Youth meant going all out!!!
Everyone witnessed a sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
With a roar that seemed to shatter the soul, mingling unbearable pain with overwhelming exhilaration, two crimson meteors stamped on the air, broke the sound barrier, and hurtled into the densest concentration of enemies!
"Evening Elephant: Fifth Step!"
Guy and Duy, father and son, moved in perfect unison, their hearts as one.
They were no longer running. They seemed to be climbing invisible stairs of air, each step leaving crimson afterimages and deafening sonic booms in the sky!
Wherever they passed, space itself seemed to twist and compress under that utterly pure violence.
Five visible crimson air cannons, shaped like enormous elephant feet, erupted from their punches and kicks!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The five thunderous blasts sounded almost simultaneously.
The Ninja from the Pure Land caught within the Evening Elephant had no time to react. Under that irresistible, terrifying air pressure, their bodies were struck as though by ten-thousand-ton hammers, instantly torn apart, crushed, and reduced to the finest dust.
They vanished completely without even a chance to scream.
This was neither ninjutsu nor genjutsu. This was the terrifying destructive force unleashed upon the laws of physics when pure taijutsu reached its absolute pinnacle.
"Is that... Guy?!"
In the distance, Asuma Sarutobi was locked in combat with several Jonin from the Pure Land. He drove them back with a fierce slash of his Flying Swallow, then caught sight of the devastation wrought by those two crimson figures out of the corner of his eye. He was so stunned that the cigarette fell straight from his lips.
Kakashi Hatake, fighting beside him, was equally dumbstruck.
"Is this the power of the Eight Gates Formation's strongest gate-the Eighth Gate, the Gate