"I never thought I'd still be unable to escape death in the end!"
Feeling the Tailed Beast Bomb above Mito Uzumaki's head about to stabilize, Li Yao, still suspended in midair, sighed and smiled.
He felt no fear toward death.
He was merely somewhat dissatisfied that he had failed to carry out all the revenge against the Third Hokage and Konoha that he had envisioned.
But no matter how unwilling he was, he could only face it calmly.
He no longer had any ability to resist.
The Chakra he had accumulated and stored over many years, along with the Chakra gained by blowing open all his acupoints, had vanished when the Black Iron Chains collapsed and dispersed earlier.
He had seen people online in his previous life talk about how powerful the Nine-Tails was, but unless one truly came to this world, there was no way to understand that sheer terror.
Your all-out effort was merely a casual puff of breath from the Nine-Tails.
That was the gap between Li Yao and a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
"Buzz!"
An even more powerful and oppressive Chakra fluctuation spread out.
Above Mito Uzumaki's head, the Tailed Beast Bomb had stabilized at a diameter of two meters.
A Tailed Beast Bomb of that size could erupt into a high-temperature sphere one kilometer in diameter, with a core temperature exceeding six thousand degrees.
At such temperatures, every defense became meaningless, and all things were instantly vaporized.
For Li Yao, this was just right.
Death would bring no pain. It would be over in an instant.
"Nine-Tails!!!"
Just as Li Yao prepared himself to meet death, Mito Uzumaki suddenly let out a furious roar.
The golden Nine-Tails Chakra around her then faded away, replaced by a red Nine-Tails Chakra cloak that surged forth and enveloped her entire