The Most Powerful Summoning Beast

Boom...

As a massive cloud of white smoke suddenly exploded, everyone on the battlefield felt the light around them dim, as though some enormous creature had blocked out the sun.

Soon, the smoke gradually dispersed, revealing a gigantic figure!

Emerging from the smoke was an enormous dark crimson serpent coiled on the ground like a mountain. Every scale on its body was roughly the size of an adult. Trees that three or four people could not wrap their arms around looked like slender twigs before it. Merely lying there, it blocked out most of the sunlight and cut off the flow of air around it.

A dense, horrifying stench of blood wafted from its body, while its immense chakra fluctuations, comparable to those of a Tailed Beast, were terrifying enough to make one's heart pound!

"This is a ninja snake, one of the most powerful ninja snakes in the shinobi world!"

In an instant, the four experienced Jonin—Asuma, Kurenai, Yugao, and Hayate—reached the same conclusion.

The giant snake before them was undoubtedly a summoning beast on the same level as Gamabunta, the summoning beast of Jiraiya, one of the Sannin. Such top-tier summoning beasts were treated almost like Tailed Beasts in the shinobi world—as strategic weapons. They were terrifying beings that only Elite Jonin, or even Kage-level experts, could barely control!

As their gazes traveled upward, they saw a sight they could scarcely believe.

Naruto, whom everyone had regarded as dead last, stood quietly atop the giant snake's head with his arms folded across his chest, like the snake's master, looking down at the people below.

Asuma turned his head stiffly toward Kurenai beside him. "Am... am I under a genjutsu?!"

The calm composure he had displayed earlier was gone. Looking at Naruto standing atop the giant snake's head, he