Watching Yoru Machi ride his Toy Dragon as he dove toward them, the fat Preta Path flashed in front of Tendo Pain again, spreading his arms to absorb Yoru Machi's Wood Dragon Technique.
Yet just as the other side absorbed his Wood Dragon Technique, Yoru Machi, who had been riding atop the dragon's head, leaped down and drove a Face-Shattering Fist straight into the Preta Path's face.
The Preta Path's round, fleshy face visibly distorted beneath his Monstrous Strength Fist. In the next second, a ring-shaped shockwave burst out, sending him flying several kilometers away!
With the Preta Path no longer blocking the way, the Wood Golem Vajra behind Yoru Machi, which had already regained its balance, widened its furious eyes. It gripped its blade in both hands and brought it down upon Tendo Pain's position with the force of splitting a mountain.
"Summoning Technique—!"
Tendo Pain was still stiff from using Almighty Push, so he was not the one who had used this Summoning Technique.
Among the Six Paths of Pain, none but the Beast Path could use the Summoning Technique. Therefore, this technique had been used by Nagato himself, the Outer Path.
As a cloud of white smoke nearly covering half of Amegakure appeared, a gigantic humanoid creature suddenly emerged onto the battlefield. It had nine eyes, a body the color and texture of dead wood, and ten pillar-like protrusions rising from its back.
"Clang—!"
The Outer Path Demonic Statue, whose body was comparable in size to the Wood Golem Vajra, suddenly appeared before Tendo Pain and used its head to block the descending blade.
A slash capable of cleaving mountains and splitting the earth struck the Outer Path Demonic Statue's deadwood-like body, yet it produced the crisp ring of metal striking stone.
A massive shockwave spread outward