Taiji Rasengan

"Although I would very much like to arrest you right now, it seems we have no choice but to cooperate first!"

Minato Namikaze was worthy of being the future Hokage; he made the most level-headed judgment in an instant.

He had already sensed that the Yue Uchiha before him seemed to have used some method to discern a fatal flaw in this monster that even he had yet to notice.

"Alright! Old man! Watch us!"

Though Naruto was full of questions, the Nine-Tails chakra within him was surging wildly in response to his heightened emotions.

"The probability is zero?"

Watching the massive centipede body crashing down like a sky-covering shroud, Yue Uchiha's left eye bloomed with a crimson glow, more eerie and profound than the purple light of the Dragon Vein.

"In this world, there is no such thing as absolute zero. Within your turtle shell, there will always be one screw whose probability of falling out is relatively high..."

Yue slowly raised his left hand, his slender fingers clicking lightly in the void.

"Snap."

A crisp sound, yet on the chaotic battlefield, it felt like the knocking of Death.

The Mangekyo pattern in his left eye spun violently like a crazed roulette wheel, and a line of blood tears slid down his cheek.

"Yagokoro Omoikane!"

In that instant, the invisible threads of causality were forcibly plucked.

"Click... Clack-clack-clack-clack!!!"

Mukade, who had been surging with momentum and preparing to crush Yue into meat paste, saw his massive body freeze strangely in mid-air.

An extremely harsh, grating sound—like metal gears jamming and shattering—erupted from the deepest part of his body.

"Wh... what is happening?! My circuits... why are they overloading?! This is impossible!" Mukade let out a terrified howl.

Immediately following, under the shocked gazes of Minato and Naruto, the thickest piece of Dragon Vein alloy armor on Mukade—the one claimed to ignore all ninjutsu—suffered a chain reaction collapse triggered by the loosening of a tiny internal screw. At this moment, a fragment precisely ejected and fell away, directly exposing the energy core pulsing with purple light, looking just like a beating heart!

This was the terror of "Yagokoro Omoikane"; it could regulate the probability of events occurring. As long as an event was not impossible, it could theoretically turn a "0% probability" into an "inevitable occurrence," or adjust an "inevitable occurrence" to a "0% probability."

The cost was merely the consumption of ocular power.

Of course, this also depended on the difficulty of the event and the magnitude of the probability change.

For instance, the ocular power required to increase the probability of Yue Uchiha becoming a Six Paths-level powerhouse by 0.1% was far greater than the power needed to ensure a 100% probability for "making the goofy elite jonin Naruto take a step forward," and it far exceeded the current limit of Yue's Mangekyo.

"Now! Naruto, do it!" Minato shouted.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!"

Naruto extended his left hand, and a Rasengan appeared with a roar.

This wouldn't be enough to end it, even if the opponent's armor was damaged.

Minato looked at Naruto and smiled slightly.

Although he had his suspicions, this boy's actions during this time still brought a sense of relief to Minato's heart.

He moved quickly forward, positioning himself to Naruto's left, then extended his right hand beneath Naruto's left hand.

"When chakra of similar nature approaches, it resonates. And when that mutually fused chakra combines, the strongest Rasengan will appear. Its name is Taiji Rasengan!"

A massive Rasengan, radiating a dazzling light and surrounded by ripples of Taiji patterns, took shape between their hands.

That was not the fluctuation of ordinary ninjutsu, but the strongest resonance born from a father-son bond that transcended time and space.

And Yue Uchiha was not standing idle.

He knew that even if Mukade were heavily damaged, as long as the connection to the Dragon Vein remained, he would still launch a desperate final counterattack.

"I'll give you a push, Amenominakanushi."

Yue's right eye widened slightly, and a precise repulsive force erupted from his palm. It was not meant for destruction, but transformed into a powerful thrust that acted directly upon the backs of Minato and Naruto.

This push caused the father and son's speed to break the sound barrier in an instant, turning them into a golden meteor that slammed fiercely into the gap where the armor had shattered!

Without the slightest obstruction, in this moment of short-circuiting, Naruto and his father charged forward like a hot knife through butter, straight to the very core.

"No—!!!"

Mukade's desperate, shrill scream was drowned out by a massive explosion.

The violent energy contained within the Taiji Rasengan erupted completely inside the Dragon Vein core, and the previously stable purple light began to crack and disintegrate.

At the same time, on the control console, Sara finally followed the guidance of Yue's shadow clone and injected the bloodline of the Rōran royal family into the sealing pedestal.

"Cut it off... for me!!!" Sara cried out, stabbing her short sword into the core.

"Rumble—!"

The Dragon Vein energy beneath all of Rōran began to flow backward frantically. The moment Mukade's massive metal shell lost its energy support, it was ground into dust by the shockwaves of the Taiji Rasengan.

The smoke cleared, and the intense purple light gradually faded.

The Dragon Vein was successfully sealed by Sara, and the runaway spatial distortion began to generate a powerful pulling force.

"Captain Yamato!!" Naruto looked at Yamato, whose body was beginning to turn transparent in the distance, then looked at his own hand, which was also starting to glow.

Minato stood not far from Yue, looking at this "rogue ninja" with a complex expression.

In the battle just now, what Yue Uchiha displayed was not only his terrifying Mangekyo ocular jutsu, but also a profound cunning that toyed with probability and the human heart alike.

"Yue Uchiha... since you clearly possessed this kind of power, why did you betray the village?" Minato asked in a deep voice.

Yue stood silently atop the ruins, his Mangekyo having already reverted to the ordinary Three Tomoe.

He looked at Minato, his tone devoid of any ripples: "I have no reason to offer an explanation."

Minato opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but the powerful gravitational pull of space-time forced him to close his eyes.

"In order not to alter the course of history, we must erase the memories of this period."

Upon hearing these words, Naruto suddenly realized something and shouted at Minato: "Wait! I still have so many things I want to ask you! Who exactly are you?!"

"Minato Namikaze, your father." Yue Uchiha spoke softly, causing the shouting Naruto to fall silent instantly.

"That really is..." Minato smiled helplessly.

"I am proud of you, Naruto; you have become a truly excellent ninja!"

Having said that, Minato quickly began to form hand seals.

Time waited for no one, and the light of the Dragon Vein had already begun to flicker violently; he had to quickly seal the memories of everyone present to prevent the space-time collapse triggered by the "Grandfather Paradox."

"Yue Uchiha, although I do not know what positions we will stand in once we regain our senses, I still offer you this advice: return to Konoha, there is still room for everything to be mended." Minato said in a deep voice while weaving seals.

However, standing high upon the ruins, Yue Uchiha shook his head gently.

"The world will never change because of an individual's will, and you are no exception, Minato Namikaze."

Before his voice had even faded, Yue suddenly swung his hand, and several pitch-black shuriken instantly transformed into a sky-filling black rain, exploding toward Minato from every tricky angle!

"Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"