[Shōna Biko]
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's golden right eye, marked with a wheel-shaped pattern, flashed. In an instant, he shrank the Big Ball Rasengan in Naruto's hands.
"Damn it!"
Naruto's eyes widened, blazing with anger and frustration, and his chest heaved.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki rose and kicked at Naruto. His speed was like lightning, leaving Naruto no chance to dodge.
[Flying Thunder God Technique]
Naruto's body vanished in an instant. Isshiki's kick struck empty air, unleashing a terrifying blast that exploded against a distant rock.
The ten-meter-tall rock shattered into countless smaller stones.
Naruto reappeared atop a massive black cube.
By then, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had caught up with him. They faced off as Isshiki used Taijutsu and Black Receivers to keep Naruto suppressed.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Their figures clashed at blinding speed.
Now that Naruto had learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, he relied on it to keep Isshiki at bay, dodging Isshiki's killing blows at every crucial moment.
Meanwhile, Sasuke launched sneak attacks from the other side.
Against Isshiki's immense power, the two of them managed to keep him occupied for another half an hour.
"If this keeps up, we're in trouble!
"Even with Space-Time Ninjutsu, I can dodge his fatal attacks.
"But if this drags on, he'll kill us sooner or later.
"Is Boruto still not ready?"
Naruto knelt halfway to the ground after being beaten down and spoke to Sasuke.
"Not yet. Summoning someone across time and space requires Senior Chen Tian to sense Boruto's chakra.
"A technique like that is incredibly difficult to pull off!"
Sasuke looked grim, too.
"You're still chatting?"
"Uchiha Sasuke, your Rinnegan is a ticking time bomb.
"Let me help you destroy it!"
At the sound of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's voice, Sasuke immediately sensed trouble.
But before he could react,
a ten-centimeter-long Black Receiver suddenly appeared and pierced Sasuke's Rinnegan.
"Ah!"
Uchiha Sasuke cried out in pain, clutching his destroyed eye. His right Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan lit up.
[Amaterasu]
Black flames engulfed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
"Now it's your turn, Hokage!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki said calmly.
He absorbed the Amaterasu flames burning on his body.
[Daikokuten]
Several black cubes, each fifty meters across, dropped from the sky toward Naruto and Sasuke.
At the last moment, both of them dodged the black cubes.
Rumble!
The ground boomed again and again. The cubes' immense force struck it like an earthquake.
"Bang!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Countless figures collided in midair at high speed.
Without his Rinnegan, Sasuke's power had fallen dramatically, and he could barely keep fighting.
Using his right Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, Sasuke watched with a bitter smile as Isshiki beat Naruto relentlessly in the sky.
"I never thought I'd end up losing my Rinnegan after all.
"But at least my fighting strength hasn't dropped by much."
Now that he had successfully learned the Rinnegan's techniques, Sasuke planned to help Naruto again after recovering some chakra.
"Ah!"
Isshiki kicked Naruto in the stomach, making him spit blood. The Rasengan in Naruto's hand shrank once more.
"This farce ends here!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki said calmly, raising the Black Receiver in his hand to pierce Naruto's body.
Suddenly, Naruto and Sasuke switched places.
Uchiha Sasuke was wreathed in lightning. He drove his sword straight into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's stomach.
"Impossible! Your Rinnegan is gone.
"How can you still use Space-Time Ninjutsu?"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki stared at the gravely wounded Uchiha Sasuke in disbelief.
"Heh. Simple."
"I learned the Rinnegan's Space-Time Ninjutsu."
Uchiha Sasuke replied with a cold laugh.
"I see!"
As he spoke,
the golden light shone from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's golden right eye, marked with its wheel-shaped pattern.
Five or six Black Receivers rained down, piercing Uchiha Sasuke's body.
"Ugh!"
Uchiha Sasuke furrowed his brows and gritted his teeth. The Black Receivers pierced through his body, and even he couldn't hold back a cry of pain.
"So destroying your Rinnegan wasn't enough.
"I'll have to kill you to put an end to all this."
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's gaze remained calm and still, without the slightest flicker, as though everything was under his control.
He didn't take Uchiha Sasuke seriously at all.
The wound left by Sasuke's sword began to heal rapidly.
Just as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was about to kill Uchiha Sasuke,
a terrifying surge of chakra suddenly caught his attention.
Seeing no hope of victory, Naruto made a decision with the Nine-Tails in his mental space. He unleashed his final trump card, activating a new mode at the cost of his life—"Baryon Mode."
Naruto's appearance changed into a fusion of the Nine-Tails and Sage Mode. This form had a name; its power came from a process modeled on the energy produced by nuclear fusion in the sun.
Nine golden tails appeared behind Naruto. Scarlet chakra enveloped his body, his hair rose into two hornlike points, and markings like the Nine-Tails' appeared around his eyes.
[Daikokuten]
Several massive black cubes, each fifty meters across, dropped from the sky toward Naruto in Baryon Mode.
"What!"
Uchiha Sasuke stared at Naruto's new form in shock.
Naruto didn't even try to dodge. He simply raised the tails behind him and stopped the black cubes.
"Interesting!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's expression finally grew more serious.
Naruto used his tails to fling the massive black cubes at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
But before they could reach him, they had already been shrunk.
The golden eye on Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's right side flashed again.
Countless two-meter-long Black Receivers shot toward Naruto.
Naruto easily deflected every last one.
"Bang!"
"Clang!"
With a Black Receiver in hand, Naruto swiftly knocked aside the ones aimed at him. In the blink of an eye, he had blocked every attack.
The broken Black Receivers scattered across the ground slowly began to disappear.
"Come on, buddy!"
Naruto held one arm behind his back and beckoned Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with the other. His fingers fluttered toward Isshiki like a dancing butterfly, light and graceful.
"Are you looking down on me?"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki glared at Naruto's taunting gesture, his expression darkening. He launched himself at Naruto.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was knocked back even faster than he had charged in.
His body slammed into the ground again and again before finally coming to a stop.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki sprang to his feet, sucked in a sharp breath, and stared in utter disbelief.
"Naruto's strength is far greater now than it was before."
Looking battered, Uchiha Sasuke pulled the Black Receivers lodged in his body. Blood ran from five spots, including his chest and stomach, but before long, the wounds slowly began to heal.
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