"Beast... obey my will."
As the spiral eye pattern slowly rotated, the two-tailed Matatabi's beastly eyes turned crimson, with three black tomoe surrounding the pupils.
The originally irritable big cat suddenly quieted down, and the next moment, Ryun actively jumped onto its head.
"This... what is happening???"
Tsunade watched the entire scene, her expression as if she had seen a ghost.
"Sharingan... it... is it under your control?" Seeing the three tomoe in the tailed beast's eyes, Tsunade instantly realized what was happening.
Controlling a disaster-level tailed beast with a single glance, Ryun's strength once again exceeded her understanding, even making her feel he was almost reaching some kind of omnipotent level!
"Mm."
Ryun covered his slightly painful Mangekyō and nodded lightly.
"Is this the genjutsu control ability of the Sharingan... this method is too incredible!"
Black Dragon couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
Back when it was just a giant snake, Ryun had already been able to use the Three Tomoe Sharingan to forcefully control it. Now, even with only one eye left, he could still wield that same ability.
"Temporarily controlling it now is no problem. Later, I'll need to use senjutsu chakra to strengthen the control. This tailed beast's strength isn't that high, so controlling it isn't difficult..."
Ryun spoke these terrifying words right in front of Tsunade, not avoiding the subject at all.
He was pretty much openly declaring he would take the tailed beast for himself.
Tsunade didn't say anything about that. Compared to the tailed beast's ownership, she was more concerned about Ryun's future plans.
"Little brother, after the war here ends, please return to the village... everyone still sees you as a Konoha hero. That old fool (the Third Hokage) has admitted his mistakes, and he will resign after the war ends. Let's not..."
"Tsunade sister..."
Before Tsunade could finish, Ryun directly interrupted her.
"Stop saying things I dislike. If you still consider me your brother..."
Ryun faced the battlefield ahead, speaking coldly.
"!!!"
Tsunade was stunned for a moment, then unconsciously lowered her head.
"Alright, sister won't say it anymore. Whatever you want to do, sister will support you unconditionally. You will always be my good little brother!"
After a moment of silence, Tsunade raised her head to look at him again, a charming smile appearing on her face.
"After this battle, I will be leaving. We'll meet again when there's time..."
Ryun looked at her deeply, then controlled the tailed beast to charge straight into the battlefield ahead.
"After the war is completely over, sister still wants to play cards with you..." Tsunade shouted at the top of her lungs, then couldn't help but laugh at herself the next moment.
The two-tailed Matatabi ran at full speed on all fours, with Black Dragon closely following behind. The two giant beasts of slaughter stirred up a storm of blood and violence on the battlefield!
Ryun did not accept any surrenders or pleas for mercy from the Kumo-nin. His approach was utterly extermination, just as the Kumo-nin had driven him to death back then, a fight to the finish!
The great battle lasted an entire day. Black Dragon fought until its chakra was nearly depleted and its stomach was full, only then returning to Ryūchi Cave satisfied.
The one-eared big cat under Ryun's feet fought to the point where it couldn't even fire a 'Tailed Beast Bomb'...
This beast's overall chakra capacity and 'mana regeneration' speed somewhat disgusted him.
So-called chakra aggregates were nothing much in the eyes of a powerful being like him. Unless it was an existence on the level of the Nine-Tails, perhaps then he would be wary.
Seeing the sky darken and the Cloud ninja forces completely scattered, Ryun couldn't be bothered to waste energy chasing down those stragglers for the time being. He controlled the tailed beast to quietly withdraw from the battlefield, and not long after returned alone to the Land of Rice.
After returning to Otogakure, Ryun immediately summoned the two-tailed Matatabi.
Looking at this giant beast with its dull eyes before him, Ryun began to place Uzumaki-style sealing formulas on its body, which exerted even stronger control than the Sharingan.
After densely packed sealing formulas were engraved onto the two-tails, Ryun took out the Samehada from a storage scroll.
"Samehada, transfer its chakra to me."
Ryun injected a considerable amount of chakra into Samehada, activating the great sword while also giving it a simple command.
After Samehada acknowledged its master, simple communication between person and sword was possible. Moreover, as their bond deepened, he could even achieve a state of 'unity between man and sword,' merging with Samehada like Kisame Hoshigaki.
Samehada first let out a strange cry, then suddenly turned around and licked its master's face with its disgusting tongue...
Ryun accepted its gesture expressionlessly, then watched as Samehada took a fierce bite into the two-tails' leg.
A large amount of tailed beast chakra was directly sucked into its body, then channeled into Ryun's body through the sword's handle.
For Samehada, the two-tailed Matatabi's chakra was actually very unpalatable. The fire-nature chakra on this big cat was far less delicious than Ryun's, so when it absorbed this power, it transferred it all to Ryun without any deduction.
It is worth mentioning that after Ryun awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and unlocked the Senju bloodline, the chakra nature within his body directly progressed from the original fire, lightning, water to fire, lightning, water, wind, earth, all five elements present.
Even Yin and Yang seemed to have manifested. This was why his chakra experienced explosive growth and why Samehada found this chakra so 'delicious'...
As the two-tails' chakra flowed into his body, Ryun sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, and carefully guided this chakra to where it needed to go.
At this moment, the Nine Revolutions Seal on his chest emitted a faint glow, and the continuous stream of two-tails chakra poured into it.
Ryun created the 'Nine Revolutions Seal' precisely to collect the chakra of the nine tailed beasts. His primary reason for doing this was not to become the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, but for his eyes!
The Sharingan and the Rinnegan, tracing these powers to their source, did not originate from the Uchiha clan, nor even from the ancestors Indra or the Sage of Six Paths. Even Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, known as the 'Progenitor of Chakra,' did not possess these powers herself.
The Ten-Tails Divine Tree, known as the 'Ocular Beast,' is actually the true source of the Sharingan and the Rinnegan!
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, their Rinnegan and Sharingan are inextricably linked to the 'Ocular Beast,' the Ten-Tails.
Ryun wanted to recollect the chakra of the nine tailed beasts. He didn't seek to become some Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, as without the Gedo Statue, he couldn't achieve that.
He only wanted to condense a small part of the Ten-Tails 'Ocular Beast's' power, then use this power to nourish his blinded eye, restoring its sight.
Furthermore, based on his personal understanding of the ninja world, the combined power of the Ten-Tails and Sage power might catalyze an even stronger eye, or even catalyze a stronger bloodline!
Of course, capturing tailed beasts wasn't his only goal.
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