"Tailed Beast Ball?"
"Kurama, you're playing for real!"
Naruto's eyes narrowed, but instead of fear, he smiled, his gaze burning with intense fighting spirit.
He was going to take this Tailed Beast Ball head-on!
"Sage Art: Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
"Bang! Bang!"
Two Shadow Clones, burning with golden Chakra, instantly appeared.
"Sage Art: Great Ball Rasengan!"
The original body and clones shouted in unison!
The night was instantly illuminated by a brilliant blue light.
Three blue orbs of light, larger than houses, spinning wildly and crackling with arcs of violent natural energy, instantly formed.
Just as the Tailed Beast Ball in Kurama's mouth was about to be spewed out, at that critical moment, the three Narutos powerfully launched their Great Ball Rasengan in a triangular formation.
Boom—!!
Three deafening explosions occurred almost simultaneously.
Naruto's Sage Art: Great Ball Rasengan and Kurama's Tailed Beast Ball collided fiercely.
At the center of the collision, several mountains instantly collapsed and vanished like sandcastles!
A colossal mushroom cloud rose, and a shockwave swept for dozens of miles.
"My Tailed Beast Ball, blocked by a brat's Rasengan?"
Kurama's lean fox face was filled with human-like disbelief.
The power of a Tailed Beast was straightforward, without any fancy Ninjutsu.
It was a one-shot wonder that conquered all.
The Tailed Beast Ball!
But Kurama's proud Tailed Beast Ball was magnificently blocked by a human brat, which was truly unbelievable.
However.
Naruto, who blocked the Tailed Beast Ball, was unfazed, because he knew that the Kurama sealed within him was the Yang Nine-Tailed, only half the power of the complete Nine-Tailed.
However, Naruto also did not use Planetary Spiraling Shuriken.
"It's not over yet, Kurama!"
Naruto's voice carried an unprecedented solemnity and power, "Let me show you—a new ultimate technique I've never truly used before!"
"Heaven and Earth Law!"
With Naruto's roar, the golden Nine-Tailed Chakra cloak covering his entire body boiled and expanded wildly as if infused with life.
And what was expanding with it was actually Naruto, who had used the Super Multiplication Technique.
Naruto's body grew taller and larger, constantly increasing in height at a visible speed, his limbs and body rapidly becoming gigantic.
The earth groaned under the immense weight!
The hard ground beneath Naruto's feet cracked, sank, and compacted like brittle biscuits.
Under Kurama's horrified gaze, a golden giant, reaching to the heavens, slowly rose from the shattered earth, like an ancient god awakening from slumber!
When it first matched Kurama's size, it was already astonishing enough.
But Naruto didn't stop there; he continued to grow larger and taller, eventually surpassing it.
Kurama also went from looking down to now looking up.
Finally—
This giant stood nearly a thousand meters tall, its sheer size making even the "complete form" of the Nine-Tailed appear like a small kitten facing an adult!
The giant's outline vaguely resembled Naruto, but it was even more majestic and sacred.
It was entirely composed of highly condensed, high-quality Sage Art Chakra, like molten gold, forming a majestic armor, no longer just a simple Sage Art cloak.
Inside was Naruto, who had pushed the Super Multiplication Technique to its limit.
Heaven and Earth Law!
The ultimate technique Naruto had conceived earlier was finally realized.
Its power even surpassed the First Hokage Senju Hashirama's Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique, which suppressed the Nine-Tailed!
"?!"
Kurama's massive body seemed minuscule under the golden giant's shadow!
"Now, it's my turn."
Naruto, in his Heaven and Earth Law state, spoke with a voice like thunder, deafening and terrifying Kurama.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
A colossal golden palm, like five collapsing mountains, pressed down from the sky, carrying a space-ripping wind pressure and irresistible power, fiercely grabbing towards the Nine-Tailed below!
Its speed seemed slow, yet it sealed off all of Kurama's escape routes!
"Roar"
"Brat, don't underestimate me!"
"I'm going to tell you, size doesn't mean everything!!!"
Kurama let out an unwilling roar, its entire body's Chakra boiling, its nine massive tails striking at the golden giant hand like towering pillars, while simultaneously opening its mouth to condense another Tailed Beast Ball, attempting a final struggle!
However, in the face of absolute power, any resistance was futile!
"Bang bang bang bang—"
Kurama's massive tails, capable of breaking mountains, struck the golden giant hand, only splashing countless dazzling sparks and energy ripples, unable to leave even a single mark.
The giant hand's momentum was undiminished, and like grabbing a chick, it ignored the half-condensed Tailed Beast Ball and precisely grabbed Kurama's massive body!
The Tailed Beast Ball Kurama was condensing was instantly forcibly crushed!
It felt as if its body was bound by countless invisible mountain ranges, incredibly heavy.
The power emanating from the golden giant hand made its proud demonic fox power feel like a mud ox entering the sea, unable to be shaken in the slightest!
"Boom—!!!"
No sooner said than done.
The golden giant single-handedly slammed the struggling and roaring Nine-Tailed deep into the earth!
Like pressing down an insignificant pebble!
A terrifying deep pit, even larger than the crater caused by the previous Tailed Beast Ball, instantly formed.
Kurama's huge orange-red body was firmly embedded at the bottom of the pit, with only its massive head and half of a struggling tail exposed.
The dark red Chakra aura burning around it dimmed as if a flame had been extinguished.
The golden giant (Naruto) slowly lowered its mountain-like head, its molten-gold eyes calmly gazing at the Nine-Tailed, which was as tiny and weak as an ant at the bottom of the pit, its voice like a divine decree:
"Do you submit, Kurama?"
At the bottom of the deep pit, Kurama ceased its futile struggles.
The monstrous ferocity and arrogance in its massive beast eyes were completely extinguished.
Only an unparalleled shock, disbelief, and a trace of instinctive awe in the face of absolute power remained.
It looked at the golden giant, which was like a god looking down on it, feeling the vast and profound power like the entire world, and remained silent for a long, long time.
Finally, Kurama let out a low, complex whimper, devoid of any hostility.
Its massive head slowly and with difficulty, in the mud of the deep pit, bowed slightly towards the golden giant.
"Roar—...I submit—"
"You—won, Uzumaki Naruto—"
"Honestly, besides the Sage of Six Paths, I haven't submitted to anyone, well—Senju Hashirama counts as one."
The golden giant slowly shrank, eventually returning to Naruto's original form, landing at the edge of the pit.
He walked to the edge of the pit, looked at the Nine-Tailed, which was pressed into the deep pit, battered but no longer hostile, and extended his hand, placing it on Kurama's forehead.
"Then, Kurama,"
Naruto showed a sunny smile, his eyes sincere.
"Now, are we truly friends?"