At this moment,
A tsunami-like surge of Chakra erupted from the beastified Kushina. The red storm stirred up by that Chakra shot into the sky, forming a faint red pillar of light connecting the sky and land.
For a moment, the Ninjas on the battlefield were all suppressed by the terrifying power generated by this outburst of Nine-Tails' Chakra, finding it hard to breathe.
'Indeed…'
'She's grown stronger again!'
Sora looked into the distance at Kushina, clad in her faint red Tailed Beast's Chakra Cloak. From his Reikaku's perspective, he could clearly feel that her energy intensity had increased by more than fifty percent compared to her previous rampage.
Don't forget, sealed within Kushina's body was a complete Nine-Tails, far stronger than the half-Yang Nine-Tails inside Naruto.
With a casual wave, terrible power could push the air, creating an effect like the Wind Cutter Technique, even more powerful than the Wind Release used by an ordinary Kage-level Ninja. It was utterly terrifying.
Simultaneously,
Not just strength, but also speed, reaction, defense, and Chakra Reserves were greatly enhanced.
One could say that Kushina in this state, in terms of raw attributes, might be stronger than Sage Mode Jiraiya during his fierce battle with Pain.
On the field, Sora did not retreat half a step.
But the Ice Wings that had been absent for a long time reappeared behind him. As they spread, a gleaming ice dragon also coiled around his body.
Bankai!
Daiguren Hyorinmaru!
Sora also wildly increased his combat power.
Hyorinmaru's Bankai could increase Reiatsu combat power by 100%. Based on Sora's current 250,000 Reiatsu points, he could unleash terrifying combat power at the peak of Rank 5, even the beginning of Rank 6.
Peak Rank 5, the limit of mid Kage-level!
Beginning Rank 6, the entry level of high Kage-level!
These two levels, for ordinary Ninjas, were already near-godlike existences.
Whoosh!
Shunpo.
With a flash, Sora appeared in front of Kushina. The Zanpakuto in his hand swung down, striking the beastified Kushina.
Bang!
Under the explosive great force, Kushina was actually smashed through the ground, pressed into a deep pit in the earth.
"Argghh aahhhh…"
"You hit my face again, I'll kill you, I'll kill you!!!"
The next moment, an irate voice and Chakra both rose with a startling cry. Then a terrifying red figure leaped out from the deep pit in the earth, frantically pouncing towards Sora.
"Vacuum Ice Wall!"
Instantly,
Five layers of ice walls condensed into form, intercepting in front of Kushina.
However, the berserk Kushina didn't retreat at all. Her Chakra Claws directly slammed against the ice walls, shattering them to pieces in the blink of an eye.
Bang bang bang!
Kushina charged in front of Sora again. But before she could even begin her attack, Sora, reaching through the Tailed Beast's Chakra Cloak, grabbed her by the neck. Then, swinging her in a full arc, he slammed her hard into the ground.
Boom!
Dust plumed into the sky!
Kushina, clad in the faint red Tailed Beast's Chakra Cloak, was smashed into a brain-ringing, utterly dazed state.
"Six Tails…"
"Still a bit weak."
Sora held Kushina by the neck, saying lightly, "Jinchuriki of Konoha, is this your limit?"
Kushina didn't speak. She struggled frantically with savage strength, but felt the right hand gripping her neck was like an iron vise, impossible to break free from.
"Don't joke around!"
"Is this level of power still not enough!??"
Kushina's mindset inexplicably began to churn with rage. Her strength had already skyrocketed more than tenfold compared to her normal state, yet even so, she still wasn't a match for this monster Yuki Sora?!!!
Restlessness.
Savage fury.
Malice.
The Nine-Tails' Chakra had already begun to affect Kushina's consciousness, making her killing intent heavier, even her eyes beginning to turn crimson.
"Release it…"
"Kushina, if you continue suppressing my power, we will both be killed by this guy!"
"Release your nature!"
"To deal with such a monster, only by using the Tailed Beast's power do we stand a chance!"
A sinister and evil voice suddenly sounded in Kushina's ears, as if carrying a corrupting temptation, eroding her will.
In the mental space,
The giant meteorite that suppressed the Nine-Tails with sealing chains also began to shake incessantly.
More and more Chakra turned into viscous red streams, cascading down from the meteorite, rushing to converge into Kushina's mental world.
Bang!
Energy roared.
In an instant, a seventh tail burst forth from Kushina's body. Then, her Chakra became even more violent.
The outburst didn't stop.
After the seventh tail burst out, an eighth, then a ninth tail successively burst out behind Kushina!!!
Bang!
Bang!
Amidst the earth-shattering roars, terrifying hurricanes rose across the entire battlefield, sweeping out in all directions.
"I will…"
"Kill you!!!"
Kushina's body seemed to completely transform into a beast. She crouched down on all fours. The nine tails waving behind her smashed Sora away like giant hammers.
"Roar!!!"
"Roar!!!!"
A tsunami-like Chakra surged madly from Kushina's body, quickly causing her Tailed Beast's Chakra Cloak to continuously swell and enlarge, finally forming the shape of a Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
Pointed snout, sharp claws, a body over thirty meters tall.
Although it couldn't compare to the Nine-Tails' true form, the Chakra-pseudo fox that suddenly appeared on the battlefield was still a fear-inducing behemoth.
"Roar!!!"
The Nine-Tails opened its mouth and roared, transforming into visible sound waves that spread out, running rampant over the battlefield spanning several thousand meters.
Some nearby Ninjas were even directly shaken until they bled from all seven orifices, their brains injured.
"Is this the power of the Nine-Tails?"
A Hyuga Clan's Jonin looked with his menacing eyes at the giant monster before him.
Seeing the seemingly endless Chakra like an ocean, he couldn't help but gasp, his face full of speechless shock and fear.
Tailed Beasts.
They're the embodiment of this world's Chakra. Moreover, what appeared on the battlefield now was the strongest among them, the Nine-Tails. That vast amount of Chakra, let alone ordinary Ninjas, even Kage-level Ninjas had a quantitative gap.
"Retreat quickly!"
"Retreat now! It's the Nine-Tails, the Nine-Tails! The village's Jinchuriki has lost control, she will destroy this battlefield!!!"
A Konoha's Ninja shouted anxiously, signaling his comrades to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible.
Tailed Beasts were walking weapons of war, natural enemies of humanity. Any Ninja who saw a Tailed Beast would instinctively feel fear, their souls trembling.
"Charge!"
"Protect Sora-sama!"
"We can't just let Sora-sama face this alone! Even if we use our lives to drain a bit of the Nine-Tails' Chakra, it's worth it!"
"Men of the Village of the Bloody Mist, follow me!"
Just as the Konoha's Ninjas were frantically retreating, over a dozen Kirigakure's Jonin charged fiercely towards the Nine-Tails.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
"Water Release: Water Bullet Technique!"
"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"
"Lightning Release: Lightning Ball!"
"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Tornado!"
Splash~ Splash~ Splash~
On this chaotic battlefield, huge waves appeared out of thin air.
Those waves converged, forming a raging torrential flood, crashing down towards the Nine-Tails' head.
Heavy, flowing water.
And lightning raced within.
Amidst the roaring sounds, the flood shimmering with electric light poured fiercely onto the Nine-Tails' body.
However,
Such a stunning combined Ninjutsu attack was meaningless before the Nine-Tails.
The Chakra-pseudo fox merely swiped its sharp claws, smashing the flood-like Water Release into splashing water droplets. A few unlucky Kirigakure's Jonin were even sent flying by the swipe.
"Wha…"
"What!??"
"Defeated just like that?"
Seeing their full-power attack turn into nothing, some Kirigakure's Jonin's eyes trembled.
'So strong!'
'Is this the power of a Tailed Beast!??'
"Kill!"
"Yuki!"
"I will kill you!!!"
The massive pseudo-Nine-Tails opened its bloody maw. Soon, terrifying Chakra gathered in its mouth, quickly forming a giant black Chakra Sphere over fifty meters in diameter.
"That's…"
"Tailed Beast Bomb!!!"
At this point, even the originally quite calm Mei and Yuzuki had expressions of despair on their faces.
"Chakra of this magnitude…"
"Everything within ten kilometers will be blown sky-high!"
Mei's legs trembled slightly. Still relatively green, she didn't yet have enough courage to face a monster like the Nine-Tails.
"Dead… we're dead…"
"It's over!"
"All over!"
"Tailed Beast, this is simply cheating, humans are no match!"
At this moment, many Kirigakure's Ninjas also gave up resistance, their faces pale. Their arms hung limply at their sides, the kunai and swords in their hands clattering to the ground.
Despair.
Complete despair.
The Tailed Beast Bomb, accumulating a vast amount of Chakra, made everyone on the battlefield smell the scent of death, vaguely seeing the gates of hell slowly opening before them.
"Die!"
The black Tailed Beast Bomb shot through the air, streaking wildly towards the Kirigakure positions.
The extremely violent energy turbulence could even tear the space along its path, producing lightning-like black ripples.
"Heavenly child, an iron fortress…"
"A steel castle, a dragon's fang, a fierce tiger's roar, a giant horn, a hard line, and a long spear, stand tall before me and sever all bonds."
On the battlefield filled with destruction and despair, an incredibly calm voice suddenly rang out slowly.
Then, the Tailed Beast Bomb, over fifty meters in diameter, seemed to crash into an invisible wall, emitting a series of grating, squealing, grinding sounds.
Crack!
Crack!
Crackle!
A faint, brittle sound amidst the tumult, as weak as a mosquito's buzz, yet so clearly transmitted to the ears of countless Ninjas.
Many looked up in shock, their gazes terrified and horrified as they looked towards the sky.
There, the entire sky was like a shattered mirror, cracked with spider-web-like fissures.
The black Tailed Beast Bomb, as if blocked by an invisible wall, turned into a sky-blanketing black net of light under the disbelieving gazes of all, spreading across that mirror-like, shattered sky.
Black cracks, an invisible light screen, a bizarre scene, along with the terrifying flames shooting skyward and the ear-splitting roar.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The unstoppable Tailed Beast Bomb completely collapsed before that invisible light screen, turning into rampant ink-black flames, frantically rushing high into the sky.
For a time, the sky was filled with ink-black clouds, shading the sky, reflecting a heart-palpitating eerie black light.
"This…"
"What happened?"
Looking at the ink-colored spectacle in the sky, countless Ninjas' expressions became blank and helpless.
They only felt an overwhelming suffocation. Under the huge mental impact, their brains, due to the body's protective mechanism, instantly entered a crashed state.
Screeching, roaring, flames rolling back.
When the churning dust gradually dispersed, everyone was utterly astonished to discover that, amidst the flickering shadows, a figure was still standing calmly within those ink-black flames.
"Tailed Beast Bomb?"
"Indeed a good attempt, Uzumaki Kushina. You have probably surpassed the first Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki and stepped into a whole new level."
After the ink-black flames were scattered by the explosion's wild wind, Sora's fair, handsome face suddenly appeared before everyone.
He merely smiled lightly, watching the terrifying flames shoot skyward, his gaze without the slightest ripple.
"Why why why why!!!"
An irate female voice suddenly sounded from within the pseudo-Nine-Tails' body: "My power clearly above yours, why can't I defeat you ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
Roaring in anger, the giant Nine-Tailed Demon Fox suddenly pounced towards Sora.
Its sharp claws raised high, wanting to smash this damned human into paste. But the whistling descending beast's claw still met its end before a single slender human finger.
Boom!
A loud sound rang.
The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's beast claw smashed fiercely onto that invisible wall.
The Tailed Beast's attack that should have destroyed everything unbelievably came to an abrupt halt here.
That unseen wall stood between Sora and the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. The sky already full of cracks remained an insurmountable chasm for the Nine-Tails.
Even with its beast claw shattered, it could not cross the chasm even one step.
"Did you forget?"
"You should have seen it before, right? This invisible curtain sufficient to sever the world…"
"Bakudo #81, Danku."
Looking at the quite human-like shock and bewilderment in the giant beast's eyes, Sora slowly raised his finger, pointing at the behemoth before him.
"Next, something more interesting."
"Bankai…"
"Thousand Year Ice Prison!"
In that rather subtle tone, suddenly, brilliant cold lights leaped out from the void, enveloping the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.