The fortress named 'King's Fortress' is the gathering place of the empty ninjas.

As early as the Second Ninja World War, Wang Dusai was hit hard by the Konoha ninjas. This fortress, which is the symbol of the ninja of the empty country, is now unable to soar in the sky, and in order to avoid being found by the Konoha ninja, the entire fortress was hidden underground in a technique to survive.

In the main chamber of the fortress, a muscular man sat on a stone throne, about forty years old, with dark hair and a very energetic appearance.

Standing in front of him was an empty shinobi wearing a ninja uniform and a ninja forehead guard.

After listening to the work report of this empty ninja, the middle-aged man sitting on the stone throne inevitably showed a look of disappointment on his face, and sighed and said:

"In other words, can't we find a stable supply of energy for Zerotail?"

"I'm very sorry, Lord Shennong, because the chakra needed by Zero Tail is too large, and I'm afraid that only the legendary tailed beast can provide a large amount of energy to Zero Tail' stably and continuously."

In the face of empty forbearance's apology, the middle-aged man, Shennong, naturally understood this truth.

However, he still wanted to try to see if there was another way to use the 'zero tail' function.

In the past, the country of the sky gathered the power of the whole country and built this fortress with the core of 'Zero Tail'.

Although it is a magnificent air fortress, it can also be used as the ultimate weapon when necessary, and its destructive power is equivalent to that of the Tailed Beast, but it relies too much on the reason of 'Zero Tail', once the energy of 'Zero Tail' is insufficient, this King Fortress is equivalent to half of it.

This is also the reason why Shennong is extremely distressed.

"Since this is the case, then there is no way, continue to kidnap people from outside, whether it is tens of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of people, let 'Zero Tail' recover."

Shennong gave the order in cold blood.

If you can't get the tailed beast, you can also use the chakra and life force in the body of ordinary people to fill Zerotail with energy.

It's just that because the chakra and vitality of ordinary people are too scarce, if you want to feed Zerotail, sacrifice more than 100,000 people may be able to make Zerotail gain the huge energy to activate the fortress.

"Yes."

Hearing Shennong's order, Kong Ren's face turned grim.

At present, more than 3,000 prisoners have been held inside the fortress, and these prisoners are ordinary people who have been secretly transported to the fortress from the outside, and they are living sacrifices to provide energy for Zerotail.

But if you want Zero Tail to fully awaken, this is not enough, and more prisoners are needed to provide chakra and life force.

"Let's go down, remember not to draw the attention of other ninjas, we're now-"

Before he could finish his sentence, the entire fortress was enveloped in a terrifying shockwave and trembled violently.

Shennong sat on the stone throne, his body also shook, and looked up at the ceiling.

Cracks appeared in the ceiling and there were signs of continued expansion.

And the empty shinobi standing in front of him was directly unstable, fell to the ground, and got up from the ground in a panic.

"Lord Shennong, what's going on?"

As soon as he finished speaking, sirens sounded outside, sounding at the entrances of various passages.

Shennong's face sank, and the alarm sounded outside, and he realized that an enemy had invaded the fortress.

The force of the shock that made the entire fortress tremble just now is proof of the enemy's attack.

Who is it? Konoha ninja?

Although the enemy invaded the fortress, Shennong was panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down.

This is the base camp of the air ninja, and the number of people who can fight is as high as thousands, and each of them is well-equipped, as long as it is not a large-scale invasion of the ninjas of the five major countries, the strength of thousands of air ninja is enough to make any enemy feel hopeless.

So he just needs to wait here for good news.

The battle came so suddenly, the air ninjas working in the fortress immediately realized that there was an enemy invasion, so they immediately put down their work, picked up their weapons and ran towards the place of the incident.

Jumping down from the hole punched out of the fist, Ruri and Ayane sneak into the interior of the fortress.

From the outside, the fortress looks like a normal stone building, but once inside, the walls of the perimeter passage have become hard metal plates, and there are transparent pipe devices of unknown purpose attached to the walls, with very consistent pulsating marks.

"I'll go get the blueprints of this fortress and some other important information, and as for the chakra, which resembles a tailed beast, walk in a straight line along this road, turn left at the third intersection, and keep going."

The layout of the entire fortress can be said to be unobstructed under the observation of Ayane's white eyes.

Invading such a fortress with complex terrain, if you are an ordinary perception ninja, it is estimated that you will also be dazzled by the intricate roads here, but for the white eye, this kind of labyrinthine fortress passage can see where the end point is as soon as you open your eyes.

Neither the library with the blueprints and important materials nor the chakra-like room with the tailed beast chakra is housed, there is no way to escape the detection of the White Eye.

Sharing the location with Ruri, Ayane started to act alone, groping towards the library where the blueprints and important materials were placed.

Ruri glanced at Ayane's back as she left, then turned her head and walked quickly in the direction Ayane was pointing.

A large number of empty ninja appeared in the passage ahead, and they also spotted Liuli's figure for the first time, and without the slightest hesitation, they picked up the weapons in their hands, and one by one they cut through the air, and continued to launch them from the pipeline of weapons.

It was a kunai gun that could shoot kunai quickly and continuously.

Similar to the repeater, but with better workmanship, and the kunai fired from the gun is faster and more powerful.

Ordinary ninjas can't capture the trajectory of these kunai, but for Ruri, who has powerful dynamic vision, the kunai launched by the empty ninja with the kunai gun is as fast as a turtle crawling.

Kunai almost flew over with Ruri's body, and none of them hit, not even touching his clothes.

The empty ninjas were extremely shocked, in the face of such a dense burst of shots, Ruri was unharmed inside, and the inhuman nervous reactions, including the speed of movement, made them understand that Ruri was completely different from the enemies they had fought before.

They prepare to distance themselves and begin to fill the kunai gun with kunai, re-firing a round of kunai to attack Ruri.

As they filled the kunai, the figure flickered, and rushed in front of them, picking up the flame fan behind them, and condensing the chakra, a furious entity, on it, waved in the air.

Rumble!

The dense metal plate tunnel exploded directly, and the transparent pipe attached to the metal plate broke, and the chakra leaked out of it, drifting into the air and quickly disappearing.

A squad of air ninja was wiped out under the blow of Liuli, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Continue to run along the passage until you come to the third intersection that Ayane said, and immediately turn left.

The passage ahead was still occupied by a large number of empty ninjas, as if to protect some important personnel and prevent Ruri from advancing.

They picked up the kunai gun, which could shoot kunai in bursts, and was about to pull the trigger.

The temperature in the passage suddenly rose sharply, and raging flames swept in from the front, and the metal plates of the passage were burned red by the violently burning flames.

There was no time to scream, and the narrow passage was engulfed in flames, including the empty ninja in the passage.

Destroying all the empty shinobi in the passage, the flames did not stand still, but rushed into the giant gate at the end of the passage.

With a loud explosion, the giant door was blasted open.

The corpse of the black scorched Kunin turned into a kunai spear with scorched parts, mixed with scorching flames and thick black smoke, and fell from the sky.

The passage outside the room was covered in heat, and the air was distorted by steam.

Liuli stepped on the hot metal floor, and the black tight-fitting suit on her body was spotless, step by step, as if she was taking a leisurely walk, walked to the door, and glanced into the room.

This is the main chamber of the royal fortress, which is round and built very large.

In the depths of the main chamber, there is a large pillar wrapped in a vine-like transparent pipe, supporting the upper and lower parts of the main chamber, and at the base of the huge pillar, a wide stone throne is placed.

Ruri saw the middle-aged man sitting on the stone throne, and said in a calm voice, "It seems that you are the leader of the empty ninja." ”

There are three hooked jade writing wheel eyes in his eyes, staring at each other lightly.

Shennong, a middle-aged man sitting on the stone throne, clapped his hands and said to Liuli in a praising tone: "Amazing, is that the power of writing wheels?" As a traitor to Konoha, I should really praise you for being able to find here, little girl. ”

Ruri, as Konoha's S-class defector ninja, coupled with the background of the famous Uchiha, although Shennong hides and underground all year round, the intelligence has not fallen, so he knows some things about Ruri.

"How about you, are you going to come and help me? You who betrayed Konoha must hate the village of Konoha very much, and my purpose is also to take revenge on the Land of Fire and Konoha who destroyed the country of the sky. In a sense, our purpose is the same. ”

Shennong stood up from the stone throne with a sincere and generous smile on his face, giving people a kind and gentle impression.

"Is that all you have to say?"

"We're not enemies, we, who are also hostile to the Fire Nation and Konoha, have something in common - hmm!!"

Shennong still wanted to continue to bewitch, but his hypocritical smirk made Liuli instinctively disgusted, so Liuli directly proved his position with his actions and interrupted Shennong's words.

Shennong, who had just stood up from the stone throne, had not yet seen Liuli's movements clearly, and his stomach was hit by Liuli's powerful blow, pouring out all the air in his lungs, as well as a large mouthful of blood.

He looked down in severe pain, Ruri's fist was covered with a leather black fingerless glove, and the fist sank deep into most of his abdomen.

The hard muscles he had painstakingly honed in his abdomen were as ridiculous as a piece of paper in front of Liuli's fist.

"I hate it when I have a fake smile on someone's face, it makes me very unhappy."

Liuli drew his fist, Shennong bent over and knelt on the ground, the smirk on his face turned into a twisted and hideous face, his brows jumped in pain, and saliva flowed out of the corners of his mouth.

This stinky girl! He struggled to raise his head, trying to see Ruri's face again.

Just as he was about to look up, he received a heavy blow to the back of the head.

The head collided violently with the hard ground, and the ground cracked, and half of the head fell into it, and another mouthful of blood spat out.

Liuli stepped on Shennong's head, so that he couldn't resist himself, and he couldn't even raise his head.

"You Kushinobi are studying the Tailed Beast, where is that thing? Hand it over. ”

Liuli's indifferent words were full of command, and the condescending and domineering and ruthless posture was not discussing with Shennong.

Shennong coughed up blood in his mouth, understood the meaning of Liuli's words, and laughed: "I see, are you here for 'Zero Tail'?" ”

He could clearly feel the monster-like power in Liuli's body, his proud body, which couldn't even block the opponent's punch, was crushed by this overwhelming force, and had no chance of winning with his own strength.

"Zerotail?"

Ruri raised an eyebrow, hearing this kind of name for the first time.

"yes, that's a great thing. Although it was not created by our Empty Country, we were the first to discover its existence. ”

Shennong's tone was full of pride.

"Say, where is that thing?"

Ruri didn't talk nonsense and asked directly.

"You let me go first, and I'll take you there."

A sly smile appeared on Shennong's face, which quickly disappeared.

"Don't play tricks."

Liuli's feet were removed from Shennong's head.

"Don't worry, your strength is so strong, even if there are a hundred people like me, they may not be your opponents. It's really worthy of the Uchiha bloodline, an enviable power, if only it could be used by me. ”

Shennong staggered up from the ground, dusted off his clothes, and blood flowed from his forehead, making the smile on his face very ugly and funny.

"Are you done talking nonsense?"

"Ahem, what an impolite little girl. Since you want to get Zero Tail so much, then I'll take you there. ”

Shennong saw Liuli's cold gaze, and knew that the other party was already impatient, so he didn't continue to delay time.

He walked over to the pillar that connected the stone throne and touched it with the palm of his hand, and the pillar immediately appeared with glowing spell letters, and the surface of the pillar became shiny, revealing a hidden hole that could only accommodate one hand to reach into.

Under Liuli's gaze, Shennong stretched out his palm into the hole very steadily and pressed a button inside.

A hole immediately appeared on the floor next to Shennong, which allowed people to pass through and connect the lower space.

"Come with me, Zero Tail is down here. That guy isn't much to mess with. ”

Shennong jumped into the cave mouth first and fell towards the deep space.

Liuli was not timid, and jumped out of the cave with Shennong, and entered the underground space where Zero Tail was with him.

Descending to the ground, the glass stood steadily, the underground space was cylindrical, and a large and narrow tombstone-like instrument was erected in front of it.

In front of the instrument, there was an equally large cocoon-like object, suspended in the air by several transparent tubes protruding from the walls of the cylinder.

The skin of the cocoon is transparent in color, glowing with a faint shimmer, and there is a large snake-like creature curled up inside, which is pitch black, the eyes of the head are closed, and a white mask is worn, breathing in the cocoon in the rhythm of life.

In the transparent pipes wrapped around the cocoon, a black flowing substance flows, constantly nourishing the big black snake inside the cocoon.

Although it wasn't obvious, Ruri could still sense that the creatures in the cocoon were undergoing some kind of metamorphosis.

It's just that due to the lack of energy provided, it is hibernating like a snake creature at the moment.

"Hahahahaha!"

Shennong, who was under the silkworm cocoon, for some reason, suddenly laughed nervously, allowing Liuli to notice his presence.

He turned to look at Ruri, his face full of sarcasm and ridicule, and then pointed his finger at Ruri rudely, smiling contemptuously:

"It's really a, I've heard that the ninjas of the Uchiha clan are arrogant, and it seems that your stinky girl is no different. Hahahaha, here you are, die as food for Zerotail. ”

Liuli looked at Shennong very quietly, her hands were sealed, and chakras were accumulating in her mouth, she didn't want to listen to this guy's ugly duck-like laughter anymore, it was a kind of pollution to her ears.

“？”

There was no fireball spit out of the mouth, no, no, but at the moment of spitting out, the fireball immediately shrunk and flew a meter away, turning into a thin flame and disappearing in the air.

"Hehe, there's no way to use it. I'm sorry, but this is the place where Zerotail sleeps, and as long as you use chakra here, Zerotail will absorb it and become the energy source of the king's stopper. ”

"Do you want to eat me as an energy source?"

Liuli looked at Shennong thoughtfully.

"Hehe, it's too late for you to understand."

Shennong took out a remote control from his bosom and pressed a button, and the passage above closed up, turning this place into a cage from which there was no escape.

"How are you going to escape from here if you can't use chakra? Let me show you the face of your desperate and miserable death, Zerotail's favorite chakra to devour the desperate. ”

Shennong put on an expression like showing off victory, and his shoulders trembled excitedly.

And the big black snake Zero Tail in the cocoon also seemed to have swallowed a very good quality chakra, and its body was gurgling and shaking in the transparent cocoon.

The mask part of the head is slowly raised and swept towards the glass, and the eyes that open from the white mask give people a cold feeling of darkness and evil, full of greedy desire.

Ruri snorted, and Zerotail's greedy gaze made her very unhappy, picked up the flame fan behind her, and rushed over.

Zero Tail seemed to have sense, and the surface of the silkworm cocoon suddenly split into several pitch-black soft tentacles, and the front end of the tentacles turned into palms, grabbing Liuli's body from all directions.

Easily step on the tentacles that swell like waves, and use the flame fan to slice through them.

However, the surface of the cocoon was once again classified into tentacles, this time the tentacles were more dense, and Liuli stepped back, dodging the tentacles' attacks.

"It's so perfect, in this kind of place, even the power of the Uchiha can't resist Zerotail. After absorbing your chakra, you may be able to awaken Zerotail in advance. ”

Shennong was still talking boastfully there, and his ostentatious tone seemed to despise the so-called power of the writing wheel.

"The power of the Uchiha? When did I let you see the true power of the Uchiha? ”

"It's useless to have a hard mouth. I won the battle. ”

Liuli looked at Shennong calmly, and was not angry because of the other party's remarks.

It's just that the other party's inexplicable sense of superiority makes her a little unhappy.

"Ayane's side should be almost done, and I'll have to finish it quickly. Really, to deal with this kind of guy, you also need to open the limit. ”

Ruri pressed her forehead with her palm, revealing a frustrated headache expression.

Under Shennong's surprised gaze, Liuli wiped her sleeves, exposed her wrist, untied the chakra limiter on her wrist, and the metal ring fell off, and Liuli's control over the chakra in her body reached an unimaginable realm.

In the cocoon, Zero Tail also sensed something, and trembled with fear.

Because it found that it couldn't absorb the chakra from Liuli's body.

The chakra in Liuli's body, under the control of Liuli, seems to have condensed into a stubborn stone without any gaps, no matter how hard it is absorbed, it stays in Liuli's body without moving.

The red skeleton swung around the glass, and the air became heavy.

Shennong felt that his breathing had become difficult, his eyes showed a look of horror, and he stared at the red skull frame outside the glass and said nothing.

The red skeleton began to be further refined, attached to the meridians and flesh, put on the armor, spread the strong and powerful arms, one hand waved in the air at will, the red light deformed and distorted the air, and the hand held a red giant sword.

"Don't say that I bullied you, it's you who said that the power of the Uchiha is nothing more than that, so I will be merciful to let you see what the power of the Uchiha is."

Raising the red giant sword, it gives people a great sense of oppression.

Shennong's lips trembled, and he looked at the red giant sword suspended above his head with an almost desperate expression, forgetting to think, and his mind went blank.

Divine...... Strength?

How could a ninja do such a thing?

"What's the joke, I'm the god of the future, it must be an illusion! Zerotail, kill her for me! ”

Shennong struggled to come back to his senses, afraid to step back, and gave Zero Tail an order with all his might.

It is absolutely impossible for him to block the red giant sword in the air, and he can only rely on the strength of Zerotail to resist it.

Then the zero tail in the cocoon just shrank his head and buried his head deeply, for fear that he would be noticed by Liuli at this moment, and did not respond to Shennong.

"What are you doing in a daze, Zerotail! Hurry up and kill her, you're an invincible elephant—"

Before he finished speaking, Shennong turned his head, and the red giant sword slashed down from the sky, facing his location.

The shouting stopped abruptly, as if the hands of death were holding it to the throat, despair and death descended.

The giant sword landed on the ground, forming a shockwave that raged in the circular space, and a deep sword mark stretched out, rolling up a large amount of dust and rubble.

The entire huge round room like a palace was divided into two halves from the middle under a random sword, and the same became two halves, as well as Shennong's body.

Ruri stepped forward, and the red Susa moved with her, finally standing in front of the cocoon that wrapped the zero tail.

Zerotail's body shrunk back and forth, trembling restlessly in the cocoon.

The cold and piercing murderous aura in the air almost made it stop breathing, and it was cold all over, obviously frightened by the power that Liuli displayed at this moment.

Ruri took out a scroll from the ninja bag, spread it out, and unsealed the contents of the scroll.

It was an orange-red half-human tall clay pot object, which was the Noble Amber Pure Bottle left behind by the Six Dao Immortals, a legendary treasure with powerful sealing powers.

Ruri controls the red Susa Nenghu, and hangs the red giant sword above the cocoon openly, while opening the lid of the amber net bottle, and turning his head to look at the zero tail inside the cocoon.

"Are you going to go in by yourself, or am I going to shove you in? I respect your choice. ”

“……”

Zero Tail looked at the red greatsword hanging above his head, and then looked down at the amber bottle, which revealed an abyss-like dark space, making Zero Tail instinctively feel the danger.

It doesn't want to choose neither, if it could.