Chapter 423: The Six Paths Sage is Too Late
"What's on me... Could it be the Nine Tails?"
If Naruto had to think about what Li Yao might be targeting on him, the Nine Tails was the only thing he could think of.
"No, no!"
Naruto shook his head immediately.
If it were the Nine Tails, Li Yao wouldn't have stood still and let him fuse with the Nine Tails earlier.
With Li Yao's ability to teleport, he could have easily moved to the Nine Tails' side and captured it before Naruto could merge with it.
Even if the Nine Tails had already signed a contract with Minato, Li Yao still could have taken the Nine Tails far away, preventing Naruto from merging with it.
But Li Yao had watched Naruto merge with the Nine Tails without doing anything.
Li Yao didn't want the Nine Tails, there had to be something else he was after.
So… what was it?
Naruto couldn't figure it out, nor could Sasuke, but as long as they could kill Li Yao first, Sasuke, who had now absorbed the chakra of the eight Tailed Beasts, felt confident he could try something.
"Naruto, I'll take the lead this time, you support me!"
Sasuke didn't say much more, fearing Li Yao might catch on. He immediately rushed toward Li Yao without using Ten-Tails to teleport.
"Sasuke..."
Seeing Sasuke rush in recklessly, Naruto was speechless… he could only follow and cooperate with Sasuke, sensing Li Yao's movements.
Zzzzt!
Before even getting close to Li Yao, Sasuke's Susanoo shot out a bolt of lightning, heading straight for Li Yao's head in midair.
"That's fast!"
This time, Sasuke's lightning attack was as if there was no casting delay at all. Li Yao, startled, instinctively used his teleportation ability to avoid it, appearing 50 meters above Naruto's head, just barely dodging the lightning.
Zzzzt!
However, another bolt of lightning came again, almost the moment Li Yao appeared. Sasuke's lightning was aimed at Li Yao's head, not giving him any time to react.
With the chakra boost, Sasuke's perception was enhanced, allowing him to respond immediately to Li Yao's teleportation and attack.
This time, Naruto, in his Nine-Tails form, also swung a powerful punch toward Li Yao. The two were in perfect sync.
Whoosh!
Li Yao instinctively teleported again, this time landing 50 meters to Naruto's left.
But...
Zzzzt! Sasuke's lightning appeared again, not giving Li Yao a chance to move.
Fast!
So fast!
With the chakra of the eight Tailed Beasts boosting his Susanoo, Sasuke's control over the lightning release was now as smooth as it could be.
Every time Li Yao teleported, Sasuke's lightning was right there to follow.
Faced with lightning attacks at nearly light-speed, Li Yao could only focus entirely on teleporting, not leaving him any chance to attack Naruto.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Zzzzt! Zzzzt! Zzzzt!
Li Yao kept teleporting, while Sasuke's Susanoo kept releasing white lightning.
"This guy really has some kind of interest in Naruto."
Seeing Li Yao teleporting repeatedly under his lightning attacks but never moving far away, Sasuke couldn't help but think to himself, he really was targeting Naruto.
"Naruto..."
Sasuke gave Naruto a look, signaling him. With each lightning attack pushing Li Yao into teleporting, Sasuke's instincts told him that Li Yao's reflexes were now enhanced, and it was time to make a move.
"I understand..."
Without needing Sasuke to say a word, Naruto understood what his friend meant. He immediately wrapped himself in the Nine-Tails chakra, preparing to explode.
Rip!
At that moment, Sasuke's Susanoo didn't release one lightning strike but instead spread a huge lightning field around him. The entire one-kilometer diameter was filled with endless white lightning.
Li Yao, whose reflexes had been enhanced from Sasuke's rapid lightning attacks, instinctively teleported into Naruto's 100-meter range again, not teleporting out of the lightning sphere that Sasuke had created.
Zzzzt!
Li Yao, who appeared 60 meters to Naruto's left, couldn't avoid Sasuke's large lightning field this time. Like a metal object caught in an electric field, his head was immediately invaded by the white lightning, which wasn't contained by the black hole space.
The lightning, infused with Six Paths Yin Release power, wasn't particularly strong physically, but it directly attacked the spirit and soul, primarily as a paralysis-based spiritual and soul attack.
Even with multiple modes active, Li Yao couldn't withstand it. His body was paralyzed by the lightning, unable to move, while his spirit and soul were paralyzed, his consciousness lost and unable to think.
"I'm in trouble!"
This was the fleeting thought that appeared in Li Yao's mind as he was struck by the lightning and lost his focus.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Naruto and Sasuke wasted no time. Seeing Li Yao's momentary lapse in focus, Sasuke immediately removed the lightning field and used Ten-Tails to teleport both him and Naruto to Li Yao's front. Their palms reached out to touch both sides of Li Yao's face.
As soon as their palms made contact with his skin, the Yin-Yang power in their palms flickered, and an invisible force spread out.
But just as their palms touched Li Yao's face and the sealing technique began to activate, Li Yao's time reset ninjutsu, which had been passively active all along, flashed once again.
In that moment, time reset.
Li Yao's body was reset to its peak condition, and his mental consciousness snapped back from its daze.
"Flying Thunder God..."
The instant Li Yao regained his senses, he instinctively used Flying Thunder God to teleport away, avoiding Naruto and Sasuke's sealing attempt.
"Too late!"
In the Pure Land space, the Six Paths Sage floated above the pure water, looking at the image reflected in the water, smiling slightly with relief.
Since learning from the Nine Tails' chakra that Li Yao was an outsider, the Six Paths Sage had been planning how to seal him.
He had been observing in secret, and once he had a good understanding of Li Yao's abilities, he secretly made his move. He revived the previous Hokage with Edo Tensei.
Then, as Naruto was about to die, he pulled the souls of the destined two into the Pure Land space and granted them Six Paths Yin-Yang powers, as well as the Rinnegan and Truth-Seeking Ball chakra.
At first, he had believed that, with the enhancements, Naruto and Sasuke would have no trouble sealing Li Yao, the intruder from another world.
Who knew that Li Yao's black space ninjutsu was so dominant, and that his reflexes, under the enhancement of various ninjutsu, were no worse than those of Six Paths-level Naruto and Sasuke. The Six Paths Sage had even begun to believe that Naruto and Sasuke wouldn't be able to deal with him.
But then… Sasuke gave him a pleasant surprise.
By using Li Yao's enhanced reflexes against him, Sasuke managed to create an opportunity for a close-range seal on Li Yao.
Since the Six Paths Sage knew how powerful Li Yao's space ninjutsu was, he had also prepared a countermeasure.
He granted Naruto and Sasuke the Six Paths Yin-Yang powers and the Six Paths Earth-Bursting Heavenly Star sealing technique, which was not just any sealing technique, but the strongest space sealing technique.
Back then, his mother's space ninjutsu had been so powerful that it could instantly swap with an independent space. Regular sealing techniques didn't work on her.
Only the Six Paths Earth-Bursting Heavenly Star sealing technique worked because it was the most powerful space ninjutsu.
Once targeted by the Six Paths Earth-Bursting Heavenly Star sealing technique, the surrounding space would be locked, turning into chaos, preventing any space ninjutsu from being used.
Now, although Naruto and Sasuke's Six Paths Yin-Yang powers had not fully hit Li Yao yet, the Yin-Yang powers had already converged, and the Six Paths Earth-Bursting Heavenly Star sealing technique had locked onto Li Yao.
At this moment, the space around Li Yao was completely fixed, and he could no longer teleport out. It was too late.
(END CHAPTER)
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