Chapter 354: The Strongest Strike
An instant.
Yes, from that pseudo-Nine-Tails appearing at Konoha's edge to being split by an azure light blade descending from heaven, transforming into dissipating chakra torrents... altogether, not even ten seconds!
Fast! So fast thought couldn't keep up! So fast Konoha's defense forces hadn't even fully deployed formations! So fast Jiraiya's Summoning Jutsu seals still remained in his hands!
That beast sufficient to threaten all of Konoha, requiring Jiraiya's personal serious preparation, possibly even forcing Naruto or Sasuke to split attention for reinforcement—that "final backup plan" carrying Urashiki's last calculations and escape hopes... was just like that, as casually as brushing away dust... instantly obliterated?!
On the cliff, Boruto's mouth gaped open. Satsuki's eyes filled with shock and bewilderment.
At Konoha's edge, Jiraiya's seals froze midair. Kakashi's dead-fish eyes widened round. All battle-ready jonin and ANBU seemed under paralysis jutsu.
Most shocked of all—Otsutsuki Urashiki at the main battlefield.
A cold chill made even his mutated body slightly tremble. Hands and feet ice-cold.
This era... this village he viewed as a "lower monkey nest"... exactly what kind of monsters still lurked hidden?!
That pseudo-Nine-Tails' "weight"—though merely a replica, with the Nine-Tails chakra purity and quantity he'd injected, its actual combat power wouldn't be much inferior to wild Tailed Beasts!
Yet such a creation was... casually annihilated like cutting tofu?
His only survival path, the final chip to overturn the situation... just like that, casually... thoroughly extinguished?!
"So that's it... Zacian." Uzumaki Naruto gazed toward Konoha's direction at that gradually calming azure radiance, instantly understanding cause and effect.
He refocused his gaze on the dispirited Urashiki, raising his right hand. In his palm, cyan-green chakra rapidly gathered.
"Looks like your calculations completely failed, Urashiki. Time to... end all this."
"Wind Style: Vacuum Tornado Erosion Realm Rasengan!"
Highly compressed storms were kneaded into the Rasengan. A cyan-green Rasengan rapidly formed in his hand.
"Sasuke," Naruto said without turning. "Let's finish this together."
"...Yes." Uchiha Sasuke briefly responded. He ignored that somewhat... well, "characteristic" jutsu name. His sole remaining arm raised. In his palm center, Yin Style chakra and violent Lightning Style chakra simultaneously surged.
He pressed his power-condensing palm onto that cyan-green Wind Style Rasengan in Naruto's hand!
CRACKLE—BOOM!!
Yin Style's cold profundity and Lightning Style's fierce violence instantly fused with the Wind Style Rasengan's violent cutting power. The Rasengan's color began becoming deeper.
Within cyan-green, leaping purple electric arcs entwined. Volume further expanded. Internal energy fluctuations explosively surged geometrically!
"Oh? This name... quite imposing."
In Naruto's inner world, a certain blonde figure stroked his chin, commenting with approving smile. "Just the first half is too concise."
"Shut up! Fourth Hokage! This is all your fault!"
Immediately following—Nine-Tails' roar mixed with annoyance and a trace of embarrassment.
Outside, the instant three-attribute chakra reached delicate balance, eternal light flashed in Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo.
"Amaterasu."
Pitch-black flames praised as "never-extinguishing fire"—Amaterasu's black flames—precisely entwined and fused into that already extremely unstable Rasengan's outer layer, dyeing it with destructively profound black!
"ROAR—!!"
Under Sasuke's full power infusion, the Rasengan in Naruto's hand underwent qualitative transformation and quantitative explosion!
Finally—a warm, life-vitality-filled dark red chakra—Kurama's power—governed all these powerful violent forces, achieving a dangerously balanced peak state!
Feeling this mass gathering both their powers in his hand, Naruto took a deep breath, declaring in extremely solemn tone:
"Decided! This technique's name shall be—"
"[Asura Blade: God-Breaking Heaven Thunder Black Flame Scorching Tail Spiral Chaos Heaven Zero Form]!"
"..."
Uchiha Sasuke's mouth corners uncontrollably, imperceptibly twitched. Finally couldn't help quietly complaining: "Idiot... the name's a bit too long."
Simultaneously, realization flashed through his heart. Through briefly fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with this Naruto, especially these two days observing his interactions with mother Kushina plus recalling his own world's exchanges with briefly resurrected Minato Namikaze on battlefields, he vaguely perceived some subtle differences between the two worlds' Narutos' temperaments.
His own world's Naruto perhaps more resembled his lively, hot-blooded, sometimes scatterbrained mother Kushina Uzumaki.
While this world's Naruto—though equally valuing bonds and internally resolute—overall temperament leaned more toward his father Minato Namikaze.
More composed, calm, thoughtful... plus this abysmal naming talent.
"BASTARD—!! [Ama-no-Subaruboshi-no-Mikoto: Dragon Palace]!!"
With retreat cut off and escape hopeless, Urashiki released a final roar driven to desperate straits—mad yet unwilling! He squeezed out all remaining chakra within without reservation!
Purple-black energy madly gathered again. That ferocious energy giant oarfish manifested once more. In its gaping maw, a purple-red chakra sphere larger than before rapidly condensed. This was his final, strongest strike—carrying mutual destruction resolve!
"BOOM—!!!!!!!"
The next instant—final collision erupted!
One side: exceeding three meters diameter, internally flowing with cyan-purple-black tricolor destructive stellar rivers, entwined with dark red Tailed Beast chakra, absurdly long-named [Asura Blade: God-Breaking Heaven Thunder Black Flame Scorching Tail Spiral Chaos Heaven Zero Form]!
Other side: exceeding ten meters diameter, emanating pure destructive fluctuations—Urashiki's all-or-nothing [Ama-no-Subaruboshi-no-Mikoto: Dragon Palace]!
One large, one small—two ultimate attacks containing completely different wills and powers—thunderously collided at battlefield center!
No stalemate.
At contact's instant, the result was already determined.
HISS—CRACKLE—CRASH!!
The voluminous purple-red chakra sphere—upon contacting that "compact" yet highly refined, extremely complex-attribute Rasengan—began from the contact point, rapidly and unstoppably decomposing, scattering!
[Asura Blade: God-Breaking Heaven Thunder Black Flame Scorching Tail Spiral Chaos Heaven Zero Form] irresistibly tore through, devoured [Ama-no-Subaruboshi-no-Mikoto: Dragon Palace], forcibly annihilating its massive energy!
"This... how is this possible..." Light in Urashiki's eyes rapidly dimmed with his ultimate technique's collapse.
Merely seconds—his final, desperate purple oarfish and light sphere were thoroughly defeated, dissipating formlessly!
The destructive Rasengan in Naruto's hand—carrying unstoppable momentum—boldly pressed toward the now-backup-less Urashiki!
"This is the end!" Naruto's voice penetrated energy roars, clearly transmitting. "Farewell!"
"Urgh... AHHHHH—!! DAMN IT—!!!" Urashiki released his final unwilling roar. His mutated body futilely struggled and twisted in the terrifying energy storm.
Destructive energy torrents thoroughly swallowed him. His body began disintegrating inch by inch under this multi-attribute-power-fused attack—first surface pitch-black patterns peeled away, then mutated limbs transformed to ash, finally his entire torso dissipated in radiance.
In the final instant before complete annihilation, those golden Rinnegan fixedly, firmly locked onto Naruto's figure behind the radiance.
Was it to permanently remember, carve into soul's curse this lower life form who'd forced him to desperate straits and ultimately sent him to death? Or one final attempt to understand this "lower life form" who repeatedly shattered his understanding, possessing inconceivable power?
None knew.
BANG—!
Ultimately, all chakra fluctuations suddenly contracted inward, then transformed into gentle energy breezes slowly dispersing outward.
No remains, no bloodstains, no chakra residue.
Otsutsuki Urashiki—his existence traces in this space-time were thoroughly, cleanly... erased by this final strike.
Wind blew across the devastated earth, stirring fine dust.
At the main battlefield, Naruto and Sasuke slowly lowered their arms.
The threat from alternate space-time, Otsutsuki Urashiki's invasion and ambitions—at this moment—reached their conclusion.
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