Tailed Beast Chakra was one of the most evil and violent forms of energy in this world.
Once this chakra was fused into a human body, it was no different from pouring scalding oil into a pot of water. One careless mistake would result in chakra going berserk and instant death.
Several of Hidden Sand's Jinchuriki experiments had all ended this way.
Though those experiments had involved countless rituals and preparations, Sora had made no preparations at all. He had simply used sealing techniques to fuse Tailed Beast Chakra into Samui's body.
This was simply—utter—nonsense!
Pakura was stunned, but Sora remained calm.
He quietly watched Samui. Under the torment of excruciating pain, she did not collapse into screams. Instead, she gritted her teeth with unusual calmness and endured the agony of chakra merging into her body.
Before long, her tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.
"This..."
"Did you think the sealing techniques I possess were the trash used by Hidden Sand?"
"This is genuine Uzumaki craftsmanship."
My fists clenched!
My fists really clenched!
But there was nothing she could do.
During the Second Shinobi World War, the Uzumaki Clan, village and country alike, had been completely wiped out overnight. In the end, no one even knew who the culprit was.
The hidden truths behind it were clearly far from simple.
But one thing was certain: Hidden Sand had definitely not taken part in it.
The reason was simple. By the time of the Third Shinobi World War, the major ninja villages had already begun mastering the power of the Tailed Beasts and had even started producing perfect Jinchuriki.
Only Hidden Sand was still playing around with panda eyes by the time of Shippuden.
Sigh, their location was too poor. They could not even get a sip of the soup.
"Steady your mind and guide this chakra through your meridians."
Sora ignored the silent Pakura and instructed Samui, "During this process, your meridians will be gradually eroded and damaged by this Tailed Beast Chakra. But likewise, if you can endure it, the strength of your meridians and body will increase significantly."
"This is tempering!"
Samui silently followed Sora's instructions and circulated her chakra.
The process was immensely painful, but she was proud, and she desired strength. She could endure this pain!
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Sora raised his head and looked into the darkness behind him.
Accompanied by the whistle of tearing air, several kunai shot out from a dark corner at extremely tricky angles.
Sora's expression did not change. Several streaks of crimson lightning emerged around him.
The kunai did not even have a chance to approach before they were all scattered by Blood Lightning.
Suddenly, a flash of golden light flickered through the Blood Lightning.
A figure appeared behind Sora at some unknown moment, gripping a kunai coated in Wind Release chakra and viciously striking toward the back of Sora's neck.
Bang!
The expected sight of the kunai piercing flesh did not appear.
It was clearly a collision between a mortal body and a kunai, yet the immense resistance and toughness made it impossible for the kunai in his hand to advance even an inch!
The instant the man revealed a shocked expression, Sora's large hand came down toward his neck with lightning speed. Before his palm even came to a stop, a compressive force erupted from it, forcibly dragging the man into Sora's grasp.
"What?!"
Golden light flashed, and Sora's hand grasped empty air.
"So fast!"
The lightning-fast battle unfolded before Pakura's eyes, and Hidden Sand's prodigy was utterly dumbfounded.
In that instant, she had not noticed at all how the enemy had attacked.
She had no time to react to Sora's counterattack either.
"So fast!"
Crimson-glowing pupils turned toward the shadows. A figure wearing a Konoha jonin vest crouched on a tree trunk, his face equally filled with shock.
This man's movement speed was absolutely no less than that of the Third Raikage's son, A.
And this level of defense...
The back of a human neck was an absolute weak point. Even if this man was covered in Lightning Release Chakra, his previous attack had been infused with Wind Release chakra!
Wind Release had an absolute advantage over Lightning Release. Even someone as strong as the Third Raikage could not avoid that fact.
Yet now, he had only managed to slightly pierce this man's neck skin?!
Their gazes met in midair, and Sora's lips split into a grin.
"Interesting."
He had already noticed the special seal markings on the kunai scattered across the ground, as well as that flash of golden light just now. They had revealed the attacker's identity to him.
"Yellow hair..."
A weak voice slowly rang out. Samui, who had already begun adapting to the Tailed Beast Chakra, frowned and hurriedly said, "Lord Sora, be careful. That man is Konoha's swift ninja, Minato Namikaze!"
"We once devised a plan to capture the Nine-Tails, but he ruined it. He also fought Lord A and Master Killer B on the front lines. Even when the two joined forces, they could not defeat him!"
"Don't compare me to that idiot A."
Sora clenched his fist. His bones crackled as Blood Lightning coiled around him.
Lightning Release Chakra Mode, huh.
Minato Namikaze's gaze turned solemn. He held his kunai in a reverse grip, his eyes calm.
Based on the intelligence, this target should have been someone like A: a powerful body with absolute speed and explosive strength.
But judging from their previous clash, this man's physical strength was likely even greater than A's.
The instant Blood Lightning flashed, Sora appeared before Minato Namikaze.
At such extreme speed, Minato only had time to toss the kunai in his hand upward before a fist the size of a sandbag rapidly filled his vision.
Everything happened within a thousandth of a second.
The moment the fist came down, Sora's attack suddenly missed, while Minato Namikaze appeared directly behind him.
Since ordinary methods could not break through his defense, he would try that unfinished technique!
A rapidly spinning sphere of chakra gathered and compressed in Minato Namikaze's palm before slamming viciously down at Sora's neck.
Bang!
Sora tilted his neck, exposing his most vulnerable throat instead and allowing Minato Namikaze's attack to land.
The high-density chakra sphere smashed fiercely into Sora's throat. Clear signs of damage appeared on his distorted flesh under the chakra's destructive force, yet not the slightest trace of pain appeared on Sora's face.
"Got you, little fly."
"What?!"
Tangible crimson lightning chakra erupted and wrapped around Sora's entire body. At the same time, his figure abruptly vanished from where he stood, unleashing terrifying speed that ordinary people could never react to.
Boom!!
Violent power blasted forth, shattering the entire ground beneath that punch.
Minato Namikaze's pupils abruptly contracted. He instinctively activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, but intense pain still surged from his left arm, as though he had been violently struck by a cement truck.
At a Flying Thunder God marker he had placed a hundred meters away, Minato Namikaze flashed into view. He spat out a mouthful of sweet, bloody fluid from his throat.
His blood flow had reversed, his meridians had ruptured, and his internal organs had been bruised.
But the truly serious injury was his left arm!
His entire left arm was bent at an extremely twisted angle.
Pale bone had pierced through the skin, and indescribable agony relentlessly assaulted his mind.
There had clearly been no direct clash of strength. It had only been a slight graze, yet it had actually...
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