That evening, Tianyi returned to Blue Star and transported the Eight-Tails' chakra to the enormous warehouse custom-built for the Tailed Beasts.
In the center of the empty warehouse, the platform glowed a ghostly blue. Tianyi pressed the switch on the metal sphere.
Roar! A deafening bellow exploded through the warehouse.
Half of the Eight-Tails appeared out of thin air, its massive body filling nearly half the warehouse.
Its eyes instantly locked onto Tianyi. Blinded by rage, it swung a gigantic fist at him with a howl of wind!
Several energy suppression fields activated simultaneously along the domed ceiling. An invisible pressure descended, pinning the Eight-Tails beneath the weight of a ten-thousand-ton mountain.
Its movements froze instantly, its fist suspended in midair, unable to come down.
On the floor, twenty-four gravitational anchoring systems activated in unison. Countless blue chains of light shot up from the ground, wrapping around the Eight-Tails' limbs, torso, and tails, locking it firmly in place.
The Eight-Tails struggled wildly, chakra surging inside its body, but the more it struggled, the tighter those chains became.
The suppression fields steadily drained its strength away like running water. That power, enough to overturn mountains, could not break even a single chain of light now.
"What... what is this?! Let me go! Let me go!"
Before it could finish, a vast torrent of sand surged from the other side of the warehouse, sweeping over everything and burying the Eight-Tails.
The sand gathered and compressed around the Eight-Tails, forming a thick, heavy shell that completely stifled its struggles.
Shukaku lumbered over, dragging his enormous body along.
He had grown even fatter than before. His belly was perfectly round, and the sand covering his body shook as he walked.
He stood before the Eight-Tails, looking down at his old rival. He flicked his