After that, he turned around and looked at the Dragon Vein, "Alright, Naruto, Yamato, let's go."
At this moment, Naruto's heart was filled with reluctance. He slowly walked up to his father Minato, lowered his voice, and began talking to him, as if there were many things in his heart that he wanted to say.
Yamato, standing off to the side, respectfully bowed to Minato and softly said his farewell.
At this time, Minato spoke gently, "Let me see you off one last time, Lord Rengoku."
Rengoku did not pay much attention to Minato's kindness. He simply stepped forward, picked up the sealed Anrokuzan, and walked straight toward the south of the city without looking back.
Along the way, relying on the keen perception of the Kagura Mind's Eye, Rengoku sensed an abnormally powerful and vast flow of chakra surging beneath the ground.
There was no doubt about it. That was where the Dragon Vein lay.
Before long, Rengoku smoothly led Minato and the others, including Naruto and Yamato, to a place that looked like an altar.
After arriving at their destination, Rengoku casually tossed Anrokuzan aside, then immediately began to carefully examine the seal in front of him.
Minato only took a quick glance at the seal and understood in his heart.
Although the seal here could not be called simple, for someone with Rengoku's level of ability, undoing it was naturally no problem at all.
So Minato wisely chose to remain silent, not saying another word so as not to interfere with Rengoku's actions.
Taking advantage of this last bit of time, he instructed Naruto, "Naruto, next I'm going to use a sealing formula to seal all of your memories."
Naruto's eyes were instantly filled with shock and confusion, but he did not interrupt his father.
"If I successfully change history, then after everything is settled, I will release this seal for you."
Then he added, "If during that time your memories are unfortunately erased, don't worry. I still have the memory sphere Lord Rengoku left behind to help you restore your memories."
Naruto stood there blankly. This experience had dealt an unprecedented blow to his worldview, outlook on life, and values.
Even now, his mind was still in complete chaos, all kinds of thoughts tangled together, making it impossible for him to sort them out.
However, deep down in his heart, an instinctive feeling surged up. It was a deep reluctance to part with his father.
"Dad…"
Naruto's lips trembled as he spoke only those two words, his eyes already slightly red.
Minato smiled gently, reached out, and lightly stroked the top of Naruto's head as he said softly, "Don't worry, my child. We'll meet again very soon."
Naruto nodded hard. Even though tears were welling up in his eyes,
he still tried his best to put on a strong front and replied, "Mm."
Just then, Rengoku's voice came from not far away, "It's time to go, Naruto!"
Rengoku rapidly formed hand seals with both hands. In an instant, countless Four Symbols Seal runes surged out from within his body like a tidal wave.
At the same time, Anrokuzan's body suddenly burst forth with dazzling white light, so intense it was almost impossible to look at directly.
Immediately after, the light scattered in all directions like shattered glass, spinning as it drilled straight down into the Dragon Vein underground, disappearing without a trace.
At that very instant, Rengoku suddenly reached out and crushed Anrokuzan to death.
At the same time, brilliant white light suddenly flared up around Naruto and Yamato.
Seeing this, Minato quickly formed hand seals. Countless Four Symbols Seal runes glowing with strange light shot rapidly toward Naruto's and Yamato's minds.
Naruto immediately felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. The memories on his side began to recede like a tide, gradually becoming blurred.
Even so, he still used the last bit of strength he had and shouted loudly, "Dad! I'll wait for you!"
Before his words even finished, accompanied by a flash of intense light, Naruto's and Yamato's figures vanished without a trace.
As for Rengoku himself, he had not come here together with Naruto.
If he wanted to leave this place, he had to rely on controlling the mysterious Dragon Vein.
At this moment, he stood in place, completely focused, his hands continuously forming seals at high speed.
One rune after another poured endlessly out of his body and precisely sank into the Dragon Vein.
These runes guided the power of the Dragon Vein in an extremely gentle way, slowly releasing it.
The Dragon Vein, originally underground in the form of flowing energy, was affected by the runes and began to rotate, spinning faster and faster.
As time passed, the energy within the Dragon Vein gradually condensed into a solid form, creating a massive vortex.
Immediately after, a subtle yet powerful energy current quietly rose up and wrapped itself precisely around Rengoku's body.
Rengoku immediately closed his eyes, held his breath, and focused all of his attention on carefully sensing this Dragon Vein energy.
However, what he never expected was that the Dragon Vein actually possessed an extremely simple form of consciousness.
Although it could not express complete sentences clearly like a human, Rengoku could distinctly feel a sense of joy bursting forth from within it.
While Rengoku was fully focused on continuously communicating with the Dragon Vein, the Dragon Vein, which had originally been quietly dormant, actually began to slowly wriggle.
Beneath the altar, a gigantic hollow stretching straight down for several thousand meters suddenly appeared.
At this very moment, this vast and deep space was completely flooded with dense purple energy.
That purple energy surged upward toward the altar above like raging waves, endlessly pouring forth.
At the same time, the power of the Dragon Vein was fully activated and mobilized.
As the Dragon Vein rapidly spun and churned, an enormous and majestic purple vortex suddenly formed before Rengoku's eyes, quickly wrapping around him and pulling him inside.
At the moment he was about to be swallowed by the vortex, Rengoku suddenly turned his head and looked deeply at Minato, "I'll leave this time-space to you."
As he spoke, the corner of his mouth lifted slightly, revealing a faint smile.
Seeing this, Minato hurriedly bowed deeply to Rengoku and said with heartfelt gratitude, "Thank you very much, Lord Rengoku!"
Rengoku let out a light laugh, and before the sound had even faded, a thunderous roar rang out as the Dragon Vein broke through the barrier of space-time, and Rengoku's figure instantly disappeared without a trace.
Minato steadied himself and quickly walked to the edge of the altar, looking down, only to see that the Dragon Vein here had already vanished.
Akimichi Choza and Aburame Shibi, standing behind him, exchanged a glance, then asked in unison, "Minato, what do you plan to do next?"
Minato pondered for a moment, then replied with a solemn expression, "To avoid you unintentionally causing unpredictable effects on history, I need to seal your memories."
Hearing this, Akimichi Choza and Aburame Shibi nodded without the slightest hesitation, expressing their agreement, "Alright, then do as you say. Go ahead, Minato."
So Minato formed hand seals with both hands. One mysterious and complex rune after another shot out from his fingertips and sank into the foreheads of Akimichi Choza and Aburame Shibi.
Choza and Shibi had no objections. They had originally planned to become loyal followers from the start.
As long as Minato became the Fourth Hokage, it would bring huge benefits to their clans.
Whether their memories were sealed or not did not really matter.
Minato continued forming seals, and circles of sealing techniques flew into the two men's minds.
All memories related to Uchiha Rengoku gradually began to fade away.
Minato naturally knew that the two of them intended to seek benefits for their clans.
But in his own plans, he was actually preparing to give up the position of Fourth Hokage.
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