"What did you say!?" Naruto roared. "You bastard, get the hell out of here!"
"Arrogance—truly the greatest original sin. But sometimes, I really do like it. Because of it, so many little cuties willingly jump out on their own..."
Li spoke softly. "If you weren't so arrogant, why would you have come out now and let me discover you? After all, I'm quite arrogant too, because I believed I had truly erased you... What I like most about arrogance is that arrogant enemies will reap the bitter fruit of their own arrogance..."
Li sighed softly, and power burst forth from his hand. Naruto, who had appeared within Li's spiritual world, merely widened his eyes slightly before vanishing from Li's spiritual world in an instant. Naruto had been erased once again. Naruto would never understand that Li was an existence completely beyond this dimension. What Naruto believed to be a calamity Li could not resolve was, to Li himself, nothing more than a ridiculous game.
Just as Li instantly erased Naruto, his nose twitched. He sensed an inexplicable smell in the air. When he looked again, countless faint black droplets had somehow begun drifting around him...
This is...
The Bull Demon King roared, "First Seal of All Things in Creation! Ink Seal!"
The droplets around him, which had been faintly black to begin with, suddenly clung to Li's body. In an instant, Li was covered in black liquid. "Ink Seal?" Li let out a soft breath. They really were underestimating him.
An attack like this might not even fully work against a Kage-level shinobi...
Just as Li was about to break free directly, something else adhered to his ink-covered body. This was... sand?
"Second Seal! Sand Burial Pyramid!" Shukaku shouted.
Li's body was instantly raised higher and higher, while massive amounts