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Chapter 925, Nine Tails: Writing Cheat, Reading Limiter
"Such a strong sense of oppression, have you ever seen anything like it, Minato?"
Sensing the fear emanating from the parasitic worms within her body, Aburame Shiki frowned slightly and shifted her gaze from An Lushan, clad in black armor, to Minato standing to the side.
"Kushina does have a similar form, but it's nowhere near as exaggerated as his."
Minato recalled his girlfriend's recently mastered golden form, shook his head solemnly, but his gleaming eyes never left An Lushan's imposing dragon-shaped armor.
"But I have to admit, this look is kind of cool."
As expected, people with chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) tend to like this tokusatsu (special effects) style.
"Oh, this."
Compared to the curiosity and wariness of everyone else present, Uchiha Gin's handsome face was filled with utter bewilderment.
I've definitely traveled through time, haven't I? How come I keep running into knights wherever I go?
Turning to look at Chiyo, who was blinking her big eyes beside him, he offered her his arm.
"Chiyo, pinch me."
"I was just about to say that too."
Upon hearing this, Chiyo turned around, and Uchiha Gin then noticed that she had already rolled up most of her sleeves, her slender arms gleaming like white jade in the sunlight.
"Uh, what exactly is going on?"
Logically speaking, if this timeline doesn't include him as the "Father of Knights," then where did the black dragon knight in front of us come from?
"Perhaps this is related to the characteristics of dragon veins."
What are the characteristics of a dragon vein?
Upon hearing this, Uchiha Gin looked at Chiyo, who was stroking her chin, and the questioning look in his deadpan eyes was clearly visible.
"I only learned about this after I inherited the dragon vein from my teacher."
Nodding, Chiyo gathered her thoughts and slowly began to speak.
"There is more than one dragon vein. It has countless clones that exist in different parallel universes, that is, different timelines, and they are all aware of each other's existence."
"Hey?"
Upon hearing this, Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow in slight surprise.
He had a vague suspicion before he transmigrated, and now Chiyo's words completely confirmed his point of view.
The moment the chakra fruit hanging from the tree of the divine tree ripened, the history of the ninja world was no longer singular; the dense roots represented intricate timelines.
The dragon veins are the witnesses to these timelines, silently guarding their respective timelines without ever interfering.
Unless they encounter evil beings who intend to disrupt time, they will continue to exist as bystanders forever until the timeline disappears.
"So, the dragon vein that brought you here isn't the one in our timeline, but this one."
Uchiha Gin raised his chin, pointed at An Lushan who had transformed into the Otherworldly Dragon Fang, and said thoughtfully,
Chiyo shook her head slightly upon hearing this.
"Not entirely. When the dragon vein of this timeline realized that it could not stop An Lushan from destroying the timeline, it sent a distress signal to the dragon veins of other timelines. After receiving it, the dragon vein of our timeline sent me here."
"And what about them?"
Having roughly grasped the information, Uchiha Gin turned to look at Four-Tails Naruto and Yamato.
"They should also be reinforcements that the dragon vein brought from other timelines."
Uchiha Gin frowned almost imperceptibly. So, the three groups of people present were from different timelines.
If we label his and Chiyo's timeline as A...
So Naruto, Yamato, and Anrokuzan are outsiders from timeline B.
The Watergate team are natives of timeline C.
The current incident was caused by the rogue ninja Centipede forcibly activating the dragon veins that Minato had sealed in the B timeline, thus triggering a temporal turbulence.
Among them, the centipede was the first to be pulled into timeline C. After the dragon veins of timeline C were discovered, an operation to repair the timeline was immediately launched.
While sending a distress signal to the dragon veins of its timeline, it also pulled Naruto and Yamato, who had been caught in the time turbulence along with the centipede, to its side.
Chiyo was the first to arrive, responding swiftly to the rescue signal. Her arrival successfully thwarted An Lushan's plot to murder Queen Sana, and consequently prevented the Centipede from stealing the Dragon Vein.
But things get interesting here.
If the dragon vein in Chiyo's timeline A does not respond to the distress signal from the dragon vein in timeline C, then after Naruto and his companion arrive and stop Anrokusan from disrupting the timeline, timelines C and B will overlap due to Minato's act of erasing the memories of the group, forming a new timeline that extends backward.
"Uncle Yin, were you also dragged here?"
Seeing Uchiha Gin frowning in thought, Chiyo asked curiously,
"No, I came here on my own."
Uchiha Gin shook his head and pulled out a card that Chiyo recognized very well. Looking at the exhausted dragon vein depicted on it, she gasped in surprise, covering her mouth.
Uncle Silver actually turned the dragon veins of their timeline into a card!
The broken Flying Thunder God kunai that appeared at the bottom of the dragon vein is a rescue message for the dragon vein in timeline C. As long as the person involved agrees, they can travel to timeline C.
But who is Uchiha Gin?
He wouldn't rashly travel to an unfamiliar timeline if he didn't have the ability to control time travel.
But Chiyo couldn't just ignore it, so Ginichi Uchiha went all out and directly turned the dragon vein of timeline A into a card. Using its power, he entered the temporal turbulence and, relying on the coordinates left on Chiyo, successfully broke into timeline C.
Just as the two were exchanging their experiences of time travel, Minato launched a probing attack on An Lushan, who was carrying a large cleaver on his shoulder.
"Swish swish~"
The kunai, gleaming with a chilling, predatory light, shot straight toward An Lushan's face.
"Humph!"
An Lushan snorted coldly, raised one hand, and a square mirror appeared out of thin air, swallowing all the kunai that were rushing towards him.
"Ok?"
Upon witnessing this scene, Minato's alarm bells went off. His sixth sense told him that this mirror was definitely not just for blocking attacks.
"Roar!"
Seeing that Minato's attack was ineffective, Naruto opened his mouth wide and unleashed a Tailed Beast Ball to finish off the remaining damage.
"do not want!"
It was too late for Minato to stop it.
Even the Tailed Beast Ball, trailing a fiery tail, couldn't escape being swallowed by the mirror, and Minato's sense of crisis only grew stronger.
"Naruto, get out of the way!"
Hearing Minato's anxious shouts behind him, Four-Tails Naruto tilted his head in confusion.
"Bang~ Bang~ Bang~"
The next second, a mirror appeared out of thin air behind him, and several kunai that emerged from it hit his large face with pinpoint accuracy.
"Roar?"
Looking down at the clattering kunai at his feet, Naruto scratched his head in bewilderment, then turned and swung his claw, preparing to smash the suspicious mirror.
"blow!"
But before he could touch the smooth mirror surface, a golden flash streaked past, carrying him away from his original spot.
"Roar?"
"Boom!"
Naruto tilted his head, looking at Minato's grave expression, about to express his confusion, when he heard a loud explosion behind him.
He immediately looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the spot where he had just been standing had been steamed into a large crater by the high temperature of the Tailed Beast Ball.
"If I'm not mistaken, that mirror should be able to store our attacks and then release them anytime, anywhere."
Minato glanced at the stiff Naruto and explained to his teammates in a deep voice,
"As expected of the legendary Yellow Flash."
As a person from the future, An Lushan naturally recognized Minato Namikaze, who would become famous in the Third Shinobi World War a few years later, and immediately nodded in approval.
"Use physical techniques." Minato ignored An Lushan's amazed remarks and quickly devised a corresponding countermeasure.
"Human Bomber!"
Ding Zuo was the first to respond to the call, rolling forward and transforming into a massive, rapidly spinning ball of flesh that hurtled towards An Lushan.
"Roar!"
Naruto, not to be outdone, swung his outstretched arms, grabbing at An Lushan from both sides.
"You have no idea what I'm like now."
An Lushan stood silently in place, ignoring the fleshy mass falling from above and the sharp claws attacking from both sides. A mocking expression appeared on his face beneath his mask.
".strength."
"boom!"
He raised his machete and swung it fiercely, instantly covering his body with countless black blade energies. With a thought, these blade energies, which had been suspended in mid-air, immediately scattered in all directions.
"Pfft!"
Ding Zuo, who had not yet fallen, rapidly shrank under the baptism of the black blade energy, and after a few breaths, he fell like a blood gourd.
"Sizzle! Sizzle!"
"Roar!"
Naruto cried out in pain and hurriedly withdrew his outstretched arms. However, he fared slightly better than Choza, as the Tailed Beast Cloak protected his hands, which only suffered minor superficial injuries. Thanks to the Tailed Beast's chakra, they quickly recovered.
"blow!"
Minato gripped a kunai made of a special material, bent down, and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, appearing behind An Lushan in the blink of an eye.
"Sizzle—!"
As a sickening grinding sound rang out, Minato's face visibly darkened.
"Shh!"
Minato activated the Flying Thunder God Technique to dodge the oncoming sword, returned to the starting point, glanced down at the broken kunai, and his heart sank.
Such a tough defense.
"I'm in a good mood right now, so I'll give you one last chance to submit to me."
An Lushan slung his cleaver back over his shoulder, in high spirits, and once again extended an olive branch to the group.
"Roar!"
But what awaited him was a floor tile picked up by Naruto's bare hands.
"Give me a sigh!"
Looking at the enraged Huffy Mi, who was about to hit him with a brick, An Lushan roared and activated the unique spacetime power of the dragon vein.
"What?!"
Amidst the horrified gazes of those around him, Naruto, holding the floor tile, suddenly froze in place like a statue.
An Lushan looked at Naruto, whom he had stopped in time, with satisfaction, and clenched his fist.
"Snapped!"
The floor tile that Naruto was holding immediately floated up and slammed heavily into his face.
"Shu~"
Just then, the time stop ended, and Naruto, who had been hit in the face with bricks, was sent flying backward, crashing heavily in front of Minato and the others.
"Naruto!"
Upon seeing this, Yamato immediately went forward to check and was surprised to find that Naruto's tail was starting to dissipate.
"Nine-Tails, Nine-Tails!"
Feeling his power gradually fading, Naruto couldn't help but shout towards the Nine-Tails within the sealed space.
"Stop arguing. This guy's strength is strange. He's not someone you can defeat with brute force."
Inside the cage, the Nine-Tailed Fox sat cross-legged on the ground like a human, its beastly eyes gleaming with an inexplicable light. Clearly, this was the first time it had faced such a bizarre enemy as An Lushan.
"So what should I do now?"
Naruto scratched his head vigorously, looking utterly dejected.
"Even the strongest person has weaknesses. You're supposed to be a ninja, can't you at least have some basic combat skills?"
Looking at Naruto, who had transformed into a wild beast, with a look of disappointment and frustration, Kurama questioned him impatiently.
If it weren't for those scarlet eyes staring at it, it wouldn't have bothered with this human brat whose brain was even smaller than Shukaku's.
"Uh"
Being talked about like that by others was one thing, but Naruto never expected to be lectured by Kurama (the Nine-Tails) one day, and he immediately scratched his face in embarrassment.
"I understand, Nine-Tailed Fox Prisoner."
Looking at Kurama, who was sitting with his arms crossed inside the cage, Naruto slowly straightened up, the dejection on his face gradually fading.
He had been blinded by the power given to him by the Nine-Tails, but now that he had calmed down and thought things through, he realized he couldn't rely on others' help forever.
To become a Hokage recognized by everyone, he must rely on his own strength to move forward.
I'll come see you again when I have time.
Naruto waved to Kurama, and having figured everything out, he turned and left the sealed space that felt somewhat familiar to him without any hesitation.
in reality,
"Well"
"Naruto, are you alright?"
Yamato looked at Naruto, who had shed his tailed beast cloak, with a worried expression.
"Captain Yamato, I'm fine."
After stretching his arms, which couldn't extend, Naruto gave a silly grin.
"But without the Nine-Tails' power, you..."
Seeing this, Yamato's expression first relaxed, then became serious again. Naruto returning to normal meant that their side would soon be missing a major fighting force.
"Don't worry, even without the Nine-Tails' power, I will still defeat that guy."
Naruto clenched his fists. His azure eyes held no bewilderment at the loss of power, only an unyielding thirst for battle.
"You really are the Naruto I know."
Looking at the confident Naruto, Yamato paused for a moment, then smiled and shook his head.
"Golden Retriever, let's fight together!"
Naruto, who had rejoined the battle, stood beside Minato. Seeing his energetic son, Minato immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his usually serious face.
As expected of Kushina's child.
"Be careful, he also possesses the power to stop time. Huh?"
After finishing his reflection, Minato called out a reminder, but before he could finish speaking, Naruto beside him had already shot off like an arrow.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
Standing still wouldn't give the enemy any opening, so Naruto immediately created hundreds of clones, which charged towards An Lushan from all directions.
"Humph!"
This was the first time An Lushan had encountered such a situation. After a brief moment of bewilderment, he first raised one hand to stop the dozens of Naruto shadow clones in front of him, and then swung his cleaver, the dark blade energy instantly turning the clones into white smoke.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
However, the Narutos from other directions were unaffected by the time stop. They yelled and raised their fists, relentlessly pounding on An Lushan's black armor. The dull thuds of their punches hitting flesh echoed like firecrackers.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
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Thanks to the Uzumaki bloodline, Naruto's physical strength has always been quite good. Although he hasn't developed superhuman strength, his brute force alone is enough to make even ordinary Jonin hesitant to take a direct hit.
"Annoying brat!"
Even with his armor protecting him, the penetrating force still made An Lushan feel somewhat overwhelmed. He immediately swung his cleaver, clearing away the endless stream of shadow clones as if chopping vegetables.
"Heh, you're already exhausted? Damn! What kind of monster are you anyway?"
After a flurry of swordplay, with only a handful of Narutos remaining, panting heavily, An Lushan was about to utter a few sarcastic remarks when he saw the remaining Narutos cross their fingers once more. His face immediately turned ashen, as if he'd eaten something disgusting.
"Exhausted? I could keep you occupied all day!" (End of Chapter)