Three-Tails' Apprehension

A faint, gauzy ring of purple light surrounded the purple-black meteorite, and its entire body exuded an eerie presence—or rather, a kind of radiation!

As he drew slightly closer, Houka felt the Chakra within his body become much more active under the effects of that radiation.

Houka's heart stirred. This feeling was very similar to the sensation of releasing Chakra after opening the Eight Inner Gates!

As everyone knew, the Eight Inner Gates was a forbidden technique. Once activated, it placed varying degrees of strain on the body. Opening all eight gates was a guaranteed path to death.

Houka stroked his chin, moved slightly farther away, and continued circling the meteorite.

Honestly, seeing this meteorite left Houka extremely, extremely disappointed.

He remembered reading plenty of Naruto fanfiction in his previous life, all claiming that this meteorite was a fragment of the Ten-Tails containing immense Ten-Tails Chakra. So when he had received this mission, he had seemed dissatisfied on the surface while secretly rejoicing inside.

Then he had come here filled with great anticipation. When he had even seen the terrified expression on Three-Tails Isobu's face earlier, he had truly thought this meteorite was a fragment of the Ten-Tails.

But what was the result?

Damn it!

Inside the pond of the Sealing World, Houka's face was even greener than Isobu's turtle face as he snapped, "Tell me, what the hell was that expression just now?!"

Isobu rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Didn't you already feel it? The radiation from this rock causes Chakra to become active, and I'm a life-form manifested from Chakra."

"What does that mean? Explain it clearly!" Houka said irritably.

As the old saying went, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. A perfectly good "fragment of the Ten-Tails" had somehow turned into a meteorite that