Chapter 190: Nagato Crushed

"According to the intelligence, it should be right here!"

A gale whipping up dust blew past the black-cloaked figure with red clouds; beneath the cloak was a young man with red hair. He lifted his head to look into the distance, his brows knitting slightly:

"How was this map drawn? Isn't this clearly a flat plain? Why does the map show a mountain range?"

The young man wearing the hood was naturally Uzumaki Nagato. Looking at the environment before him, which did not match the map at all, Uzumaki Nagato could not help but feel some doubt.

One wouldn't dare speak for other aspects of the ninja of the Ninja World, but when it came to war-related missions, their completion was absolutely meticulous. After all, all ninja were born top-tier scouts, and drawing maps was definitely their bread and butter; they were even in no way inferior to maps from modern society.

Theoretically, even a discrepancy of a single hilltop would be considered a major error on a map. For an entire mountain range to turn into a plain like this, even a Genin who had just graduated from the academy generally wouldn't make such a mistake on a map.

What made Uzumaki Nagato feel most unsettled was... he looked carefully, and on this plain, he could vaguely discern that the shapes of some ruins seemed wrong... it was as if, as if they were fist marks left by individual punches!

A fist mark covering a radius of several hundred meters? What kind of skyscraper-sized giant is this?

"Could it be Susanoo... but for a fist mark of several hundred meters, how tall would the summoned Susanoo have to be? A giant of ten thousand meters?"

Shaking his head, Uzumaki Nagato didn't believe anyone could summon a ten-thousand-meter Susanoo. To have that level of chakra, how perverted would one have to be?

Susanoo is a pure condensation of chakra; it is not like a ninjutsu such as Wood Release. For a wood construct and a Susanoo of the same size, the chakra content differs by at least tenfold.

"Nagato... this guy has finally come over."

However, Nagato was still full of confidence in himself. Possessing a higher-level Rinnegan and a Dojutsu named Takamagahara, a mere Uchiha Feiyu was definitely no match for him!

His chakra sensory ability spread out, and a moment later, Nagato sensed a massive amount of chakra within this mountain range of ruins.

"It's time to put an end to this, Uchiha Feiyu!"

Not to mention that even if Senju Hashirama summoned a thousand-meter-tall thousand-handed Buddha, it would still consume most of his own chakra. A ten-thousand-meter-tall Susanoo and a thousand-meter-tall thousand-handed Buddha sound like a tenfold difference, but in reality, the difference in volume is a thousandfold.

Uchiha Feiyu slowly stood up, looking at the tiny black dot in the sky, a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

However, the scene before him also made Nagato feel a bit of caution. Regardless of how these fist marks came to be or what ability they relied on, one obvious fact was: the mountain range that was originally here had been flattened alive by that Uchiha Feiyu.

With fighting spirit in his eyes, Nagato reached out and pulled off the robe draped over his body, flying directly into the sky.

Nagato scrambled up from the deep pit in a sorry state. If his life essence hadn't already undergone a certain transformation, a normal person hit by such a punch would only have ended up as a mist of blood in the sky. Even so, the current Nagato was covered in blood, his bones shattered.

"Uchiha Feiyu! This is the Dojutsu I prepared for you, Takamagahara!"

While soaring into the sky, Uchiha Feiyu stomped his feet against the air, emitting a thunderous explosion. His speed grew faster and faster, until even the air in front of him transformed into a wall as hard as steel, which he finally broke through, emitting a sonic boom.

If one observed carefully, one would find that there was still a finger's width between Uchiha Feiyu's buttocks and the ground, so he was not sitting cross-legged on the ground, but hovering above it.

Then he bent his knees bit by bit, maintaining a posture of sprinting toward the sky, kicked off with both feet, and shot into the sky with a 'whoosh'!

Uzumaki Nagato was caught off guard, a look of shock appearing in his eyes. He hurriedly summoned a Truth-Seeking Ball to block in front of him, but it was smashed to pieces by a single punch from Uchiha Feiyu, who also had his fist covered in a Truth-Seeking Ball. The mere shockwave sent him flying, spraying blood wildly, and he slammed into the earth, directly creating a hundred-meter-wide deep pit.

Fortunately, the current Nagato, to a certain extent, could not be considered a normal human; his body even showed signs of becoming energy-based. Therefore, even if he suffered such injuries, as long as his chakra circulated, he could still recover rapidly.

However—Uchiha Feiyu's speed did not slow down in the slightest; instead, it became faster, stronger, and more ferocious, crashing toward Uzumaki Nagato in an instant like a streak of light!

"Such powerful chakra, it's already very close to my level..."

"How is this possible!? Why are you not restrained by Takamagahara!"

Facing Uchiha Feiyu's meteor-like impact, Nagato sneered. The six Tomoe in his purple pupils rotated, and the space around him seemed to be compressed instantly; even the density of the air rose several times over.

At the same time, in the ruins of the mountain range, there was a relatively flat open space where Uchiha Feiyu was sitting cross-legged.

With a terrifying 'Boom—' explosion, Uchiha Feiyu crashed directly into the Takamagahara domain. The dense air collided with his physical body, as if a bomb had exploded in the sky, even emitting a dazzling firelight like a meteor.

That is to say, a ten-thousand-meter-tall Susanoo is roughly equivalent to performing True Several Thousand Hands 10,000 times! With this level of chakra consumption, if you dragged Otsutsuki Kaguya out to try it, her legs would be trembling.

"Hehe... who said I wasn't affected by Takamagahara? Your Takamagahara still reduced my speed by about forty percent."

Uchiha Feiyu chuckled lightly. The faint lightning flickering on his body was now flowing slowly; it no longer looked like the original armor, but rather more like Uzumaki Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.

This was proof that Uchiha Feiyu had developed this ninjutsu to the level of Six Paths Sage Art or even Bloodline Net. It could be said that Uchiha Feiyu's current Lightning Release Chakra Mode had far surpassed the Sage Fox Mode of Uzumaki Naruto from the original work, and could be called the strongest augmentation-type ninjutsu.

It was just that Uchiha Feiyu's Lightning Release Chakra Mode augmentation was different from Sage Fox Mode; it didn't have much enhancement for ninjutsu, and almost all the enhancements fell on taijutsu—that is, the defense, attack power, and speed of the physical body.

Hearing Uchiha Feiyu's words, Nagato's expression changed, revealing an expression of disbelief:

"What did you say? Your speed has already been reduced?! How is this possible?!"

Just now, Uchiha Feiyu's speed had exceeded the speed of sound by more than five times. Even with Uzumaki Nagato's Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, he could only see a faint human figure, and he could only hear the thunderous air explosions after being sent flying!

To tell the truth, this speed had exceeded Nagato's imagination. It could be said that apart from some laser-type ninjutsu, the speed of Nagato's other ninjutsu was not even half the speed of Uchiha Feiyu's physical body.

After entering the realm of the Sage of Six Paths, Nagato could also feel the changes in his constitution, but the vast majority of the changes came from chakra. In terms of pure physical strength, although he was also far beyond ordinary ninja, it was impossible for him to be terrifying to this extent; one could even say they were worlds apart.

Nagato couldn't even imagine that a physical body could be this fast purely by relying on ninjutsu that stimulates potential.

"Hehe, don't believe it? That doesn't matter, after all, the gap in quality between the two of us is simply too great."

Cold sweat trickled down Nagato's forehead. Under the condition that his own Dojutsu completely restrained the opponent, the opponent's strength still occupied the absolute upper hand. This could only mean that the gap between his and Uchiha Feiyu's basic stats was simply too large.

This gap in basic stats was also the most unsolvable thing. At least no matter how Nagato thought about it, he couldn't come up with a way to defeat Uchiha Feiyu.

It could be said that before Uchiha Feiyu decided to lure Nagato over, the outcome and life or death of both sides had already been determined. The current Uchiha Feiyu was just walking toward victory as a matter of course.

And Uchiha Feiyu, standing in the sky, did not give Nagato more time to think. He descended from the sky like a streak of lightning, his fist carrying a terrifying aura filling the heavens and earth, smashing straight down!

Even with Takamagahara, Nagato could only barely see the trajectory of that streak of lightning. He shifted his body slightly to the side to dodge a little, while simultaneously condensing a Truth-Seeking Ball to block in front of him.

Amidst the deafening roars, the Truth-Seeking Ball was smashed away by a punch again. Nagato let out another miserable scream; his right shoulder was hit by Uchiha Feiyu and was almost completely blown apart. His entire person was smashed into the pit again by the powerful impact.

Before Nagato could have any other reaction, Uchiha Feiyu was like someone hammering a nail, raining down punches like a meteor shower, smashing them onto his head and face.

Accompanied by Uchiha Feiyu's fists, the earth constantly trembled and tore. The ground shook; first, crisscrossing cracks appeared, and then, amidst more roars, the cracks grew larger and more numerous, finally collapsing completely and turning into a rift valley.

Nagato resisted a couple of times at the beginning; Shinra Tensei, Truth-Seeking Ball, Asura Path... various abilities looked flashy, but in front of Uchiha Feiyu, they were all smashed to pieces by a single punch.

After two consecutive punches, those terrifying heavy blows almost destroyed Nagato's internal organs and turned his brains into mush, leaving him with no room to fight back, followed by a series of terrible beatings.

When Uchiha Feiyu let out a long breath and pulled his fist back, what remained on the ground was a mass of wriggling flesh and blood.

"Tsk, what tenacious vitality. But then again, Senju Hashirama already possessed an Undying Body with rapid recovery. Even when the Sage of Six Paths reached the end of his life, he could still survive in the world in a soul state. Otsutsuki Kaguya is even more incredible; she almost has no concept of death and could only be sealed on the moon..."

"The closer one is to the Otsutsuki Clan, the more tenacious the vitality. An energy-based physical body is much harder to kill than a pure flesh-and-blood body."

An energy-based physical body has no vital points to speak of, so naturally, it is much harder to kill than ordinary life. Like the nine Tailed Beasts, those complete energy lifeforms can even be resurrected after being destroyed.

However, Nagato only had a tendency toward becoming energy-based; in reality, it was at most a higher-level Undying Body than Senju Hashirama's. Once beaten into a pulp of flesh, he had no way to survive.

Don't look at the flesh and blood on the ground still wriggling; Uchiha Feiyu, who is proficient in Spirit-Binding and Soul-Commanding, has already seen Uzumaki Nagato's Soul drifting out from the mass of flesh and blood on the ground.

Just as the soul of Uzumaki Nagato appeared, Uchiha Feiyu sensed an aura of the Pure Land, as if a passage leading directly to the Pure Land was forming behind Uzumaki Nagato's soul.

However, Uchiha Feiyu waited for a long time this time, yet the soul passage did not appear behind Uzumaki Nagato, and in the end, even that wisp of aura dissipated completely, leaving Uchiha Feiyu slightly disappointed.

"It seems this guy Nagato has also been abandoned? The Sage of Six Paths, he really is a qualified turtle!"

After saying this, Uchiha Feiyu reached out, activating the ability of Spirit-Binding and Soul-Commanding, and directly pulled Uzumaki Nagato's soul over.

As for the pool of flesh and blood on the ground, Uchiha Feiyu did not waste it either, and likewise collected it.

Just like after Senju Hashirama died, his body cells remained very active, and if provided with enough nutrients, a single piece of flesh could even regenerate an entire body of Senju Hashirama; Uzumaki Nagato's physical body also still possessed immense vitality. Even though Uzumaki Nagato was already dead, as long as enough nutrients were provided, this physical body could also be fully restored.

As for what this physical body was for... Uchiha Feiyu was now prepared to harvest the entire Ninja World, so naturally, he needed to find a pretext.

Otherwise, if he were to launch a ninja war like before, it would be a bit too crude, and multiple battlefields would not be conducive to Uchiha Feiyu's harvesting.

"I remember in the original work, Nagato once created the Six Paths of Pain. Hmm, I don't need to create any Six Paths of Pain; I just need to keep this physical body and turn it into a Pain!"

A massive amount of Yang Release chakra was infused into Uzumaki Nagato's remains, and the flesh that had only been squirming rapidly restored itself back into the form of Uzumaki Nagato, though this body's eyes were vacant, maintaining only the most basic level of breathing and heartbeat.

Uchiha Feiyu performed the Yin-Yang Release technique, creating several small black nails, and pierced them into Uzumaki Nagato's nostrils; this way, there were no abnormalities on Uzumaki Nagato's body.

Subsequently, Uchiha Feiyu narrowed his eyes slightly, and a powerful wave of intent radiated from the black nails created by Yin-Yang Release. Uzumaki Nagato, who had previously looked like a vegetable, had his dull eyes quickly regain their luster; they rolled around, blinked, and then he slowly climbed to his feet.

After climbing up, he moved his wrists and ankles, checked this physical body and the chakra within it, and a smile appeared on his face:

"Very good, there are no problems at all, and even the original Dojutsu Takamagahara can still be used."

(End of this chapter)