Ninja World: I, Kisame Hoshigaki, am no longer human!

Ye Feng couldn't even get close to Kisame before being pushed away by the Ame-no-Murakumo sword. Even with the Seven-Tails' chakra protecting him, the stinging pain from the sword tip was still unbearable for him.

Bang bang bang!

He flew backward at an even faster speed, crashing through more than a dozen large trees along the way, and finally smashing a large hole in the mountain wall with a loud bang, sinking deep into it.

What kind of monster is this?

Ye Feng struggled to crawl out of the cave, watching Kisame approach step by step, his heart filled with horror. He never expected that even in his half-tailed beast form, he would be no match for Kisame.

Is this the strength of the number one ninja in the world?

It seems that we have no choice but to resort to that one tactic and fight to the death.

Thinking this, Ye Feng no longer hesitated and closed his eyes. The next second, when he opened his eyes again, the gaze was no longer that of Ye Feng, but that of a monster.

As a surge of chakra shot into the sky, a monster tens of meters tall appeared on the earth beneath the night sky. It was a giant beetle with a gray-black upper body, a bluish-green lower body, six wings, and a tail.

At this moment, Ye Feng took a huge risk and released the monster that had been dormant within his body for a long time, allowing this flying giant insect, second only to the Nine-Tailed Fox and the Eight-Tailed Fox, to reappear in the world.

However, before the newly freed Nanao Shigeaki could even show off, several huge red torii gates descended from the sky and pressed down on it.

boom! boom! boom!

Several torii gates successively pinned down Chongming's head, body, and tail, pinning it firmly to the ground. No matter how hard it struggled, it could not move.

Immortal Techniques - Bright God Gate.

This is one of the First Hokage's powerful Wood Release sealing techniques, specifically designed to counter these large tailed beasts and seal their chakra.

At this moment, Kisame's mask had fallen off at some point, revealing a black sage's face.

Whoosh.

He leaped down from mid-air and, taking advantage of Chongming being suppressed by the Mingshen Sect, struck its forehead with a palm.

Naruto-style Ear-Clearing Technique - Kuo-an Enters the Palace with Hands Down!

As the character "座" (seat) appeared in Kisame's palm, he transmitted a sealing power into Chongming's body, and the irritable beetle quickly calmed down and fell into a deep sleep.

The rest was much easier. Kisame skillfully opened the Box of Bliss and took the unconscious Seven-Tails into his body.

Thus, this trip to Takigakure not only successfully obtained the Hero's Water, but also unexpectedly gained the Seven-Tails' chakra, making it a very fruitful trip.

Logically, he could have set off for his next destination.

But after a moment's thought, Kisame still looked in the direction of Takigakure.

A few minutes later.

Kisame returned to Takigakure once again.

The village was brightly lit and bustling with noise as all the villagers came out and gathered in the open space outside Ye Feng's house.

Kisame immediately saw Mikiko clutching her child tightly in her arms, collapsing helplessly to the ground, surrounded by hundreds of angry villagers pointing and cursing at her.

To these villagers, the bounty hunter who came to the village during the day had killed almost all the Takigakure ninja, and even Yoru was being hunted down, his fate unknown. Yet Mikiko was completely unharmed, which was highly suspicious.

As it happened, some villagers saw that Mikiko and the bounty hunter had a close relationship and were even washing clothes together in the yard during the day.

Therefore, everyone suspected that this woman had colluded with the enemy and betrayed the village.

Despite Mikiko's repeated explanations, few people believed her. If it weren't for the fact that she was the village chief's wife, the villagers would probably have tortured her long ago.

"Get up, stop pretending to be innocent and pitiful!"

A villager stepped forward, grabbed Mikiko's hair, and forcibly pulled her up from the ground.

Mikiko, tears welling in her eyes, endured the excruciating pain without uttering a sound, focusing solely on protecting her child. The baby in her arms, Fu, was startled and burst into tears.

Just as the orphan and widow were about to be subjected to violence by the irrational villagers, a long sword suddenly descended from the sky and instantly severed the arm that was grabbing Mikiko's hair.

"what!"

The villager let out a scream and collapsed into a pool of blood.

Amidst the terrified gazes of the other villagers, Kisame descended from the sky like a demon king of the night. The moment he folded his pair of black wings, he stirred up a gust of wind that sent the villagers tumbling about.

"Get out of here, all of you!"

He let out a low growl, like the roar of a tiger, instantly terrifying everyone.

So they screamed and scattered in all directions.

Before long, only Kisame and his daughter Mikiko remained in the entire Takigakure village.

"Your husband, Ye Feng, is dead."

Kisame stared at the woman and slowly spoke.

She was jolted, but not overly saddened; instead, she felt a sense of relief. Clearly, this woman had an unhappy marriage, one that felt like hell to her.

Seeing the woman's expression, Kisame immediately understood what was going on, and continued speaking to her:

“I’ll give you two choices. First, you can name a place, and I’ll take you and your daughter there and leave you some money so you can start a new life. Second, come with me back to my village and start a new life there.”

"I choose the second one."

To Kisame's surprise, Mikiko answered without hesitation. She looked at Kisame with unwavering eyes.

"But you don't even know who I am, or where my village is. You trust me that much?" Kisame asked curiously.

“I don’t care, and I don’t need to know.” Mikiko continued to stare intently at him.

"it is good."

Kisame didn't say anything more, but turned around and looked at the towering tree, more than a hundred meters tall, on the island in the middle of the lake.

"It would be a waste to leave it here as part of the divine tree."

He muttered to himself.

Since he'd already taken the Hero's Water and the Seven-Tailed Fox, he might as well go all the way and take the big tree with him.

After all, it was the people from Takigakure who broke their promise first.

Kisame felt perfectly justified.

So he told Mikiko to take the child to the back a little, and then he walked step by step toward the lake.

Then the problem is coming.

How can such a large tree, over 100 meters tall and weighing several thousand tons, be moved, and where should it be moved to?

Kisame's Box of Elysium couldn't possibly contain this enormous creature.

It seems the only option is to send the main body.

Thinking of this, he turned back to Mikiko and instructed her, "Something big might appear later. Whatever you see, don't be afraid."

"Yes." Mikiko nodded.

Then, Kisame took a deep breath, raised his hands, and slowly formed the hand seals for the summoning jutsu.

"drink!"

With a shout, he pressed his palm to the ground, and almost all the chakra in this clone was instantly poured into the summoning jutsu.

A few seconds later.

In the dark night sky, a spatial rift with a diameter of several hundred meters appeared, and a huge creature with a body length of four hundred meters was born out of nowhere.

Kun has arrived.

203. Devouring the Divine Tree

Under the vast darkness of night, a colossal beast, four hundred meters long, floated silently in the sky above Takigakure.

It had a whale-like body, a long dragon tail, and a pair of enormous wings like an eagle. Each flap of those wings created a strong gust of wind, causing the leaves of the trees below to rustle.

Kisame's true form, the Kun, was thus summoned to the ninja world.

thump.

On the ground, Kisame's shadow clone knelt on one knee, panting heavily, looking extremely weak. After all, the amount of chakra required to summon a creature several hundred meters long from the distant Shikkotsu Forest to Takigakure was simply unimaginable.

His clone, which possessed one-third of his original body's chakra, was almost completely drained.

After snapping out of her daze, Mikiko saw Kisame kneeling on the ground and quickly went over to him, asking with concern:

"Are you OK?"

As she spoke, she pressed herself against Kisame's body and helped him to his feet.

Under their gaze, the Kun in the air lowered its head and slowly opened its abyss-like maw.

buzzing.

An extremely terrifying suction force emanated from its mouth, enveloping the towering tree, hundreds of meters tall, on the island in the middle of the lake.

Rumble.

In an instant, the ground of the entire Takigakure village shook violently, as if a magnitude 10 earthquake had occurred. Waves surged on the lake, forming a tide that rushed towards the shore.

"what!"

Mikiko gasped in surprise, clutching the child tightly in her arms. She staggered and was about to lose her balance and fall to the ground.

Just then, Kisame stretched out an arm and wrapped it around her waist. Then, another pair of black wings sprouted from his back, and he carried Mikiko and her daughter into the sky.

After reaching mid-air, Mikiko emerged downwards again.

To her horror, the thousand-year-old tree in Takigakure was uprooted and slowly rose into the air along with countless pieces of soil, water, and pebbles.

What a magnificent sight!

Finally, pulled by the suction force, the big tree was swallowed whole by the Kun and disappeared.

Let the main body handle the rest of the journey.

Kisame glanced at Kun in mid-air. Considering that this clone could not be maintained for long, he made a simple handover with the latter, storing the meteorite, hero's water, and seven-tailed Chongming that he had previously obtained into Kun's belly.

Then, Kisame, carrying Mikiko and her daughter, flew eastward along the route they had come from.

His true form, the Kun, flapped its wings and, swept by a strong wind, soared straight into the sky.