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Chapter 268 The Power of Pain in the Asura Path!

Click, click…

Pain of the Asura Path was the first to make a move.

Uehara Naraku stood on high ground, looking down at the Asura Path of Pain. His hands transformed into two heavy machine guns, firing incessantly, with countless bullets spraying out of the muzzles with flashes of fire!

Under the crossfire of the two heavy machine guns from the Asura Path, Jiraiya could only roll on the ground in a sorry state, quickly casting spells and forming hand seals.

"Earth Release: Earth City Wall!"

A solid earthen wall appeared in front of Jiraiya, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief. But the next second, the newly erected solid earthen wall was blasted into pieces!

Taking advantage of the fleeting moment, Jiraiya swiftly completed the hand seals for a technique: "Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"

A burst of flames erupted from his mouth!

The Preta Path Pain flew to the front and blocked Jiraiya's Fire Dragon Flame Bullet. He slightly opened his arms and absorbed all the chakra of the Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!

The Six Paths of Pain.

These are six puppets that can cooperate with each other, not only complementing each other's abilities but also sharing their vision.

Jiraiya looked at the Six Paths of Pain with a solemn expression. He knew from the information he had just received that these Pains were just puppets controlled by Nagato. However, he did not expect that these puppets would have all sorts of amazing abilities!

Just those two Pains alone made his hopes seem slim. Those two were too powerful. What about the other Pains?

Jiraiya's gaze shifted slightly, finally settling on Pain, who remained standing still without making a move. Clearly, Jiraiya did not believe that the puppet Nagato had created using Yahiko's corpse was not powerful enough, and that it must possess even more bizarre abilities!

as predicted.

Pain flew towards Jiraiya, conjuring a Yin-Yang Release black rod in his hand and thrusting it directly at Jiraiya's body. The former master and disciple instantly engaged in a fierce taijutsu battle!

The Asura Path of Pain's arm transformed into a sniper rifle, firing a shot from the side. Because of the shared vision among the Six Paths of Pain, the Asura Path of Pain barely needed to aim before firing directly at Jiraiya!

Jiraiya only had time to turn around hastily!

In an instant, a black bullet grazed Jiraiya's body, leaving a trail of blood on his shoulder!

The battle had only been going on for a few minutes when Jiraiya was directly injured by a cold spear from the Asura Path!

The next moment, Jiraiya quickly pressed his shoulder, his eyes flashing slightly, and used the momentum to climb and sneak into a tunnel!

Based on Jiraiya's experience, he didn't think there was any point in staying any longer.

The combined efforts of just two or three Pain members were already overwhelming him; he needed to find a way to separate the Six Paths of Pain!

If there's really no other way, then just run away.

Jiraiya finally understood why no infiltrator had ever left Amegakure. Under the siege of such a strangely powerful enemy, escaping was indeed a pipe dream.

"But I am the toad sage of Mount Myōboku!"

Jiraiya, finding humor in his predicament, chuckled and hid inside the tunnel, rushing towards another exit.

"Jiraiya-sensei, there's no point in running away."

Asura Path Pain's face gradually began to change, quickly transforming into a strange instrument that scanned back and forth in the direction Jiraiya was fleeing. It was clearly a radar scanning tool similar to chakra imaging.

Uehara Naraku stood in the air watching all this, his eyes twitching involuntarily. He had once guided Nagato to modify the Asura Path of Pain, and now it seemed that he had filled the last loophole in the Six Paths of Pain, which was the weakness in the super-long-range sensory ninjutsu.

The next moment, the radar panel on the face of the Asura Path Pain locked onto Jiraiya's location. He suddenly raised his palm, and strange-looking projectiles appeared below his palm, shooting towards the tunnel entrance where Jiraiya was escaping.

These missiles flew into the tunnel with strange trajectories, making it impossible to tell their direction, without any explosions being heard.

These are clearly cruise missiles, all under the control of the Asura Path Pain, and they will only attack when they detect a target.

Inside the tunnel, Jiraiya watched the incoming missiles and tried to dodge their attack, but to his surprise, all of them flew towards him!

This is the characteristic of cruise missiles.

Clearly, Jiraiya was unaware of what made this missile different.

"There's no time to form hand seals!"

Jiraiya's expression changed, and he hurriedly draped his hair over his body: "Ninja Art: Needle Jizo!"

The first missile blasted Jiraiya away!

Jiraiya had no choice but to take the hit head-on. Fortunately, being blown away by the missile bought him some time!

"Fire Release: Great Flame Bullet!"

Jiraiya suddenly spewed out a thick stream of flames, detonating the remaining cruise missiles. Only then did he manage a slight sigh of relief: "So it can actually actively track its target?"

"The Toad Concealment Technique!"

Jiraiya quickly closed his palms, and a toad appeared in the passage, slowly swallowing him and hiding him inside.

Jiraiya hid inside the toad's belly, clutching his wound with a bitter smile. He hadn't expected to be so badly injured by Pain at the very beginning of the battle.

What should we use to fight now?

Underground pipeline area.

A series of loud explosions shattered the silence!

This is the missile from the Asura Path of Pain that just exploded!

The radar scanning tool on Pain's face gradually retracted, and he said softly, "The chakra reaction disappeared in an instant. It seems to have hidden in some unknown space, probably inside a toad's belly."

"What happened?"

Uehara Naraku landed gracefully, frowned, and asked, "Unable to track down Jiraiya-sama?"

"No."

Asura Path Pain shook his head and said in a muffled voice, "He was injured by a missile before he hid, so there was no way he could have escaped. He must have hidden inside the toad's belly."

"I'm going to find that toad that hid Jiraiya-sensei's form. It's too small, and it shouldn't be showing any chakra reaction."

Naraku Uehara: "..."

The Asura Path of Pain is really too ferocious.

Uehara Naraku's eyes twitched involuntarily.

If things continue like this, Jiraiya won't even need the Six Paths of Pain to exert their full power; the Asura Path Pain's long-range pursuit alone will be something Jiraiya won't be able to easily escape!

Can anyone tell him why Nagato was able to modify the Asura Path into a cruise missile just by mentioning a concept?

This is one of the essential weapons in modern warfare. It is fast and accurate in striking targets. It is virtually invincible against a standard traditional ninja like Jiraiya.

"How do I find it?"

Uehara Naraku was a little curious.

Finding a small toad in such a big place is not easy, especially since this toad hides in some very secluded corners.

"The simplest method."

The next moment, the Asura Path Pain's body quickly transformed into countless small flying vehicles, which densely flew into the tunnel entrance: "Spraying flames in this tunnel should soon force out that hidden toad."

Naraku Uehara: "..."

They even came up with this method.

Moreover, the drones on the Asura Path of Pain have already been made and are fully equipped, which is practically complete mechanization!

The other Pain members also hurriedly jumped on and followed the drones into the tunnel, sealing it off to prevent Jiraiya from escaping.

Originally, the core of the fighting force should have been Pain, but now Nagato probably wants to show Uehara Naraku the results of their efforts over the past few years.

Therefore, the Asura Path of Pain made a powerful debut.

It must be said that the Asura Path is indeed quite terrifying.

If facing strange ninjas like Orochimaru or Obito Uchiha, Pain's Asura Path might not be particularly effective, since he is just an ordinary weapon of war and would be difficult to restrain against the strange techniques of the ninja world.

However, Jiraiya was an extremely standard ninja who received the most orthodox and formal ninjutsu education. He had almost no flaws and no particularly outstanding techniques. At first glance, it seemed that everyone else could learn his ninjutsu.

This is rather awkward.

The Asura Path of Pain is a perfect counter.

Uehara Naraku shook his head speechlessly, his fingers quietly rising inside his sleeve. He figured that if things continued like this, Jiraiya would be killed soon.

Surprisingly, Jiraiya didn't even have the chance to activate Sage Mode.

To be honest, Uehara Naraku is partly to blame for this. If he and Jiraiya hadn't been chatting and had instead started fighting, Jiraiya would probably have quickly come to his senses, and not all six Paths of Pain would have been able to arrive and surround Jiraiya.

Now that all six Paths of Pain are gathered, unless Jiraiya summons Fukasaku and Shima to use Sage Mode, summoning any other summoning beast will be useless.

Perhaps it was precisely because Jiraiya understood this that he did not summon large summoning beasts like Gamabunta, because they would have been easy targets for Pain.

Just as Jiraiya was hiding inside the toad's belly, pondering his tactics and determined to find a way to buy time to activate Sage Mode, he suddenly felt the toad on the ground jumping violently and its body twitching uncontrollably!

Was the toad attacked?

Those Pain guys didn't even spare a little toad!

No, those Pain guys actually went to great lengths to find such a harmless little toad; they're really pushing him to the brink!

With no other choice, Jiraiya could only hastily tear off his clothes to bandage his wounds, swallow a soldier's ration pill, and then leap out of the toad's mouth.

Just as Jiraiya emerged from the toad's mouth, he saw small flying machines spewing flames all over the tunnel. Apparently, Pain had used these things to force the little toad out.

The moment they saw Jiraiya, the flying machines quickly converged and reformed into the shape of the Asura Path, and Pain, who had been surrounding the tunnel entrance on both sides, also rushed over!

Asura Path Pain stared at Jiraiya, who was standing close at hand, and his arms quickly transformed into two flamethrowers, the muzzles of which were abruptly adjusted and aimed at Jiraiya's body!

"Target locked."

"What the hell is this thing?!"

Jiraiya hurriedly ducked to avoid the flames spewing from the gun barrel, and a Rasengan suddenly appeared in his palm. He tore a hole in the tunnel and rolled away into another passage!

Asura Path Pain followed closely behind and charged forward!

Just as Pain of the Asura Path entered the cave, he suddenly saw Jiraiya, who had just rushed through the other passage, near the cave entrance!

Nagato initially thought Jiraiya was trying to escape when he was controlling the Asura Path to pursue him, but he didn't expect that Jiraiya actually wanted to take the opportunity to kill the Asura Path Pain!

This teacher is incredibly bold!

No, or rather, this is the style of a ninja!

Even in the most dangerous times, we will not forget the possibility of a comeback!

"Rasengan!"

When Jiraiya saw that Pain had followed them, he conjured a Rasengan in his hand and slammed it down on Pain's body!

Click, click…

The parts inside Pain's body that had been hit by the Rasengan were crackling with electricity, but the Asura Path seemed completely unconcerned, its Rinnegan in its eye sockets fixed on Jiraiya.

"Jiraiya-sensei..."

Asura Path Pain stared at Jiraiya and said in a deep voice, "You made an unwise choice. Because this Pain is too dangerous, its core was protected the most carefully during its creation."

Asura Path Pain's chest and abdomen slowly opened, and shattered parts fell to the ground. Moments later, his body was restored to its original state.

This is the result of Nagato's many years of modifying the Asura Path of Pain. As long as the Asura Path of Pain's self-destruct core is not damaged, the damaged parts can be removed to continue fighting.

Even if only one core of the Asura Path remains in the end, he can still detonate it.

"..."

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Jiraiya's forehead. He had never imagined that puppets could be made with such precision. Even the Sand Village, which was skilled in puppetry, did not have this kind of technology.

A tail slowly emerged from behind Pain's Asura Path, gradually transforming into a light machine gun that was aimed at Jiraiya's body.

"Is it that trick again?"

Jiraiya's expression changed, and he ducked down to bump into Pain, the Asura Path!

The moment he crashed into the Asura Path, Jiraiya felt as if he had hit a pillar made of steel!

How exactly was this puppet made?!

Without hesitation, Jiraiya unleashed another Rasengan, shattering the machine gun on Pain's tail, before crouching low and fleeing through the passage!

Because Jiraiya knew...

Even if we delay the Asura Path Pain for just one more second, the other Pains will arrive immediately!

Now that Jiraiya has shattered the weapon that threatened him from the Asura Path, he immediately continues his escape, but this path seems incredibly long and difficult!

as predicted.

The Six Paths of Pain quickly reunited.

Pain, the leader, frowned and asked softly, "Where does this pipe lead to again?"

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