Kushina's Request to Fight and Baishi's Ruthless Suppression

Boom—!

A fierce wind surged inward, carrying the blood stench and ice shards of the Forest of Death as it collided with the scorching Chakra blast inside the room, releasing a piercing shriek.

Kushina's figure turned into a golden-red blur, carrying enough savage force to tear steel apart as she lunged straight for the shattered window.

The four Chakra tails behind her lashed wildly, plowing four deep, charred furrows into the floor.

Yet just as her fingertips were about to touch the window frame, an invisible barrier appeared out of nowhere.

Baishi remained seated in the Hokage's chair, which was on the verge of falling apart. He had not even changed his posture.

He merely raised his right hand slowly.

There were no hand seals, no unnecessary movements.

Dozens of silver Chakra Threads, finer than hair, emerged from his fingertips out of thin air. Like venomous snakes with lives of their own, they intertwined in midair into an impenetrable net.

That net precisely enveloped the charging Kushina.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

The threads did not attempt to stop her momentum. Instead, with inconceivable precision, they instantly pierced the major critical Chakra nodes throughout her body.

The berserk Nine-Tails Chakra, powerful enough to rival a Tailed Beast Bomb, was like a raging flood whose source had abruptly been cut off, suddenly stalling within her body.

Kushina's charging body stiffened abruptly. Held in an extremely awkward posture, she was forcibly pinned in midair by the silver web, only half a meter from the window.

The golden-red Chakra cloak around her body churned violently, yet it could not break free from the seemingly fragile threads.

"Let me go!" Kushina roared, her dark-red vertical pupils filled with madness and confusion.

Mikoto Uchiha, in the corner, watched with her heart in her throat.

She could not