He slowly raised his left hand and made a phantom grasping motion toward the air.
Countless specks of reishi light around him instantly traced jagged lines through the air.
They converged and compressed in his hand, forming a reishi Chakra Arrow that seemed almost solid.
The Chakra Arrow was silver-gray throughout, with a ring at the end; one could feel a heart-palpitating energy within it upon contact.
He notched it onto his Spirit Bow, pulled the ring at the back of the Chakra Arrow, and aimed at the suspicious and uncertain Chirabi, the Seven-Tails nearby.
He let go.
The Chakra Arrow silently pierced through the sky.
Chirabi, the Seven-Tails's beastly instincts screamed a warning, but at the same time, he felt as though this shot wouldn't hit him.
As expected.
The Chakra Arrow grazed the edge of his body and flew past, striking a distant hill.
Boom!
The hill exploded violently under the terrifying energy, rocks tumbling down to reveal a massive crater.
Aokawa looked at his hand and flexed his fingers. "The amplified power is too strong; I'm still not quite used to it."
Seeing this, Kakashi and the others in the distance all thought it was a pity.
Nii Yugito, on the other hand, voiced her mockery without reservation.
"What's the use of having great power if you can't hit anything? Making such a big scene, it turns out you're just putting on a show!"
Right then.
Uchiha Inabi suddenly frowned and spoke with some uncertainty, "Do you guys feel... very uncomfortable?"
"Like we're being pressed down by something?"
Uchiha Tetsubi gave him a strange look, then glanced at Nii Yugito beneath Uchiha Inabi, and suddenly laughed mockingly, "You're so humorous, brother. It doesn't seem like you're the one being 'pressed down,' right?"
"Not that kind of pressure!" Uchiha Inabi retorted with a serious expression.
He slowly shifted his gaze toward Aokawa in the distance.
"I feel it too," Kakashi added with a grave expression, his eyes also fixed on Aokawa in the center of the field. "And... it's not just the body; even the Soul feels like it's under heavy pressure."
Nii Yugito's mockery froze on her face.
She suddenly realized that the sensation making it hard for her to breathe didn't come from Uchiha Inabi pressing down on her.
It was an invisible, terrifying pressure originating from the youth in the center of the Battlefield!
"That's right! This aura comes from Aokawa." Hinata Iruha's Byakugan was fixed intently on Aokawa as he added, "And this aura is becoming more and more apparent as that energy flows in."
Hyuga Ryosuke listened to their descriptions, staring blankly at Aokawa in the field, his mind in a state of confusion.
How could it be that after not seeing him for a while, this childhood friend had become completely unrecognizable?
Everything he had shown today was something Ryosuke had never seen before.
Where on earth did this guy learn these skills?
The invisible pressure in the field was like a mountain falling from the sky, weighing heavily on everyone's hearts.
Chirabi, the Seven-Tails, being the closest, felt it most intensely.
That pure, high-level energy pressure broke through some of the Tailed Beast Chakra's erosion of his sanity.
It allowed a sliver of clarity to return to his crimson beast-like pupils.
"Gyuki!"
Killer Bee roared in terror to the Eight-Tails Gyuki inside his mental world.
"What is this thing?!"
"This feeling... is even scarier than facing Big Brother!"
The Eight-Tails Gyuki's voice carried an unprecedented solemnity for the first time.
"I don't know!"
"I've lived for over a thousand years, and I've never seen this kind of energy!"
"Even with the Old Man of the Six Paths, the feeling from him wasn't like this!"
Before he could finish, the Eight-Tails's voice suddenly stopped. "No!"
"The Chakra is not right!"
It discovered in shock that something was being forcibly pulled away from the massive, violent, dark-red Tailed Beast Chakra enveloping Killer Bee's body!
The next moment.
Killer Bee and the Eight-Tails simultaneously witnessed a scene that made even their Tailed Beast Souls tremble.
Wisps and strands of blue-white energy fragments.
Were continuously drifting out from the Tailed Beast Chakra Mode they were so proud of.
Merging into the torrent of countless light specks in the air.
Finally, they were sucked into the massive pillar of light behind Aokawa!
"He's absorbing our Chakra!"
"No! He's absorbing something inside the Chakra!"
The Eight-Tails Gyuki's scream exploded in Killer Bee's mind.
This discovery terrified it more than any physical attack!
The instinct for survival overwhelmed all fighting will.
Chirabi, the Seven-Tails's pupils suddenly constricted.
He suddenly pushed off the water's surface with his feet, kicking up a colossal wave as his massive body retreated backward at high speed, regardless of everything.
He wanted to flee!
He had to get away from that terrifying "energy absorption source"!
This was the first time since the start of the battle that he had actively fled.
"Did you notice?" Aokawa smiled faintly.
After the Spirit Dissolving Gloves are removed, it is known as the Quincy's final form.
It grants absolute control over reishi; all surrounding reishi becomes his subordinate.
It could be called a true Spiritual Particle Cluster.
Even if reishi is hidden within Chakra, at this very moment, it must come out for me.
He slowly raised his hand, and reishi surged around him, tracing blue-white jagged lines as it converged to condense into another reishi Chakra Arrow.
This time, the form of the Chakra Arrow was much more stable and solid than before.
He drew his Spirit Bow.
He aimed at the retreating Chirabi, the Seven-Tails, and let go.
Buzz!
The Chakra Arrow pierced through the sky.
Alarm bells rang in Chirabi, the Seven-Tails's heart; his eyes were fixed on the rapidly approaching Chakra Arrow as he exerted all his strength to twist his body and dodge.
Cold sweat poured down. "I can dodge it! I can dodge it!"
Under his extreme twisting, his body moved slightly, and the Chakra Arrow flew past, almost grazing his cheek.
But that terrifying energy still tore off a large portion of the pale-white bone mask covering his face, turning it into dust.
"I dodged it!" Killer Bee broke out in a cold sweat, subconsciously letting out half a breath of relief.
The next moment, Aokawa's figure in the distance suddenly vanished.
An extreme sense of danger came from above his head!
Chirabi, the Seven-Tails, looked up abruptly.
Aokawa had appeared directly above him at some unknown point.
The Spirit Bow in his hand was drawn full like a moon.
A reishi Chakra Arrow, shimmering with destructive light, was aimed right at him!
In Killer Bee's crimson pupils, that emotionless face and the continuously enlarging tip of the Chakra Arrow were reflected.
Only one desperate thought remained in his mind.
"Darn it!"
In the next instant, Aokawa released the bowstring.
Boom!
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