Chapter 195: Gifts Of Farewell
【Bee——!!!】 Killer Bee’s Eight-Tails inside him let out a heart-wrenching roar of fury!
The Tailed Beast Bomb condensed by Dark Nine-Tails far surpassed the Tailed Beast Bombs condensed by Eight-Tails and Two-Tails in both quality and size.
The shadow of death instantly enveloped them!
Tailed Beast Transformed Killer Bee let out a roar, eight massive tentacles frantically curling upward and intertwining under the drive of survival instinct, piling up layer upon layer in front of his head into a thick wall of flesh and blood shield!
At the same time, massive amounts of Tailed Beast Chakra were poured into it without regard for cost, attempting to withstand this catastrophic disaster!
Boom——!!!
The dark red destructive orb, carrying a core of darkness that devoured everything, smashed viciously onto the hastily constructed defense of Eight-Tails!
Time seemed to freeze in this moment, and then—
A terrifying explosion beyond words erupted at zero distance!
The explosion instantly swallowed Eight-Tails and Two-Tails!
The blinding glare turned the entire Hell Valley into daylight, followed by a shockwave that was no longer a spreading ring but condensed into a destructive torrent of energy. Rocks instantly vaporized, and the ground was plowed into a bottomless chasm with lava flowing!
When that destructive light finally dimmed, the deafening roar turned into a low hum, and the pervasive smoke and energy particles slowly settled.
At the center of the explosion, the scene was utterly devastating.
Dark Nine-Tails’ figure still stood tall, its body surging with dark red Chakra, seemingly unscathed. The large mouth that had spat out the Tailed Beast Bomb exhaled airflow, seemingly very satisfied with its masterpiece.
Meanwhile, the Eight-Tails Gyūki it had grabbed was in an extremely miserable state.
The eight tentacles used for defense were all blasted off, leaving only charred and broken roots, like the stumps of felled giant trees!
On the massive bull head, the sharp horns symbolizing power were mostly shaved off, leaving jagged breaks with lava-like scorching blood flowing.
The enormous body was covered in deep, bone-exposing charred wounds. Dark red corrosive energy spread and burned at the wounds like maggots in the bones, emitting a sizzling sound.
Killer Bee’s Tailed Beast Transformation was at its most withered point, letting out painful and weak hisses. His massive body swayed unsteadily, only held up by Dark Nine-Tails’ giant claw to avoid collapsing.
“Bee——!!!” Yugito Nii saw Eight-Tails’ miserable state and let out a shrill scream of grief and indignation!
The cobalt blue flames surged due to anger!
The massive cat claw, carrying fury that would incinerate everything, smashed viciously toward Dark Nine-Tails’ side abdomen!
At the same time, Fourth Raiden’s figure turned into a blue lightning bolt tearing through the air!
His Lightning Release Chakra Armor was pushed to the extreme across his entire body, emitting a piercing screech. He leaped high into the air, his left arm wrapped in violent lightning light capable of cutting gold and snapping jade, targeting straight at the black-robed figure on Dark Nine-Tails’ head, deep and immovable as a mountain.
Raikage’s Chopping Dance!
“Shura! Die for me——!!!” Raiden’s roar was filled with bone-deep hatred and resolute determination to perish together!
Facing the pincer attack from above and below, Menma on Dark Nine-Tails’ head didn’t even move an inch.
His icy gaze swept over the burning giant claw lunging from below. Dark Nine-Tails casually swept out one massive tail, slapping it precisely on Two-Tails Matatabi’s claw wrist like swatting a fly!
Bang——!!!
A dull thud accompanied by the crisp sound of bones shattering!
Yugito Nii let out a shrill cry of pain. Her massive body was knocked off balance by this overwhelming force, tumbling and crashing into the distant rock wall, her cobalt blue flames dimming considerably!
At the same time, facing Raiden who descended like a meteor with killing lightning light, Menma merely slightly raised his left hand.
In his palm, a black rod as dark as ink, seemingly condensed from pure shadow, materialized out of thin air!
No sound of air breaking, no energy fluctuations, only an extreme chill that pierced everything!
Whoosh!
The black rod shot out like teleportation!
Pfft——!
A light sound, yet it exploded in Raiden’s heart like thunder!
That seemingly unremarkable black rod ignored his violently surging Lightning Release Chakra Armor on the surface, piercing through his left palm—concentrated with his strongest Lightning Release Chakra—as easily as a hot knife through butter!
A cold, hegemonic force instantly surged madly along the arm’s meridians!
“Urgh!” Raiden let out a suppressed grunt of pain. The terrifying lightning light gathered in his left arm dispersed instantly like a snuffed candle!
The momentum of Raikage’s Chopping Dance was forcibly interrupted!
What shocked him even more was that the black rod not only pierced his palm; the strange power attached to it instantly disrupted and sealed the Chakra flow in his entire left arm!
Arm numbed, strength completely lost!
In the instant Raiden froze from sharp pain and shock, another massive tail of Dark Nine-Tails swept in with a screech tearing through the air, like a siege hammer!
Bang——!!!
A solid dull thud! Raiden’s burly body was struck like by a high-speed train, turning into a blue afterimage and flying back faster than he came!
With a massive rumble, he smashed heavily into a rock wall hundreds of meters away that hadn’t fully collapsed!
Gravel flew, smoke filled the air, his entire body deeply embedded inside!
“Lord Raiden!” Yugito Nii, who had arduously climbed up from afar, had blood overflowing from her mouth as she cried out in alarm.
“Big bro~ you okay~?” Tailed Beast Transformed Killer Bee endured the sharp pain and let out a weak hiss.
Raiden struggled to break free from the indentation in the rock wall, gravel rustling down.
Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, his left arm hung limply, a piercing blood hole in his palm shocking to the eye, blood dripping from his fingertips.
What chilled his heart even more was that the Chakra in his entire left arm was like frozen, completely unable to be mobilized!
That eerie black rod not only caused physical damage but completely crippled the combat power of one of his arms!
He looked up; the battlefield center was like an apocalyptic scene.
Yugito Nii’s Tailed Beast Transformed Two-Tails Matatabi had just climbed up from the rock wall ruins, her cobalt blue flames dimmed, clearly badly injured as well.
And Killer Bee, who had taken a full Tailed Beast Bomb, had his Tailed Beast Transformation reduced to half a broken body, aura faint, struggling futilely under Dark Nine-Tails’ giant claw.
That Eight-Tails who, after rampaging, had once put the entire Cloud Village on high alert, requiring the whole village to mobilize to suppress.
In front of Dark Nine-Tails, it was like a three-year-old child, arbitrarily toyed with!
Utterly powerless to resist!
Raiden involuntarily recalled the legends passed down by his ancestors: although the strength ranking of the nine Tails wasn’t determined by the number of tails, the strongest Tailed Beast was undoubtedly Nine-Tails.
Raiden had scoffed at it. He had participated in suppressing the rampages of Two-Tails and Eight-Tails. Though the two Tails were terrifying in strength, they hadn’t reached the level of destroying heaven and earth.
Through several Ninja Wars, Konoha had never been seen using a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki in battle.
However, today…
And that dark red terrifying Nine-Tails, along with the figure wearing a White Three-Eyed Fox Mask on its head, displayed absolute strength and an overwhelmingly powerful sense of oppression that brought despair.
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness and anger surged in Raiden’s heart.
‘This is the strength of a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki…’ At this point, Raiden had to admit that the opponent was absolutely a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki!
‘So those Konoha bastards! How could they even lose a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki!!’
The devastating defeat three years ago, the humiliation three years later, the casualties of subordinates, the severe injuries of his brother…
All emotions boiled in his chest like magma.
He glanced at his completely crippled left hand, then at Killer Bee and Yugito Nii still barely holding on in the distance. A glint of resolute ferocity flashed in his eyes!
“Ah——!!!” A beast-like roar erupted from deep in Raiden’s throat!
He abruptly raised his right hand, fingers together like a blade. Violent Lightning Release Chakra instantly gathered on it, forming a blinding blue lightning blade!
Without the slightest hesitation, he slashed viciously at the elbow joint of his left arm pierced by the black rod and drained of Chakra!
Sizzle——!
Blood spurted!
A strong arm severed at the elbow, crashing heavily onto the charred ground!
Sharp Pain instantly distorted Raiden’s face, but he forcibly swallowed his scream!
Blood surged wildly from the severed arm, forcibly cauterized by his rampaging Lightning Release chakra to stop the bleeding, even emitting a burnt smell.
His only remaining right hand clenched into a fist, Lightning Release chakra covered his entire body once again, although his aura was somewhat disordered due to blood loss and sharp pain, that unyielding battle intent burned even more fiercely!
He was like an injured lone wolf, carrying a tragic momentum, charging toward the Dark Nine-Tails, who was like a demon god, once again without any hesitation!
“The Cloud Village’s dignity! I will protect it!!!” Raiden’s roar echoed across the battlefield, tragic and resolute!
On top of Dark Nine-Tails’ head, Menma quietly watched Lord Raiden, who was still roaring and charging forward even after losing his arm.
The gaze beneath the mask flickered with a barely perceptible ripple for the first time.
That is recognition of pure will and courage.
Although successive Raiden are all reckless brutes, they do possess some backbone as a village Kage.
At that moment, a faint yet clear intention was transmitted through the “Chakra Network” engraved in his spirit; it was Kakuzu.
【Lord, the remaining population of the Blood Pond Clan has already been successfully evacuated from Hell Valley under the leadership of Miyashiro En and Miyoshi Jin, and they are heading to the coast along the predetermined route. The Cloud Village ninjas have been repelled by us, with heavy casualties, and the survivors should number fewer than seven.】
Kakuzu’s report was concise.
Menma’s gaze swept over the Hell Valley, which was a complete mess with its terrain thoroughly changed.
The massive ring-shaped crater, lava-flowing ravines, collapsed rock walls, pervasive gunpowder smoke and blood scent, the sunset’s afterglow dyed all of this with a layer of Qiyan blood color.
This encounter battle has already achieved the expected effect.
Blood Pond Clan obtained, Cloud Village suffers heavy blow again, Raiden loses arm, Eight-Tails and Two-Tails severely injured, the purpose of deterrence has been exceeded.
Now is not yet the time to completely destroy the Cloud Village and let the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails fall into the hands of the Akatsuki organization.
The time has not yet come, and my own stage has not been fully set up.
Watching the one-armed Raiden charge up again with a roar, along with Killer Bee and Yugito Nii who were forcefully supporting their battered bodies in tailed beast transformation to try to assist him, Menma made a decision in his heart.
The Dark Nine-Tails’ massive tail swept casually, and Raiden leaped up to dodge. With his Lightning Release chakra armor fully activated, he tried to close in again, but was struck by several other tails, sent flying as if swatting a fly, and crashed heavily near Killer Bee and Yugito Nii.
Raiden struggled to crawl up, coughing out a mouthful of blood, propping himself up on the ground with his single arm, his eyes still defiant.
Killer Bee and Yugito Nii blocked in front of him, emitting weak growls, preparing to receive the final impact.
However, the anticipated fatal attack did not come.
Menma on the head of the Dark Nine-Tails slowly raised his right hand.
“Tch, I’ve had enough fun. This time was even more pleasurable than last time.”
“This, consider it a farewell gift.”
Above the palm, a heart-palpitating, Even more sinister and brutal dark red Chakra began to wildly gather and compress!
No longer a pure Energy Sphere like the Tailed Beast Bomb, but forming a sphere with high-speed rotation, a core as black as ink, and the periphery wrapped in a destructive dark red energy star ring.
Killer Bee’s eyes widened in shock.
It was precisely the terrifying ninjutsu that had severely damaged the Cloud Village three years ago, leaving Killer Bee with a permanent scar.
Great Spiraling Ring!
This dark purple energy sphere was only the size of an apple, but the aura of destruction it emitted made the severely injured Killer Bee and Yugito Nii feel their souls trembling!
That core darkness seemed able to devour all hope!
“If you can’t survive…” Menma’s cold voice passed through the mask, clearly reaching the ears of the three below, carrying a condescending indifference and judgment.
“Just die here.”
As soon as the words fell, he gently pushed with his palm.
That dark purple Great Spiraling Ring, like a falling death star, carrying a silent trajectory of destruction, slowly descended toward the position of Raiden, the battered Eight-Tails Gyūki, and the scarred Two-Tails Matatabi!
Raiden, Killer Bee, and Yugito Nii watched with wide-open eyes as that dark purple light sphere representing the end continuously enlarged in their field of vision!
Just as the Great Spiraling Ring was about to land!
Buzz——!
Menma on the head of the Dark Nine-Tails, as well as the massive Dark Nine-Tails itself, had their figures suddenly become blurry, then vanished from the spot like an illusion!
The next moment, he was already in the sky, the dark red Chakra Cloak burning like flames, holding him suspended in the sky.
Rumble rumble rumble——！！！！！！！
The Great Spiraling Ring finally lands!
An explosion even more condensed and more terrifying than the previous Tailed Beast Bomb collision occurred!
A deep, light-devouring dark purple energy sphere rapidly expanded!
It immediately turned into a dazzling white light.
Everywhere it passed, all matter silently annihilated!
The ground collapsed and disappeared like a fragile sandcastle!
A gigantic sinkhole even deeper than the crater caused by the previous Tailed Beast Bomb was born amidst the destructive white light!
The rampaging shockwave swept across the entire Hell Valley once more, completely turning the already ruined terrain into gravel!
The “white light mushroom” formed by the explosion grew wildly in Hell Valley!
Raiden, Killer Bee in his Tailed Beast Transformation, and Yugito Nii’s figures, along with their roars of rage, were instantly engulfed by that swelling explosion!
High in the sky, Menma floated against the backdrop of the burning sunset, the White Fox Mask coldly overlooking the area below that had been swallowed by the dark purple light of destruction.
The black robe fluttered loudly in the biting high-altitude airflow, silently watching the scene below that was like hell descending.
The dazzling white light continued to expand and contract, ultimately transforming into a massive energy pillar connecting heaven and earth, slowly dissipating.
Only a massive pit tens of meters deep and over three kilometers in diameter remained, with lava churning in its depths, along with the gunpowder smoke and despair permeating the deathly silence.
