Chapter 150: Return
"Little Immortal, you're here!"
Naruto's eyes widened in delight. He scratched his head with a grin and asked, "Why are you here?"
"You really are that naive, Naruto-kun!" Li Jiexuan chuckled as he put the syringe back into his system storage space. "Of course I'm here to reclaim what belongs to me!"
"Ahahaha, you mean that syringe? Yeah, it was really useful. Thanks!" Naruto started to laugh, but suddenly froze, raising his eyebrows in confusion. "But inside it there's Yakumo's kekkei genkai, and that demon too!"
At the mention of that, Li Jiexuan scratched his head.
"What a headache, Naruto."
Li Jiexuan shook his head helplessly. "If I kill that demon, I won't be able to obtain such a powerful kekkei genkai. But if I don't kill him, he's still a hidden danger."
You really can't have both fish and bear's paw, huh?
Hearing this, Naruto finally understood. Gritting his teeth, he roared, "You're saying that everything you've done was actually just to get Kurama Yakumo's kekkei genkai?"
"Of course!" Li Jiexuan shrugged with a light laugh. "Keep being stupid. You'll become the Seventh Hokage."
Li Jiexuan was telling the truth, but Naruto thought he was mocking him. So all this time, he had been treated like a complete fool and deceived.
In Naruto's life, the things he hated most ranked like this: hurting Sasuke was number one, deceiving him was number two, and doubting his dream of becoming Hokage was number three!
Unfortunately, Li Jiexuan seemed to have checked every single one of those boxes!
Li Jiexuan had directly or indirectly killed two versions of Sasuke. He had deceived Naruto several times. As for doubting Naruto's dream of becoming Hokage, Li Jiexuan truly had never done that…
But Naruto didn't see it that way!
"You bastard, I'm going to kill you!" Naruto roared as his body slowly transformed. His nails turned into sharp beast claws, and a blazing red Tailed Beast cloak covered his entire body…
Naruto in Nine-Tails form!
Seeing this, Li Jiexuan shook his head helplessly. "Life and death don't matter. If you've got a problem, fight…"
After saying that, Li Jiexuan calmly found a bench and sat down. He couldn't win this fight. Even if he somehow could one day, the Sage of Six Paths would just show up and crush him anyway. Since that was the case, he might as well keep it simple and quietly wait for death. It wasn't his first time dying anyway. Li Jiexuan was completely at ease…
"Naruto, calm down!"
"Naruto, learn to control your inner demon, just like you told me—control that power!" Kurenai and Kurama Yakumo tried to persuade Naruto with words…
However, as the protagonist, Naruto didn't buy any of it. He opened his mouth and unleashed a Tailed Beast Bomb capable of obliterating everything.
"I'll kill you!" Nine-Tails Naruto roared.
Facing the terrifying Tailed Beast Bomb, Li Jiexuan calmly opened his arms, embracing the sun. "Now this is real talk-no-jutsu…"
"Buzz!"
A small mushroom cloud rose into the air. Since Li Jiexuan wasn't involved in the main storyline this time, he didn't even trigger a mission before receiving his "boxed lunch"…
When Li Jiexuan opened his eyes again, nothing had changed—except for the syringe in his hand, now filled with a starry-sky kekkei genkai. In Li Jiexuan's eyes, this gain was no less valuable than half of the Sealing Scroll!
Raising the syringe, Li Jiexuan didn't hesitate. He stabbed it straight into his body and slowly pushed the plunger. The strange, star-filled blood flowed into him. But unlike before, there was no pain this time. Li Jiexuan slowly opened his eyes. The guest room in Seven Treasures Town had transformed into a starry sky. Within the bizarre cosmos floated all kinds of paintings, and one of them—a self-portrait of Kurama Yakumo—happened to be positioned right in front of him.
"Back here again, huh?" Li Jiexuan smirked. Suddenly, he threw a punch straight through Kurama Yakumo's self-portrait, forcibly dragging that terrifying demon out.
"You bastard, let go of me! Who are you? Where's Kurama Yakumo?" Li Jiexuan grabbed the demon by the throat and, without a word, punched him.
"Boom!"
The demon exploded like a cloud of gas, but quickly re-formed.
"Not my inner demon—so it can't be killed?" Li Jiexuan frowned, clenching his fist and smashing the reconstituted demon into pieces once more.
But…
"Hehehe, you're not Kurama Yakumo. You can't kill me!" Yakumo's demon cackled madly. "You'll never escape. If you don't send me back to Kurama Yakumo, I'll trap you here forever!"
Before the words had even fully fallen—
With a single thought from Li Jiexuan, the entire illusion completely vanished, leaving only the demon floating alone in the air.
"Uh… what's going on?" The pitiful demon looked around frantically, letting out a shriek like a hen—pathetic, weak, and helpless.
"Just like you said, I'm not that weak idiot Kurama Yakumo who can't even control her own power." Li Jiexuan sneered. "As for wanting to see her again…"
The calendar flipped to the thirteenth year of Konoha…
"You'll have to wait forty-nine years!"
Before the words faded, Li Jiexuan snapped his fingers and erased both the demon's voice and body entirely from his mind. Even if he couldn't kill it for now, with Kurama Yakumo's kekkei genkai, suppressing this bodiless secondary personality was effortless…