Wielding a colossal sword of flowing flames, Ren unleashed a massive forty-meter-long arc of sword-qi. Leveraging the immense thrust, he soared through the air like a bird of prey, crossing hundreds of meters in an instant. He tore through the dust, his blade carving a circular path as he twisted the hilt, bringing a downward strike directly toward the stunned, full-form Two-Tails!
Even for the Two-Tails, which stood fifty-one meters tall, a forty-meter-long giant blade was impossible to ignore. If that strike landed, Yugito Nii couldn't be certain she'd remain conscious enough to control the beast, or if the beast itself would spiral into a mindless rampage.
Thinking fast, Yugito forced the Two-Tails to raise a claw, attempting to swat the giant blade aside.
However, suspended in mid-air, Ren Uchiha let out a savage grin. The giant sword in his hands instantly shattered into a sky full of flying embers. Amidst the dancing sparks, his eyes—framed by bulging veins—glowed with terrifying intensity.
He snapped his eyes wide, his crimson snake-like Sharingan staring directly into the Two-Tails' eyes. The whites of his eyes were instantly flooded with burst capillaries.
"Submit to the ocular power of the Uchiha!!"
"Oh no!"
Yugito was struck with panic, finally realizing the nightmare of facing an Uchiha alone. She instinctively tried to shut her eyes, but even as she looked away, she couldn't help but see the embers drifting through the sky. Within those fluttering sparks, she saw a pair of crimson snake pupils burning within the flames.
This was the fruit of Ren's recent special training—integrating genjutsu into swordsmanship to create a mesmerizing yet inescapable trap:
Uchiha Style: Dance of the Halo!
In the next heartbeat:
"Sage Art: Sharingan: White Rage Pupil!"
A blazing red dragon stretched its body within the fire, leaping and dancing forward. Within the world of Genjutsu, whether Yugito wanted to look or not, she was forced to see—the red dragon coiling around the Two-Tails' body, opening its maw to reveal a dragon ball.
A violent, blinding white light erupted!
Zzzzt—!
The ear-piercing sonic vibrations made her very bones ache, and the searing white light instantly robbed her of all vision. In that gap created by the inescapable genjutsu, Ren seized the moment. As he plummeted through the air, he bit his finger and wove signs with blistering speed.
Boar-Dog-Bird-Monkey-Ram!
"Summoning Jutsu!"
He slammed his palm down in mid-air. An intricate sealing formula spread across the sky, instantly solidifying and blotting out half the horizon.
POOF!
An enormous blue snake—Aoda—erupted from the white smoke, crashing down toward the earth!
BOOM!
The massive body kicked up a violent storm of sand and dust, shaking the ground.
"Aoda! Coordinate with me!"
Ren barked the order. Relying on the Heaven Cursed Seal and his mutated Sharingan to absorb enough natural energy, he re-entered the Cursed Seal Level Two state, continuously refining and fusing the unique Sage Chakra within his body.
Aoda—the powerhouse snake who would eventually become Sasuke's summon—was exceptionally strong among the denizens of Ryūchi Cave, second only to Manda. Upon landing, he immediately assessed the situation. Seeing the Two-Tails as his opponent, his scales crawled slightly, but being honest and loyal by nature, he didn't know how to refuse. He responded in a deep, booming voice.
"Understood, Lord Ren!"
With Aoda's confirmation, Ren glanced at him with his Sharingan and nodded. White scales had already begun to creep across Ren's body.
The next moment, he clapped his hands together and roared amidst the swirling sparks:
"Sage Art: Double Snake Crushing Bite!"
This move was an ultimate secret technique based on Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation, combined with the summoning of Aoda.
The earth groaned and trembled, compressing and rising at the center until it formed a colossal white snake made of earth and stone, equal in size to Aoda. The two great snakes—one blue and one white—tore through the battlefield with terrifying momentum, coiling themselves around the Two-Tails. They exerted a crushing force, squeezing, binding, and twisting with everything they had!
In an instant, the Two-Tails was pinned to the spot.
Ren didn't stop for a second. He drew his Kusanagi Sword in mid-air, channeling Water and Wind nature transformations into the blade simultaneously. His opponent was the Two-Tails; in full form, its body was shrouded in "Fire Rat Flames," a heat that surpassed ordinary Fire Style. Attacking with fire would be like giving it a massage.
To defeat her in the shortest time possible, Ren unleashed:
"Ninja Art: Hurricane Water Vortex Sword!"
A thin blue line of chakra extended from the Kusanagi Sword, reaching all the way to the Two-Tails' head. Then, with that line as the axis, a massive blue water tornado exploded outward!
Like a blooming mandala flower, white wind blades and blue water blades blossomed around the central trunk.
Rotating, cutting, and piercing! A brilliant blue-white radiance illuminated the Valley of Hell!
The Two-Tails' head was instantly torn apart by this strike, exposing the golden-haired little girl within. Half of her body was emerging from the beast's flesh, her face a mask of shock and horror.
"How is this possible?!" she gasped. "The full Tailed Beast form... destroyed?!"
This was completely outside a Jinchūriki's understanding of reality. And more terrifyingly, everything—from the boy leaping through the dust wall to the destruction of the Two-Tails' head—had taken less than thirty seconds.
The brutal nature of shinobi combat, where life and death are decided in an instant, was on full display.
Ren had no intention of showing mercy. If he hadn't gambled his life on that expanded Rasengan, everyone in the Konoha camp would likely be dead by now. The battle was far from over. Although he was relieved not to see the Third Raikage, the presence of two Jinchūriki was an immense pressure.
At this moment, rather than entangling himself with the experienced and master swordsman Killer B, it was better to seize the opening and take out the young and less-developed Yugito Nii. It was better to cut off a finger than to merely bruise ten!
As he descended, the Kusanagi Sword spun in his hand, leaving trails of brilliant, sharp sword-flowers! Ren reversed his grip on the blade, aiming the tip precisely at Yugito's brow.
He lunged downward without hesitation!
During the descent, the blade of the Kusanagi Sword began to glow a brilliant white, crackling with a layer of lightning and water. This was a composite ninjutsu:
Composite Art: Supervibrato Lightning Water Fang!
Using the vibrations of the Lightning Blade to amplify the sharpness of the Water Fang, the Lightning-Water combination would paralyze the enemy instantly, stripping away any last chance of resistance.
Ren's eyes gleamed as he stared down, a smirk pulling at the corner of his mouth.
"That's one down!"
However, right then—
"WHEEEEA—HAAA!!"
"Lightning Plow Hot Path!"
Accompanied by a wild, dual-layered roar, a four-fingered hand-blade—three times larger than Ren himself and shrouded in lightning and black ink—burst through the smoke. It lunged toward Ren's back with thunderous force!
Ren snapped his head around.
Seeing the strike, he didn't panic. The tomoe in his crimson Sharingan didn't even twitch. He remained eerily calm.
A sneer flickered across Ren's face. He then spread his arms wide, making no attempt to resist, openly allowing the strike to run him through!
"Killer B..."
"You're the one I've been waiting for!"
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