A single bout of slaughter brought an immense amount of white light.
All the white radiance swiftly flew into Nagato's body.
"Nagato, what exactly did you do?"
Someone spoke up in rebuke.
They did not understand what that white light was.
But that did not stop Nagato from continuously absorbing it.
"Yahiko, in the end, I still became someone like you."
Nagato let out a sigh.
He would stop at nothing to achieve his goal.
But...
"I had no other choice."
He raised his head and looked toward the sky.
The white radiance engulfed him.
At that moment, Hashirama Senju had already set his sights on Orochimaru.
Countless colorful wooden branches shot straight toward Orochimaru.
"Even after losing your memories, do you still want to kill an evil man like me, First Hokage?" Orochimaru chuckled.
Countless colorful wooden branches grew from behind Orochimaru as if copied, intertwining with Newborn's colorful wooden branches.
"You can actually use my power."
Newborn's expression changed. He had not expected Orochimaru to be able to use his power.
"It is merely the fusion of multiple energies."
Orochimaru had chosen the power of Origin, but with knowledge alone, as long as he understood the other party's ability, he could use it directly.
The more knowledge he stored, the stronger its power would become.
The colorful wooden branches entwining with Newborn's were hardly inferior to the other side's.
The two continued battling with colorful wooden branches.
"I don't believe it!!" Newborn used the colorful wooden branches even more frantically. More than half the sky had already been occupied by them.
Their battle had fallen into a stalemate.
As countless colorful wooden branches collided, intense energy fluctuations erupted.
At that moment, Nagato, wrapped in white light, slowly opened his eyes.
His entire eyes had turned pitch-black, and white