"Because they discovered our experimental base." The middle-aged man said matter-of-factly, "Those who know the secret will only die."
"You bastards!" Naruto clenched his fists.
"Don't be impulsive, Naruto." Jiraiya pressed his shoulders, "The strength of these four people is not simple."
"How difficult is it?"
"Everyone has the strength of Jonin." Jiraiya said, "And their Wood Release and First Hokage are different, making them even more weird and difficult to deal with."
"So what?" Naruto was unconvinced, "I am the man who defeated Pain!"
"Pain is dead." The middle-aged man smiled, "And we are still alive. This is the difference."
He raised his hand, and a sharp wooden thorn appeared in his palm.
"Since you guys bumped into each other, let's die here together."
The wooden thorn shot out of the air and pointed directly at Naruto's heart.
Sasuke responds faster.
Kusanagi Sword took out the sheath and cut off the wooden thorn accurately.
"Your opponent is me." He said coldly.
"Uchiha Sasuke?" The middle-aged man recognized him, "The owner of Rinnegan. Interesting."
He snapped his fingers.
The other three Cyborg immediately dispersed and faced Naruto, Jiraiya and Konan respectively.
The battle is about to break out.
Naruto's opponent is a young woman. Her arms have become completely wooden and look like two thick tree trunks.
"Kid, let me show you the real Wood Release!" The woman waved her arms, and countless branches emerged from the ground, wrapping around Naruto like poisonous snakes.
"Wood Release?" Naruto sneered, "I have seen Wood Release who is a hundred times more powerful than you!"
The golden Chakra exploded, and the power of Nine-Tails emerged.
He punched out, and the branches were instantly shattered.
"A half-hearted person like you deserves to be called Wood Release?"
The woman's expression changed.
She didn't expect Naruto to be so powerful.
"Don't underestimate me!" she roared angrily, and her body began to swell.
Green energy surged under her skin, and countless tree roots emerged from her back, waving like octopus tentacles.
"Wood Release·The tree world is born!"
The entire street was instantly covered with trees.
Thick tree trunks rise from the ground, and their branches and leaves cover the sky and the sun, turning the area into a small forest.
"This move..." Naruto frowned.
The birth of the tree world is one of First Hokage's signature ninjutsu, and it is extremely powerful.
But the version displayed by the woman in front of me was obviously much weaker.
The trees grow slowly and are not dense enough, making them more like inferior imitations.
"It seems that your experiment was not successful enough." Naruto grinned.
"Shut up!" the woman said angrily.
She controlled the trees to attack wildly, but was easily dodged or crushed by Naruto every time.
"It's too slow." Naruto said, "And your Chakra Control is also very poor. Even I can imitate this level of Wood Release with Chakra."
"You..."
Naruto didn't give her another chance to speak.
The golden Chakra condensed in his hand, forming a high-speed rotating energy ball.
"Rasengan!"
The energy ball hit the woman's chest, and the huge impact knocked her whole body away.
She broke several trees and finally hit the wall hard and passed out.
On the other side, the battle of Sasuke is also coming to an end.
The middle-aged man is indeed not weak in strength, but in front of Rinnegan, everything is in vain.
"Amaterasu."
Black flames appeared out of thin air and instantly engulfed the middle-aged man's body.
He screamed and tried to extinguish the flame, but Amaterasu is an eternal flame. As long as matter exists, it will keep burning.
In less than ten seconds, the middle-aged man was burned to ashes.
Jiraiya The battle over there is also over.
His opponent is an old man who became neither human nor ghost after transplanting Wood Release.
But in front of Senjutsu, these modifications are meaningless.
"Immortal magic·Super Great Ball Rasengan!"
The old man was beaten into a pulp.
Only Konan's opponent is still struggling.
That was a young man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.
His lower body has been completely fused into tree roots, making it extremely difficult to move.
"Surrender." Konan said, "You have already lost."
"Surrender?" The young man smiled miserably, "People from our roots never surrender."
He suddenly blew himself up.
Boom!
The huge explosion destroyed all surrounding buildings.
When the smoke and dust dispersed, the boy's body lay in the rubble with no signs of life.
"What a madman." Naruto cursed.
"Not crazy." Jiraiya shook his head, "He was brainwashed. The root members of Danzo have received extreme loyalty education since childhood. For them, death is easier to accept than failure."
"This kind of education method..." Naruto gritted his teeth, "It is simply treating people as tools!"
"For Danzo, people are just tools." Jiraiya sighed, "This is the biggest difference between him and Third Hokage."
After the battle, the orphanage was completely in ruins.
Jiraiya was sitting on a stone, bandaging his wound.
"Teacher, are you okay?" Naruto asked worriedly.
"I can't die." Jiraiya grinned, "This injury is nothing to me."
"Why are you here?" Sasuke asked, "And you even got into a fight with Gen's remnants."
"It's a long story." Jiraiya sighed, "I came to Amegakure to investigate some things."
"What's the matter?"
"The secret about Pain."
Konan's body trembled slightly.
"Nagato's secret?"
"Yes." Jiraiya looked at her, "Konan, do you know where Nagato's Rinnegan comes from?"
Konan shook his head.
"All I know is that he's had those eyes since he was little."
"No." Jiraiya said, "His Rinnegan was not born with it."
"What?" Konan's eyes widened.
"Rinnegan was transplanted into his eye socket." Jiraiya said, "And the time of transplantation was probably shortly after the death of his parents."
"How is that possible?" Konan couldn't believe it. "If it was transplanted, why did Nagato never mention it?"
"Because he doesn't know it himself." Jiraiya said, "The person who transplanted Rinnegan erased all his memories of that period."
"Who?" Sasuke asked, "Who has the ability to do such a thing?"
"Uchiha Madara." Jiraiya said a name that shocked everyone.
"Madara?" Naruto was stunned, "But wasn't he already dead?"
"Dead, but his will is still there." Jiraiya said, "During the investigation, I found that before Uchiha Madara died, he sealed part of his will in a special container. That container was later taken away by a creature named Black Zetsu and used to control Nagato."
"Black Zetsu..." Sasuke frowned, "I seem to have heard this name somewhere."
"You should have heard of it." Jiraiya said, "Black Zetsu is an artificial life created by Uchiha Madara, specifically used to carry out his plan."
"What's the plan?"
"Eye of the Moon Plan." Jiraiya's expression became serious, "Uchiha Madara wants to use the power of Rinnegan to pull the whole world into an eternal illusion. In that illusion, everyone can realize their dreams, and there will be no more pain and war."