"Lin Nan, you still can't do anything to me!"
Upon seeing Lin Nan, Obito let out a wild laugh, "You must have already sensed it, the Ten-Tails' power is constantly growing. Once it reaches a certain level, I will possess the power to destroy the world!"
"The power to destroy the world?" Kakashi's expression turned grim.
Obito then looked at Kakashi, his face monstrous and terrifying, filled with a destructive rage.
"At that time, both you and you will die. I will sever everything in this world!"
Lin Nan scratched his ear, finding the other man to be annoyingly verbose. "You should worry about surviving until then!"
"Keep talking tough, Lin Nan. I'd like to see how you can still laugh later!" Obito sneered.
Lin Nan shook his head. "I'm not laughing. Don't falsely accuse me, but you're probably going to have a hard time laughing yourself soon!"
Obito's smile faltered, and at that moment, he suddenly looked at the ground.
The earth beneath them began to crack, revealing blinding red light from the fissures.
"What is this?" Obito's expression changed drastically, and he immediately tried to jump away with the Ten-Tails.
However, the moment the Ten-Tails strained its limbs, the entire ground shattered, instantly turning into a sea of lava.
"Tsk tsk!"
Lin Nan clicked his tongue, mocking mercilessly. "I used to tell you to keep your eyes and ears open. You didn't notice the activity underground after all this time? Serves you right for not knowing how you're going to die!"
It turned out that Lin Nan's actions on the surface, whether it was the magma giant or anything else, were merely distractions to draw Obito's attention.
What he truly intended to do was hollow out the entire underground, causing the thousand-meter-long Ten-Tails to fall entirely into the lava.
This probably wouldn't cause too much damage to the Ten-Tails, right?
Lin Nan wasn't entirely sure.
But if the Ten-Tails couldn't even withstand this, then it wasn't really the Ten-Tails anymore.
What was the point of this war? It should end quickly, lest he be proven wrong.
"Roar!"
The Ten-Tails let out a thunderous roar.
In the arena, due to Lin Nan's underground operations, the thousand-meter-wide ground was completely hollowed out. As the final step was completed, the earth completely vanished, transforming into an ocean of lava.
The Ten-Tails, still resembling a toad at this stage, lacked wings and could not fly, so it plunged entirely into the lava.
It was like a bullfrog tossed into a hot pot.
Accompanied by the surging molten rock and the high temperatures, the Ten-Tails thrashed and climbed frantically in the lava, wisps of smoke rising.
Lin Nan could even smell a burnt odor.
Seeing the Ten-Tails attempting to climb out of the lava, Lin Nan would not allow it to succeed. He formed more hand seals, causing the surface of the lava to recede several times.
This action plunged the Ten-Tails entirely into the lava-filled ground.
Suddenly, Lin Nan saw five stars flickering among the Ten-Tails' ten tails, shooting directly towards Naruto.
Kakashi, startled, quickly tried to intercept, but Lin Nan stopped him.
Lin Nan looked at Naruto and the five streaks of starlight with a strange expression and slowly said, "This is Naruto's fortune. You should take Naruto and the others to a safer distance first!"
Kakashi nodded, then grabbed Naruto, who was enveloped by the starlight, and turned to leave.
Lin Nan watched Naruto's retreating figure, lost in thought.
He knew, of course, that this was the time when the Edo Tensei would be released, which also meant the jinchuriki of the five-tailed beasts would be freed.
When the Edo Tensei was released, souls with strong willpower would gain a brief period of free action. Their choice to seek out Naruto at this moment was self-evident.
He hadn't expected the plot to have deviated to this extent, and this cheat could actually arrive on time.
It was truly miraculous!
As expected of the Child of Destiny.
"The Ten-Tails is invincible, it is absolute, an existence that can never perish. Everything you have done is nothing but a futile effort!"
A loud shout interrupted Lin Nan's thoughts.
Obito had climbed onto the sharp snail shell on the Ten-Tails' back. It was the highest point, thus unaffected by the lava.
While the Ten-Tails was not in imminent danger, the situation was extremely unfavorable for a mortal like Obito.
"Tobi, I'm sorry, I still prefer to call you by that name!" Lin Nan's voice rang out at the opportune moment. "I might not be able to do anything to the Ten-Tails, but didn't you say I couldn't do anything to you?"
Obito glared intently at Lin Nan from afar, but he was utterly speechless.
Lin Nan, however, enjoyed seeing his expression.
Just watching him was incredibly satisfying.
Lin Nan knew that Obito must have been bursting with frustration.
Back at the Kage Summit, he had come and gone as he pleased, even daring to declare the Fourth Great Ninja War to the Five Kage. How majestic was that!
He never imagined that when the real battle began, he would be utterly dominated, with no chance to resist.
From the Gedo Mazo at the start to the Ten-Tails now.
It seemed the situation had never changed.
Obito truly regretted not having directly ordered Kabuto Yakushi to destroy Lin Nan when he saw Kabuto Edo Tensei Lin Nan in the first chapter.
Without Lin Nan, with only those two imbeciles Naruto and Kakashi, he could have certainly toyed with them at his whim.
Instead, now, it was a situation of passively taking hits.
There was no room for resistance at all.
They didn't even give him a chance to maintain his disguise and act mysteriously, shattering his mask right from the start.
Where was the sense of mystery for the audience?
In this current predicament, all he could do was be thankful that the lava couldn't inflict substantial damage on the Ten-Tails, only cause it pain.
But for the Ten-Tails, pain was pain; it wasn't his pain anyway.
Obito declared himself uninvolved.
The Ten-Tails could not be destroyed, and as long as the Ten-Tails remained, Obito, as its master, would also be absolutely safe.
With this thought, Obito's cold smile returned, and he shouted at Lin Nan, "So what? You schemed for so long, and this is all you've got? Does this have any impact on me?"
Still talking tough?
Lin Nan calmly watched the Ten-Tails flailing in the lava. Perhaps a thousand degrees Celsius was not enough to cause significant damage to the Ten-Tails.
At most, it was like having a rather hot bath.
"Since you want to know if it has an impact on you, why not make the impact bigger!"
Lin Nan smiled kindly, and then blue skeletal structures emerged all over his body. The upper torso of a giant appeared, and four massive arms, along with Lin Nan's own hands, formed three different hand seals.
Obito watched from afar, his smile extremely stiff.
A suffocating pressure suddenly descended. Obito looked up with disbelief, his pupils contracting sharply, a sense of suffocation overwhelming him.
In the sky above, an unimaginably large meteor was descending.
"Chibaku Tensei!"