The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path rumbled to life, heading straight for the two Nine Tails, its massive body appearing somewhat clumsy.
Naruto greeted it with a Friendship Breaking Face Punch, devoid of any friendship, striking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's cheek. From Naruto's perspective, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path seemed to be a head taller than the Nine Tails.
This heavy punch made the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's head tilt, and it retaliated with a punch to the abdomen of the Nine Tails controlled by Naruto, sending him staggering backward.
Kushina seized the opportunity to control her Nine Tails, leaping up and delivering a punch from above onto the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's head.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path stumbled, the ground beneath its feet cracking under the immense force. After regaining its balance, it used an elbow to send the Nine Tails controlled by Kushina flying away.
At this moment, Naruto had already formed a Tailed Beast Ball. Seeing Kushina involuntarily disengage from the battle, he immediately launched it.
In haste, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path also opened its massive mouth, forming a Tailed Beast Ball and choosing to meet the attack head-on.
In fact, Obito could have chosen to have the statue evade, but with all his cards revealed, how could he not put on a crushing display to live up to his inflated ego!
The Tailed Beast Balls collided, and perhaps due to the angle, they flew high into the sky and exploded with a deafening roar, sending dazzling fireworks to the Shinobi World.
The two were evenly matched in power. If the onlookers were to comment, the ascending Tailed Beast Ball was blinding, whether viewed from the side or from below.
"One more!" Obito was clearly dissatisfied with this result. The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path opened its massive mouth again, spewing out an oversized Tailed Beast Ball at Naruto, even larger than the combined efforts of the two Nine Tails.
It seemed that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's power was not simply an accumulation after absorbing the Tailed Beasts.
Faced with such a powerful attack, Naruto's choice was—"Obito, your Kamui Dimension is exploding again!"
Ripples of space-time appeared before Naruto, swallowing the super-sized Tailed Beast Ball and sending care from its original owner to the Kamui Dimension.
Obito's face turned a bit green. He had forgotten that this guy had this trick up his sleeve. How could he use this broken space even more smoothly than him!
Since Naruto was being dishonorable, Obito had no choice but to continue with close combat. The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the two Nine Tails rushed towards each other, once again engaging in a brawl.
The two sides fought for dozens of rounds, with no clear victor. The Nine Tails had enough Chakra, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path also had several Tailed Beasts stored within it. If they continued to exhaust each other, the first to collapse would probably be… Obito!
The statue could hold on, but he himself might not. Moreover, Kakashi and Zuo Zhu had disappeared from his sight. Minato must have made some arrangements. Obito felt a chill down his spine.
He couldn't delay any longer. Obito glared, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path suddenly exerted force, overturning the two Nine Tails. It spat out two purple chains from its mouth, wrapping them around the Nine Tails' necks!
"Crap!" Naruto controlled the Nine Tails' large claws, tearing at the chains, but couldn't break free. He couldn't even cancel the Tailed Beast transformation!
Naruto felt something trying to be pulled out of him: "Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
Golden chains wrapped around the purple chains like braids. Naruto immediately felt the pressure lessen a lot. The Adamantine Sealing Chains were truly a good skill, at least turning an irresistible situation into a tug-of-war.
Just as Naruto wanted to try the Flying Thunder God, Shisui and Itachi arrived.
One red and one green Susanoo rose from the ground. The green Susanoo held the chains with both hands, preventing it from pulling the Nine Tails, while the red Susanoo raised its shield, blocking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's fist.
"Amaterasu!"
Itachi's eyes stared at the two purple chains, tears of blood streaming down his face. Black flames immediately adhered to the chains, quickly melting them and freeing Naruto and Kushina.
The Amaterasu, known for burning everything, surprised Naruto. These purple chains looked substantial, but their essence should be a sealing formula or special Chakra, right? It could burn even this?
That wasn't the end of it. Itachi raised his head and met the nine eyes of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Black Amaterasu flames covered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's face.
Shisui wasn't idle either. The green Susanoo held a spiral sword in its hand, aiming it at the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's chest and stabbing it.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path cried out in pain, wanting to extinguish the flames on its face with its hands, but its hands also suffered. The brown flames were like bone-attached maggots, impossible to shake off or extinguish.
Obito felt something was wrong and controlled the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to grab Shisui's Spiral Sword with both hands, intending to transfer the Amaterasu flames onto the Spiral Sword, using his opponent's methods against him.
The biggest flaw of Itachi's Amaterasu was that he couldn't control it himself. He only cared about setting fires and causing destruction, not cleaning up the mess. A moment of carelessness could harm his own people.
Seeing that the flames were about to spread, Shisui had no choice but to dispel the Spiral Sword, letting the Amaterasu flames fall to the ground.
Kakashi and Zuo Zhu, who had circled behind Obito, prepared to take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, but they found that Obito had jumped onto the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, climbing onto its shoulder. They had no choice but to hide in place and continue waiting for an opportunity.
Obito stared at the increasingly fierce flames, his Rinnegan in his left eye widening: "Preta Path!"
An invisible ripple swept across the face and hands of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, absorbing all the Amaterasu flames. No matter how Itachi activated Amaterasu, it was useless.
However, after this ordeal, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was disfigured. Wisps of black smoke still rose from its face. Fortunately, none of its eyes were blinded, or Obito might have cried.
"You who possess the Mangekyo, you should have also experienced unbearable pain, right? Then why do you oppose me!" Obito couldn't understand. These two weren't that old. Had there been any tragic incidents in Konoha in recent years? He hadn't heard of any!
Neither of them paid attention to him. Shisui's Mangekyo was awakened during the Third Shinobi World War. The reason might have been the pain of losing comrades, or it might have been the suffering of the clan's opposition to the village. But no matter what, he had finally waited for the Fourth Hokage to lead the village out of its predicament step by step, to where it was now. How could he be swayed by Obito's few words?
Itachi's Mangekyo was a bit of a stretch. It was awakened because Zuo Zhu was kidnapped by Hiruko... Who would believe that? What pain, what despair, there was none at all. At that time, there should have only been anger. People's way of thinking is closely related to their experiences and the education they receive, so Itachi completely didn't understand Obito's idea of wanting to destroy the world in a fit of anger.
"Obito, stop dawdling!" Black Zetsu urged. Seeing that Obito was at a disadvantage, he was extremely anxious. He had waited for over a thousand years, and this was the closest he had ever been to success. It would be a pity if the plan failed because of Obito's willfulness.
Obito also felt that the situation was unfavorable to him. According to the current situation, he couldn't capture the Nine Tails in a short time, and if he continued to delay, he might have to face the Five Kage or even more reinforcements. He wasn't so arrogant as to think that he could single-handedly challenge the entire Shinobi World with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
He understood what Black Zetsu meant: use the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive Madara, and let Madara capture the last of the Nine Tails, but things had come to this point, how could Obito be willing?
"Zetsu! You said that reviving the Ten Tails doesn't necessarily require the complete Tailed Beast, right?"
"That's what I said, but..."
"That's enough, awaken, Ten Tails!"
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