Naruto: I Have a Gravity Training Room-Chapter 481 - 479

"You really are a threat. Then I absolutely can't let you live!"

Isshiki climbed back to his feet, killing intent bursting out of him.

The calm façade from before, the master strategist posture, was completely gone now.

Because he understood it clearly. He had severely underestimated these people. Panic was inevitable. He could no longer pretend to be composed, and he was desperate to wipe them out as fast as possible.

Otherwise, it wouldn't just be the Divine Tree plan that failed.

He might not even keep his life.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had hidden in the shinobi world for over a thousand years. He hadn't endured all that just to die now.

He was going to cultivate a chakra fruit, then ascend as a god of the Ōtsutsuki. Otherwise, what would all those years of patience and humiliation amount to, if not a joke?

Isshiki's gaze locked mainly on Sasuke, or more specifically, on the pitch-black blade in Sasuke's hand. The space-warping power coming off that weapon made him feel genuine danger.

So he had to kill that Rinne Sharingan user first.

As for Naruto and Neji, they were troublesome, but he was confident he could beat them.

Isshiki stopped hesitating.

His eyes changed.

One became the Byakugan. The other turned yellow, with a black, rice-character pattern in the pupil. It was his most unusual eye, his "Kokugan (Black Eye)."

In the next instant, he used the Kokugan's power to summon something enormous.

A colossal beast rose like a mountain, ten tails sweeping behind it.

The second Ten-Tails.

He finally couldn't hold back, and brought it out.

Natsuki, Orochimaru, and Hashirama all lit up with excitement. They'd been worrying they couldn't find it. Now the enemy had delivered it personally.

Which meant the next step was obvious.

Seal the Ten-Tails.

Isshiki immediately issued an order. "Ten-Tails, you deal with the blue-eyed one and the blond."

The moment he finished speaking, a crack spread across his abdomen with a sharp snap. His expression turned even uglier.

He shut the Byakugan and the Kokugan. "It seems Jigen's body can't handle any more of my power. If I keep outputting, this body will be ruined. This trash body. It was never worthy of being my vessel. Damn it. If I'd already found a proper vessel, I wouldn't be forced into this!"

Jigen was furious.

He'd hidden for more than a thousand years and still hadn't found a suitable vessel. So he'd had to keep using Jigen's weak body, unable to reincarnate. The moment he reincarnated into Jigen, he'd only live a few days. A body that couldn't bear his power would only break down. Before that happened, he had to find a new body and implant a Kāma mark, or it was a dead end.

That wretched body was the reason he'd been dragged into this predicament.

Or rather, being stuck with that body was the reason he'd been forced to hide for a thousand years in the first place. If not for that, he would've succeeded in planting the Divine Tree long ago.

All you could say was: Isshiki was unlucky.

Other Ōtsutsuki pairs cooperated cleanly. Only he got stabbed in the back by Kaguya, and then, at death's door, ran into a frail monk like Jigen, which shackled him ever after. Then, for years, he never found a new vessel, never reincarnated, and now he was being hunted down by the Shinobi Alliance's strongest.

It was brutal.

From the moment he arrived in this world, it was like misfortune never stopped following him.

If he'd known it would be like this, he wouldn't have come even if someone beat him to death.

Sasuke kept Isshiki locked in his sights. The moment Isshiki shut his Byakugan and Kokugan again, Sasuke knew something was wrong with him.

And that meant this was the best time to finish him.

He snapped, "Neji, Naruto, you two hold the Ten-Tails. I'll deal with the Ōtsutsuki!"

Naruto and Neji both looked up at the Ten-Tails. With their current strength, they didn't feel overwhelmed. Six Paths power could suppress the Ten-Tails without much trouble.

They were thinking about how to handle it. Should they kill it outright?

Or, like the Sage of Six Paths, would it be better to split it up?

Just then, Natsuki, Orochimaru, and Hashirama surged forward.

Natsuki said, "Neji, Naruto, keep working with Sasuke to handle Isshiki. Leave the Ten-Tails to us!"

Orochimaru was staring at Isshiki like a perfect specimen. He'd seen it clearly, that switch from Byakugan to the rice-pattern eye. That "Kokugan" had to be Isshiki's special eye, just like Kaguya's Rinne Sharingan.

Which suggested a tempting hypothesis.

The Ōtsutsuki generally inherited the Byakugan, but each one also possessed their own unique special eye.

And that special eye was the most valuable thing to research. Maybe Sukunahikona was the dōjutsu of that eye.

This was getting more and more interesting.

Orochimaru washed his face with his long tongue again, unable to resist urging, "Natsuki-kun, why don't you move already and capture that Ōtsutsuki? I can't wait to get my hands on that research material!"

"Why are you in such a hurry? He's not going anywhere," Natsuki said, unbothered. "This is the perfect chance for Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji to sharpen themselves. Whether they can better resist the Ōtsutsuki invasion later depends on whether they grow again in this fight. Let's help the First seal the Ten-Tails first. Then we'll have one more Six Paths-level fighter. Don't worry. You won't be short on research material in the future."

Orochimaru smiled, chillingly pleased. "Hehehe. Fine. I'm the one being impatient. I trust you, Natsuki-kun. Then first, let's see if the First can succeed."

As he spoke, Orochimaru's eyes turned blue. The Tenseigan activated.

However, Orochimaru still didn't seem able to form Truth-Seeking Orbs. Maybe he'd only just obtained this new body, and his mastery of the Tenseigan wasn't deep enough yet. Still, it was more than enough to fight the Ten-Tails.

Hum. Orochimaru used gravitational pull on the Ten-Tails, violently dragging at its massive body.

The Ten-Tails roared in fury and swung a gigantic claw down at Orochimaru.

"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Jutsu!" 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Hashirama immediately responded. In the next instant, a massive wooden dragon coiled up and wrapped around the Ten-Tails' claw.

Hashirama's Wood Dragon wasn't simple. It didn't just bind. It also absorbed chakra, just like back when Hashirama casually broke Madara's armored Susanoo.

But now the enemy was the Ten-Tails. The Wood Dragon looked enormous, yet in front of the Ten-Tails it was barely a loach.

The Ten-Tails became even more enraged. It extended multiple claws, seized the Wood Dragon, and tore it apart violently. Then it opened its mouth and fired a gigantic energy sphere, trying to blow these irritating gnats into nothing.

But in the next second, the energy sphere vanished, transferred away by Hiraishin.

Far in the distance, a terrifying explosion bloomed, a mushroom cloud rising.

"Good thing I placed Flying Thunder God seals elsewhere in advance," Tobirama said coolly. "Otherwise, dealing with the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb would be a real problem."

(End of Chapter)

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