A weird atmosphere began to spread rapidly.
The Ninja Village Alliance side began to spread out their formation, faintly surrounding the Akatsuki members, while the Akatsuki members also put on a posture of getting ready for a big fight.
And just as the two sides were at daggers drawn and about to start fighting.
In the center of the battlefield, Tanjiro, heavily bound by the sealing formulas of 'Wood Release' and 'Four Symbols Seal', suddenly burst out with a violent chakra fluctuation from his body.
"This?"
"How is this possible!?"
"Su... such strong chakra!"
The surrounding ninjas were shocked simultaneously.
The scale of chakra Tanjiro burst out at this moment far exceeded the level of ordinary ninjas and was continuously strengthening. In a blink of an eye, it approached the level of a fully erupted Jinchuriki.
Yakumo exclaimed: "Bad, he's going to break free!"
As Tanjiro burst out terrifying chakra, both 'Wood Release' and 'Four Symbols Seal' sealing formulas showed signs of loosening.
This was under the condition that Yakumo was maintaining it with full force regardless of chakra consumption. Otherwise, Tanjiro would have already broken free.
The injured Ranmaru shouted: "Must stop him!"
Unlike others who just broke into 'Infinity Castle', the ninjas who had fought Tanjiro before knew the wickedness of this 'Upper Rank One'. So intuition told them it was safer to eliminate this demon first before turning against each other.
Hidan complained while stabbing himself fiercely with ninja tools: "Easier said than done, how to stop?"
Ryuzetsu, Chino, and Kakuzu were already forced back by the air wave set off when Tanjiro burst out chakra. Let alone stopping, it was even difficult to approach Tanjiro.
In the distance.
Seeing 'Upper Rank One', bound by Yakumo's 'Wood Release' and 'Four Symbols Seal', actually able to break free by bursting chakra, the ninjas who just broke into 'Infinity Castle' were all dumbfounded.
Thus, the two sides at daggers drawn temporarily put aside the plan to turn hostile immediately.
Several sealing squads in the Ninja Village Alliance quickly stepped forward, trying to apply more seals to completely suppress 'Upper Rank One' before Yakumo's binding on 'Upper Rank One' completely failed.
However, before they could activate the sealing jutsu, Tanjiro, almost completely wrapped in escaping chakra, just waved his hand casually. The 'Wood Release' that could tightly bind him before all broke like dry branches at this moment.
Not only 'Wood Release', even the ink-colored sealing formulas of 'Four Symbols Seal' were all corroded by the fierce chakra.
Hiruko's face sank: "This is impossible!"
Sasori also said: "Something's wrong, there seems to be more than just chakra on him!"
Yakumo, Ranmaru, Ryuzetsu, and Chino, who were closer, felt it deeper. As biological instinct, intuition was frantically reminding them to stay away from the monster in front of them immediately!
And in the center of the chakra storm, Tanjiro looked cold.
His purpose for this trip was not to start a full-scale war with the Ninja World. His target had always been Muku, the last 'Demon' in the Ninja World besides him!
Only by absorbing Muku could he push his own strength to the peak.
However, he obviously underestimated the power of ninjas. Unexpectedly, at the last moment of absorption, he was not only interrupted by ninjas but even imprisoned and sealed himself.
Although his body and mind were corroded by the Hegemon's power, Tanjiro still retained his own memory and corresponding intelligence.
So based on his understanding of the Ninja World, if he didn't explode at this time, he might really die at the hands of these ninjas.
For this, he didn't hesitate to ignite himself with the Hegemon's power!
This was a weird method of turning oneself into fuel.
The Hegemon's power was far higher than the flesh and blood power and chakra he obtained by devouring creatures in the Ninja World. So using the Hegemon's power could easily ignite the flesh and blood power and chakra in his body, making these two forces burst out with full power in a short time.
So Sasori's judgment was correct. What lingered on Tanjiro at this time, besides completely ignited chakra, was also the equally completely ignited flesh and blood power belonging to Demons!
"Be careful everyone, his power is still rising!"
Yakumo exclaimed loudly.
Perhaps even she didn't notice, in just a short warning, her voice couldn't stop trembling.
Others didn't notice the abnormality in Yakumo's voice because everyone was the same, shocked by the scene in front of them.
And in just a short while, the scale of chakra escaping from Tanjiro had completely surpassed the level of Jinchuriki. These dark red chakras lingering around him were like substance, resembling blood and mist!
Ranmaru reacted abruptly and shouted loudly: "Quick, take Muku away, his target is Muku!"
Strum...
Just then, with an ear-piercing biwa sound, the surrounding space suddenly turned upside down disorderly.
Streets and houses were no longer distributed orderly. Some courtyards were upside down together, some long streets intertwined with each other. The sense of space and direction of everyone in it was completely destroyed in an instant. Everyone was dizzy, even unable to distinguish up, down, left, and right in a trance.
Undoubtedly.
The previous Tanjiro disdained using 'Infinity Castle', but now it was different. To fuse Muku as soon as possible, he stopped at nothing.
And as he activated the space displacement ability of 'Infinity Castle', Muku in the distance was transferred in front of him.
He grinned ferociously and reached out his arm towards Muku. With his current peak state of burning full body chakra and flesh and blood power, fusing Muku wouldn't take much time at all.
Boom...
But at the moment Tanjiro's hand touched Muku, Muku's body swelled rapidly. Then, the flames of explosion burst through Muku's body, forming a blast of fire, instantly swallowing both Muku and Tanjiro.
The huge explosion overturned everything around. The complex and chaotic space nearby was cleared by the shockwave of the explosion.
Undoubtedly, this was the clay bomb Deidara planted inside Muku being detonated.
Taking advantage of the gap created by the big explosion, ninjas moved to various places in 'Infinity Castle' by space gathered rapidly following the sound of the explosion. A chaotic melee surpassing the scale just now broke out again.
On one side were a full eight Akatsuki members including Itachi, Juzo Biwa, Sasori, Deidara, Hiruko, Ranmaru, Kakuzu, and Hidan.
On the other side were elite Jonin like Kakashi and Guy, plus the Ninja Village Alliance composed of geniuses from various villages like Yakumo, Ryuzetsu, Chino, Gaara, Kurotsuchi, etc.
In this upside-down and disordered space, this great battle proceeded with unprecedented cruelty!