Chapter 300: Isshiki's Sneak Attack, Majestic Attire Nine-Tails
No probing, no words. The two existences, among the strongest of the Tailed Beasts, began the most primitive of brawls next to the ruins of the mountain-built palace!
"BOOM—!!!"
The Eight-Tails' giant octopus tentacles struck first! One of them, wreathed in violent Lightning Release chakra, like a giant steel whip carrying the force of ten thousand thunderbolts, tore through the air with a dazzling blue-white electric light, lashing fiercely at the Nine-Tails' side! The air was whipped into a deafening sonic boom!
The Nine-Tails' reaction was as fast as lightning! Its massive body displayed incredible agility. It suddenly turned sideways, its front claws burning with crimson-gold flames, meeting the attack head-on with a sharp sound of tearing space!
"SCREEECH—!!!"
The sharp claws and the lightning-wreathed tentacle collided violently! A piercing friction sound and the roar of annihilating energy resounded through the clouds! The lightning was forcefully torn apart and devoured by the crimson-gold flames, but the terrifyingly huge force from the tentacle also made the Nine-Tails' massive body stagger slightly. The tips of its claws carved several scorched black wounds deep enough to see the bone on the tough surface of the tentacle, and foul-smelling, dark-blue blood sprayed out like a waterfall!
"MOO—!" Gyūki roared in pain. Its other three tentacles, like poisonous pythons, snaked towards the Nine-Tails' four limbs and neck from different angles at lightning speed! At the same time, its giant bull's head suddenly lowered. The giant horn, capable of collapsing a mountain peak, was wreathed in deep red Eight-Tails chakra, like a burning comet, and rammed hard towards the Nine-Tails' chest!
A fierce light exploded in the Nine-Tails' eyes! It did not retreat but advanced instead. Four giant fox tails, burning with flames, whipped out like nimble snakes, accurately wrapping around the three attacking octopus tentacles. The crimson-gold flames instantly ignited the surface of the tentacles, emitting a sizzling sound and the smell of burnt flesh! The other three fox tails, like battering rams, with the momentum of toppling mountains and overturning seas, whipped hard on the side of Gyūki's ramming giant horn!
"DONG!!! DONG!!! DONG!!!"
The dull, thunderous sounds, like the beating of a heavenly drum, were incessant! Each whip-strike exploded with a large cluster of crimson-gold and deep red interwoven energy sparks! Gyūki's charge was forcefully deflected. The giant horn scraped past the Nine-Tails' burning fur, bringing up a shower of sparks like a prairie fire! The Nine-Tails was also pushed back by that huge impact, its sharp claws plowing several terrifying, bottomless trenches in the ground. The rubble was thrown into the high sky like a volcanic eruption!
Naruto, inside the Nine-Tails, formed a seal. A ball of golden chakra suddenly expanded above the heads of the Land of Lightning's commoners below, transforming into a shield wall that perfectly blocked the giant stones falling from the sky!
"Lord Immortal Fox!" Seeing this scene, the common people of the Land of Lightning below once again erupted in cheers. At this time, the Cloud Village ninjas in the city also began to step forward, wanting to suppress these troublemakers who were cheering for the enemy.
However, the long-term oppression had already pushed the people of the Land of Lightning to the brink of eruption. The initial heavy taxes and the requisition of labor and materials at the beginning of the retreat to the Lightning Capital, they had endured. But not long ago, this group of damned Cloud ninjas had forcibly requisitioned their stored grain, which undoubtedly became the last straw that broke their backs.
"The good days for you ninjas are over! After the Fox Immortal defeats that evil bull-headed octopus, he will not let you go!" a commoner with a bit more courage roared at the Cloud ninja in front of him.
"You damn commoners, are you trying to betray the country?" this Cloud ninja immediately cursed. "Look clearly, that nine-tailed demon fox is no immortal fox, but Konoha's Nine-Tails. Right now, Lord Killer Bee and Lord Gyūki are protecting His Highness the Daimyō!"
"Hmph, he is indeed protecting His Highness the Daimyō, but that Lord Immortal Fox is protecting us!" this person said, pointing at the golden defensive shield wall above their heads that was blocking the falling rocks for them.
"And so what if Lord Immortal Fox is from Konoha? I've heard that the people in the places now occupied by Konoha are living much better lives than before!" this commoner of the Land of Lightning roared without a shred of fear, looking at the kunai that the other party had already drawn.
"Come on! Kill me! My son has already been worked to death by you as a laborer! You might as well kill me too! The Fox Immortal will avenge me later!"
The Cloud ninja who was confronted had a fierce look flash across his face. He raised his kunai and stabbed it at this troublemaker who didn't know life from death.
However, in the next instant, a golden light suddenly fell from the shield wall above, protecting the commoner. The attacking ninja, not reacting in time, stabbed his kunai into the shield wall, and the recoil from it directly sent him flying far away.
"Lord Immortal Fox is still protecting us!" The surrounding commoners, upon seeing this, immediately cheered with joy!
"You dare to be distracted while fighting me?" Gyūki gritted its teeth at this time.
"Do I need to use my full strength to beat you?" the Nine-Tails grinned. This feeling of being surrounded by the admiration of countless people made him secretly pleased, and he beat up Gyūki even more smoothly.
Gyūki was also very puzzled. Although Kurama was indeed the most favored among them, the Tailed Beasts, by the Sage of Six Paths, the current Nine-Tails' chakra reserves were half less than its peak. But why was it still at a disadvantage?
"ROAR—!" After the Nine-Tails punched Gyūki back, it suddenly opened its bloody maw, and a destructive black point rapidly condensed in the depths of its throat! A Tailed Beast Ball! At the same time, Naruto inside the Nine-Tails also injected Sage Art chakra into this Tailed Beast Ball.
Gyūki's single eye shrank abruptly! This Tailed Beast Ball, which looked anything but ordinary, made its beastly instincts scream with alarm. Its huge octopus lower body suddenly contracted, and its eight tentacles, like giant springs, instantly burst out with unimaginable power, pushing its massive, mountain-like body to dodge sideways at an incredible speed! At the same time, its huge bull mouth also suddenly opened, and a stream of viscous, pitch-black ink, exuding a pungent and foul smell, like a bursting black torrent, spewed out towards the Nine-Tails!
"BOOM—!!!"
The Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball grazed past Gyūki's rapidly dodging body and shot into the distant sea of clouds, instantly detonating! A ball of light, bigger and more dazzling than before, rose in the depths of the clouds, illuminating half the sky as if it were day. The terrifying shockwave shattered more than half of the large cliff below!
And almost at the same time, that pitch-black torrent of ink also poured hard onto the Nine-Tails! The ink had extremely strong adhesion and corrosiveness, and also carried a strange energy that interfered with perception! The crimson-gold flames burning on the surface of the Nine-Tails' body were instantly suppressed and dimmed, emitting a sizzling wail. Its huge body was pushed back again by this viscous and heavy ink, its movements clearly stagnating for a moment!
"ROAR—!" Gyūki seized this fleeting opportunity! Its three tentacles, which had been entangled by the fox tails, suddenly exerted force, its muscles bulging, and forcefully broke free from the burning and binding of the flames, bringing with it large patches of scorched flesh! At the same time, its massive, mountain-like octopus body pounced forward. The remaining five tentacles, like an inescapable net, with a violent and huge force, viciously twisted towards the ink-covered and movement-impaired Nine-Tails from all directions! It was going to use the most primitive and savage force to completely imprison the other!
A light flashed in the Nine-Tails' golden cross-pupil, which was covered in ink! It felt the fatal crushing force, but instead of being afraid, it was aroused to a deeper ferocity!
"ROOOOAR—!!!!"
A soul-tearing roar erupted from the Nine-Tails' ink-covered mouth! The ocean-like Nine-Tails chakra in its body completely boiled and burned with an unprecedentedly violent posture! The ink covering its body was forcefully pushed away and evaporated by the suddenly erupting, tangible crimson-gold chakra flame! Its nine giant fox tails, like ignited flame storms, danced and expanded crazily, forcefully holding back the five crushing giant tentacles!
It gave up its defense, its huge head roared to the sky, and then it bit forward fiercely! Its fangs, like towering giant blades, bit hard at Gyūki's thick, shell-covered neck!
Crimson-gold and deep red, flames and lightning, claws and tentacles, fangs and giant horns! The two ancient beasts, on the shattered floating rock platform, between the churning sea of clouds and the falling giant rocks, began the most primitive, most savage, and most earth-shattering physical brawl! Every collision was like stars colliding, every roar made the heavens and the earth tremble! The entire Lightning Capital trembled in this world-destroying battle of giants!
After just a few short minutes, the teetering Daimyō's palace collapsed with a boom.
As for whether the Daimyō of the Land of Lightning was dead or alive at this point, no one cared anymore.
Gyūki's giant, dark-red body trembled violently in the Nine-Tails' violent, crimson-gold storm, steadily retreating! Each collision brought a mountain-collapsing, earth-shattering impact. The ruins of the palace under their feet constantly crumbled and collapsed like brittle biscuits.
"ROAR—!" The Nine-Tails roared. One of its giant tails, burning with crimson-gold flames, like a whip of heavenly punishment, carrying a whistle that tore through space, whipped hard on one of Gyūki's giant tentacles that was trying to block!
"CRACK—SPLAT!"
A teeth-grinding sound of bone cracking, accompanied by the dull thud of tearing flesh! The tough tentacle, wreathed in Lightning Release chakra, was actually snapped! Dark-blue blood gushed out like a bursting torrent, the broken end was scorched black, emitting a pungent green smoke! Gyūki let out an extremely painful roar, its massive body staggering backwards from this terrifying force!
The Nine-Tails pressed its advantage, not letting up! Two other burning fox tails, like lightning, stabbed at Gyūki's chest and abdomen, which were exposed due to the intense pain! At the same time, its huge head once again opened its bloody maw, and the destructive black point of light in the depths of its throat rapidly condensed, its target aimed straight at Gyūki's single crimson eye, which was constricting violently in pain and shock! An aura of death, like a cold tide, instantly drowned Gyūki!
For the first time, a look of horror flashed in Gyūki's single eye. Its remaining tentacles waved frantically, trying to block that fatal stab, but the intense pain of its severed limb made it struggle to cope! Just as that fatal Tailed Beast Ball was about to erupt, and it had no way to avoid it—
At this critical moment!
Time seemed to have been paused.
Space, without any warning, rippled strangely. At the center of that ripple, right above the Nine-Tails' ferocious head, a figure appeared, silent and without a sound.
The figure floating in mid-air, his posture was elegant to the point of indifference. His pale skin had an inhuman luster under the residual light of the explosion. On his forehead grew a strange horn. What was most striking was his pair of eyes—the black and white eyes flashed with a strange cold light, and several black tomoe surrounded the pupils. He was coldly looking down at the rampaging Nine-Tails below, as if looking down on a crazed ant.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
He didn't even glance at the nearly defeated Gyūki below, as if it were just an insignificant background rock. His right hand was casually raised, his palm facing down, aimed at the Nine-Tails' huge head, which was in the process of condensing a Tailed Beast Ball.
"Be careful, Big Brother Kurama!" Naruto, seeing this, hurriedly reminded.
"Almighty Pull."
There was no sound, but an irresistible, incomprehensible, and as if originating from the very rules of the world itself, terrifying suction force suddenly descended!
"Wha—?!"
The Nine-Tails' action of condensing the Tailed Beast Ball was instantly interrupted! Its massive, burning body suddenly stiffened, as if its throat had been throttled by an invisible giant hand! What was even more terrifying was that the Nine-Tails chakra in its body, which was like a vast ocean, was at this moment, like a bursting flood, uncontrollably and frantically surging towards Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's palm!
"The jutsu that absorbs chakra... Big Brother Kurama! Hold on!" Naruto, seeing this, gritted his teeth and began to condense natural energy, infusing it into the Nine-Tails' chakra that was being stripped and extracted.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's brow furrowed. Although the natural energy entering his body couldn't harm him, it also caused him considerable trouble. So he stopped the absorption and said indifferently, "Stubbornly resisting."
His free left hand, silently and without a sound, was raised.
A thin, long spike, as black as ink and flashing with the cold luster of metal—a Yin-Yang Release Black Rod—instantly formed at his fingertip! That black rod was wreathed in the purest, destructive energy sufficient to obliterate the very source of chakra!
Just as that cold, destructive energy was about to erupt from Isshiki's palm—
"SWISH—!!!"
A sharp whistle that tore through the air, with a speed that made the soul tremble, arrived in an instant from the distant horizon! It was not a physical entity, but a giant arrow composed purely of condensed to the extreme, black-purple lightning! The trajectory of the arrow's flight created a continuous sonic boom in the air!
"Indra's Arrow!"
This arrow was not aimed at Isshiki himself, but at his left hand, which he had just raised to finish off Naruto!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eternally indifferent expression finally showed a slight ripple, as if somewhat surprised by this sudden, precise snipe. His raised left hand had to instantly change its trajectory. His five fingers spread open, and a dark light flared up in his palm!
The purple arrow suddenly disappeared less than three feet from Isshiki's palm.
Although he had blocked this arrow, Isshiki's action of finishing off Naruto was also forcefully interrupted! His indifferent gaze for the first time truly turned in the direction the arrow had come from.
(End of chapter)
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