When Roshi opened his eyes once more, he could clearly feel the endless power surging from within his body.
Moreover, although this power was the Chakra of the Four-tails, it seemed somewhat different.
However, for Roshi now, he didn't have time to scrutinize exactly what was different.
Because he was on the battlefield, with a very strong enemy who also happened to restrain him waiting for him.
"Hmm? Chakra has increased." Mokgetsu, maintaining the Byakugan, looked at Roshi with some surprise.
There are only nine Jinchuriki in the Ninja World, Mokgetsu had fought three and killed one, so he considered himself relatively knowledgeable about Jinchuriki.
Even those who can achieve Complete Tailed Beast Transformation cannot fully utilize all the Tailed Beast's Chakra.
For example, Roshi and Han, typically at their peak, are only around five million Chakra.
But last time on the East Coast Battlefield, Mokgetsu appraised a rampaging Three-tails with a Chakra amount reaching an astonishing eighteen million.
According to Mokgetsu's memory of the original series, the Three-tails' performance is generally mediocre, seeming even weaker than the Four-tails.
Thus the huge discrepancy in appraisal results clearly wasn't due to a difference in power between the Three-tails and Four-tails.
Based on the varying conditions of the appraisal, after comparison Mokgetsu quickly drew a conclusion.
At that time, the Three-tails was in a berserk state, with the Three-tails controlling the body instead of the Jinchuriki.
While Han and Roshi, even though their Complete Tailed Beast Transformation resembles the Tailed Beast, essentially, it's still the Jinchuriki controlling the body.
Mokgetsu thought the key point might be achieving a connection of mutual understanding, similar to Naruto's eventual relationship with the Nine-tails, possibly allowing full use of the Tailed Beast's Chakra.
"Is this the butterfly effect I've brought?" Mokgetsu appraised Roshi.
In the original series, Roshi certainly didn't achieve mutual understanding with the Four-tails, even his name was called only once due to Reanimation Jutsu.
[Name: Roshi]
[Chakra: 6120000]
At this moment, Roshi's Chakra amount had already broken through six million and was still increasing.
However, Mokgetsu wasn't flustered; this isn't like playing a game where leveling up comes with a full health effect, even if Roshi has more Chakra, he's still injured.
He doesn't even need to use additional techniques, the Ninjutsu he's already employed is enough to defeat Roshi.
Because Roshi's strength has broken through, but those Jonin responsible for protecting him had all been dealt with by Mokgetsu.
Without those carefully selected Jonin to assist, Roshi's fight with Mokgetsu might not be better than his prior battle.
"Lava Release: Hakazan!"
After emerging from the Consciousness Space, Roshi immediately used the newly surged power to unleash Ninjutsu.
Hakazan is a powerful Lava Release Ninjutsu that Roshi must use a considerable amount of Four-tails Chakra to perform.
Though Roshi himself has mastered Lava Release, his natural Chakra and Lava Release proficiency don't meet the requirements for casting Hakazan.
In the world of Naruto, everyone's Chakra has subtle differences.
And Tailed Beasts, being pure Chakra entities, their Chakra is extremely unique.
The Chakra of the Four-tails inherently contains the power of Lava Release, allowing Roshi to use the Four-tails Chakra to perform powerful Lava Release techniques he normally couldn't.
Roshi placed both hands on the ground, channeling all of the powerful Lava Release Chakra into it.
The originally ordinary ground gradually turned into lava and swiftly spread toward the surroundings, even the small lake Mokgetsu had created earlier gradually became a lava lake.
The Hidden Rock Ninjas nearby were mostly killed by Mokgetsu, so Roshi had no reservations when using this move.
Faced with the rapidly spreading lava, Mokgetsu attempted to use Water Release to halt its expansion.
But Mokgetsu quickly gave up; being merely near the river and not at its edge put him at a disadvantage in this Water Release rivalry, as Roshi had the Four-tails as a 'charging station.'
Boom!!
Under Roshi's control, the rolling lava continuously gathered together, attacking Mokgetsu, but Mokgetsu evaded them all.
"It's really not easy to deal with." Although his attack failed, Roshi was not discouraged.
After all, if Mokgetsu were easy to deal with, he wouldn't have been injured by Mokgetsu earlier.
If Hakazan could injure Mokgetsu, that would be great, but if not, it would also create an opportunity to use the Tailed Beast Ball.
Roshi quickly opened his big mouth, with powerful Tailed Beast Chakra rapidly gathering, a black-purple sphere swiftly appeared in front of his mouth.
Perhaps due to the Four-tails' assistance, Roshi felt that executing the Tailed Beast Ball this time was faster than ever.
"Do you think you've won? Don't rejoice too early!" Roshi shouted loudly, as the black sphere in front of his mouth grew larger.
He seemed ready to unleash an indiscriminate bombardment.
Swish!
Mokgetsu employed the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to immediately move beside his disciples, taking out the nearby Hidden Rock.
"Don't linger in battle, let's put some distance." Mokgetsu quickly commanded.
Roshi, if really a valiant sacrifice was carried out with indiscriminate bombardment, Mokgetsu was inclined toward retreat.
The Hidden Rock Squad's commander was dead, and a large number of elite mid and Jonin were killed, this Hidden Rock Squad was already in a heavily depleted state.
To thoroughly destroy a heavily depleted Ninja Squad, sacrificing this over a thousand member Konoha Squad was not worthwhile.
Because Konoha currently doesn't have many ninjas, if there were significant losses, the period where newly graduated Ninja School students immediately rushing to battle would soon occur.
"First pull back some distance!" Namikaze Minato's thoughts aligned with Mokgetsu's.