Clang—!!!
An ear-piercing clash of metal rang through the night sky.
The Nine-Tails' claws, powerful enough to tear mountains apart, raked viciously across Susanoo's armor. Sparks flew everywhere, dazzling like fireworks.
But not even a single scratch was left on that layer of dark-gold armor.
"Too weak."
Xuan Shi stood inside the crystal on Susanoo's forehead, his gaze calm as still water.
With a thought, the massive Susanoo made an incredibly nimble sideways movement.
This hundred-meter-class colossus actually displayed the agility of an assassin.
"Slash!"
The giant sword in Susanoo's hand swept out horizontally.
The black flames burning along the blade drew a pitch-black fan through the air.
Squelch!
The giant sword cut across the Nine-Tails' back.
Though for the Nine-Tails' enormous body, this slash was only a superficial wound, the black flames clinging to the blade instantly set its fur ablaze.
"Awooo—!!"
The Nine-Tails let out a pained roar.
The black flames seemed alive, spreading madly along its wound, devouring its chakra.
It rolled wildly on the ground, trying to put out the flames on its back.
But that was Amaterasu.
The inextinguishable fire.
Unless it burned its target to ash, it would never go out.
"This is Itachi's power."
Xuan Shi looked at the leaping black flames, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.
"Though he is still very immature now, the essence of these flames... is destruction."
The Nine-Tails quickly realized that it could gain no advantage in close combat.
This dark-gold giant not only had invincible defense, but the flames on that sword were far too strange.
"Roar!"
The Nine-Tails suddenly leapt backward, opening a distance of several hundred meters.
Its nine enormous tails plunged deep into the ground.
Rumble—
The earth split apart.
Countless house-sized boulders were lifted by its tails and smashed toward