Cross-Space Arrival of Yang Release and God's Finger

Inside the Hokage's Office, the air grew as viscous as mercury.

Baishi's pressed-together index and middle fingers hovered in midair. The Yang Release Chakra gathered at his fingertips had already condensed into a single blinding point of golden light. It carried the savagery of the desert sun, not only draining the oxygen from the room but even setting the edges of the solid-wood desk alight, filling the air with a pungent burnt smell.

Kushina was forced back into a corner. She gasped for breath, her lungs feeling as though they had inhaled scorching grains of sand, every breath bringing a stabbing pain. The Nine-Tails Chakra originally raging across her body now acted like a beast that had encountered its natural enemy, whimpering as it shrank back into her.

"Baishi... you..." Kushina's ruby-like eyes were filled with shock. She had never sensed such pure, overbearing power from this man. That was not a chakra density any human should possess.

Baishi did not turn around. His gaze remained locked on the hovering Water Mirror as he watched the skeletal monster in the Forest of Death condense a black sphere of energy.

Orochimaru, do you think this inferior stitched-together energy monster can force me to reveal my trump card? A cold arc lifted the corner of Baishi's mouth. Your understanding of power is truly impoverished.

His fingertip moved slightly and touched the surface of the Water Mirror.

"Ding."

A crisp, piercing chime exploded through the office. Golden ripples spread across the Water Mirror's surface, and that point of Yang Release Chakra, refined to the extreme, traveled along the invisible Yin Release Threads and crossed dozens of kilometers in an instant.

Forest of Death.

Poisonous miasma ran rampant, while the gale swept black snowflakes into the faces of the Hyuga clan members, stinging like