I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 697 When your partner is not on your side, terminate the partnership in time.

"Something's not right. How could I possibly have this feeling of being watched? Those humans shouldn't have realized I guessed right; I know all about their sensory abilities."

As Black Zetsu lurked within the earth, a subtle premonition suddenly arose from the depths of his heart, which quickly transformed into fear.

He couldn't understand who gave it to him, the Nine-Tails? What could a creature that couldn't even control its reason do, even with its brute strength?

Humans? Although human sealing techniques have some effect on me, their effect is really limited. Unless it's the sealing techniques of my mother's two rebellious sons, it's impossible to really seal him away.

Those two rebellious sons are already dead. Although he suspected that the Sage of Six Paths had been patrolling the ninja world, a thousand years have passed and Black Zetsu has never been truly discovered.

He even approached the vessel of the Sage of Six Paths' eldest son more than once without ever revealing himself. In fact, Indra's previous vessel regarded him as a product of his Yin-Yang Escape technique.

His concealment should have been perfect; there was no reason for him to be discovered. He must be scaring himself. It must be...

Black Zetsu quickly returned to his original room and draped himself over a White Zetsu. Instantly, he regained some of his sense of security. He looked at the other White Zetsu, who was somewhat dazed, and said:

"Aren't you going to make a move? I've already sensed that Sakamoto Tatsuma has returned. Hurry up and cause him some trouble, or the Nine-Tails will be dealt with."

"But no matter how many times I cut myself, that woman is still alive and well."

There was a hint of grievance in White Zetsu's tone. In the short time Black Zetsu had been gone, he had already stabbed himself and the human he had wrapped around several times.

However, according to the evil god's curse, the woman bound by the curse was still alive, and even the decline in her life force was completely restored in an instant.

"Why don't you choose another one?"

Black Zetsu said with disappointment, then searched through the blood samples again. None of them were quite satisfactory to him, even though he had already sorted out the blood samples of the more important people in Konoha separately.

But the core targets were actually only a few, so he simply moved the entire storage box next to the cursed seal and said:

"Let's hurt as many people as we can before this human dies. Anyway, Sakamoto Tatsuma is back, and even the most serious injuries can be healed. At most, it will just make him a little flustered."

"Why don't you try my blood? Once I'm dead, no one will be able to stop you."

A voice suddenly rang out in the room. Black Zetsu was certain it wasn't his own voice, nor did it sound like White Zetsu's. As for the shop owner, he had long been tortured into losing consciousness and was now merely a vessel for the cursed seal.

Then there's only one possibility: they've been discovered!

Looking towards the source of the sound, Black Zetsu nearly detached from White Zetsu in fright, and blurted out, "Sakamoto Tatsuma!"

"it's me."

Tatsuma agreed, then conjured a chakra scalpel in his right hand and slashed it across his left wrist. A few drops of blood dripped and floated in the air, while the wound had already healed.

Tatsuma flicked a few drops of blood towards the White Zetsu at the center of the cursed seal and said, "Will you give this chance?"

"try!"

Black Zetsu gritted his teeth and said, although he knew it was impossible. After all, the little bit of life force that Tatsuma shared was enough to "nullify" the curse marks on other cursed individuals, let alone Tatsuma's own body.

But what if? After all, a doctor cannot heal himself. Chenma's vitality can easily save others, but what if he can't save himself?

Black Zetsu directly transferred his possession to another body. At this moment, the shop owner was covered by White Zetsu, and White Zetsu was covered by Black Zetsu. Black Zetsu controlled the body, raised the strange ritual sword, and stabbed it directly into the heart.

"puff!"

Even under the combined control of White Zetsu and Black Zetsu, the shop owner still couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and his body became swaying, as if he was about to collapse at any moment.

But their eyes—or rather, the eyes of the White Zetsu and Black Zetsu—were fixed on Tatsuma. Tatsuma's eyelids twitched slightly, but otherwise he made no other reaction, even saying in a teasing tone:

"I'm getting a little excited. A few more times, a bit harder, let me experience what it means to have my heart flutter, how about it?"

"hateful."

Black Zetsu stared intently at Tatsuma, but White Zetsu, possessed by him, switched the ritual sword to the other hand, gripped it, and stabbed it several times into the shop owner's heart. The shop owner, who already had only a sliver of life left, was thus extinguished.

The writhing spell seal stopped writhing, and the blood that made up the spell seal slowly seeped into the ground.

"What are you doing?!"

Black Zetsu roared, while White Zetsu, whose other half of his body wasn't under control, scratched his head and said, "Didn't he say to do a few more hits?"

"idiot!"

Black Zetsu was truly feeling desperate at this moment. He had been keeping the shop owner on the brink of death, hoping to have an unexpected impact on Tatsuma.

I don't need to actually hurt Tatsuma, but at least I can buy myself a chance to escape.

But that idiot White Zetsu actually listened to Tatsuma's words and actually stabbed his heart a few more times with the knife. Now, all that magic is useless!

"Don't listen to him, you did a good job."

Tatsuma spoke up for White Zetsu, even giving him a thumbs up. The half of the face controlled by White Zetsu raised its eyebrows and the corners of its mouth upon hearing this, seemingly very happy, which contrasted sharply with the half of the face controlled by Black Zetsu, whose eyebrows, eyes, and mouth were all downturned.

One in white, one in black; one joyful, one angry. If you didn't know who these two were, a sudden glance at them at midnight might really give you a fright.

Black Zetsu was filled with rage, but his body had already gradually detached from White Zetsu, and a portion of it had merged into the ground.

Tatsuma saw it; after all, with his "five eyes" watching over him now, there was almost nothing he couldn't see. But he didn't mind giving Black Zetsu a little hope.

In Tatsuma's view, the methods that Black Zetsu's main body could use were just underhanded tricks that posed no threat whatsoever; at most, they would only disgust people.

Watching someone crash into a wall is actually a very interesting activity. Tatsuma wants to see what will happen when Black Zetsu crashes into the wall that covers the entire Hidden Leaf Village.

Tatsuma even deliberately shifted his gaze to another White Zetsu.

"run!"

At that very moment, Black Zetsu's body abruptly detached from White Zetsu, merging into the ground and fleeing towards the outskirts of Konoha. Tatsuma didn't even give chase immediately, instead taking out two scrolls.

The two White Zetsu were somewhat dazed; without orders, they didn't even know what to do.

Tatsuma landed on the ground, dipped his finger in the blood, and began drawing on the scroll. One of the white Zetsu asked, "Sakamoto Tatsuma, what are you doing?"

"I'm making a container that can seal you away."

"Shouldn't you go after that person?"

Another White Zetsu asked curiously, even squatting down, craning his neck, trying to see exactly what Tatsuma was drawing.

"No rush."

While they were talking, Tatsuma had already completed the sealing formula. He used his fingers to guide the chakra, placing it on the two White Zetsu, and then said, "You should be quite familiar with the feeling of being sealed, right?"

One of them nodded, but before he could ask a question, a huge gravitational force suddenly came from the sealing scroll, pulling the two White Zetsu towards the scroll. The White Zetsu's bodies were even severely deformed, but Tatsuma showed no sympathy.

As the incantation on the scroll emitted a breathing-like light, the two White Zetsu were sealed into the sealing scroll. Tatsuma rolled up the two scrolls, put them in his pocket, and then looked towards the direction of the Black Zetsu on the ground.

At this moment, Black Zetsu was still some distance from the edge of the village. After losing White Zetsu as its vessel, Black Zetsu's speed seemed to have decreased considerably, and it was not as fast as Tatsuma had expected.

Not wanting to waste this brief moment, Tatsuma transformed into a silver shimmering light, and another figure appeared atop the Konoha wall.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, leaning on Enma's staff, looked utterly exasperated. Upon seeing Tatsuma arrive, he even complained slightly, "I only swung my staff once, and you've already sealed off the village."

When Minato saw Tatsuma arrive, he wasn't in the mood for jokes like Hiruzen Sarutobi, and instead asked, "Kyuu-chan, what about her?"

"It's alright now."

Upon hearing Tatsuma's words, Minato completely relaxed. Tatsuma quickly reached out to support him, then frowned and asked, "Why don't you heal yourself first?"

"I forgot."

Feeling the vigorous life force repairing the wounds left by Kurama, Minato scratched his head. Tatsuma shook his head, looked at Kurama, who was now very close and constantly scratching at the sealing barrier, and said:

"It doesn't look like it's being controlled."

"He was simply tricked into escaping, and coupled with his previous injuries, he lost his mind."

Minato explained, and Tatsuma nodded, saying, "Go and bring Kushina over here."

"it is good."

Without asking any further questions, Minato instantly vanished in a golden flash, and Tatsuma's body floated up.

The barrier that isolated the inside from the outside, and remained completely unaffected even by the Nine-Tails' attack, did nothing to stop Tatsuma. Tatsuma instantly floated above the Nine-Tails' head, looked at the utterly destroyed ground resembling a heavy weapons testing ground, and said:

"Truly worthy of being the most powerful tailed beast."

Upon hearing this sound, the Nine-Tailed Fox, which was scratching at the barrier, suddenly raised its head. The sound had truly stirred up the shadows in its heart, and its completely out-of-control emotions had regained a sliver of reason.

"If we let you continue this destruction, Konoha will probably become an aerial fortress. So, you'd better stay obediently inside the Jinchuriki's body!"

The moment he finished speaking, golden light flashed below, and Minato appeared on the uneven ground, carrying Kushina. Before Minato could ask what was next, Tatsuma had already made his move.

The ferocity in Nine-Tails' eyes disappeared, and it seemed to have regained its rationality. It opened its mouth as if to say something.

"Painful Heavenly Kick!"

But Tatsuma's body was enveloped in steam, his chakra surging endlessly, and his kick transformed into a giant axe that smashed directly onto the head of the Nine-Tails, who had just regained consciousness.

The Sage Mode combined with superhuman strength and then superhuman strength, along with the terrifying physique modified by the Divine Tree cells, unleashed a power so terrifying that a vacuum appeared in the air.

"I!"

The Nine-Tails abruptly closed its mouth, which it had just opened. To avoid serious injury, the Nine-Tails had no choice but to change its form, transforming from a mimicking chakra flesh and blood back into chakra.

The entire head began to deform, followed by the upper body, and soon the entire body, along with the nine tails, all of which were kicked back from their simulated flesh and blood state to chakra mode.

But the effect looked like Tatsuma had kicked Kurama into an irregular energy ball.

The Nine-Tails' chakra transformed into an arrow, striking Kushina in the stomach. Kushina, who had been unconscious, suddenly opened her eyes, and a voice, seemingly both Kushina and the Nine-Tails, roared:

"Tatsuma Sakamoto!!!"

"Ding~ [Patience +999], [Constitution +999]."

(End of this chapter)