"That is the Flying Thunder God Technique!" Shikamaru was the first to react, his voice filled with irrepressible surprise.
In the center of the battlefield, Eight-Tails' massive body faltered for a moment due to the sudden lateral explosion.
Bee, in his Tailed Beast Mode, glared at the direction where the mushroom cloud was rising, and after a long while, he squeezed a sentence through his teeth. "Damn it, was the Tailed Beast Ball transferred?"
"I hate space-time Ninjutsu, fool, you fool!"
Just then, a flash of golden light flickered in front of Eight-Tails's head. Immediately after, Naruto appeared, hovering there.
He looked down at Eight-Tails' two eyes, which were larger than he was, his face calm. "It seems this is your full power."
"Fool, you fool!"
Bee was thoroughly enraged by Naruto's condescending gaze.
Eight-Tails' mouth opened. Soon, a destructive torrent of energy erupted from its mouth.
"As expected of a perfect Jinchuriki. This kind of power would be a trump card in any Ninja village."
Naruto's figure vanished in mid-air. The energy beam passed through the afterimage he left behind, slamming straight into the ground behind him.
Rumble!
A charred trench, hundreds of meters long, extended from the center of the battlefield all the way to the foot of the distant mountain. Everything along the way was evaporated, leaving behind only the smoking, lava-like ground.
After the energy beam dissipated, Bee stared wide-eyed at the empty air. "Is he dead?"
Just then, a flash of golden light appeared in the higher sky in front of him. Naruto's figure reappeared out of thin air, still looking down at him.
"You bastard!"
In a fit of rage, Bee swung Eight-Tails' arm toward Naruto. Naruto's figure flickered in the golden light, dodging the punch.
Bee refused to give up. The eight tails behind him closed in on Naruto from different angles simultaneously. Naruto's figure sped through the net of death woven by the eight tentacles. His movement trajectory was beyond the limit of what the naked eye could track, one could only see a golden light traveling freely through the gaps between the tentacles.
Raising his right hand, he pressed his index and middle fingers together, and a white beam shot from his fingertips, hitting one tentacle. The tentacle was pierced by the high-temperature beam, leaving a charred hole.
Bee felt the pain, and the tentacle instinctively retracted. Naruto seized the opportunity to accelerate, rushing straight out of the gap.
Light Speed Kick!
He kicked against the side of Eight-Tails' face.
Immediately after, his right foot lit up with blinding white light again. His figure cut a sharp arc in the air, and the Light Speed Kick slammed into the base of one of Eight-Tails' tentacles again.
The force of this kick was so great that it shoved the tentacle, along with Eight-Tails' massive body, several meters to the side.
Naruto swung his hands repeatedly, and beams poured down from his fingertips like a rainstorm, each one hitting Eight-Tails' body and exploding in succession.
Eight-Tails swung its tentacles in an attempt to counterattack, but Naruto used another Light Speed Kick to kick the incoming tentacle away, then pulled his body higher to avoid a sneak attack from the side, backhanding a few more beams into Eight-Tails' shoulder.
On the periphery of the battlefield, everyone watching subconsciously held their breath.
The Kumo Ninjas looked up at the distant Eight-Tails and the golden light flashing at high speed around it. Several ninjas' legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
On the Konoha side, everyone's eyes were wide open.
The battlefield in front of them had been altered. The earth was cracked with countless fissures and the ground was covered in charred craters.
Shikamaru's lips felt dry. "Isn't this basically gods fighting? This is completely beyond the scope of Ninja combat."
An opponent of Eight-Tails' level, with its massive size, thick defense, and rapid recovery, was simply a perfect moving target. Naruto kept using Light Speed Kick on it. He even unleashed Yasaka Magatama several times, smashing it toward Eight-Tails.
Just when Naruto was having fun, he suddenly felt an unusual pulsation deep within his eyes. This feeling was like something was tapping lightly inside his eyeballs, wanting to break out of its shell.
He immediately realized that his Mangekyo Dōjutsu had finished brewing.
At the very moment he was distracted, Eight-Tails smashed down toward him. Naruto reacted extremely quickly and met the tentacle head-on with a Light Speed Kick, forcing it back.
Taking advantage of the reaction force from this kick, he flipped backward to open up distance and waved his right hand. Ten Shadow Clones appeared in mid-air, each shrouded in golden light. They simultaneously transformed into ten streaks of golden light, shooting toward Eight-Tails from different directions.
Naruto activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, vanishing from the battlefield and appearing on a tree in the distance where a kunai was embedded.
He raised his hand to touch his eyes, gathering Chakra within them. His pupils turned scarlet and three tomoe emerged, rotating and fusing at an extremely high speed. Finally, a Mangekyo Sharingan with a hollow ring and six serrated blades extending from the outside of the ring appeared.
Two streams of Dōjutsu information flooded into his mind.
Left Eye: Amenotokotachi!
It can strengthen a bloodline ability one possesses once, raising the target ability by one level.
Right Eye: Kamimusubi!
It can devour eyes of the same level, turning their ocular power and dojutsu into one's own, while simultaneously strengthening one's own Mangekyo.
Furthermore, there is the third power that comes standard with the Mangekyo: Susanoo.
Naruto quickly went over the effects of these two dōjutsu in his mind.
The right eye's Kamimusubi was quite good. Devouring eyes of the same level to acquire the opponent's abilities fit his overall growth path perfectly.
The left eye's Amenotokotachi was quite good but it had a limitation. It could only strengthen a bloodline ability once.
Just as he was preparing to deactivate his Mangekyo and return to the battlefield to end the fight, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, causing him to pause.
'Wait, isn't the Mangekyo a Kekkei Genkai?'
'The Mangekyo Sharingan is an advanced form of the Sharingan, so it naturally belongs to the Kekkei Genkai category.'
'Doesn't that mean I can use Amenotokotachi to strengthen Amenotokotachi?'
Naruto's eyes lit up. 'Should I try it?'
He immediately mobilized the ocular power of his left eye, locking onto his left eye with Amenotokotachi.
The Mangekyo began to spin frantically at an unprecedented speed, the jagged blades stretched into a blurry ring of light on the scarlet iris.
Crack!
A faint sound of shattering came from the depths of his left eye.
'Damn, did I break it?'
Naruto's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly used Absolute Control to scan the condition of his left eye. Fortunately, the eye was fine, and the ocular power was not damaged.
The shattering sound just now wasn't the eye breaking, but the restriction of Amenotokotachi being broken. Immediately after, new information about the dōjutsu flooded into his mind.
Naruto closed his eyes to sense it for a moment, then opened them, the curve of his lips impossible to suppress.
Good news, the bug was successfully exploited.
Bad news, it could only be exploited once.
After Amenotokotachi was strengthened, the number of uses remained once, but the original restriction of only strengthening bloodline ability was broken. Now, it could not only strengthen his own bloodline abilities but also strengthen Ninjutsu he had already learned.
Furthermore, the depth of the strengthening had also increased. It was no longer a simple enhancement, but could push the target to achieve a breakthrough, causing a qualitative change.
Naruto raised his right hand, a Rasenshuriken forming in his palm at an extremely fast speed.
He locked the strengthened Amenotokotachi onto the Rasenshuriken in his palm.
Amenotokotachi!
The next second, the Rasenshuriken began to change drastically. The color of the pale green wind blades deepened rapidly, turning from green to dark green, and then from dark green to a pure black. The sharp humming of the cutting disappeared completely in that instant, replaced by absolute silence.
The center of the Rasenshuriken condensed into a pure black sphere, so black that it reflected no light, as if even light was being sucked into it.
The original wind blades were rearranged by the distorted spatial gravity around the black sphere into a ring of black light resembling a planetary ring, quietly orbiting the black sphere and rotating slowly.
Black Hole: Rasenshuriken!
Naruto looked at this brand-new Ninjutsu in his palm, the corners of his lips curving.
After Wind Release: Rasenshuriken was strengthened by Amenotokotachi to achieve a breakthrough, it had become an entirely new Ninjutsu.
Naruto held this Black Hole: Rasenshuriken in his palm, feeling the unsettling spatial fluctuations coming from its core.
He looked at Eight-Tails in the distance, which was being continuously harassed by ten golden Shadow Clones. The Shadow Clones were weaving between Eight-Tails' tentacles, occasionally leaving a scorch mark on the Eight-Tails with beams. Eight-Tails was furious, its tentacles flailing wildly, unable to catch a single one.
"Well then, let's test the power of this new move."
Flying Thunder God Technique!
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