Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Under Kirito's control, the Thunder God Puppet once again proved its worth.

"Ah!!! I'm going to kill you."

Shukaku's neck was slashed again, and it immediately forgot about causing trouble for Kirito, focusing all its hatred on the Thunder God Puppet.

Huge air cannonballs shot out from its mouth, continuously attacking the Thor puppet.

The Thor puppet was covered in purple lightning, using the Thunder Strike Secret Technique to maximize its speed, and then it kept dodging and weaving around Shukaku.

Taking advantage of using the Thunder God Puppet to distract Shukaku, Kirito bit his right index finger, smeared the blood on his left palm, quickly formed hand seals, condensed a massive amount of chakra, and slammed his hand onto the ground.

A complex psychic spell instantly spread out on the ground.

Spiritual communication!

With a loud "bang!"

A huge plume of thick smoke appeared.

A gigantic ninja cat, no smaller than Shukaku, appeared.

This giant ninja cat has orange fur. It is very fat, with a round belly that droops to the ground. It stands upright like a human, carrying a huge ninja sword on its back and holding a huge pipe in its hand.

As soon as the giant ninja cat appeared, Shukaku's attention was immediately drawn to it, and he stared at the huge creature in front of him with a serious expression.

"Hmm~, this time it wasn't someone from the Uchiha clan that was summoned. Human, what's your name?"

The giant ninja cat showed no fear upon seeing Shukaku. Instead, it leisurely took a puff of its cigarette and then spoke to Kirito, who was standing on its forehead.

"Lord Tachibana, my name is Kirito Tohsaka. I apologize for the intrusion in summoning you. Please help me suppress this big guy for now. Once it's done, I will definitely prepare a generous gift for you."

Upon hearing this, Kirito replied politely.

Orange Flame is a very rare super-sized ninja cat among the ninja cat clan. It is also the leader and strongest ninja cat of the clan.

In order to successfully summon him, Kirito had just consumed the chakra of an elite Jonin.

Normally, just summoning it would consume 90% of Kirito's chakra.

However, it was all worth it. Kirito could clearly sense that Tachibana's body contained a huge amount of chakra, which was close to the level of a tailed beast. It must be quite powerful and should be a good helper to help him deal with Shukaku.

"So you're Kirito Tohsaka. That brat Tom always talks about you. You're pretty strong. Alright, since you're so polite and generous, I'll teach this tanuki a lesson for you today."

Upon hearing Kirito's explanation, Tachibana nodded.

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

As soon as Tachibana finished speaking, Shukaku, who was opposite him, shouted angrily.

A huge air cannonball was released from its mouth.

Wind Release: Sky Bullet Training!

Faced with Shukaku's unsportsmanlike sneak attack, Tachibana's eyes suddenly sharpened. He didn't move, but his long tail with a metal ring at the end lashed out like lightning, sweeping away the incoming air cannon.

At the same time, a purple katana flew through the air; it was Raimu, which landed steadily in Kirito's hand.

The next moment, as a powerful surge of Storm Release chakra erupted from Kirito, a massive bolt of purple lightning shot out from the Raimon he held in his hand, soaring into the sky, and a huge dark cloud quickly appeared.

"Boom!"

With a burst of lightning and thunder, a large amount of purple lightning fell from the dark clouds, landing on the ground around Shukaku and Tachibana.

Black iron filings began to emerge from the ground.

"Damn human, you can even use Magnet Release."

Shukaku roared as it watched a large amount of iron sand emerge from the ground, and then tried to use the same trick to sneak up on Kirito with the Air Bullet.

But the attack from the orange flames had already begun.

Despite his large size, Tachibana was exceptionally agile, appearing on Shukaku's left side in the blink of an eye and drawing his ninja sword from his back, aiming it fiercely at Shukaku's neck.

Having been slashed in the neck three times, Shukaku had long since developed a conditioned reflex, quickly retracting its head into its body to narrowly avoid Tachibana's ninja sword attack. Then, it lashed out at Tachibana with its tail, while its sharp claws also scratched at Tachibana's round belly.

In response, Tachibana neither dodged nor avoided the attacks, allowing Shukaku's tail and claws to strike him.

To Shukaku's astonishment, his tail lashed at Cimaropi as if it were hitting a water balloon, instantly dissipating ninety percent of its force. Moreover, Cimaropi's seemingly soft belly was actually as hard as steel, and Shukaku's claws only managed to leave a few shallow bloody scratches on it.

"It's my turn again."

Seeing the shocked expression on Shukaku's face, Tachibana sneered and suddenly plunged her knife into Shukaku's stomach.

Unlike Shukaku, he wielded a ninja sword infused with a large amount of chakra metal, easily breaking through Shukaku's body defenses and plunging it deep inside.

With his abdomen pierced, Shukaku couldn't help but let out a scream. His head quickly emerged from his neck, and he then planned to fire a training bullet at Tachibana at close range, while attempting to manipulate a large amount of sand to control Tachibana.

But before he could release his training bullet, a huge purple lightning blade appeared before him.

"Boom!"

The thunder roared in its mind.

Then, Shukaku found that his vision began to spin, and then he saw his own headless body.

Its head was cut off again.

As his head slammed to the ground again, a surge of violent emotion welled up in Shukaku's heart, and he decided to detonate his head once more.

However, it failed to self-destruct as it had hoped this time, and was horrified to discover that its chakra was out of control.

Before anyone knew it, the Thunder God puppet had appeared behind Shukaku's head, and a golden sealing talisman had been affixed to the back of Shukaku's head.

A sealing technique emanating a large amount of Sage Chakra fluctuations emerged from this sealing talisman, then quickly covered Shukaku's entire head, tightly imprisoning the chakra within its head and preventing it from mobilizing it.

A blue chakra beam shot out from the Thunder God Puppet's body and pierced into Shukaku's head. A large amount of Shukaku's chakra surged into the Thunder God Puppet's body and was then quickly transported to Kirito's body through chakra threads.

"The same trick won't work on me."

At that moment, Kirito's voice appeared in Shukaku's mind, filled with resentment.

"You wretched humans, you will never take me away from Fenfu."

Shukaku roared angrily.

Unfortunately, it can only rage helplessly now and is completely unable to stop Kirito from stealing its chakra.

On the other side, under Kirito's control, a large amount of iron sand trapped Shukaku's headless body, forming a black pyramid without a spire. The surface of the pyramid was also covered with a large number of sealing spells, which tightly imprisoned Shukaku's body inside the pyramid, making it unable to move.

Soon, Kirito absorbed all the chakra from Shukaku's head into the newly opened Yin Seal Chakra pool within his body.

As soon as Shukaku's head disappeared, a new head began to grow back in Shukaku's headless body, but the moment it grew back, a blue chakra chain pierced its forehead.

A large amount of chakra was once again transferred from Shukaku's body to Kirito's body.

"Shukaku, you should find a new place to live. By the way, if you don't want the monk inside you to die, you'd better listen to me."

Kirito stood atop Tachibana's head, looking down at Shukaku, who was trapped inside the iron sand pyramid, and said coldly.

Chapter 193: The One-Tailed Jinchuriki: Kirito Tohsaka

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

Upon hearing Kirito's threat, Shukaku immediately glared at Kirito with eyes full of anger, roared, and then decisively used Wind Release: Sky Bullet to shatter the shameful thief who had stolen his chakra.

However, he was still unable to mobilize the chakra within his body this time.

The chakra chain piercing its head possessed extremely strong binding power, and unlike the previous chakra chains that bound it, it was surprisingly difficult to be corrupted by its chakra containing the ability to break seals.

"It's no use. You're now a raccoon that's fallen into my trap. You have no choice but to surrender."

Kirito, seeing that Shukaku wouldn't listen to his advice and was still trying to struggle, sneered.

The chakra chain piercing Shukaku's brow was created by his sealing technique, Adamantine Sealing Technique, using Sage Chakra. It was an ultra-enhanced version, and with the strength of Sage Chakra, it could even suppress the chakra of a Tailed Beast.

Therefore, Shukaku is destined to have no chance of escaping from Kirito this time.

Actually, it's all thanks to Shukaku's self-destruction just now. Otherwise, its sudden self-destruction would have scared the people of Konoha and Sunagakure so much that they wouldn't dare to get too close to the battlefield between him and Shukaku, and Kirito wouldn't dare to use Sage Chakra to fight.

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

When Shukaku heard Kirito call it a tanuki again, it instinctively retorted and corrected him.

Kirito wasn't interested in whether Shukaku was a tanuki or a raccoon dog. Since Shukaku still intended to refuse a toast and then make him drink a penalty cup, he didn't intend to waste any more words with Shukaku. He suddenly opened his Blood Dragon Eyes and then used an illusion on Shukaku.

Immortal Technique: Blood Dragon Eye - Illusion!

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

The Blood Dragon Eye is not the Sharingan, a bloodline limit of the Otsutsuki clan. The genjutsu it releases is not as effective as that of a ninja against a tailed beast like Shukaku, which has a huge amount of chakra. Moreover, Shukaku can easily break free by disrupting the chakra within its body.

However, Shukaku's chakra was sealed by Sage Art: Sealing Technique: Vajra Lock, preventing him from mobilizing his chakra to break the genjutsu. So, breaking free from the Blood Dragon Eye's genjutsu was another matter entirely.

After Kirito successfully used the Blood Dragon Eye Genjutsu to control Shukaku, he was immediately greeted by a long-awaited tranquility, and the process of plundering Shukaku's chakra became increasingly smooth.

At this moment, a large amount of Shukaku's chakra was continuously flowing from Shukaku's body into Kirito's Yin Seal Chakra pool, and Shukaku's huge body, which was tens of meters tall, began to shrink rapidly.

Tachibana watched quietly as Kirito subdued Shukaku and then stole Shukaku's chakra, but his mind wasn't on Kirito subduing Shukaku or stealing Shukaku's chakra; instead, it was on the blue chakra chain.

His huge cat-like eyes stared at the chakra chain, revealing a deep longing. He thought to himself, "Although the chakra fluctuations emanating from this chakra chain are weak, I have a feeling that this is the Sage Chakra that those stinky toads of Mount Myōboku often show off."

Sensing natural energy, then fusing chakra with it to create Sage Chakra, and ultimately cultivating to become a Sage—this is the ultimate dream of countless ninja beasts in the ninja beast world.

But after all these years, only the ninja beasts of the three holy lands have been able to cultivate and become immortals.

Ju Huo is considered one of the strongest ninja beasts in the world. Even among the ninja beasts of the three great holy lands, there are not many who can defeat him.

However, compared to his old rivals in the three holy lands, his strength is rapidly declining. The reason for this is that he failed to successfully cultivate Sage Chakra, his lifespan is starting to decline, and he is unable to maintain his physical functions at their peak.

In fact, he has already been able to sense natural energy and has successfully absorbed it into his body; otherwise, his size would not have become so large.

Unfortunately, he has never succeeded in fusing chakra with natural energy, mainly because he has never had the courage to try.

After all, without the guidance of a true sage, ninja beasts that rashly fuse chakra and natural energy generally do not fare well.

"This kid can use Sage Chakra to unleash ninjutsu in battle even without entering Sage Mode. He must have an exceptionally high level of mastery over Sage Chakra. If I could get his guidance and learn to create Sage Chakra, I might be able to break through the limitations of lifespan and return to my peak strength."

Orange Fire thought to himself with burning passion, his mind starting to consider how to get Kirito to teach him how to create Sage Chakra.

Meanwhile, five or six kilometers southwest of the battlefield between Kirito and Shukaku, a battle between Kage-level opponents was taking place, between Orochimaru and Ebizo.

Orochimaru is a newly recruited Kage-level shinobi, while Ebizo is a veteran Kage-level shinobi.

Logically speaking, Ebizo, who was proficient in puppetry, should have been able to overpower Orochimaru, since Orochimaru's secret techniques were basically ineffective against inanimate puppets. Therefore, on the battlefield, Orochimaru was always being suppressed by Ebizo.

Now the situation is reversed.