'As long as it is something within my body, I can exert Absolute Control over it?'
Thinking of this, Naruto's heart couldn't help but beat a little faster.
In his past life as an ordinary person, he lived in a world without supernatural powers. Although Absolute Control was incredible, it still fell within the realm of biological miracles.
Developing the brain, controlling the body, accelerating healing—no matter how you look at it, these were just the ultimate manipulation of the physical body.
Naruto had always assumed that this ability could only achieve that much. In the worldview of his past life, the ability to directly intervene in external objects with willpower simply didn't exist, so he had never even considered that possibility.
But after transmigrating to the Ninja World, the situation was different. Here, there was Chakra that defied physics, Kekkei Genkais that could warp space-time, Rinne Tensei that could resurrect the dead, and ancestors who could fall from the moon.
In this world with Chakra, the true nature of Absolute Control might have been underestimated by him from the very beginning.
'If it really is conceptual-level Absolute Control...'
Naruto lowered his hand, his brows slightly furrowed, then gradually relaxed.
'Then I need to re-evaluate how to walk the path ahead.'
From the moment he woke up until now, the plan he had set for himself was generally conservative.
Develop quietly, secretly practice Ninjutsu to become stronger, avoid provoking existences at the Ōtsutsuki level, and try to use his prophet advantage from the original series to avoid risks.
But if the essence of his ability was conceptual-level, then the upper limit for his entire development path had been redefined.
Previously, he had considered combat power accumulation, Ninjutsu combinations, and team building. Now, he needed to re-plan an entirely different path.
At this moment, countless ideas lit up in Naruto's mind like fireworks, each one worth spending time to deduce.
Immediately after, he forcibly suppressed all the expanding thoughts. Thinking too much was useless, even the most beautiful hypothesis needed experimental verification. Right now, there was a ready-made experimental subject standing in front of him.
Snap!
Thus, Naruto looked at Nine-Tails and raised his hand to snap his fingers.
Nine-Tails's body instantly regained its freedom. Its body staggered slightly as it suddenly regained control, its nine tails instinctively lashing out behind it, striking the cage bars and making a series of dull thuds.
Nine-Tails panted heavily, its scarlet eyes containing a trace of terror it was unwilling to admit.
"Uzumaki Naruto, what did you just do to me?"
Nine-Tails's voice still carried a fierce pressure, but Naruto could hear a very subtle sense of insecurity when facing the unknown.
"Kurama, calm down."
Naruto raised a hand, making a soothing gesture.
"I need you to cooperate with me on an experiment."
Nine-Tails's eyes narrowed in vigilance. "What are you trying to do again?"
What kind of situations hadn't Nine-Tails seen in its life?
It had been beaten into the ground by Hashirama using Wood Release, walked like a dog by Madara using his Mangekyo Sharingan, sealed into one Jinchuriki after another, and torn in half by the Reaper Death Seal to be locked in a cage for decades.
There was never a time it felt submissive after losing, nor was there a time it felt true fear from the bottom of its heart.
But that feeling just now, where its whole body was no longer under the control of its own will, yet it couldn't sense any external force invading, caysed it to panic.
Naruto smiled, his tone relaxed. "Don't be nervous, you just need to release your Chakra to me with all your might."
Nine-Tails was stunned for a moment. "Just this?"
Naruto nodded.
Nine-Tails was silent for a moment, its fierce expression replaced by something that couldn't quite be described as confusion.
It thought Naruto would make some more excessive demands, like asking it to submit completely, or asking it to hand over all its Chakra for him to control permanently. But the experiment the other party spoke of was actually as simple as just letting it release Chakra.
"Fine." Nine-Tails agreed without much hesitation.
"Then you'd better be able to catch it. This is the Chakra accumulated from eroding the seal over the years, it's much more than the little bit you used before."
The reason Nine-Tails agreed was very simple, what it lacked least was Chakra. From the first day it was sealed inside this blonde brat, its Chakra had been continuously seeping through the seal, leaking out bit by bit from the gaps in the bars and mixing with Naruto's own Chakra.
It didn't care about giving some away. If this brat couldn't handle it and had his will consumed by its Chakra, then the seal would be even easier to break.
Naruto took a deep breath and prepared himself. In the next second, a torrent of Chakra far exceeding any previous time erupted from Nine-Tails's body.
Dark red Chakra surged out from the gaps in the cage, instantly filling Naruto's entire body. The volume and density of this Chakra were completely incomparable to what it was in the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals formation before. If the last time was a trickling stream, this time was a flash flood.
In the real world, Naruto's body was completely enveloped by the dark red Chakra. This Chakra was so intense that it formed a layer of visible Chakra cloak around him.
His yellow hair stood on end, and the ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch under the pressure of the dissipating Chakra.
A tail condensed behind him, each sway dragging a scorching afterimage through the air.
Following that, the second, the third, the fourth.
In a moment, four dark red Chakra tails unfurled behind Naruto.
The birds in the woods were startled and flew away in all directions.
Tailed Beast Form, Four-Tails Mode!
This was the mode Naruto entered multiple times in the original series when he lost control in a state of anger. It had immense destructive power, but the cost was having his sanity eroded by Nine-Tails's will of hatred every second.
Normally, a Jinchuriki who could remain conscious after entering this state would be considered to have extraordinary talent.