While Jiraiya and the Two Great Sages were still in the Leaf Village, Liao Wu prepared to head to Mount Myōboku and send the Great Toad Sage to his grave.
Inside the tower, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and sped toward Mount Myōboku.
He streaked across Rōran's sky like a flash of lightning.
This was flight through elemental transformation.
After devouring the Nine-Tails and becoming a chakra life-form, Liao Wu's chakra control had reached an extraordinarily advanced level.
His cells could break down directly into pure chakra.
Every part of his body could turn into chakra, allowing him to transform into fire or water.
He could become any of chakra's seven elements: fire, water, lightning, wind, earth, yin, and yang.
To reach Mount Myōboku before Jiraiya and the Two Great Sages, Liao Wu transformed into lightning, the fastest of them all.
Lightning traveled fast.
Liao Wu was like a lightning cat formed of thunderbolts, surging through the sky in a blaze of electricity.
As he moved at tremendous speed, the air instantly heated and expanded, with deafening thunder erupting only after the flash had passed.
At this speed, he could reach Mount Myōboku in minutes.
Mount Myōboku.
The Great Toad Sage, senile in his old age, was sleeping in the temple as usual.
Suddenly, he dreamed of a lightning-colored cat descending from the sky, like Takemikazuchi manifesting in the mortal world, or the Shinigami arriving.
The toads of Mount Myōboku charged at him together, but the lightning cat's destructive power was even more terrifying than the Nine-Tails'.
Not a single toad was his match. One hiss killed over a thousand giant toads on the spot.
A swipe of his paw could seize lightning, and a casual strike could obliterate Mount Myōboku's towering peaks and dense forests.
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