" [ Heavenly Star Meteor Life · Light Assault ]! "
Urashiki was enraged by Minato, and he thrust his palm forward violently! In his palm, red Chakra surged crazily and exploded!
"Shoo-shoo-shoo-shoo—!!!"
In an instant, thousands of energy light dots, each only the size of a fingernail but glowing with a dangerous dark red light, shot towards where Minato Namikaze was, covering the sky and the earth!
Facing this area-of-effect saturation attack, the golden Nine-Tails Chakra cloak around Minato shone brilliantly!
"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish—!"
His figure instantly turned into a continuously flickering yellow flash! Instead of moving in a straight line, he left a series of short and precise zigzag trajectories in the air.
The rain of light dots whistled past, but it didn't even graze the edge of his Chakra cloak.
Just as the momentum of this dense offensive slightly abated, and in the instant when Urashiki's old power had faded and new power had yet to arise—the yellow flash suddenly extinguished, only to flare up again just inches away from Urashiki!
Minato's figure appeared directly in front of Urashiki, holding a flying thunder god kunai, and swiftly thrust it towards Urashiki's throat!
"Bang—!"
A crisp sound of metal clashing rang out.
Urashiki reacted extremely quickly; his Chakra instantly solidified, transforming into a dark red energy staff in his hand, barely parrying Minato's tricky thrust!
"Snap!"
A snapping sound followed. The blade of the flying thunder god kunai in Minato's hand, which was capable of withstanding high-intensity Chakra infusion, actually snapped at the point of impact with Urashiki's energy staff! Half of the blade spun away.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Having gained the upper hand, a golden glint flashed in Urashiki's eyes. Seizing the moment when Minato's weapon was damaged and his movements slightly stalled, he suddenly opened his other free hand and aimed it at Minato, who was right in front of him!
Hum—!
An invisible repulsive force instantly erupted, smashing fiercely towards Minato!
However, Minato's reaction was faster! Or rather, he had already anticipated Urashiki's possible follow-up Move.
"Swish!"
A flash of golden light, and Minato's figure had vanished into thin air. The next instant, he had already safely retreated to a distance of several dozen meters behind. The repulsive force field swept uselessly through the position where he had originally stood, only stirring up a turbulence of air.
"Tsk... what a troublesome Move..." Urashiki withdrew his hand and spat with a gloomy expression.
The Flying Thunder God, a Body Flicker Technique that almost ignored distance and was impossible to guard against, made him feel extremely tricky and "disgusted" on a tactical level. But a flash of ruthlessness and anticipation immediately crossed his eyes.
"However, what does it matter if you jump around? As long as time is on my side, once I completely take over this body... it will be my absolute victory! When that time comes, let's see where you, this yellow flash, can fly to!"
The Kunai with the broken blade rotated slightly in Minato's hand. Although the clash just now was short, he had completed another crucial probe and reached an extremely grim conclusion.
Trying to hit the opponent with a Sealing Jutsu was unimaginably difficult.
The opponent's fighting style was extremely difficult to deal with. He used high-intensity Chakra weapons for offense and defense, the insight granted by those golden Rinnegan and the potential Dojutsu were used to counter surprise attacks and control the field, and that ability to turn his body into red paper cranes was the best means of escape and evasion.
And Sealing Jutsu, especially those powerful enough to imprison an existence like Urashiki, often required relatively complex hand signs and precise timing for release. With the opponent possessing so many counter-measures and escape methods, the possibility of catching that fleeting opportunity to complete the hand signs and successfully land the hit during a direct confrontation was minuscule.
What was more troublesome was that even if he managed to temporarily bind the opponent by some stroke of luck, Urashiki could immediately turn into paper cranes to break free, and the Sealing Jutsu would not have time to be completed.
Unable to be effectively bound, unable to be completely destroyed; if this dragged on, for every bit the Fusion progressed, Urashiki's advantage would expand by a bit, and Naruto's consciousness would be in greater danger!
Time was on the enemy's side!
Minato bit his lip, applying pressure with his teeth until he tasted the "pain" belonging to a spiritual entity. He used this pain to force himself to pull away from the terrifying imagination of possible failure, forcibly cooling down his boiling anxiety and the fatherly love that was threatening to drown his reason, allowing his thinking to return to absolute calmness.
He must think of a way! He must!
His original first tactical plan was to force Urashiki to perform large-scale displacement or defense through continuous, high-frequency attacks, anticipate his possible evasion space or defensive loopholes, and simultaneously use Shadow Clones to create confusion and illusions, while his real body would lie in wait at the pre-determined key position, complete the preparation for the Sealing Jutsu, and wait for Urashiki to "bump" into it himself.
But the reality was that Urashiki was cunning and cautious; he chose to hold his ground more often, using powerful defense and counter-attack capabilities to cope, rather than frequently performing high-risk displacement. This made predicting his movement trajectory abnormally difficult, and the first plan was declared bankrupt before it even began.
Then, what other way was there?
Use a "Move" that itself contained powerful sealing power and did not require complex prerequisites or long-term maintenance to directly attack and Seal the opponent!
Integrate the power of the Sealing Jutsu into the attack itself.
But... Minato's heart sank.
Minato Namikaze did not master any ready-made Ninjutsu that could be directly used for attacks while also carrying a powerful sealing effect. His knowledge of Sealing Jutsu was more inclined towards barriers and spatial lockdowns; he lacked a flexible, fast, offensive sealing method that could be used in this kind of spiritual entity battle.
"Roar—!!!"
Just in the short gap while Minato was concentrating on his thoughts, the Nine-Tailed let out a roar of rage and unwillingness! Several tails, carrying the hatred to tear everything apart, smashed down fiercely towards Urashiki again!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang—!!!"
Heavy collision sounds rang out one after another! Deep pits were smashed into the ground!
Urashiki seemed annoyed by this futile resistance from the Nine-Tailed. With a casual wave of one hand, several thick dark red Chakra shields instantly condensed and formed in all directions around him, accurately blocking all the bombardments from the Nine-Tailed's tails!
In this spiritual world, the power that the Nine-Tailed could use was closer to its wild state before it was controlled. Apart from the Tailed Beast Ball, it lacked the fine operation and explosive power that came from perfect cooperation with a Jinchuriki, appearing somewhat clumsy and easy to target.
"Quiet down for a moment, 'fox'." Urashiki's voice carried a hint of impatience, "I think... when everything settles, we will 'get along' very 'happily' in the future."
While he spoke, that free hand lifted again, aiming at the Nine-Tailed, which was temporarily restricted in its movements! More massive, viscous dark red Chakra gathered crazily in his palm, rapidly condensing into energy giant pillars that were even thicker and had incomparably sharp tips, which were fiercely projected towards the Nine-Tailed's massive body!
Although the Nine-Tailed struggled to twist its body in an attempt to dodge, its huge size affected its flexibility—
"Splurt! Splurt!"
Two more tails that couldn't dodge in time were fiercely pierced by these red giant pillars and nailed to the ground! Pain and worry made the Nine-Tailed let out a painful grunt, but the hatred and killing intent in its beast eyes burned even more intensely!
"Ugh... bastard... must kill you... must...!!!"
Even though its body was restricted, the Nine-Tailed still locked onto Urashiki with that hateful gaze that wanted to tear him apart alive and burn his Soul to ashes.
Just at this moment—
"Rasengan!"
A voice accompanied by the humming of high-speed rotating Chakra sounded from an extremely close distance behind Urashiki!
It was Minato! Using the Flying Thunder God to surprise attack, he had appeared in Urashiki's visual blind spot! The Rasengan was aimed directly at Urashiki's back, pressing down fiercely!
"Again?!" Urashiki furrowed his brows, cursing this impossible-to-guard-against Body Flicker Technique in his heart. Facing this attack that was almost point-blank and left no time to fully turn and defend, he prepared to activate that life-saving ability almost reflexively—turning his body into energy and dispersing it into red paper cranes!
However!
Just at the critical moment when the Rasengan was about to touch Urashiki's back—
The Rasengan that had condensed in Minato's hand unexpectedly dissipated into thin air without warning! Not only that, the brilliant golden Nine-Tails Chakra cloak on Minato also instantly faded, revealing his original form!
"?!" Urashiki was stunned, and the process of turning into energy therefore experienced an extremely brief lag. What was going on? Was the Chakra supply interrupted?
But his fighting instinct was still there. Although he didn't understand why, this was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to counter-attack!
"Shinra Tensei!"
He seized this momentary gap and aimed his palm at Minato, who was right in front of him and seemingly had an opening due to the "disappearance of power"!
"Bang—!!!"
An invisible repulsive force slammed solidly onto Minato! Minato's figure was violently knocked away by this huge force, drawing a parabola in the air, falling onto the "ground" in the distance, stirring up a cloud of dust.
"...I see." Urashiki looked at Minato, who had fallen and couldn't get up in the distance, and then glanced at the Nine-Tailed, which was firmly nailed down by him and whose Chakra fluctuations were obviously chaotic, and he suddenly understood in his heart, "Binding that fox caused the power it supplies to be unstable, or even interrupted? Hmph, what a fragile link."
Since that was the case...
A flash of killing intent crossed Urashiki's eyes! This yellow flash was truly too troublesome; he must take advantage of this "weak" moment to completely eliminate him, so as to avoid future complications!
"Universal Pull!"
He lifted his other hand, aimed it at Minato, who had fallen in the distance, and grabbed at the empty air with his five fingers!
A powerful gravitational force was instantly generated, violently pulling Minato's limp body up from the ground and causing it to fly rapidly towards Urashiki!
At the same time, Urashiki's previous hand gathered Chakra again, and a red Chakra spear with cold light flashing on its edge rapidly took shape, its tip pointing straight at the heart of Minato, who was being pulled by the gravitational force!
"It's over!"
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