The emergence of the Six Paths of Pain represented that both sides had officially torn away all pretenses.
The reason Shiraishi had severed the Preta Path's arm with a single sword strike was that he knew the Preta Path's capability allowed it to absorb an opponent's chakra.
The Deva Path Pain, controlled by Nagato, now officially launched a challenge against Shiraishi. A ring of black light illuminated the area ahead, forming a unique magnetic field of suction that generated a distinct, distorted visual scene.
Universal Pull!
Identical to Almighty Push, this was a specialized ninjutsu that generated a powerful attractive force toward a designated target with oneself as the center. The user could freely determine the target attracted by this technique and the intensity of the gravitational pull.
According to Shiraishi's understanding, this technique was not solely restricted to pulling an opponent to one's side; if necessary, this technique could additionally move a designated object to another location in accordance with the user's will.
The Deva Path Pain's Universal Pull directly attempted to pull Shiraishi to one side this time. However, Shiraishi held the Divine Sword; with an exceptionally free and easy sweep of his longsword, the fractured ground around him seemed to lose gravity entirely, drifting along the trajectory of the Universal Pull.
Weightlessness Control!
As a high-level skill card, gravity magic could not only strengthen gravity frontally but could conversely perform weightlessness control as well. Cooperating with Shiraishi's Divine Sword of Heavenly Way, the gravity technique formed a specialized countermeasure.
In the past, Shiraishi had already successfully integrated gravity techniques into his swordsmanship. Right now, utilizing the specialized traits of the gravity technique, Shiraishi inversely developed various deep-level applications, elevating his own sword intent to an even stronger level.
During the process where both sides manipulated gravity, causing shattered rocks to cross and clash against each other, the Human Path standing beside the Deva Path Pain crossed its arms.
A unique puppet mechanism deployed across its arms, transforming into a specialized Asura attack; in an instant, a purple light mutated into a fanatical torrent of energy and blasted outward.
The purple light approached, yet everything around Shiraishi generated a distorted perception of light.
A specialized electromagnetic field formed by Magnetic Style forcibly neutralized this light; simultaneously, countless blade-missiles rained down, forming a terrifying, exploding torrent.
At this moment, regardless of his own chakra consumption, the Deva Path Pain strengthened the intensity of the Universal Pull.
Under the unique chakra fluctuations generated by his hands, Shiraishi's body was placed into a state of being pulled. Coupling this with the cluster of shattered rocks generated by the prior weightlessness, Shiraishi gradually found himself trapped within an encirclement.
The Six Paths of Pain lined up against Shiraishi from six different angles. Although they seemingly held the advantage in numbers, when facing the strongest monster in the shinobi world, these Pains did not dare to act rashly.
The combined offensive of the Six Paths of Pain was exceptionally troublesome. The Deva Path Pain's Universal Pull attracted Shiraishi, while the Human Path directly launched an attack with pure weaponry.
At this exact moment, the Animal Path additionally executed a Summoning Jutsu, releasing dozens of gargantuan creatures to pounce toward Shiraishi.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
Confronted by the Animal Path's Summoning Jutsu, Shiraishi additionally executed his own Summoning Jutsu. In an instant, the Desert Blood Wolf, along with a pack of wolves, abruptly manifested on one side. Under a wolf's howl from the leading one-eyed blood wolf, a massive pack of wolves charged toward the Animal Path's army.
The wolf pack surrounded the giant summoning beasts one by one. During the process of both sides slaughtering and countering each other, a state of stalemate emerged.
At this moment, a bizarre bird abruptly appeared in the sky, directly laying a pile of gargantuan eggs that generated high-temperature explosions targeted straight at Shiraishi. However, a roar suddenly echoed out, the sound waves abruptly shattering these bombs in mid-air.
Amidst the smoke generated by the explosions, a massive feline meat-paw forcibly batted the bizarre bird flying away. This single claw swipe left the bizarre bird covered in streaks of blood, a fresh, crimson opening forcibly sliced across its neck, making it clearly obvious it would not survive.
Clearly, apart from the Desert Blood Wolf, Shiraishi had additionally summoned Fatty Orange to participate in the battle. It was just that compared to Fatty Orange's ordinary domestic cat size at home, its volume right now was countless times larger.
Seeing Fatty Orange manifest, an unexpected look surfaced across Zetsu's face...
This cat—I consistently feel as though I have seen it somewhere before in the past, but I simply cannot recall it for the moment.
Although it possessed the physical form of a cat, Fatty Orange's level of agility was exceptionally high.
With a loud meow, it directly performed a flying leap; its powerful tail rapidly swept across, the resulting air current slicing easily, slaughtering two centipede-summoning beasts.
The exact millisecond it touched down, the orange cat plastered a paw straight down, directly pasting another rhinoceros over the face.
Then, the cat's paws whipped out at a speed of hundreds of strikes per second; in an instant, the rhinoceros summoning beast's physical body was directly punched through.
A formidable combat capacity—as a divine beast from the exact same era as the old sages of the Three Great Sage Regions, it demonstrated a powerful fighting strength.
Afterward, the orange cat cast a smug glance toward the Desert Blood Wolf that was organizing the wolf pack's operations, its nose seemingly expanding outward, looking exceptionally arrogant.
The Desert Blood Wolf, whose face turned completely dark, became even harsher in its attitude toward its subordinate wolf pack.
Under its commands, the combat power of the wolf pack elevated several-fold, gradually beginning to suppress those large-volume summoning beasts!
Right during the process where the summoning beasts were slaughtering each other, the Naraka Path successfully executed its technique, perfectly resurrecting the Preta Path that had just been incapacitated by Shiraishi.
The combination of the Six Paths of Pain possessed both offense and defense, resurrection and summoning. Coupling this with the leader, Deva Path Pain, the level of trickiness for a moment left Shiraishi somewhat surprised.
Although Nagato, having gathered his entire strength, possessed stronger individual power, in terms of group warfare, the coordination effect of the Six Paths of Pain was superior.
"However, relying upon this level of methods is insufficient to defeat me, Nagato."
Paying no heed to Shiraishi's words, the Deva Path Pain rapidly executed a brand-new round of offense, projecting a black energy sphere inside the domain of the Universal Pull: "Then, how about this? Planetary Devastation!"
Planetary Devastation belonged to the strengthened version of Universal Pull, utilizing chakra to create a domain resembling a black sphere, subsequently performing a massive, large-scale forced attraction upon all surrounding matter—not just designated objects, but even the earth itself would be attracted over.
The destructive capacity of this technique was horrifying; in the past, even Otsutsuki Kaguya had been sealed by Planetary Devastation, subsequently forming that single rotation of the moon up in the sky.
Under the powerful attractive force of Planetary Devastation, while Shiraishi's body was in the process of being enveloped by countless shattered rocks, the Preta Path manifested on one side at an unknown moment, executing a sealing technique to continuously absorb the colossally massive chakra inside Shiraishi's body.
Confronted by Nagato's certain-kill sealing method, Shiraishi held the Divine Sword of Heavenly Way, the power across his entire body additionally beginning to elevate to the absolute limit.
At this moment, the orange cat performed a flying leap, its meat-paws rapidly targeting the Deva Path Pain as it lunged forward.
The Deva Path Pain, who was currently executing Planetary Devastation, retreated. Simultaneously, the Naraka Path, Asura Path, and Human Path manifested together, blocking this single descending claw attack for the Deva Path Pain.
Under the baptism of the powerful explosive power, the physical bodies of the Human Path and Asura Path shattered on the spot.
When the Naraka Path attempted to utilize the power of the summoned King of Hell to resurrect its two companions, Fatty Orange directly smashed its tail toward the summoned King of Hell.
To think this orange cat actually dares to directly strike at the King of Hell?
As one of the initial living creatures of this world, Fatty Orange's eyesight was exceptionally sharp. The King of Hell summoned by this Naraka Path operated on the same logic as the Death God of the Reaper Death Seal—both were merely a specialized type of intermediary living creature.
Therefore, the orange cat feared it not a single bit; unless a genuine god-level powerhouse like Unohana Retsu materialized on the scene, only then would the orange cat harbor any wariness...
The aggressive dominance of the orange cat disrupted Nagato's normal operational parameters, and Shiraishi, situated up in the sky, additionally began his counter-attack at long last.
With the Divine Sword enshrouded under countless magnetic fields, Shiraishi's Dragon Seal Sage Mode power elevated to the absolute limit.
The terrifying air-current explosive energy generated by the sword's edge blasted straight toward the core internal location of Planetary Devastation.
Gravity Swordsmanship: Piercing Pressure Velocity Kill!
With a thunderous boom, the entire outer perimeter of the Land of Rain resembled the absolute end of the world. The exploding Planetary Devastation transformed into an endless torrent of shattered rocks, dispersing outward from all four directions.
Seeing Shiraishi ferocious to such an extent, coupled with the fact that his own chakra consumption was exceptionally severe, the Deva Path Pain had no choice but to opt for a retreat.
After all, the Naraka Path among the Six Paths of Pain had been heavily battered, leaving it unable to utilize its resurrection function. Pain harbored a deep dread toward Shiraishi's strength; therefore, he directly chose to evacuate the premises.
"Universal Pull!"
Continuing to manufacture a gravitational point around Shiraishi to delay for time, the Deva Path Pain resolutely evacuated the scene!
"Nagato, how much of his strength do you think he exerted?"
Deep within Akatsuki's core base, confronted by Konan's inquiry, Nagato remained silent for a long duration: "It is difficult to judge..."
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