Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 422 The Astute Sasuke

Ten minutes later.

Naruto and Sasuke, who frequently used Amenotejikara, were two kilometers apart from the nine tailed beasts.

"Naruto, you go find Kurama first!"

Sasuke said that he kept a close eye on Li Yao with his chakra senses. If Li Yao tried to stop Naruto and Kurama from merging, he would use Amenotejikara to transfer Li Yao away, not giving Li Yao a chance to cause trouble.

"it is good."

Naruto answered and flew over in a flash. The Nine-Tails in the distance also ran over, as did the other tailed beasts.

"Hmm...this guy?"

Sasuke frowned as he looked at Li Yao, who had stopped and showed no intention of making a move.

Strange!

That's so weird!

From the moment Li Yao suddenly attacked them... no, to be precise, from the moment he attacked and entangled Naruto, it seemed like... he had been waiting for something.

This guy... doesn't seem to have actually planned to kill Naruto!

Why?

After a brief pause to calm down, Sasuke recalled the events of the previous battle and immediately noticed something amiss.

Why didn't Li Yao prepare to kill Naruto?

Now, they're just watching Naruto gain the Nine-Tails' power without doing anything to stop him?

What does he want to do?

What are his intentions towards Naruto?

Sasuke discovered a big problem, but no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't figure out the reason behind Li Yao's strange behavior.

After all, the ability to sense and replicate Six Paths-level chakra through close combat is too overpowered; even a genius like Sasuke wouldn't dare to dream of such a thing.

But the process by which they gained their power was truly defying the heavens.

Naruto, who hadn't even mastered the Bloodline Limit, not only mastered the Yang Power of the Six Paths with the help of the Sage of Six Paths, but also the Truth-Seeking Balls, which was truly defying the heavens.

Sasuke, who didn't have the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, somehow managed to obtain the Rinnegan and the power of the Six Paths Yin.

However, the power that is bestowed is still a power that is bestowed.

The fact that Naruto and Sasuke's strength was so weak in the later Boruto series might be partly due to this.

Closer to home.

At that moment, Naruto and Kurama's fists collided.

"Naruto!"

"Nine Lama!"

Within Naruto's inner spiritual space, there was no sealed gate, no sealed comfort, and the Nine-Tails and Naruto's chakra perfectly merged together.

hum!

The Nine-Tails actively entered Naruto's body and merged with him, activating the Golden Nine-Tails Mode.

The golden Nine-Tails chakra, condensed into a nine-tailed form, enveloped Naruto, with Naruto residing within the golden Nine-Tails' head. This was the strongest state of Naruto's fusion with the Nine-Tails.

Moreover, with the protection of the Nine-Tails' chakra, Li Yao was unable to teleport to Naruto's side and attack him at close range.

"Sasuke!"

Naruto, having completed his transformation, let out a shout and then rushed up to Li Yao in the sky, while Sasuke took over to absorb the chakra of the other tailed beasts.

"very good!"

Li Yao took the initiative to fly to a higher altitude, which Naruto was eager to do, so he followed. The two soon began to fight in the sky.

Li Yao's black hole space ninjutsu remains invincible.

But with the Nine-Tails' help, Naruto no longer passively dodged this time, and even used the Shadow Clone Technique to coordinate his attacks.

He was responsible for being vigilant and dodging Li Yao's attacks, while the Nine-Tails was responsible for launching a small-scale Tailed Beast Ball attack on Li Yao's head.

As a result, it was Li Yao who faced several close calls, and he had to frequently use spatial teleportation to evade Naruto's Nine-Tails attacks.

Take advantage of this opportunity.

Sasuke below activates his Complete Susanoo, using it as a vessel to absorb the chakra of the other eight tailed beasts.

None of the eight tailed beasts resisted, allowing Sasuke to absorb their chakra.

Back when Obito was inside a clone, they had already established contact with the Sage of Six Paths with the help of Minato Namikaze's chakra.

They knew that to defeat Li Yao, this visitor from another world, they had to rely on the combined power of Naruto and Sasuke.

Therefore, for the sake of the ninja world, for their own sake, and even more so for the Sage of Six Paths, they temporarily set aside their hatred for humanity and helped Naruto and Sasuke overcome this crisis of invasion from another world.

Eight streams of ionized chakra surged into Sasuke's Susanoo like endless lightning.

With the influx of a large amount of chakra from the eight tailed beasts, the previously somewhat transparent Complete Susanoo became completely filled, and the white lightning chakra was firmly compressed within the Susanoo's body.

Click!

The terrifying amount of chakra caused Susanoo to split open.

Under the powerful control of Sasuke's Rinnegan, the chakra accumulated in the eight tailed beasts was completely plundered. The terrifying power transformed the Susanoo into Susanoo armor, which was worn on the aggregate of the eight tailed beasts' chakra.

powerful!

Sasuke was filled with a terrifying power that could split the earth with a light stomp of his foot, and he felt an unprecedented strength.

"Kid, you must defeat that visitor from another world!"

"We'll lend you our strength for now!"

"Little brat..."

Below, the eight tailed beasts, drained of their energy, lay on the ground like eight lapdogs, their eyes glaring at Sasuke on Susanoo, weakly saying that they wanted to defeat Li Yao.

call out!

Sasuke didn't even glance at the eight tailed beasts, let alone respond to them. He flew directly into the air where Naruto and Li Yao were fighting.

This scene infuriated the eight tailed beasts so much that they wanted to reclaim their chakra.

"Damn it, almost there again."

High in the sky, a mini Tailed Beast Ball exploded, but Li Yao had already teleported to a distance and rushed towards Naruto again.

call out!

Before Li Yao could get close to Naruto, he suddenly switched places with Sasuke, who had arrived at the scene. Sasuke then controlled the giant Susanoo and flew to Naruto's side.

"Naruto, that guy seems to have his eye on something on you?"

"Targeting me... what do you mean?"

Naruto looked at Sasuke with a puzzled expression.

Li Yao, who was fifty meters ahead, stared at Sasuke with great interest, thinking to himself that this guy was really perceptive and had noticed some of his thoughts.

I wonder if anyone can guess my purpose?

Li Yao thought to himself.

Seeing that Li Yao had stopped attacking, Sasuke became even more certain of his guess.

"Didn't you notice?" Sasuke said coldly, "This guy has been attacking you from the very beginning, but he's been using taijutsu the whole time. That black sphere space-devouring ninjutsu from before is useless now."

"I thought he wanted to kill me first since I don't have space-time ninjutsu," Naruto said, frowning. "I didn't expect there to be another deeper meaning."

Naruto didn't have much doubt about Li Yao's choice to attack him, since he was easier to deal with than Sasuke, who had the ability to teleport.

But now, after Sasuke's reminder, Naruto also realized that something was wrong.

Li Yao did not use any other spatial methods, such as that special alternate space or the black space ability that devours everything; he always used the stick that could devour Truth-Seeking Balls.

Although it is powerful, its attack methods are too simple. Even without Sasuke's Amenotejikara, if Naruto focuses on dodging, he can still survive.

Logically, if Li Yao wanted to kill him, he should have used every means to attack him.

Now it seems... the other party never intended to kill him in the first place!

At least for now, I don't intend to kill him.

Why?

Naruto frowned, unable to understand.

Sasuke glanced at Naruto and continued, "Although I don't know why that guy did this, it's obvious that you have something about you that prevents him from killing you."

"At least he won't kill you before he gets that thing."

Sasuke added.

It has to be said that Sasuke is really smart; what he said was almost exactly what Li Yao wanted.

Li Yao does indeed need the Truth-Seeking Ball chakra from Naruto.

He won't kill Naruto until he copies the Truth-Seeking Ball chakra.

(End of this chapter)