"By rights, with your level of strength, you don't even have the right to hiss at me."
The instant Lu You activated Sage Mode, his aura underwent a qualitative change.
The steady, weighty senjutsu chakra not only made his oppressive presence even more terrifying, but also strengthened his physique somewhat.
Of course, his physique was already absurd, so it was unlikely that purple-grade Sage Mode could improve it much further.
It merely allowed him to make better use of the old man's top-tier physique.
In that instant, the Tailed Beasts' surging chakra seemed to sense something, and even the air around them stopped flowing for a moment.
Then they all hissed reflexively.
Lu You extended his right hand, spreading his fingers with his palm facing upward.
Golden senjutsu chakra rapidly gathered in his palm, forming a constantly spinning ball of blazing fire.
The surrounding air was sucked into that ball of light, sweeping up gravel and dust from the ground into a ring of airflow that made his snow-white robes flap loudly.
"Sage Art: Fire Release: Encircling Prison."
Golden flames instantly poured from his palm. Unlike before, this Fire Release did not sweep out in waves of walls of fire, but instead became a circular curtain of flame.
The towering curtain radiated terrifying heat as it rose around the Tailed Beasts, like a furnace that kept contracting.
As the curtain advanced inward, the air warped wherever it passed, and the ground was baked into dark red glass.
Even the Tailed Beasts' tough skin or their vast chakra cloaks sizzled on contact with the curtain of flame, causing intense pain.
"Don't touch that fire!"
Eight-Tails Gyuki was the first to speak.
The edge of the fire curtain reached his enormous body first. His tentacles recoiled the instant they touched the golden