Clatter!
The chain trembled violently.
"ROAR!"
In an instant, the Three-Tails' world-destroying aura was torn to shreds.
Under the seal of Infinite Lock, all that remained was painful wailing.
The chakra it had been roaring out vanished instantly, as though it had encountered its natural enemy.
Its enormous body—nearly a hundred meters tall—began to shrivel and shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Crack!
On the Three-Tails' back, its once incredibly tough shell suddenly split open.
The next second—
Cracks spread inch by inch.
The entire turtle shell lost its original luster.
Inside its body, the crimson chakra that had been surging like mountains and oceans was drawn out madly by the pitch-black vortex, like floodwater pouring through a broken dam.
"ROOOAAARRR!"
The Three-Tails howled toward the sky once more.
It wanted to struggle.
It wanted to resist.
It wanted to return to the sea.
But now...
Nothing it did mattered.
It couldn't even finish half a wail before the sound stopped abruptly.
The power within the chain sealed its entire body in an instant.
At the same time—
Kai suddenly clenched his right hand toward the empty space beside him.
RUMBLE!!!
The earth instantly let out a massive roar.
Immediately afterward, with Kai as the center, the ground within a hundred meters suddenly sank under the force of some invisible power.
Puchi!
Countless massive tree roots covered in mysterious dark patterns erupted from the earth.
Like the tentacles of an ancient god that had slumbered underground for billions of years.
They were no ordinary trees.
Every root and every inch exuded a heavy, ancient majesty.
Combined with their pitch-black color, they inspired instinctive fear in anyone who looked at them.
But this was only the beginning.
After the black giant trees emerged, they rapidly wove and twisted together in the air.
In the blink of an eye—
They condensed into an enormous black wooden palm that blotted out the sky.
Its size was several times larger than the Three-Tails itself.
"Haa... so this is the fused Wood Release trait?"
Feeling the continuous control flowing through his body, Uchiha Kai exhaled softly.
He had only acted on a sudden impulse.
Ever since his Wood Release trait fused with the Byakugan, he had only used it to plant the Divine Tree seed.
Aside from initially greening the outskirts of the Forest of Death, he hadn't really used the Wood Release bloodline much.
But now—
In the heart of Kirigakure.
In front of the Three-Tails.
He suddenly wanted to test the power of Wood Release.
With a thought, the giant palm above his head spread its five fingers open instantly.
The lines in its palm were especially clear.
Even from far away, everyone could feel the dense life force radiating from it.
Along with...
An absolute power capable of suppressing all things.
This was not power that human hands could achieve.
Time within Kirigakure seemed to freeze the moment that giant hand appeared.
"ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!"
Seeing this, the Three-Tails below was so frightened that its tails stood on end.
The sparse hair above its head rose upward like spikes.
Although only its instinctive violence and bloodlust remained...
It still understood the most basic instinct of seeking fortune and avoiding disaster.
Normally, even powerful opponents would not enter the Three-Tails' eyes.
But...
The giant hand above made it feel as though it had become a toy.
Even without the chain above its head, it couldn't stop this.
"What do I do?!"
For once, a trace of thought flashed through the berserk Three-Tails' eye.
In that mad and violent pupil, a tortured flicker of contemplation appeared.
Then...
Its enormous shell forcefully pushed upward.
Whoosh—
BOOM!
The black wooden giant palm finally descended.
But the imagined earth-shaking explosion did not occur.
There was no firelight.
No shockwave.
Not even the faintest breeze.
Only an ear-grating creaking sound began to ring out continuously from the moment of contact.
It seemed that not only the Three-Tails—
But even the space itself—
Was being forcefully kneaded and compressed by the giant hand.
BUZZ!!!
Zzzzt... zzzzt...
At this moment, the piercing sound of energy annihilation filled the air.
The Three-Tails' enormous body began shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Roar?!"
The violence and madness in the Three-Tails' remaining eye vanished.
In their place appeared incomprehensible terror.
It couldn't understand.
Why could the person above it so easily grasp it?
Why could he suppress the rampaging chakra within its body?
And why did he possess such an enormous black hand?
Crack—
Crack—
Amid that fear, the earth trembled violently.
The giant turtle that had originally stood in the heart of Kirigakure still measured fifty to sixty meters even after shrinking.
But now—
Even that fifty- to sixty-meter turtle could no longer be seen.
Only clouds of smoke rose continuously from the ground.
"Roar... roar..."
At this moment, a faint wail from the giant turtle came from below again.
Kai lowered his head in slight surprise.
Seeing the Three-Tails still struggling to lift its head, he couldn't help shaking his head.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
"I didn't expect your vitality to be this strong."
Even after all this, it could still struggle a little.
That vitality was far stronger than the One-Tails.
However...
He raised his head again and glanced at the heart of Kirigakure.
The previously empty field of ruins now had a giant palm print nearly two hundred meters wide stamped into it.
At the very center was the dozens-of-meters-wide pit containing the Three-Tails.
As expected of high-level Wood Release.
This...
This finally had a trace of the True Several Thousand Hands' presence.
Now that the Wood Release test was complete...
It was time.
With that thought, Kai clenched his right hand again.
The rotation speed of the pitch-black vortex in his palm suddenly increased explosively.
Its suction force also rose directly to the extreme.
Buzz.
Buzz! Buzz!
A terrifying suction erupted once more.
"Awooo... wuuu..."
Underground, Isobu let out one final, shrill, despairing wail.
Its voice was weaker than ever before.
Like a dying candle flickering in the wind.
Its massive body, wrapped in black chains, was now like a specimen whose marrow had been completely drained.
It shriveled entirely.
If its upright body had originally been over thirty meters tall...
Then now, the Three-Tails' entire body had been reduced to barely more than ten meters.
It had been wrung dry.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
Soon, the vortex in Kai's palm condensed and descended, transforming into a dark pill that floated quietly above his hand.
Inside the pill, faint water-blue ripples appeared.
They seemed to want to break free, but were firmly restrained by a layer of indestructible black pill coating.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. Pill refinement successful. Randomly obtained Rare Pill: Chakra Essence Pill (Blue)!]
"A blue pill?"
Kai lowered his head and looked at the pill in his palm.
A trace of disappointment flashed through his eyes.
He hadn't expected that even the Three-Tails' first refinement would only produce a blue pill.
His luck wasn't very good.
Thinking this, he casually tossed the pill toward the corner.
"Here."
"Something good for you."
"Eat it."
In the corner, Mei Terumi looked at the pill before her and swallowed.
Her beautiful eyes gradually lowered.
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