The earth was trembling.
The dark-gold Susanoo was like a towering mountain, pinning the Nine-Tails Fox beneath it with deadly force.
One of Susanoo's feet came down heavily on the Nine-Tails' chest, while a massive chakra palm held down that enormous fox head, nailing it hard to the ravaged ground.
"Awooo—!!"
The Nine-Tails let out an unwilling roar.
Its four limbs clawed madly at the ground, rocks shattering like tofu beneath its talons. Its nine tails whipped around wildly, trying to topple the giant on top of it.
But before absolute power, all that struggling seemed so pale.
The weight of the Resonance-Form Susanoo was not merely the weight of chakra, but the weight of the wills of three hundred Uchiha clansmen.
"Don't move."
Xuan Shi stood inside the crystal on Susanoo's forehead, his gaze cold.
"Right now, you're just a puppet being controlled. You don't even have a will of your own, and you think you deserve to be called the strongest tailed beast?"
Xuan Shi formed hand seals.
Susanoo's eyes suddenly lit up, and two golden beams shot straight into the Nine-Tails' pupils.
"Visual Jutsu: Mental Invasion!"
The scene shifted.
Xuan Shi's consciousness appeared in a crimson space.
This was the Nine-Tails' mental world.
Flames of hatred burned all around, and beneath his feet was a sticky chakra swamp. The air was filled with a nauseating stench of blood.
At the center of that sea of fire, the Nine-Tails was bound tight by countless red chakra chains.
Those chains bit deep into its flesh, while the other ends stretched into the void, connected to some unknown existence.
The Nine-Tails' eyes were filled with confusion and pain, and under the chains' control, it let out unconscious roars.
"Found it."
Xuan Shi looked at those chains, the corner of