Chapter 350: Imperial Guard
"...Enough... truly... ENOUGH!!"
"[Imperial Guard]—!!"
At the giant crater's bottom, accompanying Urashiki's furious roar, that originally powerful yet sinister chakra presence suddenly exploded like ignited powder kegs, madly surging!
Moreover, this newly surging power was filled with scorching familiar aura—precisely the Nine-Tails chakra he'd just devoured and refined!
Urashiki no longer held back. He would use this "plundered" strongest power!
"Naruto! Retreat quickly!" Uchiha Sasuke instantly perceived the terrifying transformation and imminent eruption of chakra below, shouting sternly!
RUMBLE—!!!
From deep within the earth directly below Naruto and Sasuke! Accompanying deafening tremendous sounds and earth-shaking terrifying tremors, an unimaginably massive tail completely composed of hard rock and earth violently broke through the ground, soaring skyward!
With crushing momentum, it viciously struck toward the two midair with nowhere to borrow strength! Its range so vast it nearly covered all their evasion space!
Sasuke's gaze sharpened. He didn't choose evasion but instead channeled power into his Kusanagi sword.
Meeting the incoming earth-stone giant tail, he executed a diagonal slash!
SLASH—!!
The blade forcibly split that massive earth-stone tail in half. Shattered enormous earth blocks rumbled down like an avalanche.
Using this sword's recoil force, both unhesitatingly retreated rapidly backward simultaneously, pulling greater distance from the crater bottom.
Just the instant they withdrew—
"ROAR—!!!!!!!!"
A tremendous roar suddenly erupted from the smoke-filled deep crater!
A sky-blocking colossal figure slowly stood from the collapsed crater bottom!
Within the smoke, that figure's outline appeared and disappeared—multiple wildly dancing giant tails, a ferocious head, a towering mountain-like body... the outline every Konoha ninja was utterly familiar with, carved into their bones!
When smoke completely dispersed, that figure's true form was thoroughly exposed between heaven and earth—
A nearly hundred-meter-tall rock giant beast like a moving mountain! Its entire body composed of crack-covered hard earth and stone, joints embedded with red, lava-like Nine-Tails chakra veins.
Ferocious head, gaping maw filled with jagged rock fangs, eye sockets burning with two violent crimson chakra flames. Behind it, nine tails completely composed of giant stones danced in the air.
An Earth Style and Nine-Tails chakra fusion creation—Earth Nine-Tails!
"Similar methods... to when facing Momoshiki?" Sasuke gazed at this colossal creature, expression extremely grave. He turned toward Naruto radiating golden light beside him. "Naruto, are you alright? We need to get serious now."
"Yes!" Naruto nodded heavily. He stared intently at that earth-stone giant beast, no fear in his eyes—only a trace of offended fury. "Of course! Kurama's power isn't for this kind of guy to misuse. Just a counterfeit anyway."
"One? Heh..." Standing atop the Earth Nine-Tails' head, Urashiki heard Naruto's words and released a cold scoff.
"Truly foolish! Do you think I specifically chose this area as battlefield for no reason?"
He slowly raised his mutated arm, violently pressing toward the ground below!
"HAHH—!!"
With this shout, chakra fluctuations instantly activated "things" buried here!
RUMBLE—!!!
Four fundamentally different yet equally massive, war-inducing terrifying chakra flows simultaneously broke through the surface from the battlefield's east, south, west, and north directions, madly converging toward the sky!
Blood-red flame chakra soared skyward, deep azure water flow chakra surged roaring, cyan violent storm chakra shrieked spinning, brilliant white lightning chakra exploded thundering.
These four vast chakra flows, under Urashiki's manipulation, rapidly interwove and took shape!
"ROAR—!!!"
Crimson flames condensed, transforming into a Fire Nine-Tails completely composed of burning flames, emanating all-consuming high temperature!
Water surged, transforming into a Water Nine-Tails completely composed of torrential currents, body constantly flowing!
Cyan storms shrieked, transforming into a Wind Nine-Tails completely composed of tearing hurricanes, form blurred from high-speed movement!
Brilliant white lightning exploded, transforming into a Lightning Nine-Tails completely composed of violent thunder, destructive electrical light leaping around its body!
Plus the central towering mountain-like Earth Nine-Tails composed of earth and stone...
Five elements gathered! Five attribute-different yet equally massive and ferocious "pseudo-Nine-Tails" emanating Nine-Tails chakra's violent aura formed a pentagram formation, thoroughly surrounding the tiny Naruto and Sasuke at death's center!
They roared skyward. Sound waves converged into destructive torrents, shaking even sky clouds into dispersal!
Urashiki stood atop the central Earth Nine-Tails' head, looking down at the ant-like two below, golden Rinnegan containing only absolute coldness and control.
"Then, now... you two, can try... 'blocking how many'?"
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