Chapter 194: Eight-tails And Two-tails: Is This Right?
“Roar—!” The Azure Dragon roared as it charged out of the spell array, its body surrounded by blinding cyan lightning, transforming into a whip of thunder that viciously lashed toward Darui who was trying to form hand seals!
“Screech!” The Vermilion Bird let out a long cry, its wings spreading wide as countless blazing fireballs rained down like meteors, covering Troy and the Anbu he led!
“Roar!” The Black Tortoise low roared, its massive turtle-snake body moving like a mountain, carrying an unstoppable Water Style shockwave that crashed toward Nurui’s squad, forcing them to retreat repeatedly!
“Howl!” The White Tiger whistled with the wind, its sharp claws slashing out, sending several massive Wind Blades as solid as substance tearing through the air toward Xi’s direction!
“Hiss!” The Golden Snake slithered, earth and stone surging as sharp earth spikes erupted without warning from beneath the Cloud Village ninjas’ feet!
The Southern Dipper Immortal’s spell array lit up, an invisible barrier instantly enveloping several Anbu, restricting their movements!
The Northern Dipper Immortal followed closely, a defensive barrier protecting the besieged Blood Pond Clan members, blocking deadly kunai and ninjutsu!
The Celestial Maiden’s figure floated gracefully like an immortal, but the ribbon in her hand like a soft sword turned into a deadly noose, nimbly and swiftly wrapping toward another Anbu attempting a sneak attack!
The Shinigami’s phantom appeared silently, its massive chakra scythe carrying the chill of reaping souls, quietly swinging toward the last isolated elite!
The Nine-Faced Beast’s joining instantly turned the one-sided slaughter of the Blood Pond Clan members into a desperate struggle where the Cloud Village elites could barely protect themselves!
Darui’s Storm Release lightning was neutralized by the Azure Dragon’s thunder, Troy’s square shuriken melted in the Vermilion Bird’s fire rain, Nurui’s Earth Style defense wavered under the Black Tortoise’s impact, and Xi’s sensing and illusion techniques were disrupted by the White Tiger’s gale winds!
“Kakuzu, Kisame Hoshigaki!” Menma’s cold voice pierced through the deafening slaughter sounds, clearly reaching the two’s ears.
“Now, the Blood Pond Clan is the organization’s property. Don’t let these Cloud Village small fries destroy the organization’s property!”
“Hmph! Got it!” Kakuzu let out a cold snort, a satisfied grin flashing across his face covered in stitches at the word “property.”
From beneath his wide black robe, Earth Grudge Fear’s black tentacles shot out like venomous snakes, precisely wrapping around an Anbu trying to bypass the Golden Snake to attack the Blood Pond Clan members, instantly piercing him!
At the same time, his hands quickly formed hand seals, Fire Style: Head Hunter Fang and Wind Style: Pressure Damage fusing into a destructive flame storm that swept toward the Cloud Village ninjas on the other side!
“Understood!” Kisame Hoshigaki’s shark face showed no expression, but his eyes were sharp as blades.
Though he gripped only a standard Kirigakure Anbu long sword, this did not hinder him from displaying the ferocity of Kirigakure’s “Tailless Tailed Beast”!
Deep blue chakra covered the blade like flowing water, Water Style: Water Shark Bullet Technique instantly unleashed!
A massive water shark roared out, viciously colliding with the square shuriken thrown by Troy, knocking it flying!
Kisame Hoshigaki himself advanced like a ghost, his blade light fierce and ruthless, every slash aimed at vitals, coordinating with the Celestial Maiden’s elusive ribbon attacks, forcing Troy’s squad into dire straits!
Miyashiro En took advantage of the chaos, with Miyoshi Jin’s assistance, protecting his wife and dazed daughter Chiyo, leading the remaining terrified Blood Pond Clan members, using the Northern Dipper Immortal’s defensive barrier as cover, struggling toward the only exit from Hell Valley.
The Blood Pond Clan members’ eyes were filled with the fear of surviving a disaster and confusion about the future, but the instinct for survival drove them to desperately flee this slaughter ground.
The twelve Cloud Village elites, under siege by nine summoned beasts with powerful attribute ninjutsu and special abilities, plus Kakuzu and Kisame Hoshigaki’s ferocious intervention, instantly fell into unprecedented passivity!
“Shura—!!!”
A roar of extreme fury exploded like thunder from flat ground, overpowering all the slaughter sounds!
Raiden’s entire body was wrapped in blinding Lightning Release Chakra armor.
Lightning Release Chakra Mode!
Raiden’s speed reached the extreme, transforming into a humanoid lightning bolt, charging ferociously at Menma once more!
His fist burning with bone-deep hatred, wrapped in terrifying power enough to shatter mountains, brought a sonic boom tearing through the air, smashing viciously toward Menma’s face!
“Arrogant bastard! Hell Valley today will be your burial ground!!” A’s roar was filled with unyielding determination!
Following closely, the fully Tailed Beast Transformed Two-Tails Matatabi and Eight-Tails Gyūki also roared and charged again!
The massive cat claw burning with eerie blue flames tore the earth, eight thick octopus tentacles swept like sky-supporting pillars, sealing off all of Menma’s evasion space! The violent Tailed Beast Chakra formed a substantial shockwave, plowing deep trenches in the ground!
Facing this triple pincer attack enough to instantly obliterate a Kage Level strong practitioner, the eyes beneath Menma’s mask remained as cold as an abyss.
He didn’t even retreat half a step.
A vastly larger, darker, and more tyrannical dark red chakra, like a volcano suppressed for ten thousand years, erupted explosively from within him!
Buzz—!!!
Blinding dark red light instantly swallowed his figure!
Nine massive tails condensed from pure dark red chakra, as solid as substance, wildly thrashed behind him!
A violent, dark chakra cloak containing endless destructive energy instantly covered his body, revealing only a pair of eyes flickering with icy red light.
Dark Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak!
The powerful chakra pressure swept out like a tsunami, forcibly slowing Raiden’s charge for an instant!
“What?!” Raiden’s pupils contracted sharply!
“Tails Cloak?! Nine-Tails?!!” The fully Tailed Beast Transformed Killer Bee and Yugito Nii simultaneously cried out in disbelief!
【Gyūki~yo~this guy~could he be~a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki~?】Killer Bee urgently questioned the Eight-Tails Gyūki in his mental space.
【Matatabi! What’s going on?! Isn’t the Nine-Tails in Konoha?!】Yugito Nii also shockedly sought answers from the Two-Tails Matatabi within her.
The Eight-Tails Gyūki was somewhat collapsing: 【I can’t tell! I really can’t tell! I told you last time, this guy is off! The chakra nature is very much like the Nine-Tails, but… it feels so unfamiliar! Carrying an indescribable darkness!】
The Two-Tails Matatabi’s voice carried shock and doubt: 【Is……that so? No……it’s not……not the Nine-Tails we know!!】
Hearing the two Jinchūriki’s shock and doubt, Raiden’s mind raced, then he roared: “Don’t be fooled by him! He’s probably like those two bastards Gold Brother and Silver Brother, who somehow stole fragments of Nine-Tails Chakra! Kill him!!”
The battle erupted again! Menma, who activated Dark Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, had speed, power, and reactions reaching terrifying heights!
He no longer dodged, choosing instead to clash head-on!
Boom!
Menma’s fist wrapped in dark red chakra collided viciously with Raiden’s lightning-wreathed heavy fist!
A violent shockwave exploded in a ring shape, the rocks underfoot instantly pulverized to dust!
A only felt an unstoppable colossal force transmit over, his arm shaking violently, forcibly shaken back several steps!
Menma’s figure used the recoil to shift sideways, his dark red chakra claw slashing out, precisely slapping onto the burning giant claw swept by the Two-Tails Matatabi!
Sizzle—!
Dark red and eerie blue energies clashed violently, annihilating each other!
The Two-Tails Matatabi let out a pained roar, its burning giant claw forcibly slapped away, the flames covering it eroded and extinguished in large patches by the dark red chakra!
At the same time, several of the Eight-Tails Gyūki’s tentacles had already wrapped around!
The nine dark red tails wildly dancing behind Menma transformed instantly into nine incredibly tough chakra long whips like they had independent consciousness, with shrill whistles tearing the air, viciously lashing the Eight-Tails’ tentacles!
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
Dull thuds like whips striking leather rang out densely!
The Eight-Tails Gyūki issued a painful hiss, its tough tentacles torn open and flesh exposed, dark red chakra eroding the wounds like maggots in the bones!
Killer Bee even felt a stabbing pain in his spirit!
One against three!
Menma, clad in the Dark Nine-Tails cloak, single-handedly suppressed Cloud Village’s strongest Raiden and the two fully Tailed Beast Transformed Jinchūriki!
The battle’s aftershocks completely altered the surrounding terrain, massive craters, molten rocks, and torn trenches everywhere!
On the other side, under the combined strangling of the Nine-Faced Beast, Kakuzu, and Kisame Hoshigaki, Darui and the others were already in dire straits.
Several Anbu ninjas were severely injured, losing combat ability, dragged to the rear by companions.
Darui’s Storm Release was powerful, but under the Azure Dragon’s Lightning Release interference and Kakuzu’s Earth Grudge Fear sneak attacks, it was stretched thin.
Troy’s Magnetic Release shuriken was countered by the Vermilion Bird’s flames and Kisame Hoshigaki’s Water Style, Nurui’s taijutsu struggled against the Black Tortoise’s defense and White Tiger’s Wind Blades, and Xi’s sensing and support constantly interrupted by the Golden Snake’s Earth Style and Southern Dipper’s barriers.
Of the twelve elites, now less than half were barely holding on, defeat imminent!
“Damn it!” Raiden was once again forced back by Menma’s chakra tail whip, looking at his subordinates steadily retreating in the distance, and at this terrifying enemy handling one against three with ease, his heart filled with shock and rage.
He finally realized that relying solely on close combat, it would be hard to take down the opponent in a short time.
“Bee! Yugito Nii!” A decisively roared at the two Jinchūriki: “Use Tailed Beast Bomb! Blast him to pieces!!”
“Yo yo~got it~big bro~”
“Yes! Lord Raiden”
The fully Tailed Beast Transformed Two-Tails Matatabi and Eight-Tails Gyūki simultaneously unleashed earth-shaking roars!
Their massive bodies slightly reared back, opening mouths vast enough to swallow mountains!
Terrifying energy madly gathered and compressed in their mouths!
Eerie blue chakra and deep purple chakra respectively condensed into two massive energy spheres radiating destructive fluctuations.
Tailed Beast Bomb!
The surrounding air was madly sucked in, space slightly distorting from this terrifying energy!
At the same time, Menma raised his right hand.
The nine dark red tails behind him danced like living creatures, the massive Dark Nine-Tails Chakra similarly gathering and compressing wildly above his palm!
A pitch-dark red Tailed Beast Bomb, radiating a colder and more tyrannical aura than those of the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, formed at astonishing speed!
Its core darkness seemed able to devour all light!
Three Tailed Beast Bombs containing world-destroying energy faced off remotely at less than a hundred meters!
Hell Valley’s air completely froze, time seeming to halt in this moment!
Everyone in combat, whether Kakuzu, Kisame Hoshigaki, Darui, or the remaining Blood Pond Clan members, felt a shiver from the depths of their souls!
Whoosh—!!!
The two massive Tailed Beast Bombs from the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails and one dark red Tailed Beast Bomb, like three falling death stars, with space-tearing screeches, tore through the frozen air, colliding explosively!
Boom rumble rumble—!!!!!!!!
An indescribable terrifying explosion occurred!
Blinding white light instantly swallowed everything!
Following was an earth-shattering roar enough to shatter eardrums!
A colossal sphere of light mixed with dark red, eerie blue, and deep purple destructive energy rose like a newborn sun at Hell Valley’s center!
The violent energy shockwave spread spherically, vaporizing and annihilating all matter in its path—rocks, soil, stone houses, even air!
The earth cracked and collapsed like fragile biscuits!
The towering rock walls on both sides of the canyon collapsed and slid in massive chunks as if cleaved by a heavenly axe!
Hell Valley’s entire terrain was completely reshaped in this heaven-destroying collision!
A massive circular crater over two thousand meters in diameter and bottomless appeared at the explosion center, the crater edge’s rocks melted into red-hot magma by extreme heat, slowly flowing!
Kakuzu, Kisame Hoshigaki, Darui, Troy, and others had sensed the fatal crisis as the Tailed Beast Bombs began condensing, abandoning combat long ago, each unleashing their strongest defenses.
Desperately fleeing toward the canyon outskirts with all their might!
Even so, the sweeping terrifying shockwave hammered their defenses like a heavy mallet, churning their qi and blood, spurting blood, flung far like kites with cut strings, crashing heavily beyond the circular crater’s edge, in utter disarray!
Miyashiro En and Miyoshi Jin desperately protected their clan members, relying on the final glow of the Northern Dipper Immortal’s defensive barrier and Hell Valley’s complex terrain, barely avoiding the core explosion zone, but still tossed into chaos by the shockwave’s aftershocks, hearts pounding.
When the destructive light finally dimmed, the deafening roar turned to low buzzing, the thick dust mixed with smoke and energy particles like a gray curtain, shrouding the unrecognizable Hell Valley.
At the circular crater’s edge, Raiden withstood the shock aftershocks with his powerful Lightning Release armor, but his body bore several charred marks.
He panted heavily, eyes fixed on the rolling dust at the explosion center, hoarsely roaring at the equally disheveled Killer Bee and Yugito Nii: “Bee! Yugito Nii! What’s going on?! Why can he condense a Tailed Beast Bomb?! Gold Brother and Silver Brother’s half-assed Tailed Beast Transformation could never do that!”
Killer Bee and Yugito Nii were also faces full of shock and confusion.
Gold Brother and Silver Brother could only use Nine-Tails Chakra for half Tailed Beast Transformation, gaining power and speed, but absolutely could not condense a real Tailed Beast Bomb!
【Bee! Careful!】The Eight-Tails Gyūki’s urgent warning suddenly exploded in Killer Bee’s mind!
【Yugito Nii! Dodge now! That thing is wrong! It’s not the Nine-Tails! Definitely not the Nine-Tails we know!】The Two-Tails Matatabi’s sharp feminine voice was filled with unprecedented terror!
The instant Raiden’s words fell!
Boom—!!!
The pervasive dust was suddenly torn apart by an even more violent, darker force!
A massive suffocating dark red figure, like a ferocious beast crawling from hell’s abyss, carrying boundless ferocious aura, burst ferociously from the explosion center!
It was a Nine-Tails Fox Demon entirely condensed from dark red chakra!
It was larger than Killer Bee’s Eight-Tails, its body burning with substantial dark red flames, nine massive tails wildly thrashing behind, every hair radiating destructive energy fluctuations!
Its eyes burned with cold, tyrannical, utterly irrational scarlet light, locking dead onto the nearest Eight-Tails Gyūki!
“Roar—!!!” The Dark Nine-Tails unleashed a soul-shattering roar, its massive foreclaw carrying space-tearing terrifying power, at speed beyond visual limits, viciously clawing toward the Eight-Tails Gyūki’s massive body!
Killer Bee and the Eight-Tails Gyūki were horrified! They had no time for any effective defense!
“Bee!!” Raiden’s eyes nearly split!
Yugito Nii’s face was filled with incredulous horror!
The opponent was not only truly a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, but this Nine-Tails was filled with unprecedented eeriness and ferocity!
Konoha’s Nine-Tails… could it really be lost?!
But the Two-Tails’ warning still echoed.
This was not the Nine-Tails she and the Eight-Tails knew!
Bang—!!!
The Dark Nine-Tails’ giant claw clamped like iron pliers onto one of the Eight-Tails Gyūki’s main tentacles and half its body!
The colossal force made the Eight-Tails emit a painful hiss!
But such close range also let Killer Bee see Shura standing on this Nine-Tails’ head!
“What the hell are you~exactly~” Killer Bee questioned again.
However, the Dark Nine-Tails’ massive fanged mouth had already opened!
A Tailed Beast Bomb even larger than before, with an ink-black core and dark red chakra swirling around the exterior, was condensing in its mouth at astonishing speed!
