Chapter 405: The Great Battle — Sage Mode Golden Nine-Tails Naruto
"Summoning Jutsu: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!"
The newly arrived Obito clone wasted no words and immediately summoned the shell of the Ten Tails—the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
The massive statue, towering like a mountain, looked as if it was formed from dried, twisted wood. Its hands pressed against the ground with a thunderous rumble.
On its enormous head, eight of its nine eyes already had pupils, indicating that eight tailed beasts had been sealed. Only the Nine-Tails remained.
Whoosh!
Li Yao's Obito clone leapt and landed atop the statue's head, overlooking Naruto below.
Naruto now got a clear view of the clone, especially the pair of eyes peeking out from behind the spiral mask.
"Those are… Nagato's eyes!"
Purple irises, encircled with black rings—the Rinnegan. Naruto glared angrily at the Obito clone and shouted, "What did you do to Nagato and Konan?!"
Nagato's Rinnegan appearing on the masked man made it clear: after leaving Konoha, Nagato and Konan must have been attacked.
Though Naruto still harbored lingering resentment toward them, they were Jiraiya-sensei's students—his senpai. Hearing they had been harmed still filled him with rage.
"Don't worry, you'll see them very soon… No—none of you will ever see each other again."
Li Yao's Obito clone shouted this, then shook his head. Nagato and Konan's souls had already been destroyed by him. Naruto's soul would meet the same fate. There would be no reunion.
Naruto didn't fully grasp the implication of Li Yao's words, but he understood that Nagato and Konan were likely dead.
"Naruto, quick—use a Tailed Beast Bomb on that statue!"
Before Naruto could unleash his anger, within the seal space, Kurama ripped open the gate and stepped out completely, shouting loudly.
At the same time, all of Kurama's chakra surged outward.
In Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak mode, Naruto's golden chakra manifested around him as a full Nine-Tails avatar, like a version of Susanoo shaped from Kurama's energy.
"Tailed Beast Bomb!"
Naruto now fully trusted Kurama. Without even questioning it, he immediately coordinated with Kurama to form a Tailed Beast Bomb.
The golden outer chakra form opened its mouth, and a Tailed Beast Bomb quickly formed and launched toward the massive statue.
The moment the statue appeared, Kurama had already sensed the chakra of the other eight tailed beasts within and understood the statue's power to suppress him.
The statue had to be destroyed first, or the battle would turn against them.
Kurama's decision was correct—only… it was too slow.
Whoosh!
With a thought, Li Yao's Obito clone teleported the statue behind Naruto.
Boom!
The Tailed Beast Bomb, fired by Naruto and Kurama in tandem, shot through the space where the statue had originally stood.
Unfortunately, the bomb's trajectory happened to be in the direction of the Kumogakure trio.
The massive projectile made their faces go pale with fear.
"Move!"
All three shouted and instantly dodged to the side.
Whoosh!
The Tailed Beast Bomb tore through the massive boulder they had hidden behind, then continued flying far into the distance.
BOOM!
A few heartbeats later, a massive explosion erupted behind them. The ground trembled. The trio turned to look.
On the horizon, a white sun had appeared, and a visible shockwave of white energy was sweeping toward them.
"Earth Style: Earth Wall!"
No time to feel lucky—they had barely survived. Samui quickly used Earth Style to raise a thick wall to shield them.
BOOM!
The shockwave slammed into the wall. Fierce winds howled in all directions. Feeling the terrifying destructive power, the trio once again counted their blessings.
Thank goodness the bomb hadn't exploded near them.
Otherwise, they'd have been turned to ash.
"Run!"
Once the shockwave passed, Samui decisively gave the order to retreat, no longer interested in gathering intel.
At the critical moment, her teammates' lives mattered more.
Besides, they had already gathered enough.
Naruto had become a perfect jinchūriki, and the power he had just displayed was more than enough evidence of his strength.
As for his enemies—whether that mysterious man or the masked man from Akatsuki—if Samui was right, both possessed space-time abilities.
Neither Naruto's Tailed Beast Bomb nor their space-time ninjutsu could be countered by ordinary means.
These two pieces of intel alone were more than enough.
Now they just had to get them safely back to the village.
Hmm… As Samui turned to flee, she suddenly sensed something wrong—the chakra pressure from Naruto's Nine-Tails form abruptly vanished. In the next instant, she couldn't move.
What was happening?
Samui screamed inwardly.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Omoi and Karui suddenly noticed Samui had vanished. They stopped and looked around, shouting her name, but got no response.
Watching from the interspatial layer, Samui instantly understood—she was caught.
She shouted for her teammates to flee, but they couldn't hear her at all. They continued searching the area, unaware of what had happened.
Before she could shout again, her body began to float upward.
Ordinary people couldn't use ninjutsu in the interspatial layer—but Li Yao, with his space chakra, was an exception.
"Wow… as expected of the ninja world's greatest peak!"
Li Yao brought the icy beauty of Kumogakure in front of him and couldn't help but marvel. Even more impressive than Tsunade's legendary proportions from the anime.
Seeing her in person, the scale was even more incredible.
Li Yao personally measured and confirmed—they were indeed bigger than Tsunade's.
"Who are you?"
Samui's face remained cold and expressionless, not flinching even as her most sensitive features were evaluated. Her stoicism as a ninja was remarkable.
Faced with the same question he always got, Li Yao didn't bother answering. He freed up one hand, using both to measure Tsunade and Samui while keeping his eyes on the battle between Naruto and the Obito clone.
At that moment, the clone was manipulating sealing chains from the statue's mouth to attack Naruto.
But the expected instant kill didn't happen.
With Sage Mode and the Nine-Tails combination, Naruto's body speed, reflexes, and chakra control were all incredibly fast.
More importantly, Kurama's chakra tails—enhanced by senjutsu—had strong resistance to the sealing chains.
BAM BAM BAM!
The chains were all smacked away by the golden Nine-Tails' tails, unable to bind Naruto.
"As expected… of all martial skills under heaven, speed is the only unbreakable force."
Watching Naruto's golden form nimbly dodge and deflect dozens of chakra sealing chains, Li Yao's Obito clone murmured in admiration.
He had already made the sealing chains extremely fast, but still couldn't catch golden Nine-Tails Naruto.
(END CHAPTER)
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