Chapter 118 My name is Toneri Otsutsuki
"Finally showing yourself?"
Watching Izayoi in the sky, Black and White Zetsu, who were not on the battlefield but had merged with the earth and vegetation using the Mayfly Technique, with only their upper bodies exposed, observing the battle from the top of a rocky mountain, spoke. White Zetsu said, "With such chakra, it seems like it's the main body this time."
"White hair and this level of chakra... indeed, it's someone from that lineage," Black Zetsu said in a deep voice. "Record his chakra signature. Once the war ends, we'll cast a wide net to search for his踪迹. Even if we can't find him, we must find the space-time passage he uses to return to the moon."
"Understood." White Zetsu immediately released his senses, recording Izayoi's current chakra signature.
Uchiha Obito also stopped his playful behavior, allowing the attacks from the Cloud Ninjas and the human puppets to land on him, all passing through.
Looking up at Izayoi in the sky, his eyes were filled with apprehension.
Without even exchanging blows, Uchiha Obito felt a strong sense of pressure from Izayoi.
This level of pressure, not counting Uchiha Madara, he had only felt from three people: Deva Path Pain, the current Uchiha Itachi, and the now-deceased Minato Namikaze.
And now, Izayoi was the fourth.
"He hasn't shown himself all this time, and now he suddenly appears. What does he want?" Uchiha Obito thought to himself. "Could it be that his entire plan was to wipe out Akatsuki in one fell swoop?"
"This quality of chakra... Samehada, you feel it too, right?" Hoshigaki Kisame looked at Samehada in his hand, which was violently struggling, eager to break free, and grinned.
Uchiha Itachi remained silent, merely looking up at Izayoi, his mind unreadable.
"Scorpion-bro, look! It's that young man from last year!"
On the other hand, in the Art Duo's area, Deidara exclaimed excitedly.
A smile also appeared on Sasori's face. "The one manipulating the human puppet army... it really is him."
"The real ten billion ryo..."
Kakuzu looked up at Izayoi, muttering to himself.
Unlike Akatsuki's reaction, the Cloud Ninja forces all had eyes filled with hatred, glaring at Izayoi with murderous intent.
The Cloud Ninjas skilled in long-range ninjutsu couldn't wait to immediately cast their techniques to attack Izayoi.
This was the guy who had not only destroyed their village but also killed their comrades and taken their corpses to create human puppets, now their enemies.
At this moment, a figure flew over from the distance, at the same altitude as Izayoi.
Looking at Izayoi, who wore a pure white mask with no eyeholes, Deva Path Pain asked a question everyone wanted to know: "Who are you?"
Below, Akatsuki and the Cloud Ninja forces, who had tacitly joined forces to besiege the human puppet army, all pricked up their ears.
The powerful individuals who were handling the situation with ease also looked up at the king facing the king in the sky.
"Who am I?"
Izayoi's voice echoed, sounding much like a mysterious villain in a movie, as he chuckled, "Haven't you been looking for me all along? Hasn't it been so long that you haven't even gathered a bit of information?"
Deva Path Pain didn't answer, his expression remaining impassive. "Take off your mask. As the fated nemesis, the one who possesses the second pair of Sage's Eyes shouldn't be a cowardly rat hiding his head and tail."
"The second pair of Sage's Eyes? I see, so that's the information you've gathered? Heh..." Izayoi feigned surprise, then let out a playful laugh.
Deva Path Pain's brow furrowed slightly. "What do you mean by that?"
"Well... for you monkeys, being able to know about the Sage's Eyes is indeed quite remarkable," Izayoi first praised, then his tone carried a hint of coldness. "But my eyes are not those of that loser, the Sage of the Six Paths."
These words, neither loud nor soft, swept through everyone's ears like a gust of wind, causing goosebumps to rise on many people's bodies.
At this moment, whether knowledgeable or ignorant, everyone widened their eyes, staring at Izayoi in disbelief.
"What... what does he mean by that? Not the Sage's Eyes?!"
"The Sage of the Six Paths is a loser? Does that mean the Sage of the Six Paths in the myths is real? Then does that mean the Ninshu also existed? Is the story of the Sage of the Six Paths creating the moon also true? How is that possible!"
"Could this be the secret of the ninja world?"
"..."
Many with weaker mental fortitude lost their composure.
As a result, many Cloud Ninjas were caught off guard by the human puppets, either heavily injured or killed.
"You're kidding, right..."
Not to mention the Cloud Ninja forces, even the Akatsuki members had shocked expressions.
Kakuzu, the oldest among them, even began to doubt his life: "Could there have been an even more ancient era before the Warring States Period? Then why hasn't even a single piece of literature been left behind?"
"The eyes of a loser..."
Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Obito narrowed their pupils.
Their rationality allowed them to perceive the disdain in Izayoi's tone.
This guy looked down on the Sage's Eyes and wasn't afraid of them.
Could it be... that there existed in this world a dojutsu no less powerful than the Sage's Eyes?
"Yo yo... Little Hachi, did you hear that?"
Killer B, having returned to the battlefield, also chanted in a rap tone, waving his arms wildly. "The legend of the Sage of the Six Paths~~ is real, a showdown between the Sage's Eyes and an unknown dojutsu, the sealed history is about to be revealed, it's so cool~~"
"The Sage of the Six Paths was originally real, B," the Eight-Tails Gyuki replied, revealing a shocking secret. "We Tailed Beasts were created by the Sage of the Six Paths."
"..."
Killer B instantly froze, his expression blank, unable to even say "What?".
This news, even for a simpleton like him whose brain was mostly muscle, was extremely shocking.
While the others below were in an uproar, Izayoi in the sky suddenly reached out and placed his hand on the pure white mask, smiling. "Feel honored, you might be the first monkeys to see these eyes."
After speaking, Izayoi took off his mask in full view of everyone.
A pale-skinned, handsome, and young face, even his eyebrows as white as his hair, instantly entered everyone's eyes. It was none other than the future 19-year-old 'Otsutsuki Toneri'.
However, no one noticed Izayoi's appearance; their gazes were all drawn to his eyes. What kind of eyes were those? From afar, their pupils were blue-white, with white flowing light surrounding the irises, forming a dynamic pattern like a flower.
Looking closer, this wasn't some pattern at all. It was clearly the edge of the black pupil, surrounded by a faint white light, like a solar corona, emitting astonishing ocular power.
Although they didn't know what kind of dojutsu these eyes were, just a single glance told Nagato's body and his eyes instinctively... these were eyes on the same level as his own!
Thus, Nagato, controlling Deva Path Pain, asked again, "Who are you? What are those eyes called?"
Izayoi released an invisible repulsive force, blasting the pure white mask in his hand into dust, then raised his hand to smooth back his white hair. His tone was no longer the casual and playful one from before, but carried a similar indifference to Deva Path Pain, or rather, a condescending arrogance, the contempt of a higher-dimensional being for a lower-dimensional one. Then, he introduced himself, "My name is Otsutsuki Toneri, from the moon. I am the current wielder of the Tenseigan. My mission on Earth this time is... to retrieve the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path."
These words were like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky, once again stunning everyone on the battlefield.
"Moo... moon? Can people live on the moon?!"
"Tenseigan, is that the name of his dojutsu?"
"What is the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path?"
"..."
Except for Black and White Zetsu, no one knew what the surname Otsutsuki meant.
Everyone was discussing the moon and the Tenseigan.
"As expected, a descendant of Hamura!" Black Zetsu's voice was hoarse. "That unfilial son's dojutsu is called the Tenseigan? Their lineage indeed noticed long ago that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was summoned back to the ninja world. No wonder they've been targeting Akatsuki all along. So they came down here with a mission."
"This is bad!" White Zetsu said, showing rare intelligence. "He instigated the war to force Akatsuki and Pain's Six Paths to take action, then seized the opportunity to gather everyone's information. Now that he's finally appeared, doesn't that mean he's assessed everyone's and Pain's Six Paths' strength and still believes he has a chance of victory?"
Hearing this, Black Zetsu's expression visibly changed, and he quickly said, "Quickly send a White Zetsu to notify Obito!"
"I understand."
White Zetsu immediately gave the order.
"Retrieve the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path?"
Deva Path Pain noticed this wording. Could it be that when he summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path back then, he had summoned it from the moon? Although he felt very puzzled, Deva Path Pain didn't dwell on it too much and continued to ask Izayoi, "Is the Tenseigan also a type of Sage's Eyes?"
"That's not something a monkey like you can know."
Izayoi, having put on his new persona, no longer spoke any nonsense. He raised his hand and released a gravitational pull towards Deva Path Pain, like an invisible hand of God, dragging the latter towards him.
"These eyes indeed also have All Creation Pull."
Deva Path Pain wasn't surprised. Instead, he raised his hand and released an invisible repulsive force storm. "Almighty Push!"
"Your repulsive force is too weak," Izayoi sneered, then converted the gravitational pull in his hand into a repulsive force.
Although there wasn't the slightest sound of an explosion, everyone seemed to see the sky turn green for a fleeting moment.
Those skilled in sensing even felt as if a towering tsunami had appeared in the sky.
Deva Path Pain, like a powerless child, was instantly engulfed by the wave, turning into an afterimage as he flew out of the battlefield's airspace.
Having blasted away Deva Path Pain with one move, Izayoi's figure vanished from the sky without a trace.
As the sensory ninjas wove hand signs, fully releasing their senses in an attempt to locate Izayoi's figure, a loud boom, which had already attracted a lot of attention, rang out.
Izayoi's figure had already appeared before the Preta Path, who was returning to the battlefield. Before the shared vision of Pain's Six Paths could even react, a punch slammed into the Preta Path's face.
Slowing down the scene dozens of times, Izayoi's fist had just touched the Preta Path's face before directly sinking into his head.
The airflow generated by the chakra explosion caused the remaining undented part of the Preta Path's face to twist and twitch.
However, as one of Pain's Six Paths, the Preta Path was still quite powerful, at least his head wasn't blasted open by Izayoi's charged punch.
But having directly taken Izayoi's punch, the Preta Path's head, like a kicked football, turned into a black afterimage along with his body, flying backward.
Before the other Pains, or rather Nagato, could recover, Izayoi flickered and appeared before the Animal Path, reaching out to grab his face, slamming his head into the ground, and then an invisible repulsive force roared out.
Instantly, the ground caved in a large circle, dust forming a ring that expanded at a visible speed, blasting away the surrounding Pains and enemies.
When the dust settled, a huge basin appeared on the battlefield.
At the bottom of the pit was the Animal Path's corpse, its body severely deformed, all the black rods broken and ejected from its body, its connection with Nagato severed.
In just a moment, Izayoi had taken down the Preta Path, whose threat level was second only to Deva Path Pain, and the Animal Path, who could revive the other Pains.
"Flying Thunder God Technique? No... it's not just that. There's also Lightning Release nature transformation and Wind Release nature transformation..."
The other Pains, blasted away by the repulsive force storm, didn't show shocked expressions but acted as monitors, using the Rinnegan's chakra perception ability to share Izayoi's state with Nagato.
Nagato also instantly analyzed Izayoi's method of movement.
At the same time, his face turned slightly grim as he muttered to himself, "His repulsive force conversion speed is too fast. Deva Path Pain alone isn't a match for him, and the Flying Thunder God Technique counters Chibaku Tensei, making it impossible to seal him. He hasn't used that meteor rain technique yet, and I don't know if he has any Six Paths Techniques..."
The current Izayoi was practically the non-disabled, non-terminally ill Outer Path Nagato.
To compete with him, Nagato either had to return to his prime or summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, use the chakra dragon, and successfully hit his opponent.
Or, he could gather all of Akatsuki, tell them the weakness of Almighty Push, and attack together to force him back.
However, doing so would prove his inadequacy as a leader, making it difficult to maintain his current divine authority afterward.
Thinking of this, Nagato hesitated.
Should he choose to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, or put aside his pride? In just this moment of hesitation, the remaining weakest Pains, the Human Path and the Deva Path, had also been taken down by Izayoi's monstrous strength.
Now, only the strongest Pain, Deva Path Pain, and the Asura Path remained of the Six Paths of Pain.
Just as Nagato was about to refocus his attention on the battlefield, the space in front of him suddenly twisted, and a fist-sized black hole appeared.
A distorted figure flew out of the black hole.
Looking at Uchiha Obito, who had left the battlefield, a hint of vigilance flashed in Nagato's eyes, and he said coldly, "Madara, what are you doing here?"
(End of this chapter)
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