Only a few minutes had passed since the Death God Mask shattered, Minato Namikaze used the Spirit Transformation Technique to give his soul form and assess his surroundings, then broke free of Obito's Sharingan Genjutsu with the Yin Nine-Tails' help. He had unleashed the Yin Nine-Tails' power, entered Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, and desperately evaded the sealing chains of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
In those few short minutes, Naruto Uzumaki, who was far away on a mission in the Fire Country, received a warning from the Yang Nine-Tails inside him. He immediately contacted Wu Yu through the Rabbit Bracelet, then was summoned by Wu Yu along with Sasuke and Kakashi, who had been carrying out different missions elsewhere.
He and Sasuke became a whirlwind and a bolt of lightning respectively. After spotting the abnormal chakra around the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from a thousand meters up, they hurtled down at a speed that literally matched wind and lightning. They arrived just in time to see the enormous Yin Nine-Tails caught around the neck by a massive chakra chain spat out by an even larger, hideous humanoid monster, then dragged brutally back toward its gaping mouth-
Minato Namikaze was, after all, nothing but a soul now. Though the Spirit Transformation Technique allowed him to linger briefly in the world of the living, he ultimately could not escape being captured by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
This was the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path that had absorbed eight Tailed Beasts and was already "eight-tenths full"!
The mountain-sized monster radiated such terrifying chakra that merely standing nearby felt suffocating. Being dragged toward it by the Chakra Chains brought the despair of being pulled into a horrifying abyss-
"Dad!!"
Before all light disappeared, Minato Namikaze's soul,