"Roar—!" The moment the Nine-Tails appeared, it threw back its head and roared, shaking the heavens as gale-force winds swept across the land!
Its form and presence were like a demon-quelling lord descended from the heavens, like the God of Calamity walking among men!
This was undoubtedly the supreme divine might of the complete Nine-Tails!
"This power?!" Far away, Obito felt his heart pounding. His Kamui Mangekyō activated of its own accord, and he stared in shock. "Could this be the Nine-Tails' true power? Compared to when it was in Konoha, it's like night and day!"
"That's because a Tailed Beast can't unleash its full power on its own. But if it perfectly synchronizes with its Jinchuriki, that brings about a qualitative transformation!" Black Zetsu's pupils trembled violently as he revealed this little-known secret.
"..." Obito fell into a deathly silence, but he knew Black Zetsu was telling the truth!
The Nine-Tails he had controlled in Konoha was so different from the radiant golden Nine-Tails before him that they hardly seemed to be the same fox!
Once a Jinchuriki and Tailed Beast made peace and resonated with each other, it was no longer a simple case of one plus one equaling two. The difference was qualitative!
Now, his only hope lay in Sasori's final gambit!
At the thought, Obito clenched his fists and silently prayed: Sasori, you have to kill him! I'll burn a hundred puppet beauties for you every year from now on!
Perhaps it had sensed Obito's thoughts. At that moment—
Boom—
The World-Destroying Cannon suddenly radiated an even more terrifying aura. The sphere gradually melted, transforming into the purest blue energy, which completely filled the pitch-black barrel.
It was energy compressed to the extreme, powerful enough to tear through the void!
Once fired, this attack would surely be enough to destroy a large shinobi village and make the earth tremble!
Naruto stood atop the complete Nine-Tails' head, watching the scene. He narrowed his eyes and exclaimed, "That attack is truly terrifying!"
But then Naruto abruptly changed tack and laughed aloud. "But how could I possibly be outdone by you?!"
As he spoke, in an instant—
Naruto raised both hands, palms open and facing forward, and poured all his strength into unleashing the Nine-Tails' near-invincible chakra.
The next moment—
Whoosh! The complete Nine-Tails opened its enormous jaws, and powerful chakra surged forth. Countless black-purple particles tore through the void, rapidly converging before its massive mouth.
The black-purple particles continued to multiply. In the blink of an eye, they formed a gigantic black sphere, like a dark sun radiating an aura of world-ending destruction!
It was none other than a Tailed Beast Bomb!
But this was only the beginning.
The Nine-Tails brought its two paws to either side of the Tailed Beast Bomb, then began twisting them furiously.
Boom! Enormous amounts of chakra instantly surged from its paws. The air filled with the auras of the Five Natures, which poured into the Tailed Beast Bomb. A rapidly spinning ring of the Five Natures gradually emerged, causing its aura to rise sharply!
In an instant—
Rumble—
A gigantic Five-Style Spiral Tailed Beast Bomb appeared in midair like a god of war descending. The Five Natures' power and Tailed Beast Chakra within it compressed and spun continuously, radiating a terrifying aura capable of annihilating everything!
"This technique! How is that possible?!" Obito's Sharingan shuddered at the sight.
No wonder Obito was so shocked. He had once controlled the Nine-Tails and made it unleash a Tailed Beast Bomb.
But compared to the one before him, that had been like a candle flame competing with the moon—no, like a candle flame competing with the sun!
Just then, the World-Destroying Cannon finally fired!
It was as though Sasori's final cry had echoed across the battlefield.
"Ultimate: Universal World-Ending Strike!"
The next moment—
Boom—
A blinding blue beam tore through the void like lightning, carrying an overwhelming force that could devour all things as it hurtled toward the complete Nine-Tails!
The void wailed along its path, as though the world-ending light had shattered it to pieces!
And yet—
Naruto merely smiled at the sight, then swept out his hand.
"Five-Style: Tailed Beast Stellar Spiral Sky-Curtain Sword!"
As his words fell—
Whoosh! The fearsome Five-Style Tailed Beast Bomb shot through the air, bearing a godlike force as it resolutely met the blinding beam!
The two collided head-on!
Rumble—
A world-shaking explosion erupted in the void. The energy at its center compressed and expanded without end, and a blinding white light, followed by shockwaves that seemed to swallow heaven and earth, swept out in every direction.
Wherever the shockwaves passed, the earth split, mountains crumbled, and everything was instantly reduced to dust!
"This is terrifying!" Engulfed by the white light and feeling the suffocating shockwaves, Obito activated Kamui's intangibility in fright.
Black Zetsu immediately used the Mayfly Technique as well. Only after burrowing hundreds of meters underground did he mutter, still shaken, "An energy clash like this is already on par with Hashirama and Madara's battle!"
The people of the Land of Rivers had naturally witnessed this astonishing scene too. They fell to their knees in terror, lips trembling as panicked cries filled the area.
"Is this divine punishment?!"
"How terrifying! Humans could never do something like this!"
"Please, heavens, don't punish us!"
As the people's wails rose one after another—
Kakashi and the others were also forced to stop moving forward by the shockwaves!
Kakashi looked up at the center of the explosion, his eyes flashing with utter shock. "What kind of earth-shattering battle is this?!"
Sakura trembled all over and stammered, "We... we really can't do anything to help, can we?"
Watching the scene, Chiyo's aged face quivered slightly as she sighed, "Even in the early days of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, when heroes from all sides fought one another, battles of this caliber were exceedingly rare!"
Only now did Chiyo finally understand. Sasori, her grandson, had long since surpassed every puppeteer and soared alone to the other shore!
She also understood just how unfathomable the strength of the Shinobi World's rising star, Uzumaki Naruto, truly was!
At the heart of the battlefield, the boundless shockwaves from the explosion still hadn't subsided.
Fortunately, the battlefield was deep in the outskirts, so the blast hadn't caused any physical harm to the people of the Land of Rivers...
"Damn it! Are they even human?!" Obito was drenched in cold sweat. He felt that these two had to be cheating!
Could a human even hope to defeat them?!
At the very least, with just one eye, he would be slaughtered instantly like a chicken or a dog.
The only way was to gather both Mangekyō Sharingan and unleash that godlike third power!
At the thought, a trace of cold intent welled in Obito's eyes. He murmured, "Kakashi, it's time to return that Sharingan to its rightful owner!"
A short while later—
The earth-shattering explosion finally subsided, and the dazzling white light gradually receded like the tide, revealing the scene at last.
Every tree and plant on the ground had been completely wiped away, leaving only a bottomless crater, like a scar across the earth.
The World-Destroying Cannon had also fallen into the crater. Its exterior had turned completely black. It hadn't been destroyed, but it had certainly suffered severe damage.
Nearby—
Whoosh! The complete Nine-Tails had already been swallowed by the torrent of the explosion. All that remained was a battered golden fox's head, barely able to shield Naruto from the devastation.
Then the fox's head gradually faded away, and Naruto also left Kurama Mode.
"Huff, huff..." Naruto panted slightly as he looked toward the cannon in the crater and exclaimed, "Sasori! No matter what, I acknowledge your art!"
Since crossing over into this world, this was the first time Naruto had felt fatigue creeping over him.
Sasori had earned those words!
But as soon as he finished speaking—
Naruto turned his gaze into the distance, where a figure had been revealed by the disappearance of the obstruction that had concealed it.
A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Naruto's mouth as he called out.
"Well, well! If it isn't the Shinobi World's biggest disguise-loving, peeping tom—Uchiha... Madara!"
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