Hearing Aizen's words, Ōnoki's aged face turned pale once more.
But he was not defeated by this. He quickly stopped forming the Art Seals, glanced at the people around him, and said in a deep voice.
"No matter what, I never imagined that one day, the Atomic Dismantling Jutsu would actually be forcibly blocked..."
"But that doesn't mean this old man has resigned himself to fate..."
His sharp gaze turned to Might Duy and Minato as he hurriedly said in a deep voice.
"Hokage, Might Duy, I'll have to trouble you two to buy this old man some time!"
Without waiting for their answer, he rapidly began forming hand seals. Just from the seals constantly shifting between Ōnoki's fingers, one could tell how complex the ninjutsu he was about to release would be.
Minato and Duy did not hesitate either. They exchanged a glance, then immediately launched an attack on Aizen in the distance from opposite sides!
Seeing Duy and the others move, Aizen merely narrowed his eyes slightly, not taking it to heart.
In his current second state of fusion with the Hogyoku, the spiritual pressure enveloping his body had become unimaginably dense.
Even Duy, after opening the Eight Gates and assailing him with a mad barrage of strikes, could inflict only negligible damage.
Seeing Duy and Minato rapidly reach him from the left and right, a sharp glint flashed through Aizen's eyes as he calmly said.
"Overestimating yourselves..."
As his words fell, Minato, who had suddenly appeared to his left, thrust out his right palm toward him. At the same time, a huge blazing-blue sphere of light instantly formed in Minato's palm!
"Ninjutsu: Big Ball Rasengan!"
Yet Aizen's gaze remained cold and indifferent. Without the slightest hesitation, his pale arm slashed straight toward Minato's waist.
With the power