Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 368 Li Yao personally intervenes

"Snapped!"

Nagato clapped his hands together, producing a crisp sound in the air, but nothing else happened.

At this moment, Nagato's eyes were glazed over; he had entered the world of illusion.

"Ultimately, it's someone else's perspective!"

Li Yao looked at Nagato, whom he had easily defeated with a single illusion, and shook his head with a slight sigh.

Compared to the Rinnegan eye power chakra that Li Yao himself condensed, he was able to control the Rinnegan Six Paths abilities.

Nagato was merely using Madara's Rinnegan to activate its abilities; he himself could not control the Rinnegan's power.

Simply put, the Rinnegan is like an excavator, and Nagato is the person sitting on the excavator. He can destroy a house with the excavator, but he doesn't have the power of the excavator and can't destroy the house himself.

Therefore, even though Nagato possessed the Rinnegan, his resistance to genjutsu was still quite average.

Li Yao himself was different. After copying the power and chakra of the Rinnegan, he did not need his original ability to resist genjutsu. Unless it was a heaven-defying genjutsu like Kotoamatsukami or Izanami at the Mangekyou Sharingan level, other genjutsu were useless to him who possessed the power and chakra of the Rinnegan.

All I can say is that what belongs to others will always belong to others.

Li Yao stepped forward, dug out Nagato's Rinnegan, then gouged out his own eyes and placed Madara's Rinnegan on top of them.

Li Yao glanced at Nagato one last time, shook his head and smiled, saying, "Your peace theory is correct, but your vision is still a bit narrow."

After saying that, Li Yao used the black hole space to completely eliminate Nagato from this world, even obliterating his soul.

Nagato's peace theory is correct; humanity will only temporarily unite when faced with a common crisis.

If all nine tailed beasts are gathered, any major power that dares to disobey and start a war will be directly and devastated. This fear will force the people of the five major powers to maintain peace and not dare to start a war.

The idea is actually not bad, but the overall perspective is indeed a bit lacking.

As long as the Five Great Nations exist and the ninja world remains ununified, the risk of large-scale war will always exist. It will not dissipate because of fear, but will only further motivate the Five Great Nations to develop and prepare for war in order to eliminate fear.

Unification is the only path to peace.

Peace will only truly come when everyone becomes one of us.

After gathering all nine tailed beasts, Nagato's most important task would be to unify the ninja world. After several decades of education similar to the Will of Fire, the new generation would no longer have the concept of the Five Great Nations.

Even if there are still some, then let's continue for several more decades.

Once the ninja world is unified, true peace will come sooner or later.

Pity!

No matter how many ideas Nagato had, the fact that the Rinnegan wasn't his meant that everything he did would be in vain.

However, Li Yao can at least help him avenge the trauma Konoha inflicted on him.

The original work deliberately included a flashback of a Konoha ninja accidentally killing Nagato's parents to whitewash the legitimacy of Konoha's killings, much like how the author of the novel frantically tries to justify his illegal actions by finding various reasons after a nuclear leak and the discharge of contaminated water.

Several Konoha ninjas went to Nagato's house and killed his parents. They later claimed that they accidentally killed them due to a misunderstanding and nervousness.

This is as absurd as someone being shot three times in the head and the police saying that the person committed suicide.

Li Yao didn't know how the others felt.

Anyway, Li Yao felt very uncomfortable when he saw this.

Killing is killing, there's no misunderstanding.

Li Yao himself wouldn't do that; he killed Nagato, and he wouldn't pretend to do it to relieve Nagato's suffering.

"Konoha has changed its leader this time!"

"I'm not Nagato; Naruto's talk-no-jutsu won't convince me."

Li Yao's gaze was cold. With a thought, he perfectly transformed into Nagato's appearance, sat in Nagato's original wheelchair, and then used the Shadow Clone Technique to create six shadow clones.

The six shadow clones immediately used their spirit transformation technique to fly towards Konoha.

At this very moment, in Konoha.

The instant Nagato was controlled by Li Yao's illusion, the Six Paths of Pain collapsed to the ground, motionless, like robots suddenly losing power.

"What's going on?"

"Why aren't you moving?"

"Could he be dead?"

The Konoha members were puzzled, but none of them approached immediately, fearing there might be a trap.

It wasn't until Kakashi used his Shadow Clone Technique to pierce Pain's heart that everyone realized that Pain had indeed suddenly lost his ability to move for some unknown reason.

The other six Paths of Pain were subsequently subdued by the Konoha ninja.

The torture squad leader, Ibiki Morino, touched the fallen body of the Beast Path; the cold touch was no different from that of a corpse.

"Could it be...?"

Morino Ibiki's heart skipped a beat. He reached out and pulled the black rod from the Animal Path woman's body, feeling the cold blood flowing out. He was certain that this was a corpse, not a recently deceased one, but one that had been dead for a long time and was kept alive by chakra.

For Ihiki Morino, who routinely handles and preserves corpses, the tactile sensation of a corpse is something he would never mistake.

"Quickly, tell Inoichi that this Pain is a corpse that has been dead for a long time."

Haiyi was in charge of deciphering the intelligence, which was crucial for deciphering the code left by Jiraiya. The people behind Morino Ibiki quickly left to inform them.

The corpse of the woman from the Animal Realm was taken away by Morino Ibiki's men.

Although it's unclear why Payne suddenly lost his ability to move, it's better to move the body quickly.

The other six Paths of Pain were taken away by various Konoha ninjas.

"Nagato!!!"

When Pain suddenly lost his ability to move and was not summoned by the Animal Path, Konan immediately realized that something was wrong with Nagato.

shhhhh!

Konan used her ability to fly into the sky and head towards Nagato.

"Trying to escape!"

"Keep up!"

The Aburame clan ninjas followed Konan as she flew away. They wouldn't let the enemy leave after she had turned Konoha into this state.

Blood debts must be repaid with blood!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh... Just then, the shadow clones created by Li Yao arrived and entered the bodies of the Six Paths of Pain.

Sizzle sizzle!

A burst of purple lightning flashed, and the large hole in Pain's chest, who was lying on the ground, instantly healed, and his closed eyes suddenly opened again.

Tear!

Raikiri!

Kakashi, who was right next to Pain, reacted swiftly. The moment he noticed Pain's abnormality, he instantly conjured a Lightning Blade in his right hand and thrust it toward Pain's head.

"Shinra Tensei!"

Boom!

An endless repulsive force emanated from Pain, the terrifying power of which was like a missile exploding on the ground, pushing away everything around it, and the deafening sound resounded throughout Konoha.

"What happened there?"

The surrounding ninjas raised their hands to shield themselves from the strong wind, glancing towards the direction where Pain was, where smoke and dust filled the air and a gust of wind blew in.

bump bump!

Kakashi smashed through three walls before stopping.

puff!

Kakashi spat out a mouthful of blood, but he ignored it and stared ahead in horror.

In the crater fifty meters in diameter, Pain stood in the void, the intensity of his chakra completely different from before.

(End of this chapter)