Barrier Shattered, Ancestral Land in Peril

"This is...!"

Konoha Back Mountain!

The First Hokage looked at the dark golden mass of energy continuously expanding before him, a trace of surprise appearing on his face.

The growing mass of energy eventually stopped at a height of around ten meters. After churning for a moment, it finally formed into a gigantic fox with nine tails—the Nine-Tails.

This state counted as the Nine-Tails' complete Tailed Beast transformation. Kushina's body stood within the Nine-Tails' head, allowing her to fight alongside it.

Boom!

The Nine-Tails planted its four claws against the ground and suddenly lunged forward, its sharp claws tearing through the air as they raked toward the wooden giant ahead.

Naturally, the wooden giant was utterly unafraid. Let alone the complete Tailed Beast transformation of half a Nine-Tails, even the complete Nine-Tails could not stir up much trouble before the First Hokage.

Before long, the wooden giant completely suppressed the Nine-Tails. Even when the Nine-Tails tried to launch a Tailed Beast Ball at it, the attack was directly interrupted.

At the same time, several pale figures appeared at the entrance to the Senju clan compound. They were all White Zetsu clones.

The densely packed figures numbered over a hundred.

"Heh, so we really have to force our way in."

One of the White Zetsu clones sneered, as though he had long expected this outcome.

Originally, Zetsu had not wanted these clones to directly charge into the Senju clan compound. He had planned to rely on Orochimaru to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but to his surprise, after so much time had passed, Orochimaru still seemed not to have succeeded.

With no other choice, so as not to waste this opportunity, Zetsu could only send the White Zetsu clones into action. Their target was the other half of the Nine-Tails—Naruto.

Zetsu had