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The battle footage ended there.

Coming back to his senses, Naruto realized that his body had changed.

In the mirror not far away, Naruto's current appearance was reflected.

His entire body was shrouded in a dense golden light. Large patches of Comma-shaped Jewel Markings had appeared on his clothes, and patterns had appeared on his face as well.

It was not just his appearance that had changed. Within his body, a powerful force beyond his imagination had begun to surge.

He had a feeling that if he used this power, he could unleash the kind of wide-area attack he had seen through Kurama's memories just now—one that could easily alter the terrain across a vast area.

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A nonsensical thought suddenly popped into Naruto's mind.

But it was not entirely without reason. This flashy, glittering appearance really did resemble what some games looked like after he had topped them up.

At that moment, Kurama looked smugly at the glowing Naruto and laughed. "Well? Have you felt this great lord's power? This is Kurama Chakra Mode, which you can use once you are able to fully wield my strength."

After saying that, Kurama looked at Naruto expectantly, waiting for this brat who had looked down on him to be overwhelmed by the shock in his heart and start praising him wildly.

But Naruto's attention was clearly elsewhere. With frightened astonishment, he said, "You actually eat people!"

"This great lord does not eat people. We Tailed Beasts do not need to eat. Not long after the battle ended, I spat those two people back out." Not hearing what he wanted to hear, Kurama replied unhappily.

He had forgotten about the two ninja named Kinkaku and Ginkaku after swallowing them. He had not expected them to survive by eating his internal organs, making his stomach hurt so badly that he spat them out.

Of course, he would never tell Naruto something so embarrassing.

At the moment, Naruto's Chakra was still connected to Kurama's, and he could sense that Kurama was not lying. Only then did he relax.

Raising his hands to inspect them, Naruto asked curiously, "This power really is strong. I already feel like I can control it as easily as moving my own arms. Why do you say I still need to learn how to use it?"

Kurama explained, "After all, this is my Chakra. Right now, I'm helping you control it, and it isn't being used at full power. Otherwise, the power would overwhelm your consciousness and send you berserk, like this."

As he spoke, Kurama withdrew most of the Chakra connected to Naruto, leaving only a tiny portion behind.

Then Naruto felt the golden light around him dissipate, replaced by a red chakra cloak shaped like a fox, with one tail behind him.

When this Tailed Beast Cloak appeared, Naruto felt his consciousness being oppressed by an immensely powerful force. The negative emotions in his heart began to surge out uncontrollably.

Fortunately, it was still within Naruto's limits.

Naruto's powerful rationality firmly kept his emotions under control. After getting used to it for a while, he was completely unfazed.

Seeing this, Kurama sent over another portion of Chakra, and the tail behind Naruto became two.

Naruto was still fine with two tails, but after it increased to three, obvious changes appeared.

This time, although Naruto had not lost his reason, he could clearly feel the string called rationality being stretched to the breaking point.

And beyond that, the Chakra was also corroding Naruto's body. His skin had already been burned away by the violent Chakra, exposing blood-red muscles beneath.

Seeing this, Kurama helped Naruto suppress it slightly. Once that corrosive force was gone, Naruto's body rapidly healed under the effects of Kurama's Chakra.

After seeing that Naruto was fine, Kurama explained, "Although our Chakra is connected, I can normally help you control it. In an emergency, helping you fight is no problem either, and I can bring out all of my power.

"But most of the time, I need to watch shows and play games too. I can't spare that much attention.

"And sometimes, I will enter a state where my consciousness is interrupted, something like sleeping. When that happens, if you want to use my power, you will need to control it yourself.

"And once you can fully master my power, you will also be able to freely use Evil Intent Sensing and undergo Tailed Beast Transformation to use that Big Black Ball you just saw—the Tailed Beast Ball.

"And because you are a Jinchuriki, you can use both your own power and mine at the same time. That will make you even stronger than I was at my peak."

At that point, Naruto understood the reason.

However, it did not change Naruto's opinion of this Big Fox. He said disdainfully, "Of course I understand that the only person one can truly rely on is oneself. But you really are lazy. If this keeps up, I suspect you'll eventually become an Otaku Fox who will not even want to leave after the seal is completely opened."

Hearing that, Kurama thought about it.

That actually did seem to be the case. In the past, he had tried every possible way to escape.

Now, even if Naruto drove him away, he probably would not want to leave. No other place had television dramas and games this good, nor did they have a friend like Naruto whom he could truly open up to.

"Hmph."

With a cold snort, Kurama flew into a rage from embarrassment after being called out and kicked Naruto out of the Sealing Space.

Opening his eyes, Naruto felt a little annoyed.

That Big Fox had actually kicked him for no reason. Naruto would remember this grudge.

Naruto decided that from now on, he would stop updating the Video Library.

Once Kurama finished everything in the Video Library, he would have to apologize to Naruto—and it had to be sincere. Then he would have to serve as Naruto's body pillow for a day. Only then would Naruto forgive that damn fox!

Thinking this, a smile appeared at the corner of Naruto's mouth.

"Time to keep training."

Climbing to his feet, Naruto resumed his training.

The path to becoming stronger was already clear: work hard to improve his willpower and body until he could fully withstand Kurama's power and possess strength beyond that of a Kage.

And to improve his willpower and body, the best method was naturally to constantly undergo the extremely painful process of physical-strengthening training.

Continuously breaking through the limits of the body and mind was a fast path to strengthening both physique and willpower, but ordinary people lacked such powerful determination and did not have bodies capable of enduring it.

Naruto had clearly seen the powerful restorative effects of Kurama's Chakra just now.

It also made him realize something.

He had greatly underestimated his body's potential. Compared with that potential, the intensity of his current physical-strengthening training was practically negligible.

With Kurama providing such powerful recovery as support, he could increase both the intensity and volume of his training by at least five times.

Thus, from that day onward, Naruto began a journey of high-intensity Taijutsu training.

He thoroughly adhered to the training principle of: as long as it did not kill him, train until it nearly did.

And amid that process, three months passed in the blink of an eye.