The night shone as brightly as day. Beneath Xia Yan's seemingly world-ending blade, the Three-Tails offered not the slightest resistance.
Sound, too, turned strange at that moment. It seemed both deafening and utterly silent.
The enormous Three-Tails opened his mouth wide, howling soundlessly as his body writhed madly.
Seeing him in such a wretched state, it was truly hard to believe he was a tailed beast standing at the pinnacle of this world!
Xia Yan's expression remained fairly calm. He had already estimated the power of this strike.
Having tried this move before, he naturally knew just how powerful it was.
Granted, the last time he used it, he had not combined it with the Nine-Tails' power.
But as a Shinobi who possessed the Nine-Tails, Xia Yan had a certain confidence in his estimates of his own strength.
He could roughly predict how powerful his self-created kekkei tōta, Konohanasakuya-hime, would be when combined with the Nine-Tails' power.
Now, it seemed everything had fully met his expectations-and even far exceeded them!
Within the interwoven gold and white blade, the Three-Tails' body kept distorting.
As it twisted, cracks visible to the naked eye appeared one after another.
Finally, when those cracks reached their limit, the Three-Tails' body shattered completely!
After cleaving the Three-Tails in two, the interwoven gold and white blade did not stop.
It continued extending outward, seemingly without end.
Boom...
As though the vanished sound had returned to reality at that very moment, a thunderous crash rang out!
In the distance, a towering mountain was cut in two before everyone's eyes!
The earth split as neatly as tofu, opening into a long, bottomless trench.
All the surviving Mist Ninja stared blankly at the sight. What lay before them had truly terrified them.
However brave they were, however readily they would