Gaara ground his teeth and roared in fury, his voice filled with boundless hatred and killing intent.
"I'm going to wipe all of Sunagakure off the face of the earth."
As that furious shout rang out, the enormous sand gourd strapped to Gaara's back suddenly let out an earth-shaking boom and completely shattered.
In an instant, countless grains of fine yellow sand burst forth like wild horses breaking free of their reins, surging toward Rasa with an overwhelming, mountain-crushing force.
Facing such a ferocious assault, Rasa's expression instantly darkened.
He stared intently at the sand shooting toward him like nimble venomous snakes, shock and anger impossible to hide in his eyes.
With a wave of both hands, vast amounts of golden sand suddenly rose up, forming an impregnable barrier in an attempt to block Gaara's attack.
But at that very moment, Makumi and Shisui at the side also launched their counterattack without hesitation.
Makumi swiftly bent her bow and nocked an arrow. A shaft flashing with red-black light shot from the string in an instant, aiming straight at Rasa's chest.
At the same time, Shisui directly opened the chest portion of Susanoo. A massive magatama could be seen spinning at high speed.
Countless small green light arrows continuously blasted out from within, sweeping toward Rasa like a torrential downpour.
On the other side, Karin glared at Rasa with fury blazing across her face. A huge number of chains suddenly burst forth from her body, whipping toward Rasa.
In that instant, an intense sense of danger surged through Rasa.
The golden sand he had just fired out suddenly reversed direction, as if summoned by some mysterious force.
At lightning speed, the sand gathered rapidly in front of him. In the blink of an eye, it formed an incomparably solid golden cube that tightly enclosed him within.
Meanwhile, after successfully blocking the first wave of golden sand, Gaara had already overdrawn his chakra.
At this point, he was like a spent crossbow bolt. Even though he did his utmost to stop the golden sand from pulling back, he simply didn't have the strength to do it.
He clenched his teeth, controlling the sand around him to lash violently at Rasa's golden sand cube like a raging storm.
But he was still too young, and the chakra in his body was almost completely exhausted. His attacks were weak and lacked force.
After that, however, the fierce assaults of Makumi, Shisui, and Karin followed one after another.
Their attacks came crashing down like collapsing mountains and overturning seas, pouring endlessly onto that golden cube.
A loud "Bang" rang out, followed by a series of ear-splitting explosions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Under such savage, continuous bombardment, Rasa could only fight desperately, madly driving his chakra to repair the damaged golden sand cube.
But no matter how hard he tried, the speed of repair was always far slower than the rate of consumption.
It must be said that after Hagoromo had transferred chakra to Rasa, not only had his injuries fully healed, his chakra reserves had multiplied.
Yet even under these circumstances, Rasa still could not withstand Konoha's assault.
Very soon, cracks began to appear in the seemingly indestructible sand gold, spreading at an astonishing speed.
At this moment, Otsutsuki Hagoromo was already gradually being pulled away.
But at the very last moment, he threw the tin staff in his hand.
It stabbed straight into the ground beside Naruto.
A massive surge of chakra instantly erupted from Naruto's body.
Bathed in this chakra, Hagoromo's originally somewhat illusory form immediately became clear and solid.
At the same time, the energy contained within him seemed to be stimulated by something, surging violently in an instant.
The Totsuka Blade that had been on the verge of sealing Hagoromo began to tremble slightly, as if it could no longer bear such tremendous power.
Faced with this sudden change, Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan spun at extreme speed, so fast that it even left afterimages in the air.
However, it was obvious that he had already changed his strategy and was no longer simply grappling with Hagoromo head-on.
Rumble!
A thunderous explosion rang out. The Totsuka Blade, formed from raging flames, suddenly burst apart, turning into an incomparably scorching giant fireball.
Like the end of the world descending, the fireball expanded wildly with world-destroying force, engulfing not only Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who had been pierced by the blade, but also Idū, who was unable to escape.
In an instant, the entire space was swallowed by the violently burning flames.
Everyone watching nearby was likewise struck head-on by the terrifying shockwave.
Gaara bore the brunt of it. His body was already extremely weak from overusing chakra earlier.
Now, struck by such a powerful impact, he was blasted several meters away on the spot. After crashing heavily to the ground, he lost consciousness.
On the other side, all of Karin's Adamantine Sealing Chains were forced back by the shockwave, rapidly wrapping around Rengoku's clone to form a protective barrier.
As for Shisui and Makumi, each activated Susanoo. One stepped forward to block in front of Kurama Yakumo and Hinata, while the other stood firm in front of Naruto and Sasuke, using Susanoo to protect them.
High in midair, Hagoromo merely let a faint cold smile flicker across his face before his figure slowly faded and disappeared.
Holding the Yin-Yang Seal, his soul was undying. This time, with his energy exhausted, he would merely continue sleeping in the gap between the living world and the Pure Land.
At that moment, the chakra inside Naruto seemed to be drawn by some force, closely following Hagoromo as it vanished without a trace.
Almost at the same time, a vast, surging wave of chakra suddenly burst forth from Sasuke's body as well.
This chakra shot out like an unbridled wild horse, anxiously searching for the chakra that had drained away from Naruto.
But after fruitless effort, it could only circle aimlessly in the air a few times before shooting straight toward the distant horizon.
Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Rasa practically exhausted every last ounce of strength he had, stepping on a platform formed from piled golden sand as he fled madly toward the sky at astonishing speed, not daring to look back even once.
Itachi, on the other hand, was in a completely different state.
His eyes, usually calm and composed, were now completely blood-red.
He dropped to his knees on the ground without any regard for appearances.
All this time, no matter how great the pain he endured, Itachi had never uttered a sound.
But at this moment, the bone-deep agony became unbearable, forcing his clenched teeth to grind loudly.
It felt as if his eyes were being gouged out alive, waves of stabbing pain constantly surging from his eye sockets, pushing him to the brink of unconsciousness.
Only then did Nine-Tails chakra begin to emerge from Naruto's body.
The chakra was not boiling violently, but merely flickered unstably around him.
At this time, a figure suddenly appeared beside Naruto.
It was the late-arriving Minato Namikaze.
After receiving Orochimaru's order, he had immediately sensed the Flying Thunder God mark here and prepared to teleport over.
But the spacetime fluctuations caused by the eruption of the Dragon Vein disrupted the spatial coordinates, making it impossible for Minato to lock on.
It was only when the Nine-Tails chakra emerged from Naruto and resonated with the Nine-Tails chakra within Minato that he was finally able to locate him.
As soon as he arrived, he saw the devastation covering the ground.
Minato asked no questions. At a time like this, what mattered was getting everyone back for treatment.
Nine-Tails cloaks rose around everyone's bodies. In a flash, he transported them all back to Konoha.
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