Chapter 183: Ch.183 Time is Everything!
Uchiha Shinji ran while carrying the unconscious Naruto, carefully calculating the distance as he went. Given his current level of ocular power, the coverage range of "Jikibi" was only one hundred kilometers.
Under normal circumstances, that would have been enough.
But now, the five anchor points were scattered across various locations in the shinobi world, with some of them separated by multiple countries, and the straight-line distance between them could reach tens of thousands of kilometers.
Faced with such a vast distance, the one-hundred-kilometer coverage of "Jikibi" was somewhat insufficient.
Once the distance exceeded one hundred kilometers, Shinji would no longer be able to control Yugito, who had been put under his genjutsu, remotely through "Jikibi."
On the brink of the shinobi world's impending destruction, Yugito, as the Two-Tails Jinchūriki, was no longer of critical importance. Whether she was captured by the Akatsuki or rescued by the Cloud Village didn't matter to Shinji.
But before that, he had to ensure that the anchor point located in the original forest of the Land of Fire was destroyed. Now that the Allied Forces were tied down by Kokushibo and Nakime, Yugito was the only one left capable of destroying the anchor point.
So, he had to make sure Yugito completed the destruction of that anchor point before she moved out of Jikibi's range.
"If she gets close to that cave, I wonder if she'll get trapped in Nakime's Infinite Castle..."
Since he didn't know enough about the Infinite Castle and Yugito was his last resort at that anchor point, after weighing his options, Shinji decided to take the risk and have Yugito transform into her tailed beast form.
Then, with a "Tailed Beast Ball," she could destroy the anchor point from a distance.