Konoha: Sage Body

"Damn human, don't even think about threatening me."

Upon hearing Kirito's threat, Shukaku immediately stared at him with furious eyes, growled, and then decisively used Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet once again to crush the despicable thief in front of him who had stolen his Chakra.

However, this time, he still failed to mobilize the Chakra within his body as he wished.

The chakra chain that penetrated its head had extremely strong restraining capabilities, and unlike the previous chakra chains that bound him, it was actually difficult to be eroded by its chakra containing the attribute of breaking seals.

"It's useless. You are now a raccoon that has fallen into the trap I set. You have no choice but to surrender."

Kirito sneered as he saw Shukaku not listening to reason and trying to struggle.

The chakra chain that penetrated Shukaku's forehead at this moment was created by him using the Sealing Technique: Adamantine Sealing Chain of Sage Chakra. It was a super-strength version, and with the strength of Sage Chakra, it could suppress even the tailed beast's chakra.

Therefore, Shukaku was destined to be unable to escape from Kirito this time.

In fact, this was all thanks to Shukaku's previous self-destruction. Otherwise, if it suddenly played with self-destruction, it would have scared the people of Konoha and Sunagakure, who now completely dare not go too close to his battlefield with Shukaku, and Kirito would not dare to use Sage Chakra to fight at will.

"It's not a raccoon, it's a raccoon dog!"

Shukaku heard Kirito say that it was a raccoon again, and subconsciously corrected him.

Kirito was not interested in whether Shukaku was a raccoon dog or a raccoon. Since Shukaku still intended to make things difficult for him, he had no intention of continuing to waste time arguing with him. The blood dragon eyes suddenly opened, and then he used illusion on Shukaku.

Senjutsu: Ketsuryūgan: Illusion!

In an instant, Shukaku's huge yellow eyes dimmed.

Ketsuryūgan is not a Bloodline Limit like Sharingan, and the illusion it releases has no effect on tailed beasts like Shukaku, which have huge amounts of chakra. A ninja this big is also easy for Shukaku to break free from by disrupting the chakra in his body.

However, the Shukaku's Chakra was sealed by him using the Senjutsu, Sealing Technique, Adamantine Sealing Chain, and it was unable to be mobilized to break through the illusion. It was another matter entirely to break free of the illusion of the Blood Dragon Eye.

After Kirito successfully used the Blood Dragon Eye illusion to control Shukaku, he suddenly heard the long-lost sound of silence, and the process of plundering Shukaku's Chakra became smoother and smoother.

At this moment, a large amount of Shukaku's chakra is continuously flowing from Shukaku's body into Kirito's yin seal chakra pool, and Shukaku's huge body, which is tens of meters tall, is beginning to shrink rapidly.

Tachibana Kagero quietly watched as Kirito subdued Shukaku and then seized Shukaku's chakra, but his thoughts were not on Kirito subduing Shukaku and seizing Shukaku's chakra, but rather on the blue chakra chain.

His huge cat eyes stared at the chakra chain, revealing a deep longing. He mused, "The chakra fluctuations emitted by this chakra chain are weak, but I feel that this is correct. This is the Sage Chakra that the stinking toads at Mt. Myōboku are always bragging about."

Perceiving natural energy, then allowing the chakra to fuse with it to give birth to Sage Chakra, and ultimately cultivating to become a sage, is the ultimate dream of countless ninjas in the ninja world.

However, over the years, the only ones who have been able to cultivate themselves into immortals are the ninja beasts of the three sacred places.

Tachibana Kagero's strength in the ninja world is considered to be among the best, and even among the ninja beasts of the three sacred places, not many can defeat him.

However, compared to his old rivals in the three sacred places, his strength is rapidly declining. The reason for this is that he has not been able to successfully cultivate Sage Chakra, and his life span is beginning to decline like an old person's, unable to keep his body functions at their peak.

In fact, he can already sense natural energy, and he has successfully absorbed it into his body, otherwise his body would not have grown so large.

Unfortunately, he has never been able to successfully fuse Chakra and natural energy, mainly because he has never had the courage to try.

After all, without the guidance of a true immortal, the outcome of ninjas who recklessly fuse Chakra and natural energy is generally not good.

"This kid can actually use Sage Chakra to unleash ninja techniques and fight without entering Sage Mode. Personally, I'm sure he has an excellent command of Sage Chakra. If I can get his guidance and learn to create Sage Chakra, I might be able to break through the limitations of my lifespan and return to the peak of my strength."

Tachibana Kagero thought heatedly, and his mind began to think of ways to make Kirito willing to teach him how to use Sage Chakra.

On the other side, five or six kilometers southwest of the battlefield between Kirito and Shukaku, a battle between shadow class was underway, with Orochimaru and Ebizo on opposing sides.

Orochimaru is a new Kage-Level powerhouse, while Ebizo is an old one.

In theory, Ebizo, who is proficient in puppet techniques, should be able to overwhelm Orochimaru, because Orochimaru's secret techniques basically have no effect on inanimate puppets. Therefore, in normal battles, Orochimaru has always been outmatched by Ebizo.

Now the situation is reversed.

There is nothing he can do about it. He has lost three of his five high-quality puppets and his left hand is also crippled, his strength has been greatly weakened. It is already quite remarkable that he can remain unbeaten at the hands of Orochimaru.

"Orochimaru, do you really want to keep holding me back here? That brat has captured Shukaku. He is a ninja proficient in seal arts. What do you think he will do next?"

Ebizo manipulated the Buddha puppet to block the Kusanagi sword that shot out of Orochimaru's mouth in white, and then manipulated the monk puppet to use the Wind Release: Wind Blade to force back the black large snake summoned by Orochimaru using the summoning technique. He yelled anxiously.

With his third eye, he could already see Kirito using Magnet Release to form a black pyramid to trap Shukaku, and was somehow rapidly leeching Shukaku's chakra. If he didn't hurry and stop Kirito, Shukaku was finished.

But Orochimaru was really too tough, completely a snake that wouldn't give up. Although not deadly, he was annoying enough.

"If Shukaku is taken away by Kirito, wouldn't that be a good thing for Konoha? And if you lose one tail, you'll soon be able to go back to the Land of Wind with your tail between your legs and eat sand,"

Orochimaru sneered.

He didn't have any objections to Kirito taking Shukaku. If Kirito took Shukaku, that was his ability, so what could he say?

But if he let Ebizo go here, that would be a big problem.

He doesn't want to make Kirito his enemy.

As he spoke, he once again used the Hidden Shadow Snake Hand technique to attack Ebizo's body.

"Orochimaru, don't you want to be Hokage? If you let him successfully take Shukaku, do you still have a chance to compete with that Konoha princess? I heard that something unpleasant has happened in Konoha recently."

Ebizo used the Buddha puppet to control the summoned Snake to kill the incoming enemy, and continued,

How could he, the Shadow of the Sunagakure, not be aware of the conflict between the Senju clan and Sandaime within Konoha? Orochimaru was a member of the Sandaime, while Kirito Tosaka was a member of the Senju clan. He didn't believe that Orochimaru didn't understand the implications of letting Kirito Tosaka take Shukaku.

"Hmph, Konoha's affairs are not for you, an outsider, to worry about. Stop underestimating me."

Orochimaru heard Ebizo's clear words of provocation, and his expression instantly turned colder as he spoke menacingly.

The next moment, he increased his attack, trying to join forces with the summoning beasts to disable one of Ebizo's puppets first.

He did indeed have some desire for the position of Hokage, but Orochimaru didn't need to resort to such despicable means as betraying the interests of his fellow villagers in order to become Hokage.

He felt that Ebizo had underestimated him.

It was now imperative that he make this idiot understand the power of Orochimaru.

"You will regret this,"

Ebizo shouted angrily when he saw that Orochimaru was not taken in and still had no intention of giving way. Then he manipulated the two puppets and prepared to fight to the death with Orochimaru.

...

I have to say, the Chakra of the tailed beasts is just enormous.

Kirito used to think that the chakra stored in his Yin Seal was already quite large, with the power of a tailed beast, but it was still far inferior to that of the One-Tailed Shukaku. The chakra that he had painstakingly accumulated using the Yin Seal for nearly a year was probably only about one-tenth of the Shukaku's total chakra.

This shows that there is a lot of water in his personal opinion of the tailed beast level.

He needs to redefine what tail beast-level chakra is. It feels like if the amount of chakra of Sandaime is used as the unit of measurement for reference, the amount of chakra of a tail beast should be equivalent to twenty Sandaimes.

If the chakra of a tail beast is like this, not to mention the Kyubi, which has the most chakra among the ten tail beasts.

No wonder Naruto had tens of thousands of ninjas wear the beast suits during the final battle in the original plot. The chakra of the Kyubi far exceeded Kirito's imagination.

"With so much chakra, I will have the means to waste it freely in the future. Most importantly, the chakra of the beast can recover at a terrifying rate, as long as it is not over-exhausted, it can recover very quickly."

Kirito felt the terrifying amount of Chakra contained in the new Yin Seal-created Chakra pool within his body and sighed.

He had always lamented his lack of Chakra, but now that he had sealed Shukaku within his body, he would no longer have to worry about a lack of Chakra, and the pressure to activate Sage Mode in the future would be greatly reduced.

He could simply extract a large amount of the tailed beast's Chakra beforehand and combine it with natural energy to create a large amount of Sage Chakra, which would then be stored in the initial Yin Seal Chakra pool in the center of his forehead.

Without a doubt, in a short while, he will have Tailed Beast-level Sage Chakra.

In that case, his strength will take a new leap.

Tailed Beast Chakra is obviously not so easy to absorb.

As Kirito absorbed nearly one-third of Shukaku's Chakra, Shukaku suddenly condensed from a bright red pool of Chakra in Kirito's abdomen, then began to howl furiously and destroy the outer wall of the Chakra pool.

Shukaku is a chakra mass. When Kirito absorbed Shukaku's chakra into his body, Shukaku's consciousness also quietly mixed in, and then completed an alternative rebirth within Kirito's body.

"Human, die,"

Shukaku roared, furiously attacking the outer wall of the chakra pool.

He could feel that as long as he shattered this chakra pool, this damned human would definitely suffer greatly.

However, the chakra pool formed by the Yin Seal was extremely strong. No matter how crazily Shukaku attacked, it could only cause a slight crack to appear, and these cracks disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Don't be naive, Shukaku. Can't you tell that the power of this chakra pool comes from you yourself? How can you possibly defeat yourself? There's no way you can escape from here."

Kirito's spiritual body suddenly appeared in front of Shukaku, sneering.

What he said at this time was a mixture of truth and falsehood. The source of power of the chakra pool formed by the yin seal did come from the chakra in the pool. In theory, as long as there was more chakra in the pool, it would become stronger, but there was an upper limit to how strong it could become.

If Shukaku's attack was powerful enough, he could still break the chakra pool.

As for the upper limit of the strength of the Chakra Pool, Kirito had no idea. Judging from the fact that Mito had not imprisoned Kyubi in her own Yin Seal, as long as Shukaku had a strength comparable to Kyubi, it should be able to break the Chakra Pool.

But Shukaku obviously did not have the same strength as Kyubi.

At first, it did not trust what Kirito said and continued to attack the outer wall of the Chakra Pool.

However, as its chakra became stronger and stronger in the chakra pool, and its own strength continued to recover, but it still couldn't break the chakra pool, and its heart finally began to waver.

This damned pool already stored nearly two-thirds of its chakra. If it couldn't stop the damned human from absorbing its chakra from the outside, and if it continued like this, all of its chakra would be sucked in here.

By then, Bunpuku would completely lose its chakra, and as a Jinchuuriki, Bunpuku would definitely die.

"Human, stop it quickly. Bunpuku has never killed anyone from Konoha. He is a good person among you humans. You cannot kill him."

Shukaku thought that if he continued to act impulsively, he might end up killing his good friend. Finally, he began to relent, stopped attacking, and turned his head to loudly speak to Kirito's spiritual body.

Kirito saw Shukaku's softening attitude, but ignored it and continued to absorb Shukaku's chakra as he pleased.

Outside, Shukaku's body had shrunk to less than a third of its original size, and was still shrinking, albeit at a slower rate.

"Bunpuku, since you've woken up, don't pretend to be asleep. If you continue to stop me from absorbing Shukaku's chakra, I can't guarantee that I will spare your life later. Shukaku said that you are its important friend and is begging me inside my body to spare your life."

Kirito sensed an abnormality in the rate at which Shukaku was absorbing his chakra. He quickly understood what was going on and, staring into Shukaku's vacant eyes, threatened him.

Bunpuku had indeed awakened. After Shukaku was affected by Kirito's Ketsuryūgan illusion, he was freed from Shukaku's mental suppression and quickly came to his senses.

Through Shukaku's chakra, he was able to sense Shukaku's emotions of anger, unwillingness, and sadness at that moment.

As Shukaku's friend, Bunpuku naturally could not stand by and do nothing as Shukaku faced certain death, even though Shukaku had just broken his promise to him. So, after he woke up, he began secretly mobilizing his own chakra to break the seal that Kirito had placed on Shukaku at that moment.

Unfortunately, his sneaky little move was unable to hide from Kirito after all, and he was discovered as soon as he slightly broke a small part of the chakra chain that had the ability to imprison chakra.

"Patron, I mean no harm, I just want to save Shukaku. Shukaku is not as terrible and bad as you think. He did not hurt anyone at first, but he was hurt by humans so many times that is why he hates humans so much. I hope you can let him go."

Shukaku's eyes, which had been dull and lifeless, regained their luster, and he let out a voice that resembled Bunpuku's.

"Master Bunpuku, I believe what you say is true, but I cannot promise to do what you ask. Regardless of what Shukaku has done in the past and what kind of treatment it has received, I am not interested in knowing for the time being. I only know that as long as it is taken from the hands of the Sunagakure, Konoha will be able to quickly end this war with the Sunagakure."

Kirito sighed upon hearing Bunpuku's somewhat feeble request.

He was well aware of what happened to the beasts, that they would become extremely hostile towards humans, the fundamental reason being that humans were afraid of and coveted their power.

It could be said that the beasts were the victims.

But the person in charge decides what happens. As a human, he naturally had to stand on the side of humans, just as he, as a Konoha ninja, could not possibly agree to a request from a Suna-Nin.

"Can't we just coexist peacefully? As long as we understand and support each other, we can sit down and talk about any conflicts and resolve them."

Bunpuku was not disappointed by Kirito's ruthless rejection. He was used to rejection and had not given up hope, so he continued to persuade him.

He personally felt that Kirito was a reasonable person, as evidenced by the fact that he was willing to communicate with him calmly even though he was an enemy.

"Sorry, these things are not up to me to decide. I can only make my own decisions, I cannot help others make theirs. Your thoughts are good, but they are not strong enough to support empty talk. In the world of the ninja, there was once a person who brought a brief period of peace to the world of the ninja, but after he died, the conflict began again. It is too difficult to achieve a world where people understand each other."

Kirito needed time to absorb Shukaku's chakra, so he was in no hurry and calmly continued to debate with Bunpuku.

Bunpuku and Tachibana Kagero obviously did not expect Kirito, who was still young, to have such mature thoughts, and that he already had a very deep understanding of the ninja world, as well as his own views on peace.

Bunpuku knew exactly who the person Kirito had just mentioned was, and also knew the impact this person had made on the ninja world. At this time, he could not refute what Kirito had said, and fell silent.

After a moment, he asked, "The monk said that achieving a world where people understand one another is very difficult. What do you think the peace of the ninja world should be like?"

"I don't know,"

Kirito said very firmly.

Achieving world peace is a goal that is too big. Kirito doesn't have the ambition to achieve it, and personally he doesn't have the ability to achieve it for the time being, so he won't think about such a self-defeating problem for the time being.

Achieve world peace? If there is time to think about that, it is better to spend more time achieving invincibility in the ninja world.

When he is invincible, it should be easy for him to want world peace.

"I was inconsiderate. You are still young, and I shouldn't have asked you such a question,"

Bunpuku said apologetically after hearing Kirito's curt reply, and then gave up trying to persuade him.

He could already see that Kirito was still young, but already had his own set of mature principles. There was no way his words could sway Kirito, let alone make him let Shukaku go.

Now that even verbal persuasion had failed, he could only give up struggling, silently wishing Shukaku well in his heart, hoping that he would not be wronged by Kirito in the future.

"It's okay, Master Bunpuku, you are a person worthy of my respect,"

Kirito waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

With Bunpuku giving up resistance, Kirito's speed of absorbing Shukaku's chakra returned to its previous speed.

In just a short span of ten seconds, the Shukaku in front of Kirito had shrunk to less than five meters tall.

Soon, Bunpuku reappeared in front of Kirito.

"Human, what have you done to Bunpuku?"

In the Yin Sealing Space within Kirito's body, Shukaku discovered that all of his chakra had been absorbed by Kirito, and that a certain special connection between himself and Bunpuku had disappeared. He immediately concluded that Bunpuku was dead, and angrily howled, wildly making waves in the chakra pool and shouting non-stop.

"Shut up! If you keep yelling in my body, I'll really kill Monk Bunpuku."

Kirito was getting a bit of a headache from Shukaku's noise, and decisively issued a warning.

Even when the crazy raccoon was mad, it didn't forget to keep making noise.

"Bunpuku isn't dead yet?"

Shukaku heard Kirito's warning and immediately stopped yelling, exclaiming in surprise.

"Don't you know that your own source of chakra is decreasing?"

Kirito said a bit speechlessly.

It is true that the Jinchuuriki will die after the tail beast is extracted from them, but as long as the tail beast is not completely extracted, they can still survive.

For example, in the original plot, the Kyubi was once split into two entities, the Yin Kyubi and the Yang Kyubi, thus creating two Kyubi Jinchuuriki.

In this way, it is possible to divide the tail beast.

When Mito was still alive, he once asked Mito how to divide the tail beast, and her answer was to divide the soul of the tail beast.

Kirito immediately understood how Minato Namikaze had divided the Kyubi into Yin and Yang when he was young. He thought that it was by using the Shinigami to split the Kyubi's soul in half.

Kirito himself practices the Spirit Transformation Technique and has an understanding of the soul that surpasses ordinary people.

In the ninja world, the soul is also the carrier of chakra, and it is even a very important carrier. It can be said that the soul is the key to the human body's ability to store chakra.

The tailed beasts are special creatures created by the Six Path Sage using yin and yang techniques. Their souls are even more magical than the souls of ordinary creatures. Even if they are split in half, they will not die, but will simply become two different individuals.

However, after the soul is split, their chakra will also be split accordingly.

He had just used the Spirit Transformation Technique to ensure Bunpuku's survival by leaving a bit of Shukaku's soul, its primordial chakra, inside Bunpuku. Now a miniature Shukaku with no consciousness had formed inside Bunpuku.

Because of this, Bunpuku now also had the identity of a Jinchuuriki.

"Source Chakra? I said I always feel like something is missing, and it turns out it's this, but what does it have to do with Bunpuku?"

Shukaku got an answer, and it immediately closed its eyes and carefully felt its own Chakra, puzzled.

"Anyway, just know that Bunpuku is not dead. You just stay here with me for now. I have Bunpuku in my hands right now. If you don't want him to die, then just stay put and don't cause any trouble."

Kirito didn't have time to explain so much to Shukaku, and once again threatened it with Bunpuku.

Although Shukaku was annoyed that Kirito was threatening him with his good friend, he was relieved to know that Bunpuku was still alive.

For thousands of years, his only friend had been Bunpuku, a human who looked a lot like the old man. He didn't want to say goodbye to him so soon, and even less did he want him to die because of him.

"Human, you'd better be nice to Bunpuku, otherwise I won't let you control my chakra as you wish. Don't think that just because you imprisoned me inside your body now, you can make me submit."

So, Shukaku thought about it for a while and decided to threaten Kirito by using his own chakra as a condition instead.

It fell under Kirito's hands, and now the only bargaining chip he has is this.

"Don't worry, I have a very good impression of Master Bunpuku personally. If Master Bunpuku falls into my hands, I promise that he will be treated much better in Konoha than in Sunagakure."

Kirito happily accepted Shukaku's conditions.

The next moment, he thought of something, and a chain of chakra suddenly shot out of the chakra pool and tied Shukaku up in five different ways.

Shukaku saw these chakra chains coming and instinctively wanted to struggle, but in the end he restrained himself and let Kirito lock him up smoothly. Then he said, "Remember your promise, human."

In reality, Kirito slowly opened his eyes, then lifted up his shirt and looked at the newly emerged diamond-shaped mark above his belly button. A trace of concern appeared in his eyes.

Then he slapped his hands together, and a large number of seal techniques emerged from his body.

These seal techniques quickly converged around the Yin Seal on his belly button, eventually forming the Four Symbols Seal and the Eight Trigrams Seal, and ingeniously leaving an opening in these two seal techniques that allowed the Chakra to enter and exit.

"In this way, even if I accidentally pass out in the future, Shukaku will never be able to take the opportunity to get out of his body. I can now be considered a full-fledged One-Tailed Jinchuuriki,"

Kirito said with satisfaction as he ran his hand over the newly-appeared seal technique patterns around his belly button and then made them invisible.

At this time, Bunpuku, who was being restrained by the Chakra chain, saw that Kirito had finished sealing Shukaku, and immediately asked, "Patron, what is the situation with the miniature Shukaku in my body? What is happening to Shukaku now?"

To be honest, he had originally thought that he was going to die, and did not think that Kirito would really let him go. After all, the death of a Jinchuuriki when their tail beast was extracted was a foregone conclusion.

But he never expected Kirito to actually let him go.

And Shukaku was not completely removed from his body.

"Shukaku is doing well now. As for the miniature Shukaku in your body, you can understand it as a clone of Shukaku. As long as it doesn't disappear, you are still a Jinchuuriki and will not die."

Kirito was in a great mood. He had just promised Shukaku that he would treat Bunpuku well, and he explained to the good-natured Bunpuku with a smile.

Judging from Shukaku's attitude of defending Bunpuku at every turn, Bunpuku is a very important figure if he wants to gain Shukaku's approval in the future. If he were to get Bunpuku killed, the chances of him becoming a perfect Jinchuuriki would be infinitely close to zero.

It seems that he really needs to treat this kind person well in the future.

But since Shukaku has been successfully sealed by him, it's time for him to clean up the rats around him next.

The next moment, a red Chakra surged from the Yin Seal above his belly button, forming a red Chakra Armor on his body.

Kirito felt this Chakra from Shukaku, and suddenly found that he had a strange connection to the sand below, as if they were part of his body and could be moved at will.

With a thought, a large amount of sand surged up, and then was shaped into a beautiful sandcastle according to his will.

At the same time, the Shukaku Chakra in his body appeared to be depleted.

"After becoming a Jinchuuriki, I also obtained the ability to freely manipulate sand by expending Chakra, just like Gaara in the original work."

Kirito looked at the exquisite and beautiful sand sculpture in front of him and smiled.

Not only was he able to manipulate sand, he also discovered that after his original Chakra came into contact with Shukaku's Chakra, it was undergoing some kind of miraculous change.

After gaining the power of a tail, Kirito is still waiting to explore the various incredible changes in his body.

On the other side, Ebizo, who is still being harassed by Orochimaru, can't help but show a painful and desperate expression on his face as he watches Kirito appear with the tail beast coat and casually create a beautiful sand castle with sand.

Shukaku really got away, and it got away from him.

What face did Ebizo have to show his fellow villagers when he returned? What face did he have to live with?

In an instant, a feeling of despair and destruction welled up in Ebizo's heart.

A terrible thought quietly took root in his mind.

The next moment, he changed his fighting style as a puppet master, manipulating two puppets to deal with Orochimaru's summoning beast, while he himself rushed towards Orochimaru.

Orochimaru saw this strange change in Ebizo and then noticed the madness in the old man's eyes. He instantly realized what the old man was going to do, and his face suddenly changed. He quickly retreated in the direction of Kirito.

"It's all your fault. If you hadn't kept stopping me from stopping that brat from sealing Shukaku, none of this would have happened. Now that it has, for the sake of the Sunagakure, you'll join me in death."

Ebizo quickly caught up to Orochimaru and shouted furiously.

Now that Kirito had become a Jinchuuriki, it was even more impossible for him to kill Kirito, and it was basically impossible for him to escape now. With Shukaku's Chakra, Kirito's terrifying Lightning Release Jutsu would definitely be even more powerful.

And now that he had lost Shukaku, he no longer wanted to live.

Since he was going to die anyway, he decided to take down someone with him before he died. Orochimaru, a Sandaime disciple, was the perfect choice.

He didn't believe that he couldn't kill Kirito, and he didn't believe that he couldn't kill this annoying snake.

As soon as he finished speaking, a terrifying Fire Release Chakra fluctuation exploded from the heart of Ebizo.

"You crazy bastard, stay where you are!"

Orochimaru felt this terrifying Fire Release Chakra, and his scalp went numb. A fatal sense of impending doom instantly appeared in his heart. He shouted, and then hurriedly and recklessly injected his Chakra into his legs, forcibly bursting out with an even more powerful Chakra rush.

"Hahaha... go to hell with me, Orochimaru,"

Ebizo saw that Orochimaru was finally afraid and laughed maniacally.

As he laughed, he vomited a large amount of blood, his entire body began to rapidly expand, and his skin surface was covered in cracks. Then, to Orochimaru's horror, it didn't matter, his entire body exploded, turning into a terrifying light and heat.

"Boom!!!"

A loud explosion sounded.

Accompanied by the shaking of the earth and the wailing of the earth, a huge mushroom cloud suddenly rose from the ground. Below it was an enormous semicircular ball of high-temperature fire, which burned everything within a few kilometers into ashes.

The ball of high-temperature fire, which emitted a terrifying light and heat, continued to burn for more than a minute before slowly extinguishing and disappearing. It left behind a huge explosion crater, which was still filled with magma that was emitting high temperatures.

Meanwhile, in the sky above the explosion crater, a yellow cloud was floating.

It was a dust cloud made entirely of sand, and on top of it were three people standing.

They were Kirito, Orochimaru, and Bunpuku, who had just barely survived the massive explosion.

"What a terrifying explosion. Luckily we flew up in time, or else we would have been in danger,"

said Kirito, looking down at the huge explosion crater filled with flowing lava.

He had previously discovered that Ebizo was hiding a terrifying trump card, but he had never imagined that it would be this terrifying. The power of the explosion just now was definitely not inferior to Bijudama. If the old guy Ebizo went to Konoha to commit suicide, he would definitely deal a huge blow to Konoha.

"Yes, this old guy is really crazy."

Orochimaru, who had suffered severe burns all over his body, looked at the scene below and said with a lingering fear.

He really thought he was going to die. Fortunately, Kirito did not forget about his ally at the critical moment, and in time, he manipulated a large amount of sand to wrap his body, and then quickly sent him flying into the sky, saving his life.

Bunpuku, on the other hand, looked at the explosion crater below in a daze, his mood very heavy. This was the last trace of Ebizo left in the world.

He had listened to the pleas of others and intervened to save Ebizo, and he succeeded, but he also failed, and in the end, he sacrificed himself.

"Sunagakure is finished,"

Bunpuku sighed in his heart.

Although he didn't like killing and was unfairly treated for it by the people of Sunagakure, he was, after all, a member of Sunagakure, and he was now very worried about the situation in Sunagakure.

Now that Ebizo was dead, he was a prisoner, and they had lost Shukaku, this would definitely be a serious blow to Sunagakure. If it wasn't handled well, Sunagakure might face the crisis of being destroyed.

"Ugh..."

Suddenly, Orochimaru let out a retching sound, and a new and unharmed Orochimaru crawled out of his mouth.

Orochimaru's body replacement technique!

"Orochimaru-sama, shouldn't we take advantage of the situation and pursue them?"

Kirito looked at Orochimaru's rebirth in another body, and with great difficulty suppressed the discomfort in his stomach as he smiled.

Orochimaru heard this and shook his head, saying, "I'm afraid it's too late. Before Ebizo died, he sent a signal to the people of the Sunagakure. The people of Sunagakure are probably withdrawing their troops right now. Even if we manage to catch up with them, it will be difficult to annihilate them in the desert."

The Sunagakure war headquarters was established next to the border between the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers, and behind it was the boundless sandy sea of the Land of Wind.

It is precisely because of this geographical advantage that Sunagakure has the audacity to provoke Konoha again and again. They are not afraid of Konoha's ninja forces invading the Land of Wind at all.

"So what should we do next?"

Kirito heard this from Orochimaru, the overall commander of the battlefield, and he had to give up the idea of using the people of Sunagakure to practice his skills, and continued to ask.

Orochimaru did not answer immediately, but looked at him deeply, and then jumped down from the sayun, shouting, "Retreat, and then return safely with the prisoners."

With Orochimaru naming this guy, this battle between Konoha and Sunagakure was officially declared over.

The next moment, an icy voice that Kirito was very familiar with finally appeared belatedly.

[You changed Ebizo's fate and obtained 1 Enhancement Point.

[You changed Bunpuku's fate and obtained 1 Enhancement Point.

...

After the battle ended, the news of this battle also spread rapidly through the ninja world like a gust of wind.

An earthquake shook the entire ninja world. Both Konoha and the other ninja villages were shocked by the sudden news from the battlefield, and many people immediately had deep suspicions.

But the truth is the truth, and no matter what, it cannot be changed.

Not to mention that this truth involves the rise of a young Kage-Level powerhouse and the fall of an old one.

The name Tōsaka Kirito quickly became the focus of research by the major powers in the ninja world, and this name quickly became familiar to the world.

Meanwhile, in the exchange office, the reward for Kirito Tosaka had increased many times overnight, reaching a total of one billion.

The next day, evening, in the Hokage's office in the Hokage Building.

Sandaime was looking at the latest intelligence report from the battlefield, and the wrinkles on his face were rapidly increasing, revealing a deep frown.

The content of this intelligence report was about Kirito, and it recorded the various military exploits he had performed on the battlefield yesterday.

And among these military exploits, the one that ranked first was the capture of the One-Tailed Shukaku.

Sandaime was undoubtedly very pleased with this achievement, as it was a strong testament to Konoha's increased strength.

After all, there is a difference between the deterrent effect of one tailed beast and two, and one of the tailed beasts was already ready for use thanks to Kirito's efforts. This would undoubtedly greatly enhance Konoha's strength, and it was only a matter of time before they defeated Sunagakure.

However, because Kirito took away the tailed beast of Sunagakure, he has received protest letters from Sunagakure, Iwagakure, Kirigakure, Kumogakure, and Takigakure today. The shinobi of these villages are all accusing Konoha of breaking the agreement on the distribution of tailed beasts set by the first Hokage and demanding that Konoha return the first tailed beast to Sunagakure.

Facing the protests of these villages, can Sandaime ignore them? If he doesn't handle this well, Konoha will immediately become the target of everyone.

"Sigh, Kirito, you really have given me a huge problem this time,"

Sandaime put down the intelligence information in his hands, took a deep drag on his cigarette, and said with a face full of worry.