"None of the Six Paths of Pain is the real one-or rather, all of you are real. Six bodies as one!"
The Rinnegan and the Six Paths of Pain-though he had only a few scattered words, they were already clues to Uchiha Senmon.
Anyone from the East Asian cultural sphere would be familiar with the six paths of reincarnation.
Because of karmic retribution, all living beings had six destinations after death: the six paths of birth and death.
The six paths were divided into three good paths-the heavenly, human, and asura paths-and three evil paths-the hell, hungry ghost, and animal paths.
Combined with Mr. Jiraiya's dying words, "The real one doesn't exist," and each Pain's performance, the secret of the Six Paths of Pain was on the verge of revealing itself.
"Of the Six Paths of Pain, only you can soar through the sky. Even when the rift separated the others, they didn't fly over to regroup."
Uchiha Senmon looked up at Deva Path Pain and declared firmly:
"You call yourselves gods, yet you have to keep your feet on the ground like mortals. It isn't that the other Pains don't want to fly. They can't. Each Pain can only use the power corresponding to one of the six paths!"
"Hmph. Your insight rivals the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, Senmon."
Pain's noncommittal expression amounted to tacit acknowledgment.
"You have the makings of the so-called Child of Prophecy, but not his power. Even if you unravel the secret of the Six Paths of Pain, what can you do?"
Uchiha Senmon's eyes flickered.
Pain was not wrong. Even Deva Path alone had more than enough power to crush Uchiha Senmon, the three Jinchūriki, and Hawk's Five Kage.
However, ninety percent of the Six Paths of Pain's fighting strength was concentrated in Deva Path.