Chapter 241: What Did You Understand? Beast!
—Ngh—
In that brief yet seemingly endless moment,
the sound of a train chugging echoed in his ears. As his thoughts spun rapidly, images began flashing before his eyes like a revolving lantern.
Scenes of battle from the past replayed at high speed.
Uchiha Ci understood—this was a sign that his power was about to spiral out of control.
The jutsu in his hand, Sage Art: Super Giant Dark Tailed Beast Bomb Expanding Rasengan, was on the verge of losing control and detonating. It would reduce him, everything around him, to ashes!
When it came down to it, this was not a power meant for humans to wield!
This technique, modified and developed from inspiration drawn from the Tailed Beasts, was driven by their power and further enhanced with Sage Mode. This kind of power had long surpassed the limits of what he could control!
A technique of this scale—if placed in the future—would be called:
Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken!
It was the ultimate jutsu that the protagonist Naruto would use against Kaguya Ōtsutsuki during the Fourth Great Ninja War!
But right now, in this era, this thing was absurdly overpowered beyond imagination!
At this moment,
Uchiha Ci was barely able to hold onto it because it hadn't fully expanded yet.
Based on the ominous premonition in his heart, he estimated that if it continued expanding for just two more seconds, this monstrous attack would detonate—obliterating him, the Konoha camp behind him, and everything within a kilometer radius.
But fortunately,
due to the fact that the Zero-Tails inside him was rather pathetic and lacked the chakra to fully sustain a complete Tailed Beast Ball, combined with the extreme control his Cursed Seal of Heaven, Second Stage, granted him, he was teetering on the absolute limit of control.
Of course, there might be deeper reasons at play, but he could only think this far—
Uchiha Ci completely abandoned all other thoughts.
Because right now, he had to succeed!
He raised his palm, pressed down, and pushed forward!
"HRAAAAHHH!!"
Uchiha Ci's eyes widened in fury.
Everything before him was already engulfed by the thirty-meter-diameter pitch-black Rasengan.
He could only rely on the Sharingan's recorded path, guiding the black Rasengan single-handedly to its critical detonation point.
Then, his five fingers clenched—twisting his palm and wrist!
"—BOOM!!"
In an instant, black was swallowed by a blinding white!
A devastating beam of energy erupted outward!
The two Tailed Beast Balls were instantly crushed by this overwhelming force, detonating, their explosive energy dispersing as the beam swept through!
The setting sun was completely swallowed by Hell Valley.
The night that should have descended, the land that should have been shrouded in darkness—
was instead illuminated in the brilliance of a blazing summer sun!
BOOM!
A thirty-meter-diameter beam of white-hot energy pierced through Hell Valley, tearing apart everything within a hundred-meter radius, leaving behind a massive column of destruction!
Its momentum remained unchecked—blasting through five mountain peaks at the border of Hell Valley and the Land of Hot Springs!
It shot skyward, transforming into a blinding, distant comet!
At that moment, whether it was the densely packed Hidden Cloud army outside Hell Valley or the Konoha ninja within the valley's encampment—all of them involuntarily lifted their heads, gazing at the cataclysmic, blinding pillar of light.
"Be alert!"
At the forefront of the Hidden Cloud army, Motoi shouted in shock and terror:
"Something's been fired at us!"
"Gulp…"
Beside him, Mabui instinctively swallowed hard, her eyes fixed on the sky.
"No need to be alert anymore… That thing has already gone past us!"
"This…"
"What kind of power is this?! It's even more terrifying than the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release!"
"And… that guy… is really only twelve years old?!"
The moment the beam disappeared,
the aftermath it left behind surged violently across the land—
Rolling dust clouds, shattered stones, uprooted trees, torn earth veins, insects, and beasts—
all were swept up, obscured by a vast, rising white mist.
On the northern side of Hell Valley,
"Gulp…"
The fully transformed Two-Tails Jinchūriki, Yugito Nii, barely able to hold her ground, swallowed hard, her body trembling slightly.
"Did… I cause this?"
Yugito Nii was momentarily dazed.
Due to her vantage point, she hadn't seen Uchiha Ci leap up like a flea after the Tailed Beast Balls collided.
She had only felt a sudden, fierce gust of wind rushing past her ears—a flash of blinding white light before her eyes—and then, everything in front of her was annihilated—reduced to an unrecognizable wasteland, shrouded in white smoke.
But why was everything behind her destroyed as well?
Did Senior Killer Bee do this?
Or… was this some kind of recoil effect?
"Yugito, are you okay?!"
In her ears, Killer Bee's voice, mixed with Gyūki's, rang out with concern.
His tone had a slight tremble, as if he had just witnessed something terrifying.
Because only Killer Bee had seen it—that Uchiha brat had leapt up, holding a thirty-meter-diameter black Tailed Beast Ball in his human hands, and clashed with the two Tailed Beast Balls they had fired!
Then, he had twisted his hand and crushed them both—unleashing that terrifying beam of white destruction, which had barely missed Yugito by a hair's breadth!
The mere thought of it made both Gyūki and Killer Bee break out in cold sweat.
Had that attack hit—even if Yugito was in full Tailed Beast form, there was no doubt she would have been instantly incapacitated!
"I'm fine."
Not fully understanding what had happened, Yugito shook her head and forced herself to respond.
"I can feel it—Matatabi is resisting me. It doesn't want to cooperate anymore."
"I think I can barely fire one more Tailed Beast Ball!"
Her gaze firmed as she turned toward Gyūki.
"Killer Bee-senpai, let's stick to the plan!"
But Killer Bee immediately shook his head, his voice heavy:
"The plan has changed. Yugito, we need to split up immediately!"
"We'll attack from both sides and fire our Tailed Beast Balls simultaneously. He won't be able to block both!"
"Mabui must have seen what happened. She'll soon use the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu to bring us the Amber Purifying Pot."
"With that legendary artifact—and our combined power—we can seal him!"
"…Him? Who is he?"
Yugito blinked in confusion.
But once she understood Killer Bee's intent, she quickly adjusted her focus, her gaze sharpening.
Attacking from both sides—separating their targets—was likely meant to wipe out the enemy's remaining resistance!
"Understood, Killer Bee-senpai!"
As soon as she spoke, Yugito immediately moved, dashing east while Killer Bee sprinted west.
BOOM! BOOM!
In their fully transformed Tailed Beast forms, each step propelled them dozens of meters forward—shattering the earth, exploding hot spring pools.
As they ran, they opened their mouths, preparing to charge another massive Tailed Beast Ball!
However—
Just as Yugito had taken two steps, before she could even finish gathering her chakra—
SWOOSH!
The wind roared violently!
Yugito's eyes widened as she saw—the towering wall of dust before her was sliced open—
A battered but unrelenting figure wielding a blazing, godlike greatsword burst through the smoke, his blade radiating a devastating aura!
Uchiha Ci's face twisted with fury, his hoarse voice roaring:
"What did you understand? BEAST!"
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