Even if their forms were identical, a Nine-Tails was still a Nine-Tails, and a Ten-Tails was still a Ten-Tails. While their chakra might have surpassed it, there was a clear qualitative gap in their dimensions.
It was evident from moments ago that the Nine-Tails alone could not harm the Ten-Tails, as if suppressed by a hierarchy.
However, if the Susanoo were added, would this combination of Tailed Beast and Sharingan affect the Ten-Tails?
It remained to be seen.
The reason Lin Nan hadn't unleashed the Susanoo earlier was because all the Susanoo's armor was a manifestation of chakra.
Considering that the Nine-Tails was currently over a thousand meters tall, the task of covering it with Susanoo armor was incredibly taxing, even for Lin Nan, who was under Edo Tensei.
"Do it boldly!"
At this moment, Minato placed a hand on Lin Nan's shoulder.
Feeling the continuous influx of chakra, Lin Nan nodded slightly.
"Super Mighty Blue Cat, reporting for duty!"
"What does 'Super Mighty Blue Cat' mean?" Naruto scratched his head.
Minato, however, looked at the blue armor gradually covering the entire Nine-Tails and murmured, "Could this be the name of the jutsu? It's not imposing enough. Should I come up with a better one?"
"Ah, never mind!"
Lin Nan slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. With a muffled roar, the chakra within his body began to surge madly.
The Susanoo armor covering the thousand-meter Nine-Tails was something even Madara Uchiha hadn't achieved.
"Clack!"
As the blue Tengu mask covered the Nine-Tails' head.
Super Mighty Blue Cat was finally complete!
Most importantly, the Blue Cat held two impossibly large greatswords in its hands.
"So terrifying..."
The monsters spawned by the Ten-Tails, one after another, crashed against the Blue Cat's feet. From Lin Nan's elevated perspective, they resembled the fearless toads of his childhood, madly leaping onto his feet.
It was simply disgusting!
The next moment, the Blue Cat slowly lifted its foot and crushed a group of them with a single stomp.
Streams of black liquid splattered, making both Lin Nan and Naruto frown.
"Don't worry about them for now; the Allied Shinobi Forces will handle them. Our target is the Ten-Tails!" Minato said.
"Watch this!"
Lin Nan nodded, then slowly raised two colossal greatswords, each over a hundred meters long.
Due to their immense size and their materialized nature, unlike the Nine-Tails' illusory chakra, the swords were incredibly heavy to wield.
But this was not enough to diminish their power.
"Mountain Splitting Sword!"
The power of a single strike from the super-giant Super Mighty Blue Cat surpassed even the original version wielded by Madara Uchiha.
This scene left Madara Uchiha, watching from afar, in awe: "In this era, someone's swordplay can actually astound me!"
"We are all dead, we shouldn't interfere in the affairs of this world anymore!" Hashirama Senju said.
Tobirama scoffed, "Big brother, stop wasting your breath. If he listened to your advice, he wouldn't be like this now!"
Madara Uchiha stared coldly at Tobirama, but ultimately remained speechless.
"Boom!"
The colossal Super Mighty Blue Cat in the distance finally swung its sword. That seemingly world-cleaving strike, with its momentarily flashing sword light, instantly illuminated the entire battlefield.
The Ten-Tails, which had now gained self-awareness, felt a sense of retreat at that moment and skillfully dodged the sword light.
However, even so, its tail could not entirely escape.
"Swish!"
It was a fleeting masterpiece. The sword light appeared as quickly as it vanished, like a fleeting glimpse of a flower.
But when everyone on the battlefield looked up, the previously overcast sky had parted, as if a rift had been torn open.
Looking down at the ground, following the sword light, a bottomless great canyon had materialized out of nowhere on the battlefield, without even a tremor.
It was as if an incredibly sharp knife had sliced through tofu. The tofu hadn't even registered the cut before it was divided in two.
The might of a single sword was terrifyingly immense.
Minato and Naruto were also stunned by this sword strike. Both the seemingly world-destroying chakra unleashed in that instant and the result presented after the strike far exceeded their imagination.
"Is this still a ninjutsu?" Naruto was completely dumbfounded.
Frankly, it wasn't just Naruto; Lin Nan was also frightened by himself.
At the very least, the explosive visual effect was something that had never appeared in the entire Naruto series.
A sword that split the Earth in half?
If the Ten-Tails hadn't dodged, could it have withstood this strike?
Lin Nan's face lit up with excitement, his fighting spirit burning. The next moment, he controlled the Nine-Tails to hold the twin swords in its hands.
He intended to try a dual-sword slash.
Looking at the Ten-Tails, it had managed to dodge a portion of the attack, but two of its tails were indeed severed.
However, after being cut off, the severed tails wriggled and formed into smaller monsters, while the Ten-Tails regrew new tails.
The Ten-Tails had now thickened, no longer appearing so gaunt. Clearly, it was on the verge of evolving into its complete form.
"One more!"
Lin Nan looked towards Minato and Naruto.
Minato smiled wryly, "This single attack, if I were still alive, would have consumed enough chakra for three of my lives. If it weren't for Edo Tensei, I wouldn't dare use it like this!"
Naruto, however, looked confused, "No, I feel fine!"
The Nine-Tails' voice suddenly sounded, "Of course you feel fine, you're using my chakra!"
"Then aren't they also using Kurama's chakra?" Naruto muttered.
Minato smiled and explained, "Because we are Edo Tensei bodies, we are provided with an endless supply of chakra."
Upon hearing this, Naruto glanced at Lin Nan and suddenly understood, "No wonder Mr. Lin is much stronger than he was in life!"
"..."
Lin Nan remained silent and raised the twin swords in the Nine-Tails' hands.
"Swish!"
This time, both swords swung simultaneously, sword light whistling as it directly slashed towards the Ten-Tails.
Wherever the sword light passed, two deep horizontal trenches appeared on the visible ground, but they did not affect the entire land.
"Roar!"
The Ten-Tails had finished charging and immediately unleashed a Tailed Beast Bomb towards the sword light.
"Boom!"
An earth-shattering explosion followed, stirring up a sky full of dust, and the resulting fire covered the entire form of the Ten-Tails.
"Did it work?" Naruto asked, seeing this.
Lin Nan shook his head, "Even if we cut the Ten-Tails in half, it wouldn't stop it from surviving. We can only suppress it, we cannot kill it. There is only one way to defeat it, and that is by sealing!"
"Roar!"
A furious roar erupted, and the intense gust of wind from the cry instantly dispersed the enveloping dust.
The Ten-Tails was once again exposed to everyone's sight.
However, this time, the Ten-Tails' terrifying appearance made everyone who saw it gasp in astonishment.
"Two Ten-Tails?"