Catching a Rasengan Barehanded! The Rampaging Black Tailed Beast Ball!
A life-or-death race against time, a mere 0.1 seconds.
The Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan was already mostly submerged in the spatial Uzumaki, and the air around the supporting pillar began to twist wildly. Once the lightning was completed, the rock strata 600 meters underground would collapse instantly.
Naruto's eyes suddenly lit up. No matter how fast the Flying Thunder God Technique is, the shift in spatial Coordinates will inevitably cause fluctuations!
"Sasuke!"
With a roar, Naruto transformed into a golden afterimage, lunging directly at the distorted void. He compressed his Yang Release Chakra to its limit in his palm and slammed it down.
The two spatial fluctuations of the same origin collided violently, abruptly halting the formation of the mine guide outlet.
Without any unnecessary words, Sasuke displayed perfect teamwork, his right eye flashing with a six-pointed star.
"Amaterasu!"
Black flames appeared out of thin air and poured into the spatial rift. The raging Rasengan was tightly enveloped by the black flames, emitting a muffled roar within the dimensional rift.
The violent shockwave rebounded through the crack, shearing off a layer of rock from the surface of the load-bearing column, with gravel falling in a shower, but the hall held firm.
"Quick reaction." Kabuto Yakushi's slick voice came from the megaphone, carrying a chilling, smug look of schadenfreude. "But this is just an appetizer. You can defend against it once, but can you defend against it a hundred times?"
Minato gave them no chance to catch their breath.
A dozen or so golden lights burst open in the hall instantly. There was no trajectory, no pre-cast animation.
This extreme speed sent chills down Naruto's spine. At this moment, Minato didn't need to consider the strain on his body at all. With the massive amount of chakra provided by the Demonic Statue Network, he had completely transformed into a tireless spacetime killing machine.
"Whoosh!"
A Special Kunai grazed Naruto's neck, drawing a trail of blood.
Naruto slammed a powerful punch into the void, creating a howling wind, but only managed to shatter a fleeting afterimage.
He was so frustrated.
With his current combat power, if he were to casually throw a "Big Ball Rasengan" or open the Eight Gates, he could completely flatten this underground structure along with the surrounding rock strata. But he can't. If the force is even slightly off, Minato and Kushina's bodies will be blasted into mincemeat, and their souls may even suffer irreversible damage.
"That's giving me way too much credit!" Naruto gritted his teeth, forced to suppress his destructive power and passively defend himself using Taijutsu.
Meanwhile, Kushina wasn't idle either.
The dark gold chains, like enraged venomous snakes, darted wildly along the ground, weaving into a dense, impenetrable net that constantly compressed Naruto's space.
"Right side, three o'clock!"
Sasuke stood on high ground, his purple Susanoo deflecting stray bullets. His Mangekyō Sharingan was fixed on the flow of chakra in the hall, blood already seeping from the corners of his eyes. Capturing this level of spatial teleportation consumed an extremely terrifying amount of ocular power.
Following the prompt, Naruto ducked and delivered a sweeping kick to his right.
Sure enough, Minato's figure appeared right there.
But Minato reacted faster, using the momentum to perform a somersault in mid-air, suddenly producing a Rasengan in his hand, which he aimed straight at Naruto's face.
"Chidori!"
A piercing bird cry rang out as Kakashi transformed into a bolt of silver lightning and plunged into the battlefield. The lightning strike precisely slashed at the side of the Rasengan, forcibly deflecting it and slamming it into the wall, creating a large crater.
"Don't just focus on dodging!" Kakashi gasped for breath, his left eye rapidly scanning his surroundings. Memories of countless tactical drills with Minato flooded his mind.
"His current attack pattern is controlled by Kabuto Yakushi, lacking the flexibility his master possessed. The landing point of the Flying Thunder God must rely on those Kunai to sever his Coordinates!"
Before he could finish speaking, Kakashi's hands moved in a blur, and more than a dozen Kunai covered with Explosive Tag were accurately fired into various blind spots in the hall.
"Boom boom boom!"
The series of explosions kicked up smoke and dust, blowing away all the Special Kunai that had been scattered Minato.
The tactic worked. The movement of the Minato noticeably slowed down.
But in that instant, Kabuto realized their intentions and immediately changed his orders.
Minato no longer flew around the field haphazardly, but instead concentrated all his chakra into a single, absolute surprise attack.
He suddenly disappeared.
There wasn't even a ripple in the air. Sasuke didn't even have time to call out the location.
Naruto felt the hairs on the back of his head stand on end, and a suffocating sense of death pressed directly against his back.
The Rasengan's sharp, all-consuming gust of wind was only half a foot away from his spine!
"Naruto!" Kakashi and Sasuke exclaimed simultaneously.
At this moment, time seemed to stretch out infinitely.
Naruto didn't activate any defensive skills, nor did he attempt to escape using the Flying Thunder God. Instead, he made a move that sent chills down everyone's spines—he suddenly turned around and advanced instead of retreating!
His right hand, unprotected by any ninjutsu, plunged straight into the raging whirlwind of chakra.
"Sizzle!"
A sharp storm of chakra instantly tore through Naruto's sleeve, flesh ripped open, and blood gushed out. But he didn't even flinch; his blood-soaked hand, like an iron clamp, pierced through the layers of wind blades and gripped Minato's wrist tightly.
The two faces were inches apart.
The azure eyes stared intently at those empty, Impure World Reincarnation eyes.
"Dad." Naruto's voice was slightly hoarse, unguarded, and filled with an unyielding stubbornness.
The surrounding air suddenly froze.
The Rasengan in Minato's hand instantly dissipated, turning into a wisp of breeze.
The arm that Naruto was gripping began to tremble violently, as if it were desperately resisting some kind of force. The Impure World Reincarnation Talisman on the back of Minato vibrated wildly, making a hissing sound, as if it would break at any moment.
Not far away, the five dark gold chains that were about to completely bind Naruto stopped abruptly in mid-air.
A faint glimmer of light seemed to flash in Kushina's empty eyes. The five deadly chains deviated from their intended path and, with a few thuds, embedded themselves in the stone slab at Naruto's feet, creating several deep craters.
The bond of blood suppressed the Cursed Seal on the dead at this moment.
"Impossible! How could the chakra network of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path be affected by emotions?!" From within the amplified tumor, Kabuto roared in shock and rage.
"How could a rat from the sewers like you understand the importance of family?" Naruto endured the excruciating pain in his hand, and golden Yang Release Chakra surged wildly into Minato's body through his palm.
The Great Evolution Divine Soul Art is operating at full power!
If he could just shatter that disgusting talisman in one fell swoop, he could regain his parents' consciousness.
So close!
"Dream on!" Kabuto's voice was completely manic, filled with a ruthless and reckless cruelty.
A guttural roar echoed from the depths of the Leyline. A surge of dark red chakra, ten times larger than before, poured wildly into the hall through the Golem's roots.
The dome of the hall began to crack, and huge stones crashed to the ground.
The talismans on Minato and Kushina's foreheads instantly changed from dark red to a bright, dripping red.
Minato's trembling arm suddenly twisted, and an abnormally violent repulsive force exploded, sending Naruto flying more than ten meters away.
Naruto tumbled through the air and landed, looking up as his heart sank.
Strange black patterns began to appear on Minato's body, his skin cracked open, and dark red, tangible energy surged forth. A chakra belonging to the Nine-Tails, yet even more violent than the Nine-Tails, soared into the sky.
A jet-black, high-density Tailed Beast Ball is rapidly forming in his mouth!
"If you can't control it, then go completely berserk!" Dou laughed wildly in the darkness. "Let's see if you dare to kill your own father!"
The oppressive feeling of death instantly enveloped the entire underground ruins.