Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 635 The Strongest?

"I see. That Tenseigan, and Nagato's body. It seems things have gone even further off course than I expected."

Naruto Uzumaki stood inside the purple protective barrier of Susanoo, his gaze slowly returning to the circular crater created by Hashirama and Madara's combined attack in the distance.

"Your power seems to be even greater than I imagined." Naruto looked up at Mai Z. "But I don't understand. You already possess such immense power, and the unwavering loyalty of the entire Akatsuki organization, why are you so fixated on Kurama inside me?"

"I won't miss any opportunity to become stronger."

Mai's answer was brief: "Anything that can make a person stronger, I will absolutely fight with all my might to obtain, at any cost. Tailed beasts, eye techniques, sage techniques—as long as they exist, I will seize them; and once I have them in my hands, I will never let go. This is my way of life."

On the contrary, what gives you your confidence? From the start of the battle until now, you've been on the defensive, holding back. What makes you so relaxed? What makes you think you can face me without going all out?!

Before the words were even finished, the nine-faced beasts beside Mai moved simultaneously. The Southern and Northern Sages raised their staffs first, and purple sealing light simultaneously shone from the tips of the two staffs. The two beams of light converged at the feet of Naruto and Sasuke, and the sealing array suddenly unfolded directly below Susanoo.

The edge of the magic circle was made up of densely packed spell runes, each of which was spinning at high speed, emitting a suction force that forcibly drew chakra away from the meridians.

At the very moment the magic circle was completed, Death moved. Dragging its enormous scythe made of ghostly light, it passed through the light of the sealing array at an eerie speed completely disproportionate to its size. The scythe was raised high, and the shadows of Naruto and Satsuki were reflected on its blade.

"I'll accept your chakra!"

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Naruto suddenly seemed to remember something, "I forgot to turn that off. Since Neptune is still running, let's use this one."

He raised his right hand. There was no hand seal in his palm, but the instant he raised his hand, everyone still standing on the battlefield felt a gravitational pull from the sky, a force that did not belong to any part of this world.

The brow behind the mask of the mandarin ducks furrowed. She clearly saw the Grim Reaper's scythe swing down, and the sealing array was functioning normally, but the chakra on Naruto and Sasuke remained completely still.

"Rasengan: Ring Star".

What appeared in Naruto's palm was a steadily rotating Rasengan core radiating a dark golden light, surrounded by a slowly revolving energy ring.

The celestial chakra from Saturn inherently contains fragments of the cosmic laws of "order," "structure," and "gravitational binding."

"What...is this technique?!"

"Buzz—!"

The miniature celestial body hovering above Naruto's palm suddenly experienced a dramatic increase in the rotation speed of its outer rings of energy. Its previously graceful, slowly revolving orbit accelerated to a point where it was impossible for the naked eye to perceive it in less than a second.

The light spots at the edge of the star ring were accelerated and stretched into continuous bands of light. The entire spell looked like a rapidly rotating celestial body about to release some kind of energy that had been suppressed for billions of years from its own gravitational field.

Then, instead of being launched as a whole, the ring burst forth with nine streams of tangible particles. Each stream precisely targeted a nine-faced beast, its trajectory like an arc bent by a gravitational lens, bypassing all obstacles and catching up with its respective target.

After being struck by the particle stream, he collapsed to the ground. It wasn't that he was injured, nor that he lost power, but rather that he lost the very concept of "movement." Before the laws of order contained within the Starry Sky Chakra, any control commands injected by external forces were judged as "factors that disrupt order" and forcibly erased.

"alright."

Naruto flicked his hand lightly, and the star ring in his palm dissipated into countless golden specks of light that floated in the air. He raised his head and looked again at the blue eyes behind the mask in mid-air, his tone still unhurried.

"Next, I'll be using Kurama's power. After all, I promised that guy I'd let him get some fresh air. Or have you changed your mind? It's not too late."

Mai did not answer him. She raised her right hand, her five fingers flying, forming a hand seal.

"boom--!!!"

A massive surge of chakra suddenly emanated from her. Satsuki's Mangekyou Sharingan immediately detected the nature and source of this chakra.

"Sage Mode?"

However, the next moment, she sensed even more information, causing her expression to shift from surprise to seriousness. Her Sharingan's ability to analyze chakra was second to none among sensory ninjas; she clearly discerned the composition of the Sage Chakra within Mai's body—there were three types.

"There's the aura from Mount Myōboku... but the other two are..."

She soon received the answer: the White Snake Sage Technique of Ryuchi Cave and the Slug Sage Technique of Shikkotsu Forest. Theoretically, the chakra of these three Sage Techniques—the toads of the three sacred lands of Mount Myōboku, the white snakes of Ryuchi Cave, and the slugs of Shikkotsu Forest—can never coexist within the same ninja.

Each type of immortal technique has a completely different cultivation method, and the physical and mental requirements for the cultivator are contradictory. In particular, the White Snake Immortal Technique and the Toad Immortal Technique have been tried to be cultivated at the same time throughout history. Without exception, they all turned into stone statues and none of them survived.

"You bastard..." Naruto said. "You actually gathered the Sage Chakra of the three great sacred lands? How did your body manage to hold up?"

"I am the strongest."

Mai's voice came from behind the mask. She slowly closed her right hand, and chakra condensed at her fingertips into a visible golden halo.

"Now, you have no time to beg for mercy."

"Whoosh!"

The next moment, Mai appeared right in front of Naruto. Her right fist was already outstretched, the tip of her fist wrapped in three layers of Sage Chakra twisted together to form a golden flame, and it slammed straight down towards Naruto's chest. It was so fast that Naruto's dynamic vision only caught a golden afterimage.

But Naruto's reaction was equally swift. The instant Mai disappeared, his right hand was covered with a golden chakra cloak, and the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode instantly manifested on his right arm. The golden chakra condensed into a miniature shield in his palm, forcefully blocking Mai's punch.

"Bang--!!!"

The shockwave from the collision of fists and palms cracked the ground beneath their feet, with the cracks extending more than ten meters outwards from their starting points.

At the same moment, Satsuki drew the Kusanagi sword from her waist. The instant the sword was drawn, lightning chakra, like a thousand birds singing in unison, covered the entire blade, with blue lightning leaping back and forth across its surface.

She slashed her sword diagonally down at Mai, who was attacking Naruto!

"Smack."

Mai raised her other hand, and her palm directly grasped the blade of the Kusanagi sword.

The Thousand Birds Lightning on the sword hissed wildly in her palm, yet it didn't even pierce the skin of her palm.

Then, two small black balls slid out from the cuffs of the linen clothes.

The two small black balls emitted an abnormal, eerie green light the moment they appeared.

"...Satsuki! Get out of the way!"

Naruto sensed the true nature of that energy and suddenly grabbed Sasuke's arm. He fully activated Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, and golden chakra enveloped both of them, forming an airtight chakra protective sphere.

"boom--!!!"

A massive storm tornado, worthy of being called a natural disaster, suddenly exploded out from Mai's center. The diameter of the tornado was large enough to engulf half a city, and the wind wall stretched from the ground straight into the sky, shattering all the clouds in the sky and pulling them into the vortex. From a distance, it looked like a giant silver pillar connecting heaven and earth, spinning wildly.

Wherever the tornado passed, everything on the ground that wasn't anchored was swept into its eye. Rocks, broken wood, and debris spun so fast within the wind walls that they shattered into powder upon impact. At the very center of this tornado, Mai stood suspended in mid-air, two green Truth-Seeking Balls spinning rapidly between her palms, constantly releasing energy to sustain the storm.

"This is... Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion?!"

Inside the chakra fox head, Naruto looked at the sky-covering silver tornado outside and recognized the name of the technique.