I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 800 If you tease your prey, be prepared to be bitten back.

Madara Uchiha's hand reached into empty air. He stopped, straightened his body in mid-air, and looked in one direction. Just as he turned his head to focus, a golden light appeared there.

Minato, with one arm, reappeared, gripping Kakashi's shoulder.

Minato also looked at Madara Uchiha. He had noticed that Madara Uchiha seemed to have predicted his landing point.

Whether it was a coincidence, his gaze fell on a certain Flying Thunder God Technique, or whether Madara Uchiha truly possessed the ability to foresee the landing point of his Flying Thunder God Technique.

After all, there is very little information available at the moment, especially regarding the Rinnegan and Madara Uchiha, who has mastered the power of the Six Paths. Minato knows very little about him.

Even if Madara Uchiha were in his Sharingan form, he wouldn't be able to defeat him, as Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju both possessed a wealth of information, making him a relatively easy opponent.

At worst, both sides will be helpless.

However, even now, Minato doesn't fully understand Madara's various Rinnegan abilities, especially in his Rinnegan state.

After being reincarnated, the Rinnegan abilities he learned about were also those of Nagato, such as Shinra Tensei, Bansho Ten'in, Rinne Tensei, Chibaku Tensei, and so on.

Furthermore, by using the black rods created through Yin-Yang Release, one can control others, even to the point of sharing vision and thoughts. Minato personally witnessed this from Obito.

That's not all. Sasuke's recent encounter with Tobirama Senju seems to have led him to discover another ability of the Rinnegan: invisible clones.

This ability is extremely difficult to deal with. After all, how can you defend against it when you don't even know where the enemy is?

Therefore, on his way here, Minato had already devised a plan: to avoid battle and instead use Kakashi to maneuver around, buying time for Tatsuma.

But now it seems that even just maneuvering around is not that simple.

If Madara Uchiha's judgment of the landing point was just a coincidence, that's fine. But what if it wasn't a coincidence? What if Madara Uchiha really had the ability to predict the landing point of the Flying Thunder God Technique?

Therefore, a moment later, Minato activated the Flying Thunder God Technique again, taking Kakashi on another space-time journey.

There was nothing he could do. He didn't know how far Madara Uchiha's invisible clones could be controlled. What if Madara Uchiha used those invisible clones to attack him or Kakashi if he lingered for even a moment longer?

Moreover, Madara Uchiha's current speed is unimaginably fast. If they hesitate for even a moment, Madara Uchiha could appear in front of them from afar and attack them.

Madara Uchiha's single eye kept twitching, and every time his gaze landed on a spot where Minato appeared, it was either in advance, in sync with Minato's appearance, or Madara only turned his gaze after Minato had already appeared.

"A decent flea show."

Madara Uchiha smiled, cheering like an audience member in a theater, but just as the golden light flashed once more, his body suddenly moved.

Floating in the air as if without any propulsion, it instantly transformed into a white rainbow, arriving at the coordinates the moment Minato and Kakashi appeared, while simultaneously hurling its scepter.

"They've started the pursuit? It seems the habit trap they set has worked."

Minato dared not be careless in the slightest. Almost instantly, he disappeared again. The scepter swept across, tearing the afterimage to shreds, and dark green fibers fell down at the same time.

Ban's figure did not stop, and he continued to rush towards another place. This time he was even faster, almost instantly crossing hundreds of meters. When he arrived at a certain place, golden light appeared there.

As the Jade Scepter of Seeking the Dao swept across, the air offered no obstruction, not even a sound of wind. It seemed to have swept across the space directly, rather than across everything within that space.

This time, a piece of white clothing drifted down, indicating that Madara Uchiha's attack was closer to harming Minato.

Golden light darted across the battlefield, followed by a streak of white rainbow. No one could have imagined that Madara Uchiha's speed of flight was comparable to that of the Flying Thunder God Technique, which traverses space and time.

Minato himself couldn't have imagined it, but now he can only grit his teeth and persevere.

He created a "habit" to make it easier for Madara Uchiha to predict his landing point, because only in this way could he attract Madara Uchiha's pursuit.

The purpose of having Madara Uchiha pursue them was to lead him away from the crowd, and Minato succeeded. As Madara Uchiha continued his pursuit, the three of them gradually moved away from the crowd.

"Swoosh~"

A spurt of blood shot out, and Madara Uchiha stopped, holding his scepter, looking in another direction, and asked, "As you wished, you're already far from the crowd. Do you still want to jump down again?"

In the direction of the landing point, Minato appeared with Kakashi. At this time, the vests and clothes on the two of them, as well as Minato's outer robe, all had multiple tear marks.

The severed arm of the water gate now appears even shorter; where there was originally a section of the upper arm, only the shoulder remains.

After this space-time jump, Minato stopped and looked at Madara Uchiha, whose face showed no shame or anger, but rather a sense of relief after playing with him like a cat playing with a mouse.

It turns out he was wrong. It wasn't that he was running Uchiha Madara away, but rather that Uchiha Madara intentionally let him escape so that he could enjoy the thrill of chasing his prey?

And now there's no escaping it, unless he performs an extremely long-range Flying Thunder God Technique, but that would require even more preparation time, and Madara Uchiha wouldn't give him that much time.

With that thought, Minato released his grip on Kakashi's shoulder and formed the Opposing Hand Seal.

In an instant, a sage mask appeared on his face, and then he spread his hands, gathering chakra.

"Magic! Rasengan!"

Minato hurled the Rasengan towards Madara Uchiha. As the chakra ball approached, Madara raised his hand, the one not holding the scepter, and snapped his fingers just as the Rasengan arrived.

"Boom!"

The Rasengan was ricocheted off and exploded in mid-air.

"Although Sage Art cannot be absorbed, its strength is completely insufficient to harm Uchiha Madara. We must launch a successful sneak attack to buy a sliver of time for a long-distance space-time transfer."

Let's try that technique that Tatsuma mentioned, the one that my other self in the ninja world has already developed.

Thinking this, Minato once again condensed a Rasengan in his hand.

"Are you still wasting your time? You don't seem like such a foolish person."

Madara Uchiha smiled, looking utterly disdainful. Minato didn't answer, but instead focused on condensing the Rasengan. The Sage Mode mask on his face faded very quickly, since he couldn't mix and balance much Sage Chakra in such a short time.

Moreover, this is not an ordinary Rasengan.

This Rasengan was only half the size of the normal one, but it had already exhausted all of Minato's Sage Chakra. He threw the Rasengan out again, and Madara Uchiha's expression turned strange as he looked at it.

"Is this for lighting? Even a candle flame is brighter than this."

Before he could finish speaking, the Rasengan vanished, like a candle flame going out. Madara Uchiha raised an eyebrow, looked at the panting Minato, and slowly raised the scepter in his hand, his one eye seemingly aiming at something.

"boom!"

Suddenly, Madara Uchiha was sent flying backward, his other hand covering his single Rinnegan eye, his expression slightly distorted, and he gritted his teeth.

"Sage Art! Lightning Release! Rasengan!"

(End of this chapter)