Traveling Through Multiple Realms: The Supporting Character's Counterattack

Chapter 36 Half-Tailed Beast Transformation

"Watch out, he's about to use the power of a tailed beast."

Minato Namikaze's voice was calm, but his brows were furrowed.

He knew all too well what it meant for a Jinchūriki to go berserk. Three specially made kunai engraved with the Flying Thunder God Technique were quietly fastened between his fingers, gleaming with a cold light.

The words had barely left his mouth—

"roar!!!"

A roar that no human could produce suddenly exploded out, the pain and violence contained in the sound almost solidified, tearing the air on the battlefield apart.

The dust and smoke that had been stirred up earlier were instantly dispersed by an overwhelming chakra shockwave, revealing the scene inside.

Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, was kneeling in a crevice in the cracked rock wall. His once majestic red armor was now broken and shattered in many places.

Beneath his exposed skin, dark red, viscous, and boiling tailed beast chakra was surging out uncontrollably, rapidly covering his body and forming a swaying chakra cloak that exuded an ominous aura.

A massive tail, formed from scorching steam and raging chakra, lashed wildly behind him, each strike accompanied by a piercing shriek, easily shattering the rocks around him.

Half-tailed beast transformation!

Han suddenly raised his head, and his eyes, which might have retained a trace of clarity, were now a bloodthirsty crimson. The dam of reason had been completely breached by the Tailed Beast's ferocity.

His gaze, like that of the most ferocious beast, was fixed on Genma Shiranui, who had severely injured him; his eyes held only an endless desire for destruction.

"die!!!"

A muffled but murderous roar was forced out from deep within Han's throat.

His figure suddenly blurred, and the next moment, he appeared out of thin air directly above Xuanjian as if by teleportation.

The enormous fist, enveloped in the chakra of the tailed beast, crashed down like a meteorite falling from the sky, carrying a terrifying aura of destruction.

His speed and power are many times greater than during his previous prime.

"So fast!"

Genma's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints, and a strong sense of crisis instantly tightened all the nerves in his body.

Almost instinctively, the secret technique of "Armed Hardening" was activated instantly, covering the entire body with a dark, iron-like color.

At the same time, his chakra exploded violently beneath his feet, creating a small crater in the ground. Using this recoil, his body slid to the side in an almost contorted posture, narrowly avoiding a collision.

"BOOM!!!"

The deafening roar created a deep crater over five meters in diameter where Xuanjian had been standing.

The flying debris shot out like bullets, striking the hard rock walls around them with a series of crackling sounds and leaving countless dents of varying depths.

Having missed his first attack, Han, completely consumed by his bestial instincts, roared furiously and pounced again like a mad dog.

His attacks had completely lost the skills and techniques of a ninja, leaving only the most primitive and frantic tearing and pounding.

However, with this absolute power and speed, every pounce and every claw strike contains the terrifying power to split mountains and shatter rocks.

Genma combined the Body Flicker Technique with Armor Hardening to the extreme, elevating his perception to its peak, allowing him to weave and dodge through Han's relentless, storm-like attacks.

His figure was like a petrel soaring up and down in a stormy sea, each time seemingly narrowly escaping a deadly attack, extremely dangerous, making people hold their breath for him.

Sometimes it's impossible to completely avoid them, and you can only use your hardened arms to block.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The hardened arm clashed violently with the claws formed from the tailed beast's chakra, producing a piercing sound like metal clashing, and even sparking a series of dazzling sparks.

With each direct clash, Genma felt intense tingling and numbness in his arms and even half of his body, as the violent power of the tailed beast chakra relentlessly assaulted his defenses like a tidal wave.

"We can't fight head-on; the difference in strength is too great. We must find an opportunity to counterattack!"

Genma suppressed the surging of his blood and qi, his brain working at high speed as he calmly assessed the situation.

Han, who has partially transformed into a tailed beast, has been elevated to a whole new level in terms of strength, speed, and defense. It would be extremely unwise to confront him head-on.

"Genma! Hold him back!"

Just then, Minato Namikaze's clear voice came like a reassuring balm.

Minato's hands flew across the screen, forming hand seals so fast they left afterimages, instantly creating four shadow clones with physical forms.

At the same time, he and his shadow clones simultaneously threw out more than a dozen specially made kunai.

These kunai were not thrown in a straight line, but rather drew various strange and exquisite arcs in the air, as if guided by invisible threads, shooting towards Han's vital points from all directions, from above, below, left, right, and all sides, as if they had a life of their own.

"Flying Thunder God Technique - Second Stage!!!"

As the technique was activated, Minato's true form vanished instantly, and the next moment he appeared like a ghost next to a kunai that had just flown behind Han.

In his hand, a huge, highly compressed chakra ball had already taken shape—his signature ninjutsu, the "Giant Rasengan"!

The Rasengan, accompanied by a terrifying whistling sound that tore through the air, mercilessly blasted towards Han's unprotected back.

Although Han had lost most of his rationality, his fighting instincts honed through countless battles remained.

Sensing the deadly threat from behind, he roared and forcefully twisted his massive body, his fist, enveloped in dense tailed beast chakra, fiercely meeting Minato's Giant Rasengan.

"Bang!!!"

It was another fierce collision without any fancy moves. An even larger energy shockwave spread out in a ring, stirring up countless grains of sand and dust from the ground.

The water gate was pushed backward more than ten meters by the recoil before it regained its balance.

Han was also in bad shape, staggering back several steps. The tailed beast chakra cloak he wore flickered and shook violently, clearly indicating that his stability had been affected.

It's now!

Genma's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He had been keeping his intentions hidden, waiting for the perfect opportunity created by Minato.

The chakra that had been waiting in the air surged wildly toward his right palm like a flood bursting its banks.

Yan Dun·Dayu Rasenwan!

hum! ! !

A chakra ball the size of a basketball, with a dark red to almost black interior, as if hot lava were flowing and surging within it, instantly condensed in Genma's hand.

The high temperature around the sphere distorted the air, emanating a dangerous aura that was even more concentrated and deadly than Han's tailed beast chakra.

"They've perfectly integrated chakra nature transformation into the Rasengan?!"

Upon seeing the "Fire Release: Giant Rasengan" appear, even the well-informed Minato Namikaze couldn't help but gasp in shock.

This requires an extremely high level of mastery of both chakra form and nature transformation. This young upstart's talent is truly astonishing.

However, Minato's combat skills were extremely high, and he instantly realized Genma's intention.

He understood immediately and threw another specially made kunai, aiming with perfect accuracy at the area where Han's chest was wide open after taking the giant Rasengan head-on.

Han instinctively raised his hand to block the seemingly insignificant kunai.

And at the very moment Han made his blocking move, his waist defense was relatively weak due to his slightly turned body—

Genma pushed his Instantaneous Movement Technique to its current limit, his figure leaving a trail of afterimages like a ghost, and appeared beside Han in an instant.

"drink!"

With a low shout, Xuanjian pressed the dark red sphere containing extreme heat and terrifying tearing power into Han's waist and ribs.

Seriously, this is outrageous!