Izayoi didn't hear the conversation between Nagato and Uchiha Obito.
At this moment, he also received the information transmitted in real-time by his Wood Clone, and felt extremely surprised.
He hadn't expected that Nagato's trump card would be the same as his, preparing a Nuclear Power Station Charger in advance.
However, unlike Izayoi who had his eyes on the Yin Nine Tails, Nagato had captured two Jinchuriki.
This Endgame Battle severely exceeded Izayoi's expectations.
Originally, according to Izayoi's plan, the Endgame Battle would take place in Amegakure, where Toneri Otsutsuki would lead a Human Puppet army powered by the Yin Nine Tails' Chakra to completely crush the Akatsuki.
However, before Izayoi could put on his vest and act, Nagato proactively sought him out, making Izayoi one of the protagonists of this Endgame Battle.
Although the process had unexpected turns, the rhythm was still within Izayoi's control.
Now that the Wood Clone had entered the Kamui Dimension, Uchiha Obito couldn't escape with Nagato and Tobi.
The trump cards of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Jinchuriki had also been revealed.
The upcoming battle would be the final showdown with all trump cards played.
However, the Wood Human Arhat, fighting two against one, would definitely not be a match for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue.
Izayoi's current Sage Body and Sage Chakra also couldn't unleash Hashirama Senju's Sage Art: Wood Release - True Several Thousand Hands - Top Transformed Buddha.
He needed to find an external helper!
So, without waiting for Nagato and Uchiha Obito to make a decision, Izayoi looked up at the clear blue sky and shouted loudly, "Hey! Toneri Otsutsuki, I know you've been watching. If you don't make a move soon, I'll run away if I can't win!"
"Make your move!"
Hearing that Izayoi was preparing to escape, Nagato, who had recovered Chakra by recalling a Wood Clone, immediately used Deva Path. An invisible attraction pulled Izayoi away from the top of the Wood Human Arhat's head.
Uchiha Obito, along with Nagato's Wood Clone, Shunshined back to the top of the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue's head.
Tobi, who had also recovered Chakra, detached from Uchiha Obito and attached himself to Nagato's Wood Clone, controlling the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue to assist the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Just as Izayoi was pulled away from the top of the Wood Human Arhat's head, his figure disappeared without a trace. Then, the Wood Human Arhat's eyes flickered with dazzling golden light, and red eye shadow reappeared at the corners of its eyes.
"Roar..."
In the eyes of the various ninja watching from afar, the Wood Human Arhat suddenly opened its hands. Two wooden dragons flew out of the forest below, their heads held in its hands, transforming into two Dragon Slaying Blades. Then, it ran towards the approaching Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
The movement of the three colossal figures caused the ground to shake with every step. The heavy sounds and violent tremors could be heard even by ninja from other countries many miles away.
"Is the winner about to be decided?"
"Before, it was one-on-one, and they fought for a day and a night without a winner. Now it's two against one, the Konoha Wood Release Ninja is definitely going to lose!"
"I didn't expect the Akatsuki leader to hide such a technique."
"Speaking of which... could that monster be the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path that Toneri Otsutsuki mentioned?"
"Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Statue... Hiss... Quickly send this information back!"
"..."
Except for Hinata and Karin, the ninja from other countries were not optimistic about Izayoi.
However, there were smart people who quickly discovered something was wrong and guessed that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was the 'treasure' that Toneri Otsutsuki wanted to retrieve.
Just as they were preparing to send this information back, the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue, one of the three colossal figures, suddenly stopped.
"Be careful—Almighty Push!"
As if sensing something, Nagato's Wood Clone quickly warned, simultaneously releasing an invisible repulsion force that sent Uchiha Obito flying away.
Before Uchiha Obito could react, red powder suddenly appeared out of thin air in the distance, and then a dazzling blue light shot towards him.
With the invisibility dispelled, the appearance of that blue light was finally seen clearly by his Mangekyo Sharingan.
It was a shinobi blade covered in Lightning Release nature transformation.
The shinobi blade flew extremely fast, like an arrow, aimed at Uchiha Obito's chest.
If hit, it would definitely pierce through his chest.
Uchiha Obito didn't hesitate at all, directly activating Izanagi, then his body twisted and entered the Kamui Dimension, escaping this battlefield.
After the red powder dissipated, Danzo Shimura's figure also appeared in the air, maintaining a backward flying posture, and used Kamui on Nagato's Wood Clone.
The space in his left arm suddenly became distorted, and Nagato's Wood Clone's expression changed drastically as he quickly vanished with a Shunshin.
As soon as he disappeared, a black hole the size of a fist appeared in the center of the distorted space.
If he had been even a fraction of a second slower, Nagato's Wood Clone and Tobi would have been crippled.
"So Uchiha Obito's other eye is on him."
Nagato's Wood Clone appeared on one of the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue's arms, looking at Danzo Shimura's left eye with a grim expression.
Failing to instantly kill Nagato's Wood Clone and Tobi, Danzo Shimura, while falling towards the forest below, moved the Kamui black hole, tearing the lotus base of the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue and disrupting its stability.
Immediately after, Danzo Shimura's figure disappeared out of thin air, clearly using the Flying Thunder God Technique to instantly move to who knows where.
Just one Danzo Shimura successfully restricted the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue; this was the terrifying power of the Strongest Mangekyo Sharingan.
Meanwhile, the Wood Human Arhat and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path were already engaged in battle.
The Dragon Slaying Blades slashed down.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path raised its two arms, each hand catching a Dragon Slaying Blade's slash.
With a loud bang, a wave of air spread out from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's hands, causing the incredibly hard trees created by Wood Release below to sway continuously.
Even if the Dragon Slaying Blades were covered in Wind Release nature transformation, making their sharpness comparable to the samurai sword of a perfect Susanoo, capable of easily splitting mountains and cracking the earth, they couldn't cut off the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's hands.
Although the Ten-Tails had been drained of all its Chakra, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which was its physical form after degeneration, still possessed tenacious vitality.
Its current strength was in no way inferior to those fully transformed Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, including the Nine-Tails.
Rumble...
A sound of thunder suddenly rang out, but it wasn't thunder from the sky.
The ten pillar-like protrusions on the back of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, whose hands were catching the Dragon Slaying Blades' slashes, were covered in blue and white electricity.
Then, massive bolts of lightning shot towards the Wood Human Arhat.
The Wood Human Arhat quickly released its twin blades, covering its face with its hands, while its body was repeatedly forced back by the massive lightning strike.
"Roar..."
Seizing this opportunity, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path let out a deafening roar, opening its gaping maw and spitting out a purple Chakra dragon.
Seeing this Chakra dragon, Izayoi's expression finally changed slightly. Without hesitation, he instantly teleported away, abandoning the Wood Human Arhat.
The Chakra dragon passed through the Wood Human Arhat's body, entering through its chest and exiting through its back.
However, before piercing the chest, the Chakra dragon's size was only that of the Wood Human Arhat's arm.
After passing through the body, its size had expanded to be thicker than both of the Wood Human Arhat's arms combined.
Most of the Sage Chakra within the Wood Human Arhat's body had been absorbed.
This was the power of the Chakra dragon, and also the strongest technique of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Because it had no physical form, it could ignore all attacks, and anyone touched by the Chakra dragon would have their Chakra and soul instantly drained.
This was simply the combined power of the Preta Path and Human Path, and a super-enhanced version at that!
However, the weakness of this instant-kill ultimate technique was also very obvious.
Nagato, who was standing on top of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's head, had Black Rods inserted into his back again.
Having only obtained the Six Paths Techniques and Yin-Yang Release: Black Rod from Uchiha Obito, he couldn't create a tube connecting himself to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path like Uchiha Obito and Madara Uchiha. He could only use this violent, body-damaging method to inject Chakra into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's body, creating this Chakra dragon that could instantly kill anything.
Although the Chakra dragon failed to instantly kill Izayoi, it was strengthened by consuming the Wood Human Arhat's Sage Chakra.
Just as Nagato was about to search for Izayoi's whereabouts, the space around him suddenly twisted again.
Seeing this, his expression immediately changed, and he subconsciously used the ability of the Preta Path.
Seeing that the Preta Path couldn't absorb the twisted space and having no time to control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to retract the Chakra dragon, Nagato could only sever the Black Rods connecting him to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and instantly disappear with a slightly pale face.
The uncontrolled Chakra dragon also let out a roar and fell to the ground.
In an instant, a dazzling white light erupted.
Boom----
An earth-shattering explosion occurred, creating a massive mushroom cloud.
Then, a hurricane destroyed the forest and swept out in all directions, engulfing the ninjas from various countries who were watching from afar within a few breaths.
Ninjas who didn't have time to gather Chakra in their feet to stick to the ground were instantly blown away, crashing heavily into trees or rocks, spitting out blood.
Even ninjas who reacted in time, blocking with their hands and sticking their feet to the ground, were pushed back a distance.
When the strong wind dissipated, the ninjas from various countries looked at the mushroom cloud, which was many times more terrifying than a Tailed Beast Ball explosion, their faces pale and their eyes trembling.
Their legs, which had dragged two trails on the ground, also began to tremble uncontrollably.
"This... this is too exaggerated!"
"I almost thought I was going to die just now. It can still affect us from such a distance. Is this super-standard combat power?"
"What kind of ability was that dragon? Why did it have such terrifying power after it exploded?"
"No wonder Toneri Otsutsuki wanted to retrieve the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Something this terrifying, even more so than the Tailed Beasts, should indeed be sealed on the Moon!"
"..."
The ninjas from various countries tacitly retreated a distance.
Little did they know, the reason the Chakra Dragon explosion had such power was entirely because it had absorbed the Sage Chakra within the Wood Human Arhat.
This Chakra Dragon technique was equivalent to the Chakra absorption of the Tenseigan.
The more Chakra the green orb absorbed, the stronger the explosion would be.
If the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path could have absorbed the Chakra Dragon, Nagato would not only have suffered no loss but would have seen his Chakra surge.
Unfortunately, there was no "if." He only thought of using this opportunity to instantly kill Izayoi, but he overlooked the existence of Danzo Shimura.
The Preta Path couldn't absorb Kamui's spatial distortion. If he didn't run, it would mean death.
Rumble...
The area of dust and mist formed by the giant mushroom cloud suddenly shook violently again.
When the strong wind blew away the dust and mist, three colossal figures appeared.
Unlike their previous imposing appearance, the three colossal figures now looked extremely battered.
With most of its Sage Chakra drained and its defense severely reduced, the Wood Human Arhat, which was at the center of the explosion, had absorbed most of the damage for the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Therefore, the Wood Human Arhat was almost completely blown away, with a large part of its back, as well as its entire left side, completely gone, leaving only its legs and right side.
The Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue not far away was covered in cracks but not severely damaged; it could be repaired with just a little Chakra.
As for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, it was completely unharmed.
As the Ten-Tails' shell, neither Tailed Beast Balls, Five Release composite ninjutsu, nor even Dust Release could harm the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Only Six Paths level power, space-time ninjutsu, and taijutsu and senjutsu capable of harming Six Paths level powerhouses could damage the body of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
This was the immunity to dimensionality reduction attacks that one would definitely possess after becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki!
However, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path also looked extremely battered at this moment.
Tree branches had bound the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and red torii gates had pinned its hands, feet, and neck to the ground.
"Leader, should we run too?"
On the arm of the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue, Tobi had returned to Nagato's main body.
Looking at Izayoi standing on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Danzo Shimura, who was hidden somewhere unknown, Tobi couldn't help but advise.
His complacent and despicable personality had been beaten out of him.
Now, Tobi showed a cowardly side.
Having forced out all the Black Rods from his back and using Tobi to recover from his injuries, Nagato, while absorbing the Wood Clones back into his body, said softly, "Tobi, I'll hold them off for you. You go."
"Huh! Leader, aren't you coming with me?" Tobi asked in surprise.
"I can't leave anymore."
Nagato said calmly, "One wrong move, and the whole game is lost. For this endgame battle, I made ample preparations. I succeeded because of Kamui, and I will fail because of Kamui."
"I only thought of using the Kamui Dimension to place the Jinchuriki inside to provide us with Chakra, and to use Kamui to escape at critical moments. But I overlooked Uchiha Obito's left eye, and I also forgot the origin of 'Copy Ninja' Kakashi Hatake's Sharingan."
"Toneri Otsutsuki seized this crucial point. My retreat has been blocked. I can only fight to the death."
"So, Tobi, you should leave on your own. Don't die with me."
As he said this, there was no hint of unwillingness on Nagato's face. Instead, a relieved smile appeared, showing he was completely convinced.
After recovering to his peak state, Nagato had been constantly playing mind games with Toneri Otsutsuki.
Although they had only openly clashed once, in reality, they were competing against each other at every moment.
To deal with the Human Puppet army, he learned the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, having Black and White Zetsu steal from the graveyards of the Five Great Shinobi Villages. He had countless powerful subordinates at his disposal.
And to increase the Chakra of the Human Puppet army, Toneri Otsutsuki somehow obtained a massive Chakra source. Many of the puppets possessed Kage-level Chakra, making them evenly matched with the Reanimation Jutsu army.
If Nagato hadn't hunted Izayoi, but instead fought Toneri Otsutsuki in Amegakure, the clash of Sage Eyes might still have been difficult to decide.
Furthermore, to avoid any accidents, Nagato also sent Wood Clones to capture two Jinchuriki, ready to ambush Toneri Otsutsuki at any time.
He had even considered the possibility of losing and his retreat route.
Unexpectedly, the opponent was even more prepared than he was.
That eye of Danzo Shimura was like hitting a snake at its seven inches, too fatal.
Originally, it was him and Tobi fighting two against one. Now, it had become the opponent fighting two against one against him, and he had no retreat.
One wrong move, and the whole game is lost.
Seeing Nagato preparing to fight to the death, Tobi didn't speak or leave. Instead, he sent a message to Black and White Zetsu.
Upon receiving Tobi's message, Black Zetsu, who had been cursing Uchiha Obito in his heart, suddenly revealed a strange smile.
Immediately, Black and White Zetsu burrowed into the ground and disappeared.
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