A barrier engraved with mysterious black patterns spread open like a spiderweb, transforming into a forbidden spatial domain that continuously swallowed the thunder descending from the sky.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Dazzling lightning shattered, but couldn't break through the barrier's defense.
Moments later, the lightning was completely swallowed.
In the distance…
Boom!
Boom boom boom~
Frightening explosions sounded, followed by a massive dust mushroom cloud shooting skyward. That was the transferred Raikoho running rampant, shattering an empty area.
"Saved... we're saved!"
"Flying Thunder God!"
"That's Minato, Minato-sama is here!"
Countless Konoha's Ninjas exclaimed, their pale faces full of surviving a disaster expressions.
However,
Even so, the Konoha's Ninjas looking up at the sky still had shock and fear in their eyes that couldn't be erased.
"Fly?"
"He can actually fly?"
"Isn't that too ridiculous?"
Every Konoha's Ninja present understood that if not for Minato's timely rescue, they would have been destroyed by that surprise lightning attack from the sky.
'Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder?'
'Is this the move used to transfer the Nine-Tails and Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bombs?'
Sora solidified in the sky, his gaze calmly looking at Minato on the ground.
'Konoha's Yellow Flash was indeed no ordinary individual. If not bound by Chakra Constraints, he probably would have had an even broader future, right?'
'Talent, determination, willpower…'
'Seems like a good experimental subject!'
Sora slowly descended from the sky. The look he gave Minato already showed an inexplicably complex sense of appreciation.
In the distance, the Kirigakure's forces had experienced brief chaos due to Sora's apparent severe injury.
But when Sora reappeared completely unharmed, that chaos instantly subsided. Then, countless blazing and insane gazes gathered on Sora.
As the battlefield's second-in-command, Yuzuki indicated his emotions were quite stable.
He didn't feel any tension because of the earlier scene, knowing it was unnecessary. That was Sora, a figure like a god. How could mere Konoha's Ino-Shika-Cho Ninjas possibly be a match for a god?
The so-called sudden change was just the god's game.
Giving mortals tangible hope, then ruthlessly destroying it, wasn't that also quite interesting?
Mei, however, snorted lightly and said: "Sora is really an annoying guy. He always makes people worry for nothing. Scared me to death…"
Hearing Mei's words, Yuzuki chuckled and said: "Terumi Mei-sama, Sora-sama is a great figure like a god. Mere worthless Konoha's Jonin couldn't possibly win, they couldn't even touch the hem of Sora-sama's clothes!"
"God…"
"Is invincible!"
"I think even if Konoha's Third Hokage came, he would only die at Sora-sama's hands!"
Mei glanced at Yuzuki, feeling this bootlicker was boasting way too much, 'Sora was ridiculously strong, but not necessarily stronger than the Strongest Hokage in history, Sarutobi Hiruzen, right?'
'That was a legendary Ninja, even stronger than our village's Second Mizukage-sama!'
On the field-
"Yuki Sora…"
"You don't seem surprised by any of this."
On the battlefield, Minato looked at the still calm-faced Sora and couldn't help but slightly furrow his brow. The other's from start to finish unchanging calmness always gave him an inexplicable sense of palpitations.
"Heh…"
"You are hailed as the fastest in the Ninja World, Konoha's Yellow Flash. Something unexpected happening with you isn't unexpected in itself."
Sora smiled lightly: "Isn't this world constantly propelled forward by the miracles created by the strong?"
"Relying on the miracles created by the strong?"
Minato's right hand formed a virtual grip, tightening the kunai in his hand, and said slowly: "I believe this world is propelled by the power of inheritance. Older powerhouses burn their own prime, nourishing the growth of the younger generation like nutrients, then letting the younger generation become better, possessing stronger power to change this world. This is the Will of Fire, the power of inheritance…"
Before Kushina arrived, Minato unnoticeably engaged in verbal sparring with Sora. Discussing life was one aspect, but more importantly, it was to buy time.
"Reasonable…"
Sora nodded deeply agreeing: "So, Konoha's Flash, is it by relying on this power of inheritance that you stand here discussing the Will of Fire with me, stepping on the corpses of Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin?"
That one sentence directly poked Minato's sore spot, leaving him unable to catch his breath. To be honest, he didn't take Obito and Rin's deaths to heart that much, but having it said publicly always felt like a slap in the face.
Was the so-called inheritance of the Will of Fire about passing the younger generation straight to hell?
Fortunately,
Minato possessed the most important talent for being Hokage: Thick skin.
His face turned cold as he sternly shouted: "Yuki Sora, a Ninja like you could never understand the Will of Fire. Ninja Art…"
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"
After saying that, he threw a specially made Flying Thunder God kunai.
After forming hand seals, that Flying Thunder God kunai quickly turned into a black rainstorm sufficient to completely cover the surrounding hundred-meter battlefield, enveloping Sora.
"Hyorinmaru!"
"Icicle Birds!"
Sora raised his hand. In front of his swinging Zanpakuto, a flock of small ice blades shaped like flying birds instantly formed, intercepting all the rainstorm-like Flying Thunder God kunai.
Clang clang clang!
Over a thousand Flying Thunder God kunai collided with the ice birds, causing the sounds of shattering metal and ice to ring out incessantly.
"Rasengan!"
Amidst the flying debris, Minato found the right timing, jumping onto an intact Flying Thunder God kunai.
The instantly generated blue Chakra Sphere in his hand savagely pressed down towards Sora's shoulder.
However,
As the Rasengan descended, a blade light also came from the shadows, slashing towards Minato's throat.
"So fast!"
Seeing the situation was not good, Minato instinctively terminated his attack, jumping again to another Flying Thunder God kunai dozens of meters away.
In that moment of stagnation, another blade-like gust of wind swiftly attacked from afar.
Sora didn't even look, instantly generating a diamond-shaped Vacuum Ice Wall by turning sideways.
Crack!
The wind blade struck the ice wall, tearing a half-meter deep wound, but ultimately didn't shatter the ice wall directly like before.
Turning around, looking up.
The beastified Kushina roared insanely.
Her gaze fixed intently on Sora, the six Chakra Tails behind her swaying like seaweed. Especially the Tailed Beast's Chakra Cloak, which had actually completely transformed from the rampant deep purple into a faint light red.
"Hmm?"
After seeing this, a flash of surprise instantly passed through Sora's eyes.
'Light red tailed beast cloak?'
'I never saw this transformation in the original work. Was it a brand new ultimate move?'
In this instant, Konoha's Yellow Flash and the beastified Kushina returned to the battlefield. And this chaotic battlefield was once again ruled by both sides' Ace Ninjas.