Over the dim and dusky earth,
two factions fought fiercely, and the flashes of brilliant light that ignited from time to time were extremely conspicuous across this plain, while the massive roars echoed through the space.
The chakra volumes of Nagato Uzumaki and Hashirama Senju were far too immense, and the battle between the two of them battered this land into a state of utter ruin, leaving behind only scattered wood chips everywhere and barren earth.
With his peerless and formidable strength, Nagato withstood the attacks from the Five Great Shinobi Villages and the Reanimation Squad, holding out until the reinforcements of the Akatsuki members arrived.
Nagato was currently manipulating the Six Paths of Pain along with Akatsuki to attack the Five Kages, Naruto Uzumaki, and Jiraiya.
At the same time,
Nagato was also extracting the Tailed Beast from within the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.
The Seven-Tails did not belong to the Five Great Shinobi Villages, but rather to Takigakure, which was Kakuzu's former village.
The Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was a young girl around Naruto's age.
Kakuzu and Hidan returned late this time precisely because he had gone off to capture the Seven-Tails.
While extracting the Tailed Beast and dealing with the Five Kages, Nagato was making a difficult choice in his heart: Setsuna and Madara, who should I trust?
Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan were students of Jiraiya, and from a young age, they were instilled with the ideas of peace and becoming saviors, so the three of them spent their entire lives striving for this goal.
Along the journey, it even cost Yahiko his life and half of Nagato's life.
As for the method to achieve peace, Nagato currently had two paths before him, provided respectively by Wang Ming and Obito Uchiha.
The peace method provided by Wang Ming was to fill