Chapter 349: Overwhelming
WHOOSH—!!!!
Air-tearing shrieks suddenly exploded!
Almost the same instant Urashiki's words fell, one golden and one purple streak of light instantly appeared like teleportation on Urashiki's left and right sides!
On the left—Uzumaki Naruto completely wrapped in golden chakra! Right fist clenched tight, Nine-Tails chakra condensed at his fist's edge.
On the right—Uchiha Sasuke with purple lightning leaping around him! Arm gripping Kusanagi sword, blade thoroughly covered by Lightning Style chakra. His sword-gripping fist itself also wrapped in Chidori Current, forming fist-and-sword-unified strike.
Merely the aftershocks and air pressure triggered before the attacks already made the earth within dozens of meters violently tremble.
Facing this pincer attack sufficient to collapse mountains, the form-evolved Urashiki merely released a scoffing laugh.
Instantly, massive amounts of red chakra surged from thin air in the space on both his sides!
The chakra transformed into huge diamond-shaped energy shields, separately blocking the paths golden heavy fist and purple lightning sword must take!
BOOM!!!!!!
Golden fist and lightning sword solidly struck the blood-colored shields!
Indescribable tremendous sounds suddenly erupted! Terrifying shockwaves expanded madly in all directions in spherical form! At the center point where shields contacted fist and sword, blinding gold-purple-red tricolor intense light burst forth. Energy turbulence roared skyward like out-of-control tornadoes!
The earth could no longer bear it. With the impact point as center, like fragile glass it collapsed layer by layer, cracking, forming a giant crater exceeding one hundred meters in diameter!
"Truly... foolish."
From within smoke and energy turbulence came Urashiki's cold words mixed with metallic tremors. Through gaps in the shields, Urashiki looked toward Sasuke.
"Uchiha Sasuke, you seem mistaken about something. This brat... though more troublesome than anticipated, ultimately... isn't the 'future' Uzumaki Naruto. With merely this degree of power, you fantasize about contending with a god?"
Behind the shield, Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo calmly rotated in the smoke. He showed no discouragement despite attacks being blocked.
"...Is that so? Perhaps. His current self indeed still lacks sufficient experience and realm."
"However—a certain 'possibility' he currently possesses is something even the 'future' Uzumaki Naruto hasn't completely mastered."
Hearing this, Naruto on the other side—golden chakra violently surged again. "Looks like I've been thoroughly underestimated."
"ROAR—!!!"
Accompanying a roar, from the surging golden chakra behind Naruto, a golden giant tail suddenly lashed out without warning! Viciously slapping the red shield!
WHAM!!!!!!
Impact force plus the giant golden tail's remaining power formed a massive horizontal force, solidly acting upon Urashiki!
"URGH—!"
Caught off guard, Urashiki's entire person transformed into a blurred afterimage, rapidly flying backward at high speed! Where he passed, air was plowed into visible white shockwaves. Merely the power aftershocks raised while flying stripped the ground's surface soil along with vegetation like a carpet.
Urashiki's face showed surprise and fury. Before he could completely stabilize this out-of-control form midair—
Whoosh!!
Whoosh!!
One black and one golden figure pursued at speeds not inferior to his backward flight! One left, one right, they appeared again on both sides of Urashiki's flight path, sealing all his evasion angles!
Before Naruto's raised palm, a Giant Rasengan had already formed. On Sasuke's Kusanagi sword, lightning hadn't weakened.
And this was far from all!
"Ninja Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Naruto's low shout—the few shuriken he'd previously scattered suddenly split mid-flight after single-handed seals.
In the blink of an eye, thousands upon thousands of coldly glinting shuriken appeared like a metal storm from thin air, densely filling all space around Urashiki. From every possible angle—up, down, left, right, front, back—carrying shrill wind-breaking sounds, they shot toward him like torrential rain! Thoroughly sealing any minute evasion possibility!
Urashiki was about to be completely swallowed by this unavoidable attack—
"Bastards... you lower life forms!! Don't think about blaspheming god again—!!"
Urashiki released a furious roar! He no longer attempted evasion or blocking but violently spread his mutated arms to both sides!
"Almighty Push!!"
Repulsive force erupted with Urashiki as center. The sky full of attacking shuriken rain—the instant they contacted the repulsive field, they struck an absolutely insurmountable invisible barrier.
Clang clang clang—screech screech screech!
Ear-piercing sounds of metal twisting and shattering formed a continuous sheet! The vast majority of shuriken were directly crushed into scrap iron by repulsive force. Accompanying shattered metal fragments like a reverse metal storm, they violently bounced in all directions.
Deeply embedding, nailing through the ground, rocks, even uprooted tree trunks within hundreds of meters around.
However, just as Almighty Push's repulsive force reached its peak—about to swallow and repel the close-quarters Naruto and Sasuke together—
Whoosh!
One golden and one purple figure simultaneously vanished without warning at the repulsive field's edge! Proactively space-transferring!
Turned out when Naruto previously used Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu, he'd already left Flying Thunder God marks on key shuriken! While Sasuke used Rinnegan ability to swap positions with deflected shuriken.
The repulsive field's eruption came quickly and left quickly. When invisible waves finally weakened—the instant a huge circular clearing was emptied around Urashiki—precisely the best counterattack timing!
"Rasengan!"
Naruto had already appeared midair at Urashiki's diagonal side, hand holding not an ordinary Rasengan but one with internal flowing cyan wind currents—a Wind Style-infused Rasengan!
He swung his arm, throwing this highly dangerous Rasengan forward.
"Tch!"
Urashiki's arms moved. Red chakra instantly surged, condensing into a chakra staff before him! He gripped the staff with both hands, violently knocking the attacking Wind Style Rasengan's side.
WHAM—BOOM!!
Chakra staff collided with Rasengan, emitting dull explosive sounds. Urashiki barely deflected this dangerous Rasengan aside!
A trace of smug cold smile just surfaced on Urashiki's face from this precise deflection—
SCREECH—!!!!!
Sharp bird cry suddenly exploded without warning at extremely close distance behind him!
Uchiha Sasuke's figure appeared behind Urashiki! He'd swapped positions with the Rasengan.
"What?!" Urashiki was greatly shocked. Turning to defend was already too late!
CRACKLE—!!
Violent Lightning Style chakra viciously poured onto Urashiki's back! Making his entire body violently spasm, paralyze—movements showing fatal rigidity!
"Now!"
WHAM!!
WHAM!!!
Almost the same instant lightning struck, Naruto's heavy fist and Sasuke's side kick from two different angles simultaneously, solidly struck Urashiki's body unable to effectively defend due to paralysis!
"URGH—!"
Urashiki grunted, thoroughly losing body control, transforming into a blurred afterimage, once again uncontrollably flying fiercely sideways!
"Merely a life form from outer space..." Sasuke's figure flickered in lightning.
"Stop falsely claiming 'god'!!" Golden light around Naruto surged again!
Their offensive momentum was tidal, giving Urashiki no breathing room whatsoever!
A new round of fierce attacks launched while Urashiki still flew backward!
Whoosh!
Sasuke teleported directly behind Urashiki's flight path! Twisting his waist for power, a spinning kick viciously struck Urashiki's back!
BOOM—!!
Air explosion sounds blasted! This kick created visible white shockwaves! Urashiki's flight direction was forcibly twisted, accelerated, smashing in the opposite direction at faster speed!
"HAH!"
Already waiting there, Naruto—Nine-Tails chakra condensed at his fist—struck head-on meeting the flying Urashiki!
WHAM!!
The fist solidly hit Urashiki's chest! Terrible kinetic energy changed direction again. Urashiki once more altered trajectory, reflecting back toward Sasuke's direction!
WHAM!
Sasuke showed no hesitation. The instant Urashiki flew near, an elbow strike smashed his flank! This time, attack direction was no longer horizontal but carrying downward heavy weight!
"PFFT—!"
Urashiki spat "blood," his body viciously smashed vertically downward by this elbow strike, plummeting fiercely toward the ground!
BOOOOM—!!!
His body struck the earth like a meteorite! Smoke rose skyward like a mushroom cloud. A crater dozens of meters in diameter instantly formed. Spiderweb cracks madly spread!
However, attacks still hadn't stopped!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
One golden and one black flash simultaneously appeared in midair directly above the crater. Naruto and Sasuke's forms simultaneously spun at high speed midair. Using centrifugal force from rotation, they synchronously executed sideways descending axe kicks toward the smoke-filled center below!
CRASH—!!!!!!!!!
Two strikes almost simultaneously hit Urashiki who'd just smashed into the crater bottom, not yet risen!
Even more terrifying collision sounds and energy explosions than before!
With the landing point as center, destructive shockwaves expanded madly outward in rings, crushing! The entire ground within one hundred meters couldn't bear this stacked terrifying power, beginning large-scale, chain-reaction collapse and subsidence!
Soil rolled like waves, sinking. Smoke blocked out the sky!
Urashiki's face filled with incredulous shock, humiliation, and fury.
He obviously hadn't anticipated that even after achieving final form evolution and obtaining unprecedented power, in this battle he'd actually be continuously, comprehensively suppressed and overwhelmed by these two lower life forms in pure taijutsu exchanges and tactical coordination!