ca-book Chapter 627 Rinnegan vs. Rinnegan
Chapter 627 Rinnegan vs. Rinnegan
"Earth Release·Earth Style Wall!"
The instant Madara Uchiha unleashed his overwhelming fire jutsu, Nagato had already completed hand seals and slammed his palms heavily onto the ground.
A thick earthen wall, large enough to block out half a street, suddenly rose from the ground, blocking all the Akatsuki members on the other side of the sea of fire.
Flames crashed against the earthen wall with a deafening roar, and tongues of fire rolled over the sides and top of the wall, turning the sky a scorching orange-red, but not a single spark crossed the barrier.
Nagato's hands were still pressed against the earthen wall, the chakra in his palms continuously reinforcing the wall, but his mind was experiencing a completely different storm.
He had realized long ago that the Rinnegan was not invincible.
More importantly, he also realized that these eyes did not belong to him. His Rinnegan, these eyes that he had regarded as his destiny since childhood, the eyes that he regarded as the key to changing the world, truly belonged to the man who was standing on the other side of the flames, coldly watching him with the same purple rippled pupils as his own.
Madara Uchiha.
"Nagato!"
Konan's urgent voice came from the side. She could tell what Nagato was thinking from his slightly trembling shoulders and his unfocused eyes for half a second.
Nagato snapped back to reality. He turned his head, met Konan's worried eyes, and nodded heavily.
What does it matter where the power comes from? What does it matter whose eyes they belong to? He stands here now, not as a pawn of Madara Uchiha, but as a companion of Mai Uzumaki, a warrior under the command of the one who brought Yahiko back and pointed out a new path to peace.
All he had to do was keep walking down this path. His hands pressed firmly against the earthen wall, his gaze regaining its resolve. "I'm fine. Let's go!"
"Disperse!"
As the flames finally began to subside and the surface of the earthen wall was scorched with a layer of cracked, charred lines, all the Akatsuki members scattered in all directions at the same instant.
No one needed to give a second command. The figures with black backgrounds and red clouds transformed into afterimages, scattering to various corners of the Konoha ruins, cutting the entire battlefield into several independent areas where each fought its own battle.
"Rinnegan... Ah, I see." Uchiha Madara stood on the scorched earth where the flames were gradually dying down, his gaze fixed firmly on Nagato.
A slow, excited, and dangerous smile crept onto his lips. "Since we both possess the same power, then let me, Uchiha Madara, personally test whether you have truly disgraced this power."
Before he finished speaking, his figure had already vanished. The next second, Madara appeared just a few meters away from Nagato.
The blue chakra skeleton of Susanoo unfolded out of thin air around him, with rib-like armor layered upon layer, and a huge chakra arm extended from the skeleton, condensing a dark blue chakra giant sword in its palm. The sword's edge was not aimed at Nagato, but at the seemingly empty area behind Nagato.
"Hiding in that kind of thing? What an ugly way to fight."
"Shinra Tensei!"
Nagato, who was hiding in the mouth of the giant chameleon, formed hand seals at the very moment the summoning was dispelled.
A transparent wall of repulsive force, visible to the naked eye, spread out with overwhelming force. Madara Uchiha did not choose to use the same repulsive force to meet it head-on. His Susanoo automatically retracted the giant sword before the shockwave of Shinra Tensei arrived. The blue chakra skeleton floated back lightly, and his toes touched the ruins a few times before landing steadily on the ground.
After landing, he did not immediately give chase. Instead, he raised his chin and looked at Nagato with great interest, his smile undiminished.
"Well then, show me how well you can dance. Just how far can you use those eyes?"
"Shh shh shh".
An unnatural sound arose in the wind.
Among the rubble on the ground, in the cracks of the ruins, and even on the scorched earthen walls, countless explosive symbols that had concealed their forms lost their disguise at the same moment, revealing their true nature.
Every inch of space within a hundred meters radius was covered with a dense array of explosive tags, and white talismans with red characters surged toward Uchiha Madara from all directions.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
A massive fireball suddenly poured into the torrent of explosive talismans from the side, precisely cutting off the path of the talismans towards Ban.
The flames collided with the detonator, triggering a chain reaction. The detonator exploded one after another in the fireball, and the roar of the explosions merged into a continuous, deafening roar. The shockwaves hurled all the surrounding debris into the air.
However, the fireball's angle was extremely precise. It only cut off the path of the explosive tag to Madara, but did not detonate the talismans that were still surging further away. The caster controlled the power and range of the fire release perfectly.
"Here it is! Uchiha-style swordsmanship!"
Uchiha Izuna's figure passed through the smoke and dust of the explosion, his Sharingan in his eye sockets spinning at high speed, precisely locking onto the most crucial control node in the torrent of explosive tags.
Then he saw it; among the white paper scraps fluttering in the air, Xiao Nan's figure was hidden among them.
Layers of paper wrapped around her body, her true form shifting between countless sheets of paper.
"That's a reckless fighting style."
Xiao Nan's voice came from all directions simultaneously. "This kind of direct attack won't work on me."
With a slight lift of her finger, the surrounding paper pieces began to rapidly shrink, enveloping Izuna as he rushed into the center of the paper array.
The edges of the paper, enhanced by chakra, become as sharp as blades. Once wrapped in it, it will be shredded by countless blades at the same time.
"That's not necessarily true, try this!"
However, Izuna's face showed no sign of backing down. In the instant he swung his sword, he twisted his wrist, and something ignited in the trajectory of the blade as it sliced through the air.
It wasn't an explosive tag, nor was it a pre-laid trap; it was the sword itself!
A burst of intense heat suddenly shot out from the blade, spreading out and transforming the entire sword into a blazing flame!
"Drink it—!"
Izuna wielded his burning longsword, and flames spread outward in a ring from the blade, with the radius continuously expanding outward.
The pieces of paper that were just about to close were instantly reduced to ashes by the high temperature of the flames!
Konan was horrified. Was this a fire-attribute chakra nature transformation?!
Before Konan could respond, in that instant, a pair of scarlet eyes filled her entire field of vision. A kaleidoscope spun rapidly in Izuna's pupils.
He was waiting for that brief moment when Xiao Nan was distracted by the fire-attribute attack, and his illusionary eye power seized the opportunity to penetrate her mental defenses.
"Found an opening! Fire Release!"
The Mangekyou Sharingan's genjutsu was fully unleashed, and Konan's body froze in mid-air. The flames spewed from Izuna's mouth had caught up with the burning blade, and the flames and sword light intertwined, thrusting straight towards Konan's true form.
"Minami! Shinra Tensei!"
Nagato immediately spotted the dangerous situation. Without hesitation, he activated Shinra Tensei, and a transparent repulsive wall condensed at top speed, slamming towards the space between Izuna and Konan to forcibly separate them.
"Bang--!!"
However, another Shinra Tensei struck at the same moment. With the exact same repulsive force and the exact same frequency, the two transparent force fields collided head-on in mid-air, producing a heavy and muffled impact sound, and their Shinra Tensei completely canceled each other out.
Madara Uchiha extended his right hand forward, palm facing Nagato, a mocking glint in his eyes. He chose to use Shinra Tensei to counter Nagato's Shinra Tensei. The rescue was cut off.
"Damn it—" Nagato gritted his teeth, the purple ripples of his Rinnegan contracting violently with rage. He couldn't wait any longer.
A small black ball flew out of his palm and rose at an extremely fast speed into the sky directly above the battlefield.
"Planetary Devastation!"
Nagato clasped his hands together, pushing the power of his Rinnegan to its limit. The black sphere in the sky began to emit an irresistible gravitational pull, tearing apart the shattered stone slabs, collapsed walls, and broken pillars stuck in the ground, all of which were rapidly drawn towards the black core in the sky.
Planetary Devastation—in a moment of crisis, Nagato directly used the ultimate sealing technique achievable with his Rinnegan. He intended to use Planetary Devastation to completely seal away Madara Uchiha and Izuna Uchiha.
"The dead should just stay in the world of the dead!"
Nagato's arms were bulging with veins, and the gravity of the black core continued to increase, drawing in the rubble on the battlefield and forming a reverse-flowing rain of rubble.
Madara Uchiha's body began to rise uncontrollably due to gravity, and his feet had already left the ground.
"Planetary Devastation, huh?" Madara Uchiha glanced down at his feet, which were being slowly pulled off the ground by gravity, then looked up without a trace of panic.
"Don't misunderstand, you didn't create this power."
His hands formed a mudra in front of his chest, and blue chakra surged from his body.
"Since you want to absorb it, then absorb as much as you want, Heavenly Obstruction Star!"
"....!"
The sky darkened. It wasn't that dark clouds were obscuring the sun, but rather that something was falling from outside the atmosphere, so large that it covered the entire sky.
A massive meteorite, over 100 meters in diameter, pierced through the clouds, carrying intense heat from friction with the atmosphere, and hurtled down directly above the battlefield with devastating force.
Before it, Nagato's Chibaku Tensei core, still desperately absorbing the debris, was like a firefly trying to outdo the moon in brightness. Just as the Heavenly Meteor was about to crash into Chibaku Tensei's core—
"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
A golden beam of light shone from the other side of the battlefield.
It was a golden lightsaber formed from chakra, its length stretching from the ground straight into the sky. The golden sword light struck the center of the meteorite, which was over a hundred meters in diameter.
Where the sword passed, the meteorite was neatly split in two like a watermelon cut in half, with the cross-sections of the two halves as smooth as a mirror.
The meteorite fragments, split in two, drastically reduced in size, finally reaching a size that the core of the planet Earthburst could absorb. Under the gravitational pull of the black core, they were sucked up piece by piece, merging with the still wildly spinning gravitational core.