"Arrogant mortal! You know nothing of a god's power. Kneel before me!" An exceedingly rare flash of fury finally appeared on Deva Path Pain's perpetually icy face. Hovering in midair, he thrust both arms forward, instantly pushing the chakra output of his Rinnegan to its limit. Shinra Tensei, which had already begun to weaken, erupted with repulsive force several times more terrifying than before.
A teeth-grating tearing sound rang through the air as the invisible storm of repulsion became a transparent wall capable of crushing everything and slammed toward Shengu Xuan. Beneath its crushing force, the steel wreckage on the ground disintegrated into incredibly fine metal powder. The eruption of power even created an enormous rainless void in the skies above Amegakure.
Facing Deva Path Pain's lethal strike, powerful enough to destroy mountains and rivers, the mockery on Shengu Xuan's face deepened. Dark purple light churned violently like boiling magma within his deep, pitch-black eyes. The Black Chi representing Gravity Demon Tso Lan roared with tremendous excitement inside him.
"Make me kneel? You think a dried-up corpse full of iron rods deserves that?" Shengu Xuan sneered, abruptly curling his loosely spread fingers into a claw.
The instant his fingers curled, terrifying gravity, even more overbearing and unreasonable than Shinra Tensei, erupted from his palm. No longer merely resisting, it became an invisible, gigantic hand from the abyss, tearing straight through the air and seizing the oncoming storm of repulsion.
The two forces, representing the pinnacle of the Shinobi World and the ultimate power of a demon, locked in a brutally fierce struggle in midair. At the center of the collision between attraction and repulsion, space was forcibly compressed into fissures resembling black lightning. The surrounding light warped completely, forming an exceedingly bizarre black vortex.
"Impossible! Shinra Tensei is absolute repulsion!