I'm in Konoha, and I started with Ashura Chakra.

Chapter 177 Heavenly Obstruction Star, Yagyu, a God Descending to Earth

"Raikage-sama!!!"

"Big brother!!!"

Seeing the Fourth Raikage being hit by the tracking missile, the Cloud Ninja who were outside the range of the Planetary Devastation attack, and Killer Bee who was being pulled and bound by chains, all shouted out.

"Cough cough—I'm fine!"

A figure billowing thick smoke fell from the fireworks, but its voice sounded extremely weak.

The Fourth Raikage looked utterly disheveled.

One of his arms was severed by the Third Raikage's Hell Thrust, and his body was covered in burn marks. If he hadn't used the electric heat from Lightning Release Nature Transformation to roughly heal his injuries, the Fourth Raikage would now be covered in blood.

Even so, his energy and spirit, which had been fighting for nine days and nine nights without much rest, had already reached their weakest point.

However, in his current state, he can still maintain the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, which truly makes him a tough guy.

"Ugh! Damn it, you bastard, you idiot!"

Before the Fourth Raikage even landed, he heard the combined screams of Killer Bee and the Eight-Tails, Gyuki.

"You bastard, that damned Akatsuki leader!!!"

Upon hearing Killer Bee's catchphrase, the Fourth Raikage looked up anxiously once again. The next second, disregarding his injuries, he once again flew towards the Gedo Mazo at lightning speed.

Killer Bee was now being pulled in front of the Gedo Statue.

The massive, mountain-like Eight-Tails, Gyūki, instantly shrank several sizes in front of the Gedo Mazo, which was actually the body of the Ten-Tails.

Just like when Madara Uchiha first used the Complete Body Susanoo, and Sasuke Uchiha used the Complete Body Susanoo at the Valley of the End, one was taller than a meteorite, and the other was as tall as a stone statue.

With its body bound, the Eight-Tails, Gyūki, could not break free of the chains specifically designed to restrain tailed beasts, except for a few tentacles that could move.

Unwilling to revert to the ten-tailed form of the Eight-Tails, Gyūki, he now resembles a gigantic octopus.

It stuck to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

The demonic statue of the heretic completely ignored this.

Nine chains, which had replaced the seal of the Nine Illusory Dragons, were spewing from the mouth of the Outer Path Demon Statue and were now flashing with a dazzling blue light.

These blue lights are all materialized chakra, flowing from the outside in into the mouth of the Gedo Mazo.

And this chakra was flowing out from the body of the constantly struggling Eight-Tails, Gyūki.

Unfortunately, neither Nagato nor Obito Uchiha from the original story were true owners of the Rinnegan, and their strength was far inferior to Madara Uchiha's. They could not do what Madara Uchiha did, not only binding multiple tailed beasts with chains but also draining their chakra in an instant.

Even the complete Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails are as weak as livestock, and sealing them is so easy.

Nagato, who couldn't achieve the same level as Madara Uchiha, could at most restrict the Eight-Tails Gyūki's movement, much like the Uzumaki clan's Adamantine Sealing Technique. Unless one's strength is completely suppressed, one would need to use chakra to contend with it.

Of course, the chains spewed out by the Outer Path Demon Statue were clearly far superior to the Vajra Lockdown of the Uzumaki Clan.

Putting everything else aside, the chakra absorption property means that once a tailed beast is bound, it is doomed to defeat.

Unless someone can defeat Nagato, the tailed beasts will become weaker and weaker.

As you can see, the Eight-Tails, Gyūki, whose chakra has been rapidly drained, is now so large that its mountain-like body is like a slowly deflating balloon, almost invisible to the naked eye. But if you were to measure it carefully, you would find that it has shrunk a little bit compared to before.

Moreover, as its chakra is absorbed, the Eight-Tails Gyūki will not only experience a severe decline in strength, but its resistance will also be greatly reduced.

As time goes by, the Eight-Tailed Gyūki will shrink at an even faster rate.

"Shockingly brutal!"

"Thunderous Plow, Hot Blade!"

At that moment, the Fourth Raikage's roar rang out from below.

Realizing he couldn't attack Nagato, the Fourth Raikage was destroying the Gedo Mazo below.

Unfortunately, although his ninjutsu was powerful, it was far inferior to that of the Third Raikage, whose strength reached the pinnacle of the Five Kage, and even less to Kamui, who possessed the power of rules. He simply could not destroy the Gedo Mazo, which, although it was just a withered tree, was still many times harder than steel, even if it was just an outer shell.

Not to mention, the Gedo Mazo has already reclaimed seven tailed beasts and has begun to recover, its defenses now reaching a level that is difficult for non-rule forces to break.

The Fourth Raikage's attack was like a child hitting a sandbag; not only did it fail to shake the Gedo Mazo in the slightest, but it also suffered a rebound attack, causing his remaining arm to ache.

Seeing that his attacks were ineffective against the Gedo Mazo, the Fourth Raikage immediately stepped on the Gedo Mazo's withered body and charged towards its mouth as if walking on flat ground.

Since it absorbs the Eight-Tails' chakra through its mouth, then break its mouth or force it to close.

Unfortunately, the Fourth Raikage was unaware of just how powerful Nagato was at that moment.

The Six Paths of Pain are simply individual components of the Six Paths Technique.

The Six Paths of Pain, with their shared vision, were already an impenetrable fortress, the strongest combination surpassing even the Five Kage. Among them, the strongest, Pain the Deva Path, was a Kage-level gatekeeper capable of destroying a major ninja village single-handedly.

But apart from Yagyu and Obito Uchiha, no one knew that the true strongest member of the Six Paths of Pain was...

In fact, it is an external path that does not belong to the Six Realms.

Seeing that the Fourth Raikage was about to break the seal on the Gedo Mazo, Nagato took advantage of the Fourth Raikage's attention being focused entirely on the Gedo Mazo's mouth, suddenly severed the pipe connecting it to the Gedo Mazo, and appeared next to the Fourth Raikage in a flash.

"Universal Guidance!"

Gravity transformed into an invisible giant hand, pulling the Fourth Raikage towards it and catching him off guard.

By the time the Fourth Raikage realized what was happening, his only remaining arm had already been grabbed by Nagato, who ignored the Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Immediately, the blue and white electric current covering the Fourth Raikage dissipated.

At the same time, the chakra within the Fourth Raikage was rapidly draining away, as if a dam had been opened.

To be precise, it was Nagato who was frantically absorbing the chakra within him.

The Fourth Raikage instinctively resisted and was about to kick Nagato.

However, his reaction was still a beat too slow.

Nagato grabbed the Fourth Raikage's wrist with one hand, frantically absorbing the Fourth Raikage's chakra using the Preta Path's abilities, while raising his other hand, from which a sharp black rod extended.

The black rod shot out like an arrow, accurately hitting the Fourth Raikage's right foot, which had not yet been raised.

Immediately afterwards, another black rod shot out and pierced the Fourth Raikage's left foot.

It would take time. The Fourth Raikage was not only unable to mobilize the absorbed chakra, but he was also unable to move his body.

"How is that possible?!"

The Fourth Raikage, unable to move his body any further, stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

Nagato ignored the Fourth Raikage. With the help of Chibaku Tensei, no one came over, and there was no time to interrupt her.

Nagato quickly drained the Fourth Raikage's chakra.

But Nagato stopped, raised his hand and pressed it against the Fourth Raikage's face, which was contorted with rage, and said indifferently, "Human Path: Soul Absorption!"

With a pull of his palm, a blue, transparent spirit was immediately ripped out of the Fourth Raikage's body by Nagato.

This spirit looks exactly like the Fourth Raikage.

"Big brother!!!"

The Eight-Tails, Gyūki, whose size had shrunk to less than a third of the Gedo Mazo, suddenly let out a shout like Killer Bee.

Unfortunately, he could only watch helplessly as the Fourth Raikage's spirit was completely extracted and then absorbed by the black hole that appeared in his palm.

Once the spirit was completely absorbed, the Fourth Raikage's body instantly turned into a state of rolled-up eyes and a ferocious expression, plummeting downwards like a falling object.

However, before it even landed, an invisible force grabbed the Fourth Raikage's body again and hurled it toward the Chibaku Tensei, which had already transformed from a water sphere into a meteorite.

The first Kage to fall in this Fourth Shinobi World War has appeared: the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure!

Compared to Nagato, whose physical functions had recovered to their peak at that age, who had regained his legs, and whose strength had reached the true Kage level, the Fourth Raikage, one of the Five Kage standing at the pinnacle of the ninja world, was no different from a genin or an ordinary person.

Nagato defeated him in an instant, just like Madara Uchiha defeated Sasuke Uchiha—no, to be precise, it was even easier than Madara Uchiha defeating Sasuke Uchiha.

"Next up is your turn, Eight-Tails Jinchuriki."

After easily dispatching the Fourth Raikage like a chicken, Nagato instantly returned to the top of the Gedo Mazo.

Reconnect the pipe to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to increase the sealing power.

In an instant, the Eight-Tails Gyūki, which had already shrunk to less than a third the size of the Gedo Mazo, rapidly shrank again.

Just as the planet Chibaku Tensei in the sky ceased releasing its astonishing gravity and completely formed a colossal meteorite, the Eight-Tails, Gyūki, finally vanished, transforming into its last chakra, which flowed along the nine chains into the mouth of the Gedo Mazo, ultimately returning to the Ten-Tails' body.

Killer Bee, whose Eight-Tails, Gyuki, had been extracted, fell to the ground, his aura extremely weak.

He didn't last a minute before he completely stopped breathing.

This also signifies the complete demise of the AB duo, who rose to fame in the ninja world during the Third Shinobi World War.

"Lord Kirabi!!!"

Sensing that Killer Bee's chakra had disappeared, a large number of Cloud Ninja once again let out sorrowful cries.

If it weren't for the presence of White Zetsu clones and the Edo Tensei army around them, they would have already collapsed or knelt on the ground, completely devoid of fighting spirit.

Even so, their eyes were filled with despair.

In any world, whenever there is war, the beheading of the leader will affect morale.

With the loss of the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, a strategic weapon, the morale of Kumogakure has been completely shattered.

However, what made them even more desperate was yet to come.

"·....

A roar louder than thunder resounded throughout the entire battlefield, and even other battlefields could faintly hear the sound.

A terrifying shockwave surged from the mouth of the demonic statue, like a hurricane, stirring up dust everywhere.

"Such powerful chakra, is this the Eight-Tails?"

Despite struggling to suppress the berserk Gedo Mazo, Nagato's usually expressionless face showed a rare look of shock.

After sealing the Seven-Tails, Nagato discovered that the Gedo Mazo had become ridiculously powerful.

Now that the Eight-Tails has been sealed, Nagato realizes that he still greatly underestimated the Gedo Mazo.

With the return of the Eight-Tails, the Gedo Mazo is more like a Tailed Beast than a Tailed Beast itself.

In addition, it has awakened new abilities.

No, it should be said that it has evolved new powers.

It has become so powerful after sealing only eight tailed beasts. Nagato couldn't imagine what kind of creature the Gedo Mazo would become if he sealed in the complete and strongest tailed beast.

Even he would probably find it difficult to suppress, right?

If he could become the Jinchūriki of the complete Gedo Mazo, Nagato could already imagine what kind of power he would gain.

However, thinking of Konoha and Yagyu, the biggest obstacle, Nagato's excited mood quickly calmed down.

Looking down at the battlefield below, littered with corpses and utterly demoralized, Nagato seemed to possess the ability to see far.

The despair in the eyes of the Cloud Ninjas and their inner pain were clearly visible.

In response, Nagato slowly raised his hand and said indifferently, "Feel the pain, understand the pain, and then die in the pain—cut the antennas with a few blows!"

As Nagato finished speaking, the colossal meteorite that had been hovering in the sky began to fall towards the battlefield.

The scene was just as shocking as when the Allied Shinobi Forces faced Madara Uchiha's Heavenly Meteor.

"Heh--heh, our powers are on completely different levels."

"Damn it, why did our enemy have to be someone like this!"

"Are these the eyes of the Sage of Six Paths? Is this the power from mythology?"

Gazing at the sky-covering meteorite, the remaining Cloud Ninja, along with the White Zetsu clones and the Edo Tensei army, all stopped in unison. Looking up at the meteorite, its friction and aura suggesting the end of the world, some let out bitter laughter, others cursed, and still others offered numb sighs.

Samui was one of them.

"Am I going to die?"

Even facing death, Samui remained calm, only saying with a hint of regret, "It's a pity I couldn't express my feelings—farewell, Yagyu-kun."

After saying this, Samyi slowly closed her beautiful eyes, wanting to recall that handsome face and the few moments she had spent with him before she died.

Buzzing...

Just then, a piercing ringing sound suddenly reached everyone's ears.

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Samui suddenly opened her beautiful eyes.

Two energy spheres of different colors, each carrying a white, rapidly spinning shuriken vortex, shot into the sky and collided with the enormous meteorite that was falling from the sky.

Boom!

In an instant, a dazzling white light burst forth, so bright that everyone instinctively closed their eyes.

With a loud explosion, everyone went deaf and could no longer hear anything.