"Don't!"
Seeing the 'Great Spiraling Ring' in Menma's hand, Naruto instantly exclaimed.
He knew the power of the 'Great Spiraling Ring' all too well, because the ordinary 'Spiraling Ring' could already rival his 'Rasenshuriken'. And the power of the 'Great Spiraling Ring' surpassed the ordinary Tailed Beast Ball, a killing move that could destroy a city in one blow!
"Hmph!"
Menma, however, ignored Naruto, just snorted coldly, and then threw the 'Great Spiraling Ring' in his hand towards Sasuke.
Watching the whistling 'Great Spiraling Ring', Sasuke felt a chill in his heart.
Immediately, he clapped his hands together with a 'smack', fully urging 'Wood Release' to meet the incoming 'Great Spiraling Ring'.
"This!?"
The Konoha people watching from afar were all panicked at this moment, even Jiraiya and Tsunade were no exception.
Jiraiya and Tsunade indeed wanted to see how Naruto and Menma would deal with the battle situation before them, but they never expected the situation to escalate to this level all of a sudden.
Even Jiraiya, who knew Menma mastered the 'Great Spiraling Ring', didn't expect the 'Great Spiraling Ring' Menma launched now could be so tyrannical. Even from a kilometer away, the chakra contained in the 'Great Spiraling Ring' made his heart pound.
"No, Sasuke will die!"
Kakashi made a move to rush over.
Guy and Asuma stopped Kakashi together: "Too late!"
Sure enough, the next moment Menma's 'Great Spiraling Ring' smashed onto Sasuke's sea of trees. Immediately after, a blinding aurora flashed, dazzling everyone from Konoha.
Rumble...
Closely following the strong light was a roaring sound like heaven falling and earth cracking. While eardrums were shaken painfully, the ground under everyone's feet also began to shake violently.
After a long time, the roar and shaking gradually subsided.
The astonished crowd looked at the battlefield one after another, only to see smoke and dust curling up over the Valley of the End. Through the gaps in the smoke and dust, large swathes of broken trees and vines could be seen.
These trees and vines had completely lost the vitality just now, as if they were ordinary trees, no longer having the domineering nature of 'Wood Release'.
Shizune looked joyful: "It's Naruto, they are fine!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, finding Naruto and Menma standing side by side at one end of the battlefield. Naruto just looked somewhat disheveled, as if choked by smoke and dust, coughing violently, but not injured much, nor in any life danger.
After breathing a slight sigh of relief, everyone from Konoha looked for Sasuke's figure on the battlefield again. Anyway, Sasuke was a Konoha ninja, not to mention Kakashi was Sasuke's Jonin instructor.
Tsunade and Jiraiya were worried that if something happened to Sasuke, it would cause the private peace agreement between Konoha and 'A' to be voided.
At this time, the smoke and dust shrouding the Valley of the End finally dispersed.
Everyone looked over hurriedly, finding that figure in the center of the 'Wood Release' ruins.
At this time, Sasuke stood quietly in the center of broken trees. Except for his upper clothes being torn and some slight injuries on his body, he didn't seem to have suffered too heavy injuries.
"Go, let's go over!"
Tsunade dared not hesitate anymore, immediately leading everyone from Konoha to rush towards the battlefield.
On the battlefield.
"Eh?"
Menma let out a soft exclamation of surprise.
He originally thought his move 'Great Spiraling Ring', even if not killing Sasuke, should be able to seriously injure the opponent, completely losing the ability to resist.
But now it seemed Sasuke used some means to withstand his 'Great Spiraling Ring'.
Naruto breathed a long sigh of relief: "That's great!"
At this time, Sasuke slowly looked at Naruto, a inexplicable expression appearing on his face.
Just as Naruto was puzzled, he suddenly discovered the pupils in Sasuke's eye sockets were no longer the crimson of the Sharingan before, but a touch of pale purple.
Menma also noticed the peculiarity: "That is... Rinnegan!?"
Naruto murmured: "Sasuke awakened the Rinnegan?"
Distance.
Due to distance, everyone from Konoha didn't notice the change in Sasuke's pupils immediately. But in the process of rushing to the battlefield, hearing Naruto and Menma's exclamations, they realized it later, looking at Sasuke one by one.
"How is it possible?"
"Re-really is the Rinnegan!"
"Could it be that the legendary 'Eyes of the Sage' really evolved from the Uchiha clan's Sharingan?"
Everyone from Konoha was stunned.
Although there had been speculations in the Ninja World before that the Rinnegan, known as the 'Eyes of the Sage', might have some relationship with the Sharingan. After all, 'A' and 'B' were both Mangekyo Uchiha before, and as a result, they both possessed the Rinnegan during the Fourth Great Ninja War.
But speculation was just speculation after all. Seeing Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan evolve into the Rinnegan with their own eyes, everyone couldn't hide the surprise in their hearts!
Because confirming this point could confirm that the Uchiha clan was indeed the descendant of the legendary 'Sage of Six Paths'.
On the field.
Sasuke sighed with emotion: "Didn't expect I would open the 'Rinnegan' in this form. Truly ironic!"
If not for opening the 'Rinnegan' at the critical moment just now and absorbing part of the 'Great Spiraling Ring' using the 'Rinnegan's' dojutsu 'Preta Path', he would probably be seriously injured by now.
Listening to Sasuke's emotion, Naruto was also happy for him: "Sasuke, you really are a genius!"
"Genius huh?" Sasuke wasn't as excited as imagined, just chuckled lightly: "Finally caught up a little."
Naruto didn't understand what Sasuke meant by 'caught up a little'. He continued to persuade: "Sasuke, you have now opened the 'Rinnegan', possessing the same power as the Akatsuki leader, so you don't need to hang out with those people from the Akatsuki anymore! Come back, we are all waiting for you in the village!"
Sasuke looked at Naruto somewhat speechlessly: "Idiot, you understand nothing! The 'Rinnegan' is only..."
Halfway through, Sasuke shook his head, not explaining anymore.
Because he felt even if he explained clearly to Naruto, it was meaningless. Neither Naruto nor the people in the village understood what crisis the Ninja World was really facing, let alone understood how powerful Shinji exactly was.
Let alone comparing with Shinji, even in the organization, possessing the 'Rinnegan' was nothing much, couldn't even squeeze into the top three!
Swish swish swish...
With a burst of breaking wind, Tsunade and other Konoha people finally arrived at the battlefield, landing around Naruto one after another.
Different from before, the current Sasuke opened the 'Rinnegan', making them unavoidably nervous!
Sasuke, however, had no thought of continuing the fight. Coming to find Naruto was originally a test given to him by Shinji. Now that he had opened the 'Rinnegan', continuing to entanglement was meaningless.
Thus, glancing at Naruto one last time, Sasuke leaped up, withdrawing from the battlefield...