On the open sea, the battle had completely turned into a one-sided slaughter.
The already-maddened Eight-Tails Gyūki was being brutally beaten by the Seven-Tails brothers' combo.
After all, even though he was the Eight-Tails among the nine tailed beasts, facing a Seven-Tails just as massive as himself, along with a swarm of water giants and summoned beasts, he had no chance to fight back at all.
Gekko Chizan's fighting style was all about doing whatever he pleased—pure torment.
Since chakra was plentiful, he just went wild with ninjutsu. Water Release: Wave Giants—ten of them appeared by force, while the Summoning Technique continued to call forth giant sea serpents.
In an instant, the Eight-Tails was thrown into a full-on monster carnival.
"Roar!"
The Eight-Tails' furious roar shook the heavens—but what good did that do? After roaring, he still had to take several heavy punches.
Fists formed from tons of seawater smashed down on his head. Even as the Eight-Tails, he still went dizzy for a moment.
"Hehehe, even if you're the Eight-Tails, facing an attack from both me and Chizan, you're still no match."
"Swap in the Nine-Tails and maybe you'd stand a chance!"
"Eat one of my Tailed Beast Bombs!"
Chōmei couldn't match the Eight-Tails in direct combat, but that didn't stop him from attacking at range.
Thick chakra gathered instantly, and the Tailed Beast Bomb formed at astonishing speed.
"Boom!"
With the sea giants and sea serpents blocking him, the Eight-Tails couldn't even gather a Tailed Beast Bomb of his own to counterattack. He could only take the beating head-on.
This Tailed Beast Bomb blasted straight into him, flipping the Eight-Tails over.
"Tsk tsk, as expected—an ordinary Tailed Beast Bomb really can't compare to a Tailed Beast Bomb Laser in power."
"If Chizan didn't want you dead, I'd really like to test whether you're as tough as the Five-Tails!"
Chōmei still remembered the Tailed Beast Bomb Laser vividly—the one-shot kill on the Five-Tails had been unbelievably satisfying.
"That's enough, Chōmei."
"One more big one. Knock him unconscious directly."
"This Eight-Tails is way too boring—can't even get me interested."
Gekko Chizan was already feeling bored. After fighting for so long, he still had plenty of chakra left—he didn't even need to rely on Chōmei's chakra.
This was the result of chakra attributes reaching their peak, combined with enhanced passive chakra recovery.
The amount of chakra in his body now wasn't much less than a tailed beast's—at least compared to the One-Tails or Two-Tails.
Coupled with his passive chakra recovery ability, calling him a perpetual-motion machine wouldn't be an exaggeration.
The Eight-Tails was the perfect example. Even though his eight octopus legs flailed wildly and his fists attacked nonstop, the water giants were practically unkillable.
One second they were blasted into a sky full of water droplets; the next second they reassembled into giant forms again—sometimes even larger than before.
"Got it!"
"Let me charge it up a bit!"
"I'll make sure to knock him out in one go!"
Gekko Chizan nodded, then began forming hand seals as well.
He needed to coordinate the attack too. After all, this was the Eight-Tails—better to be a bit serious.
"Crystal Release..."
"Compression!"
Gekko Chizan had never stopped developing his Crystal Release techniques. High-destruction techniques had become his research focus.
After all, what he lacked most right now was offensive firepower.
He focused on improving attack strength, and the method was compression.
He compressed the light produced by Crystal Release refraction. As for how to compress it—it couldn't be simpler.
Using crystal, layer by layer, pressing inward, as if slowly forcing the beam of light into the crystal itself.
When the crystal shattered, that light—filled with destructive force—would become the Grim Reaper's scythe, harvesting all life in front of it.
Of course, this was just Gekko Chizan's theoretical concept. As for how powerful it actually was—he was about to find out.
As the crystal mass in front of him shrank bit by bit, the light grew increasingly brighter.
"Chōmei, are you ready yet?!"
"Coming, coming! A massive Tailed Beast Bomb!"
Tailed Beast synchronization drastically reduced chakra consumption for both sides.
So even though Chōmei's body was formed entirely of chakra, using such an enormous Tailed Beast Bomb posed no burden at all.
A Tailed Beast Bomb nearly half Chōmei's size erupted and hurtled straight toward the Eight-Tails.
At the same moment, Gekko Chizan's compression reached its limit.
"Crystal Release! Compressed Quantum Bomb!"
You really had to say—Gekko Chizan was a naming maniac. The plagiarism was getting more and more blatant. These were two skills from a certain class in a certain game from his previous life.
Here, he split them apart and fused them together into one—an invincible naming stitch-monster!
The front of the crystal containing the compressed light shattered violently. In the next second, a massive beam shot straight toward the Eight-Tails.
"Roar!"
"Boom!"
In an instant, the beam pierced through the Eight-Tails' right chest and slammed heavily into the sea surface.
The intense pain drove the Eight-Tails into even greater madness. The wound itself wasn't large—a circular hole with a diameter of half a meter, glaringly obvious, smoke still rising around it.
The surrounding seawater had been heavily evaporated by the beam, and massive amounts of steam completely enveloped the Eight-Tails.
"Tsk tsk, not bad power."
"I just wonder if this attack could pierce through the Nine-Tails' body. Either way, Susanoo probably wouldn't be able to take it."
Gekko Chizan was very satisfied with his new technique. If this attack couldn't even pierce the Eight-Tails, then what was he supposed to use to fight Uchiha Madara?
He was satisfied—but the Eight-Tails was in absolute misery.
Having his right chest pierced wasn't the end. What followed was Chōmei's massive Tailed Beast Bomb.
The gigantic Tailed Beast Bomb descended from the sky like a palm strike, landing squarely on the Eight-Tails' huge head.
"Boom!"
"Geigeigei!"
The explosion and a lewd cackle rang out at the same time.
The massive blast sent the Eight-Tails flying straight from the sea surface down into the depths.
Chōmei looked at his handiwork, grinning happily—and very creepily.
To maximize the damage, he had deliberately positioned himself directly above the Eight-Tails.
That was how he landed the Tailed Beast Bomb perfectly on the Eight-Tails' head.
He understood Gekko Chizan's intent perfectly. Didn't he just want the guy to pass out? Then hitting the head was obviously the most direct way.
"Chōmei, let's go."
"After those two hits, there's no way he's not unconscious."
"Leave the rest to Kumogakure and Kirigakure—they can bite at each other."
Gekko Chizan had achieved his objective. What remained was the situation on the side of the four little ones.
As long as they held out for a few more days, he guaranteed Kumogakure would be utterly miserable.
And this was only the first step. The real show was yet to come.
"Got it, got it."
"Hehehehe, Gyūki—this time, I won!"
As Chōmei laughed happily, he reverted back into chakra and returned to Gekko Chizan's body.
The latter didn't even glance at the Eight-Tails below. A real man never looks back at explosions.
With a Flying Thunder God, Gekko Chizan vanished from the sea.