"Want to absorb my power? Then let's see whether your stomach can hold this earth and thunder." Shengu Xuan's utterly icy voice, like a death sentence from the god of death, thundered across the battlefield amid the thunderclaps and torrential rain.
Preta Path Pain, charging at the very front, showed not a trace of fear in his emotionless Rinnegan. He spread his hands, his palms covered by an exceedingly strange, transparent chakra barrier. This barrier could devour any form of chakra-based ninjutsu in the Shinobi World, which was precisely why Nagato dared to send him in first.
"Whatever ninjutsu you use, it's meaningless before the Preta Path!" Asura Path Pain said coldly from afar. The enormous Chakra Cannon atop his head was fully charged, ready to deliver a fatal blow the instant Preta Path absorbed Shengu Xuan's attack.
Yet Shengu Xuan made no hand seals. He did not even mobilize the slightest trace of chakra within his body.
The heavy, earthy-yellow light in Shengu Xuan's left eye instantly blazed brighter. The black chi of the Earth Demon, Dai Gui, was fully activated without reservation. With utter casualness, Shengu Xuan lightly stamped his left foot against the steel ground.
Rumble-!!!
An immensely deep, terrifying boom, seemingly rising from the depths of the earth, instantly spread throughout Amegakure. What followed was an utterly shocking sight.
Beneath Shengu Xuan's foot, the incredibly hard ground, cast from countless layers of steel and rock, actually began churning violently like boiling water! The earth for hundreds of meters around broke free of the constraints of physical laws, becoming a ferocious tsunami of mud and rock.
Before the dozen or so hill-sized Mutated Summoning Beasts could even roar, enormous rock spikes suddenly thrust up beneath them and pierced their bodies. The Multi-Headed Dog and giant rhinoceros were