Besides storing energy and serving as essential equipment for escape, a lizard's tail was also one of its important weapons for attacking enemies.
In nature, a lizard's tail also symbolized its strength and status. With Lizard Maru's brawny build, the strength of his tail was even more unimaginable!
Even someone as enormous as the Nine-Tails was inevitably sent reeling backward by that sweep of Lizard Maru's tail.
The blow had even left wounds where it struck, making the anger within him burn more fiercely.
Although he currently had no consciousness of his own, his emotions still retained a beast's instincts.
Any beast would go berserk with anger after being attacked. He threw his head back, pitch-black chakra gathering once more as that aura of utter destruction erupted again.
"Another Tailed Beast Bomb?"
Xia Yan naturally noticed what was happening, but Lizard Maru had only just landed and could not leap again yet, leaving him unable to charge straight at the Nine-Tails and stop him from releasing the Tailed Beast Bomb.
Thus, Xia Yan immediately chose to form hand seals again. Without needing any instructions from him, the chakra throughout Lizard Maru's body also began surging wildly.
"Sage Art: Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"
"Earth Release: Myriad Miles Earth-Style Wall!"
Xia Yan and Lizard Maru unleashed their jutsu almost simultaneously. Xia Yan's Earth-Style Wall, infused with senjutsu chakra and bearing five enormous lizard heads, abruptly appeared.
That enormous earthen wall instantly blocked the Nine-Tails' hastily launched Tailed Beast Bomb. Besides Xia Yan's Earth-Style Wall, there was also the even larger-scale jutsu Lizard Maru had released.
As a lizard, Lizard Maru had no senjutsu, but he was likewise adept at Earth Release.
Back when he had guarded Shuzaki Castle as the Lord of Shuzaki's summoning beast, Konoha would probably have razed the castle