There were simply too many purple fireballs pouring from the nine suns. Naruto and Sasuke were fast, but even they could not dodge them all. Sasuke used the Body Flicker Technique to evade the fireballs hurtling toward him, only to find several more flying straight at him as soon as he reappeared. He hurriedly activated his Rinnegan's Thousand Hands Power, swapping places with a fireball to escape. Before he could catch his breath, more fireballs appeared ahead of him, leaving him no choice but to use Thousand Hands Power again.
Sasuke inwardly lamented his predicament. He might have Thousand Hands Power, a Space-Time Ninjutsu technique, but using it consumed his own power. At this rate, he would eventually be worn down. More importantly, it consumed his ocular power, and that was what worried him most.
Meanwhile, Naruto was in an even worse state than Sasuke. He could not use the Flying Thunder God Technique here. There were so many fireballs that he had neither the room nor the time to throw a kunai. He could only draw the Fūjin Sword and unleash Rasengan after Rasengan to counter the endless barrage.
As time passed, Sasuke's ocular power began to falter. Left with no other choice, he coated his entire body in chakra to increase his movement speed. Like Naruto, he also drew his weapon, the Thunder God Sword, and unleashed successive waves of Chidori Stream to neutralize the countless fireballs.
Although they had held off the attacks for now, Naruto and Sasuke knew perfectly well that if they did not find a weak point in this divine kingdom soon, they might truly be defeated-or even die here.
Neither Naruto nor Sasuke would have found that surprising. Although the Solar Beast had agreed to spar with them, he would certainly show no