Chapter 424: The Vulnerable Jinchūriki

After igniting his fighting spirit, Naruto quickly adapted to the rhythm of the battle and joined forces with Gaara to deal with Byakuya.

Although it was the first time for the two of them to join forces to fight the enemy, they had a tacit understanding.

After using the shadow clone to block Byakuya's vision, Gaara took the opportunity to use sand to cover Byakuya, trying to bury Byakuya underground in this way.

Bai Ye noticed the quicksand under his feet and saw the sand coming at him in overwhelming numbers.

He did not rush to dodge, allowing the quicksand to submerge him. His body and chakra disappeared as he was dragged deep into the earth.

After seeing Bai Ye being submerged by the quicksand, Naruto's frown did not relax. Instead, he looked at Gaara with a vigilant look and reminded him:
"Gaara, there is no way Lord Byakuya can be defeated by us so easily."

Gaara nodded slightly, sensing the situation underground and remaining alert at all times.

His strength has improved significantly compared to three years ago, reaching the so-called shadow-level standard, but Bai Ye's strength has obviously surpassed this level and reached another level.

These Jinchūriki joined forces and fought hard, all they wanted was to escape from Bai Ye.

As for defeating Bai Ye, they themselves felt that the chances were very slim.

Ten seconds later, Bai Ye used the Mayfly Technique to return to the ground. As he had mastered the Paper Escape and Mayfly Technique, it was impossible for him to be buried alive by the Sand Escape.

The reason why he gave up resistance was, on the one hand, that he wanted to have some fun, and on the other hand, he wanted to test the limits of Naruto and Gaara. He was the one who planned the growth of these two little guys.

After returning to the ground, looking at the vigilant faces of Naruto and Gaara, Bai Ye said calmly: "This is all your means, your complete tailed beast transformation, and Sage Mode?"

"If that's all you can do, then you'd better just let the tailed beast be extracted."

Naruto and Gaara's faces changed drastically. They suddenly realized that their situation had been completely grasped by Bai Ye, and they knew nothing about Bai Ye's information.

How can they achieve victory when there is a huge gap in intelligence and strength?

Just as Naruto and Gaara were lost in thought, Killer Bee had already completed his transformation into a tailed beast. He manipulated the body of the Ushio-demon to condense a tailed beast ball the size of a car, and suddenly slammed it towards Bai Ye.

Sensing the fluctuation of power from the side, Bai Ye took a few steps back and stretched out his hand towards the Tailed Beast Ball.

Suddenly, a red-haired figure appeared beside Bai Ye, stretched out his hand towards the Tailed Beast Ball, and shouted, "Shinra Tensei!"

The next moment, boundless repulsive force burst out from the palm of the red-haired figure, bombarding the Tailed Beast Ball.

After the Tailed Beast Ball was bounced away, an explosion occurred at the other end of the cave. The huge explosion made the entire cave tremble, and countless dust fell from the ceiling.

Seeing this scene, Bai Ye put away his smile, looked at Killer Bee and said, "Eight-tailed Killer Bee, sneak attacks are not what a gentleman does. I thought you would choose to fight me head-on."

After failing to hit the target, Kirabi simply emerged from the darkness and said openly, "I didn't attack by surprise. You ignored my presence, so you will have to pay the price."

After a pause, Kirabi looked at the red-haired figure on the side and said, "This ninja over here should be your companion. You actually attacked your companion!"

Bai Ye shrugged and said helplessly:

"Who made him disagree with the Moon Eye Project? Since he is unwilling to seal the tailed beast into the Outer Path Demon Statue, I can only make him into a living puppet and force him to work."

Hearing this, Gaara immediately thought of the human puppets of Scorpion of the Red Sand.

He always thought that Scorpion Teacher was the best puppet in the world, but he didn't expect that Bai Ye was even more powerful. He could turn a ninja into a puppet while he was still alive. This method was simply incredible.

Naruto noticed Nagato's red hair and knew that he was from the same clan as him.

But Bai Ye is also a ninja of the Uzumaki clan. Bai Ye actually attacked his own clan. Is the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan so important? He can even give up his companions and clan members.

Noticing the changes in Naruto and the others' eyes, Bai Ye continued:

"I am too lazy to talk about these past events. Since you used the mass destruction ninjutsu first, don't blame me for bullying the weak."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Ye had already completed the seal, and several wooden clones emerged from his body.

These wooden clones surrounded the three Jinchūriki and began to perform wooden man techniques. Wooden men more than ten meters tall appeared in the cave and attacked Naruto and the others.

These wooden men made by Wood Release, in addition to being extremely powerful, also have the ability to absorb chakra. Even if they are destroyed by Rasenshuriken, they can recover quickly.

Seeing that Gaara and Killer Bee were both in a tough fight, Naruto seemed to have made up his mind and said to the two of them: "Gaara, Uncle Killer Bee, help me delay time. I want to enter the Nine-Tails Mode."

"Nine-Tails Mode?" Gaara and Killer Bee were both a little confused.

Naruto quickly explained: "It is the Sage Mode of Myoboku Mountain, but I can let Kurama help refine the senjutsu chakra, so it is called the Nine-Tails Mode."

Gaara and Killer Bee immediately understood what Naruto meant and began to buy time for Naruto.

At the same time, he was torturing his own tailed beasts in the mental space, questioning whether they had the One-Tail Mode and the Eight-Tail Mode. There was no need to hide his abilities at this time.

Shukaku and Ushioki both expressed their innocence.

Communicating with nature and sharing chakra are both the Nine-Tailed Fox's abilities, which is why the Nine-Tailed Fox can rank first among the nine tailed beasts even though it does not control any tailed beasts.

When old man Six Paths created the tailed beasts, he was too partial to the Nine-Tails.

After coming up with a plan to delay time and wait for Naruto to return by activating Sage Mode, Gaara and Killer Bee began to fight the wooden man in the cave.

Gaara doesn't have a good way to deal with these Wood Release creatures, but Killer Bee is different.

As one of the few perfect Jinchūriki, Killer Bee's combat power is extremely strong, even surpassing the Fourth Raikage in some aspects. He is the strongest man in the Hidden Cloud Village.

After turning the tailed beast's outer shell into bones, Killer Bee began to condense lightning chakra and cast the lightning hot sword.

This is the secret of the physical technique that he and the Fourth Raikage have mastered. When used together, no one in the ninja world can withstand it. At this moment, with the help of the tailed beast coat, he can exert most of its power.

After Lei Li's hot knife was completed, Kirabi turned into a red beast and crashed into the wooden man.

In the face of the huge impact force, even though the wooden man defended himself, he was still smashed to pieces by the thunder and hot knife. And because the damage was too severe, the wooden man was unable to recover on his own.

After dealing with several wooden men in succession, Kirabi finally stopped.

The eyes under the sunglasses were fixed on Bai Ye in the distance. It was a good thing to deal with these wooden men, but he had fought with Naruto and Gaara until now, but he had not been able to hurt Bai Ye. This was simply a humiliation for him who was known as the killer bee.

Thinking of this, Killer Bee condensed his chakra again and entered into full tailed beast transformation again, roaring while continuously performing Tailed Beast Ball attacks.

These tailed beast balls are only the size of a human, but their power exceeds that of most ninjutsu.

Bai Ye still had no intention of dodging, and looked at Killer Bee with admiration. His figure was soon blocked by vines, which formed a wooden wall and blocked all the Tailed Beast Balls.

After the explosion, Bai Ye came to Killer Bee and said with a smile: "Wood Release is absolutely suppressive to the Tailed Beasts. No matter how strong you are, you can never be a match for Wood Release."

"Back then, Hashirama Senju used Wood Release to capture the nine tailed beasts alive and distributed them to the five major ninja villages, which led to endless wars among the five major ninja villages. This time, I want to correct Hashirama Senju's mistake and concentrate the tailed beasts in the hands of the right people."

“And I’m the best candidate.”

"That's not the case. Lord Hashirama's original intention was for peace..."

Kirabi spoke breathlessly, and his voice became a little strange. It was unclear whether it was Kirabi who was speaking, or the bull ghost in his body.

Bai Ye frowned slightly, then said: "Eight-Tails, are you speaking for Hashirama Senju? He is the culprit who sealed your tailed beast into the body of the Jinchūriki."

"And if the Two-Tails and the Eight-Tails didn't exist, would the Hidden Cloud Village dare to declare war on Konoha?"

Killer Bee shook his head and said, "If we, the tailed beasts, don't exist, wars will break out between the five major ninja villages. I have seen this countless times in my thousand years in the ninja world."

Bai Ye showed an approving look and said:
"As expected of you, the most experienced Ushi-ki. You have a good understanding of the ninja world, but this cannot change your future fate."

"I know you haven't used your full strength yet, but what if I can use the Wood Dragon Technique and the Outer Path Demon Statue? How will you, the Tailed Beasts and Jinchūriki, respond? Your chakra is nothing more than food to me."

The one who responded to Bai Ye was Naruto's fairy technique, Wind Style Shuriken.

With the blessing of Senjutsu Chakra, the power of Wind Style Shuriken is infinitely close to that of Tailed Beast Ball, and its flexibility is greatly enhanced.

Feeling the breeze blowing beside his ears, Bai Ye's expression changed slightly.

He dodged with a flash of his body, but he was still within the range of the Wind Style Shuriken and was hit head-on.

After getting up from the ground and adjusting his windbreaker a little, Bai Ye looked at Naruto:
"Is this the so-called Nine-Tails Mode? Your strength actually surpasses those useless Five Kage. With your current strength, if you continue to practice for a few more years, you might be able to threaten my plan."

"It's a pity that the Kyuubi was defeated by me, how can you possibly win?"

"How shameless! Let's talk with our fists."

Naruto looked at Byakuya. After entering the Nine-Tails mode, he could feel an endless supply of power in his body. This power should be able to allow him to defeat Byakuya.

The next moment, Naruto's figure disappeared from the spot and suddenly appeared in front of Bai Ye.

Just as Naruto was about to attack Bai Ye with his fist, Bai Ye grabbed Naruto's fist, and an aura similar to Naruto's burst out from his body.

"Is this Sage Mode? How do you know Sage Mode?"

Bai Ye threw Naruto to the ground with a shoulder throw, then stood up and said:
"Before killing Jiraiya, my brother Jiraiya and I went to Myoboku Mountain and spent a few hours learning the Sage Mode."

"It only took you a few hours to learn Sage Mode?"

When Naruto heard the first half of the sentence, his face was full of shock. When he heard the second half, his face turned ugly:

"Wait, you said that the lecherous immortal was killed by you?"

As a Konoha ninja, Naruto actually doesn't have much sense of belonging to the Konoha Village. The Konoha ninjas have brought him many painful memories, and those so-called Konoha villagers are just some hypocritical villains.

But he didn't care about that, he believed that he just had to 'believe' in the will of fire.

And after showing enough strength, these voices will naturally disappear, and the villagers will support you as Hokage.

But Jiraiya is different. He is a person who truly treats him well, second only to Grandpa Black Zetsu.

After Grandpa Black Zetsu mysteriously disappeared, Jiraiya became his one of the few hopes. The reason why he did not secretly protect the villagers was simply to meet their expectations.

And the Lord Byakuya and Senior Byakuya in front of him actually killed Uncle Jiraiya!

This made Naruto unable to suppress the anger in his heart, and the chakra in his body began to show signs of running wild. Naruto instantly entered a state of complete tailed beast transformation and suppressed Bai Ye in an instant.

Bai Ye didn't even have time to speak before he was pressed to the ground.

After whipping the ground with his claws and tail for a few minutes, Naruto finally calmed down. He raised his head and looked at Bai Ye standing on the ceiling, ready to start the engine again.

"I'm just joking with you. Is it necessary to get so excited?"

Bai Ye fell from the ceiling, and Susanoo was instantly projected around his body. Unlike other people's Susanoo, his Susanoo carried traces of fairy chakra.

The next moment, Bai Ye's Susanoo came in front of Naruto at a speed that ordinary Susanoo could not reach. The Susanoo sword in his hand directly pierced the Nine-Tails' body. Then vines flew out from the ground, completely suppressing and absorbing the Nine-Tails.

In just a dozen seconds, only the original form of Naruto was left of the tailed beast.

After using the black stick to freeze Naruto, Bai Ye looked at Gaara and Killer Bee on the side and said with a smile:
"The Nine-Tails has been recovered, and there are only One-Tails and Eight-Tails left. It should be easier to recover the One-Tails, so let's start with you."

After locking Gaara's position, Byakuya appeared behind Gaara.

Gaara quickly manipulated the sand to launch an absolute defense, but in front of Bai Ye, the absolute defense of the sand wall was vulnerable and was directly penetrated.

Bai Ye threw a few black sticks to restrict Gaara's movements, and looked at Killer Bee without looking back.

Kirabi stood there in a daze, a little at a loss.

The Ushiki inside the body quickly shouted to Killer Bee: "Killer Bee, run away! If they capture you, the Ten-Tails will be truly resurrected, and the Ninja World will be destroyed."

Killer Bee reacted and looked at Naruto and Gaara, then gritted his teeth and started to escape.

However, Kirabi didn't run far before he was caught up by Bai Ye.

(End of this chapter)