Kamui Unrivaled, Eight-Tails Defeated!

The Eight-Tails' true form was a massive ox with eight octopus-tentacle tails. It originally had two horns, but during the rampage of the previous Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, Blue B, the Third Raikage, A, had severed its left horn. Now, only one remained.

The reason Blue B had gone berserk back then was inseparable from Orochimaru... It was also Blue B's death that made Killer B the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki at such a young age. He had lived up to expectations, becoming the first man capable of perfectly controlling the Eight-Tails!

And now, that very man had been forced into a corner by Riu, forced to reveal his Tailed Beast form!

"I despair of you all♪, so you shall perish♪, the true appearance of this great Jinchūriki♪, is a monster♪, take a good look♪, Jinchūriki transformation♪, YEAH~~~~~!!♪"

The transformed Killer B rapped as he swayed his body, vast amounts of air blasting from his nostrils.

Riu laughed and cursed, "Your nose can breathe too? You really are a bull-headed bastard. But..."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Five clusters of blue flame ignited at his fingertips. Riu bent down and pressed his palm against the ground!

"I won't let you run wild any longer!"

Uchiha Flame Formation!

Whoosh! Hellfire erupted from the earth, turning into a Guren barrier that covered more than half of Cloud Thunder Gorge...

Riu had divided the battlefield to keep Tobi and Yūhi Uzuki from getting caught up in it again.

Outside the barrier.

Yūhi Uzuki exclaimed, "This barrier technique is even stronger than the Four Violet Flame Formation. He can actually cast it by himself!"

Tobi muttered, "Though it still falls short of the Four Red Yang Formation. But it should be more than enough to defend against the Eight-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb..."

Within the barrier, only Riu and the Eight-Tails remained. Riu stood. "Then, let's properly enjoy the thrill of battle, just the two of us. Don't disappoint me, Eight-Tails..."

"I'll blast you to pieces!!" The Eight-Tails raised its head, terrifying Tailed Beast Chakra gathering in its mouth to form a massive Tailed Beast Bomb!

This was a genuine Eight-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb, nothing like the Small Tailed Beast Bomb used in a Half-Tailed-Beast Transformation.

Without exaggeration, a single shot could level an entire mountain!

Riu's eyes burned. "Good, just like that~"

Whoosh~!

Azure Chakra flames blazed up, covering his entire body and transforming into a colossal figure no smaller than the Eight-Tails—the Crow Tengu Susanoo!

Boom! Boom!

Unable to bear the weight of these two enormous beings, the mountains began to collapse. But this was only the beginning!

The Eight-Tails opened its maw, swallowed the Tailed Beast Bomb, then unleashed an overwhelming wave of golden light straight ahead!!

Boom!!!

Explosive energy filled the barrier. The walls of the Uchiha Flame Formation rippled like waves, but showed no signs of breaking.

That immense energy needed somewhere to vent. An opening appeared above the barrier... Bang!! The energy compressed into a beam of light that shot into the sky, then burst like fireworks into hundreds and thousands of streaks that rained down upon the earth...

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Dozens of seconds later, explosions rang out from every direction, making the ground tremble...

"What level of battle is this..." Yūhi Uzuki stared in shock at the opaque barrier. Her hands clenched involuntarily, her expression tense.

Inside the settled barrier.

The Crow Tengu Susanoo still stood tall. Without using any divine artifacts, it had endured the Eight-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb solely with its own defense!

Within the Susanoo, Riu looked at the smoke-covered, stunned Eight-Tails and said coldly, "I thought it would be stronger. So in the end, this is all you've got? Then I won't hold back..."

Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!

Black shuriken gathered in the Crow Tengu Susanoo's hands.

Kamui Shuriken: Triple Shot!

The Eight-Tails refused to be outdone.

Rapid-Fire Tailed Beast Bomb: Triple Shot!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Rapid-Fire Tailed Beast Bombs exploded upon colliding with the Kamui Shuriken, but their explosive force was swallowed by the spatial vortices triggered by the Kamui Shuriken!

Within the mental world shared by Killer B and the Eight-Tails.

Killer B broke into a cold sweat. "That was close! If that hit us, we'd definitely be dead!"

The Eight-Tails said, "It seems those black shuriken can only be used through that Chakra giant. We need to destroy it first!"

Killer B said, "But that Chakra giant's defense is too unbelievable! It's worlds apart from that skeletal form from before!"

The Eight-Tails said, "To break that thing, we'll need an even stronger Tailed Beast Bomb! But inside this damned barrier, even we'll be caught in the explosion. We'll hurt the enemy for a thousand and ourselves for eight hundred!"

Killer B said, "Since brute force won't work, let's seal him instead. B, use that move..."

Sealing Technique: Ink Flood!

"Grrraah~~!!" The Eight-Tails opened its mouth and spewed out vast quantities of ink, which rapidly spread toward the Susanoo.

"Hm?" Riu controlled the Susanoo to leap upward.

But the ink abruptly transformed into eight gigantic black octopus tentacles, tightly wrapping around the Crow Tengu Susanoo. At the same time, its black coloration rapidly spread across the Susanoo.

"This is..." Riu's eyes narrowed.

"OK~ Everything's ready~ Just count to three, and that big guy will be fully covered and immobilized by ink infused with Eight-Tails Chakra..."

"One!!"

"Two!!"

The Eight-Tails began counting. The Crow Tengu Susanoo was just about to be completely sealed...

"Not bad. You actually forced me this far..." Riu closed his eyes. When he opened them again, astonishing ocular power burst forth!

Susanoo Divine Artifact: Ninth-Spear Divine Void Mirror!

Whoosh!!

A powerful Kamui Vortex erupted in the void. The ink covering the Susanoo's entire body rapidly receded, spinning in tandem with the vortex and being completely sucked into the enormous "divine shield" held by the Susanoo!

"What!?" Killer B and the Eight-Tails were both stunned.

"Kamui Mark: Eight!" Riu's eyes swept over the Eight-Tails' eight tentacle tails one by one. Within seconds, he had marked them all!

Whoosh! A black Magatama appeared in the Crow Tengu Susanoo's left hand.

Susanoo Divine Artifact: Ninth-Spear Kamui Magatama!!

The Magatama flew forth!!

The Eight-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb to intercept it, only to find that the Magatama passed straight through the Tailed Beast Bomb.

"That thing can pass through attacks too? Damn it, dodge!!"

The Eight-Tails fled through the barrier, the Kamui Magatama following behind.

"Damn it!" The Eight-Tails looked back while running. "Is it after my tails? Fine, I'll sacrifice one tail to it!"

Whoosh!!

But to its despair, the Magatama split into eight, flying toward... all eight tails!!

"How can this be!!!" The Eight-Tails was completely dumbfounded.

Bang! Almost simultaneously, the eight Magatama struck the eight tails. Eight Space-Time Dimension vortices appeared at once, severing the eight tails from the body and swallowing them into the vortices.

"Ah!!!" The Eight-Tails' miserable scream echoed beneath the sky...

The Tailed Beast Bomb the Eight-Tails had fired earlier was also absorbed by the Kamui Vortex released by the Ninth-Spear Divine Void Mirror!

"Huff, huff..." Within the Crow Tengu Susanoo, Riu panted heavily. Blood streamed continuously from his eye sockets. His ocular power was nearly depleted, but he was not as miserable as the last time he had used a Susanoo divine artifact, when he could not even maintain the Susanoo.

"Damn beast, I'll blast you into pulp! Foolish bastard, stupid bastard!!!" The wounded Eight-Tails was completely enraged, gathering terrifyingly extreme Chakra.

Within the Susanoo, Riu looked up, his gaze deep. "Has it completely lost its mind? Do I need to keep draining my ocular power and use the third divine artifact? No... there's no need."

Riu formed a hand seal before his chest with two fingers.

Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Technique!

Mist filled the barrier, obscuring all vision.

Riu crossed four fingers before his chest to form another hand seal.

Ninja Art: Shadow Clone Technique!

Bang! A Shadow Clone appeared amid the smoke.

"This is the proper way to use Kamui..." Riu's original body vanished into the Kamui Vortex of his right eye, leaving only the Shadow Clone within the Crow Tengu Susanoo.

"What's happening in there!" On a mountain outside the barrier, Yūhi Uzuki looked anxious.

The vortex spun, and Riu appeared before her.

Xiyang cried out in alarm, "Why are you here? Where's the Eight-Tails?"

"Soon, it will destroy itself. I'll take you somewhere safe first..." Whoosh! Riu sucked Tobi, Yūhi Uzuki, and himself into the Space-Time Dimension.

Meanwhile, within the barrier, the Eight-Tails remained completely unaware of all this. Having finished gathering Chakra, it opened its bloodthirsty maw...

Continuous Tailed Beast Bomb!!

Boom boom boom boom boom!!

Under the relentless bombardment of Tailed Beast Bombs, the Crow Tengu Susanoo was destroyed. Rampaging energy ravaged the barrier, reducing everything to nothing...

Crack! At last, even the Uchiha Flame Formation could not withstand the bombardment. Spiderweb-like cracks appeared across it before it collapsed...

Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!

Without the barrier's restrictions, the light of the explosions swept in all directions. The towering mountains were swallowed one after another, vanishing...

The explosions engulfed the entire Cloud Thunder Gorge, and their aftershock... even reached Hidden Cloud Village ten miles away!

The Fourth Raikage, A, was lifting a barbell in his office when the building suddenly shook and debris fell from above.

"What's going on!" A looked out the window. Seeing the massive glow on the horizon, his pupils contracted. "That's the direction of Cloud Thunder Gorge. Something must have happened!!"

Boom!! He smashed through the wall and charged out...

A full eight minutes passed before the light of the explosions finally subsided completely.

Whoosh! A vortex spun in midair, and Riu appeared. He landed on a floating piece of broken timber and surveyed his surroundings.

Cloud Thunder Gorge no longer existed. As far as the eye could see, there was only an endless expanse of seawater...

The rubble and debris floating on the sea bore witness to the devastation. Riu sighed sincerely. "Only after experiencing the power of a Tailed Beast firsthand can one understand how boundless it is. Even scattered power is this formidable. I truly cannot imagine how world-destroying it would be once combined into one. Ten-Tails, one day, I will obtain your power..."

Riu's gaze settled on Killer B, sprawled atop a chunk of rubble and covered in blood. "For now, let me obtain one part of that scattered power..."

Whoosh! The scene shifted to Killer B's mental world.

"B!! Pull yourself together, B!! Don't panic, I'll use a tentacle clone to get you out of here right now!!" The Eight-Tails looked at Killer B, who lay there without any sign of life.

"It's already too late..." Riu's voice sounded.

"It's you! Why are you still alive? How did you get in here!!" The Eight-Tails roared at Riu, who should not have been alive or here.

"With the ocular power of the Sharingan, it isn't difficult... And this is the so-called Iron Armor Seal?" Riu walked past Killer B and looked at the thick iron armor encasing the Eight-Tails. He formed a two-fingered hand seal, and the left eye beneath his mask shone brightly!

—Kamui: Armor-Breaking Seal Release!