Zhila!
The sound of corroding flesh, accompanied by the acrid white smoke, was particularly harsh in the dead silence of the hall.
Konan's pupils suddenly shrank, and she stared blankly at the back of the figure in front of her. The black robe embroidered with red clouds was Mei Terumi's "Lava Release" quickly disintegrated, revealing the eroded and bloody back underneath. Nagato's body was shaking violently, but like an unshakable mountain, it isolated all harm behind it.
He didn't make any sound, as if the acid strong enough to melt gold into iron was just warm rain.
"Nagato!" Konan exclaimed, reaching out to touch him, but froze midway, fearing that his touch would accelerate his collapse.
"Don't... come here."
For the first time, Nagato's voice was filled with weakness and hoarseness that could not be concealed, like two pieces of air-dried sandpaper rubbing against each other. He slowly turned around, and the Rinnegan pair that once overlooked all living beings and brought endless pain and destruction had lost all their splendor at this moment, and the purple ripples were as dim as embers that were about to be extinguished. He looked over Konan's shoulder, looking at Naruto who was fighting with Gaara's sand sea not far away, and then turned to the other side, where Sasuke was tossing and turning in Darui's weird Storm Release beam.
Finally, his eyes returned to Konan's face covered with tears.
That face slowly overlapped with the little girl who handed him cookies in the rain deep in his memory.
"Konan..." He tried to force out a smile, but he could only stretch his necrotic facial muscles to form an expression that was uglier than crying, "I seem... to let you down again. I couldn't... see that peaceful world."
"No! It won't! We will..." Konan was incoherent. She tried desperately to squeeze out even a trace of Chakra from her already dry body, and wanted to use Paper Ninjutsu to do something for him, but she couldn't do anything.
Nagato shook his head and interrupted her.
"It's... enough."
His Rinnegan burst out with bright purple light for the last time. But the light was not directed at the enemy, but poured back into his own body, igniting his last remaining vitality, as well as the huge pupil power derived from Sage of Six Paths contained in his eyes.
"With my life, the Eye of Reincarnation... the last...Outer Path Technique!"
He stretched out the hand that was corroded by the acid and only had a skeleton left. He did not slap it on the ground to summon Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but gently pressed it on the blue crystal that Konan had been holding tightly.
"Nagato, you..." Konan noticed something, and his expression changed drastically.
"This is Akatsuki... the final atonement."
The moment the voice fell, Nagato's figure, starting from his feet, turned into little purple flakes of light, like sand paintings blown away by the wind. His life, his Chakra, everything about him, was unreservedly injected into the "key" of Moon Country through that bone hand.
Buzz--
The blue crystal burst out with unprecedented light. The light was no longer just a soft blue, but was also mixed with the noble and domineering purple of Rinnegan. Inside the crystal, ancient cuneiform characters intertwined and merged with purple ripples, eventually turning into a brand new strange Runes between blue crystal and purple Tomoe.
A huge force, even beyond Nagato's heyday, came out of the crystal and instantly filled Konan's limbs and bones.
Behind her, countless Paper Shardss flew out, but this time, the papers were no longer white. They presented a strange translucent texture, and the surface of each piece of paper was covered with lavender mysterious lines that looked like the lines of a circuit board.
"This is..." Konan looked down at her hands, feeling the familiar yet unfamiliar power in her body. That was the power of Nagato, the power of Rinnegan, but at this moment, through this key, it was perfectly integrated with her own Chakra.
"Boil Release·Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique!"
Mei Terumi didn't give her any time to adapt. When she saw that the attack was successful, she immediately sprayed out a wider range of acid mist, trying to dissolve the two of them together.
Konan raised her head, the sadness in her eyes was replaced by a cold determination. She didn't Hand Seals, it was just a thought in her mind.
"Paper Ninjutsu·Preta Path·Sealing Technique: Paper Absorb!"
Countless purple Paper Shardss in front of her gathered in an instant and turned into a huge paper shield with purple swirl patterns on its surface. The acid mist that could corrode everything was absorbed by the vortex the moment it came into contact with the paper shield. It did not cause any erosion, but made the purple patterns on the paper shield brighter.
Mei Terumi's empty eyes showed a hint of "confusion" at the data level for the first time. Her attack was neutralized.
"It's not over yet!"
On the other side, Naruto finally caught a flaw in the puppet Gaara. He used a Shadow Clone as bait, and the body went around behind it, and Rasengan containing Senjutsu Chakra was stamped hard on the back of Gaara.
"Wake up! Gaara!"
However, at the moment Rasengan was about to hit, Gaara's body turned into dust and dissipated on the spot. The next second, he regrouped above Naruto's head, with his hands Hand Seals.
"Desert Layer Burial·Sandstorm Gun!"
A huge sand gun made of compressed high-density gravel smashed down on the head with a harsh sound of breaking through the air!
"Oops!" Naruto had nowhere to use it in the air and could only watch the attack fall.
"Paper Ninjutsu·Tiandao·Paper Universal Pull!"
Konan's voice sounded. An invisible force of gravity came from the side, forcibly pulling Naruto's body away from the sand gun's attack trajectory. At the same time, another, more powerful Repulsion Force burst out from the paper wings behind her, turning into a transparent shock wave and hitting the huge sand gun hard.
Boom!
The sand gun was shattered into pieces by Repulsion Force in mid-air.
The figure of Konan was suspended in mid-air. The pair of angel wings composed of purple God Paper behind her were slowly beating. Countless smaller Paper Shards were surrounding her, like miniature satellites. She, by herself, actually used Banshō Ten'in and Shinra Tensei at the same time!
"Sister Konan..." Naruto fell to the ground and looked at this scene in shock.
"Don't be distracted, Naruto!" Konan's voice sounded directly in his mind. This is the ability of Nagato "Statue Lock". "Their weakness is the moment the order is given! Use your Sage Mode to feel it!"
On the other side, the battle between Sasuke and Darui has also entered a fierce battle. Darui's Black Laser is like a poisonous snake with eyes, and every jump appears at the weakest point of Sasuke's defense.
"What a troublesome opponent." Sasuke blocked a laser beam with Susanoo's ribs, and his body was shaken by the huge impact, causing blood to surge. This is no longer a competition of ninjutsu, but a competition of computing power. Every attack of the opponent is the optimal solution optimized by the huge computing power of "Shadow".