Six Paths figures, twelve Rinnegans without exception, stared at the eternal Fox Mask in front of them.
The sound of wind and rain stopped at this moment.
Naruto spoke again, "Others, please return to the stronghold first."
His eyes swept over everyone on his side.
"The prisoners of [Akatsuki] will be handed over to your care. Kakuzu, these people are still useful to us."
As he finished speaking, the air beside him cracked open without any warning, and a deep black portal - Yomotsu Hirasaka.
Kakuzu After hearing this, his eyes uncontrollably swept across the seemingly calm sea below him again. If it weren't for the many eyes staring at him, he almost wanted to lie down and carefully examine every inch of the sea.
Although I don't know what method was used by the leader or the new Mangekyo Uchiha to "erase" it - but the endless layers of hundreds of billions of Explosive Tags under the sea were deeply burned into the depths of his soul, Kakuzu, who regarded wealth as his life.
If it could be recovered... even if only part of it could be recovered... no, even if only their final whereabouts could be known...
His heart twitched violently due to the desire for huge wealth. But Kakuzu also understood this truth. Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and think less about what you shouldn't think about. All he could do was obey the leader's orders.
However, Menma's next words made his green eyes light up.
"... I will take the things back later, so I don't have to worry about losing them."
This sentence speaks to Kakuzu better than any other natural sound!
Kakuzu He immediately straightened his back and responded respectfully. "Yes! I obey!"
He started to move, lifting up Hidan who was still cursing but unable to move with one hand, picking up the unconscious Hozuki Suigetsu with the other hand, and striding Earth Flow towards the dark portal.
Shisui Uchiha, Zabuza Momochi and Bai Ye each took the subdued Juzo Biwa, Raiga Kurosuki and their Ninja Blade, and stepped into the portal one after another.
The breath of everyone completely disappeared in the sea shrouded in rain.
At this moment, only Jiu was left on the empty and oppressive sea.
Uzumaki Naruto(Menma).
Uchiha Satsuki(identity concealed).
Six Paths of Pain (the puppet of Nagato).
And, Konan, who is restless and has confused memory.
Silence pressed on every "person's" chest. Only the never-ending heavy rain beat on the sea surface and the remaining ice crystals, making a monotonous and cold background sound.
The first person to break the dead silence was Animal Path among Six Paths of Pain. He raised his hands expressionlessly and quickly Hand Seals,
"Summoning Technique!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
White smoke exploded! Three-headed Summoning Beast, as big as a hill and exuding a ferocious chakra aura, suddenly arrived!
Cerberus, the three ferocious heads let out low roars at the same time, the giant rhinoceros, covered in armor as thick as a rock, the horn on the tip of its nose flashing with cold light, the bison, breathing white steam from its nose, its horns pointed at the enemy, ready to charge.
Each one is a giant war beast capable of causing chaos and destruction on the battlefield.
Facing the intimidation of these three behemoths, Satsuki's eyes did not waver at all. She raised her right hand.
"Immortal Magic·Thunder Eclipse."
In the whisper, a black thunder and lightning that was very different from the ordinary Lightning Release, as deep as the night, condensed in her palm. It was not natural lightning, but was mixed with Nature Energy from Mount Myōboku, the nature has undergone fundamental changes - this is the unique Sage Mode developed by Satsuki by combining Sage Mode and its own Lightning Release talent.
"Boom--!"
She flicked her wrist slightly, and the black lightning accurately hit the three-headed beast rushing forward.
The moment the black lightning came into contact with the giant beast's body, it quietly "seeped" in. Immediately afterwards, the entire body, which was as huge as a hill, quickly "melted" and "dissipated" starting from the part where it was hit.
Just like a sand sculpture blown away by the wind, flesh, bones, hair, and even the chakra in the body began to disintegrate and annihilate from the most energy structure level.
In just two or three breaths, the three huge Summoning Beast completely turned into a pile of black-gray embers that drifted in the wind and disappeared in the wind and rain.
[Immortal Technique·Thunder Eclipse]--Transform Nature Energy into black Lightning Release which contains the rules of "decomposition". It does not produce high temperature, shock or paralysis effects. Its essence is to "silently erase" the matter and energy it comes into contact with from the foundation of existence.
Deva Path Pain raised his arm and aimed his palm at Satsuki who had just finished using Sage Mode and seemed to have not had time to return to defense.
"Banshō Ten'in."
A powerful gravitational field was generated instantly, trying to forcefully pull Satsuki's body over!
But.
"Shinra Tensei."
Another voice sounded at the same time as Deva Path started. The person who said this word was not Deva Path, but Menma standing next to Satsuki.
"Boom--!"
The invisible repulsive force exploded with Menma as the center! It collided with the gravitational field released by Deva Path domineeringly. Two completely opposite forces involving space and gravity violently collided and offset each other in mid-air, and were eventually annihilated at the same time.
Deva Path Pain's puppet face belonging to Yahiko still maintained absolute indifference, but the pair of Rinnegan locked onto Menma.
The corpse couldn't make a more vivid expression, but Nagato, who was behind the scenes, must have stirred up a storm in his heart.
"... What on earth is going on?" Deva Path's voice was steady, but revealed a cold and biting question, "Why... can you use this technique?"
[Shinra Tensei] and [Banshō Ten'in], this is the basic but core Rinnegan Dojutsu, which is a symbol of the power of "god"! This guy, how could he use it?!
Star Eye, in addition to bringing two Kekkei Mōra to Naruto, also inherited all the basic ninjutsu from Rinnegan, which Naruto has successively developed in recent years.
Menma did not answer directly, but "looked back" at Deva Path.
"The power you are proud of and regard as proof of God... is nothing more than the basic ability of a race."
"Even Sage of Six Paths, who is regarded as a legend, is essentially a mixed descendant of that race."
"You try to create peace by inflicting pain on the world. Regardless of whether this method is right or wrong, even if your plan succeeds - a peace created by fear and forced by absolute deterrence..."
"How long do you think it can last?"
"In this world, even after the long Warring States Period ended and the Ninja Village system was initially established, three world wars that swept the entire Ninja World broke out after First Hokage's death."
"Hatred breeds hatred, and pain breeds new pain. The 'ultimate deterrent' you envision may bring temporary silence, but as long as the desires, fears, hatred and barriers in human hearts remain, the war will eventually reignite."
"The peace that First Hokage tried to create with the 'Tailed Beast balance' and the 'one country, one village' system has failed. Everything we are doing now is just trying to continue his path that has not been taken, or died midway... in a more thorough and perhaps more cruel way to find new possibilities."
Deva Path Pain was silent. Nagato certainly understood that he could not give the world permanent peace.
He had never thought of executing the extreme plan of "Moon Eye Plan" that dragged the whole world into a dream. Deep down in his heart, he knew that the limit he could imagine was to rely on the absolute deterrence of Rinnegan and Tailed Beast weapons to forcefully buy a relatively long period of breathing time for this scarred world without large-scale war.
One hundred years...
This number lingered in his mind. For a hundred years, there had been no wars engulfing the world.
This is an unprecedented extravagance in the history of Ninja World, which is full of disputes. For this reason, he is willing to transform into Shura.
Menma seemed to see through the thoughts in this silence, and he shook his head gently.
"Nagato, let's fight quickly."
"I will not take your life. After this battle... I hope you can calm down and listen to me explain everything."
After finishing his words, he slowly raised his right hand. Above his palm, countless tiny energy particles shining like stars appeared out of thin air.
This time, what was attracted by him was no longer the blazing Sun Yang Power, or the frozen power of stagnation.
That is Starry Sky Chakra from Solar System, the giant planet with a magnificent star ring that symbolizes "order", "binding" and "thickness" - Saturn.
"Rasengan·Huanxing."