Boom!!!
The ruins of Konoha shook as the towering body of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path suddenly appeared!
Countless people were stunned!
Even Jiraiya and Naruto, who had just returned from Mount Myōboku, could not help looking up at the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as though it were a giant.
Its hideous appearance and the faint, terrifying aura of chakra emanating from it gave everyone a sense of danger.
Anyone who saw the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path for the first time would feel uncontrollable panic fill their heart.
It was like being unarmed and finding yourself in the sights of a savage beast.
It was a terrible feeling.
"What... is that thing?"
Jiraiya frowned at the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. He could not tell what it was at all.
It was not a tailed beast!
Of that, Jiraiya was certain.
But calling the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path a summoning beast felt even more wrong to him.
"Little Jiraiya, something's wrong with that thing." Sage Fukasaku could sense the danger emanating from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path more readily than Jiraiya could.
"What is it?"
"I'm not sure, but there's an utterly terrifying amount of chakra inside it!"
"Chakra?"
Jiraiya looked uncertainly at the massive Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then a thought flashed through his mind. "Wait, in that case, could all the tailed beasts captured by the Akatsuki have been sealed inside this monster?"
"Is that why it has so much chakra, and why it's so dangerous?"
"That's very possible!" Sage Fukasaku nodded. He thought so too.
"Then what exactly is it? It can actually contain the chakra of eight-no, nine tailed beasts."
If Nagato had chosen to raid Konoha to capture Naruto, that meant this