Indra stood tall in the sky, gripping the Yin-Yang Six Paths Staff, his eyes sweeping coldly across the entire battlefield.
"Gulp...!"
Wherever his gaze fell, shinobi trembled uncontrollably. Some couldn't endure the suffocating atmosphere and collapsed unconscious on the spot!
Even the Kage from the great villages were severely shaken!
Mei Terumi clutched her chest, brows furrowed. "This feeling is completely different from any powerful enemy we've faced before—nauseating, suffocating. Just standing in his presence makes it impossible to properly gather chakra..."
Ōnoki of the Two Scales landed from midair, his expression grave. "I once thought the First Hokage and Uchiha Madara represented the ceiling of shinobi power. Then Naruto's appearance changed my understanding. But this enemy—you don't need to analyze his jutsu abilities. One look tells you he's stronger than Naruto, stronger than anyone!"
Gaara lowered his crossed arms. "Is there only one monster like this? Or are there many more in places we don't know about? If he's not unique, then I completely understand Naruto's strategy!"
The Fourth Raikage A lay on his stretcher, bloodshot eyes glaring at the sky. "Where the hell did this freak come from? Why wasn't there any warning beforehand? Don't tell me Uzumaki Naruto created this thing himself!"
But he immediately dismissed that thought.
"No, that's impossible. I've been ambushed by Uzumaki Naruto too many times—that's why I'm seeing conspiracies everywhere. If he could create monsters like this, why not turn himself into one instead of gathering all of us to fight it? What would be the point..."
After withdrawing his gaze, Indra focused on Naruto. "So this is what the shinobi world looks like a thousand years after Ninshū... The power gap is unimaginably vast. You must be Uzumaki Naruto, the strongest shinobi of this era."
Naruto responded firmly, "I am Uzumaki Naruto. What do you want?"
Indra said, "Have all the irrelevant people leave. I don't like wasting time on weaklings. You, you, you, you, and you—the five of you stay..."
Indra's gaze lingered on Naruto, Sasuke, Madara, Obito, and Hinata in turn!
Naruto smiled meaningfully. "Well, if they don't mind, I have no objections~"
"How outrageous..." Even clay figures have some fire in them, let alone the hot-blooded warriors present!
"How dare you look down on us..."
A hot-headed Kumogakure ninja charged forward!
—Mokuhana Chiryū!
But he'd barely taken a few steps when his body rapidly aged, collapsing as a withered corpse!
Madara said in a low voice, "That's Mokuhana Chiryū—a dōjutsu that can drain life with a single glance. Its effective range should be 150 meters, but after absorbing the Divine Tree, the casting distance has extended to 200 meters. That's already beyond our understanding of dōjutsu!"
The shinobi present fell silent with terror. "How are we supposed to fight such a monster?"
"The ultra-long-range ninjutsu we shinobi typically consider maxes out at 100 meters. We can't even touch him, but one look from him and we're drained dry!"
Despair spread through the crowd!
"What's there to fear? Let this old man face him!!!" At that moment, the Fourth Raikage A rose from his stretcher, becoming the center of everyone's attention.
He looked toward the nearby Iwagakure formation. "Ōnoki, remove the jutsu on me!"
Ōnoki thought: I've long heard that this Raikage brat was hit by Naruto's Super Weighted Boulder Technique. It's amazing he's survived these past six months under that jutsu's influence...
Ōnoki formed hand seals and pressed them against the Raikage's chest.
—Super Weighted Boulder Technique: Release!
Whoosh!
After six months, the Super Weighted Boulder Technique was finally lifted... The sudden lightness made the Raikage's eyes blaze as he threw lightning-fast punches into the air, almost invisible!
Sasuke thought: No wonder he moved so slowly when fighting me—Naruto had tampered with him...
Crackle, crackle...!
Intense lightning coursed through the Raikage's limbs and every chakra point!
Under the full moon, the Raikage's body rapidly transformed into a humanoid panther!
Indra raised an eyebrow. "Oh? That transformation—the atavistic power of the Yotsuki clan, a branch of Asura..."
Crack! Crack! He clenched his massive fists and declared, "You brats, open your eyes wide and watch how Kumogakure breaks through a mere Rinnegan dōjutsu!!"
The Kumogakure ninja erupted with excitement: "Boss...!!"
Naruto's eyes blazed. "A, show me how much you've grown under that 'encouragement'!"
The Fourth Raikage A strode boldly into battle!
Indra focused his gaze, about to unleash his dōjutsu!
Crackle...!
But A vanished from his original position!
Namikaze Minato: "So fast!!!"
Sasuke, Madara, Obito: "Even the Rinnegan can't see him!?"
"!" Indra saw him, but his body couldn't keep up for a moment!
—Ultimate: Liger Bomb!
Boom...!
The Raikage's massive beast-like frame flashed in midair, delivering a savage elbow strike to Indra's face...!
"Ugh...!!!!"
Indra was sent flying at an angle into the earth!
Whoosh!
The Raikage vanished from the sky!
Indra sensed a chakra signature racing rapidly through the underground depths!
"Below me..."
In less than a millisecond, when he realized this—
—Ultimate: Lightning Battle Ninja Encounter Blade!
Boom...!!
The Raikage burst from underground, his furious fist already exploding against Indra's back!
Indra was launched skyward!
Whoosh...!
The Raikage appeared directly above, his lightning-wrapped leg raised high, then brought down with devastating force!
"I will pierce through the darkness with the will of raging thunder!"
—Ultimate: Righteous Thunder Wrathful Thunder Axe!!!
BOOM...!!!
Indra was slammed back to earth by this axe kick!
"To think you could inflict actual damage on me... You're no less impressive than your ancestors..."
After standing up, the wound on Indra's abdomen healed rapidly, yet he smiled. "Hahaha... Good! I'll add you to the list. Show me your ultimate technique!"
Crack!
The Raikage clenched his fists, lightning exploding to its peak around him. He lowered his center of gravity, shattered the ground, and charged straight ahead!!
—Ultimate: Thunder Lariat!
Indra: "A linear attack? Without my clan's eyesight, you're just seeking death..."
Whoosh!
The Truth-Seeking Orb behind Indra floated in front of him.
The Raikage... crashed straight into it, his entire head erased by the Truth-Seeking Orb!!
Thud...!
By momentum, his arm wrapped heavily around Indra's neck!
Whoosh!
Indra stepped back more than ten meters, his neck wound healing as he looked at the headless Raikage, smiling coolly. "This is as far as you go..."
But... an almost unbelievable scene unfolded!
The Raikage's headless body only paused briefly before launching a terrifying counterattack at Indra!
Indra was shocked. "What!? Remnants of battle instinct in the body!!"
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...!
The dead Raikage, following pure instinct, unleashed a barrage of furious lightning punches!
Indra... landed somewhat disheveled on the ground!
"Boss!!!"
"Lord Raikage!!!"
The Kumogakure and shinobi from all villages cried out in deep emotion.
Naruto said, "Go ahead, don't let him actually die..."
Whoosh!
Uchiha Obito leaped forward.
—Umudoryū!
Whoosh!
Time reversed—the Raikage was instantly revived, but the injuries Indra sustained from the Raikage didn't disappear due to causal connection!
This was Obito's Rinnegan dōjutsu, 'Duanmie Chanti'—it could preserve favorable causality!
Then, riding the fighting spirit ignited by the Raikage!
Uchiha Obito shouted to all the shinobi: "Charge past me toward the enemy and fight with everything you have! No matter how many times you die in battle, my dōjutsu can rewind you to your most valiant moment!!!"
"ROAAAAR...!"
The courage injected by the Raikage, now fully ignited by Obito, swept through the shinobi. They all cast aside thoughts of life and death, charging past Obito toward the seemingly insurmountable Indra!
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