Obito watched the scene from far away, the corner of his mouth beneath the mask curling more mockingly. "A bunch of idiots. How could the Ten-Tails' chakra possibly be moved by external force? Prepare to be annihilated in despair."
Time slowly passed. Blood began to trickle from Ōnoki's nostrils, and the Raikage's arms trembled violently. Everyone had reached their limit.
At that critical moment, the mental link in Naruto's mind suddenly rang out.
"Naruto!"
It was Hinata's voice.
Naruto abruptly turned his head. Through the Byakugan's field of vision, he saw Hinata kneeling atop a massive boulder on a distant ruined hill. Her hands formed the Tiger seal, and the veins around her eyes looked ready to burst through her skin. Two horrifying trails of bloody tears streamed wildly down her pale cheeks.
She was pushing the Byakugan's insight to its absolute limit!
"Hinata, close your eyes! You'll go blind!" Naruto's heart clenched.
"No!" Hinata's voice carried unprecedented stubbornness through the mental network. "Back in the Land of Iron, I could see through Obito's mechanisms. Today, I'll see through this monster too!"
She stared fixedly at the energy sphere floating in midair, like a chaotic black hole. To ordinary people, it was a flawless bomb of destruction. But in Hinata's Byakugan vision, pushed to its utmost limit, that vast chakra was not a single solid mass.
It had been forcibly fused from the resentment of ten Tailed Beasts, and the energy currents within were incomparably chaotic.
"Found it!" Enduring the agony in her eyes as though red-hot needles were piercing them, Hinata gasped heavily and rapidly called out the coordinates. "Naruto! That mass of energy isn't dead—it's flowing at high speed inside! At the lower right of the Tailed Beast Ball, three meters outward from its center, there's a vortex