Having dealt with the Naraka Path, Naruto didn't pursue.
With a tap of his foot, his figure shifted twenty-seven feet horizontally, dodging the charging Hellhound and the newly summoned giant centipede.
"Water Release: Great Exploding Water Surge."
Before Naruto could make any further moves, a massive amount of water suddenly erupted from the void.
This torrent of water not only submerged the entire Spire platform that served as the battlefield, but even enveloped the entire Spire.
Grabbing the Shadow Clones of Deidara and Konan, along with the few onlookers, he retreated swiftly, leaving the water sphere formed by the Great Exploding Water Surge at the first opportunity.
The Six Paths of Pain and Naruto, who were in the center of the battlefield, were both enveloped within, unable to escape for the time being.
Naruto glanced at Kisame, who had already merged with Samehada, entering his strongest battle form, somewhat surprised.
Kisame had disappeared from the start of the battle, and Naruto hadn't made a special effort to find him, after all, his threat wasn't that great, he didn't have the ability to destroy the map, nor did he appear on the main battlefield.
He originally thought he had run away, and Naruto planned to look for him later, but he didn't expect him to join the battle now.
"Rain Four Sharks."
After using the Great Exploding Water Surge to create enough water, Kisame continued to form hand seals.
Then, several giant water sharks rushed towards Naruto, exploding upon approach, turning into thousands of tiny sharks made of water, charging towards Naruto.
"Thousand Eating Sharks!"
After this, Kisame's movements didn't stop, and he continued to form hand seals.
Kisame didn't think he could beat Naruto, but simply stalling for time was something he could do.
In the water, a large group of sharks were summoned, all of them Kisame's summons.
As soon as these sharks appeared, they all seemed to smell blood, and quickly bit towards Naruto.
To this, Naruto remained unmoved.
He formed hand seals, using a Super S-Rank Wind Release Ninjutsu attack that he had recently developed.
The power of this Ninjutsu could be increased depending on the amount of Chakra poured into it. If Naruto poured in all his Chakra, he could push it to a level comparable to a real natural disaster.
"Sage Art: Wind Release: Tornado Storm!"
As Naruto finished forming the hand seals with both hands, the high-speed Wind Blades that had been surrounding him for defense rapidly expanded at this moment.
Chi chi!
The sound of air tearing resounded continuously, and almost instantly, a tornado formed around Naruto's body, enveloping his entire person.
As soon as this tornado formed, it expanded to a heaven-reaching and earth-connecting scale at a speed beyond ordinary people's imagination, and the speed of rotation reached an extremely terrifying level.
The wind was howling, the earth was collapsing, and the buildings were disintegrating.
At this moment, whether it was the Great Exploding Water Surge summoned by Kisame, or the numerous sharks, they were all blown into the sky by the gale, shoulder to shoulder with the sun.
After the tornado dissipated, the sky and the earth became clear again.
Kisame, who had suddenly appeared and displayed his power, was now hanging on a Spire, having separated from Samehada, constantly spitting blood. Although he wasn't dead yet, he had lost most of his life.
Of course, Kisame's actions were not without effect.
At least the time he stalled had allowed Nagato to rebuild the Naraka Path at any cost, and revive the Deva Path, which had been defeated by Naruto earlier.
Naruto glanced at the Spire that had been cut in half, the remaining half barely protected by Nagato with the Deva Path, and the large area of torn buildings around it.
He knew that after the first failed face-to-face attack, it would be impossible to solve the Six Paths of Pain without using big moves like Planetary Devastation, as he had done against other Akatsuki members before.
If Naruto and Nagato were to fight with all their strength, the entire Rain Ninja Village would be gone in no time.
And neither Naruto nor Nagato wanted to see this result.
"Let's go outside the village."
Naruto finished speaking and, without waiting for Nagato to agree, turned and flew out.
Nagato was silent for a moment, then manipulated Pain to follow.
However, this time only the strongest Deva Path went, while the other five Pains were placed beside Nagato.
This was both to prevent a surprise attack on the main body, and because manipulating a single Deva Path could maximize Nagato's combat power.
Having fought until now, Nagato understood that against a strong opponent like Naruto, no matter how many people there were or how fancy their abilities were, it would be useless without a strong enough opponent to fight against him.
The remaining people, except for Sasuke, did not follow; they had another task.
To collect and dispose of the prisoners.
And the most enthusiastic about this job was definitely Orochimaru.
He had long wanted to capture and study these former colleagues in the Akatsuki, but he didn't have the opportunity or the strength before. Now that he was hugging a thigh, he had finally found an opportunity.
Looking at Orochimaru, who was wearing a mask but still couldn't hide his familiar aura.
At this moment, the Akatsuki members who had been beaten down really wanted to shout, "Don't come over here!"
However, at this moment, they were just fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others.
As soon as they left the village, Deva Path Pain unhesitatingly unleashed his strongest power.
"Super: Almighty Push."
"Super: Planetary Devastation."
The attractive and repulsive forces, powerful enough to tear apart mountains and rivers and reverse rivers, were applied to the tiny individual of Naruto by Pain, resulting in extremely terrifying power.
Naruto's body was pulled towards Pain at an extremely fast speed, and then blasted away at an extremely fast speed.
Boom!
Naruto's body crashed into the earth.
This pull and push caused the layer of tornado barrier and magnetic shield wrapped around Naruto's body to dissipate instantly, and the terrifying power directly acted on Naruto's main body.
Crack.
The mask was shattered by the Wind Blade formed by the high-speed movement of the body, revealing Naruto's face with a somewhat surprised expression.
"I was almost instantly killed."
Looking at the golden Chakra shield of the Nine-Tailed Sage Fox Mode that had emerged around him, as well as the mostly shattered golden Susanoo ribs, Naruto couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Although he had trained his physique to a level far surpassing ordinary people, he was still ultimately mortal. If he didn't use defensive Ninjutsu like the Nine-Tailed Sage Fox Mode and Susanoo, he wouldn't be much stronger than an average person.
If it weren't for his timely defense against Deva Path Pain's sudden attack just now, he wouldn't have died with his vitality, but he wouldn't have escaped without breaking a few bones.
And at this moment, Deva Path Pain's attacks showed no sign of stopping.
"Planetary Devastation!"
A black gravity ball appeared, and as Deva Path Pain clasped his hands together,
an even stronger gravitational force erupted, tearing and pulling the newly standing Naruto, along with the surrounding earth, towards the sky.
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