There's No Choice but to Use That Technique

Uchiha Shingen, however, seemed a little disappointed.

Even a mosquito's leg is still meat. Although the main force of this operation to establish authority depends on Nagato, these small groups of ninjas are the ones the ANBU deal with most often in actual operations. Killing a few more of them will improve their reputation.

As for taking down the Rain Ninja, it was purely because these Rain Ninja didn't cooperate with his show-off tactics and even dared to tell him to make the team wait in place.

Is this how they treat their allies? Needless to say, they're definitely fake Rain Ninja.

And there will definitely be a fake Nagato will come to argue with him.

Then he had an idea.

"Torune, where was the last time you carried out a mission in the Land of Rain?"

"Lord Shingen is in a canyon."

"Tell everyone to change direction. We're going there. You lead the way."

"Yes."

Led by Aburame Torune, the group changed course, leaving the shaded road and entering the woods on one side.

Under the relentless footsteps of a group of ninjas, the jungle transformed into a wilderness, which then grew increasingly barren.

Uchiha Shingen saw the high cliff.

"Is that the place?" he asked.

"Yes, Lord Shingen."

"Then stay away from them later."

Uchiha Shingen hasn't fought openly with anyone in a long time, so Nagato would be a good fit.

To borrow a pretentious phrase, it would be: I no longer know how strong I am.

Just kidding, they probably couldn't beat the big idiot and the irritable spotted guy who turned on them near the village later, since the power they wielded when they started fighting was truly excessive.

As they entered the canyon, Uchiha Shingen waved his hand, and the former Root ninja behind him scattered and rushed into the valley.

Uchiha Shingen's gaze fell on the cliff to his left.

The cliffs are layered, and this is the only place nearby with a similar scene.

This should be the place where Hanzo kidnapped Konan and forced Yahiko to commit suicide.

[Hanzo, you're really embarrassing yourself...]

Uchiha Shingen pushed off with his feet, flew into the air, and then slowly descended.

The view from here is quite nice.

Aburame Torune appeared silently behind him.

"Lord Shingen, we've checked, there's no one nearby."

"Okay, once they arrive, I'll teleport you outside the valley. Just make sure no outsiders get in."

"Yes," the Aburame Torune.

Uchiha Shingen also began to wait.

Chakra began to circulate within his body.

"Torune," he suddenly asked, "How many missions has Akatsuki taken on in the last three years that involved conflict with Konoha Ninja?"

"We had already completed two hundred attempts before we set off."

"You're quite diligent, aren't you? You had another one yesterday, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay, tell the brothers to get ready, the enemy is coming."

A powerful Chakra is approaching at an unusually rapid speed.

Aburame Torune aback. Just as he was about to say something, his wireless headset started crackling with static, then fell silent.

He took off his headphones and threw them on the ground.

In this world, Chakra affects the operation of electronic devices; if it is powerful enough, it can directly destroy these devices.

However, achieving this is not easy.

Uchiha Shingen suddenly looked up at the sky.

A rumble of thunder sounded, and dark clouds approached, but the approaching Chakra remained unaffected.

The rumble of thunder was followed by a flash of lightning that tore through the sky, and raindrops began to fall.

But in the flash of lightning, a figure appeared above the canyon, gliding across the sky and landing where Uchiha Shingen was.

"Bang!"

Nagato landed steadily on the cliff, her black robes with red cloud patterns fluttering in the strong wind.

His gaze first fell on Aburame Torune.

At first glance, he was certain that these were the Leaf Village ANBU who had cooperated with Hanzo.

"I heard that the 'Darkness of the Ninja' is dead. So there are still remnants?" His gaze returned to Uchiha Shingen. "Uchiha Shingen, what's the meaning of today? Why are you killing Amegakure ninjas?"

"You mean those Rain Ninja? They're fake," Uchiha Shingen laughed. "Don't tell me they're really Rain Ninja."

"What if that's the case?"

"Then they deserve to die. This country owes its current resources to the power of Leaf Village. Even being an ingrate requires some skill."

"The reconstruction of the Land of Rain was completed by its Land of Rain people, and 70% of the supplies were procured from the Land of Fire as agreed." Nagato's expression was indifferent. "Leaf Village also profited; it can't be considered a favor."

"Without Leaf Village's support, neither the Amegakure Daimyo nor Amegakure could obtain export credit from the Land of Fire. Do you think just anyone can get that money? Even if it's just an overseas loan, do you think the Land of Fire wouldn't earn your 70% share of the procurement funds if they didn't do it this way?" Uchiha Shingen waved his hand. "Enjoying Leaf Village's support, yet Akatsuki has taken on two hundred missions targeting Leaf Village in less than three years. How do you resolve this?"

Behind Uchiha Shingen, Aburame Torune watched this scene and wanted to take notes.

He felt that their Root used to be really too rough.

Chapter Thirty-Four: We Have No Choice But to Use That Trick

"How do we solve this?" Nagato looked at the Konoha Ninja in front of him. "What do you think?"

"Naturally, it's Leaf Village that's here to investigate ninjas with Konoha Ninja blood on their hands," Uchiha Shingen said. "Your organization's human resource management is terrible; you're even harboring missing-nin from the Five Great Villages. I'll take care of them for you while I'm at it."

"It seems we can't reach an agreement. Is Leaf Village prepared to lose Rain Village?"

"The Rain Village has been established for decades? What a pity, it's going to follow in the footsteps of the Fuma Clan of the Land of Rice Fields."

Uchiha Shingen sighed and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Nagato, who had also activated his Chakra perception from the very beginning, sensed that Uchiha Shingen had used Space-Time Ninjutsu, and immediately activated his own long-prepared Ninjutsu.

A deafening roar echoed in everyone's ears, both inside and outside the canyon.

The ninjas of the original Root looked up and saw dust billowing up on the cliffs in the middle of the canyon, with huge rocks being thrown into the air like building blocks.

But the next moment, the scenery in front of them changed, because they all appeared outside the canyon.

Inside the valley, Nagato remained in the posture of releasing Ninjutsu, but in front of him stood a shield constructed of Chakra, behind which stood Uchiha Shingen, whose form was transparent.

Flame-like patterns had already crept onto Uchiha Shingen's face.

"Nagato, you trust these eyes a lot, don't you?"

Even more dense, visible Chakra was being released from Uchiha Shingen's body.

First came the bones, muscles, and skin, then a strangely shaped suit of armor.

As the Chakra continued to expand, the soil and rocks where Uchiha Shingen was located were being pushed aside.

Nagato suddenly leaped into the air, but a hand shot out from where he had been standing, only to find it grasping at empty air.

Amidst the cracking sounds of the mountain collapsing, the cliff was split open from the inside.

The white god of war's Chakra, like a burning flame, manifested itself within the collapsing mountain.

In the sky, lightning flashed and thunder roared, Nagato's figure appeared and disappeared in the rain.

Outside the valley, the original Root ninjas all saw the enormous Chakra creation.

The threat posed by the Shimura Danzō Uchiha Clan often spoke of during his lifetime, and now they have finally witnessed it.

However, everyone felt that if this thing was a threat...

For the first time, the group Shimura Danzō —Boss, do you have some misunderstanding about the definition of a threat?

In mid-air, Nagato also sensed the thirty or so Chakra clusters gathered together outside the valley, but he also sensed many more other Chakra approaching from all directions.

He understood Uchiha Shingen's purpose.

That makes sense. Given the current situation, it's impossible for Uchiha Shingen, as a high-ranking member of Leaf Village, not to know.

But...

"The Land of Rain is not so easily used by you, Uchiha Shingen."

With his hands clasped together, Chakra forth like a torrent, causing rivers to churn and seas to boil.

Nagato's bloodline of the Uzumaki Clan and Senju Clan gave him an amount of Chakra that most people would envy.

The rain in the sky grew heavier and heavier, turning into a downpour.

However, Nagato remained suspended in mid-air, his feet resting on a lake that was still expanding.

Rainwater was being drawn to gather beneath him.

It would be difficult to do anything to Uchiha Shingen with just the Rinnegan's Six Paths Dōjutsu, unless the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was used. He had already realized this many years ago.

After all, Uchiha Shingen seemed to have an exceptional understanding of the abilities of his eyes.

But that battle also showed him the value of seemingly useless ordinary Ninjutsu.

From then on, he began to use the Rinnegan in a less simplistic and brutal way. He hadn't thought about it before, thinking that although it consumed more Chakra, it was really satisfying to crush opponents.

Until that time he met Uchiha Shingen.

Below, Uchiha Shingen, residing within Susanoo, also saw the massive mass of water gathering in the sky.

The curtain of water obscured the sky above him, making it dark and gloomy, so dark that even the flashes of lightning could not completely penetrate it.

"You've changed a lot, Nagato," Uchiha Shingen laughed. "But... you're too flashy."

As the greatest source of light in this darkness, the white-clad martial god formed a hand seal.

A bright light shone on the faces of the people outside the valley; it was the flames emanating from Susanoo.

Fire Release: Kagutsuchi - Totsuka Blade.

No one has ever stipulated that the Totsuka Blade must be held by Susanoo.

Then everyone saw the flames coalesce into a pillar and shoot into the sky.

In principle, water overcomes fire.

Rather than the Totsuka Blade, it was more like the Ten-Fist Cannon's pillar of fire piercing through the water curtain in the sky like drilling through tofu. The pillar of fire expanded relentlessly, steaming the layers of water curtain into large swathes of white mist, which even spread to the cliffs below.

Above the water layer, Nagato stopped channeling Chakra because he saw a red light rapidly rising from beneath his feet!

The next moment, a dense burst of flames burst through the water, engulfing him, and then pierced through the dark clouds above!

When the pillar of fire reached its highest point, it exploded.

Amidst the deafening roar of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart, the already barely maintained water curtain in the air was easily torn into countless pieces. Gale-force winds howled from the sky, uprooting trees from the ground, which danced like kites with broken strings in the raging air currents.

Inside the canyon, massive boulders, unable to withstand the force of the explosion, collapsed in large sections amidst a deafening roar, while in the sky, a huge gap was torn open in the dark clouds.

Suddenly, the rain stopped.

After a while, the dark clouds rolled back and covered the sky, and the rain poured down on the ground again.

The Root ninjas had appeared further away, gazing at the battlefield whose terrain had been altered. Although these people were particularly adept at making exaggerated, deadpan expressions, their faces beneath the masks were anything but cold.

Danzo, did you actually intend to kill someone like that back then? Oh, by the way, the Uchiha Clan wasn't as strong as they are now back then.

In short, it's a good thing you died young, so you didn't have to see this kind of scene...

Aburame Torune removed his mask and wiped the rainwater from his face; surprisingly, the water was warm.

It's already getting cold.