Chapter 246
After the Loulan mission, Lu Nie started to study the Soul-Suppressing Stones. Although the Soul-Suppressing Stones of the Centipede were destroyed by the energy of the Dragon Vein and the Void Explosion, Lu Nie still had some idea of its structure.
This kind of research with an answer was not difficult for him. Of course, the name and function of the Soul-Suppressing Stone might be the same, but the actual forging material and technology might be different.
After all, there is no comparison.
"The cost is a bit high, but if it's just used to restrain the sealed Nine-Tails, it should be enough." Lu Nie replied to Orochimaru.
"Then let Kushina make contact," Orochimaru requested.
Kane nodded silently. Although he had verified the effect of the spirit-suppressing stone with the Nekomata and the Five-Tails, neither of them could be considered true tailed beasts.
The Nekomata is now almost half a Hueco Mundo creature. The effect of the Soul Stone is not very effective on it. As for the Little Five-Tails, it has not been deeply infected by the soul power. It is still the embodiment of chakra entity, but its strength is not as good as the real Five-Tails.
Therefore, if they want to conduct the final test, Kushina still needs to bring the Nine-Tails with her.
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Four Purple Flame Formation!
Four purple barriers rose inside the Death Forest, like a square box, covering an area.
Inside, except for Jiraiya who was stationed in River Country, most of Konoha's high-level officials gathered here.
Orochimaru, Tsunade, Minato Namikaze, Uchiha Fugaku, as well as Hyuga Hiashi, Kagawa, Shisui, etc. In the middle of them was the calm Uzumaki Kushina.
Kushina was wearing a bracelet made up of fingernail-sized, round pearls strung together.
"Don't worry, Minato, we are all here, nothing will happen." Tsunade patted his shoulder and comforted him when she noticed that Minato was a little tense.
With their lineup, not to mention that the Nine-Tailed Fox is still sealed, even if it comes out, it will only be sealed back again.
Her presence is enough to ensure the safety of Kushina and the baby in her belly.
"Kushina-senpai, try to use the power of the Nine-Tails." Lu Nie stepped forward and said, "Start with the One-Tails."
Kushina nodded, locked eyes with Minato's remote, and then closed her eyes.
Given her bad relationship with the Nine-Tails, the Nine-Tails certainly wouldn't lend its power to her casually, but the Uzumaki clan's physique and abilities, as well as Kushina who had been taught by Uzumaki Mito, knew very well how to utilize the Nine-Tails' power.
Don't want to borrow?
Why not just tie it up and pull it out forcefully?
Although it would be a bit exhausting if the opponent didn't cooperate, as long as he could forcibly suppress the Nine-Tails and use its power compulsorily, he would become a successful Tailed Beast Jinchūriki.
Of course, the only Jinchūriki who can use the power of the tailed beasts without their consent is Kushina.
A light layer of red chakra seeped out from Kushina's body like a cloud. Kushina frowned and opened her eyes again.
"How is it?" Minato came to Kushina's side in an instant, looking at her worriedly. "Very good, the Nine-Tails is yelling at me inside." Kushina smiled at Minato, touched her bulging belly, and replied.
After Kushina finished speaking, she turned her gaze to Shikagane in front of her and said with a smile: "The Kyuubi will definitely eat you if he tells you so."
"Spirit Suppression Stone?" Lu Nie blinked. He didn't care whether the Nine-Tails came out or not. Although the opponent could crush everyone in the ninja world with just the amount of chakra, when that day really came, the worst that could happen was that he would just beat him up and seal him up.
After all, the lineup around him is enough to beat the Nine-Tailed Fox into a fat fox.
"Yes, its chakra was affected by the spirit-suppressing stone." Kushina explained: "The Nine-Tails was desperately competing with me for chakra, and the power I extracted was affected. Originally, I could enter the One-Tails state, but now only a meager amount of the Nine-Tails' chakra was extracted."
As Kushina spoke, she stretched out her hand and grasped the mist-like Nine-Tails Chakra floating around her. Wearing this bracelet of spirit-suppressing stones, the Nine-Tails in her body seemed to sense some kind of crisis and completely exploded in her body.
Aside from Minato, Kyuubi was the one she interacted with the most, even though most of their interactions were spent yelling at each other.
There was no way. She had a hot temper, and Kyuubi's temper was not very good due to the resentment and hatred accumulated over thousands of years. So after she found out that she and Kyuubi were not compatible and could not be friends, the relationship between the two became simple and rough.
"Go on, test the limits of this string of spirit-suppressing stones." Lu Nie continued.
Kushina nodded and mobilized the power of the Nine-Tails once again.
One tail, two tails, three tails, four tails.
Finally, when it came to the Five-Tails, Kushina, who was wrapped in a layer of red chakra, stopped extracting the power of the Nine-Tails.
"It's probably the level of the Five-Tails." Kushina looked at the faintly cracked Soul-Suppressing Stone bracelet and frowned. "If I continue, I feel that the Soul-Suppressing Stone can maintain the Six-Tails state for a while, allowing me to maintain my consciousness calm without spending extra energy and not be affected by the Nine-Tails' chakra."
"Is this a success?" Minato subconsciously looked at Kagawa and Orochimaru.
"The spirit-suppressing stone was originally created to suppress the chakra of the tailed beasts and render them inert. As for whether it will be successful or not, it depends on the current status of Kushina-senpai and the Nine-Tails." Shikagawa nodded and asked Kushina, "What's the status of the Nine-Tails?"
"A little irritable, but not as energetic as before." Kushina spread her hands. The furious Nine-Tails in her consciousness gave off a sense of weakness no matter how she looked at it.
Before, the Nine-Tailed Fox was fighting with her for control of the chakra, which resulted in her being unable to utilize the chakra energy well. But now, the Nine-Tailed Fox had a drowsy feeling.
This greatly reduced the interference and influence she received when extracting the Nine-Tails' chakra. At least in the past, it was difficult for her to extract such clean chakra from the Nine-Tails so easily and enter the Five-Tails state.
The Nine-Tails' chakra filled with its violent consciousness did not even erode her body, and the situation that she was worried about affecting Naruto did not occur.
The soul-suppressing stone bracelet was like a filter, helping Kushina filter out the impurities of will within the Nine-Tails Chakra, turning it into a pure and powerful force.
But the Nine-Tails' chakra is so huge that the power of the Five-Tails level has already reached the limit of filtering and suppressing the Spirit Suppression Stone Bracelet.
If she calls upon more power from the Nine-Tailed Fox, the bracelet will certainly break. Without the suppression of the Nine-Tailed Fox, it will probably recover vigorously and angrily fight with her in her sea of consciousness.
(End of this chapter)