stonecrandall Chapter 152 Nine-Tails Chakra
Chapter 152 Nine-Tails Chakra
Chapter 152 Seven-Tails Chakra
The village of Takigakure was bathed in the gentle afternoon sun, with babbling brooks and swaying trees, creating a peaceful and serene atmosphere.
However, beneath this calm, an uninvited guest is quietly making its move.
Using his exquisite transformation technique, Gen Takuno perfectly replicated the appearance of an ordinary villager. He walked calmly along the village path, his steps firm and his goal clear: to locate the Seven-Tails' chakra, which he sensed using Kagura's Mind's Eye.
Following that unique chakra sense, he quickly arrived at a seemingly ordinary courtyard.
His sharp gaze swept across the surroundings like that of a hawk, instantly revealing the positions of the guarding ninjas hidden in the shadows.
Almost silently, several black crows took flight, and a few black feathers slowly drifted down, appearing precisely in front of the guards.
The next moment, without any shouts or struggles, all the guards collapsed silently to the ground like puppets with broken strings, falling into a deep coma.
Yuan Tuoye moved swiftly and easily leaped over the courtyard wall.
Inside the courtyard, a little girl, about a few years old, with lively braids, was squatting on the ground, intently playing with several colorful pebbles, making crisp clinking sounds and cheerful laughter.
She is Fu, the Jinchuriki of the Seven-Tails.
"Who are you?" Fu Xin raised her head when she heard the noise. Her clear eyes showed no fear, only the natural curiosity of a child, as she looked at the unfamiliar face in front of her.
Yuan Tuoye did not respond. He stared at Fu for a moment, seemingly weighing something, and then snapped his fingers crisply.
Fu Xiaoxiao's body trembled slightly, and the curiosity in her eyes was instantly replaced by confusion. Then, just like the guards, she softly collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness.
Gen Takuno did not want to waste time here, nor did he need to get entangled with Takigakure Village, and he had no intention of provoking a conflict with the entire Takigakure Village.
He reached out, his palm glowing with barely perceptible chakra, and slowly pressed it against Fu's abdomen, preparing to extract his target.
call out!
At the critical moment, a sharp whistling sound tore through the air!
"Hmm?" Yuan Tuoye's eyes suddenly lit up, and he disappeared from the spot while holding Fu in one arm.
A sharp kunai, accompanied by a fierce gust of wind, accurately struck the spot where Gen Takuno had just stood, sending dirt and rocks flying!
"Put Fu down!" A furious shout rang out, and a man wearing a Takigakure headband appeared at the courtyard gate, his eyes blazing as he glared at Genji Takuno, who was holding Fu in one arm.
Yuan Tuono turned slightly to the side, looking at the newcomer with interest: "Oh? That's unexpected. How did you find me?"
His tone was calm, even with a hint of inquiry.
Takikage was filled with fear and his breathing became rapid. He couldn't tell the truth. It was just a strange premonition that drove him to come and check, only to witness the terrifying scene of all the guardians being unconscious and Fu about to be in danger!
He didn't have any brilliant methods; it was just a coincidence.
However, he couldn't say it out loud and embolden the other party.
"Enough with the nonsense!" Suppressing his panic, Takikage roared and charged toward Gen Takuno, trying to take back Fu.
However, in Yuan Tuoye's eyes, his movements were slow, clumsy, and full of fatal flaws.
Gen Takuno shook his head inwardly, a hint of disappointment flashing in his eyes: Is this the Takikage of today? His strength is probably barely up to the standard of a Jonin, let alone his insight and strategy.
Did the other party really think his arrival was just a whim? Don't you think it's a bit too coincidental?
"Peacock Mystic Art: Dragon Serpent!" Gen Takuno shouted, and a massive amount of chakra erupted instantly!
A giant, deep purple python made of pure chakra materialized out of thin air, coiling around his back. Its solid form exuded a suffocating pressure.
The giant python's cold, vertical pupils locked onto Takikage. With just a low, powerful roar, the invisible shockwave sent Takikage crashing into an invisible wall.
Takikage's charge was abruptly halted, and he even involuntarily took two steps back, his face drained of color, leaving only extreme horror.
"Bye-bye." Yuan Tuoye casually said goodbye, and with a flicker of his figure, he carried the unconscious Fu out of the courtyard like a ghost and sped away towards the edge of the village.
Takikage stood frozen in place, the terrifying image of the giant chakra serpent echoing in his mind, his heart pounding with fear.
"Is that amount of chakra really something a human could possess?" The enormous gap in power left him momentarily bewildered.
What to do? Chase after them? That would be suicide! Give up? They are the village's only hope for revival, the Seven-Tails!
At that moment, a thought surged wildly within him: he still had the Hero's Water!
Takikage gritted his teeth, a resolute glint in his eyes.
He turned abruptly and rushed frantically into a hidden room deep within the village, where an ancient gourd, completely transparent and filled with a strange liquid, was enshrined.
Takikage grabbed the "Hero's Water" in one swift motion, his hands trembling slightly with excitement and fear.
He stared at the gourd, his eyes swirling with struggle.
He knew the consequences: drinking this water would consume an enormous amount of his lifespan in exchange for a brief but powerful burst of strength, ultimately leading to his death through rapid aging.
But there's no time left!
If you hesitate any longer, that ninja will disappear forever with Fu and the Seven-Tails!
The last trace of hesitation in Takikage's eyes was replaced by madness. He suddenly pulled out the stopper, tilted his head back, and took a small gulp!
"Gurgle—"
The moment the liquid entered his throat, an unimaginable burst of violent power exploded within his body!
His originally average amount of chakra surged wildly like a volcanic eruption, overflowing and filling every corner of his body!
The unprecedented sense of power almost made him groan out loud.
"This...this is the power of the Hero's Water?" Takikage felt the boundless chakra flowing through his body, his eyes momentarily intoxicated.
If only—if only it didn't have the price of swallowing life—how wonderful that would be?
He sighed bitterly, and then, the newly acquired power drove him to transform into a gust of wind, speeding away towards the only passage outside the village, the direction where Yuan Tuoye had left!
However, just as he rushed out the door and stepped onto the path leading to the outside world...
"Sizzle!"
Two tough, iron-like brown tree roots shot out from the ground without warning and wrapped around his ankles with perfect precision! The speed was far beyond the limits of his perception after he had just gained power!
"What?!" Takikage was horrified and lost his balance, falling heavily forward to the ground.
He struggled desperately, trying to break free of his restraints, only to find that more tree roots, like living snakes, spread out of the soil and instantly wrapped around his body and arms, pinning him firmly to the ground!
What terrified him even more was that one of the thickest tree roots, with a tip like a nimble finger, easily snatched the Hero's Water Gourd from his bosom!
Yuan Tuoye's figure emerged leisurely from the shadow of a large tree beside him, like a ghost.
He reached out his hand, and the tree root obediently offered him the hero's water.
Yuan Tuoye played with the gourd, feeling the strange energy contained within it, and a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.
This was exactly what he had been waiting for. Letting Takikage take the water was to verify the authenticity of this legendary water. Now, the result is self-evident.
"You?! Who are you?! You've been eyeing Hero's Water all along?!" Takikage's eyes widened in fury, instantly realizing that he had been part of the other party's scheme from beginning to end!
He desperately channeled the massive Hero Water chakra, trying to shatter the restraints, but the seemingly ordinary tree roots remained completely still!
Faced with such absolute power suppression, the boost from Hero's Water seemed utterly insignificant.
Takuno's chakra reserves were like a vast ocean. Even though Hero's Water could amplify Takikage's chakra dozens of times, it was nothing more than a stream flowing into this ocean, insignificant.
Looking down at the bound Takikage, Minamoto Takuno casually posed another question: "Is the Takigakure village's secret technique, 'Earth Grudge Fear,' still intact?"
While Takikage was fetching water, he had already turned the other party's residence upside down, finding only some low-grade ninjutsu scrolls, but the crucial Earth Grudge Fear technique was nowhere to be found.
Upon hearing this, Takikage's pupils contracted sharply, and he stared at Gen Takuno in disbelief: "You—how do you know about the Earth Grudge?!"
This mysterious and powerful figure knows all the secrets of Takigakure. Could he have been a member of the village?
"You don't need to know." Gen Takuno's tone turned cold. "Tell me, is it there or not? If you hand over the Earth Grudge Fear, the Seven-Tails—I can return it to you without any problem."
Takikage opened his mouth, his throat dry, and finally lowered his head in despair, saying bitterly, "No—it's not that I don't want to give it—but the Earth Grudge Fear—was taken away by Kakuzu, the rogue ninja from our village, many years ago!"
All the backup scrolls in the village, along with all the high-ranking officials who knew the details of the secret technique, had been slaughtered by him, leaving no one alive.
This answer did not surprise Yuan Tuoye; it matched his previous search results and guesses.
Takigakure has indeed lost this forbidden secret technique.
Takikage, not giving up his last hope, urgently added, "My lord! If you are willing to return the Seven-Tails, we are willing to offer you the Hero's Water—all the future produce of our Takigakure Village! We will agree to any conditions!"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Tuoye merely glanced at him indifferently, his eyes carrying a hint of knowing mockery.
Is this to deceive him into believing that the Hero's Water takes a hundred years to condense once?
Just then, another Minamoto Takuya appeared beside her, carrying the unconscious Fu, and took the Hero's Water from the Wood clone.
At this moment, the wooden clone also dissipated.
Gen Takuno glanced at Takikage, who was bound by tree roots and whose eyes were filled with a mixture of despair and hope, and said nothing more.
He bent down and gently placed Fu on the ground, then turned around and disappeared into the dense forest outside Takigakure Village in a few flashes, leaving no trace.
The tree roots that bound Takikage lost their chakra support the moment Gen Takuno left, and broke apart inch by inch like rotten wood.
Takikage immediately broke free of his restraints and scrambled to Fu's side, his hands trembling as he checked on her.
His pulse was steady, his breathing was even, and what he found most unbelievable was that he carefully sensed the seal within Fu's body: the Seven-Tailed Fox!
The Seven-Tails still resides safely within Fu's body! In fact—the aura of that tailed beast seems even calmer and gentler than before?
Takikage was completely dumbfounded.
He raised his head blankly, looking in the direction where Yuan Tuoye had disappeared.
The other party went to such great lengths—infiltrating, drugging the guards, subduing Takikage, seizing the Hero's Water, and interrogating Jigami—yet in the end, they only took away a bottle of Hero's Water and left the perfectly intact Seven-Tails Jinchuriki behind.
"What—what does he want?" Takikage murmured to himself, shrouded in a huge mystery.
But in any case, Fu and Nanami were saved! This is already a great blessing!
As for the Hero's Water, which appears only once every hundred years? Although precious, it is insignificant compared to the survival of the Seven-Tailed Fox.
After all, the aftereffects of Hero's Water make it far less valuable than Seven-Tails.
If it's lost, then so be it.
Deep in the dense forest, Yuan Tuoye's figure flashed past swiftly.
The mission has been accomplished: the Hero's Water has been obtained, and the Seven-Tails Chakra sample has been successfully cut and acquired.
As for Di Yuanyu, he didn't have high hopes for him to begin with, so there was nothing to be disappointed about.
At this moment, he thought of the frail Takikage, and Gen Takuno thought with a hint of sarcasm that with his strength, he probably wouldn't even be able to detect the small portion of chakra that had been precisely cut out from Fu's body.
He was not a bloodthirsty person, and he would not have wanted to cause unnecessary killing unless it benefited him.
So far, the only ones who truly made him kill and wipe them out were the Kaguya clan's group of fearless and reckless "mentally ill" individuals.
If they had chosen to flee instead of fighting to the death, he wouldn't have gone so far as to exterminate them.
In this world where strength reigns supreme, weakness is the original sin!
With his mind at ease, Gen Takuno stopped and disappeared completely into the vast forests of Takigakure.
Inside the experimental base in the Land of Snow, Gen Takuno pondered the remaining tailed beast chakra he had not yet acquired.
They are one tail, four tails, five tails, and six tails respectively.
However, their locations are far superior to those of Takigakure Village, as they are all situated within a major country.
The Sand Village controls the One-Tailed Beast, the Stone Village controls the Four-Tailed Beast and the Five-Tailed Beast, while the Mist Village guards the Six-Tailed Beast. These strongholds are all heavily guarded, each resembling a formidable fortress.
Takuno Minamoto was full of confidence regarding the One-Tailed Chakra.
He assessed his own strength and was confident that he could seize this power from Sunagakure.
After all, Sunagakure's defenses are relatively weak, and the strongest person at present is only the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, whose strength is not considered strong. He is fully confident that he can overcome all obstacles with speed and strategy.
However, Iwagakure made him frown slightly. Although Onoki there wasn't the strongest overall, his Dust Release technique was a threat that couldn't be ignored.
As a bloodline limit ninjutsu, Dust Release possesses devastating destructive power. Its only drawback is its obvious pre-cast animation, making it easy for a sharp opponent to dodge.
Gen Takuno's speed was enough to avoid the attack, but the power of Dust Release was enough to make him keep a high level of vigilance, as the slightest carelessness could cost him dearly.
The most troublesome place is Kirigakure.
It appears weak on the surface, but in reality, it harbors deadly dangers.
With Obito Uchiha in charge and his loyal shark-faced bodyguard constantly watching over the area, obtaining the Six-Tails' chakra became virtually impossible.
Unfortunately, he wasn't strong enough when he went to the Land of Water. At that time, Obito Uchiha hadn't yet taken control of Kirigakure. If he had been strong enough then, it would have been the best time to obtain the Six-Tails' chakra.
However, it was normal that he had only recently acquired the Ghost Sprout Technique at that time, so his strength was not yet sufficient.
Yuan Tuoye sighed. Fortunately, he didn't need to rush. He still had a lot to do, and his strength was steadily improving. He could obtain the tailed beast chakra after he finished dealing with his affairs.
Moreover, the next period will be a rare period of peace and tranquility in the ninja world, and it is time for him to take advantage of this period to consolidate all his abilities!