"Big Ball Rasengan!"
Naruto let out a deafening roar and charged madly at Shengu Xuan like a cannonball, carrying a massive blue sphere of energy powerful enough to flatten a small hill in an instant!
The raging chakra currents whipped up a small tornado across the Training Ground, making the clothes of Kakashi, Sakura, and Jiraiya flap loudly in the distance.
"What an incredible amount of chakra! These past two years of training certainly haven't gone to waste for Naruto. Even a Jonin wouldn't dare take a ninjutsu this powerful head-on." Watching the dazzling Big Ball Rasengan, Kakashi couldn't help nodding in admiration.
Sakura clenched her fists, her face full of excitement. "Wonderful! Naruto's gotten so strong. He'll definitely force Captain Shengu to go all out!"
Yet Shengu Xuan remained standing where he was, his hands tucked lazily into his pockets, facing this ferocious strike powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth. He didn't even blink an extra time, merely sighing in utter boredom.
"Two years, and all you've learned is how to roll a bigger ball? How disappointing."
Just as Naruto charged within half a meter of Shengu Xuan with his Big Ball Rasengan, the raging chakra storm lifting the loose hair over Shengu Xuan's forehead, Shengu Xuan finally moved.
He formed no hand seals and made no attempt to dodge. He didn't even take his left hand out of his pocket. He merely raised his right hand with utter casualness, extending a long, pale index finger, and gently pressed it against the very center of the furiously spinning Big Ball Rasengan as though touching the surface of water!
"Humm-!"
Time seemed to come to a complete standstill.
The wildly raging Big Ball Rasengan, which had been giving off a piercing roar, actually stopped spinning in the thousandth of