Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

Once upon a time, that was something he, Yahiko, and Konan had devoted all their energy to pursuing.

But right now he will personally tear apart this false beauty, all for a more lasting and equal peace!

The Animal Path below rushed towards Obito Uchiha, but he absorbed it into his spatial dimension. Afterward, he summoned all the members of the Akatsuki organization into his spatial dimension.

"Paine, that spell will shorten your lifespan. Do you really have to use it no matter what?"

Konan, slowly retracting her paper-based powers, looked worriedly at the Animal Path, but the other Rinnegan puppets had already lost control and collapsed to the ground.

Outside, Pain, floating in the sky, slowly raised his hands, his red cloud robes fluttering in the wind.

Tsunade and many other ninjas on the ground all sensed an extreme danger, and Kakashi, who had trained in Observation Haki, even felt his eyelids twitch.

"No, stop him quickly!"

Along with Tsunade's command, there were also sounds of various ninjutsu being activated.

Everyone did everything in their power to attack Pain in the sky: ninja tools, ninjutsu, explosive tags, taijutsu...

When the blazing light transformed into a torrent and reached Payne, he suddenly clenched his fists.

"I...will never forget Yahiko's pain. From this moment on, I will make the world feel pain!"

Shinra Tensei!

boom!

In an instant, a dazzling light burst forth in the sky, bright enough to burn one's eyes.

The outlines of all matter were destroyed under this light, the air was torn apart by the powerful repulsive force, and a roaring shockwave burst forth. The white impact swept and spread, flattening the surrounding forest.

At the last moment, Tsunade used all her strength to summon a giant slug using a summoning technique.

"Slug, save them! And bring Class 7 back from the Holy Land. The rest is up to you!"

Tsunade smiled as she released the Yin Seal, pouring all her chakra into the slug's body and letting it disperse to envelop all the ninjas.

Then she faced Pain's Shinra Tensei head-on, and was blasted away by the technique's attack, disappearing without a trace.

The impact continued to spread, and the massive smoke screen trampled the earth inch by inch, flowing continuously towards Konoha in the distance.

It ultimately destroyed the village's barrier, crashed into the inner layer of Konoha Village, and crushed all the newly developed buildings and markets in Konoha.

After the massive dust settled, a huge crater several kilometers in diameter was deeply embedded in the earth, and half of Konoha's village was swallowed by the giant maw, forming a bottomless abyss.

"Cough...cough!"

Amidst the ruins, Kakashi propped himself up with his hands.

His pupils trembled as he looked behind him at the village, which had almost been reduced to ruins.

"Xiao, you all deserve to die!!!"

Chapter 287 Return, The New Generation of the Three Sannin

In the ruins of the village, Tsunade leaned against the broken rubble.

At this moment, she was covering her abdomen, which was pierced by a steel pipe, with one hand, and her body was beginning to turn sallow and listless.

"To be able to save so many subordinates in such a moment, one has to say he truly deserves to be called Jiraiya's comrade-in-arms."

Payne descended from the sky, a black thorn extending from his robe.

"However, your path can only take you this far!"

With that, he raised the black thorn and thrust it toward Tsunade's head.

Just as Tsunade, unable to move, was about to be pierced by the black spikes, a white-haired figure flashed by, shattered Pain's black spikes, grabbed his arm, and flung him away.

"Well...."

With her eyes clouded, Tsunade forced them open and, through the haze, caught a glimpse of a fluttering sleeve. "Jiraiya... did you come to get me? I'm sorry, I failed to protect... the village."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Open your mouth and eat this!" Jiraiya turned around, holding a green seed in his hand and stuffing it into Tsunade's mouth.

Then he used his Frog Legs to cut the steel bars, took Tsunade out, and carried her on his back.

"I'm counting on you guys from now on!"

He waved his sleeve and released Shima the Hermit, Slug the Hermit, and a small snake from it.

Jiraiya nodded to the ninja beast from the Three Sacred Lands, then leaned back to receive the attack, forcefully slamming three intertwined summoning runes onto the ground.

boom!

A huge plume of smoke rose from the ground, and from the billowing dust and smoke emerged the figures of three colossal beasts.

"Am I too late?"

The girl standing atop the giant slug's head instantly extended her Observation Haki over a distance of more than ten kilometers.

Judging from the feedback, Konoha Village has already been invaded by Pain.

However, due to the information she had previously disclosed, the village changed the direction of its barrier defense.

This prevented the enemy's wide-area attack from directly hitting the village, thus saving the lives of the villagers.

As for the damaged houses and property, it's simply fortunate that people are still alive.

"Where is that bastard Payne? How dare he cut off the arm of the lecherous sage!"

On the other side of the smoke, a somewhat hoarse young voice was standing on a giant red toad, making a lot of noise.

On either side of him were two hermits, Fukasaku and Shima, pulling him back, their words of dissuasion echoing in the air.

"Hmph, as always, you love causing trouble for others, you loser!"

Deep within the smoke and dust, a black-haired boy sits atop a giant blue serpent.

He held the knife with one hand, his crimson eyes peering through the smoke and dust, his gaze fixed on his two companions ahead.

"It's been a long time, Naruto, Sasuke!"

A gust of wind blew, carrying smoke and Sakura's voice along with it.

The three summoned ninja beasts standing in the pit were revealed, along with the young boys and girls standing proudly atop these powerful beasts.

"This...this is!!!"

The Konoha defense ninjas who survived Tsunade's treatment rushed to the edge of the pit.

They saw Team 7 reunited, with their enormous summoning ninja beasts beneath them.

Some of the older ninjas were lost in thought, past memories resurfacing in their minds.

I couldn't hold back any longer, and tears welled up in my eyes.

In a low, suppressed voice, he gave a quiet, suppressed cheer for the name that had once shaken the ninja world and protected Konoha:

"—The Three Ninjas!"

The legends of the past may have faded into the past, but a new generation of leaders has quietly grown up.

From this day forward, Konoha will once again be the central nation that shakes the heavens and earth and commands respect across the four seas!

"The Nine-Tails has finally appeared!"

Pain used chakra to strengthen his legs and ran back.

Spiral folds slowly appeared in the space behind him, and Obito Uchiha once again descended with the Akatsuki members, preparing to gather their strength to surround and kill Naruto Uzumaki.

"Alara, isn't this Uchiha Obito-san, who murdered his mentor and framed his own clansman?"

Sakura narrowed her emerald eyes and smiled, "What's wrong? You're not going to continue your role-playing game? You've already satisfied your filthy fantasies about Rin-senpai in the illusion, and now you're finally willing to face reality?"

Dancing precisely in a minefield.

He was already in a dilemma because Sakura exposed his information.

Now, his past has been reopened, and his dark history has been brought out and displayed to the public.

"Sakura Haruno, I'm going to kill you!!!" Obito Uchiha broke down, burning with rage.

When the kaleidoscope reached its maximum spin, the Kamui technique was activated instantly, carrying him across a long distance straight towards Sakura's heart.

"Give him to me!"

Sasuke used the Body Flicker Technique to teleport behind Sakura and put his hand on her shoulder.

Sasuke naturally had to deal with the guy who had caused his family and the Uchiha clan to be in such a difficult situation.

He gently closed his eyes, and the surrounding natural energy gathered in his body for a moment.

Then dragon horns grew from the top of his head, his pupils turned vertical and turned purple, and cherry-pink scales quickly covered his entire body, with a dragon tail hanging down to the ground.

A hand with sharp claws rose and scratched across the scale-covered chest.

Instantly, a piercing friction sound spread out from him.

—Immortal Technique: White Rage!

Sage Chakra, mixed with the high-frequency vibrations of the sound waves, constantly erodes all living beings that perceive these sound waves.

Obito Uchiha's forward momentum faltered, and he was thrown to the ground as if his limbs were being tightly coiled by a heavy python.

"It's a bit noisy."

Sakura raised her hand and snapped her fingers twice in front of Sasuke.

"Tch, it can still move!"

The boy looked away and secretly clicked his tongue.

However, such a sound could not escape Sakura's keen perception of her surroundings using Observation Haki.

"You, you deliberately included me in the scope of your magic?"

The girl raised her chin and looked down at the boy. "Young man, you have quite the ideas. Shall we find a place to practice after this?"

"Haha, you guys go practice, I'll take this first win!" Naruto laughed and mocked the two.

He then descended from the sky, holding two Rasengans in his hands, and hurled them at Obito Uchiha on the ground.

Seeing that their retreat was about to be cut off, Pain, who was in the distance, decisively raised his hand towards Obito Uchiha.

"All things are attracted by heaven!"

The rings around his eyes emitted a mysterious and powerful light, accompanied by Payne's cold snorts, and an invisible gravitational force surged and flowed.

After a clear, resonant sound, Obito Uchiha, along with the dust in the air, was pulled by gravity and flew towards the crowd behind him.

Naruto slammed the Rasengan in his hands into the ground, creating two craters in the ground.

"Don't go out and embarrass yourself if you're useless. I don't want the capture mission to fail because I'm trying to save you!"

Pain casually waved his hand downwards, and Obito, who was flying in mid-air, suddenly changed course and crashed into the ground next to the Akatsuki members.

"Well then, it's your turn next, Nine-Tails!"

With a piercing sound, four Pain's arrows shot straight at Naruto.

Each hand extends a long black thorn, the tip of which is imbued with Yin-Yang Release capable of suppressing the flow of chakra.

However, the streak of light shot over, and the illusion of the space-time ninjutsu flashed and disappeared.

One hand pressed down on Naruto's head, pushing his body out of Blackthorn's attack range.

The greatsword, radiating intense and domineering power, swept across the area, severing all the black thorns.

"He's not called Nine-Tails, he's called Uzumaki Naruto!"

So, can you please stop insulting my partner?

A powerful aura, refined to its utmost, surged forth, and the will of the overlord stirred up a monstrous wave.

Enveloped in dark lightning, it shocked the entire audience.

Chapter 288 It was a promise, I've come to be your enemy.

"Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, Kyuubi... no, Naruto Uzumaki! And... Jiraiya-sensei!"

The five Pain members retreated the instant the Black Thorn was shattered, returning to the crowd.

Pain straightened up, brushed the dust off his body, and then focused his spiral-shaped eyes on the edge of the giant crater.