Chapter 227: It’s A Doxxing Monster!
“Who allowed you… to touch my people?”
This voice passed through the dark red Chakra flames, clearly echoing across the battlefield.
Shisui Uchiha floating in the air was now enveloped in dense dark red Chakra, as if draped in a burning Tails outerwear.
The horrific wound on his left shoulder had already healed perfectly, without even a scar left behind.
He slowly lowered his head, and in those eyes temporarily turned dark red, the engraving pattern of ‘Eight Thousand Spears’ flashed and vanished, coldly locking onto Deva Path Pain below.
Shisui’s own consciousness remained clear; he could distinctly feel an unimaginably vast will surging into his body through the burning engraving on the back of his hand, taking control of his Chakra flow and limb movements, while his own consciousness was isolated like a bystander outside the dominant control.
He was horrified in his heart: when was this engraving planted?
During that trip to the Moon?
Or even earlier?
Lord Shura’s means were indeed unfathomably deep…
“Natsuhi, take them and immediately retreat to Bonsō Castle.” That cold voice rang out again, this time issuing a command to the four below—Natsuhi and the others—with a tone that brooked no argument.
“The battle here is no longer something you can interfere in.”
Natsuhi didn’t hesitate at all, immediately bowing and responding: “Yes! Lord Shura!”
She knew very well that although she had received powerful Chakra transmitted remotely by Lord Shura and temporarily possessed the power of an elite Jonin, facing these four enigmatic enemies—especially the one who seemed to be the leader of the group—staying would only make them a burden.
With that bizarre ability, if the opponent got serious, killing any one of them instantly would be no difficult feat.
“Teacher…” Chiyo looked somewhat unwillingly at Shisui in the air, who resembled a god or demon, then at the four figures in black-bottomed red cloud robes opposite.
“Let’s go!” Natsuhi’s tone was resolute as she grabbed Chiyo, called to Shita Junhito and Murahashi Hazuki, and quickly retreated toward Bonsō Castle.
Surprisingly, the four Paths of Pain did not block Natsuhi and the others’ departure.
Deva Path Pain’s Rinnegan eyes merely indifferently swept over the retreating four before refocusing all attention on Shisui Uchiha in the air, whose aura had dramatically changed.
Through Deva Path’s perspective, Nagato carefully “observed” the boiling dark red Chakra on Shisui’s body, his heart filled with shock and curiosity.
This method of remote manipulation and transmission of vast Chakra was remarkably similar to his Six Paths of Pain using corpses and black rods as Chakra receivers, yet the opponent could even keep the manipulated person’s consciousness awake while infusing such an enormous amount of Chakra.
What shocked him even more was that this Chakra was filled with a cold, brutal yet immensely majestic aura…
“Tails Chakra…” Deva Path Pain slowly spoke, his voice still indifferent as he questioned: “And not ordinary Tails Chakra. You… ‘Shura,’ are you a Jinchūriki from some Ninja Village? Is this the source of your power?”
Menma, controlling Shisui’s body, let out a light laugh that transmitted through the Chakra, carrying a hint of mockery: “The source of power? You could think that. But that’s not the point. Now, tell me, what brings you into my country?”
Deva Path Pain’s Rinnegan eyes fluctuated slightly: “That old man from Stone Village, Onoki, hired our Akatsuki organization to cause some destruction in the Land of Stars.”
Pain directly revealed his behind-the-scenes employer, which didn’t surprise Menma; they were just a money-for-hire relationship.
“But I’m very interested in you.” Deva Path Pain raised his hand, pointing to the land around them that was reviving with vitality, and said coldly: “A guy known as ‘Ninja World Shura’ is here leading some ninjas, playing a nation-building game with some commoners. But seeing this so-called ‘new order’ you’ve established, you are indeed different from those mediocre Ninja Village leaders.”
He paused, a glint of interest seeming to flash in his Rinnegan eyes: “Your ideals have quite a few similarities with mine. Breaking the old order, using pain to make the world reflect… Interested in joining ‘Akatsuki’?”
“Our goal is to gather the power of all the Tails, create the ultimate weapon, make this world feel true pain—only in pain will humanity stop fighting and truly understand each other.”
‘Is the mouth-based persuasion phase starting?’ Menma, far away in the Land of Stars, raised an eyebrow upon hearing Pain’s words.
Then he controlled Shisui to shake his head, his voice transmitting through the Chakra: “Make the world feel pain? And then? Peace brought by fear is just a brief ceasefire before the next, even greater war. Your ideals are too extreme and… childish.”
“Childish?” Deva Path Pain’s voice carried emotion for the first time—a displeasure at having his beliefs questioned: “You slaughtered the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Bears, Land of Demons, Land of Swamps, Land of Shadows, and Land of Snow, with the blood of no less than ten thousand on your hands. Isn’t the order you’ve established built on slaughter and suppression of dissenting voices?”
“You kill, so Akatsuki can’t? What you’ve done is no different from me. Why pretend to be noble!”
“It seems you haven’t truly understood along the way.” Menma’s voice was calm.
“What we eliminate is ‘class.’”
“It’s those who consider themselves noble, born to lord over the people, treating commoners like weeds, easily igniting wars for personal gain—the exploitative class. Along with those old-era ninjas who kill only for money and missions, mindless tools of war—they too are shackles of the old era that must be broken.”
“What the Land of Stars aims to do is thoroughly eradicate the soil that breeds injustice and war, establish a new world without exploitation or oppression where everyone can achieve happiness through effort. Slaughter is merely a necessary means to clear stubborn diseases, not the end itself. Look at this land.”
Menma controlled Shisui’s arm to sweep over the fields and villages below under reconstruction, where Miroku was leading the Land of Stars’ administrative personnel in evacuating the commoners in the villages around the battlefield.
Even though this mysterious enemy was powerful enough to alter the terrain of this region, and even Natsuhi and the others had returned injured, these Land of Stars administrative personnel were still anxiously organizing the nearby civilians to withdraw to the main city.
Menma said: “After the old shackles are broken, do the people here have more despair or more hope on their faces?”
Nagato fell silent.
Through Pain’s vision, he indeed saw a scene starkly different from the Land of Rain and other war-torn countries.
Without the exploitation by nobles and landlords, without the endless mercenary wars between Ninja Villages, the commoners here, though still living harshly, had eyes filled with anticipation for the future and vigor.
That vibrant vitality couldn’t be faked.
“Class…” Deva Path Pain repeated the unfamiliar term, a flicker of confusion in his Rinnegan eyes, but it was quickly covered by cold conviction.
“Clever words. Any new order’s establishment inevitably comes with blood and pain! You can’t deny that!”
“No matter how beautiful the blueprint you paint, it can’t erase the fact that your hands are stained with blood! And that is precisely the path to understanding!”
“The path to understanding?” Menma sneered: “Then, that guy you cooperate with who calls himself ‘Uchiha Madara’—what ‘path to understanding’ has he painted for you? Would he truly help you achieve your ambitions? He’s just using your Rinnegan power to accomplish his unspeakable goals.”
Nagato, hidden in the paper tree far away, had his pupils contract sharply!
The opponent not only knew his Rinnegan but also ‘Uchiha Madara’!
Nagato remembered that the last time ‘Uchiha Madara’ came looking for Shura, Akatsuki shouldn’t have been exposed, right?
“You… exactly how much do you know?” Deva Path’s voice turned utterly cold, laced with intense killing intent and wariness.
“I know far more than you imagine. Immersed in false dreams and driven by others’ hatred, you’ll never see true peace.” Menma’s voice carried a faint, barely perceptible pity.
“Shut up!” Deva Path Pain seemed to have his reverse scale touched, his voice fluctuating noticeably for the first time—an anger from his beliefs being shaken: “The will of god is unquestionable! Since you refuse to understand, I’ll make you submit with the power of god!”
“Make you personally experience what true pain is!”
Negotiations broke down, battle reignited!
The long-prepared Asura Path struck first, its shoulder skin splitting open to reveal densely packed missile launch ports!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!
Dozens of small Chakra missiles trailing flames shot toward Shisui in the air like a swarm of bees!
At the same time, Human Path Pain darted across the ground like a ghost, seeking an opportunity for a surprise attack.
Animal Path Pain formed hand seals again, slamming his hands onto the ground:
“Summoning Technique!”
Bang bang bang bang!
White smoke burst repeatedly!
The massive winged Chameleon reappeared!
The roaring Hellhound covered in spikes!
The Hell Crab with hard shell and swinging giant claws!
And the ferocious Yatagarasu and raging Bull!
Five summoned beasts of varying forms, all incredibly ferocious, were summoned, roaring deafeningly as they charged at the floating Shisui from ground and air!
Facing this overwhelming assault, Shisui under Menma’s control remained exceptionally calm.
“Summoned Beasts, huh? Interesting.” That cold voice commented indifferently.
“Shisui, relax your body. The rest of the battle is mine.”
Shisui’s consciousness could only passively sense as an even vaster Chakra surged from the hand engraving, flowing through his limbs and body, even briefly suppressing his own Chakra.
His hands involuntarily began forming seals, a simple one—just the Tiger seal.
“Nine-Face Sūvarṇa!”
With the seal completed, Menma gave a low shout.
Hum—!
Nine massive arrays glowing dark red appeared out of thin air behind Shisui, like nine eerie blood moons!
Azure White Vermilion Black Mystic, empty south north three jades—each array flickered with different characters.
Then, nine massive figures of varying forms, wearing different masks, leaped out roaring from the arrays!
The hissing Azure Dragon wrapped in lightning!
The screeching Vermilion Bird burning with dark red flames!
The heavy Black Tortoise commanding water flows!
The roaring White Tiger whipping up fierce whirlwinds!
The ferocious Golden Snake manipulating the earth!
Southern Dipper Immortal deploying a barrier!
Northern Dipper Immortal guarding the perimeter!
Celestial Maiden wielding ribbon-like soft swords, floating into the air!
Shinigami dragging a massive Chakra scythe, emanating the aura of reaping lives!
Menma’s nine unique summoned beasts developed using Dark Nine-Tails Chakra, each possessing powerful special abilities and strength approaching Kage level!
“Go, Nine-Faced Beast!” Menma ordered calmly.
The Nine-Faced Beasts instantly engaged Animal Path’s five summoned beasts!
Azure Dragon’s Lightning Release clashed with Yatagarasu’s Wind Release!
Vermilion Bird’s flames devoured the flames spewed by the Hellhound!
Black Tortoise’s hundred-ton body collided head-on with the Bull!
White Tiger’s whirlwind bombarded against Hell Crab’s water cannon!!
Golden Snake burrowed underground for a surprise attack!
Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper deployed barriers, disrupting and restricting the summoned beasts’ movements!
Celestial Maiden and Shinigami floated in the air, weaving through the fray; every swing of ribbons and scythe caused massive trouble for the summoned beasts!
The scene instantly turned into utter chaos and spectacle!
Nine against five!
The dual advantage in numbers and quality allowed Menma’s Nine-Faced Beasts to suppress Animal Path’s summoned beasts almost instantly upon contact!
Two of Hellhound’s heads were sliced off by White Tiger’s Wind Blades, but new ones quickly grew, making it even more berserk—yet firmly blocked by Northern Dipper Immortal’s guard barrier.
Hell Crab’s six legs were hit by White Tiger’s whirlwind, slowing its movements, then Golden Snake ambushed from underground, locking it with earth and stone.
Yatagarasu tried to evade Azure Dragon’s lightning with high-speed flight, but Celestial Maiden’s soft ribbons wrapped around it like maggots on bone, greatly reducing its speed—then struck by a lightning bolt, it wailed and fell.
The Bull was headbutted by Black Tortoise into a nearby cliff, temporarily trapped.
Chameleon tried to stealth attack but was precisely located by Shinigami’s Chakra-sensing scythe, forced visible with one slash, and fled in embarrassment.
“How is this possible?!” Nagato’s true body in the dense forest coughed violently again, his face full of shock.
His summoned beasts were completely suppressed in direct confrontation?!
What exactly were these masked summoned beasts?
Each had utterly different powerful abilities, and the Chakra on them also carried that unsettling dark red Tails aura!
Seeing the summoned beasts routed, Human Path Pain seized a gap, ghosting past the beast melee to lunge at Shinigami battling Chameleon, his right hand flashing lightning-fast toward Shinigami’s mask!
Rinnegan · Soul Extraction Jutsu!
Human Path’s ability could directly extract others’ souls!
However, the instant his hand touched the Shinigami Mask, a vast, brutal, resistant Chakra surged back fiercely!
“Urgh!” Human Path grunted; the expected easy soul extraction didn’t happen—he felt like his hand had grabbed a raging Chakra tail!
Not only couldn’t he extract it, he was violently flung away by the tail’s brute force!
In that instant of soul-level clash, he even vaguely “saw” a massive fox tail phantom wildly thrashing, composed purely of dark red Chakra!
Pfft!
Human Path Pain was sent flying like hit by an invisible giant hammer, smashing heavily into a distant rock wall, fine cracks appearing on his body surface!
“Useless.” Menma’s cold voice transmitted.
“Their essence is Chakra constructs, more akin to clones.”
Nagato was horrified; the opponent’s Jutsu and power system completely exceeded his understanding!
“If that’s the case…” Deva Path Pain finally moved, slowly ascending to level with Menma controlling Shisui’s body, his Rinnegan eyes flashing cold, resolute light: “Then make you feel the power of god firsthand!”
He abruptly raised both hands, aiming at Shisui!
“Universal Pull!”
Powerful attraction erupted again, several times stronger than when used against Shisui before!
Clearly, Nagato was getting serious, trying to capture the opponent’s ‘core’ on this battlefield directly!
However, facing this terrifying pull capable of dragging Tails, Shisui under Menma’s control had his lips curve slightly as he raised his right hand.
“Almighty Push.”
A flat voice came from Shisui’s mouth.
Hum—!!!
A repulsion no less than Universal Pull—in fact even more violent—erupted fiercely from Shisui as center!
Boom rumble!!!
The two opposing yet equally terrifying vast forces clashed, compressed, and annihilated violently in midair!
The air exploded with overburdened roars!
The ground below was plowed like by invisible giant hands, soil upheaving, trees snapping, rivers cut off!
Even the distant battling summoned beasts were flipped by the clash’s aftershocks!
Deva Path Pain bore the brunt; he hadn’t anticipated the opponent could also use a Jutsu like “Almighty Push”!
And this power…
So similar, yet even more dark and brutal!
Bang!
Deva Path Pain’s figure was blasted away like a cannonball by the massive shockwave from his own Universal Pull clashing with the opponent’s Almighty Push!
He smashed through several massive rocks before barely stabilizing, floating in midair—his black-bottomed red cloud windbreaker already tattered.
“How is this possible?! Why do you have god’s power?! Do you also have the Rinnegan?!” Deva Path Pain’s voice carried undisguisable shock and tremor for the first time!
Through Pain’s vision, Nagato’s true body nearly stood up from the tree hole!
This overturned his belief in the Rinnegan’s uniqueness!
Menma controlled Shisui to slowly float higher into the air, dark red Chakra cradling him like a throne, looking down condescendingly at the somewhat disheveled Deva Path Pain, that cold voice laced with mockery:
“God’s power? Just crude application of repulsion and attraction—worthy of being called divine power? You and your so-called ‘God’s Eye’ are nothing but pitiful worms hiding in the shadows, manipulating a few corpse puppets.”
“Not to mention that these eyes of yours are just being nurtured here by someone else.”
“Would a true deity skulk like you?”
“Insolent!” Deva Path Pain erupted in fury, his Rinnegan eyes bursting with astonishing killing intent and cold light: “Blaspheming deity is a sin deserving ten thousand deaths!”
He raised both hands, seemingly ready to unleash an even stronger attack regardless.
However, Menma merely controlled Shisui to slowly raise his right hand, index finger pointing to the sky, then gently swiping downward.
A simple motion, yet carrying the weight of judgment.
“I say, divine punishment.”
Deva Path Pain was stunned, then raged: “Pretending to be a ghost god!”
But the instant his words fell—
Hum!!!
A terrifying pressure indescribable in words descended abruptly!
Not a Chakra shock, but something purer, vaster—a destructive will seemingly from beyond the heavens!
Then, in all Paths of Pain’s senses, the high-altitude clouds were roughly stirred by an invisible giant hand, wildly parting to form a massive, circular cavity!
Through that cavity, one could seemingly see the pitch-black, cold cosmic starry sky directly!
Then, a massive beam over ten meters in diameter, purely composed of ultra-compressed golden Chakra, like a spear of divine judgment hurled by a god, plummeted from that cloud cavity at speed beyond visual capture!
Aiming straight for Asura Path Pain below and Human Path Pain who had just broken free from the rock wall!
“What?!” Nagato saw this horrifying scene through all Paths’ perspectives, alarms blaring in his mind!
He couldn’t even comprehend where this attack came from! Beyond all his sensory range!
Boom!!
Earth-shattering roar!
The ground trembled violently!
Like a magnitude ten earthquake!
Blinding golden light instantly engulfed everything!
When the destructive radiance slightly faded, a massive charred deep pit nearly a hundred meters in diameter appeared on site, its edges crystallized into glass-like state with rock and mud!
Asura Path Pain and Human Path Pain at the attack’s core had vanished without trace, not even a speck of residue left!
As if thoroughly erased from this world!
Only Animal Path’s summoned beasts, slightly farther away, were merely flung again by the explosion’s shockwave, battered but not directly hit.
The sky’s cloud cavity slowly closed, the destructive pressure dissipating as if it had never been.
The battlefield fell into dead silence.
Animal Path Pain froze in place, the remaining summoned beasts issuing uneasy low growls.
Deva Path Pain hovered midair, gazing up at the fading cloud hole, then at the terrifying giant pit on the ground; his Rinnegan eyes showed “incredulity” and “horror” for the first time.
This attack method…
Unheard of!
Beyond the scope of Ninjutsu!
Couldn’t even sense where the enemy launched it from!
Impossible to dodge, impossible to defend!
What power was this?!
Menma controlled Shisui to slowly descend, hovering at the edge of the massive pit, dark red Chakra still burning around him.
He looked at the remaining Deva Path and Animal Path Pain, that cold voice ringing out again—this time clearly naming the one hidden deepest:
“Now, do you still think I’m pretending to be a ghost god?”
“Nagato…”
The name was clearly spoken, exploding like thunder across the battlefield!
Deva Path Pain’s body stiffened sharply, slowly turning his head, Rinnegan eyes deadlocked on Shisui enveloped in dark red Chakra, filled with incomprehensible shock.
Nagato in the distant dense forest was struck as if by lightning!
His Rinnegan eyes showed near-terror emotion for the first time!
How does he know my name?!
“You… exactly… who are you?”
