Father and Son Showdown

Seeing this, Rasa remained utterly calm. On one hand, he skillfully used the successfully converted Gold Dust to build a solid defensive line against wave after wave of ferocious attacks;

On the other, he swiftly created a Sand Mat made entirely of Gold Dust.

Once everything was ready, Rasa took a deep breath and fiercely plunged both hands into the mountain of Gold Dust before him.

In an instant, a deep, earth-shaking rumble rose from the ground, as though the entire earth were trembling.

At the same time, the formerly still Gold Dust seemed to have suddenly been given life and began to surge violently.

It first gathered into enormous waves, then layered and merged together.

In the end, it became a towering golden wave crest that crashed down toward Gaara with the force to topple mountains and overturn seas.

Taking advantage of the opening, Rasa flashed forward and lightly leaped onto the Gold Dust Sand Mat he had just created.

Without even looking back at Gaara, he pushed off with his feet and sent the Sand Mat racing like an arrow toward the massive breach blasted open earlier by Shukaku's Tailed Beast Ball.

He knew full well that if he could not escape this place quickly, death would soon be waiting for him.

Judging from Namikaze Minato's powerful Fuinjutsu, which could cover the entirety of Konoha's inner city, his unfathomable strength and astonishing Chakra reserves were plain to see.

Although Rasa did not know that Minato was actually the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, merely sensing the terrifying amount of Chakra radiating from him was enough to fill Rasa with awe.

He knew that the gap between himself and Minato was as vast as heaven and earth, that they could not be compared at all.

At that moment, the enormous Gold Dust