No Tears Left to Cry

With the Ryūmyaku's endless supply of Chakra, the Giant Insect Puppet immediately began regenerating its lower half after it was destroyed.

That was what made it so hard to kill.

Naruto knew there were only two ways to destroy the Giant Insect Puppet for good.

The first was to seal the Ryūmyaku, cutting off the Giant Insect Puppet's energy supply so it could no longer regenerate.

But Mukade would certainly try to stop him, and there was no way he had left the Ryūmyaku unguarded.

To do that, Naruto would first have to inflict more thorough damage on the giant insect, buying enough time to reach the Ryūmyaku before it could recover and pursue him.

The second option was to kill Mukade's true body, hidden inside the Giant Insect Puppet. That would probably be difficult too.

Unless Naruto could destroy the giant insect's entire body at once, leaving it nothing to regenerate from.

"Let's try it and see what happens!"

With his mind made up, Naruto sent over a hundred more clones darting out of hiding. They formed pairs and swiftly surrounded the slow-moving giant insect. Then they extended their right hands.

"Sage Art: Fire Release: Spiral Wheel!"

A wheel-shaped mass of flame a meter across rapidly appeared in the right hand of each of fifty Shadow Clones.

This was a powerful Ninjutsu Naruto had created by adding Fire Release properties to the Rasengan. Its power rivaled that of the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

"Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!"

In each pair, the other Shadow Clone formed a Rasenshuriken.

Then both clones in each pair hurled their Fire Release: Spiral Wheel and Wind Release: Rasenshuriken at the giant insect!

The two techniques fused in midair, forming a high-speed spinning Wind-Fire Wheel!

Its power was greater still!

Sensing the immense threat posed