The Great Hero Uchiha

Just as the third [Sage Art: Yasaka Magatama] was about to be released, a humanoid monster emerged from the ground in the distance!

It is a demonic image of heretics.

Its size is larger than Uchiha Miyuki's current Sage Mode Susanoo!

The demonic statue of the heretic opened its enormous maw.

Chakra Deprivation

A dragon-shaped, slimy chakra was spewed from its giant mouth, roaring as it devoured the Sage Art Susanoo.

After only a moment's hesitation, Uchiha Miyuki unleashed the third [Sage Art: Yasaka Magatama] towards the condensed chakra. It wasn't an attack, but a test to see if the Sage Art would be effective. After all, the Preta Path could absorb a certain amount of Sage Art chakra. After releasing [Sage Art: Yasaka Magatama], he distanced himself from the slimy chakra dragon.

The Sage Art: Magatama directly dispersed the slimy chakra dragon and slammed it into the Gedo Mazo!

The Gedo Mazo was incredibly tough; it was struck head-on by the Magatama without sustaining any damage. Upon realizing this, we also saw the Deva Path of Pain retreat, clearly prioritizing controlling the Gedo Mazo and no longer concerned with the Six Paths of Pain's control.

Two monsters with humanoid forms immediately began to fight!

The two samurai swords of the Sage Art Susanoo struck the Gedo Mazo, leaving only shallow marks that were instantly restored.

The Gedo Mazo's attacks could tear apart the armor and flesh of Sage Art: Susanoo, and even shake its skeleton. However, these losses were immediately restored by the immense Yin-Yang power. This shows that if the Gedo Mazo had some of the Tailed Beast's chakra sealed within it, its attacks could easily tear through Sage Art: Susanoo's defenses!

Upon witnessing this scene, Black Zetsu realized that Uchiha Miyuki's Sage Art Susanoo was unusual, but he interpreted it as an enhancement of Susanoo by Sage Mode.

At the same time, he mentally agreed with Obito Uchiha's assessment of Miyuki Uchiha.

Uchiha Miyuki is indeed the strongest genius of the Uchiha clan!

His excellence even surpasses that of Madara Uchiha; only the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, can compare to him!

Having amassed such terrifying power solely through the Mangekyou Sharingan, Black Zetsu seriously doubted whether Uchiha Miyuki, if he were to acquire the power of the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, could directly contend with Uchiha Madara, who possessed the Rinnegan! However, this speculation will never be answered, because Uchiha Miyuki will die here today—

P.S.: Chapter 5

What's with this "getting more and more excited as I write" thing?

Okay, it's dawn, I should go to sleep.

Good morning--

228. The Instinctive Difference

The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path is very strong, no! It is extremely strong.

If it weren't for Uchiha Miyuki having the Shikotsumyaku as a bridge to integrate Yang Release into Susanoo, and adding a huge amount of natural energy to Susanoo, he could still destroy the fourth form of Susanoo with a single blow, even without the tailed beast inside him. However, battles are never just a contest of brute force.

When facing the Six Paths of Pain, Nagato had to resort to brute force to break the deadlock. He took advantage of the fact that the Six Paths of Pain's main body was a corpse and ambushed them in advance along their path.

Without a supply of chakra, the Six Paths of Pain would be nothing more than ordinary corpses.

Uchiha Miyuki had been focused solely on chakra reactions during his journey, and by the time he realized what was happening, he had already fallen into an ambush.

With the Tensei Ten'in accompanying the attacks of the Preta Path and the Asura Path, there was absolutely no time to react. Under those circumstances, Uchiha Miyuki could only break the deadlock by force. Now that the Six Paths of Pain have retreated, he is facing the Gedo Mazo alone. Uchiha Miyuki seems to be fighting the Gedo Mazo like a god.

In reality, they were using this opportunity to search for Nagato's location. No matter how powerful the Gedo Mazo is, it is ultimately just a puppet without consciousness.

Beneath the headband, the projection of vertical eyes appeared—

His tightly closed vertical eyes then opened.

With its pupils fully activated, Baiyan scanned the area within a radius of several kilometers in a 360-degree arc.

Theoretically, the range of the Rinnegan's control over the Six Paths of Pain is unlimited. However, the limitation of the transmission depends on Nagato's chakra and the amount of chakra used. If techniques such as Shinra Tensei and Chibaku Tensei are not used, the distance can be very far. However, to use these two techniques and the Gedo Mazo, they need to be performed at a relatively close distance.

This is why Nagato came to the vicinity of Konoha when he was capturing the Nine-Tails in the original story, which left a flaw in his defeat.

No???

Is it because Nagato currently has more chakra? Therefore, the remote control distance is longer!

Or is it that my sharp eyes are not enough to see through Konan's paper-based disguise?!

The brain calmly considered the situation, and a new idea emerged the next moment.

The abundance of trees in the surrounding area means that the probability of Konan using Paper Release to disguise herself as a tree is much higher than that of other objects. In order to ensure her own safety and concealment, she would definitely be in a relatively remote location that can accommodate two people to hide in. However, there are too many trees that meet this standard.

Wait a moment.

Maximum range.

Uchiha Miyuki's gaze returned to the Gedo Mazo.

The answer to where Konan and Nagato were hiding lies in the Gedo Mazo.

Since this is the maximum range, exceeding this range will naturally cause some problems, such as control delay and weakened chakra supply. Even if this problem can be solved by increasing the chakra supply, the problem will inevitably manifest in the Gedo Mazo. Even a momentary unnaturalness is enough for the Sharingan to detect!

If the direction is correct, the attack frequency of the Gedo Mazo will inevitably change.

Like Uchiha Miyuki and Uchiha Madara, no! It refers to all those ninjas who fought on the battlefield when they were very weak and gradually improved their strength through their own efforts.

The more critical the moment, the calmer one remains.

Because fighting to the death has become instinctive.

Nagato possessed Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan from a young age, and in every battle, he fought by unleashing even greater power from the Rinnegan.

Just like the battle between Pain's Six Paths and Susanoo, if it were Uchiha Miyuki, he wouldn't need to summon the Gedo Mazo to break the Sage Art Susanoo, because the difference between the two wasn't so exaggerated that they were invincible. He could have easily defeated it by making good use of the abilities of the Animal Path, Preta Path, and Deva Path.

The Myriad Manifestations of Heaven's Guidance doesn't necessarily have to be used on the enemy.

It is entirely possible to use the Universal Pull to make the Animal Path move quickly, and then use the Summoning Technique to constantly change the positions of the three. As long as an opening is created, the Preta Path can be used to neutralize the Sage Art Susanoo.

As for the effect of Sage Chakra on the Preta Path?

Since the Hell Path was able to revive the destroyed Six Paths of Pain, it could naturally use its abilities to help the Preta Path resolve the effects of Sage Chakra.

Nagato is like Kaguya Otsutsuki right now, possessing immense power but not knowing how to use it, with each ability only reaching the most basic level of development.

This is also the fundamental reason why Uchiha Miyuki, despite possessing numerous abilities, has always focused solely on the Sharingan.

However, the real difference between Uchiha Miyuki and Nagato and Kaguya Otsutsuki is still...

instinct!

Even under identical conditions, Uchiha Miyuki would be able to unleash combat power far exceeding that of the two of them!

Just like the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Some people take years, or even ten years, to go blind, but Uchiha Sasuke was blind in just over ten days, or about half a month.

If Uchiha Miyuki hadn't used it to lull the enemy into a false sense of security and to employ a self-inflicted injury, he could have used the Mangekyou Sharingan for his entire life. For example, when he disguised himself as Hozuki Suigami and faced the combined attack of Pain and Obito, he simply used regular ninjutsu combined with Hozuki clan secret techniques, without even using Sage Mode, to repel Pain and Obito!

If it weren't for the need to conceal his identity, using sealing techniques, barrier techniques, and illusion techniques in the battle against the two would have made the fight even easier.

Uchiha Miyuki had been pretending to be afraid of the power of the Gedo Mazo, and changed his fighting style to hit-and-run tactics.

They seemingly moved the battlefield in various directions as normal, and determined Nagato's location by observing the Gedo Mazo's reaction.

The Gedo Mazo appeared unchanged, constantly battling the Sage Art: Susanoo like a wild beast. However… whenever the battle shifted southeast, its attack frequency would slightly increase. Uchiha Miyuki was shocked to discover this, because the southeast was precisely the direction he had come from!

In other words, there is a high probability that he passed by Nagato and Konan before.

This made Uchiha Miyuki think more highly of Nagato, as Nagato was superior to Uchiha Obito in terms of strategy.

it's over!

After a long and protracted battle with the Gedo Mazo, constantly probing for information while feigning exhaustion, the fourth form of Sage Susanoo regressed into the third form, its mobility significantly reduced, making it unable to nimbly dodge the Gedo Mazo's attacks. Furthermore, the Sage Susanoo's regenerative abilities decreased, creating a vicious cycle!

Uchiha Miyuki shook his head inwardly.

In this situation, Nagato is actually planning to use brute force to break through Sage Art Susanoo head-on, instead of using other techniques to bypass Sage Art Susanoo's defenses and directly attack the main body.

But she understood the next moment.

Nagato's understanding of the Gedo Mazo's power was insufficient; he could only perform some basic manipulations.

It's also possible that the Gedo Mazo doesn't possess that ability.

Just like Susanoo before its complete form cannot use ninjutsu.

These random thoughts flashed through his mind, but his hands never stopped moving. He was reducing Susanoo to its third form, not simply to show weakness, but because... he had thought of a ninjutsu to break Konan's paper ninjutsu disguise.

P.S.: Chapter 1.

I slept in a little longer and plan to skip daytime naps to change my sleep schedule.

229. This is the fundamental reason why humans are human, and not beasts.

[Earth Release: Fish Reflected in the Earth Technique]

This is a sensory ninjutsu that uses the ground to sense the enemy's movements.

Konan's paper-based disguise is indeed very powerful, able to deceive the Mangekyou Sharingan, Byakugan, and even sensory ninjutsu, but it has a fatal flaw!

That is, the paper disguise is ultimately just a disguise, not a real tree.

Trees have roots that are deeply embedded in the ground, and it is impossible for a paper disguise to even disguise the roots.

In addition to this, there is another drawback.

Even if it's not disguised as a tree, this flaw can be used to see through it.

That is quality!

To be more precise, it can be described as weight.

If you don't want to disguise yourself as a tree, you have to disguise yourself as a rock or a cliff. But then the surrounding land will be different. Even without these two things, there is another drawback: humans need to breathe. If you don't want to leave a ventilation opening, you have to disguise yourself as a large object to increase the amount of oxygen stored inside.

Using the ninjutsu "Earth Fish Reflection Technique," one can see through the paper ninjutsu disguise by carefully sensing the surroundings.

It is precisely because of this that we need to be sensitive and seek answers from the details.

That's why it's necessary to predict a general location in advance.

Uchiha Miyuki's eyes lit up; things were simpler than he had imagined.

Konan used her paper-based magic to disguise herself as a large, leafy tree, even disguising the roots. A cursory scan would hardly distinguish the real from the fake. However, a disguise is still a disguise. With closer observation, it becomes clear that no tree is so large that it only has a main root and no fibrous roots, and yet it grows so lushly.

No matter how you look at it, this is clearly Konan's paper-throwing disguise.

I've found you!

Nagato and Konan.