Chapter 208: Tailed Beast Bomb!
BOOM!!!
Accompanied by a deafening roar and earth-shaking tremors, the Three-Tails Isobu, frantically rolling to crush everything, finally crashed heavily at the foot of a great mountain.
The massive impact force made the entire mountain range tremble violently.
Countless shattered stones rolled down from the mountain body.
Its enormous and disheveled body finally stopped rolling.
The Three-Tails Isobu unfurled its curled body, extending its thick legs covered in grayish-white hard shells from the shell. Like giant pillars, they deeply rooted into the already devastated and cracked ground, attempting to steady its form.
Its single eye, filled with ferocious bloodshot veins, tensely and rapidly scanned back and forth in the area ahead that it had crushed into mud-like mush.
Trying to find the human who brought it endless pain.
On its back shell, the terrifying hole pierced by lava, and the internally scorched chakra flesh, were slowly healing visibly under the tailed beast’s powerful vitality.
Newly formed shell tissue wriggled like tendrils of flesh, while tailed beast chakra filled the gaps like adhesive.
However, that soul-deep burning pain could not be easily erased.
It continued to gnaw at its nerves like a maggot in the bone.
“Huff… roar…”
The Three-Tails Isobu anxiously and restlessly clawed at the ground ahead with its pair of sturdy forelimbs, easily hurling rocks and soil flying.
It panted heavily, the scorching white vapor it exhaled like small whirlwinds, blowing dust everywhere below.
As if only this could alleviate the omnipresent agony.
And it was at this moment—
The Fourth Mizukage Yagura Karatachi, still embedded on the Three-Tails Isobu’s head, seemed to have shared the ultimate pain with the tailed beast. His brows furrowed in pain, eyelashes trembling slightly, and he hazily opened his tightly shut eyes after a long time.
He let out an unconscious groan,
His gaze somewhat dazed, subconsciously looking around at this purgatory-like battlefield, then lowering his head to look at his own lower body fused with the tailed beast.
Yagura Karatachi’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter, as if realizing something.
Suddenly!
His mental will was struck hard by an invisible heavy hammer!
It buzzed into extreme haze.
The real scene before his eyes instantly distorted and shifted.
The sky seemed splashed with a layer of viscous blood color, a gigantic round blood moon emitting ominous red light hanging upside down in the heavens.
No! That wasn’t a moon at all!
Looking closely, it was clearly a massive, slowly rotating, intricately demonic Mangekyo Sharingan pattern covering the entire sky!
That giant eye coldly and indifferently overlooked him.
As if scrutinizing a tiny insect!
“Damn it… it’s the Sharingan’s… illusion technique…”
Yagura Karatachi clutched his head as if it were splitting open, pain flashing across his youthful and delicate face, letting out a hoarse, unwilling murmur.
Intense struggle appeared on his face as he tried to resist the bone-deep mental control.
However, all this struggle was in vain.
The next second, the pain and struggle on his face vanished as if erased by an eraser, his gaze becoming empty and manic once more.
At the same time, his pair of eyes, along with the Three-Tails Isobu’s single eye below, seemed controlled by the same thread, synchronously and rigidly gazing in the same direction.
There—
In the distant direction, a thick column of rolling black smoke like a black dragon connecting heaven and earth continuously rose toward the sky.
Beneath the thick smoke, a crimson figure stood tall on a patch of higher scorched earth.
High temperature that instilled heart-pounding fear enveloped his body, causing the air to distort violently, making him appear as if behind a shimmering curtain of flames.
He remotely overlooked the utterly wretched Three-Tails Isobu here with an absolutely icy posture.
“ROAR!!!”
The Three-Tails Isobu’s single eye pupil contracted sharply to a pinpoint!
It felt utter disbelief and rage at Uchiha Ikeizumi appearing there completely unscathed.
The thoroughly enraged tailed beast’s wild nature instantly overpowered all reason.
Its pair of heavenly pillar-like giant feet stomped the ground fiercely!
RUMBLE—!!!
The ground let out a burdened wail, spiderweb-like cracks spreading instantly.
Shattered stones larger than a human head were shaken dozens of meters into the air, then trembled and floated amid this terrifying chakra fluctuation!
Buzz—!!!
Vast, suffocating tailed beast chakra erupted from the Three-Tails Isobu’s body without reservation, like a tsunami.
Its yin attribute chakra and yang attribute chakra began gathering and compressing frantically in front of its giant maw in a special 2:8 ratio!
Soon, an extremely dangerous black sphere emitting a destructive aura appeared instantly!
That was the tailed beasts’ ultimate technique—the embryonic form of the Tailed Beast Bomb!
The Three-Tails Isobu’s single eye was filled with mania and destructive desire.
It released its entire body’s chakra almost as if overdrawing.
Pouring it without reservation into this Tailed Beast Bomb!
With the frenzied injection of massive chakra, that initially human-head-sized black sphere began terrifyingly expanding at a visible speed!
One times… five times…
Ten times… twenty…
In the blink of an eye, it swelled to a size comparable to the Three-Tails Isobu’s own hideous head! And it showed no sign of stopping, continuing to grow!
Crack…
Crack…
The surrounding floating, trembling shattered stones crumbled to powder under the invisible force field from this ultra-high-density energy sphere, as if crushed by an invisible giant hand!
The entire mountain range behind the Three-Tails Isobu trembled violently.
Deeper abyssal fissures cracked open beneath its feet.
The extremely distorted, oscillating air made the Three-Tails Isobu’s massive body appear somewhat blurry and ethereal!
Destructive energy fluctuations spread like tangible tidal waves in all directions.
Making creatures kilometers away feel heart palpitations!
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In the distance, the ninja cat Kijiro, who had been calmly watching the battle, had all its fur stand on end at this moment.
Its plump body tensed instantly, its cat face full of horror.
“Meow!!!”
It let out a sharp cat yowl, unhesitatingly jabbing a claw into Izumi’s cheek beside it, its voice urgent: “This tailed beast has gone mad! This is the Tailed Beast Bomb that Lord Ikeizumi once mentioned to me! It’s said to be the tailed beasts’ strongest attack!”
“Rookie! Run!! Run with all your might! As far as you can! Don’t look back! Don’t hesitate meow!”
It suddenly remembered something, hurriedly adding: “Meow! Don’t run in a straight line! Don’t run toward the direction its head is facing! To the sides! Left or right! Either side! Hurry meow!!!”
It was the first time Izumi had seen the usually somewhat lazy and snarky Kijiro show such a flustered expression.
She didn’t even have time to think.
Intense crisis sense and trust in Kijiro made her turn around instantly.
Chakra poured without reservation into her feet.
She fled for her life toward the side and rear!
Nearby, Juzo Biwa’s expression also changed drastically! As a former member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, he knew better than Izumi what a Tailed Beast Bomb meant!
“This is… hiss!”
He sucked in a cold breath, but the scorching air could not alleviate the chill in his heart.
Without any hesitation, he hoisted the heavy Executioner’s Blade and pushed his speed to the limit.
Frenziedly chasing after Uchiha Izumi’s figure!
During Izumi’s rapid sprint, Kijiro, clinging tightly to her shoulder, hastily glanced back.
When it saw the distant Tailed Beast Bomb that had swollen to a hair-raising size, emitting an aura that silenced all things, the entire cat nearly jumped!
“Too slow meow! Rookie! You won’t escape the Tailed Beast Bomb’s explosion radius like this!”
Kijiro suddenly leaped down from Izumi’s shoulder.
In mid-air, its originally plump and cute body rapidly expanded like a balloon.
In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a giant beast comparable to an elephant in size, fur bristling, claws glinting with cold light.
Kijiro bit Uchiha Izumi’s rear collar.
Its four legs exerted force fiercely.
Whoosh—
An orange stream of light instantly tore across the ground, so fast it left afterimages.
Almost instantly, it left the desperately chasing Juzo Biwa far behind.
Not even qualifying to eat dust.
Juzo Biwa, who was exerting himself carrying the great sword, felt a gale sweep past him, leaving only a rapidly receding orange back and billowing smoke and dust in his sight.
Juzo Biwa: “???”
No!
Wait for me!!!
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On the other side, Mei Terumī’s pupils also contracted sharply at this moment.
Even though her position was at the Three-Tails Isobu’s side and rear, not in the direct line of the Tailed Beast Bomb.
But sensing the terrifying energy within that black sphere capable of destroying everything, she still involuntarily retreated several steps in horror.
Nearby, Ao had already removed his eyepatch, revealing his Byakugan with bulging veins.
He strained to peer into the distance, his forehead beading with cold sweat from excessive shock and tension.
“This… this is within the Land of Water!”
Ao’s voice trembled slightly, full of confusion and anxiety: “For the Mizukage to use this kind of… this destructive power, isn’t he afraid of affecting nearby towns? What about the civilians there?!”
A strong sense of dissonance surged in his heart.
This was completely different from the Fourth Mizukage in his memory, who, though implementing the Bloody Mist Policy, at least considered the village’s basic interests and the safety of the Land of Water’s people!
This was entirely like…
A different person!
Unfortunately, the distance was too great; even with the Byakugan’s insight, it was hard to pierce the violent tailed beast chakra and distorted air to clearly see the Mizukage’s specific state atop the Three-Tails’ head.
…
Uchiha Ikeizumi stood in place, feeling the increasingly intense tremors transmitted from the ground beneath his feet, even the small pebbles at his feet jumping wildly.
He murmured expressionlessly.
“Tailed Beast Bomb…”
The next moment, he slowly raised his head, the scarlet glow in his eyes flaring brightly.
The pattern in his eyes was no longer an ordinary Mangekyo Sharingan. It was a more complex, more demonic, more profound pattern!
As if two different Mangekyo Sharingan patterns were perfectly nested and fused together.
Forming a qualitative change!
Forming a new dual pupil containing eternal power!
This was the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!
RUMBLE—!!!
With his eye power fully unleashed, the ground emitted an even more intense roar. A colossal, unimaginably huge crimson skeletal frame, like a terrifying demon god crawling from the deepest hell, erupted from the earth behind him!
And this was merely the beginning.
As the skeleton rose, countless crimson chakra streams like surging lava floods emerged, rapidly building incredibly robust, knotted muscle fibers over the skeletal frame.
Then, layers of thick, ancient, and extremely ferocious crimson armor covered the Susanoo’s massive body like living entities.
Crimson chakra flames burned atop the armor.
The extreme heat from those crimson flames even melted and boiled the ground beneath its feet from afar.
Forming a spreading lava lake bubbling with gas.
At the moment the Three-Tails Isobu’s Tailed Beast Bomb reached its maximum expansion.
This hellish demon god-like Susanoo finally revealed its perfect form.
Its over 210-meter-tall colossal body stood like a movable mountain range between heaven and earth.
Its shadow alone could cover an entire small ninja village!
An exaggeratedly massive pair of giant wings, with viscous lava seemingly flowing slowly within, suddenly unfurled from the Susanoo’s back!
The crimson glow of the lava seemed to illuminate the clouds above.
Each flap of the wings stirred scorching gales.
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s figure was firmly protected within the Susanoo.
Under Uchiha Ikeizumi’s control, the Perfect Susanoo raised one arm larger than a house.
And grabbed fiercely at the void!
Buzz—!!!
Endless Lava Release chakra gathered, forming a Lava Great Blade even larger and thicker than any before in an instant.
The blade’s body was as wide as an extraordinarily huge door panel, with scorching lava slowly flowing from the edge.
Emitting a terrifying aura that incinerated all!
…
“What is that…”
Feeling the waves of heatwaves rushing toward him, staring fixedly at the towering Lava Giant in the distance, Ao couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
Mei Terumī murmured in shock: “I… think I’ve seen similar records in some village archives from decades ago. This seems to be a dojutsu unique to Konoha’s Uchiha Clan…”
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On the other side, the Tailed Beast Bomb in the Three-Tails Isobu’s giant maw had now swollen to a jaw-dropping size, nearly a quarter of its body!
The tailed beast chakra on its body had visibly dimmed and weakened from overexertion.
“ROARRRR—!!!”
It unleashed its final strength in a hysterical, sky-tearing roar!
That ultra-giant Tailed Beast Bomb, condensed with all its power—enough to destroy mountains and alter terrain—shot forth like an unleashed beast of destruction, instantly leaving its maw!
The Tailed Beast Bomb launched without a sound!
Or rather…
The sound had been left far behind!
The Tailed Beast Bomb tore through space silently at a terrifying speed beyond visual capture. Wherever it passed, even light seemed swallowed and distorted, hurtling toward the distant Susanoo!
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