Chapter 182

His strength had already infinitely approached the Six Paths level,

but this single thread of difference,

was the gap between heaven and earth!!

His current strength was similar to that of Hashirama Senju before he obtained the Rinnegan and stepped into the Six Paths level.

But he was absolutely no match for his present self!!

And seeing the Truth-Seeking Balls slowly materialize behind Hashirama Senju,

Ōtsutsuki Seishi's eyes widened!!

The power of All Creation!!

How could this be?

This person actually possessed such an ability!!

After he had awakened the Tenseigan,

he still had not mastered this Six Paths power!!

At this moment, Ōtsutsuki Seishi had completely lost his confidence,

he did not consider himself a match for Hashirama Senju!!

He certainly knew the might of Six Paths power!

This was also the realm he had been bitterly pursuing all along!!

Yet the person before him had actually reached it!!

Ōtsutsuki Seishi himself knew,

that without possessing Six Paths power, without stepping into a Six Paths level of combat strength,

wanting to inflict harm on a Six Paths level powerhouse,

was basically an impossible thing!

And this was also the realm he had been pursuing for countless years!!

Hashirama Senju let out a sigh,

in his eyes,

the present Ōtsutsuki Seishi,

had even surpassed Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo!

At the very least, he possessed fundamental courage and bearing!

And although Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo possessed Six Paths level strength,

he might be the weakest of the Six Paths level,

if Ōtsutsuki Seishi and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo were on the same level!!

Hashirama Senju believed,

the victor would definitely be Ōtsutsuki Seishi!!

Unfortunately,

it was precisely this little gap,

that held Ōtsutsuki Seishi back from advancing further!!

If not for the appearance of the Sage of Six Paths,

Hashirama Senju himself did not know,

how much longer he would have needed to step into the Six Paths level,

he was afraid that his present self would be just the same as the Ōtsutsuki Seishi before him!!

"Luo Tianzheng!!!"

Slowly raising both arms,

Hashirama Senju shouted softly.

He did not know why,

but the name of this Rinnegan ocular technique naturally surfaced in his mind!!

As if he had known it from birth!!

Amidst a terror visible to the naked eye,

a shockwave like a natural disaster blasted out from in front of him!!

"Riiip!!"

The tornado unleashed by Ōtsutsuki Seishi was torn to shreds like rags!!

At the same time, this force continued unabated as it surged toward his body!!

His face changed abruptly!!

Such speed?!

He could not even react in time,

this force struck his body and slammed him viciously from the sky down to the ground!!

Victory and defeat often hinged on an instant,

both Hashirama Senju and Ōtsutsuki Seishi fought with the intent to kill the other,

so naturally they had no thoughts of testing each other,

from the very start,

they were going all out against each other!!

……

The Akatsuki,

seeing Hashirama Senju unleash Shinra Tensei,

Uzumaki Nagato's entire breathing grew even more rapid!!

His eyes went wide,

never expecting that Hashirama Senju could,

in such a short span of time, wield the Rinnegan with such breathtaking mastery!!

Back then,

when he had first obtained the Rinnegan,

he couldn't even bring forth its most basic ability!!

And now, having finally managed to use the Rinnegan's power,

he himself had paid a terrible price for it!!

Especially after seeing Hashirama Senju's use of Shinra Tensei,

the entire surface of the moon had become battered and pockmarked,

Nagato could not help but feel a flicker of doubt about himself…

His own Shinra Tensei, compared with Hashirama Senju's,

was practically no different from an infant's!!

The gap between the two of them was like that between a grown-up and a child!

Is this the talent,

the legendary ninja gift, of Hashirama Senju?

If Uzumaki Nagato remembered correctly,

Hashirama Senju had only awakened the Rinnegan a few days ago,

and what Nagato could not comprehend most of all was how utterly unharmed Hashirama Senju looked at this moment.

A ninjutsu of such massive scale and devastating power,

on par with a forbidden technique,

when he unleashed it,

was consumed no differently from an ordinary clone technique!!

Even the chakra reserves and physical constitution of a Tailed Beast are hardly more than this, are they?!

Thinking back on how he had believed himself to be the true god,

Uzumaki Nagato felt his conviction begin to waver.