Pure White Susanoo

Two ferocious demon horns protruded from the massive, pure-white skull.

Two enormous skeletal hands extended from either side of its chilling ribcage.

Shao Nan activated Susanoo's first form and approached the Eight-Tails step by step.

At that moment, the aura radiating from Susanoo was an endless expanse of white that instinctively filled people with fear.

When the Eight-Tails saw it, he looked like a child who had done something wrong and hurriedly backed away!

Then he subconsciously shouted, "Old man, don't come any closer!"

Shao Nan was utterly confused!

What had the Eight-Tails just called him? Old man?

Wasn't the old man the tailed beasts spoke of the Sage of Six Paths?

But what did that have to do with him?!

It was completely baffling.

Shao Nan angrily shouted:

"Gyuki? Why are you calling me old man?!"

The Eight-Tails did not reply and merely sank into thought!

He remembered the time when he had still been inside the Ten-Tails, before they had been separated.

He had once witnessed every form of Susanoo used by the Sage of Six Paths.

The Susanoo before him looked exactly the same as the Sage of Six Paths' Susanoo, except for the color.

The Sage of Six Paths' had been bright blue, while this one was pure white.

But in the end, the Ten-Tails had been sealed away by a completed, pure-white Susanoo using 'Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei.'

Afterward, the Sage of Six Paths became the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki!

When he grew old, he divided the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine portions!

One of those portions was himself.

And when he had been young, he and the other eight tailed beasts had accompanied the Sage of Six Paths until the end of his life.

As those memories surfaced!

The pure-white chakra cloak around Shao Nan's Susanoo was exactly the form the Sage of Six Paths had taken when using Susanoo.

The Eight-Tails, Gyuki, continued shouting, "There's no mistake! You're the old man.

Don't you recognize me? I'm Little Eight, old man!"

Damn it, I'm a dashing young and handsome man!

And you, a tiny little pet, actually dare call me old man?

This was absolutely intolerable!

Shao Nan's chakra erupted. The pure-white chakra continued expanding as Susanoo's second form emerged.

It was a pure-white, human-faced Susanoo over a hundred meters tall.

Golden light shone from its eyes!

A red Uzumaki ripple pattern marked its chest.

A black crescent symbol sat in its left palm, while a golden sun symbol sat in its right palm.

It stood there barehanded.

Even Shao Nan was surprised. It was already over a hundred meters tall in just its second form?

Was it because of his infinite chakra?

Susanoo's second form was already on par with Uchiha Sasuke's completed Susanoo in scale!

Shao Nan sat directly on the ground and used his thoughts to control the human-faced Susanoo as it charged straight at the Eight-Tails.

The Eight-Tails seemed too afraid to resist and showed no intention of moving even a single step.

Killer B shouted in the Eight-Tails' mind, "Little Eight, wake up! What are you spacing out for?!"

The Eight-Tails rolled his eyes at Killer B and said, "He's my father. It's only natural for a father to beat his son!"

Upon hearing that, Killer B hurriedly tried to seize control of the Eight-Tails!

But no matter how much strength Killer B used, he could not take it back. Clearly, the Eight-Tails had locked him out.

Killer B was on the verge of collapse: What kind of bullshit is that, a father beating his son?! You're the Eight-Tails!

A living weapon of war, and you're calling some young guy your father?

In a frantic panic, Killer B flailed his arms and rapped:

"Oh no, oh no, oh my God... Why's this perfect jinchuriki malfunctioning now?!"

Whoosh!

The human-faced Susanoo grabbed the unmoving bull body of the Eight-Tails with both hands.

With an incredibly heavy suplex, it slammed him onto the ground.

Bang!!!

The Eight-Tails cried out in pain, "Ah!!! That hurts!"

Boom!!!

The already devastated plains were ravaged again by the hundred-meter Susanoo.

The Eight-Tails was driven straight into the earth!

As Shao Nan watched the two colossal beings, Susanoo and the Eight-Tails, fight, it felt like he was watching Tiga battle a monster in person.

No, it was not a fight. The Eight-Tails was simply getting beaten up!

Then, using Wood Release, he made himself a wooden rocking chair and lay back on it to watch!

Susanoo bent down and straddled the Eight-Tails!

A huge slap with its left hand, then another vicious slap with its right!

It smacked the Eight-Tails' head back and forth.

Before long, the Eight-Tails' bull face had swollen up like a pig's head.

"St-stop, stop, stop! Old man, stop hitting me! If you keep going, my head's going to fall off..."

[ Ding, mission complete. Reward has been issued. ]

[ Thunder God Sword has been stored in the system's Infinite Space. The host may retrieve it at will. ]

Hearing the system prompt, Shao Nan immediately used his thoughts to retrieve the Thunder God Sword from Infinite Space.

The Thunder God Sword looked remarkably like Uchiha Sasuke's Kusanagi Sword from the original story.

The difference was that its hilt and scabbard were a blue-green color.

Whoosh!

Shao Nan drew the sword.

The blade of the Thunder God Sword revealed a clear, transparent azure hue.

Dense bolts of lightning crawled all over the blade.

Crackle, crackle, crackle~

Seeing the Thunder God Sword brimming with lightning power, Shao Nan suddenly had an evil thought.

"Electro... bull balls!!! Want to give it a try?"

Using Wood Release, Shao Nan lifted Yugito Nii, who was bound up, and brought her over to his side.

Yugito Nii seemed to have completely given up resisting. Her entire body was weak, and she twitched slightly.

She looked at Shao Nan with pleading eyes. "You bastard, let me go, okay? I can't take it anymore!"

Shao Nan gave Yugito Nii a crafty smile. "What can't you take? You're just... tied up!"

"Can you loosen that wooden rope... a little? It's digging into... there... It feels... really, really uncomfortable!"

Shao Nan shook his head and did not continue responding to Yugito Nii. Instead, he raised his hand, pointing the tip of the Thunder God Sword toward the sky.

Rumble!!!

Suddenly, strange lightning appeared in the bright night sky.

It formed into the shape of an azure Kirin.

Scarlet light shone from its eyes, like a ferocious beast that had awakened.

Thunder roared as if the entire earth were trembling.

Lightning intertwined, as though it were tearing through the heavens.

Beneath the pure-white Susanoo, the Eight-Tails trembled as he stared at Shao Nan and shouted:

"Old man, I really can't take you, you bastard! Are you trying to kill me?!"

Yugito Nii beside Shao Nan was no exception, trembling all over.

Ignoring her own discomfort, she fearfully raised her head and said, "Stop, stop! We'll go with you!"

Just as Yugito Nii finished speaking, her pupils turned pale blue.

Then a mature woman's voice rang out. "You damned old man, why are you doing this?!"

Shao Nan froze upon hearing that voice and slowly turned his head.

Looking at Yugito Nii's expression, it was obvious that the Two-Tails, Matatabi, had possessed her.

"You're Matatabi, right? Why are you and Gyuki calling me old man? I hope you can give me an explanation!"

The moment Shao Nan finished speaking, he casually swung the Thunder God Sword in his hand downward.

"Kirin."

Boom!!!!

Rumble!!!!

The Eight-Tails and the pure-white Susanoo were directly struck by Kirin, and thick black smoke rose up.

Kirin's terrifying power covered such a vast area that it was enough to shatter mountains and split the earth.

Moreover, lightning struck in just one-thousandth of a second, making it an impossible technique to evade.

Crackle, crackle~

The rampaging lightning still surged through the smoke.

Whoosh!

The giant Susanoo clapped its hands together, blowing the thick smoke away.

Susanoo was completely unharmed.

Meanwhile, the Eight-Tails' body was still covered in lightning like writhing thunder snakes, along with the smell of burnt flesh.

Combined with his swollen cheeks from the beating, he now looked like grilled takoyaki.

This battle was a failure!

The tailed beasts had not even been willing to use their signature technique, the Tailed Beast Ball!

Shao Nan dispelled Susanoo and stopped paying attention to the Eight-Tails.

Instead, he slowly walked toward Yugito Nii.

"Speak, Matatabi!"