Chapter 59: The Expansion of Desire and the Forced Control of the Tailed Beast

The smile on Yamanaka Chujiu's face had only just appeared before it froze.

At the edge of his perception in the Mind Severing Realm, he sensed a large group of emotional sources—there were at least a hundred of them.

Judging by their emotional characteristics, these hundred-plus people were all Cloud Ninja, and they were Cloud Ninja who had not yet experienced defeat, were full of confidence, and were brimming with rage.

Being full of confidence meant they had not experienced defeat; they were neither the ninja from the supply center nor the ninja from the main frontline army.

Being brimming with rage meant they had seen the tragic state of the supply center.

Inferring from these two points, they must be the fresh reinforcements who had rushed over from Kumogakure, following Nii Yugito!

Yamanaka Chujiu was stunned and pained; he couldn't help but press his temples and mutter to himself in agony: "This is hell, how can there still be so many enemies?"

With so many Cloud Ninja entering the battlefield, the enemy's strength had formed a crushing advantage over him; no scheme was enough to bridge the gap.

Therefore, the plan he had just formulated had completely collapsed; no matter how heartbreaking it was, he could only give it up now.

But Yamanaka Chujiu did not expect that, after he painfully gave up the plan to control the Two-Tails Matatabi, his mind suddenly became clear.

Immediately, he shivered violently, and a deep sense of lingering fear welled up from the bottom of his heart.

It was too dangerous; he had almost led himself to his doom!

Perhaps because of the consecutive victories, or perhaps because of the feeling of wielding the battlefield like a chess player, Yamanaka Chujiu had unknowingly been controlled by greedy desires, making a choice that plunged both himself and Shisui Uchiha into danger.

That's right, he had been able to control the Two-Tails Matatabi and indirectly manipulate Nii Yugito's judgment; it seemed as if he could let her live or die at will.

But after letting go of his greed, he immediately realized that this was only a superficial phenomenon.

The Two-Tails Matatabi hadn't been this stupid since its first day; it had been such a silly cat ever since it was created by the Sage of Six Paths a thousand years ago.

But a thousand years had passed, and whether it was this silly cat, the Two-Tails, or that stupid bug, the Seven-Tails, they had all safely grown into Tailed Beasts that intimidated the Ninja World, never being controlled by anyone because of their stupidity.

Even if the ninja of that time were immature and hadn't developed Ninjutsu capable of controlling Tailed Beasts, the sages of the three great holy lands hadn't done it either—was it because they couldn't think of it, or because they couldn't do it?

Heh, Yamanaka Chujiu didn't believe it.

The Toad Sage, who could trick the brothers of the Sage of Six Paths into betraying their mother and guide the history of the Ninja World for a thousand years through prophecies, couldn't possibly have failed to think of controlling one or two Tailed Beasts as muscle for Myoboku Mountain.

Therefore, the mastermind is always watching you!

Tailed Beasts are absolutely not that easy to control!

Yamanaka Chujiu was struck with horror as he thought of a word: instinct!

That's right, it was instinct!

The excessive strength of this instinct allowed the Two-Tails Matatabi to be easily controlled by Yamanaka Chujiu, but this control existed only under the premise that it had not encountered real danger.

As long as Yamanaka Chujiu crossed the line and Matatabi encountered the danger of losing its life or freedom, its powerful instinct would inevitably launch a fierce counterattack.

Matatabi is a cat-shaped Tailed Beast, not a real cat; when its instinct is fully triggered, the effects would inevitably include immunity to mind control and a terrifying explosion of potential.

Perhaps a Shadow-level Ninja could defeat the Two-Tails Matatabi, whose base strength was not strong enough, through sheer power, but Yamanaka Chujiu could not.

What he excelled at was spirit and mind, not head-on, brute-force combat.

Yamanaka Chujiu silently calmed the lingering fear in his heart, calculated the time it would take for the hundred-plus Cloud Ninja to reach the battlefield, and a brand-new plan emerged in his mind.

A fierce light erupted from his eyes as he stared fixedly at the disoriented jinchuriki of the Two-Tails.

【Don't blame me, you all forced this!】

Yamanaka Chujiu gave up on erasing his own presence and used all his spiritual power to generate Thought Threads, which then densely wrapped around the Two-Tails Matatabi.

Sure enough, this operation crossed the anticipated danger threshold, and the Two-Tails' instinct keenly sensed the danger.

The Two-Tails, simple-minded and short-tempered, instantly lost control of its emotions, entered a berserk mode, and erupted with unprecedented Tailed Beast chakra.

The unfortunate jinchuriki ninja had only just noticed another ninja nearby; in her shock, she didn't have time to do anything before she was dazed by the berserk Tailed Beast chakra.

The dark blue Tailed Beast chakra gushed crazily from her body, and in the blink of an eye, it expanded into a dark blue fireball over ten meters in diameter and twenty meters in height.

The phantom of the Two-Tails Matatabi appeared within the fireball, quickly becoming clear and solid, initiating the process of Tailed Beast transformation.

As a massive amount of chakra poured out of her body, Yugito also regained consciousness.

She felt the Two-Tails losing control within her, panicked, and circulated her chakra, attempting to suppress the Tailed Beast.

But the Two-Tails was already completely berserk and was not something she could suppress.

Even upon feeling Yugito's resistance, the Two-Tails turned around and assaulted Yugito's mind, causing her to fall back into a dazed state.

At the very moment Matatabi assaulted Yugito's mind, Yamanaka Chujiu resolutely thrust his Thought Threads into the depths of Matatabi's mind.

This time, he was going to directly seize control of Matatabi's consciousness, briefly turning it into a Mind Transfer Puppet, and use the power of the Tailed Beast to crush the Cloud Ninja about to arrive on the battlefield.

As Yamanaka Chujiu's Thought Threads delved into the Two-Tails' mind, they were met with a terrifying mental storm, and ten percent of his thoughts were instantly shredded.

This mental storm did not belong to the Two-Tails Matatabi alone, but was driven collectively by the spiritual power of all nine Tailed Beasts; it was unimaginably powerful.

The shredding of his Thought Threads fed back into Yamanaka Chujiu's mind, causing a severe mental backlash.

Yamanaka Chujiu let out a muffled groan; black blood spilled from his ear canals and nostrils simultaneously, the veins on his forehead bulged like earthworms, and his complexion turned paper-white in an instant.

But he did not give up. Enduring the pain of his brain feeling like it was boiling, and ignoring the fact that his Thought Threads were being stripped away and shredded layer by layer by the mental storm, he forcibly wrapped them around the Two-Tails Matatabi's consciousness, eroding it with all his might and attempting to seize control.

Yamanaka Chujiu was having a hard time, and Nii Yugito was having an even harder time.

Her body stood stiffly on the ground, her eyes rolled back, and she did not dodge or evade Shisui Uchiha's attacks, relying on the Tailed Beast Cloak that came with the Tailed Beast transformation process to withstand the damage.

Shisui Uchiha had no idea what was happening; he could only attack Yugito desperately, yet he was completely unable to cause any damage.

Kunai could not shake the Tailed Beast Cloak, and Fire Release was absorbed by the Tailed Beast Cloak, instead strengthening the enemy's power.

Even his strongest Sharingan Genjutsu could not affect Yugito, who had lost consciousness.

Shisui Uchiha discovered in shock and anger that he could do nothing; he could only stop and retreat in panic, lest his rash actions harm Yamanaka Chujiu.

Time passed bit by bit, and before his spiritual power was exhausted, Yamanaka Chujiu finally succeeded in suppressing the Two-Tails' consciousness and directly seized control of its body.

He opened his eyes and smiled slightly at Uchiha: "Success."