Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34436338-20180123200352/@comment-3568954-20180125092621

Nashikeine wrote: Actionmanrandell wrote:

that is not how Truth seeking balls work, they can negate ninjutsu. but only active ninjutsu. no part of gai's body touched the truth seeking ball, his blood aura was the only thing that touched and he bent time and space pushing it away from him.

also in the novels gai can still fight

TSB can negate ninjutsu, but they are also something no one without the Rikudo Chakra can touch. when Edo Minato had his hands severed, even his soul were missing them. if it can affect the soul, it damn well can affect the body. it is the reason why Minato staged the plan to help Gai when he was pounding Madara to get the TSB out of his way and see that Gai never touched it.

read the manga for what i am saying. i may be wrong, but carefully seeing the last panels of the previous page before Gai delivers the final blow it is at least clear to me that the TSB staff was in the way.

The blood aura did nothing. it was just an aura that resulted by Gai's blood evaporating. Gai bent the space the sheer speed which he moved and the pressure he developed. and the final blow was a straight forward kick.

for reference go to chapter 672 and read pages 9, 10, 11, 12

it didn't effect Minato's soul it effected the Edo Tensei. the Edo Tensei works by bonding the soul of an individual to a host body. it undid the part of the bonding where his arms existed. as such that part of his soul was no longer bonded to the edo tensei. so his arms went onto the pure world