I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 725 Once you lose your value, your partners will hate you more than your enemies.

In the ninja world where Tatsuma lived, his reputation as the "Eating God" was already on par with other nicknames. In the five great ninja villages, including Konoha itself, which village's tailed beasts hadn't been eaten by Tatsuma?

But no one here knows his nickname yet, not even the Vajra Yaksha Myōō who just transformed himself into a three-headed, six-armed being. Naruto, Pain, and the two toad sages who witnessed it didn't make the connection.

Perhaps they could vaguely guess that Chenma had transformed into a Vajra, but there are simply too many Vajras in Buddhism. Not to mention those who haven't studied Buddhist scriptures, even Chenma himself couldn't recognize one at a glance.

The moment the Rasengan was completely devoured by the Chakra Dragon, Tatsuma, in his transformed form, Vajra Yaksha Myōō, finally revealed why he was called the Devouring God.

It's not just the Vajrayaksha King in Buddhist scriptures who dares to eat excrement.

It has three heads and six arms. One hand grabs the head of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, two hands grab its arms, three hands hold three chakra dragons, and three mouths bite three other chakra dragons.

Within the three mouths of the Dharma Image, it was as if a black hole was hidden. The chakra dragon that it bit was severely twisted and deformed. The Dharma Image of the Myō-ō did not chew or swallow, but its chakra was constantly being extracted and swallowed.

Standing atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, between the fingers of the Dharma Image's large hand, Pain looked at the Dharma Image of the Myō-ō with a look of dissatisfaction. He clasped his hands together, and the chakra dragon that had been pinched and bitten suddenly began to struggle.

The Dharma Images were gnawing at them, and they were also struggling to move their bodies, opening their mouths to bite at the Dharma Images, intending to absorb chakra from them.

"He's courting death!"

Tatsuma snorted disdainfully in his heart. His Dharma form wasn't just about having a mouth to "eat." The Devouring God Awei Sacrifice Technique that he developed was essentially an application of Wood Release.

After acquiring the Six-Tails' talent of "Disintegration and Erosion," he could directly convert any chakra creation back into chakra and devour it. Theoretically, the larger the contact area, the faster Tatsuma could absorb chakra.

The chakra dragon's act of biting the image of the Myō-ō was simply to increase the efficiency of the image's devouring. To this end, Tatsuma even controlled the chakra of the Eight-Tails and the Three-Tails on his body so that the chakra dragon could release the image's wooden embryo form.

A moment later, all six chakra dragons looked like "malnourished" and thin dragons. Pain realized something was wrong and tried to control the chakra dragons to break free from Tatsuma's body.

But it was too late. Chakra Dragon loosened its grip and tried to pull its head back, but countless vines extended from the wooden core where it had made contact, restraining Chakra Dragon's movements.

"Burp~"

The chakra dragons grew thinner and thinner, especially the three in the mouth of the Myō-ō Dharma Image, which were completely swallowed after the Dharma Image let out a strange burp. The Dharma Image then moved its three arms again and stuffed the other three chakra dragons into its mouth.

Thanks to the fact that the Chakra Dragons had consumed the Rasengan containing Sage Chakra, Tatsuma was not having much difficulty converting their chakra; only a portion required additional natural energy to balance it out.

In the blink of an eye, the last three chakra dragons were devoured. At this moment, the three free-moving evil hands of the Myō-ō reached out to grab the ten protrusions behind the Gedo Mashupa.

"Click~"

Like stepping on a dead branch in a wild forest, the demonic statue of the heretic made a strange snapping sound. Soon, the three protrusions were broken off, and the statue was once again used as food by the Vidyaraja Dharma Image and stuffed into its mouth.

"Boom! Rumble rumble~"

It seemed that even the heavens were angry at Chenma's actions, as lightning continued to fall. However, this could not stop Chenma's actions. Although both were made of wood, the Myōō Dharma Form could crunch and chew up the body of the heretical demon statue.

"That's terrifying."

Shima Sage stared at the scene, his mouth agape in disbelief. Fukasaku Sage's messy brows twitched uncontrollably as he muttered, "Legend has it that the Divine Tree feeds on the ninja world, and now a monster that feeds on the Divine Tree has appeared."

"Just what kind of monster is Sakamoto Tatsuma?"

In the distance, Nagato, hidden in a tree hollow, stared wide-eyed and muttered unconsciously. Konan looked puzzled; from the very beginning, Nagato had stopped reporting on the battlefield situation.

A sudden but intense sense of unease filled Konan's heart. She opened and closed her mouth several times, as if pleading, and said to Nagato, "Nagato, let's go."

"Walk?"

Unlike before, this time Nagato instinctively wanted to nod, because he hadn't felt this kind of real fear in a long time.

The last time was when Yahiko died, and the time before that was when Konoha ninjas came to his home and brutally murdered his parents.

Moreover, this time it will be even more real, because the source of this fear is not the suffering of others, but one's own misfortune.

"Can you walk?"

Nagato's tone was panicked and desperate. Although there was no evidence to prove it yet, Nagato felt that he had been discovered by Sakamoto Tatsuma. It seemed that after dealing with the Gedo Mazo and Pain, Tatsuma would come to deal with him.

Moreover, once the Outer Path Demon Statue is lost, it seems that whether Chen Maqing punishes him or not will make little difference, because without the Outer Path Demon Statue, all his plans will fall apart.

The ninja world where his dream could not be realized was no different from hell to him, just like he was living in hell now.

"Uchiha Madara! I'm contacting Uchiha Madara now!"

Konan suddenly thought of something and said something, but Nagato shook his head. However, his withered neck didn't look like it could support his head, and his head seemed about to break and fall off.

"Uchiha Madara is just another person trying to steal a Devil Fruit. What's the difference between contacting him and walking into a trap?"

Nagato didn't trust the person who called himself Uchiha Madara at all, or rather, he used to trust him, but now that trust had been completely worn away.

He kept this operation a secret from Madara Uchiha.

Although he was wary in the past, Nagato was at least confident that he could keep Madara in check. But now, all six Paths of Pain are about to be destroyed, and Nagato himself is exhausted and powerless to stop Madara Uchiha.

Especially if Madara Uchiha finds out that the plan has failed, he might tear off his mask and turn against him completely.

"Spiritual summoning! Release!"

Nagato gritted his teeth and canceled the summoning jutsu. Even if it meant death, he absolutely could not let the Gedo Mazo be completely devoured; he had to preserve a sliver of hope!

On the battlefield, the Gedo Mazo's arms had been torn off. Amidst the roars and thunderous drums, Tatsuma's chewing sounds seemed to harmonize with the music, eerie yet harmonious. But suddenly, the Gedo Mazo vanished into smoke.

Only Pain remained alone in the air, his arms outstretched as if welcoming death.

The two arms of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path were stuffed into its two mouths, and the mouth in the middle of the Myōō Dharma Image spoke, "Naruto, go find the real Pain!"

"The real Payne?"

Naruto looked puzzled, but his instinctive trust in Tatsuma allowed him to enter a state of perception. The Nine-Tails within him also inexplicably cooperated at this moment, and soon a coordinate was locked onto by him.

"So that's how it is? Pain was just a puppet after all?"

(End of this chapter)