"Blood Qi Burst."
Just as everyone wondered why Sora would do something so reckless, a slender beam of bloody light shot out from within the Toad Oil Flame Bullet.
The beam was neither large nor small, yet it carried terrifying power.
The bloody light tore straight through the Toad Oil Flame Bullet and shot toward Gamabunta and Naruto at astonishing speed.
"What?" Gamabunta's pupils shrank. With no time to dodge, he could only draw his blade and swing with all his strength.
BOOM!
The collision between the bloody light and the short sword produced a deafening explosion, and a violent whirlwind spread across the arena.
Countless spectators could not help but think the same thing:
Was this really the Chunin Exams? The battle was so terrifying that even a jonin would barely reach this level.
"This is…!"
The moment Sora used this move, the expressions of the Third Hokage, Orochimaru, and even the hidden Jiraiya changed drastically.
This was not ninjutsu, nor was it some profound secret technique. It was an entirely unprecedented power.
The Third Hokage felt as if he were standing before a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
His intuition had been correct all along. There truly was an unimaginable power hidden inside Sora's body.
Orochimaru was equally shocked.
He had long known that Sora possessed a mysterious power capable of injuring him with a single strike.
But seeing another hidden ability now made him uncertain whether Sora had only recently developed it or had simply been hiding his true strength back then.
"Is this the power the old man mentioned?" Asuma murmured after regaining his composure.
"Kakashi, what kind of technique is this?" Kurenai Yuhi asked. "Is it a forbidden jutsu, a profound secret technique, or a bloodline limit?"
Kakashi had participated in the Third Great Ninja War and possessed vast knowledge. If anyone present might recognize it, it would be him.
"I'm not sure either," Kakashi Hatake replied with a heavy tone.
"This power originates from within Sora's body. It doesn't look like a secret technique or forbidden jutsu. It resembles a bloodline limit, and an unprecedented one at that."
Just how many hidden abilities did this boy possess? Was he really only a teenager?
Screech!
With a loud clang, Gamabunta's short sword was knocked out of his hand.
He quickly spat out a Water Release: Blast Wave, but the bloody light pierced straight through it.
The moment the Blast Wave was broken, the bloody light slammed into Gamabunta's body, sending him flying and destroying nearly a third of the arena.
"That really hurts," Gamabunta muttered as he struggled to stay upright.
"What kind of technique is this? It's been a long time since I've been injured so badly multiple times in a row. Naruto, I'm reaching my limit.
We need to finish this in one move, or I won't be able to hold on much longer."
Gamabunta had first blocked the attack with his sword and then countered with the Blast Wave, which was why he had not yet been forced back to Mount Myoboku.
Even so, he was clearly in bad condition.
"But I don't know any technique that can defeat him," Naruto said with a grim expression. He had already used all of his trump cards.
"Bring out your greatest asset," Gamabunta replied. "Winning or losing doesn't matter."
Gamabunta had seen far more of the world than Naruto.
"I understand. Maximum Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
More than a hundred Shadow Clones suddenly appeared and charged toward Sora simultaneously.
Although Naruto possessed a large amount of chakra, repeatedly using such a massive number of clones drained him tremendously.
This would be his final gamble.
"Repeating the same tactics is useless." Sora stepped forward completely unharmed.
The Blood Qi Burst provided comprehensive defense.
The Toad Oil Flame Bullet was powerful, but it could not break through that defense.
Facing the hundred Shadow Clones rushing toward him, Sora remained calm and expressionless.
"Naruto, go!" Gamabunta shouted despite the pain.
He was also deeply shocked. Was this really a twelve-year-old boy?
Even without a summoned beast, Sora had forced both him and Naruto into such a difficult position.
Tsunade had truly taken on an astonishing disciple.
"This is the final ragengan!"
"Water Release: Blast Wave!"
Gamabunta spat out a massive water blast.
Naruto leaped upward and stood atop the wave as both of them rushed toward Sora, who was momentarily restrained by the surrounding Shadow Clones.
"Sora, take this!" Naruto roared as he thrust his right hand forward.
Sora merely smiled faintly. Slowly raising his right hand, he spread his fingers open.
Many spectators believed he was about to counter with another ragengan.
However, when Naruto's ragengan slammed into Sora's palm and nothing appeared there, everyone was stunned.
"Did his chakra run out?"
"It wouldn't be surprising. He's used so many techniques already."
Several chunin began whispering among themselves.
But was that really the case?
At that moment, Orochimaru's eyes darkened slightly, because he recognized the move. It was the very technique that had once humiliated him.
"Soul Devouring Hand."
Sora spoke the words clearly.
Just as the ragengan was about to destroy Sora's right hand, Naruto suddenly felt a powerful suction locking his body in place.
He could not move.
Not only that, but he could feel the blood and chakra within his body being violently pulled toward Sora's palm.
Even the swirling chakra sphere of the ragengan was forcibly halted, unable to damage Sora's hand at all.
"Ah!"
Before Naruto could react, a burst of bloody light erupted from Sora's hand.
Naruto's face instantly turned pale. The ragengan in his hand vanished with a pop as he was blasted backward.
Gamabunta quickly extended his tongue to catch him, but even then the force of the impact nearly caused Gamabunta's tongue to buckle.
"What a bizarre ability," Kakashi Hatake muttered as his Sharingan spun rapidly while trying to analyze the technique.
He was not the only one observing. Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuga Neji, and several members of the Hyuga Clan had also activated their Sharingan and Byakugan to examine the battle.
Yet none of them could understand what had just happened.
"I'm certain now," Kakashi said solemnly.
"That those bloody lights are not a secret technique or forbidden jutsu, but a bloodline limit.
Only that would explain why even the Sharingan cannot see through it. And Sora's bloodline limit is extremely strange."
"How strange?" Kurenai asked curiously.
"In that moment, the blood and chakra inside Naruto's body were forcibly drawn toward Sora's hand. Even a dense mass of chakra like the ragengan was forcibly restrained.
Then that blood and chakra were compressed within Sora's hand and released outward as an attack."
Kakashi paused briefly before continuing.
"In other words, he uses the enemy's own power against them. Simply draining the opponent's blood and chakra is already a severe blow,
but compressing that power and releasing it as an attack makes the damage even more devastating."
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