Chapter 250: God, Without Good or Evil (3K+ Second Update)
Bai Cangshu stood naturally on the ground, purple Killing Intent Ripple burning like flames on his hands, but his entire body exuded a dark aura.
"The power of the soul…"
The long-haired Human Path Pain immediately detected the new power emanating from Tao Bai Bai, which was very similar to the aura of a soul, yet more sinister and twisted, like a malevolent spirit.
Nagato, who was secretly controlling Pain, also realized the truth of Tao Bai Bai's power; it was by no means taijutsu, but an existence completely different from all current power systems.
Buzz~
Tendō Pain instantly turned around, reaching out with one hand towards Tao Bai Bai, who had appeared out of thin air behind Human Path Pain. A powerful suction force emerged. The Reincarnation Eye's perception was excellent enough to allow them to react to even instantaneous movement.
However, before Cosmic Pull could erupt, the opponent dissipated into the wind again. His right hand was empty; just as he was about to lower it, the air in front of him was instantly evacuated, and the shared vision of the other Pain also showed Tao Bai Bai's tall figure appearing in front of Tendō Pain.
Shinra Tensei!
A powerful repulsive force erupted again.
Boom!
A terrifying impact exploded at almost zero distance. Bai Cangshu's lips curved into a cruel arc, and his body leaned forward, Cursed Energy continuously surging. To some extent, extreme killing intent is also a very extreme emotion.
The surging Killing Intent Ripple caused Bai Cangshu's own Cursed Energy to react very strongly. If it weren't for the Limitless technique imprinted on him and the Six Eyes characteristics that were now beginning to manifest, it would probably be very difficult to control such surging Cursed Energy.
But correspondingly, Bai Cangshu, who had Gojo Satoru's Possession of Yin Spirit, was terrifyingly powerful and resourceful at this moment.
Cursed Technique: Stop
The repulsive force collided with Limitless, causing the air in front of the two to shatter instantly.
The enormous explosion sent Tendō Pain flying backward.
Tendō Pain's body shifted continuously in the air, finally plowing a huge gully dozens of meters long into the ground before stopping. His body surface already showed damage.
Bai Cangshu, however, completely blocked the impact due to Limitless's passive defense.
At this moment, his mind was extremely open. He took a step forward, instantly reappearing in front of Tendō Pain. His fighting style was completely different from a ninja's; there was no circumvention, only high-speed direct assaults for immediate slaughter.
A dark dragon slayer sword appeared in his left hand. With a twist of his waist, the dragon slayer sword suddenly danced, and a dark, ink-like sword light, accompanied by a strange whistling sound in the air, erupted instantly.
Roar!
The dark, fan-like sword light slashed diagonally downward. Tendō Pain's body suddenly exploded into a large cloud of smoke, and the sword light plunged into the ground.
Puff~
The dragon slayer sword in Bai Cangshu's hand disappeared, and he himself simultaneously flew backward, a white Spirit Ball instantly shooting from his finger in mid-air.
He rarely used this ability. Most of the time, for Bai Cangshu, who controlled Qi, Spirit Ball was not as convenient as Dong Dong Wave. But in his current state, he could feel the power of his soul surging.
A gigantic Spirit Ball was suddenly launched, directly blasting towards Animal Path Pain, who had summoned Tendō Pain using the summoning jutsu.
Gakido Pain, who had always had little use due to his inability to capture Chakra energy, now stood in front of the other Pain, hands raised, intending to absorb this Spirit Ball.
The gigantic Spirit Ball, with a diameter of over two meters, directly struck Gakido Pain. The Reincarnation Eye's absorption power emanated from him, but pure spiritual energy could not be deconstructed by Chakra. After a brief stalemate, it exploded directly.
Nagato, who was secretly controlling Pain, frowned. He was physically weak, but he could feel that after Gakido Pain suffered this blow, his perception of that body was somewhat affected.
It was clear that such soul power attacks had a special negative effect on his Pain Six Paths.
"Nagato, is your pain only this much?!"
Bai Cangshu did not pursue, standing in the distance, his entire body surging with Killing Intent Ripple. Countless impulses to kill everyone present arose within him, but he still firmly controlled himself.
He wanted to become stronger, so he could not be dominated by killing intent. He wanted to surpass Killing Intent Ripple and enter the Divine State!
Bai Cangshu's loud shout caused the expressions of several members of the Akatsuki organization to vary. Konan felt she could no longer stand by idly; she also slowly floated up, and a large number of paper sheets began to appear.
Sasori and Orochimaru, however, showed no intention of acting. Zetsu merely watched the battle from a distance.
Konan turned her head to look at Catherine and Pingzhong Hua within the barrier. If the intelligence was correct, this Tao Bai Bai must be protecting these two.
Regardless of the opponent's purpose, simply destroying what they wanted to achieve would naturally affect Tao Bai Bai.
Buzz!
Bai Cangshu used Limitless's Blue to instantly move again, appearing before the Akatsuki members. Sasori remained unmoved, while Zetsu and Orochimaru instantly distanced themselves.
"Heh, how is your approach any different from Hanzō's back then, Konan…"
Bai Cangshu leaned forward, looking down at this woman who, out of concern for Nagato's excessive consumption and fear of him dying here, instinctively resorted to harming the weak to achieve her goals.
Konan's face paled. This sentence deeply wounded her, but she instantly recovered, and countless paper pieces began to fly towards Bai Cangshu.
"What do you know, someone like you?!"
"Someone like me?"
Bai Cangshu sneered, finding pleasure in the woman's anger.
He stood still, allowing a large amount of paper to cover him. Air, suffocation—those things could no longer truly kill him, and besides…
Whoosh!
Merely because it enveloped his body, preventing him from breathing, the paper began to ignite with flames. Bai Cangshu stood within the flames, completely unaffected.
He merely continued to mock,
"How do you know what kind of person I am…"
Bai Cangshu spread his hands, allowing Konan to prepare her jutsu against him. At this moment, he deeply felt his own power; aside from special sealing techniques and certain divine artifacts in this world, he was extremely difficult to kill by ordinary means.
"You think I am an evil person just because I am full of killing intent, but how many fewer people have you and Nagato killed than I have?"
"Just because when you kill, you think of so-called grand ambitions and an idealized peace?"
"Hahahahaha…"
Bai Cangshu covered his face, laughing wildly.
This kind of pale philosophical debate seemed so absurd and ridiculous to him.
Ultimately, in Bai Cangshu's view, Nagato and Konan themselves didn't fully believe in their own ideals, which is why they constantly spoke of so-called pain and peace, and in the original work, they were eventually persuaded by the Child of the World to abandon their goals.
These two initially did not have such grand ideals and ambitions; they simply joined Yahiko in his dream. After Yahiko's brutal death, the two, in their pain, chose the path they were on now.
"Foolish, utterly foolish."
"Each and every one of you, your purity is simply too low. I think Yahiko's dream probably won't be realized in this lifetime… Ha."
Bai Cangshu continued to mock the two. Konan's expression changed little by little. Her heart ached, and past scenes resurfaced one by one.
Yahiko's smile, their shared moments, their beautiful visions for the future, the struggling common people in the Rain Country…
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Everything was destroyed by war and Conspiracy, but in the end, no one paid the price.
She clutched her chest, the pain still vivid.
She slowly raised her head, looking at Tao Bai Bai, who was still "ranting." In her eyes, it was precisely people like Tao Bai Bai who had no reverence for human life, wantonly robbed others of their happiness, and then mocked those who died with ideals.
"Someone like you…"
Konan's tone went from soft to loud, her voice from calm to seemingly containing monstrous rage.
"Someone like you, only by being completely obliterated, will the world find happiness…"
She spread her hands, and countless explosive tags began to appear. At the same time, her own Paper Dance began to unravel. Without unraveling this jutsu, her body was entirely composed of stacked paper, and ordinary attacks would not threaten her.
But when Konan wanted to perform her strongest technique, the Dance of the Shikigami, she would expose weaknesses because it required consuming all her Chakra and thus she couldn't maintain other ninjutsu.
Nagato, hiding in the distance and controlling Pain, his pupils contracted. Through the Reincarnation Eye of several Pain, he clearly saw that as Konan began to perform the Dance of the Shikigami, the cruel smile on Tao Bai Bai's lips, who had been constantly attacking with words, became increasingly evident.
"Stop, Konan!"
Nagato struggled forcefully. He once again felt the fear of losing a loved one. Disregarding his body, which was almost drained by the Reincarnation Eye, powerful Chakra erupted.
Thump, thump, thump…
Except for Tendō Pain, the other Pain fell one after another. Within Tendō Pain's body, Nagato's terrifying Chakra began to fully manifest.
Buzz~
An irresistibly powerful suction force instantly pulled Konan away.
Konan's jutsu was interrupted. When she came to her senses, she was already behind Tendō Pain. Seeing the other Pain lying on the ground, she panicked, knowing that Nagato was about to use that technique again.
Her face showed anxiety.
"Let me go. If I use that jutsu, this guy will definitely be blown to smithereens. You don't need to use that technique…"
Tendō Pain, however, shook his head. He was certain that the opponent possessed some ability similar to space-time ninjutsu, and there was a significant chance that Konan's Dance of the Shikigami would miss. If that happened, Konan would likely be in danger.
Moreover…
Tendō Pain flew up from the ground, repulsion allowing him to float directly in the air. He looked down at Tao Bai Bai and said,
"Indeed, Konan's actions and mine can no longer be called just."
"But we never sought justice. I only want the world, in its suffering, to begin to think, to begin to progress…"
Nagato's mind replayed Yahiko's last words as he died in his arms.
"You are this world's Savior."
A pained smile appeared on his face.
A Savior…
In these past few years, he had seen too much darkness. This ninja world was twisted to the point of disgust.
Such a world was not worth saving at all.
Tendō Pain spread his hands, terrifying Chakra about to erupt. Orochimaru and the others already felt the dreadful threat and began to retreat.
Tendō Pain continued,
"We are Pain, we are… God!"
"God, without good or evil."