After Qingyun brought Haku back to Konoha, he introduced her to Kushina and the others. Shion was also very fond of the girl her age, and her easygoing nature gradually dispelled Haku's shyness. Soon, Haku was happily running around with her.
"Kushina, get ready. I'm going to release the Nine-Tails from your body!"
Qingyun glanced at Uzumaki Zihan's heavily pregnant belly, then spoke to Kushina.
As his strength grew, Qingyun had become highly sensitive to foreign chakra. The main reason Kushina could not connect with the Nine-Tails and unlock his gold body mode was that a strange trace of mental power within him was interfering.
Qingyun suspected that this mental power belonged to the Sage of Six Paths, who wanted the Nine-Tails to serve as a cheat for Naruto, the reincarnation of his son Asura.
That was why he had projected a sliver of his mental power into the Nine-Tails, preventing Kushina from connecting with him. As Kushina grew stronger, it would even begin to hinder her progress.
Now that Naruto's birth was approaching, there was no reason for the Nine-Tails to remain inside Kushina. Besides, Qingyun had once promised him some freedom, so he naturally wanted to take this opportunity to release him.
"All right!"
Kushina agreed without a moment's hesitation.
In fact, she had recently sensed that the Nine-Tails was hindering her future growth, causing her strength to improve more and more slowly. Qingyun's proposal was exactly what she wanted.
Seeing Kushina agree, Qingyun smiled and took her deep into the Forest of Death, to the place where he had once trained in seclusion. Then the sun and moon in his eyes began to rotate, and true energy surged within him as he shattered the seal inside her.
The Nine-Tails sensed the seal breaking and immediately realized that