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Chapter 216: Crushing Victory, Retrieving the Eight and Nine-Tails
"Watch out!!" Naruto shouted a warning at the top of his lungs.
However, the green orbs of light were simply too fast. Beside him, Kakashi and Killer B struggled to react in time.
Even with his reflexes enhanced by Sage Mode and Kurama Chakra Mode, Naruto could barely track the trajectory of the three green lights shooting toward them.
The moment the warning left his mouth, the orbs were already upon them.
Impact was imminent.
Naruto didn't know what these things were, but his instincts screamed danger. The chakra fluctuations radiating from the spheres were terrifying enough to make one's heart tremble.
Suddenly, three massive, brilliant golden hands extended from his chakra cloak, grabbing at the incoming green orbs.
But it was utterly futile.
The moment the chakra hands made contact with the spheres, they melted away like snow under a scorching sun.
No... it wasn't melting. It looked more like absorption!
Both Naruto and Kurama were shaken to their core. These green orbs could strangely devour chakra! His chakra arms weren't just made of the Nine-Tails' chakra; they were infused with Senjutsu chakra as well!
Yet, faced with these incoming spheres, grabbing or defending was impossible. Even the chakra inside his own body began to drain violently through the connection of the chakra arms.
"Naruto!! Let go, now!!" Kurama's anxious voice roared in his mind. "That green orb is terrifying! Do not let it touch your body!!"
The fox was rattled by the aura coming from the attack. This was a force they absolutely could not tank; they had to dodge.
"Kakashi-sensei!! Uncle Bee!!"
The situation was critical.
Naruto's three chakra arms were devoured by the orbs in an instant.
As he leaped away to dodge, he extended two more chakra arms to grab the still-stunned Kakashi and Killer B, attempting to throw them out of harm's way.
Unfortunately, he was a step too late.
The green orbs pierced through their bodies without resistance, dragging out masses of chakra and devouring them instantly.
"Kakashi-sensei!! Uncle Bee!!"
Naruto's heart skipped a beat as he jumped into mid-air. He could no longer sense any chakra from the two of them.
All of it had been extracted and consumed by those bizarre spheres of light.
If a ninja lost all their chakra, then...
Poof!
Just then, Kakashi's body burst into a cloud of smoke.
It was a Shadow Clone!
Meanwhile, Killer B had turned into a withered octopus tentacle.
Unnoticed, both had used substitution techniques to swap places with their clones, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.
"Naruto!!" Kakashi leaped out from the debris nearby, his expression grave. "Whatever you do, don't let those orbs touch your body! They'll suck you dry!!"
The phantom pain and the memory of death-by-exhaustion transmitted from his Shadow Clone made his real body shudder with lingering fear. The ability to devour all chakra in an instant was simply too terrifying...
Under the assault of these horrific spheres, the spatial vortex he had just begun to form with Kamui was interrupted and vanished.
"Naruto, the enemy is dangerous. Very, very dangerous."
Killer B emerged from another direction, every hair on his body standing on end, his face solemn. He had been forced to abort his Tailed Beast Bomb halfway through charging.
With just a single ranged attack, the enemy had nearly driven the three of them to their deaths.
This strength... it was beyond imagination!!
Since when did the ninja world possess such irregular, rule-breaking power? He couldn't see any hope of victory. The overwhelming pressure from the opponent made his body, and even his soul, tremble.
If he didn't have to fight, he would have followed his instincts and fled the battlefield immediately to escape such a horrific monster.
The three green orbs of light turned and rushed toward them again with extreme speed.
"Kakashi-sensei! Uncle Bee!" A high-pitched, piercing screech of wind resonated from Naruto's hand. "Don't attack! You might get caught in the blast!"
Kakashi glanced at the dense sphere of chakra in Naruto's hand out of the corner of his eye. Four translucent blades were spinning rapidly around its center.
It was Naruto's strongest technique.
It was worth using this move to test the enemy's strange orb attack.
"Sage Art: Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!!"
Naruto raised his right hand and hurled it with a roar, aiming directly at the three incoming green spheres.
Given the attack range and powerful cutting ability of this jutsu, it should be able to...
What?!!
Kakashi's assumptions were instantly shattered by the cruel reality unfolding before his eyes.
In his view, the Rasenshuriken, infused with Senjutsu chakra, should have been unrivaled.
But what happened?
Nothing happened!!
There was no anticipated explosion, no ear-splitting sound of wind slicing through the air.
The Rasenshuriken didn't detonate or expand. Instead, it fizzled out like a deflated balloon, shrinking rapidly until it vanished without a trace.
All the chakra had been devoured by the three orbs!!
The enemy's attack could devour Ninjutsu as well!!
And this was an S-rank Sage Jutsu released by Naruto!
Kakashi was horrified. Killer B was horrified.
Naruto and Kurama were dumbfounded, struck by indescribable shock. They couldn't understand how this was physically possible.
Truth-Seeking Balls!!
This was one of the abilities of the Tenseigan. It could devour not only chakra within a human body but also Ninjutsu itself!
Konan's Tenseigan was far more powerful than Toneri Otsutsuki's. Coupled with the fact that she knew Senjutsu, she could imbue the Truth-Seeking Balls with the property to devour Sage Jutsu as well.
It made them infinitely more terrifying.
For Kakashi, Naruto, and Killer B, there was nothing that could block it, and no attack that could break it.
They had dodged once, but luck would not favor them a second time.
A fluorescent green light emerged from Konan's right hand as she controlled the attack personally. The three green chakra orbs pierced through their bodies simultaneously like lightning.
They couldn't dodge in time.
The gap in strength was too wide. The outcome had been decided the moment Konan made her move.
Their resistance was nothing more than a death struggle.
In an instant, Kakashi collapsed to the ground with a thud. His face was pale and confused, as if he didn't even realize what had happened. His chakra completely devoured, his life force dissipated, and his consciousness plunged into darkness.
As for Naruto and Killer B...
As the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails and Eight-Tails, they possessed immense chakra reserves. But... they could not escape the same fate.
Their bodies floated up involuntarily.
The Tailed Beast chakra within them was swallowed by the Truth-Seeking Balls with the force of a whale inhaling water. Their aura and vitality withered and faded before the naked eye.
"Kurama..." Naruto called out weakly, unable to move a muscle.
He couldn't summon even a sliver of strength. He cared more about Kurama's condition than his own life, but there was no response, only dead silence.
He could only sense Kurama being rapidly extracted by the green sphere floating above his head.
"Ko... Konan..."
Naruto looked at Konan not far away, his eyes filled with pleading. "Please... please don't hurt Kurama... Don't hurt my friends... my village..."
Konan remained silent.
Having visited the parallel world of the future, she was utterly disappointed in Naruto. He was someone who only knew how to shout empty slogans but ultimately changed nothing, always compromising with reality.
His will, his Ninja Way, his hot-bloodedness—it was all just the ignorance of youth.
Rather than becoming that disgusting version of Naruto in the future, it was better for him to rest eternally now, keeping his sincere dreams intact.
"Sleep well... Naruto..." Konan said calmly. "In the future, I will show you a world of true peace. Everything you persist in now, your self-righteous justice and peace... is nothing but a joke."
Whoosh!
The Nine-Tails was completely extracted from Naruto's body. He crashed to the ground with a dull thud.
Killer B suffered the same fate nearby.
The two Truth-Seeking Balls returned to Konan's side, carrying the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
"Your power..." Black Zetsu was terrified. "How can it be this strong??! Hamura's eyes shouldn't be like this...!!"
"Hmph!"
Konan snorted coldly.
A pitch-black Truth-Seeking Ball floated in front of her, expanding to wrap around Black Zetsu, sealing him completely inside.
She then tossed him into her Storage White Paper.
Black Zetsu, the deepest conspirator in the ninja world, had temporarily exited the stage.
"Now then... it's your turn..."
Konan's gaze turned cold as she looked toward Obito Uchiha.
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