Yue Uchiha's Mangekyo

The moment those words fell, the aura surrounding Yue Uchiha shifted completely.

If he had previously resembled a stealthy operative moving with effortless ease, he was now a cursed blade finally unsheathed, poised to drink its fill of blood.

He swept an arm around Sara's waist, his figure turning into a bolt of black lightning as he plummeted from the high platform, landing steadily on the edge of the central hall that had been razed to the ground.

"Follow the blind spots along the edge to the control console. No matter what happens, do not look back. My shadow clone will be by your side to protect you."

Yue released her and pushed her toward the direction of the massive purple pillar of light. "As for this disgusting bug with too many legs, I will crush it piece by piece."

Sara gritted her teeth, cast one deep look at Yue, and then, agile as a cat, sprinted toward the hub while hugging the shadows of the ruins.

Meanwhile, in the center of the hall, Minato Namikaze and Naruto Uzumaki had been driven to a dead end.

"Old man! Watch out for the left!"

Naruto roared, splitting off two shadow clones to charge forward, only for them to be instantly swept into puffs of white smoke by Mukade's massive metallic tail.

Although Minato had managed to escape death time and again using the Flying Thunder God, the high-intensity teleportation and the compromises he made to protect Naruto caused his chakra consumption to skyrocket.

Facing Mukade, who possessed infinite regenerative power and didn't even need to charge his Chakra Cannon, Minato—who could only chip away at his defenses—was unable to land an effective blow.

"Despair! Before the absolute power of the Dragon Vein, you Konoha ninja aren't even worth the ashes!"

Mukade roared arrogantly, his massive centipede body rearing high. Within his abyssal maw, a super-high-density purple-black chakra sphere, over ten meters in diameter and suffocating in its intensity, was compressing frantically.

It was an extinction-level strike capable of collapsing this vast underground space and erasing the entire city of Rōran along with it!

"Damn it, there's no time to teleport such a massive amount of energy!" Minato's pupils constricted. He gripped his kunai tightly, preparing to activate the Flying Thunder God to take the nearby Konoha ninja to safety.

However, at this critical juncture.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

The sound of steady footsteps appeared exceptionally abrupt amidst the chaotic and violent battlefield.

Minato whipped his head around to see the Uchiha youth in the black high-collared robe strolling leisurely through the flying debris and gale-force winds, walking ahead of the two of them.

"Yue Uchiha? What are you doing here?"

Yue Uchiha didn't even turn his head; he merely raised his right hand slowly, facing the terrifying chakra sphere expanding in Mukade's mouth.

Yue slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, those scarlet eyes, which had previously rotated with three slowly spinning tomoe, underwent a hair-raising transformation.

The three black tomoe elongated and intertwined like melting ink, eventually forming an extremely complex and mysterious pattern.

It was a star-shaped array with a polyhedron-like die embedded within!

Mangekyō Sharingan, activate!

A cold, massive, and almost tangible terror of ocular power erupted instantly with Yue at its center, causing even the surrounding air to emit a groan of unbearable strain.

"That is... the Mangekyō Sharingan?!"

Minato gasped, a stormy sea of shock rising in his heart.

As a high-ranking official of Konoha, he knew all too well what these eyes represented—the legendary disaster-level power of the Uchiha clan, said to be capable of rivaling the Tailed Beasts!

This intelligence had to be brought back.

"A bug with the Sharingan? No matter what eyes you switch to, it is futile before the Dragon Vein! Go to hell!!!"

Mukade roared, and the world-destroying ten-meter-class Chakra Cannon fired, hurtling toward Yue like a purple meteorite with the pressure to tear everything apart.

Facing this destructive attack, Yue Uchiha's right eye widened sharply, and fresh red blood flowed slowly from the corner of his eye, tracing a path down his cold, stern cheek.

He whispered the name of the deity who symbolized the foundation of the world:

"Amenominakanushi!"

"Hum!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor was there a violent collision of chakra.

In the stunned gaze of Minato and Naruto, the space several dozen meters in front of Yue suddenly "collapsed" in a bizarre fashion.

It was a distortion on a purely physical level.

A sphere of absolute gravity, no larger than a marble yet so black it swallowed even light, appeared out of thin air.

Amenominakanushi—the ocular technique to manipulate gravity!

Release a singularity, and then, crush everything within the space.

Whether it was objects, ninjutsu, living beings, or even the air itself, everything would be crushed into fragments by the gravity.

The range of influence would vary based on the intensity of the ocular power.

In his future conceptualization, Yue intended to use this extreme gravity to distort the curvature of space, eventually touching upon the spacetime realm of "gravity-induced time dilation" to counter the invisible "World Correction Force."

And at this moment, this gravity revealed its most brutal, primary form.

The massive purple Chakra Cannon, capable of destroying a town, was pulled into a bottomless black hole the moment it touched the gravity sphere!

The ten-meter-class violent energy was crudely compressed, torn, and elongated, eventually being forcibly sucked into that marble-sized black dot, without even a single spark splashing out!

"What?!" The human face embedded in Mukade's armor twisted instantly. That was an attack he had extracted by draining the Dragon Vein—how could it have vanished without even a sound?!

Yue Uchiha sneered, his right eye's ocular power surging once more.

"BOOM—!!!"

Under the absolute tearing force of gravity, Mukade's rigid, tens-of-meters-long metallic centipede body was like a fragile paper toy, a massive hole ten meters in diameter gouged directly out of its center from thin air.

Naruto and Minato watched this scene, their eyes widening in a momentary daze, but their combat instincts allowed them to snap back to reality quickly; the most important thing now was to defeat Mukade, and everything else could be discussed later.

"Nice one!" Naruto shouted excitedly.

However, Minato's expression remained grave: "It's useless. As long as the connection to the Dragon Vein remains, he can instantly..."

Sure enough, Mukade let out a painful roar, but a brilliant purple light flared at the wound, and tens of thousands of chakra threads intertwined frantically once more, restoring that massive hole to its original state in a mere second.

"Hahahaha! I told you! I am immortal! As long as the Dragon Vein exists, the probability of you killing me is zero!!"

Mukade laughed arrogantly, his gargantuan body crushing down toward Yue like Mount Tai, attempting to use his size advantage to smash him into a pulp.

"Minato, Naruto, I know you two still have a trick up your sleeves—I need you to coordinate with me!"

Yue could certainly choose to expend his ocular power without restraint, unleashing a large-scale gravity sphere to crush Mukade once and for all.

But in this spacetime, locked firmly under the gaze of the World Correction Force, overdrawing the ocular power of his right eye to brute-force a minor villain destined for elimination was a very foolish trade.