Although Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence had wrapped the entire Four-Tails tightly, the Tailed Beast Chakra was immensely powerful. It was still impossible to drain it dry in a short time.
The current Rōshi clearly did not possess the control over the Four-Tails that he would have twenty years later. Thus, while fully transformed into a Tailed Beast, he retained little consciousness. Being able to distinguish friend from foe was already his limit.
Yet the stimulation of Wood Release jolted the Four-Tails itself awake from its rampage, restoring its reason. It immediately opened its mouth and, heedless of the fact that firing at such close range would injure itself, launched a Tailed Beast Ball straight into the ground.
Amid violent tremors, countless cracks split the earth. The densely packed trees were blasted clear, leaving an open patch. The once mighty red-furred gorilla was now covered in wounds from its own Tailed Beast Ball.
Intense heat continued to blaze. The Four-Tails had now fully unleashed its distinctive Lava Release Chakra. Had this been an ordinary forest, it would already have been reduced to ash.
Yet the trees spawned by Wood Release feared neither ordinary water nor fire, especially those formed from Chakra. Even the scorching lava on the Four-Tails' body burned through Wood Release at a very slow pace. Some of its Chakra was even absorbed by the Wood Release, spawning still more trees.
After glancing around, the Four-Tails bent its knees. Ignoring the pain from the wounds on its body and feet, it let out a furious roar and leaped away.
After landing, it ignored the trees that had tangled around it once more and continued jumping in one direction.
"Trying to leap out of Wood Release's range?" Kinnara saw through the Four-Tails' intentions at once.
Beyond its formidable vitality