Boom!
The lightning blade arc pierced through two techniques, weakening in the process, but it still slammed into Gaara's back and sent him flying with its residual force.
Tianming burst out of the sand, sword in hand. The unsheathed Nichirin Sword was dazzling with its intricate lightning patterns, while Tianming himself had only suffered torn clothes from the impact?
Gaara shakily climbed to his feet. A vicious wound marked his chest, and sand slowly flowed out of it!
"Ah!" Gaara's mentality completely collapsed. He began forcibly hypnotizing himself. The left half of his body wriggled, gradually taking on Shukaku's facial features!
Whoosh!
Shukaku's claw burst forth, gouging a deep trench into the ground. Tianming leaped high to evade the strike, but yellow sand below erupted into sand spikes that pierced toward him.
"Lightning Release: Mountain Thunder Seal!"
Tianming formed seals in midair with bent fingers. As the hand signs shifted, lightning condensed into something like a small mountain and crashed down, colliding with countless sand spikes.
With a thunderous boom, chakra scattered in all directions!
Tianming descended from above, the Nichirin Sword in his hand about to pierce Shukaku's arm.
Rumble!
Suddenly, another thick arm swept toward him. Tianming instantly changed moves, raising the Nichirin Sword before himself.
Taking Shukaku's blow head-on, Tianming was sent flying a great distance.
Tianming's mindset did not change much in response.
Tailed beasts were rare and invaluable combat power in the ninja world. Any force that possessed one basically held the initiative in war.
How could the One-Tail Shukaku possibly be casually beaten down by Tianming?
Meanwhile, Gaara's face was gradually becoming more like the One-Tail's, his features twisting repeatedly.
He hated looking like this! Yet he could not resist the endless stream of power within him.
Whoosh!
Gaara took the initiative to attack.