Chapter 248: Tailed Beast Ball!
Boom!!!
Accompanied by a deafening crash and an earth-shaking tremor, the Three-Tails Isobu, which had been frantically rolling and attempting to crush everything, finally slammed heavily into the foot of a large mountain.
The massive impact caused the entire mountain to tremble violently.
Countless fragments of rock rolled down from the mountainside.
Its colossal and battered body finally ceased rolling.
The Three-Tails Isobu stretched out its curled body. Its thick, sturdy feet, covered in a grey-white hard carapace, extended from the shell. Like giant pillars, they rooted deep into the already ravaged and cracked earth, attempting to stabilize its body.
Its single eye, filled with savage bloodshot veins, nervously and quickly scanned the area ahead, which it had crushed into a mess like mud.
It was attempting to locate the human who had brought it endless pain.
The terrifying hole on its dorsal carapace, which the lava had penetrated, and the scorched Chakra flesh inside, were slowly healing visibly under the influence of the Tailed Beast's powerful vitality.
New carapace tissue squirmed like flesh buds, and Tailed Beast Chakra filled the gap like an adhesive.
However, the deep, soul-searing pain could not be easily erased.
It persisted in irritating its nerves like a maggot in the bone.
"Hoo "
The Three-Tails Isobu restlessly clawed at the ground ahead with its pair of robust forelimbs, easily flipping over rocks and earth.
It panted heavily, the scorching white breath it exhaled was like a small whirlwind, blowing up dust everywhere.
As if only this could alleviate the omnipresent, intense pain.
It was at this moment the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, who was embedded directly on top of the Three-Tails Isobu's head, seemed to be sharing the experience of that extreme pain with the Tailed Beast. His eyebrows were painfully furrowed, and his eyelashes fluttered slightly. He actually opened his long-closed eyes in a state of disorientation.
He let out an unconscious groan, his eyes somewhat bewildered. He subconsciously looked around this hellish battlefield, then lowered his gaze to his lower body, which was fused with the Tailed Beast. Yagura Karatachi's brows furrowed tighter, as if he was realizing something.
Suddenly!
His mental consciousness was fiercely struck by an invisible heavy hammer!
It instantly became extremely dazed with a "hum."
The real scenery before his eyes instantly twisted and shifted.
The sky seemed to be splashed with a layer of viscous blood. A colossal, perfectly round blood moon, emitting an ominous red glow, hung inverted in the sky.
No! That was not a moon at all!
Upon closer inspection, it was clearly a gigantic Mangekyō Sharingan, with intricate and demonic patterns, slowly rotating and covering the entire sky!
That giant eye looked down upon him with cold indifference.
As if examining a tiny insect!
"Damn it... it's the Sharingan's... Genjutsu "
Yagura Karatachi clutched his seemingly splitting head. Pain flashed across his young, innocent-looking face, and he let out a hoarse, unwilling groan.
Intense struggle appeared on his face as he attempted to fight against the spirit control that had penetrated to his bones.
However, all this struggle was futile.
The next second, the pain and struggle on his face suddenly vanished as if wiped away by an eraser. His eyes once again became empty and frenzied.
At the same time, his two eyes, and the single eye of the Three-Tails Isobu below, as if controlled by the same thread, simultaneously and stiffly looked far into the same direction.
They saw in the distance in that direction, an exceptionally thick column of rolling black smoke rose continuously toward the sky, like a black dragon connecting heaven and earth.
Beneath the thick smoke, a crimson figure stood towering on a patch of elevated scorched earth.
The figure was enveloped in heart-palpitating high temperature, which violently warped the air, making him look as if he were behind a flickering curtain of fire.
He was looking down remotely at the battered Three-Tails Isobu with an air of absolute coldness.
"ROAR!!!"
The pupil in the Three-Tails Isobu's single eye suddenly shrank to a needlepoint!
It seemed to be in extreme disbelief and rage that Ikeizumi Uchiha had appeared there completely unharmed.
The Tailed Beast's thoroughly enraged wildness instantly overwhelmed all reason.
Its two colossal feet, like pillars, fiercely stomped the ground!
RUMBLE !!!
The earth emitted a groan of distress. Spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread out.
Rocks larger than a human head were shaken ten-plus meters into the air, then slightly trembled and floated in this terrifying Chakra fluctuation!
HUM !!!
Massive, suffocating Tailed Beast Chakra erupted uncontrollably from the Three-Tails Isobu's body like a tsunami, held back no longer.
Its Yin-Release Chakra and Yang-Release Chakra began to frantically converge and compress at a special ratio of 2:8 in front of its giant mouth!
Soon, an extremely dangerous, black sphere, radiating an aura of destruction, instantly appeared!
That was the ultimate secret technique of the Tailed Beasts the prototype of the Tailed Beast Ball!
The Three-Tails Isobu's single eye was filled with mania and the desire for destruction.
It was essentially overdrafting its entire Chakra reserve.
Unreservedly injecting it all into this Tailed Beast Ball!
As the massive amount of Chakra was frantically injected, the black sphere, which initially was only the size of a human head, began to expand terrifyingly fast before their very eyes!
One time... five times... ten times... twenty times...
In the blink of an eye, it swelled to the enormous size comparable to the Three-Tails Isobu's own ugly head! And it showed no sign of stopping, continuing to grow!
Crack...
Crack...
The surrounding floating, trembling fragments of rock were all shattered into fine powder, as if crushed by an invisible giant hand under the formless force field emitted by this ultra-high-density energy sphere!
The entire mountain behind the Three-Tails Isobu was intensely trembling.
The ground beneath its feet cracked open into even more savage, deep chasms.
The extremely warped and vibrating air made the Three-Tails Isobu's massive body look somewhat blurry and elusive!
The destructive energy fluctuation spread in all directions like a physical tide.
Causing living creatures kilometers away to feel a wave of dread!
In the distance, the ninja cat Kijiro, who had been watching calmly, suddenly had all its fur stand on end.
Its plump body instantly tensed, its cat face filled with horror.
"MEOW!!!"
It let out a sharp meow, unhesitatingly using its claws to fiercely poke Izumi's cheek. Its voice became urgent: "This Tailed Beast is insane! This is the Tailed Beast Ball that Ikeizumi-sama once told me about, meow! It's said to be the Tailed Beast's strongest attack!"
"Newbie! Run!! Run with all your might! Run as far as you can! Don't look back! Don't hesitate, meow!"
It suddenly remembered something and hastily added: "Meow! Don't run in a straight line! Don't run towards the direction its head is facing! Go to the sides! Left or right! Doesn't matter which! Hurry, meow!!!"
This was the first time Ikeizumi had seen Kijiro, who was always somewhat lazy and sarcastic, display such a loss of composure.
She didn't even have time to think.
The intense sense of crisis and her trust in Kijiro made her instantly turn around.
Chakra was poured into her feet without reserve.
She bolted in a frantic, life-or-death sprint toward the side and back!
Jūzō Biwa on the side also instantly paled. As a former member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, he understood better than Ikeizumi what the Tailed Beast Ball represented!
"This is hiss!"
He sucked in a sharp breath. The scorching air now failed to alleviate the coldness in his heart.
Without any hesitation, he hoisted the heavy Kubikiribōchō onto his shoulder, increasing his speed to the absolute maximum.
Following Ikeizumi's figure, he frantically fled!
As Ikeizumi sprinted quickly, Kijiro, tightly gripping her shoulder, hurriedly glanced back.
When it saw the utterly chilling size of the black Tailed Beast Ball in the distance, radiating an aura that would silence all things, the entire cat nearly jumped off her shoulder!
"Too slow, meow! Newbie! You won't escape the Tailed Beast Ball's blast radius running like this!"
Kijiro suddenly leaped down from Ikeizumi's shoulder.
In mid-air, its originally plump and adorable body rapidly inflated as if being inflated with air.
In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a gigantic beast, comparable in size to a colossal elephant, with bristling fur and claws that gleamed coldly.
Kijiro snatched Ikeizumi Uchiha's back collar in its mouth.
Its four legs exerted a fierce push.
Swoosh! An orange streak of light instantly sliced across the ground, its speed so fast that it left behind afterimages.
In an instant, it far outpaced Jūzō Biwa, who was pursuing with all his might.
Jūzō Biwa didn't even qualify to eat their dust.
Jūzō Biwa, running desperately with the large sword on his shoulder, only felt a gust of wind sweep past him, and then all he saw ahead was a rapidly retreating orange back and a sky full of smoke and dust.
Jūzō Biwa: "???"
Wait!
Wait for me!!!
Mei Terumī on the other side also had her pupils contract sharply at this moment.
Even though her position was at the side and rear of the Three-Tails Isobu, not in the direct path of the Tailed Beast Ball.
Feeling the terrifying energy contained within that black sphere, which could destroy everything, she couldn't help but retreat several steps in horror.
Ao next to her had already torn off his eye patch, revealing the Byakugan with bulging veins.
He strained to see into the distance, his forehead covered in cold sweat from excessive shock and tension.
"This this is within the borders of the Land of Water!"
Ao's voice carried a tremor, filled with confusion and anxiety: "Mizukage-sama is using this this destructive power! Isn't he afraid of affecting the nearby towns? What about the civilians there?!"
A strong sense of dissonance welled up in his heart.
This was completely different from the image of the Fourth Mizukage in his memory, who, though he implemented the Bloody Mist Policy, would at least consider the fundamental interests of the village and the safety of the Land of Water's populace!
This was exactly like
A completely different person!
Unfortunately, the distance was too great. Even with the Byakugan's insight, it was difficult to penetrate the frantic Tailed Beast Chakra and the warped air to clearly see the specific state of the Mizukage-sama on top of the Three-Tails' head.
Ikeizumi Uchiha stood rooted to the spot, feeling the increasingly violent tremor coming from the earth beneath his feet. Even the small pebbles by his feet were wildly bouncing.
He murmured softly, expressionlessly.
"Tailed Beast Ball "
The next moment, he slowly raised his head, the crimson light in his eyes flaring brightly.
The pattern in those eyes was no longer the ordinary Mangekyō Sharingan. It was a pattern that was more intricate, more demonic, and deeper!
It was as if two different Mangekyō Sharingan patterns had perfectly nested and merged together.
Forming a qualitative change!
Forming a brand new pair of eyes containing Eternal Power!
This was the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan!
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE !!!
As his Dōjutsu power was completely unleashed, the earth roared even more violently than before. A colossal, unimaginably huge crimson skeletal framework, like a terrifying demon god climbing out from the deepest depths of hell, erupted from the earth behind him!
And this was only the beginning.
As the skeleton rose, countless crimson Chakra, like a surging torrent of lava, emerged, quickly constructing immensely strong, knotted muscle fibers upon the skeletal framework.
Immediately after, layer upon layer of heavy, ancient, and extremely fierce crimson armor, like a living thing, covered the colossal body of the Susano'o. The armor was engulfed in fierce crimson Chakra flames.
The extreme high temperature radiated by the crimson flames even caused the ground beneath its feet to melt and boil remotely.
Forming a constantly expanding lava lake with churning bubbles.
The moment the Three-Tails Isobu's Tailed Beast Ball expanded to its maximum.
This demon-god-like Susano'o finally revealed its Perfect Form. Its colossal body, standing over two hundred and ten meters tall, was like a constantly moving mountain, quietly towering between heaven and earth.
The shadow it cast was enough to cover an entire small ninja village!
A pair of grossly exaggerated giant wings, which upon closer inspection seemed to have viscous lava slowly flowing within, abruptly unfurled from the Susano'o's back!
The crimson light of the lava seemed to illuminate the clouds in the sky.
The beating of the wings stirred up gusts of scorching hurricane-force wind.
Ikeizumi Uchiha's figure was firmly protected within the Susano'o.
And under Ikeizumi Uchiha's control, the Perfect Susano'o raised an arm that was larger than a house.
It fiercely grasped at the empty air!
HUM !!!
Endless Lava Release Chakra converged. A lava giant blade, larger and heavier than any before, instantly materialized.
The blade was as wide as an exceptionally large door panel, and scorching lava slowly flowed from its edge.
Radiating a terrifying aura that could incinerate everything!
"What is that "
Feeling the waves of heat rushing towards him, Ao couldn't help but widen his eyes, staring at the heaven-defying lava giant in the distance.
Mei Terumī murmured in shock: "I... seem to have seen a similar record in a decades-old book in the village. This seems to be a Dōjutsu unique to Konoha's Uchiha clan "
On the other side, the Tailed Beast Ball in the Three-Tails Isobu's giant mouth had now swelled to an astonishing size, nearly a quarter of its own body mass!
Its Tailed Beast Chakra was visibly withered and significantly dimmed due to excessive output.
"ROAR !!!"
It used its last reserves of strength, letting out a piercing, hysterical roar that seemed to tear the very sky!
That ultra-gigantic Tailed Beast Ball, which condensed its entire power and was capable of destroying mountains and altering the terrain, instantly shot out from its giant mouth like an unbridled beast of destruction!
The launch of the Tailed Beast Ball made no sound!
Or rather
The sound had been left far behind!
The Tailed Beast Ball silently sliced through space at a terrifying speed that exceeded the limits of visual capture. Where it passed, even light seemed to be swallowed and warped, as it furiously slammed toward the distant Susano'o!