Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 87 The Black Birdcage

Suddenly, a black iron chain emerged from Li Yao's right eye, blocking the kunai that Minato was about to thrust down.

tread!

Minato flipped and jumped behind Li Yao, then immediately turned to look at him, a look of disbelief on his face for the first time.

"Huff... huff..."

At the same time, Li Yao turned around, and a black iron chain extended from his right eye, which he was covering with his right hand, and passed through his palm in a blurry manner, looking somewhat terrifying.

He looked at the water gate not far away, his body slightly bent forward. Although he wasn't tired, he kept panting heavily, and his left eye was filled with a look of lingering fear.

"I almost... I almost... died!"

Li Yao's body was still very tense at this moment, and he thought to himself that he had almost lost his life.

"impossible."

"This guy's body's instinctive reaction was to directly shoot out black chakra chains?!"

"This doesn't align with the body's natural instincts!"

Minato was shocked and didn't understand. Generally speaking, when the brain can't react in time, the body's instinctive response is to avoid such subconscious actions, such as shaking the head or blinking. These are instinctive reactions based on the body's physical functions.

Instead of directly manipulating the black chakra chains to attack and defend.

This is not a natural bodily reaction, and it's illogical!

But... this guy who took over his friend's body actually did it.

"Shadow Clone Technique".

"bump!"

Minato instantly formed hand seals, creating a shadow clone that rushed towards Li Yao, while he himself turned and fled without hesitation.

With neither ninjutsu nor taijutsu able to break through his defenses, and even his surprise attacks blocked by Li Yao's special instinctive reactions, Minato instantly knew that if he continued fighting, he had no chance of winning.

Because no matter how fast he was, even if the enemy couldn't react to his attack, Li Yao could always block it with his irrational instinctive reaction.

As it turned out, no matter how fast he was, he couldn't outrun Li Yao's instinctive reaction.

He can't kill Li Yao.

Of course, Li Yao couldn't do anything about him.

However, Xin Jiunai is still there. Once Li Yao realizes that he can't do anything to him, he will definitely think of attacking Xin Jiunai to force him to get close.

He will undoubtedly be defeated then.

The only correct choice now is to use shadow clones to entangle Li Yao so that he can escape with Xin Jiunai.

Minato's actions took Li Yao by surprise; he never expected Minato to escape.

However, his actions also took Minato by surprise.

Minato sensed through his chakra that the instant he created a shadow clone and turned to escape, Li Yao simultaneously extended two black iron chains from his back and slammed them into the ground, causing him to leap high into the sky behind him.

It seems... he's not planning to fight him either?

But... how is that possible?

"tread!"

Reaching a height of 100 meters, Li Yao summoned the Black Iron Giant Eagle within his body, which grew larger. He then placed his feet on its back and controlled the Black Iron Giant Eagle to fly towards the Water Gate.

"Terrifying speed!"

"A terrible reaction!"

Like Minato, Li Yao also realized that he couldn't defeat Minato by relying solely on the black iron chains in close combat, because he simply couldn't hit Minato.

No matter how strong the black iron chains are, no matter how deadly they are, they are useless if they can't hit Minato.

Against the incredibly fast Minato, only a wide-range ninjutsu attack can render his speed and agility ineffective.

Unfortunately, Li Yao does possess wide-range ninjutsu; his combination of Lightning Release and Water Release can create a large-scale ninjutsu attack that Minato cannot avoid.

However, his limited chakra reserves are his weakness.

Besides... who can be sure that Minato wouldn't use large-scale ninjutsu?

If it eventually turns into a large-scale clash of ninjutsu, then Li Yao, who has less chakra, will definitely be the one to lose.

With Kushina as a burden, Minato can't continue fighting with Li Yao. Li Yao also has Konoha's ANBU squad chasing him, so he doesn't have time to continue fighting with Minato either.

"quick!"

"It's Shinji Nai, we absolutely cannot let anything happen to her!"

Meanwhile, behind them, Sarutobi Tensuke and his group, riding on a giant ink-wash bird that Sarutobi Ayase was flying at full power, were rushing towards the place where Li Yao and Minato were fighting.

Sarutobi Tenjuro was anxious. Kushina was the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and she was also the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki who was close to his father, the Hokage. He understood Kushina's importance.

If we didn't encounter it, that's fine too.

We absolutely cannot let anything happen to Shinji Nai now that we've met him.

The group moved at great speed, and just as Li Yao jumped back into the sky and stood on the back of the Black Iron Giant Eagle, they entered Li Yao's five-kilometer chakra perception range.

In fact, at the moment Li Yao encountered Minato.

Hinata Sika spotted Minato and Kushina in the woods first using his Byakugan.

Hyuga Sika's Byakugan, honed through rigorous training, allows him to observe very far distances, which is why he was recruited into the Anbu by the Third Hokage.

Now his eye-rolling has paid off.

Both Minato and Kushina were targets of the Anbu's attention, especially Kushina, who was the most important of them all.

The ninjas of the Anbu all recognized his appearance.

Hinata Sika naturally recognized him as well.

So the four people who were leisurely following behind Li Yao immediately rushed to Li Yao and Minato to rescue Minato and Shinjiro.

"Too late..."

Li Yaochao glanced behind him, shook his head, and gave a slight sneer.

Sarutobi Tensuke and his group will have at least thirty seconds to get here.

Thirty seconds is enough for Li Yao to deal with Minato.

"You can't escape, Minato."

Li Yao flew to a height of 200 meters, looked down at the rapidly running Minato, smiled slightly, and stretched out his right hand upwards.

"Whoosh..."

In an instant, countless hair-thin black iron chains shot out from his palm, then spread out and fell in an umbrella shape.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The falling black iron chains plunged deep into the ground, then converged towards the center. In just three seconds, a black chain cage covering an area of ​​500 meters landed, trapping Minato and Shinji Nai inside.

This scene is very similar to the birdcage that Doflamingo created using the String-String Fruit in One Piece.

The only difference was that Li Yao used black iron chains, and the birdcage was made of mesh.

After the birdcage was formed, Li Yao first manipulated the black iron chain, which was the size of a hair, to become the thickness of an index finger. Then, he added layer upon layer of black iron chains, connecting them with the vertically falling black iron chains to form a grid-like birdcage that could only be passed through by a fist.

"clank……"

"Wind Release: Wind Blade!"

"Wind Release: Wind Pillar!"

"Boom boom..."

Minato's two shadow clones, closest to the birdcage wall, attacked the black iron chains on the birdcage with kunai and various wind-style ninjutsu.

But no matter how they attacked, the black iron chains that made up the birdcage remained unharmed.

"It's no use, Minato."

"The chakra chains formed by the Adamantine Sealing Technique are very strong, and ordinary ninjutsu attacks are ineffective. Only by killing the caster can this ninjutsu be dispelled."

Kushina herself stepped forward and attacked the black iron chain birdcage. Feeling the force of the rebound, she realized that the enemy was as hard as the Uzumaki clan's Adamantine Sealing Chakra Chains and could not be destroyed.

Unfortunately, although she possesses a vast amount of chakra and has the Adamantine Sealing Chakra within her body, she is unable to release the Adamantine Sealing Chakra from the outside due to her young age and weak spirit.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be afraid of the black chakra chains in front of her.

"But……"

Minato's two shadow clones frowned and looked up. Outside the black chakra chain birdcage, Li Yao sat on the back of a giant black iron eagle, coldly watching them.

The enemy was outside the birdcage; their attacks could neither break the birdcage nor harm the enemy.

Despair swept over the mind of Minato's shadow clone and Kushina in an instant.

When Minato arrived, he saw the expressions on the faces of the shadow clone and Kushina, and then looked at the black birdcage surrounding them, and immediately understood the predicament they were in.

"What should we do?"

Minato looked anxious, but his mind was even more focused as he quickly thought of ways to resolve the current predicament.

Li Yao didn't give Shuimen much time to think.

The moment the black iron chain birdcage was completed, he immediately controlled a portion of the black iron birdcage to become ethereal and fly out of the cage.

Then immediately extend your right hand and clench it tightly.

In an instant.

The birdcage rapidly contracted towards the center.

(End of this chapter)