Chapter 97: The Uncooperative Nine-Tails

Since being forced into the role of Iron Man, the foreign object in Tony's chest has been tormenting him. Besides occasional stabbing pains, it's incredibly uncomfortable, especially when he showers. Adding to the misery, the life-saving reactor on his chest has begun to endanger his life. Tony feels like he's truly going through a tough time.

But now, the palladium in his body, which could have caused his death, has been completely removed. The shrapnel that could have pierced his heart has also been extracted, and even the gaping hole in his chest has healed. Feeling slightly weak but immensely relieved, Tony turns to thank Fei Lian, only to find Fei Lian nowhere to be found.

Wu Chen reminds him, "Fei Lian-sama had other matters to attend to and has already left."

Tony recalls Fei Lian's words, nods, and then walks over to hug Wu Chen directly. "Chen, thank you so much! I'll have someone send the money over later, and also, look forward to the surprise I've prepared for you!"

"Oh, I took these shrapnels with me. I'm planning to make a necklace out of them and give it to Pepper. After all, these things were once so close to my heart, just like Pepper."

In a flurry of activity, Tony puts on his Iron Man suit and leaves with the shrapnels. Meanwhile, Wu Chen watches Tony's departing figure with a somewhat dark expression.

"If you're leaving, just go. Why stuff me with dog food?" he mutters to himself. "So what if you have a girlfriend? Damn it!"

A moment later, Happy comes over, hands Wu Chen a box, and then leaves.

Taking the box home, Wu Chen finds that it indeed contains five million dollars in cash. This means that Wu Chen's remaining balance is now seventy-five million dollars. Originally, it should have been eighty-five million, but ten million of that was used by Wu Chen to assist in the practice of Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and Sage Mode.

After stashing the money away, Wu Chen checks Fei Lian's acting progress: 28%. A direct increase of eight percent, which is pretty nice!

Iron Man truly lives up to being a child of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saving his life and giving him so much.

Then, Wu Chen looks at the countdowns for the two characters. One is an hour and a half, and the other is two and a half hours. Considering that it only took half an hour for Tony's treatment during dinner, there's still plenty of time left.

Wu Chen can't calm down enough to focus on training right now, so after some thought, he decides to communicate with the Nine-Tails again and issue a final ultimatum!

Over the past month, Wu Chen has not only been practicing Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and Sage Mode but has also been trying hard to communicate with and influence the Nine-Tails, ultimately becoming a perfect Jinchuriki like Naruto. He didn't start out intending to cheat; he genuinely wanted to be friends with the Nine-Tails.

However, the Nine-Tails is extremely uncooperative. Every time Wu Chen faces it directly, he's overwhelmed by a massive surge of chakra that disperses him and sends his consciousness out of the sealing space.

After dozens of attempts, Wu Chen stopped entering the sealing space altogether and focused on practicing Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and Sage Mode.

The reason the Nine-Tails treats Wu Chen like this is because when it first came to the Marvel world, all it saw were Sharingan and then the Minato couple's reprimand.

Wu Chen, this peripheral character, also watched the reprimand and even coveted the Nine-Tails' body.

Most importantly, the Nine-Tails, with its ability to perceive the goodness and evil in people's hearts, judged that Minato Namikaze and Tobi were actually Wu Chen! (This is not something the author made up; the Nine-Tails has the ability to perceive the goodness and evil in people's hearts. This can be seen from Naruto, who, in Nine-Tails' chakra mode, can discern individuals disguised by White Zetsu.)

Wu Chen's biggest secret, unexpectedly, was exposed by a single tailed beast.

And it's precisely because of this that the Nine-Tails refuses to accept Wu Chen.

If there's time, Wu Chen can slowly wear the Nine-Tails down and eventually make it understand that he's actually a good person.

But now, in Wu Chen's plan, his main body also needs to quickly improve his strength.

So, he doesn't have time to continue wasting time with the Nine-Tails.

If the Nine-Tails still refuses to communicate with him, then he'll have to cheat!

Lying on his bed with his eyes closed, Wu Chen's consciousness slowly sinks into the sealing space.

Tick tock...

It's a vast space filled with stagnant water, much like Naruto's sealing space.

Walking on the water's surface, Wu Chen takes step by step through the darkness.

Whoosh...

Suddenly, a bright light appears before him, revealing a huge iron door!

The door is so tall that it reaches the sky, with no end in sight on either side. It seems as though this iron door separates the sealing space into two worlds.

On one side is Wu Chen's consciousness, and on the other side, behind the iron door, is a huge nine-tailed fox with orange fur and nine tails.

At this moment, the fox is closing its eyes, pretending to sleep.

Without hesitation, Wu Chen shouts, "Hey! Kyuubi!!"

Huff...huff...huff...

Startled, the Nine-Tails glances at Wu Chen with eyes full of disdain. Then, it slightly rises, and a torrent of red chakra appears, surging out of the huge iron door and slamming fiercely into Wu Chen's body.

At the same time, the Nine-Tails finally speaks, "Get lost!"

Bang!

Wu Chen suddenly opens his eyes, seeing the ceiling of his room.

Getting up from the bed, Wu Chen narrows his eyes, firm in his resolve!