Boom!
At terrifying speed, Kushina appeared directly in front of the Cloud Shinobi, blocking their escape route.
This terrified the mercenary ninja regiment.
"Don't worry about that monster! There are so many of us—she can't kill all of us at once! Break through!"
When ordinary people encountered a wild beast, they did not need to outrun the beast. They only needed to outrun everyone else.
The elite members of this mercenary ninja regiment, who were also elites from the Land of Lightning, decisively chose to abandon the ninja they had recruited from across the Shinobi World.
However, amid Uzumaki Kushina's furious roar in the distance, the fourth tail behind her gradually emerged completely. At the same time, her skin showed signs of being scorched by dark red Chakra.
Her skin and blood turned into black ash beneath the terrifying Tailed Beast Chakra, visibly forming a black sphere around her body.
"Run!"
Though these mercenary ninja had no idea what was happening, they were terrified. This instinctive fear could not be wrong.
Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade shouted:
"Everyone, maintain a safe distance! Jonin, prepare to assist Tsunade with Fuinjutsu!"
Boom!
Just then, the black sphere revealed the figure within: a terrifying humanoid creature resembling a small Nine-Tails. The next moment, it swung its arm with all its might, and in an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
The ground cracked. A vast stretch of forest exploded in an instant, shattered trees filling the sky. This terrifying attack even stirred up a powerful hurricane.
It directly cleared out an open area.
"Defend yourselves!"
Faced with the terrifying aftermath of the battle, countless branches were carried in by the hurricane. All the ninja cried out, and countless ninjutsu were unleashed for defense.
Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall
Uchiha Yoru hurriedly used Earth Style to defend himself. The other ninja followed suit, while some hid together behind defensive ninjutsu.
"What kind of monster is that?!"
Shikaku Nara, hiding behind an earth wall, stared into the distance in terror and could not help muttering.
Although they were second-generation members of Konoha powerful clans and had heard of Jinchuriki, they had never witnessed such a terrifying battle.
After all, Konoha's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Mito, had always served as a deterrent and had yet to appear on a battlefield.
"Th-this is a Jinchuriki!"
Seeing such a horrifying sight for the first time, Minato Namikaze's eyes went blank.
Such terrifying power had already exceeded their understanding!
Not just them—even Uchiha Yoru, who knew that ninja could become godlike once their strength reached a certain level, could not help being shocked when facing it for real.
Knowing something and experiencing it firsthand were entirely different concepts.
"This is bad! It's a Tailed Beast Ball!"
Tsunade's startled cry came from afar. Uzumaki Kushina, who was crouched on the ground in the form of a small Nine-Tails, suddenly formed a black, tangible mass of Chakra in her mouth.
In an instant, the Tailed Beast Ball compressed and shrank. This qualitative change in Chakra caused the surrounding ground to collapse.
The next moment!
Roar!
With a furious roar, the Tailed Beast Ball was swallowed into her stomach. Then she opened her mouth toward the direction in which the mercenary ninja were fleeing.
In an instant!
Under the stunned and shocked gazes of countless people, a dazzling white light shot into the sky, and all things between heaven and earth paled in comparison.
The next moment!
Boom, boom, boom!
After the blinding flash came an earth-shattering rumble. The shockwave from the terrifying explosion swept toward them.
Boom, boom, boom!
The enormous shockwave was like a hurricane of natural disaster, making the surrounding trees sway violently. Trees closer to it were uprooted outright.
"Th-this... is this really a battle we can take part in?!"
"M-monster! Kushina is a monster!"
The Tailed Beast Ball came quickly and went quickly!
As the rolling smoke and dust dispersed, revealing the aftermath in the distance, countless ninja wore blank, terrified expressions.
"Th-this is simply a monster!"
Standing atop a tree, Uchiha Yoru witnessed the scene firsthand, and his pupils suddenly contracted!
A vast forest had been flattened, and even the earth had been gouged three or four meters deep.
An entire forest had been erased in an instant!
With such terrifying power, even ordinary Earth Style burrowing techniques could not escape it. They would only be wiped out by the Tailed Beast Ball.
The mercenary ninja who had been shouting so arrogantly moments ago were gone after a single Tailed Beast Ball. The scorched earth in the distance smoked in utter silence, without even the sound of an insect.
"This is the ultimate weapon—the Jinchuriki!"
After recovering from his shock at witnessing the terrifying power of a Tailed Beast for the first time, greed appeared in Orochimaru's golden eyes.
"You five squads, go check for survivors."
Orochimaru would not let this opportunity slip away.
Under a Tailed Beast Ball, some among so many ninja were bound to be lucky enough to survive—perhaps they had been at the edge of the blast, or perhaps some Jonin had hurriedly used ninjutsu to escape.
After all, ninja possessed all kinds of strange and varied ninjutsu. But those who survived such an attack were lucky; they had not been at the center of the explosion.
After the Tailed Beast Ball exploded and Uzumaki Kushina's figure was revealed, her fourth tail had disappeared. Since she was not a true Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, the excessive Chakra consumption had caused her to revert to the three-tail state.
"This is bad! Once Kushina uses up this Chakra, her life will be in danger!"
Seeing this, Tsunade immediately shouted, anxiety clear in her eyes.
Damn it! I was careless!
She had intended to let Kushina grow a little and resolve some of her inner turmoil. Who would have thought that Kushina would directly lose control?
Once the Nine-Tails Chakra sealed inside her was exhausted in this adapted state, it would be like having the Tailed Beast extracted from her. Uzumaki Kushina would have only one outcome.
Death!
Boom, boom, boom!
Uzumaki Kushina in her three-tail state had regained a humanoid form, but her skin had been scorched by the Nine-Tails Chakra, especially her face, which was burned red.
Yet even in her three-tail state, Uzumaki Kushina still had not regained her reason as she let out a low roar.
Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld
Shadow Snake Hands
Through Jiraiya and Orochimaru's coordination, Earth Release restrained Uzumaki Kushina while Orochimaru's Snake Ninjutsu bound Kushina.
"Not good, Tsunade! Retreat!"
The instant countless pythons wrapped around Kushina, Orochimaru seemed to sense something and immediately shouted coldly.
Tsunade, holding a Talisman Seal and preparing to rush forward, suddenly heard Orochimaru's cold shout.
The pythons wrapped around Kushina visibly began to vaporize.
"Captain Tsunade!"
Just then, a familiar shout came from the side. A black shadow flashed past—it was a tree trunk flying toward her.
Using it as leverage, Tsunade stepped onto the flying tree trunk and immediately changed direction, rapidly retreating. At the same time, she shouted angrily at the figure emerging from the side:
"Kid, this isn't a battle you can participate in! Get back to a safe distance!"
The one who had thrown the tree trunk from afar was Uchiha Yoru. Facing Tsunade's angry shout, his expression was filled with determination.
In this Shinobi World where strength reigned supreme, this was his chance to prove before everyone that he possessed the true Will of Fire.
Fortune was found in danger!
He had a Sage Body, and Tsunade, the greatest healer in the Shinobi World. As long as he still had one breath left!
A gamble could turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!
With that thought, Uchiha Yoru took a deep breath, determination filling the One-Tomoe in his eyes.
"I, Uchiha Yoru, will never abandon my companions!"
Though it was childish, Uchiha Yoru knew that this twisted, sick Shinobi World loved that kind of thing.
"Watch out!"
Tsunade suddenly cried out. In an instant, a red figure lunged at him.
"I—"
Uchiha Yoru's pupils contracted as he was shouting passionately. Uzumaki Kushina, clad in a Tailed Beast Cloak, charged toward him.
How fast was a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki in a three-tail rampage?
He knew!
His One-Tomoe Sharingan could only catch a streak of red light. Before his brain could even react, the figure had already appeared before his face!
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