"Shinnō, your plot won't succeed!"
"Hahahahaha! Boy, is shouting all you can do? If you want to stop me, show me what you've got!"
Inside the Sky Ninja Village ruins, Shinnō, transformed into an Armored Giant Ape, laughed without restraint.
He pressed his palms together and unleashed a shock wave of pure dark chakra, driving back Naruto in his linked state with Kurama.
"For the Shinobi World, for everyone, I will stop you!"
Sent flying, Naruto twisted around in midair, chakra gathering in his hand.
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!"
The Rasenshuriken flew from his hand, hurtling toward Shinnō below.
"Useless! Your attacks are too weak! I've surpassed every ninja in the Shinobi World!"
Shinnō laughed, opening his enormous mouth to reveal rows of fangs.
Dark chakra gathered in his mouth, continuously compressed by the Gelel Stone until a black sphere formed.
The dark chakra brimmed with intensely negative power, radiating a deeply unsettling aura.
And the energy sphere condensed from that dark chakra looked almost exactly like a Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Whoosh!"
He spat out the black energy sphere, sending it hurtling toward Naruto's Rasenshuriken with terrifying power.
One black, one white-the two spheres of light were polar opposites, yet both held terrifying power as they collided violently in the center of the ruins' great hall!
There was no deafening explosion, only a moment of suffocating silence.
Then the point of impact seemed to be crushed in the grip of an invisible hand before expanding wildly at an unimaginable speed!
Blinding white light erupted in an instant, and a terrifying shock wave tore outward in every direction!
For a moment, it seemed as though the force would rip space itself apart.
The dilapidated hall began to creak, its surrounding walls collapsing and its stone pillars snapping.
Yet beneath the crumbling stonework