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Chapter 290 Opening of the Space-Time Rift

Minato Namikaze scratched his face and chuckled, "Let's not talk about that now. These three are plotting something sinister; it seems we'll have to arrest them and hand them over to the Queen for interrogation."

However, at that moment, an unexpected event occurred.

The spy ninja heard the commotion and discovered the whereabouts of Minato Namikaze and his group.

He immediately jumped back and shouted urgently to the other two, "Something's wrong! Someone's here!"

Knowing his whereabouts had been exposed, Minato Namikaze stopped hiding and appeared before the three with his disciples. He immediately commanded, "I'll deal with the spy. You two capture the other two."

That's right, the spy from Sunagakure was a Jonin.

The three conspirators never expected that their plan would be exposed so quickly.

The two men, who were skilled in combat, immediately drew their weapons to fight back, but who would have thought that the Jonin spy would be dealt with by Minato Namikaze in just a few moves.

Even the strongest man in their country couldn't beat the boy with a family crest of a billiard paddle painted on his body.

Mir was terrified and broke out in a cold sweat. She turned to run away, but was quickly stopped by a boy and a girl.

"Hey sir, where are you going?" Asuma asked with a smile, toying with the chakra metal sword in his hand.

"Hahaha, Queen, I knew you were here! Come out! Did you already discover my secret, just waiting to deliver the final blow at the crucial moment? You think you've won? No, you haven't!"

Knowing he couldn't escape, Mir recalled the barrier and seal that Queen Loulan had set up in advance to prevent the ley lines from completely erupting. For this, the queen's niece had paid a considerable price.

Since there's no escaping it, let's go completely insane!

With this thought in mind, he suddenly pushed over the stone pillar and ripped off the sealing talisman paper on it.

"Hahaha! Destroy them all! Destroy them all! If I can't have this country, no one else can. This is the country I created!"

Before he finished speaking, the earth's veins surged violently.

He was swept into the sky by a violent gust of air, his body instantly devoured by energy, turning into dust without even leaving a single intact bone.

Minato Namikaze shouted, "Watch out!"

"Flying Thunder God!"

After shouting, he quickly flashed to his disciple's side.

"Mir." Seth's eyes widened, and he instinctively took a step back, but his feet were tripped by a crack that suddenly appeared. He fell into the red and gray light and was instantly swallowed up.

Fortunately, Uchiha Mori, who had suppressed him, reacted quickly enough to escape the radiation zone.

On the other side, Asma knelt on the ground, his face drained of all color.

He was so nervous that he couldn't make a sound.

He knew that if Minato Namikaze had intervened in time to save them, they would be the ones reduced to dust now.

"That was close!" Kurenai Yuhi exclaimed, clutching her chest.

At the same time, the reddish-gray air currents spread, and the sound of the sealing spell shattering rang out one after another, and the patterns on dozens of stone towers went out one after another.

Fortunately, the energy is no longer as violent as it was during its first eruption, but it is still on the verge of destroying everything.

"Not good!" Minato Namikaze's voice rang out once again amidst the tremors.

He shoved the Sunagakure spy at Uchiha Mori: "Keep an eye on him!"

Then he leaped up and charged toward the core of the dragon vein seal.

Minato landed at the edge of the seal's core, his hands rapidly forming hand seals.

"Sealing Technique: Four Symbols -"

But he didn't finish the marriage.

A deep rumble came from the depths of the dragon vein, as if something had awakened.

The reddish-gray power suddenly contracted, then spread outwards with even greater ferocity.

Minato was forced to retreat to the side of the three, protecting his face with one hand and grabbing the closest person, Red, with the other, pulling her behind him.

Asuma and Uchiha Mamoru each protected the people around them, but everyone was forced to retreat by this force.

"The seal is broken." Minato Namikaze frowned deeply. "If this continues, the dragon vein will go completely berserk, and the entire Loulan will cease to exist. We must find a way to stop it!"

However, he didn't finish his sentence.

Before them, at the core of the dragon vein seal, a blood-red vortex appeared. The vortex spun faster and deeper, and at its deepest point, something seemed to be rising upwards.

That was actually a projection of a giant centipede!

Then came another burst of laughter, as if someone was carrying a huge creature, breaking through space and squeezing in this direction.

"What... what's going on?!" Sarutobi Asuma exclaimed, his mouth agape in surprise.

No one answered him, because they were all shocked. Even Uchiha Mamoru, who rarely showed any expression, now had a solemn look on his face.

"Teacher, I don't know either, but you should leave now. What happens next is not something you can get involved in." Minato Namikaze took a deep breath and formed hand seals again.

"Asma, Hong, Shou. Take him away from here and go to the surface to inform the Loulan royal family to immediately evacuate the palace and surrounding area."

"What about you, teacher?" Asma asked urgently.

"I'll stay." Minato Namikaze didn't turn around; his gaze remained fixed on the center of the whirlpool. "Seal off as many as we can. At least... buy some time for evacuation."

"But--"

"Asuma." Minato Namikaze's voice suddenly hardened, as if reprimanding a child who had done something wrong: "This is an order."

Asma gritted his teeth, his eyes slightly red, but he ultimately said nothing more.

He gripped the chakra metal sword tightly, nodded vigorously, and turned to run towards the exit. Kurenai and Uchiha Mamoru followed closely behind, with Uchiha Mamoru dragging along the dazed-looking spy.

As the four figures disappeared at the entrance of the underground passage, Minato Namikaze finally breathed a slight sigh of relief and refocused his attention on the Dragon Vein Seal.

After all, these children are the future of Konoha, and he would be held responsible for the loss of any one of them.

"Now it's time to deal with you properly. By the way, who exactly are you?"

The figure in the vortex did not respond, because there was an unknown amount of time and space between them. Minato Namikaze was unaware of this and then stepped into it.

Just after he entered the spacetime vortex, two more figures descended the tower and entered the spacetime rift.

In fact, they had arrived a minute earlier, but had been hiding in the shadows and had not shown themselves to meet them. But no matter how hard they tried to hide, what was meant to happen would eventually happen.

This is their only chance to return to the future, so they have no choice but to go.

Just after the two entered, three more figures appeared beside the space-time rift.

It was Aburame Shisei and his group. In fact, they arrived much earlier than Namikaze Minato and his group, and even earlier than the young man, but they just hid in the shadows and did not interfere.