Inside a massive cave, Kurama opened his eyes wide and looked toward Sheshan.
He had just sensed a powerful chakra signature, but it was too far away for him to identify its exact source.
Although the Nine-Tails was still in the form of a nine-tailed fox,
if Qi Yuan had been here, he would have been astonished to discover that, like the Ten-Tails, this fellow was no longer a chakra energy being. He now had a physical body of his own!
After Huameng entered this world, she had been in such poor condition that she could not control the Nine-Tails' power.
With no other choice, she had split off most of the Nine-Tails Chakra.
She hoped to capture him again once she recovered.
The separated Nine-Tails had immediately gone on the run, terrified that those two would catch him.
To escape any pursuit Huameng might launch in the future,
Kurama had plunged into the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, where his strength had made him one of the overlords among the fierce beasts.
The Devil Fruit Space also existed within the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, but only an exceedingly small number of exceptionally gifted fierce beasts could enter it.
On one occasion, Kurama had stumbled into the Devil Fruit Space by chance.
There, he had obtained an extremely rare Zoan Devil Fruit: the Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox Form.
With his Devil Fruit ability, he was no longer a chakra energy being. Unexpectedly, he had gained a body of his own.
His strength had also increased enormously, far surpassing that of his original Nine-Tails body.
A fierce beast at his level had naturally mastered the Three Types of Haki and reached the pinnacle of this world.
Even this world's Five Emperors might not be his match.
By his estimate, his current power