Chapter 545: The Terrified One-Tail

Seeing this, Gaara's pupils constricted. With a wave of one hand, a surge of yellow sand rushed toward Deidara, while his other hand aimed at Su Xiao.

"Sand Binding Coffin."

Yellow sand rose from beneath Su Xiao's feet, rapidly climbing up the arm holding his blade.

Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy wrapped around Su Xiao's sword-wielding arm, extinguishing the chakra within the sand. Gaara had no choice but to continue channeling chakra to keep the sand from dissipating.

A tremendous constricting and pulling force came from Su Xiao's right arm, but this could not stop him from slowly slicing through Temari's throat.

"Scream. Let him save you."

Su Xiao leaned his head close to Temari's ear. Temari bit her silver teeth together, not making a sound. She felt as if a demon were whispering in her ear, and at the same time, she guessed Su Xiao's objective.

"Gaara, don't worry about me, that enemy in the sky..."

Before Temari could finish shouting, Su Xiao exerted force with the hand gripping her, and Temari's body began to go limp.

Temari was Gaara's sister, and now that the two had restored their intimate sibling relationship, Gaara would never watch Temari die.

"Hmph—"

Gaara's masseter muscles bulged as he began to grapple with Su Xiao.

"Sand Pillar."

Gaara lifted his palm, and a sand pillar rose beneath Su Xiao, knocking him into the air. At the same time, a wisp of yellow sand coiled around Temari, snatching her from the hands of the 'Grim Reaper'.

Temari, suspended in mid-air, gasped for breath. Seeing Su Xiao already knocked away, her eyes were filled with fear and hatred. Perhaps she would have a shadow over her whenever she encountered Su Xiao in the future; just imagine, what kind of experience it is to have a blade slowly cut across one's throat.

Su Xiao was knocked into mid-air. He pulled hard with his left hand, retracting the World Severing Line below. Temari being rescued was him intentionally holding back; otherwise, she would have been dead long ago.

Had Su Xiao suddenly become soft-hearted? Of course not. His purpose in coming to the Sand Ninja Village was not to kill how many Sand Ninjas, but to capture the Jinchuriki.

Adjusting his center of gravity in mid-air, a clay bird rushed beneath his feet, carrying him up and charging straight into the high sky.

Gaara controlled the sand to place Temari on the ground, and he let out a long sigh of relief in his heart.

"Hey, when fighting me, where are you looking?"

Deidara's voice came. Gaara's eyes held some helplessness, but he had no choice; he had to save Temari.

"Explode!"

Boom!

The firelight instantly swallowed Gaara, and the sand was blasted splashing in all directions.

This was Su Xiao's objective: to attract Gaara's attention and create an opportunity for Deidara. It was very clear he had succeeded, very successfully.

The explosive firelight receded, and a somewhat distorted sand sphere floated in mid-air.

Su Xiao controlled the clay bird to fly near Deidara.

"How is it?"

"Directly hit the main body. The One-Tail Jinchuriki can barely hold on. If I hadn't held back, that last hit would have definitely killed him. After all, you bought me a lot of time, hmm."

As Deidara spoke, he threw another clay bomb. He had originally intended to have a bitter battle with Gaara, but because Su Xiao created the opportunity, Deidara seized the chance to severely injure Gaara. This was what cooperation was.

Boom, boom...

Explosions rang out across the Sand Ninja Village. The Sand Ninjas were not idle either; they pushed out large crossbows, and crossbow bolts wrapped in explosive tags shot toward Su Xiao and his companion.

Now the sky was even livelier, sounding incessantly like fireworks.

Su Xiao maneuvered the clay bird to dodge the bolts, the airflow generated by the explosions causing his windbreaker to flap loudly.

Deidara had transformed into a 'bomber', raining destruction down on the sand sphere where Gaara was located.

A crossbow bolt shot toward Deidara. Su Xiao slashed out a blade glow, which instantly severed the bolt. Because he hadn't mastered the blade glow for long, Su Xiao wasn't very used to using it in intense combat.

Crossbow bolts shot rapidly, blade glows crisscrossed. No matter how dense the bolts the Sand Ninjas fired, they just couldn't do anything to Su Xiao and his companion.

Boom.

Deidara threw the last clay bomb in his hand. The sand sphere floating not far away was already swaying and on the verge of collapse.

"Can only use C18, hmm."

Just as Deidara prepared to use his ultimate move, Su Xiao had already controlled the clay bird to rush toward that sand sphere.

"I'll do it. C18 is good for dealing with the Sand Ninja Village."

Deidara hesitated for a moment and nodded; this was indeed a good choice.

Deidara flew to the high sky to dodge the bolts, leaving the matter of capturing the Jinchuriki to Su Xiao. Gaara had already been blasted half-dead by him.

The clay bird rushed toward the sand sphere. Su Xiao leaped down from the clay bird, jumping directly toward the sand sphere in mid-air.

Several sand spikes grew out of the already tattered sand sphere. Because Gaara was too severely injured, the speed of these sand spikes was very slow.

Before the sand spikes could pierce Su Xiao, he had already slashed out a blade.

Clang.

The sand spikes were severed, the chakra within them extinguished, and the fine sand drifted away.

Su Xiao stood on the sand sphere, sand spikes sprouting from beneath his feet. He paid no mind to these sand spikes, instead thrusting his blade into the sand sphere.

A muffled groan came from inside the sand sphere; this blade had stabbed Gaara.

Su Xiao pulled the Dragon Flash out a bit and began to drag it, cutting a circular opening at the top of the sand sphere.

Moonlight shone into the pitch-black sand sphere. Gaara inside was covered in blood and could no longer stand, but he still raised his head.

Su Xiao's face was reflected in Gaara's eyes. Gaara wanted to raise his hand to control the yellow sand, but Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy was rampaging within his body.

"Hello, One-Tail Jinchuriki."

A smile appeared on Su Xiao's face, revealing a few white teeth.

Gaara's heart twitched, and an emotion called fear emerged.

Su Xiao jumped into the sand sphere. If someone were observing carefully, they would definitely notice that light blue smoke was drifting from his left hand, and a terrifying suction force appeared.

Devouring Core: Lv. MAX (Active Skill)

Skill Effect: Can absorb high-level biological energy to nourish Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, increasing the level and quality of Green Qing Qing Gang Ying based on the level and quality of the absorbed energy.

Su Xiao jumped into the sand sphere. A layer of red chakra appeared on Gaara's body inside the sphere; that was the unique chakra of a Tailed Beast, a type of high-level biological energy.

"Brat, let me out, quickly!!"

The One-Tail Shukaku was almost roaring as it shouted at Gaara, but it was already too late. Su Xiao's left hand pressed onto Gaara's face.

Whoosh~!

Light blue smoke wrapped around Gaara. A vortex appeared in Su Xiao's palm, and the chakra within Gaara was forcibly sucked out. To be precise, this wasn't Gaara's chakra, but the One-Tail Shukaku's chakra.

Visible light red chakra surged into Su Xiao's arm. After passing through his arm, the chakra slowly approached his chest, where there was an extremely complex energy ball responsible for storing and converting energy.

"Ah!!!"

The One-Tail Shukaku let out a miserable scream. It felt a huge threat; this human was not only absorbing its chakra but also its origin power at the same time.

Losing some chakra was nothing, but if its origin power were absorbed, Shukaku's combat power and lifespan would decrease drastically.

The One-Tail Shukaku tried to struggle, but unfortunately, a type of light blue smoke wrapped around it, making it unable to move a fraction.

The Tailed Beast chakra Su Xiao absorbed was stored in the energy ball near his heart. As soon as the Tailed Beast chakra entered the energy ball, it began to convert, turning into a colorless energy.

As soon as this colorless energy appeared within his body, the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy within him became active to the extreme, almost instantly wrapping around this colorless energy. This time, Green Qing Qing Gang Ying, for the first time ever, did not extinguish other energy, but devoured it like a starving wolf.

【Due to absorbing the energy converted by the Devouring Core, Green Qing Qing Gang Ying level has increased.】

【Green Qing Qing Gang Ying has increased to Lv. 11.】

【Green Qing Qing Gang Ying has increased to Lv. 12.】

【Green Qing Qing Gang Ying has increased to Lv. 13.】

Green Qing Qing Gang Ying rose three levels in a row, and this wasn't all; Su Xiao was still continuing to absorb the Tailed Beast chakra.

"Human, wait, let's discuss this. How about sealing me into your body? I can share chakra with you. That is a move stronger than Sage Mode." ===== CHAPTER 546 =====