Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 180 Nagato's Power-Up Again

"Uchiha Touyu, today is your death day!"

Nagato spoke coldly, and the Susanoo surrounding his body opened its mouth and spewed out a raging torrent of flames.

"The Sacred Technique of Myriad Transformations!"

Without much hesitation, Uchiha Touya unleashed a secret technique from the Devouring Heaven Demon Art. The originally raging flames instantly subsided, and even Nagato Uzumaki's Susanoo began to shrink significantly.

The remaining flames struck Uchiha Touya, but were easily blocked by the Lightning Susanoo armor around him. Currently, both Uchiha Touya and Uzumaki Nagato have entered Sage Mode, so they cannot absorb each other's ninjutsu.

Feeling that his ninjutsu power had deteriorated significantly, Nagato's eyes narrowed slightly. He really hadn't expected that Uchiha Tou's strength was actually this great.

"Damn it... Didn't this guy use his full strength in the last battle either?"

Nagato was startled, but Uchiha Tou had already exerted his power, and the black sword in his hand burst out with terrifying lightning, cutting the degenerated Susanoo chakra sword in two!

The surging lightning then formed a lightning blade tens of meters long, which directly struck Susanoo. With a soft sound, the massive Susanoo was cut in two by the lightning blade.

Fortunately, Nagato had already withdrawn from Susanoo before that. He looked at Uchiha Tou with a very ugly expression, vaguely sensing that he would probably still have a hard time defeating Uchiha Tou this time.

"No, I still have the power unique to the Rinnegan... I'll use this move to finish this guy off!"

In an instant, two black and white figures suddenly emerged from Nagato's body and pounced on Uchiha Touyu. Uchiha Touyu was slightly taken aback, recognizing the ninjutsu Nagato had used:

"This is Limbo: Border Jail? They've even developed this power unique to the Rinnegan? What a pity... If Rinnegan eye techniques had ranks, Limbo: Border Jail would undoubtedly be the lowest rank, a move only good for crushing weak opponents!"

Limbo: Border Jail is considered a top-level clone technique, capable of creating clones with strength very close to the original body. Its greatest characteristics are damage transfer and invisibility.

However, the invisibility ability can only deceive opponents without the power of the Six Paths. Any strong person of the same level can see the Limbo: Border Jail clone. In a battle of the same level, it can only be used to transfer injuries. It is far inferior to Sasuke Uchiha's Amenotejikara.

However, Nagato Uzumaki only recently mastered the secrets of Limbo: Border Jail, and apart from him, there was no toad or ninja on Mount Myōboku with the strength to even reach the Six Paths level. Therefore, he had no idea that Six Paths level experts could also see Limbo: Border Jail clones!

Therefore, when a Limbo: Border Jail clone was sliced ​​in two by Uchiha Tobi, Nagato finally showed a look of horror:

"Why are you able to see my Limbo: Border Jail clone?!"

"Idiot, anyone with the power of Yin-Yang Release or the Rinnegan can clearly see these clones. You're not actually using them as a trump card, are you?!"

Uchiha Touyu chuckled and said something, then his body crackled with lightning, transforming into a bolt of lightning as he slashed at Uzumaki Nagato.

Nagato has always been a mage-type character. While his taijutsu (physical skills) is not bad, it is undoubtedly a weakness compared to his ninjutsu.

Even though Nagato's basic abilities have greatly improved under the Great Toad Sage's guidance, and the gap between him and Uchiha Tou is not large, he is still far inferior to Uchiha Tou in terms of combat awareness.

Not to mention that Uchiha Hiu specialized in the White Fang Sword Technique and mainly trained in ninjutsu and taijutsu, while Nagato spent the least amount of effort on taijutsu because of his Rinnegan.

Therefore, when faced with Uchiha Hiyu's mountain-splitting sword technique, he was directly forced to retreat repeatedly.

Nagato used the Asura Path ability, relying on the various mechanical limbs and weapons that grew out, to barely fight against Uchiha Tou for a while. However, at this moment, all the mechanical limbs that grew out of his body had been completely broken, and he himself had also suffered many injuries.

A lightning-fast blade of light cleaved through the air, creating a terrifying shockwave that left a chasm hundreds of meters long in the ground. The terrifying blade energy was already upon them. Nagato gritted his teeth and unleashed his Shinra Tensei.

Shinra Tensei and the sword aura were briefly locked in a stalemate before disappearing simultaneously. Uchiha Touya, however, transformed into a phantom, pierced through all the attacks, and reappeared in front of Nagato.

"Damn it... that damned space-time ninjutsu!!"

Nagato roared. Relying on his intangibility ability, Uchiha Touyu was almost immune to all of Nagato's ninjutsu. He could easily pull Nagato into close combat, and Nagato had no way to deal with him.

Whether it's Shinra Tensei, Bansho Ten'in, or even the so-called Chibaku Tensei, they are all meaningless against Uchiha Tou's intangibility ability.

Am I going to lose again? I'm so unwilling to accept it! Everyone is pinning their hopes on me, but I can't do anything about it...

As if sensing his intense resentment, a special kind of chakra began to resonate with his Rinnegan. In an instant, Nagato's body disappeared without a trace in a swirling spatial vortex.

"This aura... is the power of the Pure Land!"

With a frown, Uchiha Tou arrived at the place where Nagato had disappeared. His space-time ninjutsu ability was not inferior at all. With quiet perception, he was able to sense the other space that was emitting a huge soul aura.

Although he could vaguely sense the existence of the Pure Land, Uchiha Touyu was unable to enter it. It seemed that a very complex barrier had been designed there, and Uchiha Touyu's current spatial ninjutsu skills were not enough to enter it.

"Is the Sage of Six Paths about to unleash another cheat code? Things have definitely gotten much worse!"

"Those two old fogies, the Great Toad Sage and the Sage of Six Paths, seem to be deliberately avoiding me... to be precise, they don't dare to even look me in the eye. Could it be that they know about my Spirit Binding Technique?"

Long ago, before Uchiha Touyu awakened his Mangekyou Sharingan and possessed the Tsukuyomi genjutsu, the number of souls he could control using the Soul Binding Technique was limited. Therefore, there was a period of time when Uchiha Touyu released some weak and eliminated souls.

Later, after acquiring the Tsukuyomi genjutsu space, even if the number of souls exceeded the control of the spirit-binding ability, Uchiha Hiyu would stuff them into the Tsukuyomi genjutsu space to increase the power of his genjutsu space. In the later stages, he would simply refine the souls into pills or absorb the soul's essence, only releasing a little bit of the true spirit to reincarnate.

"All souls will eventually return to the Pure Land. Theoretically, the Sage of Six Paths can obtain any ninjutsu information known to the dead. I control so many souls, the Sage of Six Paths, the controller of the Pure Land, has probably been eyeing me for a long time."

"In that case, those souls I released back to the Pure Land probably already provided some information about me to the Sage of Six Paths from the very beginning. At the very least, my ability to control souls, such as the ability to bind and command spirits, can no longer be concealed..."

"Fortunately, in the later stages, I squeezed the soul out of everyone when I killed them; otherwise, I'm afraid even more information would have been leaked."

To be honest, for Uchiha Touyu, the Sage of Six Paths giving Nagato a power-up was a more troublesome thing than him personally appearing, second only to the Sage of Six Paths being completely resurrected.

Even if the Sage of Six Paths in his soul form was stronger than Nagato, Uchiha Touyu wouldn't be afraid. However, if Nagato had gained an advantage and possessed the ability to deal with space-time ninjutsu, along with the power of Truth-Seeking Balls, then Uchiha Touyu would have no choice but to make a strategic retreat.

Especially that famous god-like technique—Planet Devastation Technique. Even Kaguya Otsutsuki, who possessed Ame no Minakata, couldn't escape being sealed away. Touya Uchiha didn't think his Kamui and Hidden God Technique could withstand such power.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Hiyu suddenly had the idea of ​​retreating, but before leaving, he would definitely not leave Mount Myōboku as a hidden danger.

"What a pity, I was planning to turn these toads into elixirs... now I can only waste a little bit!"

A massive gravitational and repulsive force condensed in Uchiha Hiyu's hands, and he slowly flew into the sky above Mount Myōboku. Sensing this terrifying chakra, all the toads of Mount Myōboku, including the toad sage Jiraiya, Konan, Yahiko, and others, immediately rushed over.

These people couldn't get involved in the battle between Uchiha Tou and Uzumaki Nagato. In fact, they had to stay away from the battlefield to avoid being distracted. Now that everyone had sensed that Uzumaki Nagato's chakra had disappeared, they all rushed over.

These people and the toads had no idea that Nagato Uzumaki had been sucked into the Pure Land and given a power-up by the Sage of Six Paths. They only thought that Nagato, whose chakra sense had disappeared, had been killed by Touya Uchiha.

Yahiko, Konan, and Jiraiya were all devastated, and a group of toads, each armed with their own weapons, charged over.

Although they all knew very well that their combat power would only result in an instant kill against a ninja of Uchiha Tou's caliber, they didn't think Uchiha Tou would spare them. They figured they might as well die on the way to the front.

Faced with these charging rebels, Uchiha Hiu didn't hold back. He unleashed the Shinra Tensei he had been gathering in a few moments in an instant:

"Super Shinra Tensei!!"

A terrifying repulsive force surged forth. Despite the efforts of all the toads and Jiraiya and the others to resist with various ninjutsu, the powerful repulsive force seemed to have no effect whatsoever as it erupted throughout Mount Myōboku.

Mountains shattered, the earth was overturned, and under the terrifying pressure of the collapse of the sky and the splitting of the earth, the entire Mount Myōboku was completely flattened, with Uchiha Hyu at the center. The originally beautiful little world was instantly transformed into a huge meteorite crater.

As for those poor toads, they were torn to shreds almost instantly. Even the toads that were as big as small mountains, such as Ken, Bunta, and Hiro, were instantly crushed into a lump of toad mud.

The stronger the body, the greater the pressure it will experience. Although these three toads are very resilient, they are more likely to die because of their enormous size.

A rumbling sound rose from the ground, and the entire Mount Myōboku seemed to tremble. In the trembling Mount Myōboku, one could vaguely make out the enormous toad figure that had merged with the mountain.

The largest toad on Mount Myoboku, the legendary Rock Toad!

Just like the Slug Immortal who was never fully summoned, the Rock Toad, due to its enormous size, was never fully summoned by its contractors; at most, only a portion of its body could be summoned.

However, it is only a small section of its intestines, which is as big as a cave, so you can imagine how big the main body is.

Uchiha Touyu secretly calculated that this toad was at least seven or eight hundred meters in size, almost as big as the Thousand-Armed Buddha summoned by Hashirama Senju. With such a large size, and the fact that this toad was integrated with the mountain, the power of Shinra Tensei was insufficient to instantly kill the opponent.

Even so, the giant toad was being crushed and was gushing blood. It was clearly severely injured and on the verge of death.

"There are so many toads on Mount Myōboku...we've really made a fortune!"

Uchiha Touyu sensed the Dark Inheritance Book, which instantly increased his black energy by tens of thousands of strands, and the quality was much better than when he dealt with those chakra soldiers in the Land of Wind.

There are probably hundreds of thousands, even millions, of toads on Mount Myōboku, but only tens of thousands of them have truly awakened their intelligence.

The black energy used for sacrifices cannot be obtained solely by killing humans; to be precise, it requires the killing of intelligent beings.

Some of the toads on Mount Myōboku can undoubtedly be classified as intelligent beings. They have not only awakened their own consciousness and possess language and writing to communicate, but have even formed a small toad society. Naturally, killing them can also yield black energy.

Moreover, these awakened toads are not weak in strength and potential. Although their outward combat power is not very strong, their chakra is actually much stronger than that of ordinary ninjas. However, most toads rely on instinct to fight, unlike ninjas who are proficient in ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu.

"Damn it...this is infuriating..."

A large white cocoon slowly opened, and Jiraiya, with blood still flowing from his mouth, crawled out. Looking at the surrounding ruins, he slammed his fist on the ground.

"Little Jiraiya, you'd better run away quickly..."

The tiny Fukasaku Sage jumped out from behind Jiraiya. Because of his small size, the Shinra Tensei ninjutsu did not harm him much. Therefore, although he was seriously injured, he still retained his fighting ability.

"I'll use the Reverse Summoning Technique to send you back to the ninja world... Try to summon some small toads from Mount Myōboku and take them with you!"

"It's too late now; we can only try to preserve some of the embers of Mount Myōboku!"

(End of this chapter)