"Ordinary physical attacks... ineffective?" Minato Namikaze landed a blow, but saw Urashiki recover in an instant, his brow slightly furrowed. "Then, let's try the effect of Ninjutsu next."
He quickly formed a simple Shadow Clone Seal with his hands.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Several Shadow Clones of Minato Namikaze appeared instantly! All the Clones vanished from their original spots simultaneously, and almost at the same moment, precisely reappeared in different parts of the battlefield.
At the same time, Minato's main body raised his right hand, and a rapidly spinning, azure Chakra formed a Rasengan in his palm!
"Hmph, boring Moves of an inferior creature!" Urashiki floated in mid-air, scoffing at Minato's tactical change with disdain, casually raising his arm.
However—
"Whoosh!"
The moment Urashiki raised his hand, Minato's figure appeared directly in front of Urashiki without any warning, within arm's reach!
The distance between them was not even enough for Urashiki to fully block with his arm!
"What?!" Urashiki didn't see how Minato moved at all!
After the first successful sneak attack with a flying thunder god kunai, Minato had already left a Flying Thunder God Technique Formula mark on Urashiki's "consciousness body"!
"Almighty Push...!"
Urashiki hastily tried to activate repulsion to push Minato away, but Minato's attack was faster than his thought!
"Bang—!!!"
The Rasengan, imbued with powerful Chakra and rotational cutting force, solidly struck Urashiki's chest, which he had failed to fully defend in his haste!
"Ugh—!"
Urashiki let out a pained groan and was uncontrollably sent flying backward.
"Bang!"
He heavily "fell" in the distance, a shocking, massive hole appearing in his chest, with red energy particles constantly dissipating from its edges!
However, under the focused gaze of Minato and Kurama, the wound, which would have instantly killed any physical being, rapidly began to close from the edges, healing completely in just two or three breaths.
"This...?" Minato's eyes narrowed. During battles in the outside world, Urashiki's recovery ability was strong, but he never possessed this near-"instant regeneration," "immortal" characteristic.
"Fourth Hokage!"
Just then, Kurama's voice, brimming with suppressed emotion, roared. Minato turned to see Kurama's beast eyes glaring fiercely at him.
"This is only once! I'll lend you my power!" Kurama's voice was full of unquestionable authority, carrying a tone of ultimatum. "You'd better make sure... this time, you can really save Naruto! Otherwise... you can go back to the Shinigami and stay there forever!"
Before his voice faded, Kurama's giant claw had already formed a hand seal!
"Boom—!!!"
The next instant, Minato felt an unimaginably vast and boundless Chakra surge into the Chakra pathway within his body, which had maintained his existence and connected him to Kurama!
Golden Chakra light burst forth from his body, transforming into a shimmering, golden Chakra cloak with Chakra flames flickering at its edges!
Nine-Tails Chakra Mode! And it was the complete, unreserved power of Kurama!
"Understood! Thank you!" Minato responded in a deep voice. He had already faintly sensed some clues behind Urashiki's "immortal" characteristic during his previous attack. Now, he needed even greater power to confirm his hypothesis and execute the next step of his plan.
He completely ignored Kurama's threat of "failure consequences." Because, compared to his own Chakra consciousness potentially dissipating due to excessive consumption... the pain of losing his son, of having Naruto replaced by the monster before him, would be a thousand times more despairing for Minato! Even if Kurama didn't pursue it afterward, he would never forgive himself.
"Roar—!!!"
On the other side, Kurama let out an earth-shattering roar, filled with hatred, anxiety, and a desire for destruction that was a hundred times more intense than when he was controlled by Uchiha Madara's Sharingan back then! For what he had to protect now was the most important and special existence in the world to him.
He suddenly opened his massive mouth, aiming at the distant, newly recovered, grim-faced Urashiki! A Tailed Beast Ball, constantly expanding in volume, rapidly condensed into shape! The violent Chakra fluctuations swept across the entire mental world's grassland like a tangible hurricane, churning the lake into giant waves and flattening the grass!
An unprecedented killing intent! If Naruto truly met with misfortune, even tearing this Ōtsutsuki into a thousand pieces wouldn't quell an iota of Kurama's hatred! He had even prepared for the worst-case scenario: if the situation completely spiraled out of control, he would not hesitate to use certain forbidden powers at the cost of his own existence!
Meanwhile, as Kurama charged, Minato's mind raced, calmly analyzing the situation.
According to Urashiki's earlier "confession," he currently existed within Naruto's body as a data compression entity called [Karma]. His power was gradually "adapting," "unfreezing," and merging with Naruto's body.
Minato also clearly sensed a vast, cold, and aggressive alien Chakra aura continuously emanating from the "depths" of the mental world, its concentration slowly but steadily rising.
And just now, the moment the Rasengan hit Urashiki, "damaging" him and sending him flying—the continuously rising Ōtsutsuki Chakra concentration clearly paused for an instant! Although it quickly resumed its upward trend, this brief interruption was crucial!
"So that's it..."
Urashiki's current state was not truly "immortal." His consciousness body was closely linked to the diffusing Ōtsutsuki Chakra.
Each time he was "injured" or used power, it would consume or interfere with this part of the Chakra that was in the process of "adaptation," thereby briefly delaying the "unfreezing" speed.
His eyes grew incredibly cold. He decided to test the correctness of his hypothesis.
"Howl—!!!!!"
At this moment, Kurama finished charging, and the Tailed Beast Ball shot towards Urashiki like a meteor!
"It's useless! Do you think you can do anything to me?!" Urashiki's face slightly changed as he watched the roaring Tailed Beast Ball, but he still spoke defiantly.
His body once again began to transform into countless crimson energy paper cranes, intending to repeat his old trick and use that "elementalization"-like ability to evade the attack.
"You talk too much nonsense."
However, a cold voice sounded, almost brushing past the scattered paper cranes.
A flash of golden light, and Minato precisely appeared in front of the core position where the swarm of paper cranes was about to re-converge!
And behind him, in the distance—was one of the previously arranged positions of Minato's Shadow Clones! One of the Shadow Clones had already assumed a specific posture, forming hand seals.
Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder!
"Wh...!" Urashiki's dispersed consciousness sensed intense spatial fluctuations, but it was too late!
The dark Tailed Beast Ball, which he should have dodged, seemed to hit an invisible spatial mirror the moment it was about to pass his original position, instantly changing its trajectory and disappearing from the spot!
The next second—
Right in the "exact center" where Urashiki's swarm of paper cranes was about to re-condense, a rift suddenly tore open in space!
The Tailed Beast Ball, imbued with destructive power, returned and erupted from the center point where Urashiki was about to reform "within" him!
"Boom—!"
Explosion and energy annihilation! The black destructive orb completely engulfed that area! Dazzling light and violent Chakra turbulence swept in all directions!
"Aaaahhhhh—!!!" Urashiki's shrill and painful scream emanated from the center of the explosion. Clearly, this attack was completely unexpected and hit him squarely in a vital spot!
The light and smoke slowly dissipated.
The area was empty, not even a trace of red energy remained.
But neither Minato nor Kurama relaxed their guard.
Sure enough, only a few seconds later, the diffusing Ōtsutsuki Chakra in the surrounding air once again began to accelerate its convergence. Red light particles emerged from the Void Realm like reverse snowflakes, rapidly condensing... Urashiki's slightly ethereal figure, but with even greater shock and anger in his eyes, slowly reappeared!
"...It seems this is the source of his 'confidence.'"
Minato calmly observed the entire process of Urashiki's "resurrection," confirming most of his hypotheses.
"He cannot be 'destroyed' by conventional means. As long as the [Karma] data and the Fusion process continue, he can constantly 'regenerate.' Each time he is 'destroyed,' it only causes the Ōtsutsuki Chakra adapting to Naruto's body to stagnate and become chaotic for a moment, delaying the Fusion time."
The consciousness body, relying on the [Karma] data and the diffused Chakra, was indeed difficult to "destroy" by conventional means.
However... if he couldn't be "destroyed"... a familiar and effective solution instantly became clear in Minato's mind.
What about Sealing Jutsu?
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