Too late.
Right in front of Kaguya.
The servant girl Aye had her neck snapped.
Kaguya glared at the monk, but it was useless.
The monk smiled as he withdrew his hand. Like throwing away a piece of trash, he tossed the lifeless servant aside with disgust.
She had already stopped breathing.
"Now, it's your turn," said the monk as he moved again.
He wiped his stained right hand and stepped toward Kaguya.
Just then, Kaguya's pupils completely transformed into a swirl-like pattern! Her body slowly grew larger until, in an instant, she became a monster—part human, part beast.
Ten-Tails!
The monk smiled.
This was exactly what he'd been waiting for!
For years, the Kaguya Clan had sealed away the Ten-Tails within their personal space to cultivate the God Tree.
The God Tree absorbed nutrients from humans, while also needing chakra from the Ten-Tails to thrive—just like water and fertilizer were both essential. Originally, the Ten-Tails' chakra was directly injected into the God Tree.
What emerged from the God Tree's fruit was its chakra.
This time was different. This time, without going through the God Tree, Kaguya directly bonded the power of the Ten-Tails onto her own body.
Exactly what the monk wanted to see!
He needed Kaguya to lose control—to recklessly enter a tailed-beast-like transformation.
Only then could he forcefully take control of the power of two Ten-Tails hosts.
At that point, even Ye Liang wouldn't be a threat.
Kaguya's transformation completed across her body.
She swung her ten soft tails wildly, all traces of noble grace gone.
The monk floated upward.
Four Truth-Seeking Balls appeared behind him.
This was the Sage Mode.
Unlike Kaguya, the monk gained the Ten-Tails' power by becoming its jinchūriki. Though not as strong as Kaguya, he retained his sanity!
Kaguya was running out of time.
Although her method preserved her strength, it completely stripped her of rationality.
That kind of power with zero brains? Yeah, not exactly ideal...
She spun helplessly under the monk's attacks.
Wave after wave of Tailed Beast Ball attacks flew out in all directions, quickly reducing the entire Ancestral Nation to ruins.
The monk kept shifting through Space-Time Ninjutsu.
[Amenominaka] was a jutsu every Kaguya possessed; with enough energy, it was far more useful than Flying Thunder God.
Soon enough, the Ten-Tails ran out of tricks.
These basic Tailed Beast Ball attacks simply couldn't hit the monk.
The monk scoffed icily.
He raised his palm, launching a powerful Truth-Seeking Ball straight toward the head of the Ten-Tails.
"It's over, Kaguya!"
As the Truth-Seeking Ball struck, screams of spatial tearing echoed everywhere.
The Ten-Tails trembled!
Suddenly, a red gourd flew in from the distance. It slammed into the Truth-Seeking Ball, actually slowing its descent slightly.
With another push, the ball was deflected entirely!
"How is this possible!"
The monk froze.
He stared in disbelief at the red gourd—the very one used to seal Ye Liang earlier.
After soaring through the air for a moment, the red gourd split open down the middle, releasing the handsome figure of Ye Liang.
He let out a breath.
Getting a bit cramped in there, if you ask me.
"You actually broke through the Benihisago? That's impossible! It's a sealed artifact crafted by my clan!" the monk exclaimed in disbelief.
Ye Liang blinked.
He looked at the broken Benihisago lying on the ground.
"This thing? I just gave it a light push, and it broke open just like that!" he said without a hint of joking.
When he was sucked into the Benihisago earlier, all his chakra had been sealed, and his physical energy rapidly drained away. It felt exactly like the sensation of being completely drained, like collapsing onto a bed after being worn out.
Too bad.
The Benihisago could only drain normal chakra. His Sage Chakra remained unaffected. Therefore, after manipulating the Benihisago to run across the entire battlefield—
He was pulled here by the aura emanating from the Ten-Tails.
"Holy crap! Where did this tailed beast come from?" Ye Liang immediately recognized the Ten-Tails.
Majestic in posture, graceful in form—apart from seeming mentally unstable—he couldn't help but picture himself riding it and conquering it.
"Hahaha! This is the final transformation of that foolish woman Kaguya. She has completely merged with the Ten-Tails now. You're already too late to save her!"
"What!" Ye Liang's pupils constricted. He hadn't expected Kaguya to have such a trump card up her sleeve. "Damn it! At this rate, the whole Ancestral Nation will be destroyed."
He clenched his fists.
The quickest way would be to kill the Ten-Tails directly, but doing so might endanger Kaguya Hime.
He glared furiously at the monk.
"You bastard! What are you trying to accomplish? Why would you do something like this?"
"Hmph! What's it got to do with you!" The monk sneered, then floated his body backward while retreating slowly into the distance.
Now that Ye Liang had arrived, he no longer had any chance of victory!
Although he had become the Jinchuriki of the Ten-Tails, he lacked the power of the God Tree's fruit within his body, which meant he couldn't master many techniques!
Such immense strength, yet no techniques to wield it...
Seeing the monk fleeing, Ye Liang didn't bother to give chase.
Right now, the pressing matter was how to deal with the tailed-beast transformed Kaguya.
He vanished in a flash, activating his Shifting Body Technique at full speed. In no time, he'd set up four cursed seal-imbued kunai around the Ten-Tails.
[Four Red Yang Formation!]
The four red glowing barriers sprang up instantly, imprisoning the Ten-Tails inside.
Constructed using Sage Chakra, these barriers were far more stable than regular chakra-based ones. Inside them, the Ten-Tails showed absolutely no sign of escape.
Seeing that the Ten-Tails was temporarily contained, Ye Liang started thinking deeply.
Kaguya's transformation into a tailed beast ultimately came down to losing control of her emotions, subconsciously locking herself deep within her psyche. In other words, if he could reignite Kaguya's fighting spirit, she could still be saved.
"But what exactly caused her to become like this?"
Without realizing it, Ye Liang noticed a servant girl by the roadside.
"Aye!"
He walked over.
The servant girl's corpse was already cold, her neck twisted unnaturally. Though not entirely frozen stiff, all life had long since vanished.
He carefully closed her eyes.
"Forgive me. I should've saved you sooner."
At that moment, he understood why Kaguya had gone berserk.
In the original timeline, Kaguya also fell into complete darkness right after Aye's death.
"If I could bring Aye back from the dead, would it be enough to prevent Kaguya from going out of control?" he wondered.
Naturally, Ye Liang couldn't resurrect the dead, but he had a middle path in mind.
Impure World Reincarnation!
This was a reward given by the mission during his [Confronting the Hokage] task.
After that incident, he had headed straight for Yomi World, so he completely forgot about this Ninjutsu.
Yomi World was already packed with spirits—what use was there for Impure World Reincarnation here...
Now he was turning to this technique again.
Ye Liang brought his hands together with a clap!
Almost without visible hand seals.
The surrounding earth chakra began to boil, gathering toward Aye's corpse, quickly lifting her body upward.
"Return, departed soul! Come back quickly!"
Ye Liang's pupils changed, looking as if they had become hollow, staring at the space above Aye's body.
Above her, a shadowy figure hovered in midair.
"This is Aye's soul!"
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