Chapitre 148: Mount Kikyo Collapses

Shintaro slowly flew out from the yellow sand and saw Shukaku, who had already run quite a distance.

Shukaku had been thrown into the front lines of the Konoha ninja, but now he escaped back to the ranks of Sunagakure.

Moreover, Shukaku attacked the Sunagakure lines at a very high speed, combined with his large and heavy physique.

"Help!"

"Shukaku is coming at us like this!!"

"Run!!!"

The Sunagakure ninjas below faced the impact of their own Bijuu.

"What is Banpuku doing?! Doesn't he want to cancel the Bijuu transformation?!"

Rasa's eyes widened when he saw this, and he couldn't help but curse.

To ensure the destructive power of the Bijuu, Rasa had ordered Banpuku to give the initiative to Shukaku on the battlefield.

But the situation was clearly different now. Shukaku had been defeated. Logically, Banpuku should take action to regain control and not let Shukaku attack his own front lines.

What Rasa didn't know was that under the previous bombardment, Banpuku's consciousness had fainted, leaving Shukaku to run away in a panic, ignoring the Sunagakure ninja in front of him.

"You filthy humans blocking my way! Get out of the way!"

Shukaku's claw casually slapped the Sunagakure ninja blocking the way in front of him, causing significant losses to the Sunagakure ninja forces in an instant.

Shukaku's escape route directly passed through the Sunagakure lines, hoping to cross Mount Kikyo behind to escape the incredibly strong white-haired boy behind him.

Shintaro slowly floated in the air and chased after Shukaku, watching with interest as Shukaku trampled and crushed many Sunagakure ninjas to death.

This was called asking for trouble.

Shukaku finally came to Mount Kikyo after accidentally killing many Sunagakure ninjas.

Shukaku hurriedly turned around and saw Shintaro who had been chasing him. Then he felt a slight sense of security and ran towards Mount Kikyo without looking back.

Although Mount Kikyo was not tall, it was still several hundred meters high.

Shukaku's figure looked somewhat small in front of the mountain.

At this critical moment of life and death, Shukaku displayed extraordinary agility. He jumped with all his strength, placing one foot on the mountain, and then used his power to leap to the top of Mount Kikyo.

At this moment, Shukaku sensed that there seemed to be danger behind him, and when he looked back, he realized something was wrong.

Shintaro was still flying in place, but the terrifying, ink-black, and extremely powerful ball had once again condensed in his hand.

"[Hollow Technique: Purple]."

[Purple] shot towards the top of Mount Kikyo, causing an air explosion in the air just because of its speed.

Shukaku was shocked and immediately deployed his absolute defense again.

However, this time, the [Purple] that Shintaro condensed was his main work, mobilizing the chakra and Cursed Energy of his entire body, and its power was several times higher than before.

This time, Shukaku had no room to resist.

The dazzling light once again illuminated the entire battlefield.

Then a loud rumbling sound that reached the heavens and the earth was heard.

After the roar of the explosion, the sound of a massive and dull collapse was immediately heard.

"Mount Kikyo... collapsed?"

All the ninjas on the field were stunned.

The sound even clearly reached Toukushima City.

The residents of Toukushima City were increasingly in awe of ninjas.

"Is this the power of a ninja? Like gods!"

As everyone knew, not all ninjas had god-like power.

When the light and sound disappeared, what appeared before everyone was an extraordinary sight.

The top of Mount Kikyo was gone.

The entire mountaintop had been leveled by the explosion of [Purple], and the massive mountaintop disappeared from sight.

Rocks and plants were blasted into powder and scattered, while the inner rock veins of the mountain were also blasted into debris, covering the lower parts and slopes of the mountain.

As for Shukaku, he had completely vanished.

The only evidence of his existence was the yellow sand mixed with the ruins of Mount Kikyo.

As a Bijuu, Shukaku was not truly dead.

Shukaku's consciousness would disappear along with his chakra, but he would be resurrected in the desert of the Land of Wind one day after several years.

Buried with this death, surprisingly, was the peak of Mount Kikyo.

In the eyes of everyone on the battlefield, Shintaro, who leveled the mountain, was no different from a demon or a god.

The ninjas of Sunagakure and Konoha unanimously considered Shintaro, who was flying in the air, as a more terrifying existence than a Bijuu.

Of course, Shintaro's condition was also not very good.

After releasing this extremely powerful [Purple], the chakra in his body was almost at its lowest point, and the Cursed Energy had been drained so much that his breathing became irregular.

Shintaro took a breath on the spot and looked at the leveled Mount Kikyo in the distance, ensuring that Shukaku's aura had completely disappeared.

"It seems the Bijuu are no more than this."

The Bijuu, which the world deemed very powerful, in his presence now, were just troublesome prey but could be killed with a lot of effort.

Except for the Kyuubi.

Shintaro had come into contact with several Bijuu now.

The ones he killed with his own hands were Ichibi and Hachibi, and he had also seen the chakra of Sanbi leaking out.

But what scared Shintaro the most was when Kyuubi broke its seal when he was still young.

If it wasn't for Minato's help at that time, Shintaro would have certainly died young.

At that time, he hadn't regained his memories and awakened his Innate Technique. If he encountered Kyuubi and fully opened its seal, he would have surely died.

This incident left a significant shadow in Shintaro's heart.

But apart from the psychological shadow factor, the Kyuubi's power was indeed superior to other Bijuu.

The combined strength of Hachibi, Sanbi, and Ichibi might not be as strong as Kyuubi.

It was precisely because Kyuubi's power was too strong that Konoha treated the Jinchuuriki Uzumaki Kushina so harshly.

Even with the Uzumaki Clan's lineage and sealing techniques, they couldn't fully control Kyuubi.

Of course, this was all for later.

Shintaro believed that with Kushina's sealing techniques, Kyuubi would remain peaceful, and whatever happened, Minato would provide protection.

And even if Kyuubi's seal broke, Shintaro was not afraid now, but it would just feel more challenging.

He sighed inwardly and considered it a rest to regain energy.

Then he turned his gaze downward.

"The Bijuu has been dealt with, next is Kazekage, Rasa."

Shintaro wanted to completely defeat Sunagakure in this battle and hand over a Sunagakure that had completely lost its war potential to Pakura.

In this way, even if Pakura became Kazekage, she would not be a threat to Konoha.

This was Shintaro's consideration as a Konoha ninja. After all, even if they cooperated, they couldn't abandon their respective positions.

There were two highest powers in a major nation's ninja village.

One was the Bijuu, considered a war weapon with terrifying destructive power. Only the five major countries and the Land of Taki had them. The other was the Kage, only five ninjas standing at the top ranks among tens of thousands of ninjas in the ninja world could earn the title of Kage.

This was the exclusive name for the leaders of the five major ninja villages. As for the independent influence of some small villages, of course, it was not included.