The Deva Path raced ahead, with Sasuke in pursuit. They reached a canyon twenty kilometers outside Amegakure, where the rain had already stopped.
Clouds gathered and scattered on the horizon. With his keen eyesight, the Deva Path could faintly make out the Black Core drifting in the direction he was running.
Though Sasuke had not spotted the Black Core, he had his own judgment. "Deliberately moving away from the village he controls—is he preparing something big? The Rinnegan's Deva Path ability... could it be that technique?"
The Deva Path glanced back at Amegakure.
"This distance should do."
Whoosh! The skirts of his Akatsuki Robe fluttered as the Deva Path leaped into the air. After a somersault, he landed facing Sasuke and clapped his hands together before his chest, forming the Snake seal!
—Chibaku Tensei!
Hum!
The Black Core hanging high overhead suddenly radiated countless rays of white light, blotting out the sun. Darkness swallowed daylight, and the earth heaved under its tidal pull!
"So it is Chibaku Tensei! He activates it with a Gravity Core, just like Madara!"
Why did Sasuke make that distinction? Because his own Chibaku Tensei worked on the same principle as Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei, using the opponent directly as the "Gravity Core" for faster activation [see the battle against Momoshiki].
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Spiderweb cracks spread across the earth caught within the gravitational field, and thousands upon thousands of huge rocks rose into the air!
"With a Gravity Core-based Chibaku Tensei, the core itself is its greatest weakness..."
Sasuke, a veteran of countless battles, naturally understood that without needing Itachi to explain!
"Under that indiscriminate pull, there's no need to aim deliberately. Any ranged attack will be drawn straight into the Black Core!"
Standing atop a rising boulder, Sasuke unleashed the Susanoo around him into