Starting as a pirate, he rose to become the strongest Shinigami in Soul Society.

Chapter 398 Seizing the Tailed Beast from Iwagakure!

In the desert outside Iwagakure Village.

A fierce battle is about to break out.

On the towering rock, Uchiha Sasuke appeared using the Body Flicker Technique, then formed hand seals and descended in the Rabbit Seal, shouting, "Sage Art: Thunderstorm Thunder Dragon!!!"

With the aid of Sage Chakra, a gigantic Lightning Release dragon appeared and charged out at an incredible speed.

In the distance, Steam Ninja Han had fully transformed into a tailed beast, becoming a horse-like creature resembling King Mu. Facing the oncoming lightning attack, he didn't dodge at all, but instead charged straight into it.

"Bend at the corners!"

King Mu's horns were incredibly powerful, blasting Sasuke Uchiha's Sage Mode to pieces.

A large amount of steam instantly created a hazy atmosphere, obscuring the view of the battlefield. Sasuke Uchiha's Sharingan trembled slightly in its sockets, swaying from side to side, as if trying to find its target within the steam.

"Steam explosion!" Amidst the dense steam, Han, who had just been in tailed beast form, had reverted to his human form, his armor rapidly bursting with scorching steam.

This airflow suddenly enhanced his physical abilities. With a burst of strength under his feet, the hard rock ground shattered on the spot, and he was launched into the air like a cannonball, leaving a trail of steam in the air.

At this moment, Han was moving extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he was about to reach Sasuke.

At his current speed, normally even a regular ninja wouldn't be able to keep up, but Uchiha Sasuke's Sharingan was still powerful. The moment Han rushed out of the steam mist, he had already captured the opponent's trajectory. At the same time, his physical abilities under Sage Mode were also fully capable of keeping up with this change.

With a slip, Uchiha Sasuke fell from the towering rock, his hands forming hand seals as he plummeted.

Before he even landed, the rock he had just been standing on was kicked and shattered by Han.

This is his Boil Release: Unparalleled Super Strength!

Han was also somewhat surprised, and couldn't help but think to himself, "As expected of the Sharingan, it can actually see through my movements at this speed."

"Fire Release: Exploding Flame Formation!" Sasuke Uchiha shouted.

The next second, the rocks that Han had kicked to pieces and were now scattered in the air produced a large number of explosive tags, which were then quickly ignited by Uchiha Sasuke's Fire Release.

The violent explosion engulfed Han.

After landing, Sasuke Uchiha didn't stop. He bent his knees and flipped backward several times, rapidly increasing the distance between them. At the same time, he performed several hand seals and swung a shuriken in his backhand, shouting, "Shadow Clone Technique!"

He flung out a shuriken, which instantly transformed into hundreds and thousands of shuriken, shooting into the smoke and dust of the explosion like a storm.

However, the next second, a violent steam shockwave burst forth from within, directly blowing away all the sword shadow clones in the hand. At the same time, Han, whose entire body was crimson and covered with the tailed beast's cloak, emerged from the smoke and dust of the explosion.

Clearly, he did not suffer any serious injuries in the exploding flame array just now; the Tailed Beast Cloak had blocked the technique.

Han clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and the tailed beast chakra on his body suddenly expanded. Hot steam burst out from the gaps in his armor, distorting the air.

"Boiling Release: Great Steam Bomb!"

The man, dressed in a tailed beast cloak and with his entire body crimson, roared and spat out an air blast similar to Wind Release: Air Bullet. However, unlike the Air Bullet, this technique contained extremely violent yet very condensed high-temperature steam!

This technique is extremely fast and has a very large coverage area. Sasuke Uchiha made a judgment immediately and realized that he didn't have time to dodge!

He raised his hand and bit his thumb, drawing bright red blood. At the same time, Sasuke slammed his hand on the ground and growled, "Summoning Jutsu: Double Rashomon!"

With two loud bangs, dust exploded, and the towering Demon Gate rose from the ground, directly blocking Uchiha Sasuke's path.

Immediately, the giant steam bomb slammed directly into the Rashomon gate. The first gate was instantly crushed, and the second gate was blocked, but in the next instant, the giant steam bomb exploded on the spot, and the condensed high-temperature steam inside instantly spread to an area of ​​several hundred meters around.

Using the time gained by Rashomon, Sasuke Uchiha used his feet to perform a series of shaving steps, rapidly widening the distance, but he still couldn't completely escape the area.

The high-temperature steam swept across his arm, and in just a moment, Sasuke Uchiha's skin ulcerated and blistered. Clearly, he had been burned by the high-temperature steam!

He had finally managed to create some distance, and as soon as he stood still, he saw the ground around him tremble. In the blink of an eye, several hundred-meter-high rock and earthen walls rose up, completely blocking him to the left, right, and behind.

"Earth Flow Wall?" Sasuke Uchiha recognized the technique immediately, and his heart sank.

Then, a terrifying pressure emanated from the billowing steam ahead, and as this pressure spread, the steam that had been obscuring the view also rapidly dissipated.

Sasuke Uchiha instantly grasped the situation, a look of panic crossing his face as he exclaimed, "Tailed Beast Ball!?"

It was indeed a Tailed Beast Ball. At this moment, Steam Ninja Han had already mixed his own chakra with the Tailed Beast's chakra in an 8:2 ratio, and condensed a Tailed Beast Ball at an extremely fast speed.

Before Sasuke Uchiha could even process his shock, the opponent had already unleashed a Tailed Beast Ball without any mercy.

The surrounding area was all earthen walls, and even if one could climb over them, it would take some time. Moreover, the Tailed Beast Ball had an extremely wide area of ​​coverage when it exploded, and at this moment, Uchiha Sasuke felt that he had no way to completely avoid it.

However, at that moment, a streak of azure flames rapidly descended from the sky, instantly blocking the Tailed Beast Ball.

"Lady Nami!?" Sasuke Uchiha immediately called out, and at the same time, the panic in his heart instantly subsided.

The Tailed Beast Ball is indeed terrifying, but Lady Nami is definitely stronger!

"Immortal Thistle!!!" Nami shouted.

In an instant, she transformed into a gigantic phoenix, resembling a tailed beast, and then burst into blue flames that quickly coalesced into a circular shield.

Immediately afterwards, the terrifying Tailed Beast Ball crashed directly into the Immortal Thistle. The violent chakra immediately exploded, creating a terrifying blast that instantly obscured the surrounding vision. A mushroom cloud of smoke shot into the sky, and the ground was blasted into a deep crater.

"Is it resolved?" Han's tailed beast cloak gradually dissipated as he looked at the smoke-filled explosion zone in the distance and asked softly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the short but dignified figure slowly descending from the air beside him and said, "Third Hokage."

"Am I too late? It seems the enemy is very strong. Even you have to use the Tailed Beast Ball?" Onoki, the Two Scales, said, floating in the air with his hands behind his back.

Just now, while he was in Iwagakure, he suddenly sensed that there seemed to be ninjas fighting in the desert outside the village, and then the aura of the tailed beasts came through.

Onoki immediately realized that his Tailed Beast Jinchuriki was in trouble, so he put aside his official duties and flew over to provide support at an extremely fast speed.

Before they even arrived, Han used a Tailed Beast Ball, seemingly blasting the opponent into ashes.

"He's really impressive. He's just a brat from the Uchiha clan, and he looks about fourteen or fifteen years old, but he's very difficult to deal with. Is Konoha going to make a move against us?" Han said in a deep voice.

Just as Onoki was about to say something, he suddenly frowned.

As the smoke from the explosion gradually dissipated, wisps of blue flames scattered everywhere gradually gathered together. Soon, a woman with long orange hair, a slender figure, wearing jeans and a cool white short-sleeved shirt, stood motionless amidst the smoke, her body radiating blue flames.

The blue flames quickly burned out, and then the woman recovered from her injuries completely.

"This is..." Onoki was somewhat surprised and doubtful. Even after so many years of dominating the ninja world, he had never seen anything like this before.

Should I force my way into a Tailed Beast Ball?

"It doesn't seem that great, is it? Tailed Beast Ball," Nami commented after experiencing it for a while.

Her feeling was that it wasn't even as good as Madara Uchiha's slash!

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

"Lady Nami, are you alright?" Sasuke Uchiha asked as he stepped forward.

"It's alright, I'll take over now. I've already found out the location of that Four-Tails, Roshi. Let's resolve this issue quickly, capture that guy, and then retreat," Nami said.

No sooner had she finished speaking than Onoki made his move.

"Dust Release: Limit Detachment Technique!" Onoki instantly pulled out a transparent cube from his hand and then threw it out.

The speed of this move was very fast. In the blink of an eye, Nami's figure was directly encompassed by this technique. Then, with a hum, all the matter that was touched by this technique disappeared in an instant.

Bloodline Elimination!

This is a terrifying technique that transcends bloodline limits, capable of instantly separating any matter it touches into atomic states.

It's a ninjutsu that can kill instantly; anyone who gets hit by it will be in trouble.

"I am the Third Tsuchikage. Don't you think it's too arrogant to talk about taking the tailed beasts of our Iwagakure in front of me?" Onoki said coldly after his successful attack.

He was very confident in his Dust Release technique; he had never seen anyone survive after being completely covered by it!

"What a terrifying technique!" Nami's voice suddenly rang out.

This startled Onoki, who then saw a wisp of blue flame suddenly appear out of thin air from what had been an empty space. The flame rapidly expanded in the air, and then the woman emerged unharmed once again.

Ohnoki? ? ?

Nami's expression also showed lingering fear. Even Madara Uchiha hadn't reduced her to ashes back then, and for a moment just now, she really thought she was dead!

Just as Onoki was feeling incredulous.

Nami suddenly unleashed an extremely terrifying burst of chakra.

"Eight Gates Formation, Seventh Gate, Gate of Shock, Open!"

The voice arrives and the person arrives.

Upon hearing those words, Han felt as if a ferocious beast was rushing towards him. Before he could react, the wild and violent energy transformed into a shockwave, unleashing a terrifying force that could cause mountains to collapse and the earth to split open, directly slamming him into it.

"Phoenix Seal!!!"

The armor on his body exploded on the spot, and the tailed beast cloak that had just dissipated burst forth at an extremely fast speed, but it was still too late.

Before the tailed beast's cloak could even unfold, it was instantly shattered by the powerful force, leaving Han with no chance to resist. At the same time, he felt as if all the bones in his body had broken, and his internal organs had shattered and shifted. In just an instant, he seemed to be completely in a state of severe injury.

Before the thought had even settled, he felt a tightness around his neck, and then the energy within him and the surrounding energy spread out, and the pressure from before was not so great.

Looking again, he realized he was already being trampled on the ground.

No, it wasn't a foot, it was the sharp claws of a raptor!

Nami's arms had transformed into phoenix wings, and her feet had turned into claws. Her left foot was on the ground, while her right foot, with its raptor claws, pressed Han's neck to the ground.

It was only then that Onoki suddenly came to his senses and saw that his Tsuchikage robe was tattered from the aftershocks of the energy he had just received.

In that split second, he didn't even catch the woman's movement!

"Retreat!" Nami kicked Han up, spread her arms, and flew directly into the air.

Clearly, after defeating the Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts, she had no intention of getting entangled with Onoki, because it was pointless.

Under the Eight Gates technique, Nami's speed was extremely fast, and she disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, Sasuke Uchiha completed his summoning jutsu, and a giant snake emerged from the ground behind him, immediately swallowing him whole. Then, it exploded in smoke and disappeared as well.

(End of this chapter)