"Hmm?!"
"What kind of technique is this?!"
"It can actually sever my connection to the Pure Land?!"
The Sage of Six Paths, enveloped in a purple barrier, showed a rare look of panic. The barrier stretched from underground to more than a thousand meters in the sky, surrounding everything within it. Dense patterns of jutsu marks flowed across its surface, flickering in and out of sight and lending it an eerie appearance.
"Heh!"
"I never expected you to be able to draw power from the Pure Land and channel it directly into yourself..."
"No wonder you could still hold your own against me, even without absorbing Nature Energy and after losing the Tailed Beasts..."
"What about now?"
"I'm afraid it won't be long before you can't even maintain this Susanoo, will it?!"
Souya said with a cold laugh.
So the Sage of Six Paths drew his power from the Pure Land!
As Souya recalled, the Sage of Six Paths' Ninshu had a method for gathering Chakra together, forming it into a hand of Chakra, then passing it to someone else—or to himself.
The old bastard must have spent all those years clinging to the Pure Land, quietly turning it into his own lair.
He could manipulate the souls of past Kage Level shinobi, making them "ascend" to the Pure Land after death. And Indra and Asura had been reincarnating over and over again. It was hard to believe the Sage of Six Paths hadn't had a hand in it.
Yet the renowned strongmen seemed to have remained in the Pure Land indefinitely, serving as the Sage of Six Paths' "reserve force."
As for the countless lower-ranking shinobi who were little more than cannon fodder, they had probably been used as "fertilizer" for the Pure Land—or as the Sage of Six