Chapter 332: Naruto's Three Killer Moves
Naruto couldn't quite find the words, but what shocked him most was that the Nine-Tails, who usually ignored him completely, was actually talking to him like a human being today.
"Listen, brat, that man is no ordinary opponent. There's a chakra on him that makes me extremely uncomfortable."
The Nine-Tails had originally not wanted to speak with Naruto, but that man who used the Flying Thunder God Technique had a chakra that made him feel ill at ease. He didn't know what that chakra was, but anything that could unsettle him had to come from someone he truly despised—someone extremely powerful.
The Nine-Tails had fought the Fourth Hokage before. He knew how terrifying the Flying Thunder God Technique was. Even he couldn't overcome Minato when it was paired with sealing jutsu.
If he couldn't, then Naruto definitely couldn't either.
And the Nine-Tails had no intention of dying alongside Naruto in this strange world.
"Listen carefully," the Nine-Tails continued, "what brought you here is a space-time teleportation jutsu. It can instantly move someone dozens of kilometers. It's a space-time technique."
"So right now, you're not in Loran anymore."
"Ah…" Naruto's face changed dramatically. "Then what about Sāra and the others? And Big Brother Minato?"
"No—I have to go back right away!"
Naruto took a step forward, then abruptly stopped. Looking around, he asked the Nine-Tails inside, "Kurama, do you know which direction Loran is?"
They were surrounded by nothing but desert—there was no way to tell which way to go.
"I don't know," the Nine-Tails replied bluntly. "But if you stay here, and that man teleports to you with Flying Thunder God, you're…"
"Then I'll wait here for him to come," Naruto said with a resolute expression. "I'll defeat him, and then make him take me back!"
The Nine-Tails furrowed his brow. "Brat, if you stay here, you'll just die. You're no match for that man."
Naruto grinned. "I know I can't beat him alone. After all, even Big Brother couldn't. But I believe if we work together, we can definitely beat that bastard."
The Nine-Tails fell silent for a moment as he looked at Naruto's sincere smile. Then he snorted coldly. "Brat, if you think I'm going to help you, you can forget it. You're on your own."
With that, the Nine-Tails completely withdrew into silence, ignoring Naruto no matter how much he called.
Warning Naruto about the man's strength was already the Nine-Tails' greatest show of goodwill. Helping him? Not in a hundred years.
After all these years sealed in Naruto's body, locked inside a dark space with no end in sight—it was torture for any sentient being.
If it weren't for that man's chakra being so detestable, the Nine-Tails wouldn't have said anything at all.
Help Naruto? Dream on.
"Aww, that's really pitiful, Naruto."
A familiar mocking voice suddenly echoed in Naruto's sealed space. At the gate of the cage, Li Yao's consciousness form suddenly appeared beside Naruto's, wearing a faint smile as he gazed at the Nine-Tails.
"You… how are you here?!" Naruto's consciousness flinched in shock, instinctively jumping away from Li Yao.
"He's huge," Li Yao muttered, staring at the Nine-Tails' massive form in awe.
It was hard to believe that the Nine-Tails inside Naruto looked even bigger than the One-Tail Shukaku. Yet this was only half of Kurama—he wasn't even in his complete form. The other half had been sealed with the Reaper Death Seal.
No wonder people joked that when the Sage of Six Paths split the Ten-Tails' chakra, the Nine-Tails got nine-tenths, and the other eight tailed beasts shared the remaining tenth.
Just by size alone, Kurama's power was in a league of its own. The other tailed beasts couldn't compare.
And yet, even with a complete Nine-Tails, Uchiha Madara still lost to Hashirama Senju—whose chakra reserves were truly monstrous.
Li Yao suddenly thought of Hashirama, the man who once treated the Nine-Tails like a house pet.
Though Li Yao's current body had perfectly integrated Hashirama's Wood Release cell fluid, his chakra volume was still far below that of Hashirama himself.
But while he couldn't match Hashirama's chakra, he was confident that beating—and even killing—him now wouldn't be difficult.
On the other hand, Madara in his peak Rinnegan form might pose more of a challenge.
Well, back on track.
Li Yao's appearance in this mindscape allowed Kurama to sense his chakra fluctuations even more clearly.
Then Kurama was stunned.
"Impossible!"
"Why do you have Rinnegan ocular chakra? That's impossible!"
Kurama stared hard at Li Yao's eyes—just normal human eyes, not Rinnegan at all.
But the chakra emanating from him, though faint, was unmistakably the same Rinnegan ocular chakra he had once sensed from the Sage of Six Paths.
Kurama was certain—the chakra pulsing from Li Yao was without a doubt Rinnegan chakra.
"Huh… you can actually sense that?" Li Yao's consciousness was also a bit surprised. He had masked his chakra presence so well…
Wait, of course. He suddenly realized.
Right now, he was a consciousness form, interacting directly with Kurama's soul. And the Nine-Tails had incredibly sharp sensory abilities. It made sense that, under direct soul contact, Kurama could pick up on the Rinnegan chakra within him.
After all, Kurama's chakra was so potent it could give jinchūriki the ability to sense malice itself.
"What's a Rinnegan?"
"And what did you do to Big Brother?!"
Naruto didn't understand a word of the exchange between Kurama and Li Yao. All he knew was that he had to beat Li Yao and return to Loran as soon as possible. Without another word, he charged.
Then—
BAM BAM!
Naruto's face met the ground as he flew backward, legs in the air and skidding across the dirt.
Even though this was all inside his own consciousness space, Li Yao still kicked him away with two well-placed blows, showing just how vast their power difference was.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
But Naruto wasn't one to give up. He entered his usual battle mode—win with numbers.
Unfortunately… slash!
A single sharp strike cut through all his clones like a butterfly weaving through flowers—only his real body was spared.
For others, it was hard to tell the clones apart. But for Li Yao, who could sense souls, distinguishing the real Naruto was easy.
"He can see through shadow clones!"
In combat mode, Naruto had sharp awareness. He immediately realized that Li Yao had deliberately avoided him and targeted only his clones.
If that was the case…
"Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!"
Not giving up, Naruto summoned two clones and launched a Rasenshuriken in an all-out frontal assault.
But this time, the spinning projectile was completely erased by a slash barrier that shimmered to life in front of Li Yao. It didn't even make a ripple.
The Shadow Clone Jutsu had failed.
The Rasenshuriken, his strongest offensive ninjutsu, had also failed.
Two of Naruto's "three killer moves" had just been rendered useless.
Which meant all he had left… was the Sexy Jutsu.
(END CHAPTER)
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