Right now, the life of Nine-Tails could be described as miserable beyond belief, even as being plunged into boiling water and scorching fire! Not only was it repeatedly and thoroughly crushed head-on by Uchiha Chi in the confined, oppressive space of the seal—to the point where it later became a ruthless, one-sided steamrolling—but its precious chakra was also repeatedly and forcibly extracted by him.
The stolen chakra was not wasted; instead, it was combined with pupillary power to cultivate the Chakra Prayer Beads within Uchiha Chi's body.
Because of this, the once majestic and robust Nine-Tails had now been reduced to a standard "skeleton" of a creature. Its emaciated figure possessed a certain so-called "bony aesthetic," but in reality, it looked incomparably wretched and pitiful.
Chapter 364