The wind had stopped.
The air in Eighth Gorge seemed to have turned into a block of solid pig iron.
The instant Madara spoke the words "Limbo," every hair on Naruto's back stood straight up like steel needles. There was no whistle of something cutting through the air, no chakra fluctuation, not even the slightest stirring of dust on the ground.
Yet an overwhelmingly lethal sense of danger had already pressed coldly against his carotid artery.
"Move!!"
Only those two words flashed through Naruto's mind, but his body reacted faster than his thoughts. Pure golden Yang Release Chakra exploded beneath his feet, and his entire body forcibly slid half a foot to the right in a posture that twisted against all natural joint limits.
"Pfft!"
The Hokage Haori over Naruto's left shoulder split open without warning, tearing away a huge chunk of flesh beneath it as blood instantly sprayed out.
Had he been even a tenth of a second slower, that invisible force would have cut through his throat.
"You dodged?" Madara stood atop the forehead of the Susanoo, which was bound tightly by Adamantine Sealing Chains. A flicker of extreme surprise crossed his faintly glowing Rinnegan. "Was that just blind luck, or did you really sense it?"
"You old fossil, that invisibility cheat of yours is pretty damn sneaky!" Naruto clutched his left shoulder, his mouth twitching from the pain.
He could not see what had attacked him at all. In the Byakugan's field of vision, there was only a blurred distortion of space. But the aftereffects of forcibly activating Six Paths Observation State had not fully faded, leaving him with a beastlike instinct for Six Paths Power that defied common sense.
Naruto did not waste a word. The five fingers of his right hand snapped open, and an