Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 511 Ten-Tailed Susanoo

Aokiji stared at the Ten-Tails, and upon closer inspection, he noticed another figure standing there – Madara Uchiha. He couldn't help but gasp, his face growing more serious.

In the original work, after Obito became a Jinchūriki, he directly summoned the God Tree on his own, and even after the Tailed Beast was extracted from his body, it still existed independently.

Madara Uchiha crossed his arms and casually remarked out of interest, "Let's try something out."

With a thought, the ten tails beneath his feet responded, their ugly heads contracting into chrysanthemum-shaped patterns like sphincter muscles.

"Pfft."

A sound like air being squeezed rang out, and the Ten-Tails' head poked out, its mouth bulging like a toad's, its mouth full of sharp teeth opening wide, its oral cavity as black as an abyss, making one shudder just by looking at it.

Inside its mouth, red and black chakra continuously converged, forming a huge red energy ball. Upon its appearance, the powerful chakra it carried directly triggered lightning power, and its scarlet single eye looked even more eerie under the reflection of the lightning.

That wasn't all. The enormous energy sphere suddenly shrank to a point, swirling and absorbing the surrounding airflow.

The ten-tailed creature snapped its jaws shut, its mouth bulging. After a moment of preparation, it suddenly opened its enormous abyssal maw to its limit, flashing with red light. A beam of laser pierced through the white aura and shot out with overwhelming force, unstoppable in its path.

This is the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball, but calling it a Tailed Beast Ball isn't quite accurate; it's more like a Tailed Beast Laser.

"It won't be like that again."

As Aokiji's eye power increased, his once-thin body, now emaciated by the soul fire beneath his feet, suddenly became robust and muscular, his muscles bulging like Schwarzger's at his peak, entering his complete form.

The Soul Flame extended its crab-claw-like arms, its palms outstretched, single-handedly withstanding the attack. The Tailed Beast Lasers, upon contact with the Soul Flame's palms, scattered in all directions, reaching far and wide.

This process lasted for a few seconds. The Tailed Beast Laser ran out of steam and stopped firing. As if it was tired of this action, the Soul Flame waved its hand and knocked away the last bit of potential energy from the Tailed Beast Laser.

Seeing this, Madara Uchiha's eyes revealed a hint of expectation.

As expected, the Ten-Tails in the first stage was unremarkable, so let's move on to the next stage.

No, let's jump straight to the final stage.

"It's time to move on to the next phase."

This sense of volatile, volcanic pressure, like a volcano about to erupt, alerted Aokiji.

Ten tails pointing towards the sky, peeled along the surface like flowers, gradually shaped into the outline of fingers.

The Ten-Tails, which had been lying down, began to visibly shrivel up. When it stood up, its body was so thin that it looked like a starving refugee. Its ribs were clearly visible, and its body swayed as if it might fall at any moment.

However, contrary to its frail appearance, the chakra within the Ten-Tails is now far more abundant than before.

The Ten-Tails has entered the second stage.

But the changes weren't over yet. His thin body seemed to be inflated, becoming thicker and stronger. His previous frailty was gone, replaced by a robust build.

This foreshadows the Ten-Tails' advancement to its third stage, with its chakra expanding even further.

Seeing the Ten-Tails clap its hands together in a mudra, Aokiji anticipated something and further enhanced his eye power. Layers of black armor, imbued with soul fire, enveloped his entire body.

Tsunade and Aokiji stood within the rhombus-shaped gem, preparing for what might happen next.

Suddenly, the previously clear sky seemed to be obscured by something, turning dark.

"Boom!"

Thunder roared, and a bright white gash tore open in the sky. This was not the end, but the beginning.

As if Pandora's box had been opened, various natural disasters such as lightning, storms, floods, and lava erupted one after another, with the Soul Fire standing at the center of the vortex of disaster.

However, while this attack looks impressive, it doesn't actually have any real effect on the Soul Flame in this state.

Aokiji understood this very well, and Madara Uchiha understood it even better.

He figured it was more about showing off...

After a natural disaster, the earth was riddled with holes and full of potholes.

The fire of the soul produces smoke but no harm.

That was just an appetizer; the real battle is about to begin.

A red flower, resembling a tyrannical flower, was spat out from the mouth of the Ten-Tails, and the flower bud gathered into a dark red Tailed Beast Ball.

The Tailed Beast Ball, carrying immense destructive power, was launched like a cannonball. Soul Flame stretched out a hand and withstood it head-on with one hand.

The Tailed Beast Ball advanced layer by layer, while the Soul Flame relentlessly pushed back, causing the ground to crack and rocks to fly. If this continued, the Tailed Beast Ball would explode. They quickly reached out their other hand and joined forces to hold down the Tailed Beast Ball, finally managing to stabilize themselves.

"roar."

With a roar, the Soul Flame surged through its hands, embracing the Tailed Beast Ball, spinning it around, and flinging it into the air, causing a massive explosion.

"That's more like it, otherwise it's not interesting."

Madara Uchiha was unimpressed and even praised it.

Madara Uchiha, who had fought Madara once, knew very well how powerful the soul fire clad in Susanoo's armor was. In addition, he had now obtained the power of the Six Paths, so it was normal for him to perform like this.

Aokiji called out, "Tsunade..."

Tsunade responded immediately, clapping her hands together to form a hand seal.

Madara Uchiha sensed something and slightly raised his eyes. Red torii gates descended from the sky, each one enormous, and each torii gate was nailed to one of the ten tails of the Ten-Tails.

Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes slightly: "Yes, Hashirama's..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a colossal red torii gate, far exceeding the combined size of all the previous ones, descended and impaled itself on the neck of the Ten-Tails, rendering it unable to move.

Immortal Techniques - The Gods of Naruto.

The powerful sealing technique rendered even the mighty Ten-Tails unable to move.

"Hmph, quite capable..."

Even with the Ten-Tails sealed away, Madara Uchiha remained calm, his confident smile still gracing his lips.

The Soulfire in the distance clasped its hands together, interlocked its fingers, and layered them to form a "巳" mark. Maintaining this posture, it slowly raised its hands above its head, assuming the starting stance of "Dawn Goddess's Forgiveness".

This is Aokiji's strongest offensive ninjutsu besides his eye techniques. The skirmishes are over, and the real battle is about to begin.

"Since it's the strongest ice-type ninjutsu, then I'll use my strongest fire-type ninjutsu."

Madara Uchiha deliberately closed his right eye to gather chakra, while simultaneously forming hand seals with lightning speed. The massive chakra accumulated in his throat was ready to be unleashed.

It breathes fire, coils into a dragon, and its entire body radiates raging flames.

Before it was over, Uchiha Madara suddenly opened his eyes, focusing on the red dragon head, making it stained with black.

Eye Technique·Amaterasu.

This is Madara Uchiha's original Mangekyou Sharingan ability.

The other ability is Tsukuyomi. Because these two abilities have almost no effect on Hashirama, Madara Uchiha rarely uses these two eye techniques.

The fire from Amaterasu was fierce, and the fire dragon's body was already mostly black during its flight.

With a deafening roar, the fire dragon charged forward with its black, flaming fangs, only to be met head-on by a beam of freezing light. The extreme cold and heat collided, and thick white mist swirled around them.

Madara Uchiha, who was standing on the forehead of the Ten-Tails, was keenly aware and looked up. High in the sky ahead, the vortex was rotating, and a claw suddenly stretched out from the twisted space, as fast as wind and fire.

Madara Uchiha recognized it at a glance, a smile playing on his lips, without flinching or dodging.

Just as the claws of the Soul Flame were about to touch Uchiha Madara, he was suddenly attacked from the side, and his body was sent flying.

Soulfire landed on one leg, scrambling a hundred meters before regaining his balance.

"What was that thing just now?"

Aokiji was surprised. The Ten-Tails was under control, so how could it still attack from any position?

A hand clad in blue armor was surrounding Madara Uchiha.

Susanoo?

"wrong."

He composed himself, focusing his gaze on the outline of the hand as it extended. His expression darkened; the thing he didn't want to see had finally happened.

Madara Uchiha raised his eyebrows slightly, and his raptor-like eyes appeared in his drooping eyelids: "Aokiji, don't think that putting Susanoo on a tailed beast is your precedent. This kind of thing is just something I've already done before."

"Smack."

Madara Uchiha slammed his palms together, forming a hand seal, and blue chakra surged forth from his body, spreading and spreading along the Ten-Tails' entire body.

With a crack, the red torii gate broke open with tree-branch-like cracks. This was just the beginning. As the cracks continued to spread and reached a critical point, the red torii gate exploded and scattered in all directions.

"Even this technique can't be suppressed."

Tsunade watched this scene in astonishment.

Freed from Narukamimon's restraints, the Ten-Tails stood up again, its body now covered by a new layer of Karasu Tengu armor.

Aokiji took a breath, composed himself, and knew without a doubt that he couldn't win a direct confrontation.

Standing atop the Ten-Tails' forehead, Madara Uchiha looked down at the two figures who seemed as insignificant as ants, his face filled with arrogance as he said haughtily, "The Ten-Tails plus Susanoo, not bad, right?"

Aokiji glanced at Susanoo, which was covered by such a large mask, and thought to himself, "Keep pretending."

In this state, chakra consumption would definitely be measured in tons.

With his chakra reserves, he could use them however he wanted... uh, it seems like Tsunade and I were the ones who ran out of chakra first...

"Tsunade, give me some of your chakra."

Maintaining the Soul Flame in this state causes Aokiji's chakra to deplete rapidly, so he needs Tsunade, who is his support, to help him replenish his chakra and maintain peak condition.

Tsunade acted as a support, placing her right hand on Aokiji's shoulder and channeling chakra into him.

At the same time, in the Wet Bone Forest, a large tree planted on the ground turned into a wisp of white smoke.

Naruto has his own method for absorbing Sage Chakra, and Tsunade has her own method as well.

In a place with abundant natural energy, a sapling is planted using ninjutsu. This sapling will absorb the surrounding natural energy and grow continuously. When Tsunade needs it, she can take the natural energy from there to replenish it.

"Let's test the Ten-Tails' power in this state."

Uchiha Madara said as a magatama-equipped blue dart condensed in the palm of a tail behind the Ten-Tails at his feet.

The God's Magatama.

Madara Uchiha glanced at it, casually tossed one of his tails, and three blue tomoe flew toward the Soul Flame, spinning like wheels, their flight speed like a meteor, leaving long blue comet tails in their wake.

The moment Madara Uchiha launched his attack, Aokiji followed suit.

The Soul Fire clasped its hands in a mudra, creating a wheel of ice covered in spikes. With its arms in an L-shape, it threw the wheel with force.

Ice splitting wheel

The two forces collided, and the Ice Wheel, unable to withstand its sharpness, shattered into dust. The Divine Magatama, unstoppable, launched a surprise attack.

Seeing that things were not going well, Soulfire raised his arm diagonally to block the attack.

Aokiji glanced at the marks on the arm armor of the Soulfire Hand, his brow furrowing. Such power from a casual strike meant he couldn't continue to fight head-on.

Soul Fire condensed black chakra on the damaged arm armor to repair it again.

Madara Uchiha was satisfied with the destructive power of his casual attack, and said in a calm tone, "The next attack won't just cause this much damage."

The Ten-Tails responded to his words, and divine magatama condensed on all ten of its tails, which it then swung and threw.

Having learned his lesson, Aokiji no longer chose to fight head-on, but instead opted for arm armor.

When the first attack missed, the Ten-Tails threw out a second magatama, a third, and a third...

The Soul Flame already possesses the ability to fly, and with the addition of Susanoo's flight ability, its flight speed is further enhanced, allowing it to dodge and weave, avoiding all obstacles.

"That's really fast."

Madara Uchiha was somewhat surprised by the speed at which the soul flames were traveling. "If that's the case..."

The ten tails stopped their throwing attacks, inserted their ten tails into the ground, and crossed their two fingers to form the "巳" seal.

"This is……"

Tsunade, who was particularly sensitive to this "seal," looked surprised, and a sense of foreboding welled up in her heart.

When the Ten-Tails completed this hand seal, there was no grand spectacle like before when the world underwent a dramatic transformation. Instead, countless vines split open on the ground, and these vines grew larger and larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wood Release?"

Upon seeing this move, Aokiji became extremely focused, as the Wood Release technique performed by the Ten-Tails himself was definitely extraordinary.

Soon, the conjecture was confirmed.

Looking around, the entire island was covered with trees, an exaggerated expanse, like entering a sea of ​​trees.

"Well then, I'll see how far you can hide."

Driven by the Ten-Tails' chakra, the trees on the ground seemed to come alive, standing tall and densely packed on both sides.

These trees were not all created by the Ten-Tails using chakra; a significant portion of them were originally roots growing on the ground.

The Ten-Tails descended to Earth and, after a long period of growth, its roots spread throughout the entire world. If needed, the Ten-Tails can use these roots to fight.

Mudun·Wanmu Chaozong

On the ground, trees surged upwards in such a massive number that it triggered trypophobia. Even the Soul Fire, with its incredible speed, couldn't escape such an onslaught; if it didn't react in time, it would be dragged to the ground.

Countless trees greedily swarmed in, enveloping the soul fire layer upon layer, forming a huge tree cage.

Deep within the trees, Aokiji and Tsunade were trapped. It wasn't that they couldn't force their way out using the power of their soul fire, but if they did, the trees outside would immediately swarm in.

"What should we do? It seems we're trapped," Tsunade suggested. "Should we use Kamui to escape?"

"No, I have a better way."

Madara Uchiha's gaze was like that of a hawk, observing everything around him, locking onto the space that the Soul Flame might create at any moment with Kamui.

Under normal circumstances, it takes a lot of effort to bring out the soul fire, but it is not difficult for Aokiji to come out with his divine power.

However, the Soul Flame is so large that transferring it using Kamui would consume a considerable amount of chakra.

Madara Uchiha has inexhaustible chakra and is least afraid of dragging things out.

Just then, the most unlikely thing happened.

A burst of flame erupted like a volcano, and a huge fireball burned the wooden cage, leaping up and soaring into the sky.

Illuminated by the firelight, Madara Uchiha immediately looked up and saw a huge figure enveloping the fireball. A hint of surprise appeared in his narrowed eyes: "The color seems a little different..."

The Soulfire raised one arm high, the flames on its body flowing to its palm and gathering into a huge fireball, like a small sun, radiating infinite heat that almost distorted the surrounding space.

Ordinary ninjas would get thirsty and even suffer from heatstroke just by looking at them from afar.

Immortal Techniques: The Art of Five Elements Transformation

(End of this chapter)