The three joined forces once more to fight Jiraiya's true body.
This battle went far beyond the level of genin, with three colossal figures looming over the sky.
Their every movement shook the earth.
They were the mightiest summoning beasts in this land.
Their ancestor, Gamamaru, had once witnessed the Heavenly Emperor's peerless splendor. Enlightened by him, he had discovered Sage Mode on his own.
Passed down through the generations, it allowed them to harness the workings of yin and yang and natural energy.
The three toads naturally possessed senjutsu chakra within their bodies, enough to stand against tailed beasts!
Yet now, even they struggled.
All because their opponent was Nine-Tails, the strongest of the nine tailed beasts!
In her Tailed Beast Transformation, Kushina was more agile than Nine-Tails in his Complete Form.
Simple ninjutsu could no longer hit her.
Even if they landed, they could not penetrate her demon fox cloak.
And every Tailed Beast Bomb Kushina casually formed left the three great summoning beasts trembling.
That power could destroy heaven and earth.
Fortunately, Kushina was gradually being reduced to fighting on instinct, and the three ninja beasts, together with Jiraiya,
could still hold their own for a while by periodically using combination ninjutsu.
But with Hoshizuki Hyuga and Minato Namikaze joining the fight,
the situation instantly reversed.
Hoshizuki Hyuga's Tenseigan, a power inherited from the Heavenly Emperor, inherently suppressed summoning beasts.
That submission was engraved in their bloodlines and deep within their genes.
Now, with Hoshizuki Hyuga's dōjutsu power suppressing them from the sidelines,
the three great summoning beasts were so hampered that they could not even perform ninjutsu.
Meanwhile, Minato Namikaze appeared and vanished like a ghost, charging straight at Jiraiya and harassing him with a Rasengan from time to time.
This left him utterly unable to