Eight-Tails Falls! The Final Declaration Leaves Only the Hidden Mist

The Raikage panted heavily, and at last, a trace of despair crept into those furious, bell-like eyes.

His left arm was completely ruined, and even the Lightning Release Armor he had always been so proud of was riddled with holes under the corrosion of that eerie black lightning.

What chilled him most was the recovery ability of the monster across from him. After taking his full-powered clash head-on, the other man's bones had actually returned to normal within seconds.

"You monster..." the Raikage ground his teeth. But he did not back down. As the tyrant of the Hidden Cloud Village, he would rather die in battle than kneel like Onoki. He squeezed out every last bit of chakra in his body, and a blue pillar of lightning shot straight into the clouds.

"Trying to risk your life? Too late."

Yuan gave the Raikage no chance to unleash a big move. The Mangekyo patterns in his eyes spun fiercely, but the red complete-body Susanoo did not appear. Instead, high-density Susanoo armor merely covered his legs and right fist, converting all its defensive power into ultimate explosive force.

Boom! A deep pit was left where he stood, and in that instant, Yuan's speed even surpassed the injured Raikage's.

He closed in instantly!

The Raikage only saw a red-and-black afterimage flash before his eyes. Then Yuan's iron fist, wrapped in red Susanoo crystal and black lightning, punched straight through the Raikage's already shattered chest armor like a rock drill, without the slightest suspense!

Pfft!

His heart was crushed. Yuan's fist pierced out through the Raikage's back, dragging out a large mass of charred flesh and blood. He yanked his arm back out, then followed through by stomping the Raikage's massive body hard into the dirt. Power surged beneath his foot, and with a crack, he directly crushed the Raikage's cervical vertebrae.

"Your speed still wasn't fast enough." Yuan looked down at the Raikage, whose eyes remained open in death, and coldly threw down those words.

Just then.

"Big Brother--!!!"

A heart-rending, utterly inhuman roar burst from the distant valley. A surge of red tailed-beast chakra, filled with a savage, tyrannical aura, shot into the sky like a fountain of blood.

Killer B, the Raikage's sworn younger brother, the Eight-Tails jinchuriki. From afar, he had witnessed the miserable sight of the Raikage being killed, and the grief in his heart completely broke through his reason. He even skipped half-tailed transformation; amid a terrifying swelling and twisting of his body, he transformed directly into a giant ox-headed octopus monster as huge as a mountain—the complete Eight-Tails, Gyuki.

"I'll kill you! I'm gonna grind you into meat paste, you bastard, you fool!" Killer B's broken-gong voice mixed with the Eight-Tails' roar, shaking through the valley. The Eight-Tails' enormous octopus tentacles slammed down on the ground, and it opened its bloody maw. A black-purple chakra sphere, compressed to the extreme, rapidly took shape in its mouth.

Tailed Beast Ball!

"Perfect! I've never killed a tailed beast before!" Yuan threw his head back and laughed wildly. Facing the Tailed Beast Ball that was enough to flatten a village, the violent blood in his body boiled completely. Dark-red light rose from the ground, and that incomparably massive martial god Susanoo clad in tengu armor appeared in the world once more!

Boom--!

The huge Tailed Beast Ball turned into a black-purple pillar of death and slammed hard into Susanoo's chest. Its terrifying heat and destructive power instantly covered the surface of the martial god Susanoo's indestructible armor in dense cracks. Inside the crystal, Yuan was shaken until his blood churned, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"The force of a Tailed Beast Ball... really does hurt a little." Yuan licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, and his gaze instantly turned incomparably vicious. "Then let me see how many lives you octopus have for me to tear apart!"

Yuan controlled Susanoo and did not retreat even half a step. The martial god's huge hands shot out and grabbed the two thick tentacles the Eight-Tails lashed at him with in a death grip.

"Get over here!"

Yuan let out an angry roar. Susanoo erupted with terrifying strength, actually yanking the mountain-sized Eight-Tails off the ground as if flinging a noodle. Then it swung the beast half a circle through the air and smashed it hard into a nearby mountain!

Rumble! The mountain collapsed. The Eight-Tails let out a pained wail.

Yuan dispersed Susanoo, and his whole body shot toward the fallen Eight-Tails like a cannonball fired from its barrel. In midair, he drew the short blade from his back. Ocular power poured wildly into it, and the short blade extended into a black lightning blade aura over a dozen meters long.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Yuan turned into a streak of lightning, shuttling madly across the Eight-Tails' massive body and cutting it apart. Killer B tried to counterattack with the tentacle blades formed from his seven ninja swords, but before Yuan's extreme speed and monstrous strength, only several crisp sounds of metal snapping rang out. The seven famous blades Killer B took such pride in were all broken by Yuan within three breaths.

Bang!

Yuan's final Heavy Flow Style flying kick smashed hard into the Eight-Tails' ox head. That enormous force directly snapped one of the Eight-Tails' horns and forcibly shattered the colossal creature's chakra, knocking it back into Killer B's human form.

Killer B lay covered in blood at the bottom of the huge pit, his chest rising and falling sharply. His sunglasses were long gone, and his eyes were filled with anger and despair.

Yuan walked to his side without the slightest pity. He pressed his right palm onto the seal on Killer B's abdomen, and his ocular technique "Annihilation" activated, directly tearing apart that complex sealing formula.

"Gaaahhh!" Killer B screamed. A massive amount of red Eight-Tails chakra was forcibly ripped out of his body by Yuan's violent suction, turning into a red energy sphere that hovered in midair. The jinchuriki who had lost his tailed beast was instantly cut off from life.

That clumsy rap that had once chattered endlessly on the battlefield and made people laugh now stopped completely.

"Big Brother..." Killer B struggled to spit out his final two words, then went utterly silent.

"Your song is over. Go sing it for the Raikage in hell." Yuan coldly put away that mass of high-density Eight-Tails chakra and sealed it into a scroll.

[Ding! Killed Kage-level A, the Fourth Raikage! Killed Eight-Tails jinchuriki Killer B! Obtained orange fragments ×100! Obtained red Six Paths-level fragments (Eight-Tails remnants) ×50!]

The continuous high-intensity battles left Yuan's breathing somewhat rapid as well. He stood amid the wreckage strewn across the ground and turned to glance around. The Kazekage, the Tsuchikage, the Raikage, the Three Sannin. Those peak powerhouses who stood high above others and ruled the ninja world had been slaughtered clean by him like grass in just one short month.

The power within the system space was swelling at an unprecedented speed.

Yuan tore a strip of cloth from his windbreaker and wiped the blood from his hands. He raised his head, and those scarlet Mangekyo Sharingan looked toward the distant eastern ocean. In this world, the traditional ninja villages capable of posing a threat to him no longer existed.

"Only a group of cowards hiding in the mist and too scared to come out remains." A cruel smile curved Yuan's lips. "Mei Terumi... Land of Water. Wash your necks and wait for me."

And he knew even better that behind this bloody curtain, the eyes of Obito and the Akatsuki were greedily watching it all. The true killing ground had only just begun to open.