REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!Chapter 77: A God Cannot Fail
The instant Guy's right foot contacted the force field, time seemed to freeze for a second.
Immediately after, blinding white light erupted from the collision point, sweeping across the entire battlefield like a supernova explosion.
The invisible repulsive force field instantly manifested as a tangible spatial barrier. It first collapsed inward around the impact point, then the entire repulsive field shattered like glass, countless fissures spreading instantaneously.
Guy's chakra flames surged madly through the cracks, dyeing the surrounding force field barrier blood-red.
BOOOOOOOM!
Amid the deafening explosion, Guy's body broke directly through Shinra Tensei's repulsive field. Trampling upon stairs of air, he leaped upward in stages, continuing his charge toward Nagato.
The originally complete force field, destabilized, released all its contained terrifying energy into the air in a single instant.
The massive shockwave exploded in a cone shape behind Guy, still bombarding downward toward the ground.
Having lost the force field's containment, the energy scattered rather than concentrated, its lethality greatly reduced.
But even so, that violent energy still possessed world-destroying might.
The ground was forcibly lifted in waves of earth dozens of meters high, spreading outward like a tsunami, crushing and flattening most of Konoha's buildings.
The stone carvings on the Hokage Rock also collapsed under this force. Four massive heads tumbled down as dust clouds shot skyward.
Remaining shinobi throughout the village fled outward, terrified of being swept into this powerful force.
Some unlucky individuals, moving slightly too slowly, were directly buried alive beneath earth and stone.
Though his bones cracked and groaned, already beginning to fracture, Guy's movements showed no deformation whatsoever.
Years of arduous training had etched every taijutsu movement into each of his cells.
Under Nagato's stunned gaze, Guy—drenched in blood like an enraged blood dragon—crashed into him.
"Second Step!"
Nagato instinctively gripped his black rods in reverse, crossing them before his chest. But his vision blurred, and tremendous force slammed heavily against the rods.
CRACK! The black rods, whose strength far exceeded steel, shattered and broke. Guy's kick swept them along, hammering heavily into Nagato's chest.
Even though Nagato's physical durability far exceeded ordinary shinobi, facing an attack of this magnitude, he was completely overwhelmed.
CRACKLE! A continuous crackling—Nagato's arms twisted and bent on the spot, all his ribs shattered, multiple internal organs burst, his spine showed visible fractures. His body was nearly broken in two. He fell like a meteor from the sky, crashing heavily into the earth.
The ground trembled violently, raising towering waves of earth like a water surface. An enormous, deep crater instantly formed under the impact.
At the crater's center, Nagato's body was deeply embedded in the rock layer.
His arms were bent at grotesque angles, his sternum completely collapsed. Blood gushed from beneath his black robe with red clouds, pooling beneath him in a horrifying crimson lake.
But those Rinnegan eyes showed no trace of fear—instead, they grew increasingly fierce.
Facing Guy charging down from above once more, Nagato swiftly raised his twisted arms, barely forming a hand sign. Using his own flowing blood, he slapped his palm against the ground beside him.
Instantly, the earth began trembling unnaturally, as if some giant beast was rolling underground.
"Third Step!"
As Guy trampled the stairs of air and charged near the ground to attack again, suddenly a massive hand burst from below, seizing Nagato.
Immediately after, an enormous wooden statue suddenly erupted from underground, positioning itself directly in Guy's attack path.
Guy's left leg hammered heavily into this statue's head.
BOOM!
Terrifying impact force instantly exploded. Air compressed into visible ripples. A ring of energy storm suddenly detonated, shockwaves sweeping outward, stripping another layer from the ground within several hundred meters.
Amid the tremendous explosion, the statue's massive body was kicked backward by this single blow. Its mountain-heavy frame crashed thunderously to the ground, raising waves of earth dozens of meters high.
However, when the dust settled, this giant statue slowly rose from the ground. Its wooden body bore not even a single crack.
"What is that thing?!"
The Konoha forces in the distance stared dumbfounded, completely at a loss.
The statue stood over a hundred meters tall, resembling a gigantic dried corpse of a human with flesh and blood drained away.
Its frame was hunched and semi-curled, spine curved like a bow. Ten pillar-like protrusions jutted viciously skyward from its back like violently snapped tree stumps. Its outer skin displayed a deathly grey-brown color, surface covered in cracked patterns like dead, ancient tree bark.
After rising from the ground, the statue opened its hands slightly, revealing the protected Nagato within. Then it raised both arms high and released a deafening roar toward the moon.
Just hearing that roar, one knew this was another powerful summoning beast.
What was with this Nagato?
How did he have so many trump cards?
The Third panicked, quickly turning to look at Guy, hoping he could once again display divine might and defeat this suddenly appearing monster.
But where his gaze fell, he saw only Guy completely scorched black, the blood-colored chakra around his body completely extinguished. He'd collapsed to the ground, breath faint—clearly unable to continue.
Guy's physical condition hadn't reached its peak to begin with. Opening eight gates had been somewhat forced. But under tremendous willpower, he'd ultimately burned out his life, kicking out three strikes with Evening Elephant.
But those three strikes were his absolute limit. Once the third kick finished, his body immediately collapsed.
"Guy!"
The Third cried out in alarm, immediately leading people to charge that direction.
Though he'd always known Guy's Eight Gates Formation was a deadly taijutsu secret technique, in the Third's thinking, after opening the Eight Gates Formation, Guy should at least be able to take Nagato down with him.
Who knew a giant statue would suddenly appear, forcibly taking a Gate of Death kick without a scratch?
Konan also rushed over urgently, picking up Nagato to retreat, but Nagato grabbed her firmly.
"Konan, a god cannot fail!"
"Today, Konoha must be destroyed!"
"Don't worry about me. I've suffered worse injuries than this before—I won't die!"
"I'm currently unable to move easily, so let Pain continue Konoha's destruction!"
Konan looked worriedly at Nagato continuously coughing blood, extremely concerned. But she also knew Nagato's personality—once he decided something, he absolutely wouldn't give up. Persuasion was useless. So she simply carried Nagato on her back and flew straight upward.
"Nagato, Yasushi said nothing is safer than the sky. The higher, the safer."
"From the sky, you can still control the Six Paths of Pain and execute your desired plan!"
This time Nagato didn't refuse. Instead, he closed his eyes reassuringly and devoted himself entirely to controlling the Six Paths of Pain.
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