Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

For no other reason than to curb the arrogance of those country bumpkins from outer space!

Damn it, that Gatanothor dared to invade their great main universe before, and now he's using a time tunnel. If they don't show off their fighting power, they really think their universe isn't that great!

This is just the beginning; the rescue is merely a demonstration of our strength. Once we meet the culprit who created the time tunnel, we will surely kill him!

The crowd was bustling. All the contestants had thought of this, and they all wanted to come up and give their power. Unfortunately, the current time tunnel could not support all of them to give their power at once, so it was first come, first served.

Those who arrived later had ferocious expressions, and they all wished they could turn back time!

Chapter 271 Updating and Transformation, Taming of Bats

The main universe of the Land of Light is busy, united against a common enemy. Unbeknownst to many, after the battle of Gatanothor, the newly appeared spacetime tunnel has further promoted the convergence of all the powerful beings in the universe to a certain extent, making them more friendly to each other unconsciously.

Meanwhile, in the distant Land of Rain, in the Rain Village, where the rain never quenches the thirst of the ninjas, there is a turmoil of its own.

Under the rainy night, the nearby villagers had all been evacuated, and the two sides were clearly divided.

"Orochimaru, you betrayed the organization and still dare to come back? What, did you find an accomplice and think you can fight against our power? You overestimate yourself and want to come back for revenge?"

Pain (Tendo), Kisame Hoshigaki, Sasori (Red Sand), Deidara, Hidan, Kakuzu, Konan.

The seven, each wearing Akatsuki coats, had distinct appearances and unique personalities. However, they all possessed an extremely powerful aura, their stances exuding confidence and suggesting they were at least Kage-level powerhouses.

It was Sasori who spoke, his voice unpleasant, and he looked like a mechanical puppet scorpion holed up in its shell.

What he pursued was timeless art; the Akatsuki's goals were secondary to him. Yet, he was the first to openly mock Orochimaru.

The reason is simple: when Orochimaru was gathering information about the Akatsuki organization, Pain went with him to test Orochimaru's abilities. Although he was not defeated, Orochimaru clearly seemed to be in complete control. It was only when Pain intervened that Orochimaru was truly intimidated.

This was a certain degree of humiliation for Sasori of the Red Sand, especially since Orochimaru later defected.

If we're talking about who in the Akatsuki organization harbored the greatest animosity towards Orochimaru, then aside from Itachi Uchiha, it would probably be Sasori of the Red Sand.

"An Uchiha brat, huh, Itachi Uchiha's younger brother? An elite Jonin's assistant, is his name Kabuto Yakushi? And another brat whose face is deliberately covered by his clothes, plus a Kage-level masked pervert."

"Is this the confidence you have to come here for revenge, Orochimaru? You really underestimate me."

Sasori had barely finished his cold laugh when Deidara, standing to the side, threw clay into his palm and began chewing it, shrugging nonchalantly.

"Stop wasting time talking to him, Brother Scorpion, let my perfect art send them all to the heavens!"

Deidara and Sasori had a very good relationship, and when he saw Sasori ostracizing Orochimaru, he immediately followed suit.

Payne, as the leader, remained silent, letting the two of them probe.

"Hey, don't get me wrong."

Orochimaru licked his lips, grinned wickedly, stepped aside, and stood behind Bruce, giving up the leadership position.

"I'm not the one in charge of this meeting, he is. If you have something to say, please discuss it with this Batman. If you want to kill someone, go for him. I'm just an extra, I'm not important."

Hidan exclaimed in surprise, "You're really going downhill! One of the legendary Sannin, reduced to trailing behind some nobody?"

"Be careful," Kakuzu whispered. "Orochimaru isn't stupid. He betrayed even the leader, yet he's willing to temporarily stay behind this man I've never heard of. This guy might not be easy to mess with."

"I don't care whether I'm easy to mess with or not."

Wearing advanced technology, Bruce could clearly hear the whispers and murmurs from the Akatsuki at this distance. He took the initiative and used it as a tool to intimidate his opponents.

As expected, upon hearing this, the Akatsuki members' eyes sharpened and their bodies tensed, especially Kakuzu, who kept observing Batman.

Bruce's lips curled into a smile, and he said in a deep voice, "The important thing is that I came with good intentions."

As he spoke, he threw a large head out of the black cloth bag behind him, which fell to the ground with a thud.

In that instant, the pupils of all the Akatsuki members shrank, especially Kisame Hoshigaki and Deidara, because what lay on the ground was none other than Itachi Uchiha's head, with his eyes gouged out!

"How is this possible?" Deidara exclaimed. "How did you do that?"

Very few people in the Akatsuki organization liked Itachi Uchiha; so few that you could say there was basically only one person, Kisame Hoshigaki.

Aside from Kisame Hoshigaki, everyone else was more concerned about how Batman killed Itachi Uchiha. Itachi's strength was a classic example of being among the top three in Akatsuki, second only to Pain.

Apart from Pain, no one dared to say they could defeat Itachi Uchiha.

Even if two Kage-level fighters teamed up, even if Itachi Uchiha might not be able to defeat them, he shouldn't be able to be killed; he should be able to escape.

This is enough to prove Batman's power.

Now, Sasori and his group finally stopped making any rash moves.

Unable to contain his grief, Kisame Hoshigaki rushed over, grabbed Itachi Uchiha's head, and cried out in anguish, "Itachi-san!"

"I know you, Kisame Hoshigaki. You like Itachi Uchiha so much, do you really think you're the same kind of person as him?"

Bruce spoke first, before Kisame Hoshigaki's grief turned into hatred.

"You defected to save your village, and Itachi Uchiha also said he defected for the sake of the village, but think about it carefully, are you two really the same?"

"You want to save the village not for any one person, but for the concept of the village, that is, everyone in the Mizunin Village. However, Itachi Uchiha's approach is clearly the opposite of yours, and his philosophy is completely different from yours."

Kisame Hoshigaki remained silent, offering no reply; his mind was in turmoil.

Kisame Hoshigaki remained silent, but then Pain spoke up: "So, your so-called goodwill is killing my subordinate and coming here with his head to provoke me?"

He couldn't remain silent; the other side had already provoked him so much. If he stayed silent, he would lose all authority, and the other members of Akatsuki wouldn't respect him anymore.

“Of course not.” Bruce shook his head slightly. “Uchiha Itachi was an undercover agent sent by Konoha to Akatsuki. You should know that, shouldn’t you?”

“But he is still nominally a member of Akatsuki.” Pain said, glancing at Kisame Hoshigaki. Itachi Uchiha was indeed a double agent, but Kisame Hoshigaki was not. In order to win Kisame Hoshigaki’s heart, he also had to avenge Itachi Uchiha.

Even though he himself hated Itachi Uchiha.

“I also have another piece of information.” Bruce laid his cards on the table step by step. “It concerns that man who claims to be Uchiha Madara, the one standing behind you, Pain, or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call you Nagato?”

Swish!

The moment the name "Nagato" was revealed, Pain immediately moved without saying a word, appearing in front of Bruce in an instant and launching an attack, clearly aiming for a fatal blow to the throat!

But his attack was blocked.

Even after using a technique like Universal Pull, which uses gravity to pull the other person in, for some reason, there was always a one-centimeter gap between him and Batman.

Although the distance was only one centimeter, that one centimeter was enough to prevent him from touching Batman at all and from harming him in the slightest.

"What kind of bizarre move is this?" Behind them, Kakuzu, Sasori, and the others frowned in surprise.

They had all experienced Pain's power and never thought that anyone could fight against him. The so-called "power of a god" was quite fitting. But now, an unknown person had appeared who Pain couldn't do anything about.

Bruce said in a deep, husky voice, "Are you sure you want to fight me here, instead of waiting for me to say something else, like Kisame Hoshigaki is with Madara Uchiha and doesn't agree with your peace-loving views?"

Boom! Another bombshell piece of intelligence.

This actually made Pain stop. He looked at Kisame Hoshigaki behind him, but Kisame turned his head away and didn't refute it because he couldn't.

"What on earth is going on?" The young Deidara couldn't contain himself any longer, scratching his head and shouting, completely bewildered and eager to understand the situation. "What Uchiha Madara?"

"Just a fake character."

As Bruce spoke, he gently patted the [Gojo Satoru Armor] on his body. Gojo Satoru had saved his life. The limitless power was very useful against opponents whose weight class hadn't reached the level of breaking the rules. It was invincible.

After filming the Gojou Satoru armor, he immediately released the pre-prepared projection image, projecting it into the air and attracting everyone's attention.

In the projected image, Obito Uchiha, who had been tortured to the point of wishing for death, had his mask removed and was repeatedly muttering everything he knew.

"I am Obito Uchiha, not Madara Uchiha. I was a disciple of Minato Namikaze when the Third Shinobi World War broke out."

"My crush, Nohara Rin, was captured during the Third Shinobi World War and became the Three-Tails Jinchuriki. My best friend, Hatake Kakashi, was forced to kill Nohara Rin with his own hands. When I saw that scene, I felt utterly hopeless about the whole world."

"At that time, I was chosen by the elderly Madara Uchiha to be the successor to his plan. In despair, I agreed with his ideas, which is the Eye of the Moon Plan."

"The Eye of the Moon Plan is to capture the Nine-Tailed Beast and, through a series of processes, project the largest genjutsu covering the entire ninja world onto the moon, immersing everyone in the world of genjutsu, where everyone can have their own genjutsu world and achieve the greatest happiness and fulfillment."

"For this, I need to impersonate Madara Uchiha with the help of Black Zetsu and White Zetsu to fool Nagato."

"Nagato, from the Land of Rain, was once an orphan. He and his close friends Konan and Yahiko had their entire family killed by ninjas from other countries during the war. They wandered around until they met the Sannin, who had not yet received the title of Sannin. He became Jiraiya's disciple and eventually established the Akatsuki organization in the Land of Rain."

“Originally, Nagato harbored ideas of love and peace, but Danzo and Hanzo ambushed them and caused Yahiko's death. Nagato then used the Summoning Gedo Mazo to defeat Hanzo, but his body became weak and he had to distribute his power among different puppets. Pain is usually the Deva Path puppet, and there are a total of six Paths.”

"Nagato's dream was to gather the nine tailed beasts to create a Tailed Beast Ball that would deter the entire ninja world, and to force world peace through force, so that the situation of large countries bullying small countries would never happen again."

"But what he didn't know was that all of this was part of Madara Uchiha's plan, including his Rinnegan. In fact, Madara Uchiha evolved his Mangekyou Sharingan into the Rinnegan in his old age and transplanted it into Nagato's body, making him unintentionally his pawn to collect the tailed beasts for him."

"What I, Obito Uchiha, want to do is help Nagato collect the Tailed Beasts, and then, after the Tailed Beasts are collected, I will stab him in the back, take his Rinnegan, revive Madara Uchiha, and carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan."

"I like the Eye of the Moon Project because I want to marry Nohara Rin, who has never died, in the world of illusion and live together for the rest of my life."

"Both Black Zetsu and White Zetsu claim to have been born from a part of Madara Uchiha, and I believe their claim."

“I personally caused the death of my mentor Minato Namikaze, the death of my mentor’s wife Kushina Uzumaki, and the painful childhood of Naruto Uzumaki. I also thought about killing my best friend Kakashi many times. I also helped Itachi Uchiha wipe out the Uchiha clan.”

"I'll confess, I'll confess everything, that's all I know, kill me, kill me..."

"I am Obito Uchiha, not Madara Uchiha. I was a disciple of Minato Namikaze when the Third Shinobi World War broke out..."

In the video, Obito Uchiha, who was already delirious and could only repeat the confession of all information, began a new round of begging for mercy and confession. But that was the end of it, and Bruce cut off the projection.

One look is enough to know whether these things are true or not, and all the details. Except for Hidan, who is an idiot, all the Kage-level powerhouses present remembered them after just one look.

“That’s not an illusion,” Deidara murmured. He had personally experienced Itachi Uchiha’s Mangekyou Sharingan genjutsu. The projection Batman cast was completely different from an illusion; everything looked real.

No matter how you look at it, it seems to prove that this is true.

But the amount of information was so overwhelming that it made their heads spin.

"Nagato..." Angel Konan called out with great concern, which further confirmed the reliability of the video.

"So that's how it is. You were that brat from the Land of Rain back then?" Orochimaru was astonished. It was the first time he had known that Batman had been hiding his identity on the way here.

Orochimaru was speechless. He never imagined that Pain, whom he had been painstakingly investigating and who had once easily suppressed him and possessed the power of a god, was actually the orphan brat he had killed with a flick of his wrist back then.

Life is unpredictable.

Kakuzu looked at Kisame Hoshigaki: "Is what he said true?"

Kisame Hoshigaki nodded. "I don't see any possibility of changing the world. There's nothing wrong with a world of illusions."

“Ridiculous,” Kakuzu scoffed. “In the world of illusion, having more money is meaningless. I disagree with this approach.”

“Me too.” Sasori of the Red Sand also said coldly, “It’s useless to research eternal art in the world of illusion.”

Kisame Hoshigaki remained silent.

With Obito Uchiha already captured and it being virtually impossible for the Eye of the Moon Plan to be implemented, he was very confused and didn't know what to do next.

A distraught Kisame Hoshigaki, carrying Itachi Uchiha's head, was about to turn and leave. He made no preparations; if anyone tried to kill him now, he wouldn't fight back. There is no greater sorrow than a broken heart.

Bruce called out from afar, "Where are you going?"