Tengen's pupils narrowed at the dark figure emerging from the crater.
It could only be Killer Bee, now cloaked in eerie black chakra.
Two sharp horns crowned his head, and eight writhing tailed beast tails churned behind him, their power palpable.
"Jinchūriki Forms?" Tengen said slowly. Enveloped in the Eight-Tails' chakra cloak, Bee was a force of nature.
In this state, he could unleash Tailed Beast Bombs, his speed amplified to terrifying levels.
"Konoha kid, what's your name?" Bee asked, his voice raspy.
"Tengen." Tengen replied, his own voice hoarse. The Sixth Gate pushed his body to the brink of collapse, but Armament Haki held him together.
"Tengen..." Bee said hoarsely. "I'll remember you. You forced my full power. Even as a Konoha kid, I acknowledge you."
"But." Bee's tone turned icy, "You still die here."
His eight tails converged, dense chakra amassing, a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Not a full transformation, but even this partial form could level a mountain.
Such was the might of a tailed beast.
No wonder villages deemed them strategic weapons. Few shinobi could rival their power.
Distant Kumo-nins peeked from cover.
They hadn't expected the fight to escalate to this intensity.
Both Bee's strikes and the Konoha kid's attacks were monstrous.
"That kid's done for, but forcing Bee-sama to use the Eight-Tails? He dies with honor."
"Yeah, with the Eight Gates at this stage, he's finished."
They doubted Tengen's chances. His base strength was too low; even the Eight Gates couldn't bridge the gap with Bee.
"Something's off."
"What? That chakra's insane!"
"He's suicidal!"
"He's opened the Seventh Gate!" A Kumo-nin groaned, awestruck by the terrifying power.
Now, the Konoha kid was doomed, but what about Bee-sama?
In the battlefield, Tengen eyed the black orb forming from Bee's gathered chakra.
"Tailed Beast Bomb." Tengen said, a spark in his gaze. He gritted his teeth. "Gotta push further. Hold on, body."
"Seventh Gate, Gate of Wonder, open!" Tengen snarled, unlocking a hidden threshold.
Boom!
A massive chakra surge enveloped him, blue light shimmering as his sweat vaporized, creating an eerie aura.
His body cracked under the strain. If he persisted, the chakra would tear him apart.
He couldn't withstand the Seventh Gate's power.
"Killer Bee!" Tengen's hands formed a peculiar shape, retreating as he compressed the air around him, again and again.
A near-vacuum formed nearby.
"ROOAR!" Bee's Tailed Beast Bomb completed, a black streak hurtling toward Tengen with a thunderous bellow.
No one survived a direct hit.
"I won't get hit. Go back!" Tengen's fists surged forward.
The compressed air exploded into a colossal air cannon, dwarfing the Morning Peacock's force.
Shaped like a roaring tiger, the massive cannon, spanning meters, made the Tailed Beast Bomb seem puny.
"Daytime Tiger!" The Seventh Gate's ultimate taijutsu.
Extreme air compression unleashed a devastating strike.
This was the power to repel a full form Susanoo.
The sky howled as the Daytime Tiger swallowed the Tailed Beast Bomb, engulfing Bee in its wake.
Boom!
The attack obliterated everything within miles, reducing trees and rocks to dust.
"No way!" The Kumo-nins caught off-guard realized escape was futile.
A blinding white flash consumed them, their lives snuffed out by the Daytime Tiger's fury.
The sky tore, the earth quaked, beyond ninjutsu, beyond Kage-level.
"ROOOAR!" An enraged bellow echoed as the light faded, revealing a massive creature.
Bull-headed, with octopus-like tentacles for tails, the Eight-Tails, Gyuki.
"Not defeated yet. One last move." Tengen said, a bitter smile on his lips. "This was tough."
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