The piercing sirens swept through the entire underground base like a wave, and scarlet lights replaced the original lighting, illuminating every frightened or solemn face like a ghost.
Darui led the way, black thunder and lightning crackling around him, like a coat woven from the power of pure destruction.
He rushed into the main hall with Hidden Cloud Village's most elite troops, and his thunderous voice drowned out the alarm. "Block all exits! That roar just now was not from - there is an invasion of foreign enemies!"
His eyes were as sharp as an eagle, instantly sweeping over the chaotic crowd, past the helpless researchers, and finally locked firmly in the shadow of the observatory.
There, a very light black mist was lingering around a figure. It was a kind of heart-stopping chakra quality, full of devouring and nothingness.
"Black mist chakra... it's you!" The Lightning Release pattern on Darui's arm lit up and pointed at Xuan, "The one who has been devouring our Jinchūriki is you, bastard!"
However, in the face of this thunderous accusation, Xuan Huan seemed to have ignored it.
All his mind was immersed in another more important matter.
His gaze penetrated the angry Hidden Cloud Village ninja, penetrated the flashing red alarm, and was firmly nailed to the center of the sealing circle, the Killer B who was bound by countless rune chains and struggling fiercely.
To be more precise, it was nailed to the ancient syllable that he forcibly snatched out from Killer B's body and from the deepest soul memory of Gyuki using [Myriad Phenomena Devouring System].
His right eye, that strange pupil that seemed to contain the birth and death of stars, was frantically parsing that piece of information at a speed that exceeded common sense.
The system's cold prompts roared in his mind, "High-frequency soul resonance fluctuations detected" "matching degree 87%... under analysis... suspected to be Six Paths-level 'true name' residual fragments".
That's it!
Xuan's heart skipped a beat.
What he pursues is the power system that surpasses all ninjutsu - Word Spirit.
A voice that can directly interfere with the laws of the world.
He slowly closed his eyes, blocking out all the distractions from the outside world.
The tip of the tongue trembled slightly in the mouth, and the muscles adjusted in an extremely subtle way, imitating the deep roar that sounded from the depths of the soul and seemed to come from the ancient times.
Three vague, distorted syllables, but containing some kind of supreme rule, came out from his lips with difficulty:
"Ku... sa... um..."
The sound was not loud, but it was like a stone thrown into a calm lake.
In an instant, the air in the entire main hall was stagnant.
A ripple invisible to the naked eye spread out with Xuan as the center. It ignored chakra and physical defense, and directly resonated subtly and strangely with the huge sealing array in the center of the hall.
"Crack!"
There was a crisp sound, and an imperceptible crack opened on the indestructible sealing stone tablet.
"Ho--!"
A wisp of Gyuki residual consciousness that was darker than ink suddenly overflowed along the crack, and instantly condensed into a translucent monster with a huge horn in mid-air.
This is part of the will of Gyuki, the incarnation of the viciousness awakened by the call of his true name - Black Horn.
Its giant eyes burning with anger glared at Xuan, and its roar shook the entire space, "Mortal! Do you dare to touch the secret of the name given by the immortal?"
Before he finished speaking, Black Horn's sharp claws made of pure chakra had torn the air apart and struck Xuan's head with overwhelming force!
However, just before the claws were about to touch, an invisible barrier suddenly appeared in front of Xuan. The claws seemed to have been shot into another time and space, and all the power was strangely distorted and deflected.
This is the "Phase Shift Shield" that Xuan has already swallowed up to build around him.
He faced the monstrous power without any fear on his face, and his voice was as cold as ice. "I don't want to destroy it, but I want to understand it, and then... become it."
After saying that, his right eye suddenly expanded, and the Uzumaki Clan deep in the pupil rotated crazily!
[Myriad Phenomena Devouring System] operates at full power with unprecedented power. This time, the target is no longer Chuck or life force, but the mysterious soul fluctuation!
He took the initiative to face Black Horn's roar that contained the laws of Word Spirit. The huge suction force was generated out of thin air, sucking all the destructive sound waves and the fragments of rules contained in them into his body!
The system interface refreshed crazily: "Warning! Received high-intensity 'Word Spirit Contract' primary frequency!" "Open [Sound Wave Frequency Devouring] preparation protocol" "Analysis starts...12%...27%..."
At this critical moment, Darui's attack arrives!
He won't give his enemy any breathing space!
"Black Panther!"
A black thunder dragon that was condensed to the extreme roared and split from his hand. The speed was so fast that it exceeded the limit of vision, and it was in front of Xuan in an instant!
Phase Shift Shield can distort physical attacks, but the effect is greatly reduced against such high-energy form change attacks!
Xuan suddenly turned sideways, avoiding the vital point.
But the lightning still grazed his shoulder, and the violent Lightning Release chakra instantly tore his clothes and muscles, and blood spattered out!
"We succeeded!" Hidden Cloud Village's ninjas cheered up.
Severe pain was felt, but Xuan's eyes did not waver at all.
He didn't even look at his wounds, but relied on the force of being hit to turn around and disappear into the darkness in the corner, as if a drop of ink melted into the night.
Everyone thought he was going to run away and were about to pursue him, but they were horrified to see that the few drops of blood splashed on the ground quickly dried up and evaporated in just a second or two, as if they had never existed.
And when they cast their gaze into the darkness, an intact figure slowly walked out.
Xuan walked out slowly. The wound on his shoulder had completely healed, leaving not even a trace of scar. The torn clothing fibers were also being rewoven and restored in an unreasonable way.
He raised his hand and gently brushed away the non-existent dust on his shoulders, with a mocking arc at the corner of his mouth.
"Your thunder can't heal my injury." He said softly, and his voice passed clearly to everyone's ears, "Because it was too late... to see my injured appearance."
These words were like the cold wind of the Nine Netherworld, making the hearts of all Hidden Cloud Village ninjas instantly sink to the bottom.
What a terrifying resilience this is!
This has gone beyond the scope of Medical Ninjutsu, and is more like some kind of... immortality at the level of law!
At the moment when everyone was shocked by this strange scene, "Boom--!" a loud noise came from outside the base, the entire underground space shook violently, and gravel and dust fell.
Darui's face changed. "No! It's outside!"
That was when Saori detonated her carefully arranged puppet bomb at the predetermined location, creating the illusion of a large-scale landslide, which not only attracted external defense forces, but also cleared obstacles for their evacuation route.
The time has come.
Xuan took one last look at Killer B, who was temporarily calm in the sealing array because Black Horn was extracted, and he already judged in his heart: This person is completely different from other "vessels". He is not a prisoner unilaterally parasitized by Tailed Beast, but a perfect individual who has truly achieved a "symbiotic balance" with Tailed Beast.
Only such a soul can carry the ancient "true name" without collapsing.
"Next time we meet, we won't be peeping here." He whispered to himself, as if he was talking to Killer B, or to himself, "But on a real battlefield."
As he finished speaking, he blew an extremely short and sharp whistle.
A ray of silver light flashed through the ventilation duct above everyone's heads, as fast as lightning.
It was a silver-white crow, holding tightly in its claws a tiny, glittering crystal chip, on which all the images and energy fluctuation data from the beginning of the ceremony to the present were completely recorded.
Silver Crow landed on his shoulder accurately, and in the next second, Xuan's figure quickly flew towards the direction of the sound of the collapse like a ghost, and disappeared at the end of the passage in a few flashes.
A hundred miles away, behind a deserted sand dune.
Xuan took out the crystal chip and threw it directly into a small cluster of black flames that ignited out of thin air without even looking at it.
The chip turned to ashes silently in the flames, leaving no trace.
"No evidence is needed, only memory." He said softly, [Myriad Phenomena Devouring System] had backed up all the data deep in his soul.
He sat cross-legged and began to channel the newly acquired but still manic Word Spirit frequency in his body.
He wants to integrate it into his throat chakra meridian and completely use the power of the "true name" derived from Gyuki for his own use.
This is an extremely dangerous process. If he is not careful, his vocal cords and even his soul will be torn apart by this ancient power.
Suddenly, he suddenly opened his right eye.
In that mysterious pupil, the prototype pattern of Rinnegan actually trembled extremely slightly with every breath he directed energy, as if it had a life of its own.
It seems to be touched by this power from the Sage of Six Paths era, and is slowly awakening from its deep sleep.
At the same time, far away in the top office of Kumogakure.
The atmosphere was so oppressive that it seemed to be frozen.
Darui knelt on one knee in front of Fourth Raikage Ai, with a heavy voice. "Lord Raikage, the enemy... did not take Bi away, nor did they destroy the main body of the sealing ceremony."
"Then what on earth did he do!" Ai punched the table, and the hard Raikage table shattered. His burly body trembled slightly with anger, "Did he spend so much effort sneaking in just to get a slap from you Black Panther and then run away!"
Darui took a deep breath and said with difficulty, "No... he took away something. A... thing that Bi 'shouldn't lose'. A piece of Bi's soul seemed to have been... poached away."
Ai's pupils suddenly shrank, and an unprecedented rage burst out from him. The violent Lightning Release chakra made the air in the entire room begin to ionize.
"Check!" he growled, his voice like rolling thunder, "Check for me! Use all your power! I want to know who he is and where he comes from! And how many people... are waiting for his call!"
The night wind was like a knife, blowing across the barren land.
Xuan still sat quietly, and all the disturbances in the outside world had nothing to do with him.
The transformation within his body has reached its most critical moment.
The power of Word Spirit swallowed up from the residual consciousness of Gyuki is being forcibly analyzed and compiled by his system, and is trying to integrate with his vocal cords at the deepest level.
He slowly opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
However, the skin on his throat began to vibrate with a buzzing sound at an extremely low frequency that could barely be picked up by the human ear.
Every vibration caused a subtle distortion in the surrounding air, as if there was an invisible force that was learning how to give the first order to the world.
The world... will eventually learn to listen to his voice.