How strong was Naruto Uzumaki in Sage Mode?
Strong!
Really damn strong!
You could tell from the stunned expressions on the faces of the spectators gathered around the battlefield.
Naruto, who was dominating the Six Paths of Pain, had completely overturned the Konoha ninjas' old impression of him.
Only now did they realize that the reckless fox kid who used to do nothing but play pranks had grown into someone capable of protecting Konoha.
But Hao Shuai knew that the current situation was only temporary.
Because Naruto had one fatal weakness: Sage Mode didn't last very long.
He had come up with a way to leave a Shadow Clone at Mount Myōboku to train in senjutsu, then summon it over when needed. But it wasn't a long-term solution.
And the longer Hao Shuai watched the battle, the more he felt something was missing. He just couldn't figure out what.
At that moment, Naruto was fighting the Deva Path one-on-one, but the battle soon took a turn.
The Deva Path had just unleashed the mighty Almighty Push, so its abilities had been on cooldown for a while afterward. That gave Naruto the chance to destroy the other five bodies. But now, the Deva Path's powers had suddenly returned.
With a few simple uses of repulsion and attraction, Pain beat Naruto until he couldn't fight back, then killed Sage Shima, who had been helping Naruto gather senjutsu Chakra, taking out the leader first.
And because the Nine-Tails hated senjutsu Chakra, it petulantly stopped giving Naruto Chakra.
As a result, Naruto's Sage Mode immediately wore off.
Without his power-up, Naruto instantly went limp. Pain then pinned him to the ground with several metal rods made from Yin Release Chakra.
Only then did Hao Shuai remember what was missing.
Hinata!!
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