The Asura Path, which had already begun crumbling after being hit by the Rasengan, suddenly changed expression.
Because he felt his entire body lose all sensation.
This was scale powder—Chōmei's scale powder.
Gekko Chizan's attack wasn't just a Rasengan; he had also wrapped scale powder around it.
As the Rasengan exploded, the scale powder was blown apart and scattered toward Nagato's direction, and the first to suffer disaster was the Asura Path.
Already blasted into pieces by the Rasengan, he was now paralyzed as well.
"Mm?"
Nagato sensed the abnormality in the Asura Path immediately.
Without thinking, he rapidly retreated backward, and the one retreating with him was the Naraka Path.
As the repair tool, the importance of the Naraka Path went without saying.
As long as he was there, even if the bodies were destroyed, they could still be revived and repaired.
Unfortunately, Gekko Chizan had no intention of letting him go.
"Don't run!"
"Summoning Jutsu!"
A golden giant python appeared on the battlefield. Jinlin's powerful body was like a runaway dump truck, crashing and charging the moment she appeared.
Sage energy acted upon her golden scales, making her look dazzlingly radiant.
Nagato seized the timing and raised his hand once more.
"Shinra Tensei!"
The same familiar feeling.
The same familiar power.
But the one taking it head-on was different.
The moment Jinlin charged forward, she felt as if she had slammed into a wall—and worse, the wall kept growing stronger, shaking her until her entire body ached with pain.
"What the hell is this?!"
"Chizan, save me!"
The invisible force sent even Jinlin flying away.
This wasn't because Jinlin's physical body was inferior to the Titan Python's, but because Nagato directly abandoned control over the Preta Path and Asura Path, pulling more power back into his own body and amplifying the strength of Shinra Tensei.
That was how he managed to blast away the physically stronger Jinlin.
"Good grief! Jinlin, don't come over here!"
The Titan Python's eyes went wide, and Gekko Chizan was stunned as well.
He had clearly tanked it just now—so why did Jinlin get sent flying instead?
Just as Jinlin was about to crash into them, a red light appeared once more.
The ground in front of Gekko Chizan instantly shattered, and massive amounts of red light formed an even larger crimson serpent, which directly wrapped around Jinlin and caught her.
"Hmph! Jinlin, you need more training!"
"It's just the Rinnegan! What's there to be afraid of?!"
"Roar!"
Tagitsuhime let out an angry roar. The original red serpent vanished, replaced by an enormous crimson form comparable to a canyon-sized dragon.
Her massive body rivaled that of a tailed beast—no, it was even larger.
Because her entire body was composed purely of chakra.
"Sage arts from one of the Three Great Sacred Lands, Ryūchi Cave..."
"I've learned something new. Unfortunately, I won't lose!"
Nagato sighed, then casually brought his hands together. Under the control of Banshō Ten'in, the surrounding ground began to shatter.
Massive boulders were hurled straight toward the red serpent.
Since the opponent was big, he'd use even bigger rocks to smash her!
At the same time, the Animal Path in the air activated another summoning.
A gigantic three-headed dog and a massive bull descended from the sky.
"Tagitsuhime, the bull doesn't matter—be careful of that dog."
"That's a 'Summoning Jutsu' with special conditions added. The summoned creature is given conditions like 'it multiplies when attacked.' Once that condition is met, it will automatically activate its multiplication technique."
Gekko Chizan passed along the intelligence he knew.
But Tagitsuhime scoffed, opened her serpentine mouth, and violently spat a cloud of red mist into the air.
"What summoning or not—my snake saliva can corrode all living beings!"
"Watch me swallow them all!"
This red mist was the snake saliva spat out by Tagitsuhime, transformed from liquid into gas.
The moment the three-headed dog and the bull touched the red mist, they began letting out agonized screams.
A string of setbacks made Nagato feel that it wasn't that he couldn't defeat his opponent—it was that he wasn't familiar enough with them.
He was also puzzled as to why Gekko Chizan knew his abilities so well.
Could it be that snake sage from Ryūchi Cave told him?
By now, Nagato had nearly used every method he had.
Yet none of them had much effect on Gekko Chizan. Left with no choice, he could only prepare his final technique.
"Although Madara and Zetsu ordered me to stall you, if I can kill you—"
"I'd be more than happy to."
"I refuse to believe you'll survive this move!"
...
While their battle was raging on this side, Konoha was in a miserable state as well.
The rampaging Kushina was attacking Uchiha Makito relentlessly, while the latter defended as he ran wildly through the village. This led to massive destruction, making Konoha's civilians and shinobi once again experience the terror of the Nine-Tails.
This was with Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi acting together—one suppressing Kushina, the other pursuing Uchiha Makito. Otherwise, the destruction would have been even worse.
"Damn it, his dōjutsu..."
"Distance?"
"And he's set up some kind of extended-range protective measure around his body. Even my Flying Thunder God can't get close."
It was the first time Minato Namikaze felt the opponent was this troublesome.
His Flying Thunder God Technique was a space–time ninjutsu; logically, it could cross thousands of meters in an instant.
But the opponent's dōjutsu could actually extend distance. Without a mark, Minato truly had no way to deal with him.
"Heh heh heh, I've had plenty of fun today."
"The Nine-Tails is rampaging—let's see if you can handle it properly. Even if I can't take the Nine-Tails with me—"
"Don't think you'll get off easy!"
"Hahahaha!"
Uchiha Makito suddenly hurled the Uzumaki Naruto in his hand toward Kushina.
This made Minato panic, and Kushina go completely blank.
The instant the still-rampaging Kushina saw her son being thrown at her, her rationality directly overcame the Nine-Tails' chakra!
"Damn it, Nine-Tails! Disperse your chakra!"
"That's my son!"
Adamantine Sealing Chains activated once more, directly binding the Nine-Tails that was still exerting power. In an instant, the Nine-Tails was cut off from its chakra.
This infuriated him beyond measure!
"Stupid woman! Do you have any idea what you're doing?!"
"Not good!"
The Nine-Tails had barely cursed a couple of times when a pair of crimson Sharingan eyes appeared right before him.
Kushina, who had just dispersed the Nine-Tails' chakra and held Naruto in her arms, hadn't even had time to feel happy before her eyes transformed into the shape of the Sharingan.
Under the control of the Mangekyō Sharingan, both the Nine-Tails and its jinchūriki were instantly controlled.
"Rampage! Let the Nine-Tails emerge!"
"Destroy Konoha!"
"Fire Release, Nine Dragons Flame!"
The Sharingan spun at high speed, and in the next second, nine fire dragons surged skyward.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Makito vanished rapidly from the spot.
Because that crimson chakra was rampaging once more—and this time, it was utterly beyond comparison to before.
The most terrifying existence among the tailed beasts—the Nine-Tails—had gone berserk!
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