Falling from the Sky

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The two of them did not catch their breath for long, because neither wanted to give the other time to recover.

But because of that, neither of them was in perfect condition. Jiraiya, for example—his legs were severely overloaded, and they simply could not sustain the kind of speed he had just used.

Forget talk of recoil damage. If that were all, it would have been fine. As long as he could take down Nagato, Jiraiya would have considered even losing both legs worth it. The problem now was that his legs simply could not produce that kind of power anymore.

On the other side, Nagato was in much better shape. Although he had been gradually enriching his combat methods, what he used most was still his ocular techniques, and those were also what he relied on.

So for him, with only his body damaged, his advantage was far greater than Jiraiya's.

As a result, Jiraiya, who could now only barely walk through the air, no longer had his earlier dominance. Instead, Nagato suppressed him. In the end, this technique developed based on the concept Shiro had proposed was still too one-dimensional.

Compared with Nagato's free flight, the gap was more than a little.

The technique Jiraiya was using now had come from that absurd theory Shiro had mentioned about Moon Walk—stepping on the air. At first, Jiraiya had not believed a word of it.

But later, after Shiro made a simple comparison between water and the ground, Jiraiya understood.

Since ninja could rely on relatively precise Chakra control to stand on the surface of water, then why could they not stand on air?

In terms of density, water was far less dense than solid ground too. So theoretically, if one's Chakra control was sufficient, this might not be