The moment the words fell, the aura around Uchiha Yue completely changed.
If before he was like a composed stalker, then at this moment, he was a demon blade that had finally shed its scabbard, ready to drink its fill of blood.
With one hand around Sara's waist, his figure was like a bolt of black lightning, plummeting from the high platform and landing steadily at the edge of the central hall, which had been completely leveled.
"Follow the blind spots along the edge to the control console. No matter what happens, don't look back. My Shadow Clone will be nearby to protect you."
Yue let go and pushed Sara toward the giant purple pillar of light. "As for this disgusting bug with too many legs, I'm going to crush it piece by piece."
Sara bit her lip, gave Yue a deep look, and then, like a nimble cat, ran toward the hub along the shadows of the ruins.
Meanwhile, in the center of the hall, Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Naruto had been pushed to a dead end.
"Pops! Watch out on the left!"
Naruto roared instantly, creating two Shadow Clones to pounce, but they were swiped into clouds of white smoke by Mukade's massive metal tail.
Although Minato escaped death time and again using the Flying Thunder God Technique, the high-intensity teleportation and the compromises made to protect Naruto caused his Chakra consumption to spike.
Facing Mukade, who possessed infinite regenerative power and didn't even need to charge his Chakra cannon, Master Minato—the king of chip damage—could never land an effective attack.
"Despair! Before the absolute power of the Dragon Vein, you Konoha Ninjas aren't even worth being ashes!"
Mukade roared arrogantly, his massive centipede body rearing up high. In his abyss-like maw, a suffocating, ultra-high-density purple-black Chakra sphere over ten meters in diameter was being frantically compressed.
It was an extinction-level strike powerful enough to completely collapse this vast underground space and erase the entire city of Rouran along with it!
"Oh no, there's no time to teleport such a massive amount of energy!" Minato's pupils shrank as he gripped his Kunai tightly, preparing to quickly activate the Flying Thunder God and take the nearby Konoha Ninjas far away.
However, at this critical moment...
"Tap, tap, tap..."
The sound of extremely steady footsteps seemed particularly jarring amidst the chaotic and violent battlefield.
Minato snapped his head back to see the Uchiha youth in the black high-collared robe, strolling through the flying debris and fierce winds as if taking a walk in a park, reaching the front of the two of them.
"Uchiha Yue? What are you doing here?"
Uchiha Yue didn't even turn his head; he just slowly raised his right hand, facing the terrifying Chakra sphere expanding in Mukade's mouth.
Yue slowly closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, those scarlet eyes that originally had three slowly rotating tomoe underwent a hair-raising transformation.
The three black tomoe rapidly elongated and intertwined like drops of melting ink, finally forming an extremely complex and mysterious pattern.
It was a starburst pattern with something resembling a polyhedral die embedded inside!
Mangekyo Sharingan, activate!
A cold, massive, and almost tangible surge of terrifying ocular power suddenly erupted with Yue at the center, causing even the surrounding air to let out a groan of being overwhelmed.
"Is that... the Mangekyo Sharingan?!"
Minato gasped, a wave of shock surging through his heart.
As a high-ranking official of Konoha, he knew all too well what those eyes represented—the power of calamity that existed only in the legends of the Uchiha Clan, capable of rivaling a Tailed Beast!
This intelligence must be brought back.
"A Sharingan bug? No matter what eyes you switch to, it's futile before the Dragon Vein! Die!!!"
Mukade roared, and the world-destroying ten-meter Chakra cannon fired with a boom, like a purple meteorite crashing toward Yue with a pressure that tore through everything.
Facing this destructive attack, Uchiha Yue's right eye snapped wide open, and bright red blood slowly trickled down from the corner of his eye, tracing across his cold cheek.
He whispered the name of the deity that symbolized the cornerstone of the world:
"Amenominakanushi!"
"Voom!"
There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any violent clash of Chakra.
Under the extremely shocked gazes of Minato and Naruto, the space dozens of meters in front of Uchiha Yue suddenly "collapsed" eerily.
It was a distortion on a purely physical level.
An absolute Gravity Sphere, only the size of a marble yet so black it could swallow light, appeared out of thin air.
Amenominakanushi—an ocular technique that controls gravity!
Release a Singularity, and then, crush everything in space.
Whether it was objects, Ninjutsu, living beings, or even the air, everything would be crushed into fragments by the gravity.
The range of influence would vary based on the magnitude of the ocular power.
In his future vision of the Dao, Yue intended to use this extreme gravity to warp the curvature of space, eventually reaching the space-time Domain where "gravity causes time dilation" to counter the invisible "world correction force."
And now, this gravity revealed its most brutal Elementary form.
The massive purple Chakra cannon, capable of destroying a town, was sucked into a bottomless black hole the moment it touched the Gravity Sphere!
The ten-meter-level violent energy was crudely compressed, torn, and elongated, finally being forcibly sucked into that marble-sized black dot without even a single spark splashing out!
"What?!" Mukade's human face, embedded in the armor, twisted instantly. That was an attack he had squeezed out by drawing from the Dragon Vein, yet it vanished without even making a sound?!
Uchiha Yue sneered, activating his right eye's ocular power once more.
"BOOM!!!"
Mukade's dozens-of-meters-long hard metal centipede body, under the tearing of absolute gravity, was like a fragile paper toy; a massive hole ten meters in diameter was gouged out of its center out of thin air.
Naruto and Minato watched this scene, their eyes glazed over in a daze for a moment, but their combat instincts quickly brought them back. The most important thing now was to defeat Mukade; everything else could wait until later.
"Nice job!" Naruto shouted excitedly.
However, Minato's expression remained grave: "It's no use. As long as the connection to the Dragon Vein remains, he can instantly..."
Sure enough, Mukade let out a roar of pain, but purple light flared from the wound, and tens of thousands of Chakra lines frantically intertwined once more. The massive hole was restored to its original state in just a second.
"Hahahaha! I told you! I'm immortal! As long as the Dragon Vein is here, the probability of you killing me is zero!!"
Mukade laughed arrogantly, his massive body crushing down toward Yue like Mount Tai, attempting to use his size advantage to smash him into a pulp.
"Minato, Naruto, I know you two still have a trick up your sleeves. I need your cooperation!"
Yue could, of course, spend an unmeasured amount of ocular power to release a large-scale Gravity Sphere and crush Mukade once and for all.
But in this space-time closely watched by the "world correction force," overextending his right eye's ocular power to go head-to-head with a Minor Character destined to be eliminated was a very foolish trade.