Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression suddenly changed.
He could feel it.
Kakashi might be able to block this move, but he couldn't guarantee Sasuke's safety.
However—
Forming hand seals was too late.
He could only watch helplessly as that sword strike, like a thunder god's wrath, collided head-on with Kakashi's Chidori.
Naruto and Sakura, among others, couldn't help but close their eyes, because the light emitted by the two was too dazzling.
Suddenly, a soft voice rang out.
"Enough."
Along with this voice, the whistling sound of the sword energy piercing the air and the thunder of the lightning all vanished in an instant.
Naruto opened his eyes.
But he found that Sasuke and Kakashi, who should have already collided, were now frozen in mid-air in a strange posture.
That's right.
Xin had intervened.
He stood with his arms crossed, performing no actions, but a faint green light emanated from him. An invisible, formless, yet incredibly powerful force forcibly controlled Kakashi and Sasuke. Furthermore, as Xin's fingers moved slightly, the sword energy and lightning from the two were directly extinguished as if they had been crushed.
He temporarily enhanced himself using transaction points.
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Xin in astonishment.
He stopped the two so effortlessly at such a critical moment?
And what kind of power was this?
Xin ignored Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression. He just sighed, then waved his hand again. Sasuke's body flew over directly and was gently placed on the ground.
Sasuke gasped for air.
Most of his chakra and stamina had been consumed by this technique.
"Sasuke, you've completely lost this battle." Xin raised his hand and gently tapped.
Sasuke felt the chakra and stamina in his body instantly recover.
Seeing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's eye twitched again.
"I lost..." Sasuke looked at Xin, his eyes filled with deep unwillingness. "Even that technique, 'Flying Swallow from Beyond the Sky', wasn't enough?"
In terms of combat experience, conventional fighting, he truly felt the gap.
Although it wasn't as powerless as before.
He still couldn't see any hope of winning.
But, could it be that even this technique, 'Flying Swallow from Beyond the Sky', which poured all his strength into it, couldn't secure a victory?
"The power of 'Flying Swallow from Beyond the Sky' is too strong, so even Kakashi couldn't hold back anymore," Xin said in a calm tone. "If I hadn't intervened just now, even if you hadn't died, you would have been severely injured, while Kakashi... at most would have had minor injuries."
"Die?" Sasuke's pupils contracted slightly.
He had been so caught up in his anger just now, only wanting to use his strongest skill, the one infused with sword intent, without considering the consequences.
Thinking about it now...
Although that move, 'Flying Swallow from Beyond the Sky', was indeed powerful, it was a forward-only sword style with no follow-up, no defense, and he let all his chakra pour into it without any control. In that situation, colliding head-on like that again—
He really would have died!
Sasuke felt a wave of lingering fear inside.