"What terrifying force! I was careless!"
The intense wind pressure squeezed his chest as Killer Bee quickly regained his senses while flying backward.
The severe numbness and the dull, bone-cracking pain from his arms were an unmistakable warning.
In this human form, let alone counterattacking, he couldn't even mount an effective resistance; the opponent was a formidable enemy capable of crushing his normal state!
Thoughts flashed by in an instant; life and death hung in a single breath!
Just as his backward momentum was about to slam him into a distant mountain wall, the Chakra on Killer Bee's body suddenly surged out of control!
"Roar—!"
A thunderous roar, filled with bestial rage that shook the mountain forest, replaced all other sounds!
Crimson Chakra, thick with the scent of destruction, erupted toward the sky like a volcanic explosion!
The dense, red Tailed Beast Chakra rapidly covered and expanded, its form changing at high speed. Several massive, dark-red tentacles containing peerless strength suddenly thrust out from the red light, plunging into the solid earth like giant anchors!
Screeech—!!!
Accompanied by a piercing tearing sound, that terrifying kinetic energy capable of shattering mountain rocks was actually neutralized and forcibly halted by these massive tentacles buried deep in the ground!
Dust and broken earth exploded into the sky, only to be pushed aside by the violently expanding waves of crimson Chakra!
As the dust settled slightly, the massive, hideous figure of a giant beast, radiating primal pressure, stood tall. Its giant eyes locked onto the small but immensely threatening figure in front of it.
Eight-Tails, in its full form, made its grand entrance!
Facing the threat posed by the Collector, Killer Bee had actually skipped the partial Tailed Beast transformation process and directly completed the full Tailed Beast transformation!
The weight of the entire battlefield instantly escalated, and a heavy pressure swept in all directions.
The Collector's solemn gaze focused on the fully transformed Eight-Tails.
At this moment, the pressure brought by that massive body formed a sharp contrast with Killer Bee's incessant rapping, making this originally terrifying Tailed Beast seem unusually "quiet" and pleasant to the eye.
However, the Eight-Tails was by no means ordinary. Every cell in the Collector's body was tense, knowing well that this battle allowed for no negligence.
"Oh~ Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes!" Killer Bee's strange shout pierced the stagnant air.
The Eight-Tails, as massive as a mountain range, suddenly moved. Its giant fist, carrying destructive wind pressure, smashed toward the small collector on the ground like a falling meteorite.
Even before the fist arrived, the violent airflow it kicked up made it difficult to breathe.
Faced with this overwhelming crushing power, the Collector moved forward instead of retreating!
The majestic Chakra within his body erupted like a volcano, instantly condensing behind him as a pair of Chakra wings made of pure energy suddenly unfurled!
"Kujaku Myōhō: Wing!"
He gathered strength in his feet, his soles sinking deep into the earth as the ground cracked inch by inch.
In the next moment, with a loud "Boom," the ground beneath him violently exploded. His figure turned into a golden meteor, soaring into the sky against the odds at a speed exceeding the limit of the naked eye!
The tiny figure boldly swung his fist to meet the giant fist that was larger than his entire body!
BOOM!!!
At the center of the collision between the fists, time seemed to freeze for a moment!
Unimaginable violent power exploded at the point of impact, causing weird ripples of vibration to appear in the surrounding space!
For an instant, the massive Eight-Tails and the tiny collector seemed pinned in mid-air by an invisible force.
A split second later, the accumulated terrifying power was released without reservation!
CRACK!!!
With the Eight-Tails' feet as the center, the earth for dozens of yards around shattered, collapsed, and—
was upturned like fragile glass!
A visible white shockwave swept out frantically in a circle in all directions, pulverizing everything on the ground. Grass, trees, and stones were instantly torn to shreds by the gale and blasted into the distance!
The aftershock of this single punch was enough to move mountains and fill seas!
Having tasted the bitterness of clashing with such disproportionate strength, the Collector's arm went numb, and his blood churned as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer, a hint of sweetness rising in his throat.
As expected, it was still too much to use his current flesh-and-blood body to resist the natural disaster-level brute force of the Eight-Tails!
The Eight-Tails' strength was far greater than that of the Two-Tails!
He forcibly suppressed his surging internal breath, while the healing energy of the Gelel Stone erupted at his heart, mending some of his injuries.
But the Eight-Tails' attacks did not stop for a moment!
Behind it, numerous thick octopus tentacles, limbs originally used for support or wrapping, instantly hardened.
Their surfaces shimmered with a cold metallic luster, turning into several incredibly sharp black spikes that let out air-tearing shrieks as they thrust toward the slightly retreating collector like a downpour!
"Humph!" The Collector snorted coldly, his mind racing.
"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
With a low shout, eight dazzling golden chains instantly shot out from his back.
The chains rapidly zipped through the air, weaving, parrying, and blocking, producing a dense and piercing "clank, clank, clank" sound of metal clashing!
Golden light and black shadows intertwined, collided, and strangled each other frantically. Every clash sent out blinding sparks, actually weaving an airtight golden defensive net in the void that blocked all of the Eight-Tails' rain-like tentacle thrusts!
This secret technique, known as the Uzumaki Clan's counter to Tailed Beasts, could only maintain a stalemate in the face of the Eight-Tails' violent power!
It hadn't lost its sealing power; rather, it couldn't directly break through the Eight-Tails' strength to complete the restraint. As long as it could bind the Eight-Tails, its power would be able to suppress it!
But unlike the situation with the Nine-Tails where Minato was providing support, to complete the restraint here, he had to beat the opponent down first!
In the instant the Adamantine Sealing Chains and the tentacles were in a fierce struggle, the Eight-Tails' offensive had not yet ceased.
A terrifying Chakra that made heaven and earth tremble suddenly gathered!
The source was precisely the Eight-Tails' wide-open, bloody maw!
Suffocatingly massive dark-red Chakra energy was frantically compressed and condensed, forming a giant Chakra energy sphere in the Eight-Tails' mouth like a miniature sun—the Tailed Beast Ball!
The destructive aura it contained far exceeded the Two-Tails' fireball from before, and the violent energy storm caused the surrounding air to warp with a burning sensation.
"It's coming!"
The Collector's heart tightened.
However, the Eight-Tails did not fire this sphere of destruction filled with power.
It suddenly opened its mouth and actually swallowed that terrifying Tailed Beast Ball into its stomach!
"What?!"
This unusual move made the Collector instantly alert to the extreme.
The next second, an even denser and more lethal strike arrived!
The Eight-Tails' bloody mouth opened and closed repeatedly, like a giant rapid-fire cannon!
One after another, small dark-red Tailed Beast cannons, reduced in size but with speed and density pushed to the limit, were frantically fired from its mouth like a torrential gale!
Countless beams of destruction wove into a lethal fire net with no blind spots, covering the Collector from all sides, seemingly wanting to completely seal off all his evasion space!
A moment of life and death!
The light of the Chakra wings on the Collector's back surged, flapping frantically at a frequency hard to capture with the naked eye!
His figure turned into a constantly shifting afterimage amidst the downpour of destructive beams.
Every extreme dodge was by a hair's breadth. Scorching beams grazed past him, their massive energy impact igniting and tearing the air around him, leaving trails of charred blackness!
This death dance of pursuit and destruction instantly pushed the cruelty and danger of the battle to its peak!
Eight-Tails's violent offensive was like an endless rain of meteorites, each Tailed Beast Ball tearing through the sky and turning the earth into scorched wasteland.
The Collector's figure wove wretchedly through the gaps in the explosions, every dodge fraught with peril as he walked the edge of the limit.
Finally, even the Eight-Tails' Chakra output experienced a brief lull.
Killer Bee, hidden within the giant Tailed Beast's head, pulled his mouth into a playful and smug grin.
"Yo, yo~ The prey is caught~ You fool~!"
The continuous Tailed Beast Balls had already woven an invisible giant net, firmly locking the opponent into a predetermined dead end!
Just as the Collector stabilized his form from the shockwave of a Tailed Beast Ball that had grazed his scalp, in that instant when his old strength was spent and new strength had yet to rise, a soul-freezing premonition of death suddenly seized him! A giant shadow instantly covered heaven and earth!
Looking up, he saw an octopus tentacle thicker than a mountain range, carrying enough terrifying power to shatter a thousand-foot cliff. It turned into a giant energy whip that tore through the air, accurately smashing down toward his head with the force of a thunderbolt!
The speed was so fast and the angle so tricky that it completely sealed all his evasion paths; there was simply no way to avoid it!
"Damn it!"
The Collector's pupils shook violently, instantly judging that there was no way back.
In the spark of a moment, he instinctively made the most direct reaction, crossing his arms in front of him!
At the same time, the surging golden Chakra within him erupted like a raging tide!
"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
Brilliant golden chain seal patterns instantly covered his arms and spread further, constructing layers of extremely tough Chakra shields in front of him that were almost material. The golden light flickered, indestructible!
BOOM—!!!
An earth-shattering collision erupted! That giant tentacle whip, carrying power that shook the earth, slammed heavily onto the golden barrier!
Blinding energy ripples exploded frantically, accompanied by the tooth-aching sound of metal cracking! Under the massive impact, the Collector, along with his seemingly indestructible defense, was thrown back like a cannonball fired at full power, turning into a tragic streak of gold-red light.
His figure cut through the sky, crossed the smoke-filled main battlefield, and crashed far away into a deep pit at the edge of the forest.
"Yo, yo~ With this yo we're even~ fool! moron!"
Killer Bee rapped to a beat inside the Eight-Tails' body, finally venting the frustration of being sent flying by a punch at the beginning.
Eight-Tails's low voice rang out in the internal space: "Bee, don't be careless. Can't you feel it? This guy's presence hasn't disappeared yet."
Its perception was exceptionally sharp.
Killer Bee certainly knew that an attack of this level couldn't easily finish off a top-tier expert.
But being able to give an eye for an eye was enough to make his blood boil!
In the deep pit at the edge of the battlefield, Takuno slowly stood up, his entire skeleton seemingly groaning and trembling.
He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, his eyes so cold they could freeze fire: "This business is a bit of a loss!"
The Eight-Tails, though not possessing the world-destroying power of the Nine-Tails, was definitely a terrifying existence standing at the peak of the Kage-level, only one step away from the legendary Super Kage-level.
At this moment, he still had a gap when facing such power, but fortunately, his task was only to delay and not to defeat the opponent!
"Whew—"
Exhaling a heavy breath of turbid air, the coldness in the Collector's eyes grew even more piercing.
The massive Chakra wings on his back suddenly unfurled, bringing a whistling airflow as he unhesitatingly soared into the sky again, his target aimed straight at the massive Eight-Tails beast in the distance!
"Yo?! You didn't run? Fool~ For Konoha's commission~ Is risking your life like this worth it? You fool! Moron!"
Watching the opponent quickly return to the battlefield, Killer Bee asked in his uniquely strange tone.
"Shut up!" Takuno's voice was cold as ice. "If I don't keep you here, the reward will be greatly reduced! Besides—"
He locked onto the Eight-Tails with burning eyes, "As a collector of strange things, the credibility of a 'trading contract' is just as important to me as the power I pursue!"
Before his voice finished, an unprecedented, almost space-warping surge of majestic Chakra erupted from within him!
Dazzling purple-blue Chakra soared into the sky, violently churning, compressing, and condensing! That massive energy flow frantically took shape in the air, until finally—
"Kujaku Myōhō: Dragon God!"
Takuno's hands rapidly formed seals.
A dragon roar that pierced the nine heavens resounded through the clouds!
Behind him, the phantom of an Eastern divine dragon dozens of meters long, its entire body flowing with a mysterious purple halo, proudly took to the sky!
Dragon scales shimmered, and the dragon's majesty was vast!
Most eye-catching was that inside this majestic and powerful purple dragon's body, countless Chakra chains shimmering with holy golden light were clearly visible—it was the Adamantine Sealing Chains that formed its core skeleton!
This was a forbidden technique that perfectly fused two major systems, and it was also the strongest power Takuno currently mastered: Kujaku Myōhō: Dragon God!
The massive purple-gold divine dragon sat majestically, but the cost also became apparent—with such a massive Chakra form, the difficulty of controlling it skyrocketed.
Previously, the Kujaku Myōhō: Dragon Snake he used had been completely mastered by him; he could move freely while using it and also use some Ninjutsu that didn't consume much Chakra.
But when using Kujaku Myōhō: Dragon God, the drawback of the Kujaku Myōhō being difficult to move, which had been mostly overcome, appeared once again.
He could only rely on Kujaku Myōhō: Wing for simple shifts, and it was basically impossible to use Ninjutsu again.
"Come! Eight-Tails! This battle is not over!"
The Collector's voice passed through the dragon's phantom, carrying an indomitable resolve!
Faced with this divine dragon pressure that could change the very face of heaven and earth, Killer Bee was not afraid; instead, the battle intent in his blood was completely ignited!
The Eight-Tails also let out an excited low growl, seemingly happy to have such an opponent!
"Bee!!"
Killer Bee shouted wildly!
The massive Eight-Tails roared to the sky, its giant body violently crushing the earth as it charged fearlessly toward that purple-light-shrouded, golden-boned terrifying dragon with peerless brute force and Tailed Beast Chakra!
And while the two continued their battle, a figure with two toads standing on his shoulders arrived at the battlefield—