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Chapter 172 Minato VS Nagato! (Subscribe for monthly tickets)

Bokumo Kōto looked at Uzumaki Kushina and Nagato and shouted softly, "Begin!"

As soon as the voice fell, Nagato and Uzumaki Kushina both stepped back and formed seals with their hands.

Wind Escape - Gale Breakthrough!

The two completed the hand seals almost at the same time and performed the same wind-style ninjutsu.

The air currents collided, making a violent roar.

His clothes fluttered, his long hair flew backwards, and Nagato kept making seals with his hands. After the wind escape, he opened his mouth and spit out water. The water surged, and huge waves swept towards the swirling Kushina.

Moreover, after finishing the water escape, he continued to form seals, and then electric light flashed on his hands, spreading along the water flow.

Wind Style, Lightning Style, Water Style, and Fire Style. At this point, Nagato had already demonstrated four types of changes in nature.

Except for a few people who already knew about it, all the spectators were shocked at this moment.

If it was a Jonin, there wouldn't be much surprise.

But Nagato is a Genin who is not even ten years old.

Danzo said bluntly: "It is a waste to keep such a talent in Rain Village, and he may become a threat in the future."

Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head: "Now the Rain Village and we are allies, and this child was taught by Xiu."

"As long as Xiu is here, there will be no problems in Rain Village."

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't know that the Root had infiltrated the Rain Village, he could still tell something just by looking at the surface.

After hearing what Sarutobi Hiruzen said, Danzo said no more.

Anyway, the Root has already infiltrated the Rain Village, and Nagato is also a member of the Root.

……

Facing the simultaneous attacks of Water Style and Lightning Style, Uzumaki Kushina formed hand seals with a serious expression.

Bang bang bang!
Three shadow clones appeared, and then raised their right hands together, condensing the Wind Style Rasengan.

The shadow clone rushed forward and used the Wind Style Rasengan to counter Nagato's Lightning Style and Water Style.

This amount of chakra made the examiner, Koto Mumoku, envious.

Rumble!
Three wind-style Rasengan forcibly blasted the sweeping water back, and the electric light coming along the water was also blocked.

The shadow clones were released one after another, and under the control of Uzumaki Kushina, two diamond chains emerged from the bottom of the water and wrapped around Nagato on the surface of the water.

But the next moment, Nagato's body turned into a stream of water with a splash.

Uzumaki Kushina turned her eyes and saw Nagato emerging from the bottom of the water and rushing towards him at high speed from the side. She opened her mouth and spit out fire bombs one after another from the air.

The chains danced, exploding the flaming bombs one by one.

At this time, Nagato flew into the air, with a Rasengan condensed in each of his hands.

Uzumaki Kushina immediately dodged, and Nagato landed at the place where she was originally standing. Then he chased her like a shadow, and launched a continuous attack on Uzumaki Kushina with Rasengan in both hands.

Uzumaki Kushina defended herself with two diamond chains, retreating while forming seals with her hands.

Hypnosis!
Uzumaki Kushina has not yet fully mastered the Heavenly Dream Walker Technique and can only use her hypnotic abilities.

Nagato was immediately affected, his body froze, and a flaw immediately appeared, and his body was entangled by the diamond chain.

But in just a moment, Nagato came to his senses, dispersed the Rasengan, clasped his hands together, shouted loudly, and chakra burst out. A strong storm erupted from his body, and sharp wind blades cut on the diamond chain.

With a cracking sound, the diamond chain cracked and broke.

Uzumaki Kushina, who originally wanted to take the opportunity to deal with Nagato, was also blown away by the storm.

Nagato immediately formed seals with both hands at a rapid speed.

Water escapes, water rushes into waves!

Uzumaki Kushina, who had just landed, was submerged by the water before she could stabilize her body.

When the surging water stopped, Uzumaki Kushina had just emerged and an icy kunai was already on her neck.

In the stands, watching Uzumaki Kushina being defeated, Sarutobi Shinnosuke looked solemn: "He is really strong."

Watching Nagato skillfully use so many different jutsu, he almost felt like this guy was a younger version of his own father.

He even felt that Nagato was more like his father's son than himself.

It feels ridiculous.

Namikaze Minato said, "He's a ninja who can handle any situation with ease, just like the Third Hokage." Sarutobi Shinnosuke nodded, then looked at Hoshita Hide and asked, "Teacher Hide, has he even mastered earth escape?"

Hoshita Hide smiled and said, "I won't reveal that. It wouldn't be fair to Nagato."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke smiled awkwardly and didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Uzumaki Kushina was eliminated and the battle continued.

Two more games later, Minato's name appeared on the screen, followed by a name on the other side.

Nagato!

On both sides of Hoshita Hide, Namikaze Minato and Nagato looked at each other, and then disappeared from their original places together.

Uzumaki Kushina immediately shouted loudly: "Come on Minato, defeat this guy!"

On the other side, Yahiko and Konan also shouted together: "Come on, Nagato!"

Tsunade had returned to Xingxia Xiu by this time and said, "You have been the center of attention today!"

Hoshita Hide smiled and said, "Tsunade, you might also consider taking a disciple."

"That companion of Nawaki, Uzumaki Erika, is quite good."

"She's also from the Uzumaki clan."

Tsunade glanced at Uzumaki Erika beside her brother and said, "I'll think about it."

Next, with Mumu Gongdao's command, the battle began.

Nagato retreated and formed hand seals, but when he saw Minato Namikaze throwing a kunai, he immediately changed his mind and threw out his shuriken, which collided with Minato Namikaze's kunai.

The next moment, Minato Namikaze instantly appeared in front of Nagato and fired a Rasengan.

This is not Flying Thunder God, but a simple instant body movement technique.

Boom!

A big hole appeared on the ground. Nagato narrowly avoided the attack and realized that even if the person in front of him did not have the time-space teleportation technique, his speed was extremely amazing and it would be difficult for him to form a seal.

So Nagato gave up on forming hand seals and performing ninjutsu, and instead condensed the Rasengan and rushed forward, engaging in close combat with Minato Namikaze.

Taijutsu against Taijutsu, Rasengan against Rasengan.

But the two did not fight each other with Rasengan like Yahiko and Nawaki did before.

Instead, he looked for the opponent's weaknesses in the collision of physical skills.

However, although Nagato had superior physical strength, the difference in age and the difference in training time made his strength, speed, and physical combat experience far inferior to Minato Namikaze.

After more than ten rounds, Nagato was kicked away by Minato Namikaze, who then caught up with him and put a kunai on Nagato's neck.

The battle ended very quickly, beyond the expectations of most of the spectators.

Nagato performed very well just now, but in this battle, he seemed to have not shown his strength at all.

However, Minato Namikaze never used Flying Thunder God from beginning to end, but he seemed to defeat Nagato easily.

In the stands, Uzumaki Kushina jumped up, "Yeah!"

Xingxiaxiu said: "You all saw it, right?"

“Play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.”

"Minato made good use of his speed advantage, leaving Nagato no time to form hand seals."

"As for the competition of taijutsu, Nagato is far inferior to Minato."

Of course, Hoshita Hide knew very well that the reason why Nagato lost the initiative was because of Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God.

That is to say, it was to knock away Minato Namikaze's kunai.

Although Minato Namikaze did not use Flying Thunder God, Nagato, who knew that Minato Namikaze mastered the time and space instant body technique, was always on guard.

When Nagato and the others came back, Xingxia Xiu asked, "Nagato, if it happened again, how would you deal with it?"

Nagato immediately said: "Use earth jutsu or water jutsu to block Minato's kunai."

"My advantage is my mastery of ninjutsu. I should take the initiative from the beginning."

"Although this is difficult, after all, Minato is indeed much faster than me."

Xing Xiaxiu was very satisfied after hearing this.

(End of this chapter)