Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Shukaku has come out, and the people of Sunagakure must be frantic. If Nawaki were to go there now, he's sure Ebizo would very likely take action against Nawaki and then use him to threaten Kirito. The Dark Lord of Sunagakure must know the relationship between Nawaki and Kirito.

Compared to Kirito, Nawaki is undoubtedly much easier to deal with.

"Hmph, I'll definitely make you look at me in a new light in the future."

Nawaki blushed when Sakumo Hatake said that, and retorted defiantly.

However, he ultimately followed Sakumo Hatake's advice and voluntarily entered the sealing barrier, offering up the Chatona within his body to Kirito.

After Nawaki entered the sealing barrier, Chizuru looked at Hatake Sakumo, who replied simply, "Be careful."

The next moment, Chizuru used the Lightning Strike Secret Technique to quickly catch up with the Konoha ninja ahead.

……

Shukaku had probably been locked up for too long, because as soon as it was released, it had no intention of seriously fighting Kirito, but instead ran around happily on the ground.

Although it is large and looks fat and bulky, it is a nimble fat creature with an astonishingly fast movement speed.

Before long, he ran out of the forest, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.

Ebizo watched Shukaku walk away, growing increasingly anxious, because Shukaku was heading towards the Land of Fire, not the Land of Wind.

"This is troublesome. If it runs to the Land of Fire, the people of Konoha will definitely not let it go. Even if Bunpuku wakes up, Shukaku will fall into Konoha's hands. This idiot, does it think that it won't be caught by humans again if it doesn't run back to the desert of the Land of Wind?"

Ebizo cursed under his breath as he watched the distance between himself and Shukaku grow ever greater.

At the same time, he began to feel dizzy, and the aftereffects of excessive blood loss gradually appeared. If he did not stop the bleeding and treat his wounds quickly, even if he was in good physical condition, he would die from excessive blood loss.

With no other option, Ebizo had to temporarily stop to treat his injured left arm, and then swallow a special soldier's ration pill that he had purchased at a high price from the Higanbana Pharmaceutical Company in order to heal his wound and quickly replenish his depleted chakra.

"Lord Ebizo."

A moment later, Ebizo quickly finished bandaging himself to stop the bleeding and was about to continue chasing Shukaku when a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

The reinforcements from the Sand Village battlefield headquarters have finally arrived.

Upon hearing the sound, Ebizo immediately stopped and said to the first Sand Village Jonin who arrived, "Send a signal immediately to notify headquarters to mobilize more people, and also notify the village to request reinforcements. We absolutely cannot let Shukaku escape our control."

The Sand Village Jonin understood Ebizo's meaning; he had seen Shukaku long ago, and having received Ebizo's instructions, he immediately replied, "Ha~"

At the same time, Kirito was controlling the Thunder God Puppet to constantly dodge attacks from Shukaku.

Shukaku was born with the power of Magnet Release, but his Magnet Release does not control iron sand and gold dust. It is simply sand. Under the terrifying effect of chakra, a large amount of sand continuously emerges from the ground and forms a huge sand wave that rushes in all directions.

Faced with Shukaku's unreasonable, wide-range attacks, Kirito naturally couldn't be as foolish as an ordinary ninja and simply move quickly on the ground to dodge.

He also used Magnet Release to fight at this moment.

Under his control, a disc formed of iron sand dragged him and the Thor puppet through the air at high speed, closely following behind Chizuru.

"Damn humans, stop following me."

Shukaku, annoyed that Kirito, whom he considered like an insect, was constantly haunting him, shouted in frustration.

As it spoke, an air projectile formed from high-density chakra suddenly shot out from its mouth.

Wind Release: Sky Bullet Training!

When Shukaku reaches its full form, it unleashes Wind Release: Sky Bullet, a hurricane-like storm that blows countless rocks and trees into the air, where they are amplified by the wind and launched at Kirito, the tiny enemy.

In addition, a giant air cannon hidden in the gale was also fired at high speed toward Kirito.

Faced with Shukaku's terrifying attack, Kirito naturally did not intend to confront it head-on and tried to dodge. However, the attack range of the air cannon was too large, and he and the Thunder God Puppet were ultimately unable to dodge in time and were directly blasted into pieces by the air cannon.

"Hahaha~, finally we've eliminated this bug."

Shukaku laughed heartily upon seeing that he had successfully ambushed and destroyed Kirito and the Thunder God Puppet.

It has been dealing with humans for so long, and although it has always been sealed away by humans, it has learned a lot from them, such as ninjutsu and the cunning and treachery of humans. The sneak attack just now was something it learned from a human who had once sealed it away.

It's easy to catch someone off guard when they suddenly attack from their mouth while speaking.

"I didn't expect such a big guy like you to know how to launch a sneak attack."

A cold voice suddenly appeared in Shukaku's mind. The voice was so loud that it made Shukaku's head buzz, and its laughter stopped abruptly.

The next moment, he discovered that his chakra was imprisoned and could not be easily mobilized as usual.

It looked down and immediately saw several huge blue chakra chains binding its body.

It looked towards the source of these chakra chains and saw the human brat it had just destroyed emerge unharmed from the ground.

In an instant, it understood what was going on. This despicable human had just deceived it. What it had just destroyed was merely a clone created by that human using some kind of ninjutsu, intended to lull it into a false sense of security.

"You little bug, you think you can trap me like this? I'm not afraid of sealing techniques at all."

After realizing he had been tricked, Shukaku shouted angrily and struggled desperately.

As Shukaku struggled, Kirito immediately felt immense pressure. He discovered that the chakra on his chakra chains was being rapidly eroded by Shukaku's chakra, and the sealing power was rapidly dissipating.

"In terms of chakra reserves, Shukaku is no match for Kurama, but in terms of sealing difficulty, it might be much more troublesome than Kurama."

Kirito frowned as he thought to himself.

As expected, the modified sealing technique, Adamantine Lock, alone could not easily seal the tailed beast; it was necessary to inflict sufficient damage upon it.

The next moment, a huge purple chakra slash appeared, slashing hard at Shukaku's neck and cutting deep into it. The slash was covered with purple lightning, leaving the wound charred black.

"what!!!"

Shukaku, whose neck was nearly severed, let out a huge scream, and its struggles weakened considerably in an instant.

Tailed beasts have incredibly powerful regenerative abilities. They are aggregates of chakra, and as long as there is chakra, their injuries can heal quickly.

But before Shukaku could use chakra to quickly heal the wound on its neck, another huge purple chakra slash appeared, landing precisely on the wound on its neck.

This time, Shukaku's head was finally severed completely.

The enormous head landed heavily on the ground.

At the tip of a large tree not far away, the Thunder God Puppet held the Thunder Ball, which had now returned to its original state, and stared coldly at Shukaku in front of it.

As a massive surge of chakra flowed into its body along the chakra lines once more, the Raimu in its hand transformed into a gigantic purple lightning blade once more.

After losing its head, Shukaku's massive body did not die like a real, flesh-and-blood creature; instead, it continued to struggle, and the struggle became even stronger.

"Damn humans, once I reattach my head, I will crush your body alive with sand."

Shukaku's head stared intently at Kirito, revealing deep hatred.

It used to just dislike Kirito, but the pain of being beheaded made it hate Kirito completely.

It is indeed a chakra being, but after becoming a being with a soul and a body, having its head cut off would still be extremely painful.

This is the first time in all its years that its head has been chopped off while it's still alive.

"I hope that day never comes."

Upon hearing Shukaku's deafening threat, Kirito smiled slightly, his eyes gradually revealing a look that sent chills down Shukaku's spine.

What do you want to do?

Shukaku felt extremely uncomfortable under Kirito's gaze and cried out.

The next second, it knew what Kirito was going to do. A chakra chain suddenly shot out from Kirito's stomach and easily pierced its head.

In an instant, Shukaku was horrified to discover that his chakra was rapidly draining away.

Kirito's chakra was increasing at an astonishing rate. A crimson chakra surged into his body, which was Shukaku's tailed beast chakra. This chakra was incredibly vast, yet filled with deep darkness.

An ordinary person who comes into contact with the dark emotions within this chakra might go insane instantly.

While the chakra of the tailed beasts is powerful, it is clearly not a force that can be easily controlled.

However, for Kirito, who tortures his soul every day with Soul Poison Pills to enhance his soul power, the deep darkness in Shukaku's chakra cannot affect his iron will. He quickly stores a large amount of Shukaku's chakra into the Yin Seal Chakra pool that has been built in his abdomen.

He had been tolerating Shukaku's carefree running around and hadn't attacked it yet, which was actually because he was secretly using sealing talismans to create a pool of chakra that could contain the One-Tailed Beast.

In just a few seconds, Shukaku's originally enormous head shrank several sizes.

Kirito, sensing the chakra he had stolen from Shukaku's head, noticed the chakra liquid in the chakra pool rising rapidly and exclaimed in amazement, "What a massive amount of chakra! Just one head contains the chakra of at least dozens of elite ninjas. And this is only the One-Tailed Beast! I wonder how terrifying the Nine-Tailed Beast's chakra will be."

"Human, you will not succeed."

Shukaku, realizing that Kirito's true purpose was to seal it into his own body, let out a hysterical roar.

An aura of destruction instantly emanated from Shukaku's head, and then suddenly exploded.

"Bang!!!"

A massive explosion suddenly occurred, affecting an area spanning several kilometers.

A huge crater appeared afterward.

In the steaming crater, apart from Shukaku's massive body and the area behind it, everything else was scorched to dust by the sudden explosion.

After Shukaku detonated its own head, a massive surge of red chakra erupted from the neck of its enormous headless body, rapidly forming a new head. During the process, its massive body shrank slightly.

"Foolish human, do you think my chakra is so easily stolen? I'd rather detonate it than let you get away with it."

After Shukaku completed its head regeneration, it looked at Kirito, who had been blown to pieces, and said with satisfaction.

But its smugness lasted less than half a second before Kirito's voice appeared in its ear again: "It seems that dismembering you and then absorbing you won't be an easy task."

The sound came from behind it. It turned around and saw Kirito standing in front of it again, completely unharmed.

Kirito has mastered the Lightning Transformation Technique, so a mere chakra explosion could not possibly harm him.

At the moment of the explosion, Kirito used his Lightning Transformation Technique to avoid it.

As he spoke, Kirito glanced into the distance and thought to himself, "Sorry, I didn't know it would suddenly explode."

While he was fighting Shukaku, the ninjas from Sunagakure and Konoha also quietly met up and started fighting each other. The battlefield was not far from where he was fighting Shukaku, and some Jonin also sneaked over.

However, Shukaku suddenly detonated his own head, showing a lack of martial ethics.

Both Sunagakure and Konoha suffered heavy losses, especially Sunagakure, which had more people than Konoha at the time, so more of them sneaked over.

As a result, Shukaku killed all the Sand Ninja who were, in some ways, his allies with an explosion.

Among those who sneaked over were Orochimaru and Ebizo.

Unfortunately, both of them were cunning and had an exceptionally keen sense of death. They had many ways to save their lives, and they would run away as soon as they sensed danger. In the end, they survived at a great cost.

Seeing Kirito still lively and energetic, Shukaku's mood instantly turned from sunny to gloomy. Sure enough, it launched another sneak attack, slapping Kirito down with its paw without saying a word. A huge palm print instantly appeared on the ground, but Kirito had already used his Lightning Transformation Technique to dodge it.

At the same time, a massive purple chakra slash struck Shukaku's neck once again, causing Shukaku to let out another painful scream.