Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 254 Talking about the Nine-Tailed Fox, Breaking the Defense of the Crane

"Another little bug!"

"I see you!"

"Die, Wind Release: Sky-Refining Bullet!"

Shukaku's piercing screams echoed throughout the entire Sunagakure village as it spat out three chakra blasts that flew towards Li Yao's wind-style clone.

"Wind Release: Wave Slash!"

This time, Li Yao's Wind Release clone reacted even faster. Just as Shukaku's three Wind Release chakra attacks were launched, his three slashing waves arrived.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

As expected, the three slashing waves instantly sliced ​​through Shukaku's three chakra wind bullets, their power undiminished as they continued to strike Shukaku's massive body.

In an instant, Shukaku's two enormous sand arms were severed at the shoulders and shot into the sky. A huge gash was also cut open from his abdomen to his forehead, and sand shot out like blood.

"Ouch...it hurts...it hurts so much!!!"

Shukaku cried out in pain, its huge tail thrashing wildly from side to side, making a "thump thump thump" sound as it hit the ground.

"Unforgivable!"

"How dare you hurt me! Die!"

A pair of large, water-jar-like eyes stared at Li Yaofeng's rapidly approaching clone. Shukaku didn't even bother to reassemble its two severed arms. It tilted its head back, opened its mouth wide, and condensed a Tailed Beast Ball, intending to deliver a humane annihilation to this human insect that had hurt it.

"Oh no, it's a Tailed Beast Ball!"

"Everyone, get out of the way!"

Behind them, Chiyo and Ebizo, the siblings, changed their expressions and quickly told everyone to leave.

However, several people did not leave. They watched the figure rapidly approaching Shukaku, believing that Lord Kazekage would stop Shukaku from using the Tailed Beast Ball.

"Are you all crazy?"

Chiyo, having left the rooftop of the Kazekage Building, saw the juniors who refused to leave and angrily rebuked them.

But by then it was too late for any angry rebukes.

Just as the Tailed Beast Ball in Shukaku's mouth was about to take shape, Li Yao's Wind Release clone arrived, positioned below Shukaku's body, and thrust a palm strike at Shukaku's chin.

"Wind Release - Sky Refining Palm!"

The Void Palm, formed by compressing the chakra of Wind Release Slash, struck Shukaku's chin like a giant fist.

bump!

Instantly, a tremendous force exploded.

"Sprout!"

A sharp scream came from Shukaku's mouth again, as if someone had been punched hard in the chin from below, and its whole body flew straight up.

The Tailed Beast Ball that had just formed in Shukaku's mouth was unconsciously spat out and flew into the sky at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

boom!

A burst of flames erupted, and a new sun appeared in the sky, its intense light illuminating the surroundings.

Boom!

A violent shockwave crashed downwards, and Chiyo and the others quickly took refuge inside the Kazekage Building.

Shukaku, still in mid-air, felt another sharp pain in its stomach. Then, its entire body contracted like a slingshot and was propelled away by a tremendous force.

In mid-air, Li Yaofeng withdrew his fist and looked at Shukaku flying away from the village into the distance. With a thought, he chased after it again.

"Wind Release - Slashing Fist!"

Catching up with Shukaku's flying body, Li Yao's Wind Release clone threw another punch. The wind pressure condensed from the Wind Release slash chakra erupted instantly, hitting Shukaku's stomach.

"A sprout..."

Shukaku let out another sharp scream as its body was once again violently blasted through the air, continuing to move away from Sunagakure.

Bang bang bang!

With three consecutive punches, Shukaku, which was flying in mid-air, never came down, and even when it tried to retaliate, it was interrupted time and time again.

Faced with this human insect, the mighty Shukaku was utterly powerless.

Anger simmered within Shukaku, and violent chakra gathered in its belly. Soon, it would let this little human insect taste the might of its master, Shukaku.

bump!

Boom!

Two kilometers away from the village, Li Yaofeng withdrew his clone, and Shukaku's massive body finally landed, the soft sand churning outwards like seawater.

"Wind Release: Sand Explosion Blade Barrage!"

The instant he landed, Shukaku formed hand seals and opened its blood-red maw, spitting out a large number of wind blades. These wind blades combined with the churning sand to form a series of sand blades, which surged towards Li Yao's wind-escape clone like a torrent of sand blades.

Gazing at the torrent of sand blades rushing towards him from hundreds of meters high, Li Yaofeng's clone raised his right hand, brought the sword together, and slashed downwards.

"Wind Release: Wave Slash!"

Clang!

A sharp slash shot out, instantly cutting through the overwhelming torrent of sand blades, and fell towards Li Yaofeng's clones on both sides.

Boom!

Li Yaofeng's clones, like towering boulders in a raging torrent, forcefully parted Shukaku's sand blade flood.

"This human..." Shukaku stared wide-eyed at how easily its wide-range attack was split apart, and was shocked. But then it burst into maniacal laughter.

"You've fallen for their trap, kid!"

"A grand funeral amidst the sand!"

The torrent of sand blades was just the first wave of attacks; the real killing move was the quicksand beneath Li Yao's wind-escape clone's feet.

As Shukaku roared, an endless sea of ​​sand surged forth, instantly enveloping Li Yaofeng's clone in a mountain-like mass of sand.

"Sand Burial Seal!"

Shukaku threw his hands to the ground, instantly melting away, and the sealing spell runes on his body spread towards the sand mountain.

Once the sealing technique is complete, even if this human brat's wind-style slash is incredibly powerful, it will be useless.

"Yaha!"

"I've sealed you away!"

Just as Shukaku was overjoyed, two sharp slashing waves burst forth from the solidified and compressed sand mountain with a "clang clang".

Li Yaofeng used his clone to leap out and float in front of Shukaku.

"Shukaku".

Li Yaofeng's clone looked at the somewhat bewildered Shukaku, then suddenly remembered something and laughed, "I heard that when the Sage of Six Paths divided the tailed beasts' chakra, he divided it like this: the Nine-Tails took nine out of ten portions, and the remaining portion was for the eight tailed beasts you have left. Moreover, it is said that the fewer tails you have, the less you get."

"Is that so, Shukaku?" Li Yaofeng's clone asked with a smile.

"How do you know about the Sage of Six Paths?"

When Shukaku first heard Li Yaofeng say that he had created a clone, he was startled and wondered how this human knew about the Sage of Six Paths creating them.

Upon hearing Li Yao's Wind Release clone say that the Nine-Tails received the most chakra while Shukaku received the least, Shukaku instantly lost its guard, opened its mouth wide, and unleashed a sharp, angry curse at Li Yao's Wind Release clone.

"What do you know, brat? How could that stinky fox be stronger than me? I am the strongest tailed beast."

"Watch closely, this is my true power!"

Enraged, Shukaku let out a long howl and leaped high backward, widening the distance between itself and Li Yao's wind-escape clone.

Then this guy started to mobilize a large amount of chakra within his body to condense a Tailed Beast Ball.

It may be inferior to anyone else, but it is absolutely impossible for it to be inferior to that stinky fox.

This human brat actually said that its strength was inferior to that stinky fox. Everyone else could tolerate it, but Grandpa Shukaku absolutely could not.

It wanted to show this little human brat what destruction truly meant.

hiss!

"Uh... huh?"

Shukaku suddenly felt a chill on its neck, and its vision began to slide downwards. The large amount of chakra it had gathered in its body suddenly went offline, leaving it momentarily stunned and unable to react to what was happening.

Li Yao's Wind Release clone retracted his outstretched right hand, quietly watching Shukaku fall headfirst, and asked curiously, "I wonder if a chakra being like Shukaku will die after its head is severed?"

The arm that had been severed from Shukaku's body had reformed, and the wounds on its body that had been cut open had been completely filled with sand.

It appears that Shukaku possesses the characteristics of an energy life form, and is elementalized.

However, other tailed beasts, such as the Nine-Tails and the Eight-Tails, have very obvious flesh and blood characteristics.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku once ate the flesh and blood of the Nine-Tails inside its belly and gained control of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Orochimaru also cultivated an Eight-Tailed Ox Horn using the powder cells scraped from its horn.

All of this demonstrates that although the Tailed Beasts are chakra beings, they also possess biological tissue structures such as flesh and blood cells.

Any living being with flesh and blood would likely suffer severe damage if its head were cut off.

"Uh...it seems not!"

"Or rather... Shukaku is special."

Li Yaofeng, using his clone to create a clone, gazed at the dense incantations covering Shukaku's body and began to have a vague guess in his mind.

In the distance, after Shukaku's fallen head turned into sand, a new head reappeared on its neck.

(End of this chapter)