The resolution within the top leadership of the coalition forces was like a ray of light, quickly penetrating the cloud of despair that shrouded the Fourth Shinobi World War battlefield.
The final sealing ceremony, this plan that carries the last hope of the entire Shinobi World, is conveyed to every ninja's ears at an unprecedented speed.
Nine-Tails Chakra is led by Naruto Uzumaki, and finally resonates with all the remaining consciousnesses of Tailed Beast, forming the Yang Release core of Sealing Jutsu style; led by Sasuke Uchiha unfolded Perfect Susanoo, turning it into an indestructible divine shield, protecting the ritual from any external interference; Five Kage devoted all his strength to pouring his own chakra into the huge sealing formation spread across the altar as a stabilizer for the technique.
The location was chosen on the huge altar formed by the severed taproot of Divine Tree.
Time is scheduled for dawn, the moment when all things revive, and the darkness of the old world is washed away with the light of new life.
When the news came out, the morale of the coalition forces was instantly ignited to the top.
The long-suppressed shouts and cheers resounded through the sky, as if the goddess of victory had smiled on them.
Everyone is holding the Kunai in their hands tightly, with the flame called "hope" rekindled in their eyes, ready to face this final battle.
However, under this boiling earth, in a deep and silent underground cave, Xuan just let out a very light sneer. The laughter echoed in the empty cave, with a hint of pity and ridicule.
"They think they are saving the world? How ridiculous... They are just setting up the most gorgeous stage for my new life."
He slowly opened his eyes, and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan in his right eye seemed to contain a collapsing universe.
In his body, an extremely violent energy was rampaging, which was the Six Paths Yang Power fragment that had just been siphoned from Naruto's body.
This power, even just a fragment, is enough to tear apart the body of any Kage Level strong person.
But Xuan's body has long been inhuman. Countless white Divine Tree cells are intertwined like vines in his meridians, forming a perfect buffer layer.
At the same time, the fragments of Tailed Beast Chakra that had already been swallowed up and fused in his body were like gentle streams, constantly washing away and neutralizing the violence of Yang Power.
Under this exquisite control, the violent golden energy was compressed and purified inch by inch, and finally condensed into a golden crystal core emitting light and heat like the sun in his Dantian.
"False Yang Seed... Although it is just a fake, it is enough to ignite the last funeral in this world." Xuan murmured to himself.
He knows better than anyone else that at this moment, the Ten-Tails embryo that is wrapped in layers of barriers and exudes an ominous aura on the Divine Tree altar is nothing but an empty shell.
Its true core, the origin that gave birth to Progenitor of Chakra Kaguya Ji's consciousness, had already been devoured by him, bone to bone, in the "accident" he planned.
Now this so-called final seal is nothing more than a grand and futile farce dedicated to the whole world.
At the same time, outside the Divine Tree altar, Chiyo Saori was dressed in black and blended into the night like a ghost.
Her slender fingers traced the last stone tablet that had just been erected. The tablet was engraved with tiny runes that were difficult to detect with the naked eye.
Twelve such "Soundwave Resonance Stele" have been accurately arranged around the altar according to a specific formation, and are quietly connected to the earth chakra nodes buried deep underground.
Behind her, her confidant Baba was waiting in awe.
"Listen carefully," Chiyo Saori's voice was cold and emotionless, "Wait for the coalition's Sealing Jutsu to activate and the moment the energy reaches its peak, immediately detonate the two Resonance Steles on the east side."
"Yes!"
"The detonation frequency is adjusted to 'Lament Resonance'. I want everyone on this battlefield to clearly hear... the cry of the 'god' before his death."
Baba's body trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but ask, "Master Saori, what if... what if they really succeeded? What if Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha really created a miracle and sealed Ten-Tails?"
Chiyo Saori slowly turned around. Under the moonlight, her side face was breathtakingly beautiful, but her eyes were as empty as an abyss.
"Then let them seal it." She said calmly, "Anyway, what they sealed was just an empty shell."
Dawn arrived as promised.
The first ray of morning light pierced the darkness in the sky, coating the bloody earth with a golden edge.
The sealing ceremony officially begins!
"Ho--!"
Naruto Uzumaki looked up to the sky and howled, the golden Nine-Tails Chakra Mode instantly opened, nine energy tails danced wildly behind him, and the majestic breath of life and the power of Yang Release soared into the sky like flames.
He had Hand Seals in his hands and chanted the ancient sealing mantra in his mouth, reaching an unprecedented resonance with the chakras of the other eight Tailed Beast.
For a time, golden light shone like a new sun rising in the center of the altar.
"Susanoo!"
Sasuke Uchiha's eyes were cold, and the purple giant rose from the ground. The armor and bones condensed with chakra made a metallic clanging sound.
The complete Susanoo spread out its huge wings and enveloped the entire altar. The long chakra knife in its hand pointed directly at the sky. The pressure of Rinnegan caused the space to distort.
"Five-Element Sealing Formation, open!"
Raikage, Mizukage, Tsuchikage, Kazekage, together with Acting Hokage and Tsunade, the five people separated into five directions and pressed their hands on the huge formation node on the ground.
A torrent of chakra with five different attributes instantly poured into the formation, and the ancient runes lit up one by one, forming a huge energy Uzumaki Clan, frantically pulling and suppressing the Ten-Tails embryo in the center of the altar that was constantly squirming and trying to break free.
The color of the sky and the earth changes, the wind and clouds roll back, thunder and lightning flash.
The Ten-Tails embryo felt an unprecedented threat and let out a shrill scream that was like breaking through gold and cracking stone. The sound was full of chaos and will of destruction, making countless ninjas feel terrified.
The Sealing Jutsu formula is taking shape, and a huge energy beam falls from the sky, which is about to completely suppress the Ten-Tails embryo.
Victory seems to be just between breaths!
However, at the moment when the technique is about to be completed and the light beam is about to touch the core--
Boom! Boom!
On the east side, two dull explosions suddenly sounded.
Immediately afterwards, an invisible high-frequency sound wave spread instantly. It did not act on the eardrums, but directly shocked the soul.
This sound wave created a strange resonance with the already activated earth chakra, and in an instant, the entire battlefield seemed to turn into a huge box of mourning.
In the air, countless cries and wailings like dead souls echoed out of thin air.
The voice was shrill and desperate, as if coming from the Nine Nether Hells, and also like the cry of a god when he fell.
Intermittent thoughts penetrated every ninja's mind like steel needles:
"The seal... is a lie..."
"Scarlet Eye... has come... the end of the world..."
"God is crying!" Someone screamed in terror.
The coalition ninja army instantly fell into huge chaos, and everyone's minds were shaken like never before.
Some mentally weak ninjas even bleed from their orifices and fainted on the spot.
And those ninjas with extremely strong perception ability saw a terrifying illusion that they would never forget - in the center of the altar, the squirming Ten-Tails embryo disappeared, replaced by an unimaginably huge orangutan Red Eye pupil, which was slowly opening out of the chaotic darkness.
There was no anger or murderous intent in those eyes, just nothingness, as if they were looking down at a bunch of meaningless dust.
"Then... what is that?" Naruto's movements suddenly froze, and Nine-Tails Chakra's resonance became slightly disordered.
Sasuke's pupils suddenly shrank. Even his Rinnegan felt shaken by this strange mental impact. There was an imperceptible gap in Susanoo's defense.
When masters compete with each other, victory or defeat can only be determined in an instant.
As for the fate of the entire world, this moment of hesitation is the distance between heaven and earth.
Just when this ten thousandth of a second flaw appeared, a figure appeared above the altar without any warning, his black robes rustling in the strong wind, as if he was integrated with this desperate world.
It's Xuan.
He came through the air with an indifferent expression, and the five-color rotating Eternal Mangekyō in his right eye exuded a heart-stopping and enchanting light.
He ignored Naruto's Yang Release light, ignored Sasuke's divine shield, and even ignored Five Kage's horrified gaze.
He just slowly raised his right hand, pointed at the so-called "Ten-Tails core" below, and patted it with a light palm.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no earth-shattering light.
Under that palm, the sealed target that gathered the hope and power of the entire Shinobi World, the embryonic core of Ten-Tails that was considered the ultimate threat, disintegrated and shattered silently like weathered gravel, turning into black dust all over the sky.
And those dusts, as if being pulled by some invisible force, flowed upstream, and were all sucked into Xuan's palm.
The whole world, at this moment, seems to have pressed the Shizune button.
Xuan was suspended in the air, looking down at the dull, stunned, and frightened faces below. His voice was very calm, but like the final judgment, it clearly reached everyone's ears:
"What you have tried so hard to seal is just my... leftover dregs."
After the words fell, he slowly opened his palms. In his palms, the golden "False Yang Seed" compressed from the fragments of Six Paths Yang Power was quietly floating, emitting a light more dazzling than the sun.
He shook it gently.
Golden flames rose from between his fingers. It was not chakra fire, but the pure and original power of creation.
"The real power never lies in the hypocritical 'peace' you talk about." Xuan's eyes swept across the audience, and finally landed on Naruto and Sasuke, "But it lies in who... holds the key to restarting this world."
No one knows that at this moment, tens of thousands of meters deep in the dark center of the earth beneath Allied Shinobi Forces, the mysterious talisman brick that Xuan had driven into the core of the earth quietly cracked an imperceptible gap on its surface.
In the gap, there is a trace of pure white light that does not belong to any known bloodline or any known energy system in this world. It is getting rid of the shackles of hundreds of millions of years and slowly... squirming.
Above the altar, a deathly silence enveloped everything.
The remaining energy of the disintegrated Sealing Jutsu style dissipated in the air like Fire Fly, leaving only the devastated earth and tens of thousands of lost ninjas.
Xuan Jing floated quietly in the middle of the dead silence, becoming the only focus between heaven and earth.
His strange, five-color right eye slowly closed after overlooking the picture of despair directed by him.