Three enormous clouds of white smoke exploded across the sand dunes.
A terrifying multi-headed Split Dog.
A Yatagarasu as massive as a mountain.
And a berserk giant rhinoceros.
Roaring, they charged out of the smoke.
The three summoned beasts, their bodies covered in black rods and Rinnegan ripples gleaming in their eyes, spread out in a triangular formation.
They bypassed Jiraiya and charged toward Minato Namikaze and the others behind him.
They intended to forcibly tear apart Konoha's high-ranking formation!
Jiraiya's eyes widened furiously as his hands blurred into afterimages before his chest.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Your opponent is this old man!"
"Summoning Technique!"
Two thunderous booms rang out.
A gigantic iron fork covered in spikes, along with two incomparably sharp giant tachi, violently cleaved through the sandstorm.
Gamaken gripped the iron fork and braced a massive shield like a city wall.
Like an iron tower, he stood firmly in the Hell Dog's path.
Gamaken spoke in a muffled voice.
"Though I'm clumsy, I'll do my best!"
On the other side.
Gamahiro wielded a blade in each hand, his sword light flashing like streaks of silk.
He forcibly stopped the charging summoned rhinoceros at the very front.
The two giant toads of Mount Myoboku formed an impregnable wall of steel amid the endless yellow sands.
Animal Path's beasts were pinned firmly in place.
Jiraiya clenched his fists and walked forward step by step.
He faced Deva Path Pain and the remaining Pains head-on.
The senjutsu chakra within Jiraiya surged like boiling magma.
"Nagato!"
"Let this old man see just what you have twisted this power into!"
At the other end of the ruins.
A deafening muffled blast erupted.
"Bang!"
The veins in Hiruzen Sarutobi's arms bulged as he gripped the Adamantine Staff held across his chest.
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