Seeing this, Minato leaped into the air without hesitation to dodge the attack. As he jumped, his hands formed hand signs.
Because as he leaped into the air, the mud bullets from the Earth Dragon Bullet also followed him.
"Wind Release—Tornado Fist!"
He punched out the formless wind fist gathered in his hand, breaking the mud bullet attack of the Earth Dragon Bullet.
After landing on the ground, Minato once again used Lightning Release—Earth Runner.
Sparks of jumping electricity rushed towards Sano Inoue from the ground.
"Aaargh!"
A miserable scream came from Sano Inoue's mouth, making everyone worried for a moment, but it turned out to be another mud clone.
Minato frowned. Where did this guy hide again? He wasn't in the sky, nor was he anywhere around. Then he could only be underground.
Just as Minato was thinking this...
"Earth Release—Headhunter Jutsu!"
A pair of hands reached out from underground, then pulled Minato into the earth. Sano Inoue placed a kunai on Minato's head and smiled. "You lose."
Shikaku, who was in the audience, felt it was a great pity. There were only a few minutes left until the half-hour mark, and he had failed at this point.
That Genin was overjoyed. Serves you right for showing off. You didn't pass the assessment. So what if your strength is greater than mine? You're still not a ninja. I am a dignified ninja, even if I'm just a Genin.
But before he could voice his thoughts, a scene that suddenly appeared in the sky made his triumphant expression freeze.
"Is that so? I don't think so." Minato, who was in the earth, revealed a strange smile, and then with a "poof," he turned into smoke and disappeared. It was a Minato shadow clone.
"Nani? When did he create a shadow clone? I didn't see it!" Sano Inoue's pupils shrank. The scene before him was beyond his imagination.
"The battle isn't over yet. You can't let your guard down. Take this!" Minato's voice sounded from above Sano Inoue's head.
Sano Inoue formed hand signs while looking up and saw Minato descending from the air. In his right hand, a blue sphere of chakra was continuously rotating.
It was a ninjutsu he had never seen before, but from the sense of pressure it gave off, Sano Inoue was sure that this ninjutsu was definitely not ordinary.
He couldn't see it, but all the Jonin present, as well as Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi, saw it.
It was precisely because they saw it that they were horrified. Because they discovered that Minato's ninjutsu didn't require any hand signs. This meant... this meant that this ninjutsu was a hand-sign-less ninjutsu.
How could this not be shocking? They had witnessed the creation of the Rasengan from nothing.
"Jiraiya, have you seen this ninjutsu before?" Hiruzen Sarutobi stared intently at the Rasengan in Minato's hand and then asked Jiraiya.
"I don't know either. Minato didn't tell me," Jiraiya blinked, indicating that he had no idea.
"What kind of teacher are you? You don't even know what your own student is capable of," Hiruzen Sarutobi was so frustrated he almost coughed up blood.
"You can't blame me. I've been fighting on the front lines all these years, and I haven't been back in the last year. How would I know where he got this ninjutsu from?"
Jiraiya spread his hands and cried out in protest.
Hiruzen Sarutobi heard this and felt it made sense. No, after the graduation exam was over, he had to ask Minato what was going on. It wasn't what it looked like; it was a no-hand-sign ninjutsu, with the hand signs hidden.
But Hiruzen Sarutobi was more inclined to believe the former. He didn't believe Minato could hide his hand signs right under his nose.
...
"Earth Release—Earth-Style Wall!"
With a roar from Sano Inoue, a wall rose from the ground and enveloped him. In the end, even the top of his head was not spared, completely surrounding him and turning him into a square block of earth.
"Bloom, Rasengan!"
Facing the defense of the Earth-Style Wall, Minato did not stop his attack. Instead, he roared and slammed the Rasengan fiercely into the Earth-Style Wall.
"Boom!"
The powerful rotational force of the Rasengan caused a huge explosion upon contact with the Earth-Style Wall.
But Minato did not retreat. He maintained his chakra input without hesitation, gradually disintegrating the Earth-Style Wall. Finally, he broke through it and pressed the Rasengan at Sano Inoue's feet.
He didn't dare to press it on Sano Inoue's body, or else he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die. This was just an assessment; there was no need to be so heavy-handed.
"Boom!"
As the Rasengan hit the ground, a circular crater with a radius of 5 meters immediately appeared at their feet, and the Earth-Style Wall completely collapsed.
After the smoke cleared, Sano Inoue and Minato were revealed.
Minato was only slightly out of breath, and his clothes were relatively clean, with only some dust on them.
As for Sano Inoue, he was in a rather embarrassing state. He was a complete mess, especially when the Rasengan had just brushed past him. He had thought he was done for.
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