After Sailing with the Pirate King, I Returned to Konoha - 189

Chapter 189: Feel Pain?

After clearing the area with one strike, Naruto closed his eyes and released his Observation Haki to sense his surroundings.

His full-power Observation Haki's sensing range was already impressive. Now maintaining Sage Mode constantly, his perception was being further enhanced.

While completely covering the entire Land of Rain might be impossible, scanning all of Hidden Rain Village was more than sufficient.

Due to his Conqueror's Haki, almost no one in Hidden Rain Village could still move. Thus, the Six Paths of Pain emerging from the tower stood out particularly clearly.

Naruto opened his eyes and looked in a certain direction.

"They're coming."

Hearing this, Sasuke and Karin also prepared for battle, with Karin even completing her transformation in advance.

Only Jiraiya wore a complicated expression.

Naruto saw all this but said nothing. Now wasn't the time for such matters. After he dealt with the culprit, there would be plenty of time for Jiraiya-sensei to catch up with his students.

Soon, the Six Paths of Pain appeared before the four, including the Asura Path Pain, which had already changed bodies.

"Hmm, these six are the same as that previous one—just puppets."

With one glance, his Observation Haki detected no life force from any of them.

Hearing this, Jiraiya's pupils trembled. He had already seen it—the Deva Path Pain leading them was his former student Yahiko.

How could this be? How could Yahiko be dead? And why would Nagato make his corpse into this kind of puppet?

Jiraiya let out a long sigh, seeming to age several years instantly.

"Are you alright, Jiraiya-sensei?"

Naruto didn't seem particularly worried about the six figures before him. He was more concerned about Jiraiya's condition.

At this moment in his eyes, Jiraiya emanated emotions of "sorrow" and "self-blame."

Well, no wonder. When your student goes astray, it's natural for a teacher to feel sad.

In a sense, Naruto's guess was reasonable. He reached out and gently patted Jiraiya's arm.

"Jiraiya-sensei, leave these to us."

Saying this, he took the lead walking toward the opponents. Seeing this, Karin and Sasuke also followed behind Naruto, leaving only Jiraiya alone.

"Naruto Uzumaki came to deliver himself?" The Deva Path Pain spoke coldly. "Good. This brings our plan one step closer to success."

"Where's the guy with the mask?"

Naruto couldn't be bothered with pleasantries and directly inquired about "Uchiha Madara's" whereabouts.

"That arrogance—just like the ones who destroyed everything. Let me teach you pain. Shinra Tensei!" The Deva Path thrust his hand forward as immense repulsive force erupted."

The Deva Path Pain instantly activated Shinra Tensei with zero warning. Immense repulsive force acted on their bodies, making them fly backward uncontrollably.

Compared to the Asura Path's missile attacks, the Deva Path's attack methods were clearly more effective. Even Naruto, who had perceived the near future with Observation Haki, was affected.

Shinra Tensei's range was spherical, so even the ground beneath Naruto's feet was completely crushed by this strike. Losing his footing, Naruto momentarily had nowhere to apply force.

However, Shinra Tensei could only do this much to Naruto—trying to harm his terrifying body was unrealistic.

After flying backward in midair for a while, Naruto stepped on the air to adjust his posture and looked at his opponents.

"Nice trick. Now it's my turn."

His feet stomped the air violently. A teeth-grinding friction sound rang out, then his figure vanished from midair.

None of the six pairs of Rinnegan present could capture Naruto's speed.

Pain wanted to use Shinra Tensei again, but this technique had a fatal flaw—a full five-second "cooldown time" after each use. During this period, the Deva Path could only fight using taijutsu.

But fortunately, he had other bodies.

The Animal Path struck first, directly summoning a giant stone panda to block ahead.

The next moment, a tremendous impact erupted. The panda had barely appeared for half a second before being shattered by Naruto. His fist's momentum continued unabated, the violent wind almost tearing Pain's body apart.

Since all opponents were corpse puppets, Naruto held nothing back.

The Animal Path blocking the front was directly hit by one punch, unable to say a word before being completely pulverized into blood mist.

"First one."

The Six Paths of Pain, barely replenished, had already lost another member. This level of physical durability was as fragile as paper before the current Naruto.

Seeing this, Nagato hiding in the tower, was shocked and immediately controlled the remaining five to attack simultaneously.

At this time, Karin's and Sasuke's attacks also arrived.

"Wind Blade Strike!"

Garuda became a golden afterimage, wings like blades, sweeping past the Asura Path Pain.

"Fire Release: Flame Wolf Dragon!"

On the other side, the Misfortune Wolf's Calamity Fire combined with Sasuke's Fire Release jutsu to form a purple-black fire dragon, sweeping toward the Preta Path Pain.

The Asura Path Pain's arms split open on both sides, extending metal blades that collided with Karin's wings, creating showers of sparks. Perhaps because these weapons came from another dimension and used unique forging techniques, they didn't fall into disadvantage when clashing with Garuda's metal wings.

Another collision—this time between claws and the metal tail.

The Asura Path's entire body was weaponized. Taking advantage of their stalemate, it simply opened its mouth and fired a zero-distance laser cannon at Karin.

"Vajra!"

At the critical moment, Karin blocked with her wings in front. The laser beam left a deep wound on the wings but couldn't penetrate them. Such minor injuries weren't serious for the current Karin and would heal quickly.

But the pain was very real.

Karin opened her mouth and released an almost materialized sound wave at the Asura Path. Instantly, the connections of various weapons inside the Asura Path Pain's body suffered varying degrees of impact. The originally smoothly functioning mechanical body became stiff and sluggish, as if unmaintained for years.

On the other side, Sasuke's Calamity Fire dragon also hit the Preta Path. However, the Preta Path Pain possessed the ability to absorb ninjutsu and chakra.

Sasuke's fire dragon began rapidly shrinking as it approached, ultimately completely absorbed into the Preta Path Pain's palm.

"Useless. All ninjutsu against me—"

Before finishing his words, Sasuke had already reached him, delivering a charged punch.

"Eight Impact Fist: Wolf Pierce!"

The moment his fist contacted the body, Sasuke's chakra also began flowing into the Preta Path. But before he could continue absorbing, the internal destructive force "tore apart" half his body.

Only then did Pain discover that this body had somehow become extremely fragile, as if left somewhere to weather for decades or centuries.

This was the power of Calamity Fire.

For lifeless puppets like Pain, those inconspicuous purple-black flames were the real killing move. He could absorb Fire Release jutsu but also absorbed the Calamity Fire within.

Now even his internal organs had become as brittle as old cookies.