Chapter 246: Lava Release vs. the Three-Tails!
On the scorched, cracked, lava-flowing earth, the dense black smoke and choking dust were slightly dispersed by an invisible gust of wind. The visibility improved a bit.
Jūzō Biwa squinted his eyes, straining to look towards the edge of the explosion's center.
The next second, his pupils slightly contracted!
He saw an incomparably colossal, mountain-like, deep-grey shadow faintly looming behind the gradually thinning smoke and dust!
The oppressive feeling brought by that outline made the air seem to freeze, and it caused Jūzō Biwa to recall something.
Jūzō Biwa couldn't help but draw a cold breath. The sulfur and burnt smells mixed in the air seemed to become icy cold.
He muttered to himself: "Three-Tails Isobu. Was the Mizukage finally forced to release it?"
Izumi Uchiha strained her eyes, watching the distance with curiosity yet innate vigilance.
Blocked by the smoke, she could only barely make out a massive, turtle-shaped outline, like a small mountain.
Her first impression of that colossal figure was that of a giant turtle, magnified thousands of times and filled with an ominous aura!
That immense creature seemed to be in an extreme state of fury.
Every breath it took was like a howling gale, accompanied by a heavy, thunderous, heart-palpitating, strange sound!
Even from such a distance, Izumi could clearly feel the slight tremor coming from the ground beneath her feet.
And the pure savagery and destructive desire contained within that sound.
"Is this a Tailed Beast, like the Nine-Tails Fox that attacked the village?"
Izumi whispered softly, the palm of her hand involuntarily sweating slightly.
As the pervasive smoke and dust were further blown away by a burst of hot wind, the awe-inspiring true appearance of the Three-Tails Isobu was finally completely exposed to everyone's view.
Its appearance indeed resembled a giant turtle, but it was a form twisted by the creator's un-aesthetic hand.
Covering its massive body was not an ordinary shell, but a heavy carapace with a grey-white metallic, icy sheen. The carapace was covered with huge, hard spikes jutting out like peaks, making it look terrifyingly fierce.
Its head was unusually large. The top of its head and the lower half of its face were covered in chaotic grey-white sharp spikes. One of its eyes seemed blind, and the other was filled with primal savagery.
It gave an inexpressibly ugly and vicious impression!
Its three tails, like massive whips, swung wildly behind it. Each tail was covered with hard bone segments and barbs, creating a piercing sound as they whipped through the air.
The parts of Isobu not covered by the carapace were a dark red, resembling living muscle.
They had striped textures like biological muscle fibers, seemingly writhing slightly, exuding astonishing vitality.
What was even more concerning was the upper body of the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, was clearly visible on top of that ugly, huge head!
His lower body seemed to have completely merged with the Three-Tails' body. His eyes were tightly closed, and his face was an unnatural pallor.
He seemed to be in a deep sleep, not exhibiting the characteristics of a so-called Perfect Jinchūriki. He was clearly not perfectly controlling the Tailed Beast's power right now.
It seemed the Fourth Mizukage was indeed being controlled.
This was not the first time Izumi had seen a Tailed Beast.
The terrifying sight of that Nine-Tails Night was a nightmare that still haunted her the huge, orange-red demonic fox rampaging and roaring. Her father's figure was forever buried beneath the rubble after that moment. "Hoo "
She exhaled a long, deep breath, trying to suppress her turbulent emotions, and murmured: "Releasing the Nine-Tails Fox in Konoha, controlling the Three-Tails in the Mist Village... Izumi-senpai was right, Obito Uchiha's sins are too great for even dying ten thousand times to atone for."
Kitsujirō, squatting on her shoulder, widened its cat eyes and finally let out a sigh: "What a big turtle, meow "
It paused, and still couldn't resist adding a genuine complaint: "Meow, it's truly uniquely ugly!"
"The Mi Mizukage-sama he he released the power of the Tailed Beast!!"
In the distance.
A severely injured Mist Anbu ninja struggled to prop up his upper body with one arm, the other hand tightly clutching his agonizing chest.
When he looked up and clearly saw the monstrous giant in the smoke, his face was filled with shock and disbelief.
He tried to climb to his feet, wanting to rush forward to assist.
But the searing pain tearing through his body made his legs buckle, and he heavily collapsed back onto his knees!
"Puh "
Another few mouthfuls of dark-red blood sprayed from his mouth, staining the scorched earth.
His face became even more withered, his breath as faint as a candle in the wind.
"Damn it "
He bit his teeth in frustration, his fingernails almost digging into the charred earth.
Just then a large hand, visibly reddened and covered with several blisters, silently reached out from behind him.
With an undeniable force, it pressed firmly onto his shoulder.
Forcing his body, which he had just tried to raise, back down!
The Anbu ninja's pupils shrank!
The combat instinct ingrained by long training made him instinctively reach into the ninja tool pouch at his waist for a kunai.
Without even looking, he violently stabbed backward!
However, his wrist was precisely grasped in mid-air by another large hand like an iron vise.
No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move forward an inch!
"It's me." Only when a cold and familiar voice sounded from behind did his taut nerves slightly relax.
The Mist ninja turned back in astonishment, seeing a face equally covered in dust, bloodstains, and a hint of dishevelment, yet still carrying a fierce aura Zabuza Momochi!
" Demon?" The Mist Anbu ninja was stunned, clearly not expecting it to be him.
Zabuza Momochi released his grip, but his gaze remained fixed on the monstrous Three-Tails Isobu in the distance.
Bloodstains remained on the corner of his mouth. He spoke with an utmost cold voice: "Since Mizukage-sama has already used the power of the Tailed Beast, it means he is determined to resolve all enemies by himself. For us who are already half-crippled, going over now "
He paused, his tone carrying a trace of subtle sarcasm: " is not helping him, but causing him trouble and becoming his burden. Do you want Mizukage-sama to have to protect a useless person like you, who can't even stand steadily, while dealing with a powerful enemy?"
These words stung the Anbu ninja's heart.
He opened his mouth, but ultimately lowered his head in frustration, slamming his fist fiercely onto the ground: "Damn it! How can that Konoha Lava Release monster be this strong?!"
"In just one encounter, we suffered heavy casualties. Mizukage-sama was even forced to release the Tailed Beast's power Logically, the Tailed Beast is a trump card that, in any previous moment, Mizukage-sama would only reveal last "
Zabuza Momochi didn't answer. He just silently gazed at the destructive scene in the distance, feeling the stinging pain from the burns on his body.
He naturally had his own selfish reasons for stopping this Anbu.
Ikeizumi Uchiha's attack, like a natural disaster, instantly severely wounded over thirty elite Mist Anbu. The terrifying power made Zabuza Momochi feel like he had seen a never-before-seen glimmer of light in the endless darkness of the Bloody Mist.
It was a shred of hope to overthrow the current order.
That man
Was terrifyingly strong!
Strong to an unreasonable degree!
Perhaps he was the only one present who had the ability to completely destroy the Mizukage, who was like a nightmare shrouding the Mist Village, not through some conspiracy or assassination, but with absolute frontal power!
Even if
He was an outsider ninja.
"Konoha's Lava Release Beast, the man rumored to have assassinated the Daimyō of the Land of Fire, the most dangerous and unpredictable ninja in the entire Shinobi World Ikeizumi Uchiha!"
On the other side.
Mei Terumī's beautiful eyes were filled with deep solemnity and caution. Recalling the rumors circulating in the Shinobi World about Ikeizumi Uchiha, she took a deep breath of the air that seemed to carry a hint of sulfur. As a ninja also possessing two Kekkei Genkai, Mei Terumī could even more clearly feel the despairingly vast gap between herself and the opponent!
While her Vapor Release and Lava Release were powerful, they could never cause the kind of terrifying destructive power that resembled a natural disaster before her eyes!
What perplexed her even more was Why?
Why did Konoha's Ikeizumi Uchiha suddenly appear in the Land of Water?
Shouldn't Mizukage-sama be pursuing the rogue ninja Jūzō Biwa?
How did such an intense conflict with this Konoha scourge erupt?
To the point where the Tailed Beast had to be used?
"The crucial thing is " Mei Terumī's expression was vigilant and cautious: "The most dangerous man in the Shinobi World has come to the Land of Water. For the Land of Water, this is definitely an unexpected disaster."
She feared that the nobles in the Land of Water, and the Daimyō of the Land of Water, would have trouble sleeping for a while.
This was a ninja who genuinely dared to kill the "people above all others"!
Logically speaking.
As a ninja of the Hidden Mist Village, the current Mei Terumī should quickly go and support the Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi.
However.
She held back.
Her intuition told her that the current Mizukage-sama was extremely abnormal. Perhaps, she could discover some disconcerting clues during the battle between the Mizukage-sama and Ikeizumi Uchiha.
"ROAR !!!"
The Three-Tails Isobu fiercely spewed out a breath of stale air saturated with dense Chakra. The breath spread outward like physical dense fog.
Where it passed, even the black smoke floating in the air was dispersed.
One of its eyes was tightly closed. There seemed to be an unnatural mark of a burn or scratch near the eyelid. The other wide-open, colossal eye was filled with a ferocious, brutal, and maniacal will!
That destructive gaze was locked firmly onto the tiny figure of Ikeizumi Uchiha below, who exuded an extremely dangerous aura. If one looked closely, a very subtle, ominous red glow seemed to flicker in the deepest part of its pupil.
The muscles on Isobu's ugly, giant face suddenly twitched and contorted, a flash of extreme pain and struggle passing over it.
As if something was fiercely fighting within its consciousness.
But soon, that trace of struggle was utterly crushed by a stronger, external will.
Replaced by a purer, more frenzied savagery!
BOOM !!!
A suffocatingly ferocious Tailed Beast Chakra erupted from its body like a breached floodgate. The dark-red Tailed Beast Chakra aura enveloped its body, causing the already scorching air around it to violently twist and tremble, emitting a resonant hum!
WHOOSH!!!
Isobu's two thick forelimbs, like colossal pillars, savagely tore the already ravaged earth beneath its feet!
It abruptly raised its ugly head. The muscles on both sides of its cheeks grotesquely swelled up like air sacs. Massive amounts of Chakra frantically converged into its mouth!
PFFFFT!!!
The next moment, a giant water sphere Water Release: Great Bursting Water Collision compressed to a diameter of twenty to thirty meters and containing terrifying impact force, shot out from its mouth like an artillery shell!
The "Great Bursting Water Collision" tore through the air with lightning speed.
With a shrill roar, it ferociously plummeted towards Ikeizumi Uchiha's position!
The air warped in its path!
Yet, at this moment, Ikeizumi Uchiha stood calmly on the scorched earth where lava flowed.
Behind him was the terrifying, bottomless giant crater, hundreds of meters in diameter, like the entrance to an abyss.
Facing a Tailed Beast-level Water Release attack capable of easily destroying an ordinary village, his expression remained unchanged.
His right hand had already completely elementalized, transforming into scorching, viscous, crimson lava!
Moreover, that lava arm was violently expanding and compressing, then expanding and compressing again, at an astonishing frequency!
With every cycle, the color of his arm deepened to a more intense crimson, and the internal lava energy accumulated became more terrifying and alarming!
It was as if all the energy of an erupting volcano had been compressed into this one arm!
Just at the very instant the colossal "Great Bursting Water Collision" was about to engulf him
Ikeizumi Uchiha's lava-formed fist clenched fiercely!
Lava Release: Great Eruption!!!
BOOM !!!
A lava giant fist, far larger and more ferocious than the "Great Bursting Water Collision," erupted like a volcano that had finally burst forth after ten thousand years of suppression!
Carrying the ultimate high temperature that would incinerate everything and the terrifying impact force that would crush all, it slammed out furiously!
The expanding lava arm instantly reached its limit, its crimson glow even overshadowing the color of the sky!
Sizzle !!!
BOOM!!!
The moment the two sides violently collided, the extreme high temperature and the cold, high-pressure water sphere clashed most fiercely! The ear-piercing sound was like ten thousand red-hot branding irons simultaneously dipped into an icy sea!
The colossal "Great Bursting Water Collision" was rapidly evaporated by the terrifying high temperature on the surface of the lava giant fist almost immediately upon contact.
Exploding into a sky full of scorching white steam!
A large gap was blasted into the surface of the lava giant fist by the fierce impact force of the water cannon.
Crimson lava splashed everywhere!
But!
This minor loss was utterly insufficient to stop the unstoppable, destructive momentum of the "Great Eruption"!
The remaining lava giant fist still charged towards the Three-Tails Isobu's main body with unmatched power!
Isobu's frenzied giant eye trembled suddenly. It clearly hadn't anticipated its attack being so easily neutralized.
"ROAR!!!"
It let out a hurried roar. Its three barbed giant tails behind it simultaneously whipped out like three colossal steel whips, aiming at the oncoming lava giant fist with the force to shatter a mountain!
Attempting to intercept it!
However
Puff!
Sizzle !!!
The moment its tails touched the scorching lava "ROOOOAAARGH !!!"
The Three-Tails Isobu suddenly let out an earth-shattering, agonizing, and mournful shriek of extreme pain!
The sound even made the skin of the distant observing ninjas crawl!
Its three incredibly tough giant tails were instantly sliced clean off at the point of collision with the lava giant fist, like a hot knife cutting through a wax figure!
The severed ends were unnaturally smooth. One could even see the boiling, escaping Tailed Beast Chakra internally!
Only three bare, half-severed tails remained, weakly flailing!
There was no blood at the severed ends, only massive amounts of Tailed Beast Chakra wildly leaking and dissipating, along with traces of instant carbonization due to the high temperature!
The intense pain instantly filled Isobu's remaining single eye with vicious bloodshot veins.
A frenzied, brutal aura erupted from its body as if it were a physical force!
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