With the intelligence in hand, Naruto gained a deeper understanding of the Six Paths of Pain.
In fact, although Konoha had been getting mowed down relentlessly, they had not been merely taking hits the whole time. Through the process of being repeatedly crushed, they had gathered nearly all the intelligence on Pain.
As the largest village in the Ninja World, its talent pool and intelligence-gathering capabilities were unquestionably unrivaled.
Now, the various abilities of the Six Paths of Pain had been relayed to Naruto through Katsuyu.
Among them, the strongest, the Deva Path, was also the hardest to deal with. Its immense power could not be confronted head-on.
However, after previously using the Super Almighty Push, it seemed to have entered a lengthy cooldown period. It had remained under the protection of the other Pains and had not made another move.
Moreover, each use of the Deva Path's ordinary Almighty Push had an interval of roughly five seconds. Such a powerful technique could not be used consecutively.
Besides that, none of the Six Paths of Pain were living people. They were human puppets controlled by some method, able to move, speak, and fight like living humans!
To truly defeat the Six Paths of Pain, they needed to find the real body controlling them from behind the scenes. Otherwise, even if every Pain was taken out, they would not be able to truly eliminate their enemy.
Furthermore, the Six Paths of Pain seemed to possess a way of restoring the puppets. The Asura Path and Human Path had clearly been taken out before, yet now they had all reappeared.
Just then, they saw the King of Hell being summoned in the distance. Before long, the defeated Asura Path was somehow restored and spat back out.
The way it recovered completely after