The Yin-Yang Release black rod, also known as a chakra receiver, is a direct product of fusing Yin and Yang energies.
Inserting this black receiver into an opponent's body allows the user to completely bind the tenketsu used for refining chakra, completely disrupting the target's internal chakra circulation.
To a certain extent, its fundamental properties are identical to the Hyūga Clan's Gentle Fist.
Furthermore, it carries another distinct moniker—The Stern Father of the Tailed Beasts.
At this exact moment, the instant Yu Hyuga drew out the Yin-Yang Release black rod, Rōshi immediately sensed an impending catastrophe, and his expression warped in sheer panic!
However, with all 309 chakra points across his twelve primary meridians fully unleashed and combined with his Wind Style: Complete Chakra Mode, Yu's current speed had ascended to a tier equal to the Fourth Raikage, Ay. He completely outstripped Rōshi in his current half-tailed beast state!
Rōshi had barely initiated a movement to leap away and escape when Yu was already sprinting forward at point-blank range, raising the black rod high as he hurled it forward like a javelin!
Swish!
The Yin-Yang Release black rod instantly transformed into a flash of black light, tearing through the air and shooting straight toward Rōshi's heart!
Thwack!
In his desperation, Rōshi only managed to twist his torso to avoid a fatal blow. The black rod pierced cleanly through one of the crimson tails swaying behind him, pinning it deeply into the solid rock wall!
Visibly, the pinned crimson tail rapidly bled its color, fading from a vibrant scarlet to a pale, washed-out red. Simultaneously, the volume of Tailed Beast chakra Rōshi could mobilize inside his body plummeted drastically!
Seeing this, Yu's eyes narrowed. Grinding his toe against the rock face, his velocity surged yet again, turning his entire form into a cyan blur barely discernible to the naked eye. He raised his right hand, curving his fingers into a claw-like grip. Across his five fingertips, glowing characters lit up in sequence: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth!
Right then, Rōshi instantly recognized it as the Hidden Leaf Village's A-rank jutsu—the Five Elements Seal. If Yu managed to land that hit, another massive portion of his Tailed Beast chakra would be instantaneously locked away.
The Yin-Yang Release black rod, the Five Elements Seal, and the Hyūga Gentle Fist executed by Yu's current physical conditioning—which was powerful enough to engage in raw hand-to-hand combat with a Tailed Beast—these three methods were all absolute, hard counters against a Jinchūriki!
As long as he closed the distance, Yu could likely completely suppress and seal the chakra of any non-berserk, non-perfect Jinchūriki within a single minute!
He could completely neutralize an ordinary Jinchūriki's half-tailed beast transformation right at the source!
Rōshi couldn't help but gasp, his blank white eyes widening in horror. Distracted from dealing with the pinned black receiver, he immediately liquified his entire body against the rock wall into molten lava, and then wrenched himself free with a violent surge!
The tail pinned by the Yin-Yang Release black rod snapped apart into molten slag. At that exact moment, Rōshi used his remaining two tails to slam against the stone surface like extra limbs. Utilizing all six appendages—his four limbs and his tails—he propelled himself forward, turning into a crimson beam of light that fled madly along the rock wall to widen the gap between him and Yu!
Seeing this, Yu stopped in his tracks. Standing perfectly vertical on the sheer cliff face, he stared coldly at the fleeing Rōshi. Bringing his hands together, an invisible ripple instantly expanded outward from him, sweeping through the entire crater!
"Wind Style: Frictionless Wind!"
Countless invisible Wind Style: Chakra Scalpels spread out, silently attaching themselves to Rōshi a short distance away. In the next instant, Rōshi made a bizarre discovery. Even though his limbs were moving so fast they left afterimages, and he was running at the absolute fastest speed of his life—
When his claws gripped the rock face, he didn't feel the expected coarse stone or the immense friction that would propel him upward. Instead... it felt like a perfectly smooth, heavily soaped mirror!
He couldn't grasp a single thing. His soles ground against the rock, nearly kicking up sparks, yet the distance he covered shrank rapidly—from over ten meters per bound, to just a few meters, then to mere inches, until finally, he ground to a complete halt right where he stood.
Rōshi looked down and was shocked to see that, at some unknown point, a layer of pale green chakra had inexplicably coated his hands and feet. This chakra clung to him like a flesh-eating maggot, continuously neutralizing the momentum and friction generated by his movements. No matter how much Tailed Beast chakra he channeled to purge it, a fresh layer of pale green chakra would instantly replace it!
And right then—
"Universal Pull!"
Standing vertically on the lower rock wall, Yu raised his head coldly. He leveled his right palm, which still held the Five Elements Seal, while his other hand formed the starting stance of the Gentle Fist. However, Yu was not preparing to unleash the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, nor the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms. The underlying principle of those traditional Gentle Fist techniques relied on the Hyūga Clan's exceptional chakra control to land dozens of strikes per second in an incredibly short window, injecting trace amounts of chakra into an enemy's chakra points to disrupt their internal circulation.
But now that Yu had achieved a bloodline evolution, his chakra control had reached an even higher plane. He instantly mastered, without any guidance, the very capabilities that ordinary Hyūga clansmen spent their entire lives training to achieve—completely surpassing the accumulated heritage of the Hyūga Clan over a millennium!
Forming a hand seal with his index and middle fingers before his chest, he accumulated a massive amount of Wind Style chakra at his fingertips.
"Wind Style: Gentle Fist Art—One Blow Body!"
Utilizing his ability to multitask seven ways at once—possessing seven times the chakra control of the Hyūga Clan's absolute top-tier powerhouses—he thrusted a single finger forward. He manipulated the wind surrounding his foe, driving it simultaneously into all 361 of the enemy's chakra points, completely sealing every single one of them in an instant!
In that split second, an invisible, terrifying gravitational pull locked onto Rōshi!
He thrashed his limbs in despair, but no matter what he did—even driving his tails deep into the rock wall—his body slid down toward Yu, inch by inch!
"How is this possible?!"
"No!!"
At this moment, Rōshi let out a near-desperate howl of rage. Not even Minato Namikaze had ever pressured him with such terrifying intensity!
It felt as though every action he took was utterly futile, every technique perfectly countered, and every piece of his intelligence completely exposed without a shred of privacy. It was as if... even his exact desperate countermoves had been completely calculated in advance—
Rōshi instantly realized that he could neither put any distance between himself and Yu nor escape. Resistance was completely futile.
But...
"If that's how it is, I'll put everything on the line!"
Gritting his teeth so hard they nearly shattered, his half-tailed beast body shook violently as an even more terrifying surge of crimson chakra erupted from his skin!
Shards of white bone began to protrude from the surface of his crimson Tailed Beast shroud, which burned like a blazing inferno!
Heave— Pant—
Driven by the unstoppable pulling force dragging him backward, Rōshi forcefully spun his body to face Yu. A savage expression flared across his distorted face and blank white eyes as he let out an earsplitting roar—"ROAR!!!"
The roar, accompanied by the volatile, terrifying waves of crimson chakra, rippled outward, causing the entire crater to shudder violently as showers of gravel rained down!
"Finally, here it comes!"
Seeing this, Yu didn't panic at all. On the contrary, an eager, thrilled light flashed in his eyes, and a cold arc slowly curled onto his lips. "Subduing you too quickly would be a bit boring, after all."
"Perfect. I'll use you to test the absolute limits of my Wind Style!"
Dispersing the Five Elements Seal from his right fingertips and the Wind Style: Gentle Fist Art—One Blow Body from his left, he slightly raised his hands. Standing firmly against the vertical rock wall, he assumed a Wing Chun opening posture.
In the next split second—
Rumble!
Three crimson tails suddenly burst through the rock layer right beneath Yu's feet, thrusting violently toward his body!
Yu swung his arms where he stood. With a massive spin, he evaded the first tail thrust, slammed his hand down to seize the second tail, and shattered the third tail's trajectory with a heavy punch. Grinding his foot into the rock, he leapt backward, violently dragging Four-Tails Rōshi by the captured tail along with him!
Rōshi, still positioned higher up the rock face, suddenly felt a wave of utterly overwhelming, monstrous brute force dragging him down. He was forcefully slammed face-first into the stone, his body and head smashing violently along the trench carved out by his tail. The rock layer exploded around him as he was yanked cleanly out of the debris and hauled right in front of Yu.
Right after that, a fist wrapped in a terrifying, raging gale came hurling straight toward his face!
BANG!
The fist smashed squarely into the center of his face, caving in Rōshi's features and warping them out of shape. His lips peeled back from the impact as his head whipped violently to the side, completely beyond his control. The exact moment the blow landed, a shockwave ring of a sonic boom rippled outward from the point of contact!
Having just been dragged before Yu, Rōshi hadn't even found the chance to counterattack before he was hammered away once again by an utterly irresistible display of violence!
—BOOM!
He slammed instantly into the very bottom of the crater, kicking up a massive plume of dust!
Yu cast a fleeting glance at his own fist, quickly calculating the maximum output of that strike. He then peered down into the depths, slightly furrowing his brow. I didn't... kill him with a single punch, did I?
In the next instant, Yu's gaze sharpened. Within the thick, spreading shroud of dust below, a twisted, deformed monster wrenched its body around in a violent spin, blowing the smoke away. Immediately after, five or six massive boulders, each seven to eight meters tall, were forcefully ripped from the ground and shattered by three giant tails. Roaring in his half-tailed beast form, Rōshi hoisted the immense boulders and hurled them like missiles toward Yu.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The moment the ordinary boulders were thrown, they instantaneously transformed into scorching-hot, blazing lava spheres, hurtling directly toward Yu!
Intense gales whipped against his face, and the blazing heatwaves radiating from the lava spheres violently blew back the hair framing Yu's forehead!
Yu sank his chakra into his core, his eyes widening slightly. Raising a single hand, he dropped into a half-horse stance and thrust his palm out to intercept the attack!
"Wind Style: Repulsion—Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!"
"Ha!"
In the next second, a high-pressure slingshot effect created by countless Wind Style: Chakra Scalpels, fused with a terrifying repulsive force, condensed into a massive air cannon 5 meters in diameter, blasting outward in an instant!
BOOM!
The air blast instantly punched straight through the six lava spheres, slamming into the base of the crater and detonating an even larger cloud of debris!
Billowing smoke filled the area, only to be utterly cleared away in the next instant by an extreme high-pressure vacuum wave. Yet, when the air cleared, Rōshi's figure was nowhere to be found below!
Instead, the surrounding rock walls began to bulge outward in a bizarre fashion!
—RUMBLE!
It was as though some creature was tunneling inside the rock walls, systematically obliterating the structural integrity of the cavern as it circled around Yu at terrifying speeds!
In just three seconds, the ground vanished beneath Yu's feet. The cubic crater collapsed entirely, ground down by the raw power of the Tailed Beast into a smooth, cylindrical abyss!
As countless rocks collapsed and plummeted, Yu's expression remained unchanged. He leaped nimbly across the falling debris, his Byakugan scanning rapidly left and right to track the high-speed movements of the Four-Tails Jinchūriki, Rōshi. Right then, he abruptly snapped his head up, only to see—
A colossal ape head, easily 10 meters wide, manifested right before his eyes, its giant maw snapping wide open toward him!
Within its mouth, from an organ resembling a jet nozzle, a pillar of flame 5 meters thick with temperatures instantly soaring to 3,000°C erupted, blasting straight toward Yu's face!
Yu immediately threw up both hands, spreading his fingers wide! With a savage twist of his features, he rotated his wrists and shoved his hands upward!
"HRAAAAAAH!"
"Wind Style: Almighty Push!"
The high-pressure air rings of his Wind Style fused with the power of his Tenseigan, erupting in full force. A terrifying repulsive force propelled countless razor-sharp wind blades diagonally upward, colliding violently with the horrific pillar of flame unleashed by the fully transformed Four-Tails!
In a single fraction of a second, the pillar of flame was completely extinguished!
The Four-Tails' massive head recoiled upward as if struck by a battering ram. The countless wind blades driving forward shredded its hard palate, tearing open a massive, bloody wound. The wind blades detonating inside its mouth severed the suprahyoid muscle groups, leaving its lower jaw completely incapable of closing, hanging limply.
Yu touched down on the ground, looking up at the terrifying, monstrous ape. Confined within the narrow pit, the colossal beast stood at a staggering 52 meters tall, forced to hunch its massive shoulders. Yu took a deep breath.
"Brat, you have completely infuriated me!"
Standing atop the Four-Tails' head, Rōshi strained to control the fully manifested Tailed Beast. Looking down at the ant-sized Yu below, a deep, thunderous voice boomed from within the Four-Tails!
"I am going to... kill you!"
Yet, Yu merely looked up at him with cold indifference, exhaling a quiet breath. "Heh, now we're talking."
"Next... it's time to test the final capability."
In the next instant, Yu slowly raised his right hand. A gentle breeze swelled within his palm, condensing into the shape of a sword.
Immediately after, chakra violently churned throughout his entire body, erupting simultaneously from all 361 of Yu's chakra points. Following the circuits established by his twelve primary meridians, the energy flooded madly into the translucent blade of wind held in his hand!
Visibly, the sword expanded wildly as it drank in the colossal volume of chakra, growing exponentially larger by the second!
From a length of just over a meter, to a massive 5 meters, then 20 meters... until finally, it transformed into a colossal, terrifying pillar of cyan wind. In an instant, this cyan storm—composed of countless Wind Style: Vacuum Blades—skyrocketed in a perfectly straight line, piercing through the rocky ceiling, tearing out of the canyon, and shooting straight into the heavens!
A brilliant pillar of cyan light, bridging heaven and earth, manifested right in the heart of the Land of Rain!
Wild birds scattered in panic, the dense rainclouds were pierced clean through, and a beam of pure sunlight cast down!
Countless Rain Ninja and Stone Ninja; Kitsuchi and the Five-Tails Jinchūriki, Han, who were outside waiting for the results of Rōshi's battle; and even those lurking in the shadows observing the battlefield—Kakuzu, Obito Uchiha, White Zetsu... and even Madara Uchiha himself!
Every single one of them involuntarily raised their heads at that exact moment, simultaneously bearing witness to this colossal sword of wind that illuminated heaven and earth, striking awe into the very skies!
Countless Stone and Rain shinobi were too shell-shocked to utter a sound, staring blankly at the terrifying phenomenon bridging earth and sky with expressions of utter bewilderment. Meanwhile, the various factions hiding in the dark waiting for the outcome showed vastly different expressions, but they shared one thing in common—every single person felt a profound, heartfelt awe for this monstrous entity forged purely from Wind Style!
At that very moment, down below, Yu Hyuga—who held this terrifying weapon in his grasp—was trembling violently all over. The sheer, colossal mass of the chakra construct put such an immense strain on his body that his bones and muscles creaked and shrieked continuously. Countless bloody gashes tore open across his skin, blood welling out profusely, only for the wounds to bizarrely heal over and scab in the very next instant, before ripping open yet again in a continuous, agonizing cycle!
Gasping for the increasingly scalding air around him, he forced his trembling head up to look at the Tailed Beast ape towering before him like a skyscraper. His teeth chattered violently as he clenched his jaw. Yu glared savagely at the Four-Tails, spitting out each word through his teeth:
"A creature like you thinks it's worthy of killing me?"
"Can this single blade slay you? Answer me—"
"—you damn beast!"
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