On the other side.
"Lightning Release: Liger Bomb!"
Ai's speed was pushed to its limit, his right hand forming a blade, cutting towards Minato Namikaze's neck with scorching lightning.
Minato Namikaze's figure vanished again.
The next second, he appeared above Ai's head.
In his hand, a rapidly spinning blue Chakra sphere had already formed.
Ai's heart tightened. Without thinking, a massive burst of Chakra erupted, and his body forcibly moved sideways.
Boom!
The Rasengan slammed into the ground.
A giant, bowl-shaped crater appeared out of nowhere.
Missing his target, Minato Namikaze's figure vanished again.
The two sides fiercely battled for more than ten rounds.
One crushed the other with pure strength.
The other pursued with extreme speed.
The battle entered a brief stalemate.
After another exchange, all four retreated, watching each other warily.
Just then, a figure stumbled and appeared beside Ai.
It was Dodai.
His face was pale, and his breathing was rapid.
"Lord Ai!" Dodai's voice carried a hint of panic as he whispered to Ai.
"This is bad!"
"Orochimaru... he didn't return to reinforce the Konoha Main Camp!"
Dodai swallowed: "Your Clone was seen through by him!"
"He's leading Konoha's main forces, sweeping through everything, and has already begun a fierce assault on our Outpost Base in the Land of Frost!"
The news Dodai brought was like a heavy punch, slamming into Ai's chest.
His face instantly turned ashen.
Orochimaru!
That guy actually saw through his Clone strategy.
Not only that, but he also led Konoha's main force to outflank him!
Ai's gaze swept over the golden flash in the distance.
Then he looked at the towering white giant before him.
There was no point in continuing the fight.
If they were to be annihilated here, their rear base would also be breached.
Kumogakure had lost completely this time.
"Eight-Tails!"
Ai's voice was filled with unwillingness and resolve.
"We're retreating!"
"Roar!"
Gyuki let out an angry growl, but there was no hesitation.
On its massive body, violent Chakra began to roll back.
The enormous Gyuki form rapidly shrank, its red flesh and bones dissolving, transforming back into the man with sunglasses.
Killer Bee gasped for air, clearly indicating that full Tailed Beast transformation had taken a huge toll on him.
Ai grabbed Killer Bee with one hand and Dodai with the other.
The blue Lightning Release armor on his body glowed to its extreme.
"Go!"
Boom!
A blue lightning bolt tore through the earth, rushing into the depths of the dense forest with unparalleled speed.
At the same time, he constantly watched Minato Namikaze and Aokawa behind him. Seeing that the two of them seemed to be slow to react for a moment, he then fully unleashed his speed.
Minato Namikaze's figure appeared in place, looking at the distant lightning, his brows slightly furrowed.
Such a decisive retreat.
He turned to look at the white giant.
"Aokawa?"
Aokawa's response came from within the giant's skull.
"Lord Minato."
"I'll see them off."
As his voice fell.
The majestic, unmoving white giant moved.
It raised the massive reishi spear in its hand.
All the floating reishi particles in the surrounding air were drawn by an invisible force, surging wildly towards the spear tip!
A dazzling point of light lit up at the tip of the spear.
The next moment.
The white giant twisted its waist, its entire reishi musculature tensing.
It hurled the spear in its hand with all its might!
Whoosh—!
The giant spear transformed into a white meteor streaking across the heavens and earth.
Boom!
The spear exploded with a roar in the dense forest!
A pure white void that devoured everything suddenly appeared in the forest.
One second later.
Rumble, rumble, rumble—!
The devastating shockwave arrived belatedly.
Centered on the explosion point, a massive white orb of light rapidly expanded outwards.
Under the orb of light, large swathes of forest were instantly obliterated, leaving no ashes behind.
The earth was vaporized, leaving a huge, smooth, circular crater.
But Ai and his companions had long since disappeared.
On the other side.
After throwing the spear, the white giant emitted a low hum.
Cracks began to appear on its massive body.
Bang!
The giant disintegrated.
It transformed into countless dancing reishi particles, like fireflies on a summer night, slowly dissipating into the air.
Aokawa's figure appeared from high in the sky.
The pillar of light behind him had long since vanished.
He fell helplessly downwards.
His chest was visibly caved in, and his arms hung limply, like a puppet with cut strings.
Both the Quincy's final form and the Rantō Tenkū within his body had reached their limits; the broken bones, without the connection of the threads, had fractured once more.
A golden flash appeared.
Minato Namikaze appeared beneath him, catching him steadily.
"Aokawa! How are you?"
Minato Namikaze supported the pale Aokawa and asked.
"Cough..."
Aokawa coughed up a mouthful of blood, and a sweet, metallic taste instantly filled his mouth.
"Are you alright?" Minato Namikaze's gentle voice, tinged with urgency, sounded in his ear.
"Lord Minato," Aokawa said, gasping for breath, "help me keep watch. I need to recover."
"Don't worry!" Minato Namikaze didn't ask further, just nodded heavily.
"Leave this to me."
As soon as his voice fell, his figure vanished from the spot.
The next moment, several golden flashes flickered consecutively across the ruined Battlefield.
In the blink of an eye, he had retrieved all the special Kunai he had previously scattered.
Immediately, he centered himself on Aokawa and precisely threw the Kunai again, forming an invisible defensive network around them.
After doing all this, Minato Namikaze returned to Aokawa's side, standing quietly and scanning the surroundings vigilantly.
Aokawa closed his eyes and began to examine his body.
As expected, his body was ravaged internally from the forced reishi flush.
That immense power, once so easily controlled, had now vanished without a trace, leaving his Meridians empty.
The forced absorption of the Quincy's final form indeed brought terrifying after-effects.
If reishi couldn't be used, then the only hope was Chakra.
From his Ninja Tools pouch at his waist, he pulled out two silver cylinder.
Fortunately, he had prepared extra before; after fighting until now, he still had two silver cylinder left.
He flicked open their caps and placed them in his palm, beginning to absorb the concentrated Chakra within them.
Streams of pure Chakra were injected into his body.
A moment later, his depleted Chakra finally recovered a portion.
With a thought, he immediately activated the Palm Immortal Technique. Without needing to use his palms, a rich, soft green light directly climbed onto the broken bone in his left arm.
At the same time, he used Chakra threads to refine and wrap around the shattered bones, piecing them back onto his hand bones one by one.
Under the stimulation of Chakra, the hand bone and shattered bones began to reconnect slowly at a visible speed.
After a long while, with the powerful Palm Immortal Technique and Chakra threads working together, the bones in his left arm were largely healed.
He then began to treat the bone fractures in his right arm and his sternum.
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