Break open the cavern!
Earth Style: Earth Core
The ninjas had been ready for some time. Upon hearing Mingye's command, they swiftly unleashed Earth Style, blasting the floor of the cavern upward. Mingye formed hand seals with both hands and prepared Sage Art toward the cavern entrance. Six thick, mucus-covered tails burst out of the cave. Saiken had also sensed the threat and shifted to a full-on offensive, spraying acid at Konoha's ninjas.
Sage Art: Howling Wind
Violent currents formed a wall before Mingye and compressed Saiken. After casting the jutsu, Mingye once again gave orders to the ninjas under him.
Fire Style!
Fueled by the raging wind, the Fire Style attacks unleashed by the many ninjas instantly swallowed Saiken. Its miserable screams rang out from the sea of flames. Mingye sneered. The reason the Nine-Tails had been able to inflict such immense damage on Konoha was not primarily because it had appeared without warning, but because it had appeared in the very center of Konoha. Fighting there had forced Konoha's ninjas to use their lives as bait to stop the Nine-Tails from continuing its mad destruction, minimizing civilian casualties. Yet it was precisely because of that mindset that Konoha's ninjas had suffered devastating losses.
Had it been somewhere else, the Nine-Tails might have been able to launch a powerful assault against Konoha's ninjas, but they would never have risked their lives to clash head-on with it. Konoha's ninjas would never do something so close to suicide. Saiken was the same. Although it possessed incomparable chakra, it still thought like a beast. Burned by the natural wind and flames, Saiken went berserk and continuously fired Tailed Beast Bombs in every direction. The commotion was enormous, and Mingye's expression darkened. Since Tsuchigumo ninjas were patrolling this area—or had come looking for