faraway lands.

One day, he would surely go on a journey and explore the unknown lands. But now was not the time. He was still too weak.

He would wait and focus on growing stronger until his power reached the very peak of the Kage-level.

Before that, going on a solo journey in those dangerous lands would be nothing short of committing suicide.

Soon, he put his random thoughts aside and focused his gaze on the glowing summoning contract pulsating with faint blue light.

The next step was writing his original name on the summoning contract.

"My original name, huh?"

Seimei stayed silent for a while before grabbing a pen from his pocket and writing his name in the designated location within the contract seal.

Humm…

As Seimei finished signing his own name, the pulsating blue light that made the runes and the seal glow suddenly intensified slightly.

The chakra and a few runes began to move toward his name before the letters of his name also began glowing with a soft blue hue.

If someone looked at the contract now, they wouldn't find the name "Senju Seimei."

Instead, they would see:

[Otsutsuki Seimei]

Next, Seimei held a thin needle in his left hand. "Just one last step is remaining."

Without further delay, he gently pricked the tip of his index finger with the needle. Then, he squeezed out a drop of deep crimson blood from his index finger that fell directly in the middle of the contract seal.

What? You thought he was going to bite his thumb and stamp a bloody thumbprint on the contract seal?

Hell nah!

He didn't have a thumb-biting fetish like those ninjas around him.

Unless he found himself in an emergency, such as in the middle of a battle, he would never do something like biting his thumb.

Wasn't using a sterilized needle better?

Anyway, he had finished all the steps on his end, and now he just had to wait for the big white wolf to approve the summoning pact.

He looked toward the brilliantly glowing and pulsating runes of the contract and waited for a response.

At the same time…

The giant, blue wolf felt a faint connection from its summoning contract and opened its closed eyes.

Its eyes glowed with an icy-blue glow as it digested the information it received from Seimei's end.

"This chakra signature? I see. That human boy had finally initiated the contract ritual."

"Very well."

"I, the frost wolf Shirayuki, accept the contract."

As soon as the giant wolf, whose name was Shirayuki, approved the summoning pact, a faint blue, intricate sealing pattern appeared on its head before slowly disappearing.

With this, the summoning pact between the man and wolf was formed.

The wolf gazed in the direction of Konoha and muttered, "Otsutsuki Seimei, I hope we will explore the world together in the future."

Meanwhile, a blue, intricate sealing pattern, one that was identical to the sealing pattern that had appeared on the forehead of Shirayuki, appeared on the back of Seimei's right hand before slowly disappearing.

At this moment, Seimei had also learned the name of his summoning companion through the connection of the contract.

"Shirayuki"

And soon, Seimei heard a familiar sound of system notifications in his mind.

Ding~

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