No matter how you look at it, the Five-Tails and Nine-Tails are still better looking. The Three Tails Isobu is definitely the ugliest, but the Three-Tails's defense can definitely contend for first place.
She had originally intended to talk and negotiate properly, but the Three Tails Isobu, without martial ethics, attacked a helpless child like her. So, Ling decided to give it a memory it would never forget.
With a burst of monstrous strength, imbued with the Black Flash technique, Ling unleashed a punch without holding back, using her maximum output of monstrous strength.
The air around her fist wailed, being torn or shattered, and the black lightning seemed to twist space, as if it wanted to shatter the sky.
How enormous were the Three-Tails's claws? Uchiha Rei was like a grasshopper in a human's hand before them. This strike from the Three-Tails was enough to kill even Shadow-level experts.
However, the Three-Tails's slow movement was its biggest flaw. Generally speaking, a Shadow-level ninja should be able to suppress the Three-Tails, let alone Uchiha Rei.
"Boom!" The small fist collided with the Three-Tails's massive claw, and the roar echoed throughout Konoha. The violent shockwave caused many trees to snap.
The Three-Tails uncontrollably stumbled back a few steps, knocking down many towering ancient trees. The murderous intent in its eyes cleared somewhat due to the pain.
"Roar!" The Three-Tails shrieked. It felt its paw was injured; that little ant had shattered the thick armor on its claw with a single punch.
"Ptooey! Ptooey!" Uchiha Rei crawled out of the deep pit. Although she had sent the Three-Tails retreating and injured it with one punch, she had also been slammed several meters deep into the mud by the immense force.
"It's still better to use Wood Release against a Tailed Beast. Otherwise, with my small size, I'm at too much of a disadvantage."
Although Uchiha Rei's damage output was off the charts, her own mass was a weakness, so clashing head-on with a behemoth was truly disadvantageous.
"Wood Release: Five-Clawed Wood Dragon Technique!"
She clapped her hands, and as she called, it came. A large number of trees surged from underground, intertwining to form a three-hundred-meter-long, extremely majestic and domineering Five-Clawed Wood Dragon.
Standing between the dragon horns on the Wood Dragon's head, Uchiha Rei surged with Wood Release Chakra, controlling the Wood Dragon beneath her feet, and faced off against the Three-Tails a hundred meters away.
"Roar!" The Three-Tails's roar shattered a large area of surrounding trees. It also sensed the threat from the gigantic Wood Dragon before it.
The Wood Dragon coiled, its dragon claws ferocious. Although it was only made of wood, it was lifelike, like a real dragon, its scales grinding, emitting a faint metallic clang.
A thousand meters away, the Third Hokage looked at the Wood Dragon confronting the Three-Tails in the distance, and his heart settled. Wood Release was not an empty boast.
"Take these four living Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist away for interrogation to get information about the Hidden Mist Village immediately, and also evacuate the residents on the east side of Konoha at once."
The Third Hokage issued the order, and the Anbu immediately sprang into action, completing the Third Hokage's tasks with extreme efficiency.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina watched the spectacle, mainly because they also wanted to witness Uchiha Rei's strength.
Any one of these three could suppress the Three-Tails, and they were standing there simply to prevent the Three-Tails's Tailed Beast Ball from striking Konoha.
Behind them, Shisui and Yamato watched the battle intently. Although Shisui had awakened his Mangekyo, he had not yet used Susanoo.
And while Yamato also knew Wood Release, limited by his young age and insufficient Chakra, he could only use some small-scale, simplified versions of Wood Release.
Seeing Uchiha Rei's authentic Wood Release now, he also felt a sense of admiration, muttering to himself, 'As expected of Senior Ling, her strength is truly immense.'
Speaking of which, Yamato was actually a bit older than Uchiha Rei, but calling her senior was not wrong. Yamato was still a Chunin, while Ling was already a Jonin.
The Three Tails Isobu's desire for slaughter was difficult to dispel, so it couldn't hold back and attacked first, opening its gaping maw and spewing a thick, high-pressure water jet.
The Wood Dragon's coiling tail suddenly tensed, leaping like a venomous snake, dodging the Three Tails Isobu's high-pressure water jet, and instantly appearing before the Three-Tails.
The Wood Dragon's claw pressed down on the Three-Tails's head, and its right claw suddenly snatched towards the Three-Tails's eyes. Uchiha Rei directly disregarded martial ethics and began to gouge out its eyeballs.
The Three-Tails, being a turtle, immediately retracted its head. Although it was pinned to the ground, it still managed to pull its head back, causing the claw to only gouge out four deep furrows in the ground.
The Three-Tails's tails whipped over like three thick whips. Ling immediately clapped her hands, and thick, four-sided wooden bars wrapped around the Three-Tails's tails.
Then, a large number of branches bound all four of the Three-Tails's limbs. Now the Three-Tails was truly subdued. Ling continued to control the Wood Dragon's front claws to grasp the strange shell plates on the Three-Tails's head, intending to pull its head out.
"Roar!" The Three-Tails felt immense humiliation. A strange Chakra spread across the dragon claws. Although the Wood Release absorbed a portion, it still caused the dragon claws to coralize.
The dragon claws were directly controlled and continued to spread onto the dragon's body. Unfortunately, after the Chakra had been absorbed by Wood Release once, its hardness was not strong.
As Ling injected more Wood Release Chakra again, she easily shattered the coral, and many trees also grew around the Three-Tails.
These were all Wood Release trees formed by absorbing the Three-Tails's Chakra. Wood Release is extremely effective against Tailed Beasts, and the Three-Tails, suppressed by Wood Release, found it difficult to make any significant moves.
The dragon claw simultaneously pulled the Three-Tails's head out while continuously attacking its head. Soon, the Three-Tails's shell plates formed deep grooves.
Perhaps the Three-Tails could no longer tolerate being passively beaten, so its entire body surged with Chakra, and a large amount of coral spread over the Wood Release trees.
Then, the Three-Tails immediately retracted its four limbs, head, and tail into its large turtle shell, and then used its unique taijutsu, Shadow Caress, which involves curling into a ball and rotating at high speed to collide.
The Three-Tails's own shell had many sharp spikes. This move, during the Fourth Great Ninja War, even the Eight-Tails struggled to withstand, but for Uchiha Rei, it was a minor issue.
The Three-Tails spun rapidly in place, churning a large amount of Wood Release, and then charged forward at an extremely fast speed, intending to smash the Wood Dragon where Uchiha Rei was located.
"Wood Release: Roller Coaster Slide Technique."
Ling instantly created a Wood Release technique specifically to counter this move. A large amount of Wood Release intertwined to form a smooth, upward-sloping track.
The Three-Tails directly charged onto the track, and after a large loop, it went directly to the end of the upward track, soaring into the sky.
"Woohoo, take off, turtle flying!"
Presumably, the Three Tails Isobu had never flown before. Now, Uchiha Rei allowed it to experience the sensation of weightlessness. It should probably thank her.
The Three Tails Isobu flew a full thousand meters high before it began to descend. As its speed increased, the Three-Tails also began to panic due to the feeling of weightlessness.
It stretched its limbs, wanting to spread them out to slow its descent, and its Three-Tails swayed weakly, wanting to move as if swimming in water to regain control of its body.
But all of this was futile. It could only watch helplessly as the ground grew larger. It was impossible for the Three-Tails to die from the fall, but it was inevitable that it would sink into the earth.
Uchiha Rei naturally wouldn't let the Three Tails Isobu land smoothly; she naturally had to add some flair for it.
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