Chapter 410

"I woke up too fast; I woke up to see Xiao Meng fighting two."

Uchiha Gin pinched his own thigh, his dull, dead-fish eyes wide open.

"Rumble!"

In the canyon, the red-and-silver giant was confronting two ferocious mechanical beasts. As its massive body moved slightly, the fragile earth immediately emitted a deafening roar.

"Xia!"

Senju Tobirama, in a defensive stance, made an unintelligible sound, his egg-shaped eyes scanning left and right, constantly monitoring the movements of the Silver-Gold brothers.

"Roar!"

The Silver-Gold brothers looked at each other, tacitly choosing not to act rashly.

Without understanding the power of the red giant before them, they chose to remain still, meeting changes with constancy.

Is this the power after transformation?

Taking advantage of the brothers' wariness, Senju Tobirama felt the terrifying power after transformation. After a brief shock, he began to analyze the core of this transformation system.

"It's similar to chakra compression and then materialization technology..."

A faint light flickered in Senju Tobirama's eyes; he seemed to have some guesses about the transformation system.

However...

Looking at himself, who had also turned into intangible chakra particles, Senju Tobirama completely gave up thinking.

This didn't fall under his research expertise; he'd find a non-professional to ask when he got back.

"Achoo!"

Uchiha Gin, who was looking forward to a super-dimensional brawl, felt his nose itch. After a violent sneeze, he scratched his head thoughtfully.

"It's been a minute; why haven't they started yet?"

His gaze fell on the three who were as motionless as mountains. Uchiha Gin frowned slightly; the universal transformation bracelet had a time limit—three minutes, not a second more, not a second less.

"They'd really rather do nothing than make a mistake."

Within these precious three minutes, if Senju Tobirama didn't do something, he could only send a song of "Cool" to Bai Mao and wish him a safe journey.

"This feels a bit bad."

Senju Tobirama, confronting the Silver-Gold brothers, suddenly discovered a problem: the light particles floating around him were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He thought it was an illusion, but the emptiness in his heart didn't feel fake. Senju Tobirama's heart sank; he knew he couldn't drag this out any longer.

Xia!

Thinking of this, Senju Tobirama stopped cowering, swung his arms, and threw several light darts at Ginkaku, who was relatively weaker.

"Swish~"

"Bang!"

"Roar! Ah~ Meow!"

Ginkaku, caught off guard by the light darts hitting his face, let out a painful cry, and dazzling sparks immediately erupted from his body, followed by acrid black smoke rising.

"He's a quick learner; worthy of being an old fox."

Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow. Senju Tobirama was worthy of being one of the top geniuses in Konoha, to be able to figure out the Ultraman fighting style on his own so quickly.

"Roar!"

How could Kinkaku watch his brother being bullied? He immediately manipulated the mechanical Eight-Tails to rush toward Senju Tobirama, the electric drill bull horns on its head emitting a harsh roaring sound.

Xia!

Glancing at the mechanical Eight-Tails attacking from behind, Senju Tobirama immediately gave up on beating the "fallen cat," leaped high into the air,

and after flipping a few times in the air, using the gravity of his descent, he delivered a swallow-style flying kick toward the exposed back of the mechanical Eight-Tails.

"Boom!"

Kinkaku felt pain in his back; this kick from the sky almost knocked his ink out. Enduring the pain, he manipulated the mechanical tentacles to spread upward, grabbing Senju Tobirama's ankle.

"Hmph! Got you."

The mechanical tentacles climbed up his leg very nimbly. Seeing they were about to invade the "triangle area," Senju Tobirama's hair stood on end, his brain spinning rapidly to find a way to break the situation.

Looking at his empty hands, Senju Tobirama thought fiercely,

If I had a sword in my hand now, I would definitely turn this hateful guy into a steak and octopus ball set meal.

As soon as this thought arose, Senju Tobirama felt a burst of heat in his arm.

"Swish!"

Before he could react, a crimson light sword suddenly extended, the blade radiating a sharp edge—it looked like a peerless sword capable of cutting gold and jade.

With no time to think, Senju Tobirama raised the light sword on his arm and performed his signature swordsmanship.

Following several blinding flashes of light, the ferocious mechanical tentacles were severed inch by inch, falling to the ground and emitting buzzing cries of agony.

"Ah!"

Kinkaku, who shared senses with the Eight-Tails, couldn't help but cry out in pain. The existence of these tentacles was equivalent to his fifth limb.

Every one that broke was a pain of severing a root, let alone eight at once; this kind of phantom limb pain was hard for ordinary people to describe.

After landing gracefully, Senju Tobirama shook off the sticky ink on the light sword, the tip pointing directly at the Silver-Gold brothers, one holding his face and the other holding his butt.

Strike while the iron is hot!

Senju Tobirama wasn't the type to drag things out. As long as there was an opportunity, he would definitely go for it. So, he swung the light sword in his hand, approaching the two at high speed, sword falling as his hand moved, intending to cut off their cat heads and bull horns.

"Clang!"

But things didn't go as planned. Kinkaku endured the sharp pain, raised his bull horns, and the rapidly rotating drill blocked the descending light sword.

"Swish!"

Seeing his light sword about to repeat Jing-zai's mistake, Senju Tobirama, with quick eyes and fast hands, immediately withdrew his hand, retreated a few steps to open the distance, and looked for the next attack opportunity.

"Ginkaku, are you feeling better?"

Controlling the Tailed Beast chakra to begin repairing the tentacles, Kinkaku asked about his brother's condition with concern.

"Hateful Bai Mao, my eyes!"

Ginkaku stood up, cursing. The part of his face that was smoking black had mostly recovered, leaving only a few broken whiskers slowly growing.

"Don't underestimate him; he's more troublesome than the blue one before."

Kinkaku warned in a deep voice. Ginkaku didn't refute, nodding in deep agreement.

"Attack together!"

The brothers, having regained their morale, decided to join forces to face the enemy. Ginkaku took the lead, controlling the mechanical Two-Tails to leap high, spraying several black Tailed Beast Bombs at Senju Tobirama, who was holding his sword in the air.

Watching the incoming light bombs, Senju Tobirama calmly flicked his hand, shooting out several light darts. The two collided and exploded in the air, and the smoke obscuring their vision instantly filled the entire battlefield.

"Swish~"

Senju Tobirama, shrouded in smoke, held his sword in front of his chest, maintaining twelve points of vigilance. However, a tentacle bypassed his vision, crawled over from a tricky angle, and suddenly wrapped around his ankle.

Xia!

Senju Tobirama's internal alarm bells rang loudly. He immediately raised the light sword in his hand, intending to make Kinkaku taste the pain of severing a root again.

But just as he raised his sword, a silver figure pounced from behind him, and the tentacle under his feet exerted force at the same time, causing the red giant's body to fall uncontrollably.

"Rumble~"

"Damn it!"

Senju Tobirama, knocked down by the tacit cooperation of the Silver-Gold brothers, didn't dare to be the least bit negligent. The moment he hit the ground, he turned around, landing on his back.

Before he could catch his breath, what entered his vision was the bloody mouth of the mechanical Two-Tails, its teeth made of steel flashing with cold light.

At the critical moment, Senju Tobirama turned his head, causing the mechanical Two-Tails' bloody mouth to miss. Ginkaku naturally wouldn't let it go; if he couldn't bite the head, he could bite other places.

"Squish!"

He immediately took a bite at Senju Tobirama's shoulder. As the sharp teeth entered his body, even an iron-willed man would be unable to help but scream. Senju Tobirama was no exception.

"Uh!"

After a muffled groan, he endured the pain and swung the light sword in his hand. Ginkaku had to open his mouth and jump backward, and Kinkaku also sensibly let go of the ankle and disappeared into the smoke.

"Phew~ Phew~ Phew~"

Holding his shoulder, Senju Tobirama stood up, turned his head to look at the chakra light particles overflowing from the wound, and his heart sank.

Feeling that he didn't have much time left, Senju Tobirama prepared to end the battle quickly. He first swung the light sword in his hand rapidly in a spiral shape.

A hurricane rose on the spot, instantly blowing away the surrounding smoke and dust, and also exposing the positions of the Silver-Gold brothers.

"Swish~"

Senju Tobirama raised his sword and charged again. The Silver-Gold brothers knew they couldn't avoid a melee, so they controlled the mechanical Tailed Beasts to step forward to meet the enemy. The collision of the light sword and the machinery sparked countless fires in the dark night, like fireworks celebrating.

The red giant moved flexibly between the two mechanical beasts. Every time the light sword in his hand swung past, countless fragments flew, and the scene was intense.

"Bang!"

The silver wild tiger fell to the ground, its scarred body covered in large and small knife wounds. Ginkaku's eyes were spitting fire, but more of it was helplessness. Senju Tobirama's swordsmanship was indeed brilliant, and the two brothers couldn't take him down for a while.

"Big brother, let's use that!"

In desperation, Ginkaku suggested. Kinkaku, who was fighting with Senju Tobirama, heard this, immediately retreated to open the distance, turned to look at his solemn brother, thought for a moment, and nodded lightly.

What are they going to do?

Senju Tobirama looked at the two brothers who were muttering, and a sense of unease welled up in his heart. Feeling the few chakra light particles left in his body, he knew he couldn't drag this out any longer.

Waving his hand to disperse the light sword, Senju Tobirama mobilized the few chakra light particles in his body and gathered them on his arms.

And the Silver-Gold brothers not far away also reached a consensus. The two steel beasts stood in a row, simultaneously opening their mouths, and black, unstable energy condensed within them.

When the energy was compressed to the limit, the Silver-Gold brothers completed the loading first. The black energy in their mouths merged into one, condensing a huge black Tailed Beast Bomb in front of them, with visible, irritable energy floating on its surface.

"Super Tailed Beast Bomb!"

The super-large Tailed Beast Bomb released by the Silver-Gold brothers had several times the power of an ordinary Tailed Beast Bomb, and one hit could turn everything within a hundred miles into ashes.

"Roar!"

Seeing the skill successfully condensed, the Silver-Gold brothers spoke at the same time. The huge Tailed Beast Bomb rushed toward Senju Tobirama with unstoppable force, everything along the way being razed to the ground by the destructive aura emitted by the black light ball.

"Xia!"

Between life and death, Senju Tobirama didn't choose to retreat. He saw his right palm cover the bracelet on his left wrist, rotate the embedded red gemstone, poured the condensed energy into it, then opened his arms over his head to form an "eight" shape, and then combined his hands into a cross shape.

"Rumble!"

Instantly, a golden light poured out, crashing straight into the super-large Tailed Beast Bomb, stopping the black light ball's forward progress.

However, before he could show joy, the black light ball began to move again. Seeing this situation, Senju Tobirama gritted his teeth, extracted the remaining energy in his body, and the golden light was stained with a hint of crimson.

"Roar!"

The Silver-Gold brothers looked at each other. The two had just released the Super Tailed Beast Bomb and couldn't release other skills for a while, so the two leaped forward, preparing to attack Senju Tobirama's main body, leaving him no time to defend against the Tailed Beast Bomb's attack.

"How can I fall here?!"

Seeing the sharp tiger claws and spiral bull horns about to fall, Senju Tobirama erupted with unprecedented energy. The golden light in his hand became extremely thick, instantly shooting through the black Tailed Beast Bomb. After a brief silence, a mushroom cloud rose over the canyon.

As the scorching heat wave completely dissipated, the battlefield was unrecognizable. The heat wave of over a thousand degrees Celsius invaded the entire canyon.

The sparse vegetation within a hundred meters was directly carbonized, the fragile rocks were burned to a charred black, and the three huge figures were nowhere to be seen, as if they had never been there.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Following a violent coughing sound, an arm broke through the soil on the charred ground. Kinkaku, wearing armor, crawled out of the ground, his eyes full of the daze of having survived a disaster.

"Right, Ginkaku!"

Kinkaku was stunned for a few seconds before realizing his teammate was gone, so he immediately started searching, finally finding the unconscious Ginkaku under a stone wall.

"Slap, slap, slap~"

Worried that his brother would sleep forever, Kinkaku immediately gave his big face a few slaps, making his hard faceplate ring loudly.

"Uh... Big brother, is this the Pure Land?"

Ginkaku opened his eyes in a daze, and what entered his vision was his brother's concerned gaze. His whole body aching, he asked in a murmur.

"Idiot, don't drag me with you if you want to die."

Curling his lip in annoyance, Kinkaku threw Ginkaku aside, stood up, and began to search for Senju Tobirama's whereabouts.

"Did he run away? Over there!"

Kinkaku, who had searched around without any gain, began to speculate on Senju Tobirama's movements, but found a figure lying on the ground not far from him.

Walking closer, as he expected, it was Senju Tobirama, who had been entangled with them for a long time.

"Is he dead?"

Bending down, carefully observing Senju Tobirama's state, he found that he was severely burned, his skin was not a single piece of good flesh, there was no rise and fall in his chest, and there was no fluctuation in either his physical signs or his aura.

"He actually died just like that?"

Silent for a long time, Kinkaku slowly stood up, his large eyes full of confusion. When an unattainable goal was completed, only endless emptiness remained in his heart.

"Phew~"

After a long sigh, Kinkaku didn't choose to whip the corpse. After all, he was also a strong man with a face, and he couldn't do such a low-class thing as desecrating a corpse.

Not finding the small Nine-Tails card he had lost on the other party, Kinkaku had to give up. After taking one last deep look at Senju Tobirama's corpse, he turned and walked to Ginkaku.

"Big brother, why aren't you finishing him off?"

Ginkaku blinked in confusion.

"No need, he's already dead."

The exhausted aura wouldn't lie; Senju Tobirama had indeed died in the battle with them. Kinkaku pulled Ginkaku up, a strange light flashing in his eyes.

"Let's go back to the village."

After the two brothers left, a black door opened beside Senju Tobirama's corpse, and Uchiha Gin walked out slowly.

Looking down at the lifeless Bai Mao, his heart felt a bit complicated. Although the two had some personal grudges, in the end, they were now fellow villagers in the same village, and there was even a bit of family connection.

"Sigh~ Bai Mao, let me give you a grand funeral~"

Uchiha Gin shook his head, put his hands together, and prepared to make a fine coffin for Senju Tobirama. However, before the Wood Release chakra could condense, he felt a slight palpitation coming from the Bai Mao in front of him.

"No way? You can still fake your death?"

He was just about to reach out and pull Senju Tobirama's eyelids to see if there were black tomoe in his crimson eyeballs, and if this kid had secretly transplanted a Sharingan to revive by inserting a coin.

"Whoosh!"

Before he could get close, Uchiha Gin saw a scorching aura erupt from the red bracelet on Senju Tobirama's wrist. A wisp of dark red chakra rose from it, then condensed into a huge fox head.

"Huh? I just connected to the internet, why is the screen black?"

The fox head's fierce eyes were filled with ignorance. Looking down at the lifeless Senju Tobirama, it was speechless for a moment.

It had been happy to get on its small account to play, but before it could enjoy itself, it showed that the character had already died.

Uchiha Gin escaped into the Realm of Shadows the moment the Nine-Tails chakra appeared, watching the Nine-Tails scratching its head with great interest.

"Phew~ This guy is pretty good; it's a pity to die just like that."

Having figured out the situation, the Nine-Tails' long, narrow fox eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness. It had peeked into Senju Tobirama's memory before and knew he was a good person in a sense.

That's right, as long as you target Uchiha Madara, in the Nine-Tails' eyes, you are the number one good person in the world.

"The energy of this clone should be enough."

After thinking for a long time, the Nine-Tails made a decision that went against its ancestors. It gritted its teeth, extracted all the chakra of this Nine-Tails clone, and then poured it violently into Senju Tobirama's body. The body, which had exhausted its vitality, gradually began to recover its activity.

"Crack~"

Just as the Nine-Tails was trying to revive Senju Tobirama, a crisp cracking sound rang out. The universal transformation bracelet on Senju Tobirama's wrist actually developed cracks, and the red gemstone embedded in the middle was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Sure enough, this prototype can't withstand such powerful force?"

Uchiha Gin in the Realm of Shadows shook his head thoughtfully when he saw this scene. The transformation device he gave Jing-zai was originally a test product used to test strength. Just with the strength of the Nine-Tails in front of him, it was indeed a bit reluctant.

"Uh..."

But fortunately, just before the bracelet was completely scrapped, a faint moan came from Senju Tobirama's mouth. The Nine-Tails wiped the non-existent cold sweat on its forehead, looking at the gradually waking Bai Mao with satisfaction.

"This great one is worthy of being the most loving Tailed Beast. The old man in heaven will definitely feel comforted~"

In the Pure Land:

The Sage of Six Paths, lying on a massage chair, opened his eyes in confusion.

"Huh? Didn't an Asura descendant come to report just now? How did he disappear in the blink of an eye?"

He had finally waited for another good soul, and was preparing to collect it for great use later!

"Don't let me know which bastard stole my soul!"

A look of displeasure appeared on his face, and the Sage of Six Paths slowly closed his eyes again, and the massage hands under his butt began to work frantically again.

"Hey~ That feels good!"

"Is this the Pure Land?"

Struggling to open his eyelids, Senju Tobirama looked at the pitch-black night sky, and his sluggish brain began to turn. Feeling the pain coming from his body, he slowly raised a hand.

"No, I'm still alive."

Lying on the ground to rest for a long time, Senju Tobirama, who had recovered some strength, propped up his body, looking at the messy canyon around him, his expression changed rapidly. His memory was still stuck at the moment of the Tailed Beast Bomb clash with the Silver-Gold brothers.

He only remembered a scorching heat wave blowing toward him, the transformation couldn't be maintained, he returned to human form and fell to the ground, and was immediately swallowed by the scorching light.

"Did you save my life?"

Knowing that his mortal body couldn't survive in that situation, Senju Tobirama immediately focused his gaze on the bracelet on his wrist. Looking at the transformation bracelet full of cracks and the dim gemstone, he immediately guessed the general idea.

"That curly-haired guy isn't completely useless."

Forcibly attributing the credit for his survival to Uchiha Gin, if the Nine-Tails thousands of miles away knew, it would probably squeeze onto the account and scold him for three days and three nights.

"But it's a pity for this ninja tool."

Looking at the appearance of the bracelet, it didn't look like it could be repaired. Senju Tobirama sighed, took it off, stuffed it into his backpack, and didn't remember the words he had promised Uchiha Jing at all.

"Study it after returning to the village, and strive to replicate one of my own one-to-one."

The injuries on his body recovered to about the same, Senju Tobirama exerted his perception, and found that it had recovered as before. Countless Flying Thunder God coordinates emerged in his mind.

It seems that the explosion just now destroyed the sealing technique set by the Silver-Gold brothers. Senju Tobirama was overjoyed and immediately locked the coordinates to Konoha Village.

"Swish~"

A blue light flashed, and Senju Tobirama disappeared from the spot.

"Everyone, hurry up, Master is still waiting for us to bring reinforcements!"

A team of six people was galloping in the forest of the Land of Fire. They were all pale, and they all had injuries to varying degrees. Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was running at the front, shouted anxiously to the teammates behind him.

"Yes!"

The group felt refreshed upon hearing this, and without any objection, they just kept running. After days and nights of rushing, they finally stood at the gate of Konoha when the sky turned white.

"Who are you..."

Today's gate guard was an unknown civilian ninja. He looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen and the others who were anxious, waved his hand to stop them from breaking through the gate.

"We are here to bring reinforcements, go notify Lord Shadow Assistant quickly!"

Unable to care about talking more with the guard, Sarutobi Hiruzen directly asked the other party to pass the message upward. After saying that, he was worried that the other party wouldn't take it seriously, so he added a sentence.

"If you don't go quickly, Lord Village Secretary will be dead!"

"..."

As a result, as soon as these words came out, the guard who was about to pass the emergency message stopped, turned his head, and looked at the anxious group with a very strange look, his hand quietly touching the signal flare behind him.

"Say that again, I didn't hear clearly?"

Out of caution, the guard asked again.

"Lord Village Secretary fell into a bitter battle to save us, hurry up and gather troops to go and help!"

Time waits for no one. Every step they were late, Senju Tobirama was in more danger.

"Swish! Pop!"

Just as Sarutobi Hiruzen finished speaking, the guard immediately sounded the alarm, and the peaceful and serene Konoha Village suddenly became lively.

"What are you doing?"

"Bold spy, surrender quickly, Lord Village Secretary clearly returned last night!"