vncnus Chapter 410 Embarrassment
Chapter 410 Embarrassment
Chapter 410 Embarrassment
The Flying Thunder God Technique is truly a ninjutsu with extremely high versatility.
Minato was able to train the Flying Thunder God Technique to the point where he could easily leave a mark, and he further expanded the Flying Thunder God Technique into the ability to guide lightning, which can use rune arrays to transfer the attacks of Tailed Beast Balls.
Taiichi was different; his understanding of the Flying Thunder God Technique was completely different from Minato's.
He did not cultivate the ability of Flying Thunder God to guide lightning across a large area of space, but after obtaining the divine thought of the evil god, he greatly expanded the spatial transfer range of the Flying Thunder God mark through his research.
To put it more clearly, Taiyi's new location is no longer limited to the side of the Flying Thunder God Mark, but rather extends to a 50-meter radius around the Flying Thunder God Mark.
This greatly expands the flexibility of the Flying Thunder God Technique, making Taichi's battles even more unpredictable.
This is why Taiichi was able to appear above Pain's head and deliver a sudden attack.
Taiyi's figure vanished abruptly in the trajectory of being blasted away by Shinra Tensei, leaving no trace.
Whether it was Pain's Deva Path floating in the air, or the Asura Path and Animal Path standing ready, their expressions instantly turned ashen.
The second time! This annoying space-time ninjutsu made them experience for the second time what it meant to feel like they had a thorn in their side and what it meant to be helpless and frustrated!
The space distorted almost imperceptibly, and Taiyi's figure materialized out of thin air behind the Animal Path like a ghost!
His appearance was a killing move! The short sword in his hand was already completely enveloped in highly compressed wind-style chakra, transforming into a sharp blue light that tore through the air. Without the slightest hesitation, he swung it down fiercely!
Despite having the shared vision of Pain and the Asura Path, which allowed the Animal Path to catch Taiyi's figure behind him immediately, the Animal Path's reaction was ultimately a beat too slow.
He only had time to barely twist his body at one angle before the deadly blue blade of light sliced through his waist and abdomen without any obstruction!
"Sizzle!"
There was no splatter of blood as expected, only a piercing sound like tearing rotten wood.
The animal's body was severed in two, the cut as smooth as a mirror, truly a modified humanoid puppet, which crashed heavily to the ground and remained motionless.
Immediately afterwards————
boom!boom!boom!boom!
Four enormous plumes of white smoke exploded almost simultaneously! The four ferocious beasts that had been summoned and had not yet fully revealed their ferocity ended their summoning process instantly with the complete "death" of the animal realm, leaving only four plumes of white smoke.
In the blink of an eye! Like a rabbit leaping and a cuckoo swooping!
The situation reversed so quickly that it exceeded Payne's (Nagato's) expectations.
With just a moment of shock, the animal realm was completely destroyed, resulting in GG!
As Taiyi slowly sheathed his sword, his icy gaze, like a tangible blade, pierced through space and locked firmly onto Pain Deva in the air.
Even though he knew that this Heavenly Body was just a puppet and would not truly die, Nagato, who was controlling it from afar, still felt a chill run up his spine to the top of his head, and a phantom pain-like coldness seemed to come from his waist and abdomen!
The sense of deadly threat has never been so intense! In order to deal with Taichi's elusive and unpredictable Flying Thunder God Technique, Pain could no longer maintain his lofty "god-like posture".
He had to quickly lower himself down, standing back-to-back with the last remaining Asura Path member. The two of them scanned every inch of the surrounding space with wary eyes, their nerves stretched to the limit, just to guard against the deadly attack that could come from any angle at any time!
Taiyi twirled his sword in a sharp flourish, the blade slicing through the air with a soft "hum".
A mocking and disdainful smile curled at the corner of his lips, his voice clearly piercing the heavy air: "Oh? Weren't you just a moment ago high and mighty, considering yourself a god, looking down on all living beings from heaven? What, now you're scared and want to come down and huddle together for warmth?"
This blatant mockery was like a sharp needle, piercing Pain's (Nagato's) nerves.
In those cold, ethereal eyes, a terrifying killing intent and an unprecedented sense of dread surged violently.
Without exchanging words, Pain and the Asura Path acted simultaneously, and the counterattack suddenly erupted from the silence!
"Boom! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
The mechanical structure of the Asura Path suddenly unfolded, like a blooming flower of death.
Countless miniature missiles, trailing scorching flames and interspersed with several laser beams powerful enough to melt gold and sever iron, rained down on Taiyi like a storm!
At the same time, Pain's Deva Path aimed his right hand at Taiyi, and the Myriad Manifestations Heaven was activated.
An overwhelming and terrifying gravitational force arose out of nowhere, like an invisible giant hand, fiercely grabbing Taiyi's body and pulling him violently towards the overwhelming and destructive barrage!
Gravity and attack work together perfectly, sealing off all room for evasion!
"Ha! That's more like it! That arrogant attitude before was a disgrace to the name of God!"
Faced with this seemingly hopeless situation, Taiyi instead let out a wild laugh!
Chakra surged from his back, instantly forming a pair of enormous, semi-transparent wings of light!
Instead of trying to break free from gravity, he used the momentum to accelerate! With a sudden flap of his wings, he shot forward like an arrow, charging headlong into the destructive hail of bullets!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The Chakra Wings granted Taiichi ghost-like mobility.
He darted and weaved through a dense web of missiles and laser beams.
His figure transformed into blurry afterimages, narrowly avoiding fatal attacks.
When there is no way to avoid it, the short sword in hand transforms into a blue whirlwind, accurately slicing the missile in mid-air to explode, or instantly condensing a chakra light shield to withstand the impact of the laser.
Firelight and energy fragments enveloped him, but could not stop his momentum!
Seeing that Taiyi was still able to handle such a fierce attack with ease, and was even getting closer and closer, Pain and the Asura Path instantly changed their strategy.
A flash of black light appeared in their hands as they each gripped a black rod specially made by the Rinnegan. No longer relying on ranged attacks, they transformed into two black shadows, one on the left and one on the right, attacking from both sides like ghosts.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The black rod and the short sword wrapped in wind magic clashed fiercely, the ear-piercing metallic clang blending together, sparks flying everywhere.
However, upon contact, Taiichi's heart sank. The wind chakra attached to the short sword became extremely unstable the moment it came into contact with the black rod, as if it had encountered its nemesis, and it dissipated and collapsed wildly.
Each parry and collision turned into a head-on clash between the short sword and the incredibly hard black rod.
One second! Seven or eight times! In the lightning-fast transitions between offense and defense, every collision is an extreme test of the short sword's material.
The crisp cracking sound stood out starkly amidst the fierce clash.
Click!
Taiyi's short sword could not withstand the high-frequency violent impacts and the special interference of the black rod, and broke in two!
The black club that had broken the short sword continued its momentum unabated. Shura Dao's eyes flashed with a cold light as the black club, accompanied by a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air, swept fiercely toward Taiyi's head.
If this blow lands, the head will surely explode like a watermelon.
Life or death hangs in the balance! A hair's breadth away!
Just as his head was about to be shattered, Taiichi finally displayed his martial arts skills, which were no less than his swordsmanship!
He raised his left arm with lightning speed, his muscles bulging, and parried the sweeping black stick at a precise angle.
His right hand, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, with its five fingers like hooks, made a sharp sound as it tore through the air, aiming straight for the throat joint of the Asura Path.
At the same time, a silent and vicious kick landed on his foot, like a scorpion's tail, aimed directly at the back of Payne's knee.
With his bare hands, Taiyi managed to block, seize, and counterattack simultaneously in an instant, managing to withstand the combined onslaught of the two puppets.
Fists, palms, fingers, legs, elbow strikes, knee strikes.
Taiyi's body seemed to have transformed into the most lethal weapon, with every part of it bursting with astonishing power and speed.
As the extremely dangerous close combat continued, a storm was brewing in Pain's (Nagato's) heart.
He was horrified to discover that, after abandoning his ninja tools and relying solely on taijutsu, he and the Asura Path, working together, were actually being pushed back step by step by the opponent's relentless onslaught, gradually falling into a disadvantageous position.
This discovery shook Nagato to his core, and he finally realized with absolute clarity that the current Heavenly Path and Asura Path (the Animal Path has been abolished) were simply not enough to defeat Matsushita Taichi before him.
To win, at least all six Paths of Pain need to be gathered together!
Retreat! We must retreat!
This thought instantly occupied the highest point of Nagato's consciousness!
The Asura Path and the Animal Path can be abandoned, but the Deva Path Pain, the puppet made from Yahiko's remains, must not be lost.
After narrowly deflecting Taiyi's powerful punch once again, the Asura Path suddenly changed its previous fighting style of cooperating with the Heavenly Path and completely abandoned its own defense.
Like a maddened beast, his entire mechanical structure hummed with overload as he brandished his black rod and lunged at Taiyi recklessly, using his body and weapons to entangle him tightly.
Every move and every stance is filled with a mad suicidal frenzy!
Pain, however, seized this respite gained at the cost of the Asura Path's life.
Chakra suddenly erupted beneath his feet, and his body shot into the sky like a rocket, rapidly ascending into the heavens.
"Trying to leave?"
Taiyi's eyes flashed with a cold light, instantly discerning the other party's intentions.
But the Asura Path, now completely insane, is like a malignant tumor, completely blocking all attacks and all movement routes!
This suicidal fighting style, which completely disregards his own safety and only seeks to hold him back, prevents Taiichi from finding even the slightest opening to use the Flying Thunder God Technique during the high-speed and intense battle.
To completely get rid of this "sticky" problem, you'll need at least a few seconds of focused attention!
A few seconds!
In a top-level duel where everything changes in an instant, this is a long enough time to determine life or death!
Taiyi could only watch helplessly as Payne's figure flew higher and higher, farther and farther away.
Before us, the Asura Path's frenzied attack had reached its peak, and the energy reaction within its body had become extremely unstable, emitting destructive fluctuations!
"roar!"
The Asura Path let out a mechanical roar that was not human, and its eyes flashed red light.
The next second————
Rumble! ...
A blinding white light instantly engulfed the figure of the Asura Path, then expanded into a huge fireball rolling with flames and thick smoke!
A terrifying energy storm, centered on the explosion point, swept outwards in all directions like a cataclysmic tidal wave.
The earth was torn apart and shattered layer by layer like a fragile biscuit, and scorching air waves mixed with deadly metal fragments and shock waves swept across hundreds of meters in an instant.
Even the Konoha outpost, a kilometer away, groaned under the immense force of the devastating impact, collapsing and turning to dust!
A small mushroom cloud slowly rose, heralding the final madness of the Asura Path.
As the raging energy storm finally subsided and the billowing flames and smoke gradually dissipated, Taiyi's figure reappeared at the edge of the explosion's core, which had been completely flattened and reduced to scorched earth.
His clothes were torn in many places, and his exposed skin was covered with fine bloodstains and burn marks. There was also a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth. Clearly, even someone as strong as him could not escape unscathed after withstanding the self-destruction of the Asura Path at such close range.
However, if someone were to get closer and take a closer look, they would be shocked to discover that the muscle tissue beneath those seemingly gruesome wounds is visibly wriggling and healing!
The bleeding stopped quickly, and the charred skin peeled off rapidly, revealing the new, intact skin underneath.
This terrifying regenerative power seemed to mock the devastating explosion just moments before. Within minutes, the injuries were completely healed.
Ignoring his injuries, Taiyi's powerful chakra perception spread like an invisible giant net, instantly expanding to its maximum extent around him.
His mental will followed the direction Payne fled, frantically scanning every inch of space like a radar.
However, after only a brief delay, the chakra reaction belonging to Pain had completely disappeared from his perception range!
"snort!"
Taiichi snorted coldly and soared into the sky without hesitation. His chakra wings unfurled once more, carrying him like a streak of light as he sped toward the approximate location of Nagato's main body, which he had sensed before the battle.
After flying a full thirty kilometers, Taiyi's figure suddenly stopped above a secluded mountain hollow.
There were faint chakra fluctuations and obvious signs of activity remaining below, but unfortunately—
The place is deserted!
Nagato had clearly prepared an escape route in advance; while detonating the Asura Path, his main body had already fled far away through other means.
"You escaped really fast, Nagato—" Taichi hovered in the air, his gaze coldly fixed on the direction of the Land of Rain. "Cherish this 'good luck.' Next time, you might not have another chance to escape alive."
After pausing for a few breaths to confirm that there was no possibility of being followed, Taiyi's figure disappeared again.
The next moment, he was back at the battleground, a scene of utter devastation with a crater of high-temperature lava still visible in the center.
He searched the scorched earth with his own light. Soon, he found the mangled corpse of the animal that had been cut in half at the waist. Although it was charred and deformed by the blast wave, its basic shape was still intact.
Taiichi bent down and tidied it up; the Rinnegan projection in his eyes and the black rods on its body were still there.
"Pain's Six Paths—Rinnegan—" he muttered to himself, a hint of seriousness flashing in his eyes. "This thing is perfect to take back and show to Minato and the old men. Let them be more vigilant; the real threat has never been far away."
On the other side, Pain, who had escaped, quickly reunited with Nagato and Konan. However, seeing that only Pain had returned, even Konan, who had been silent during the retreat, finally couldn't help but speak up.
"Nagato, what's going on? Is that Matsushita Taichi really that strong?"
Now it was Nagato's turn to remain silent. It wasn't that he didn't want to speak, but rather that he was too ashamed to say it.
They came with great confidence, saying that Matsushita Taichi was nothing special, but after actually facing him, they realized what a difference there was.
He could sense that Matsushita Taichi hadn't gone all out, and that he only managed to escape because he was caught off guard.
If we encounter them again, all six realms must be present, otherwise—
"Let's go back first, and talk about it together when Madara Uchiha arrives."