Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 502 Jiraiya's Explosive Kill of Pain

Aokiji had already informed Jiraiya of all the information about Pain, so he wasn't as surprised to see these six people as he was in the original story. He even had the time to analyze the situation and estimate that Nagato, who was controlling the Six Paths of Pain, was probably remotely manipulating them from some hidden location.

"I'm sorry, if I had brought the three of you back to Konoha back then, this might not have happened."

The reunion of master and disciple should have been a joyous occasion, but Jiraiya was dejected and blamed himself for the unexpected separation of life and death.

"It's not Jiraiya's fault; we were just too young and naive."

Xiao Nan comforted her gently.

Before killing Konan and Nagato, Madara Uchiha generously allowed them to die knowing the truth, explaining the whole story.

"As your teacher, let me see you off on your final journey."

After a brief reminiscing, Jiraiya suppressed his grief, leaped to the ground, his knees slightly bent, his body sinking, with two small toads standing on his shoulders, red stripes appearing on his face, and his large nose covered with bumps, resembling a bulbous nose.

He immediately entered immortal mode.

According to intelligence, each of the Six Paths of Pain possesses different ninjutsu, and even has the ability to absorb ninjutsu. Jiraiya had already devised a targeted battle plan on the way.

"Let's start with you."

Jiraiya leaned forward, landing on all fours like a toad. Chakra surged from his head, causing his white hair to grow wildly and rapidly. He focused his eyes, locked onto his target, and unleashed a burst of hardened hair, as turbulent as the wind, as powerful as waves, and as fast as lightning.

Immortal Law·Thousands of Hair Needles

This is Jiraiya's widest-range and fastest ninjutsu. At the same time as releasing the needles, the two sages also activated Jiraiya's hair roots, providing sufficient chakra to allow him to fire continuously without limit. It is almost impossible for a normal person to defend against it.

However, Payne was clearly not a normal person. Faced with this impenetrable attack, he simply raised his hand and an invisible repulsive force burst out from his palm, blocking the attack and even having the remaining force to stir up a lot of sand and stones on the ground, thus obscuring the opponent's vision.

That's true, but it underestimated Jiraiya in his Sage Mode, who doesn't rely on vision to observe enemies, but rather on his senses.

Jiraiya, lying prone, channeled his energy into his hind legs, gathering strength for a powerful burst. He shot out like a cannonball, and the ground beneath his hind legs immediately cracked, demonstrating the immense power he possessed.

"So fast—!"

Pain vaguely sensed a bolt of lightning flash past, but by the time he realized it, Jiraiya had already rushed in front of Pain, the Hell Path, and a blue chakra ball made of chakra was condensing above his palm, radiating an extremely large amount of chakra.

Immortal method·Super large jade spiral pill.

"boom."

The enormous chakra ball slammed into Pain's head, causing immense destruction. The ground cracked and collapsed, scattering debris and kicking up thick dust.

At this moment, Jiraiya's vision was obstructed and he could not see the enemy's movements. Asura Path Pain grabbed his right wrist with his left hand and pulled hard. A long sword appeared with the pale yellow liquid. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he slashed fiercely at the figure in the smoke, breaking through the sand and dust at the same time slashing at the head of the black shadow.

Before he could even see the situation clearly, the texture he felt in his hand told Pain that he had attacked the wrong target. When the smoke cleared, sure enough, the target he had attacked had turned into a clay doll.

Earth Release: Earth Clone

At the same time, Jiraiya emerged from behind Pain in the Asura Path and punched him in the head.

With their eyes on each other, Jiraiya's little trick couldn't fool them.

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Pain of the Asura Path easily dodged Jiraiya's attacks and even had the leisure to turn around and meet his gaze.

The next second, he was humiliated and sent flying far away, looking like a rag doll.

Sage Art: Frog Kumite

What may seem like an ordinary punch can actually be countered by utilizing the body's natural energy. Enemies often think they have dodged it, only to be attacked by the splash energy generated by the fist.

Just as Jiraiya was preparing for his next attack, the Preta Path of Pain somehow appeared behind him, passed his hands through Jiraiya's arms, pulled them back, and pressed them against his body. He then immediately activated his chakra absorption.

Jiraiya smiled slightly, "Since you want my chakra so much, then I'll give you all of it."

Jiraiya frantically absorbed the natural energy around him, and then transferred it all to the Preta Path Pain through the opponent's chakra. Soon, the Preta Path Pain ate the demons and suffered a backlash. His body swelled up, his face became as big as a pancake, and his body was covered with bumps. He overloaded his absorption of Sage Chakra and turned into a stone frog.

Jiraiya roared, broke free of his restraints, and smashed the stone frog behind him with an elbow strike, even having the space to jump and dodge the attack.

Nagato, who was remotely controlling Pain, couldn't help but exclaim in genuine admiration, "As expected of Jiraiya-sensei, he took down two Pains in one go."

Aside from the Deva Path, Pain, the Hell Path and the Preta Path are the two most important of the Six Paths of Pain, occupying a very important tactical position.

First, lure out Pain's Shinra Tensei, then instantly kill the Naraka Path to prevent Pain from reviving, and then kill the Preta Path. In this way, you can use ninjutsu without any worries.

Jiraiya was able to take down both Pain members so precisely, which suggests he must have a very good understanding of Pain's information. Even so, being able to take down two Pain members at once also reflects how powerful he is.

Jiraiya stared at the remaining Pain members and exhaled, "There are four left."

Jiraiya, using this as a starting point, continued to use the Sage Art: Thousand Needles, intending to repeat his previous tactics.

Pain, having already discerned Jiraiya's intentions, stopped using Shinra Tensei to counterattack and instead used the summoned panda from the Animal Path as a meat shield.

Having dodged this attack, the Animal Path continued to use its spirit communication technique, summoning a rhinoceros spirit beast that ran and charged.

Pain had summoning beasts, but Jiraiya's summoning beasts were no pushovers either, grabbing their weapons and unleashing a flurry of blows.

Animal Path Pain continued to summon summoning beasts, this time a bird summoning beast with a very large beak, whose wings flapped, stirring up wind and mist.

Seeing this, he planned to fly into the sky and continuously summon spirit beasts to cause trouble.

"Boss Shima!" Jiraiya hurriedly shouted at the female toad with purple hair on her shoulder.

The toad beside him was no ordinary toad, but rather the sage Shima of Mount Myōboku, who possessed very strong Sage Chakra.

"Leave it to me, Jiraiya."

Shima clasped his hands together, his cheeks puffed out, and as he formed a hand seal, water shot out from his mouth like a whip, creating a rustling sound wherever it went. When it struck the giant summoned bird, it cleaved it in two, blood gushing out. The water continued its relentless flow, rushing straight towards the Animal Path Pain.

Pain raised his hand, intending to attack, but Jiraiya, with his keen insight, anticipated the attack and retreated in advance. Shinra Tensei could adjust its attack range as needed, and Jiraiya wanted to avoid the repulsive force range of Shinra Tensei as much as possible.

However, the three summoned beasts were not so lucky. The powerful repulsive force sent them flying far away.

That wasn't all. The Asura Path Pain pressed his advantage, launching countless missiles straight at the three summoned beasts.

Before the three summoned beasts could recover from the attack of Shinra Tensei, they were subjected to a carpet bombing, triggering the protection mechanism of the summoning technique on the spot, and they rolled back to Mount Myōboku to recuperate.

On the other side, Jiraiya used the smoke generated by Shinra Tensei as cover to burrow underground and quietly approach Pain's position, then suddenly leaped out like a groundhog.

The Pain were slightly taken aback, not yet understanding Jiraiya's intentions, when they suddenly heard an extremely noisy cacophony. It was the two toads on Jiraiya's shoulders squeaking wildly and unable to move.

Magical Toad's Lament

"This, this is..."

When he came to his senses, all of Pain except for the Deva Path found themselves in a mysterious space. There were four giant toads in the four directions of east, west, south, and north, standing like Vajras, wearing blue armor, holding a sword in one hand and pushing with their palms in the other.

The three Pain beings—the Asura Path, the Animal Path, and the Human Path—were surrounded by these four toads within a square crystal.

Illusion - Unbreakable

The real world.

A gust of wind swept by, stirring up the sand and dust on the ground, which then drifted into the air.

Jiraiya stared intently at the last Pain, the strongest Pain, with a solemn expression.

He had already defeated five of the Six Paths of Pain, but he did not relax because of this. On the contrary, he had to be even more vigilant and not be careless.

Controlling six Pains at once means that Pain's accuracy will decrease, and his strength will inevitably decline. But now, as the number of Pains decreases, Pain will unleash his true power.

(End of this chapter)