The Blood Moon Finally Falls, the Price of Redemption!

"ROAR AROOOOO--!!!!!"

The Nine-Tails' eyes instantly turned crimson red! More violent, more chaotic, and a purer aura of destruction erupted! It completely broke free from the fragile shackles of the Sharingan's control and temporarily escaped the oppressive fear brought by the Wood Release Buddha statue! It was no longer controlled by anyone, becoming a calamitous beast born purely for destruction!

It no longer attacked the Buddha statue, but instead unleashed all its madness upon Konohagakure! Its giant claws swung, smashing the remaining buildings to pieces! Its tail swept across, sending countless burning fragments flying towards densely populated areas! Although it didn't have a Tailed Beast Bomb, the high-temperature flames and Chakra torrents it spewed still caused immense destruction and casualties!

"Not good! It's completely out of control!" Minato's expression changed drastically!

"Damn it!" Duanmu Ci's heart also sank! Obito intended to use the out-of-control Nine-Tails to completely destroy Konoha!

"Kushina!" Tsunade's anxious voice came! As the Nine-Tails completely lost control and unleashed an even more terrifying Chakra surge, Kushina, who was already extremely weak, trembled violently. The consequences of the seal being completely broken began to backfire! The remaining sealing runes on her abdomen emitted an ominous light, and her life force was draining away rapidly like a flood! Tsunade tried her best to channel Yang Release Chakra, but could only barely slow it down!

"Kushina! Hang in there!" Minato's heart twisted with pain when he saw his wife's condition! He had to get to her immediately!

"Minato-senpai! Go save Kushina-nee! Leave this to me!" Duanmu Ci roared, his eyes resolute! He had to face this completely insane World Annihilation beast alone! He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his body's fatigue and the drain on his eye powers, and boosted his Sage Chakra and Rinnegan's power once again!

"Come on! You beast! Let me see... just how strong you are, you incarnation of hatred!" Duanmu Ci controlled the Wood Release Buddha statue, and dozens of giant arms rose again, carrying an even more resolute will, to meet the completely insane Nine-Tails!

The golden light of the Buddha statue and the crimson flames of the Nine-Tails engaged in an even more tragic collision under the blood moon! Each clash caused the earth to shatter and the space to tremble!

And at this moment, in Duanmu Ci's mind, a cold and grand voice, as if crossing the barriers of time and space, quietly sounded as he fully activated his Rinnegan to fight the Nine-Tails:

"Hatred... chaos... destruction... familiar nourishment..."

"Rinne... Eye... Ōtsutsuki's legacy... why does it manifest in this world?"

"Vessel... will... interesting..."

"My name... is Demonic Statue of the Outer Path..."

The voice was intermittent, cold, ancient, and filled with chaos and hunger, like whispers from the depths of the abyss, directly resounding in the depths of Duanmu Ci's Spirit! It was the source of that distant and malicious Chakra from before! Now, as Duanmu Ci fully activated his Rinnegan to fight the Nine-Tails, and as the Nine-Tails' hatred Chakra reached its peak, this connection was strengthened like never before!

Demonic Statue of the Outer Path?! The husk of the Ten-Tails?! It's trying to communicate with me through the Rinnegan?! Duanmu Ci's heart shook violently! This sudden Mental Interference caused a slight delay in his control of the Buddha statue!

BOOM--!!!

The Nine-Tails seized this momentary opening! A giant claw burning with crimson flames smashed several of the Buddha's arms, and the violent force, transmitted through the energy connection, slammed into Duanmu Ci!

"Puh!" Duanmu Ci was struck hard, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his body shook violently, and his face turned as pale as gold paper! The light of the Wood Release Buddha statue dimmed for a moment! Maintaining such a massive Sage Art and eye technique, fighting against a completely berserk Nine-Tails, coupled with this strange mental impact, his consumption had reached its limit!

"Duanmu!" Tsunade, who was doing her best to save Kushina, saw Duanmu Ci spit blood and was terrified! She wished she could rush over immediately, but Kushina's life was like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment, and she couldn't break away!

"ROAR--!!!" The Nine-Tails let out a victorious and violent roar, pouncing even more fiercely towards the dimmed Buddha statue and Duanmu Ci! The destructive crimson flames swept across the heavens and the earth!

Just at this critical moment!

"Kushina!!" Minato's heart-wrenching cry rang out!

As the Nine-Tails completely lost control and the Chakra surge reached its peak, the remnants of the seal on Kushina's abdomen finally collapsed completely! The crimson light, symbolizing the Nine-Tails' Chakra, gushed out of her body like a dam breaking! Her life force dimmed rapidly, like a candle extinguished by a gust of wind!

"No--!!!" Minato's eyes were about to split, and he rushed to his wife's side at all costs! His last bit of Chakra frantically poured into Kushina's body, trying to save the dying flame of life!

"Minato..." Kushina's voice was as weak as a thread, and her blood-stained hand trembled as she touched her husband's cheek, her eyes filled with endless Love, reluctance, and... a trace of relief. "Protect... Naruto... our... child..."

Before she could finish speaking, her hand fell limply, and the light in her eyes was completely extinguished.

"Kushina--!!!" Minato held his wife's still-warm body and let out a heart-wrenching wail! The immense Sorrow engulfed him like a tsunami! He had lost the most important person in his life!

However, just as Kushina's flame of life was extinguished, and the Nine-Tails' Chakra was about to completely dissipate and return to nature, an unexpected change occurred!

Duanmu Ci endured the injuries and mental impact, and the Rinnegan's patterns in his eyes flickered wildly! An extremely bold, almost insane idea instantly formed in his mind! He couldn't stand by and watch Kushina die! He had to do something!

"Sealing Technique: Absorption Seal!" Duanmu Ci suddenly raised his hand towards Kushina's corpse! The Rinnegan's powerful eye technique was activated!

Buzz--!!!

A powerful suction force, originating from the Rinnegan's rules, instantly enveloped the massive, unrestrained Nine-Tails Chakra that was dissipating from Kushina's corpse! This was not sealing, but forcibly plundering and absorbing!

The massive torrent of crimson Chakra, filled with hatred and violence, was forcibly pulled and devoured into Duanmu Ci's Rinnegan like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea!

"Ughhhhh--!!!"

Indescribable pain instantly swept through Duanmu Ci's entire body! It was the impact of the purest hatred and destructive will! His Rinnegan felt as if it was being filled with molten lava, causing a tearing pain! Every inch of his body's meridians felt as if it was about to be burst open by this violent alien Chakra! Blood seeped out of his seven orifices! He felt as if he was about to be completely devoured and assimilated by the Nine-Tails' hatred!

"Duanmu! What are you doing?! Stop it now!" Tsunade was scared out of her wits when she saw Duanmu Ci actually absorbing the Nine-Tails Chakra! This was no different from suicide!

"Duanmu-kun!" Minato, who was in Sorrow, was also stunned!

But Duanmu Ci clenched his teeth, and even his gums were bleeding! He frantically circulated his Sage Chakra and Rinnegan's power, trying to suppress and channel this violent energy! He didn't want to become a Jinchuriki, but to use the Rinnegan's "Sealing Technique: Absorption Seal" to temporarily contain this part of the Chakra, and then...

"Outer Path - Rebirth Samsara... prototype... reverse!" Duanmu Ci roared in his heart, pushing the Rinnegan's power to an unprecedented limit! He tried to imitate the principle of the Rebirth Samsara technique, but the goal was not to revive the dead, but to use this forcibly plundered Nine-Tails Chakra (Tailed Beast Chakra is essentially a highly condensed mixture of life force and natural energy), which contained enormous life energy, to forcibly inject it into Kushina's body, whose flame of life had just been extinguished but had not completely dissipated! To reverse life and death!

This was an unprecedented and crazy attempt! The success rate was slim! The backlash would be enormous!

BOOM--!!!

The moment Duanmu Ci injected the relatively gentle red-gold Chakra (mixed with Sage Art and Rinnegan power), which had been forcibly suppressed and had most of its violent hatred will "filtered" out by the Rinnegan's eye power, into Kushina's body through the Rinnegan's connection!

Kushina's cold corpse suddenly bloomed with a dazzling red-gold light! A weak but real life force, like a spark, was rekindled in her body!

"Cough cough...!" Kushina's chest rose and fell extremely weakly, and she let out an almost inaudible cough!

"Kushina?!" Minato couldn't believe his eyes! The immense Sorrow was instantly replaced by ecstasy! He felt that his wife's body... seemed to have a trace of warmth?!

And Duanmu Ci, at the moment he completed this heaven-defying act, could no longer hold on!