Chapter 244: Failed Verbal Persuasion

The sudden change startled everyone present, causing them all to look up.

Eight-Tails halted its motion, gazing at the figure in the sky, its large eyes filled with confusion.

Then he saw that blue-red figure transform into a streak of flame and surge toward him.

Eight-Tails instinctively swung one of its tails hard, but what happened next left it stunned.

Boom—

In a muffled crash, the massive tail was violently flung away.

Before Eight-Tails could react, countless chains shot out from behind the blue-red figure.

Golden Chain Sealing!

Since Li Ang had already broken ties with the Six Paths Sage, he no longer needed to hide his true power.

Chains glowing with a faint golden light instantly wrapped and bound Eight-Tails.

"No wonder this technique can suppress the Nine-Tails."

In the original plot, Kushina, weakened right after childbirth, could use this technique to suppress the Nine-Tails—let alone Li Ang, now in perfect condition.

"What?!"

Eight-Tails, tightly bound by chakra chains, showed a flicker of shock and immediately began struggling.

The more it struggled, the tighter the Golden Chain Sealing chains became.

At that moment, Li Ang had already descended like a blue-red meteor onto its head.

Boom—!

Under immense force, Eight-Tails' head was driven clean into the ground.

At this point, the reversed situation left everyone present speechless.

Especially Bofengshui Sect, the Fourth Hokage, who stared blankly at Li Ang's ability—identical to his wife's.

Senju, Sharingan, Uzumaki.

Who exactly is this person?!

Seeing this scene, Xiao Nan spoke: "Looks like I don't need to help."

To be honest, when the blue-red giant vanished just now, Xiao Nan had nearly believed the capture operation would fail.

Eight-Tails' jinchūriki's strength was far beyond expectations, not to mention the strange condition of the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki beside him.

At that moment, a voice rang out from afar across the battlefield.

"Changmen!"

It was Li Ang.

He was using Golden Chain Sealing to pin down the Eight-Tails beneath him.

Hearing the voice, Changmen snapped back to attention; without further instruction from Li Ang, he swiftly formed hand seals.

Summoning: Outer Demon Statue!

Amid a great burst of white smoke, the Outer Demon Statue—with six eyes now open—appeared at the battlefield's edge.

The Outer Demon Statue doesn't require the Demonic Statue: Nine-Tails Sealing Technique to extract tailed beasts; it's just that the latter causes less destruction.

But under these circumstances, the Akatsuki could not possibly use the Demonic Statue: Nine-Tails Sealing Technique to slowly extract the tailed beast.

This was the first time the Outer Demon Statue had ever appeared before the world.

As the grotesque statue opened its mouth wide, countless chains wrapped around Eight-Tails and dragged it toward its gaping maw.

This sight enraged Uzumaki Naruto: "Octopus Uncle!"

With those words, a pitch-black Tailed Beast Ball shot toward the Outer Demon Statue's position.

Yet Uchiha Sasuke, who should have intervened, inexplicably made no move.

Seeing this, Li Ang furrowed his brow—he couldn't let the other interfere with the Outer Demon Statue's extraction process.

"Indeed, one must rely on oneself."

With this thought, he clasped his hands together, and a surge of blue-red energy erupted from his body.

Sage Art: Wood Dragon Technique!

The next instant, the pitch-black Tailed Beast Ball was prematurely detonated by the massive wooden dragon.

The scorching air whipped through Li Ang's hair, but his expression remained utterly still; he swiftly formed hand seals and summoned a figure clad in a black robe with red clouds beside him.

Odin.

This dead Long Wang should finally play his part in this critical moment.

After completing these actions, Li Ang exhaled softly.

As Eight-Tails drew closer to the Outer Demon Statue, Uzumaki Naruto's expression grew increasingly frantic, and the golden fox immediately charged toward the Outer Demon Statue.