Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 370 How many floors can a bag of rice be carried up?

She had no idea what abilities the other party had used.

If it happens again, how will they resist?

"What was that just now?"

Kakashi, who was lying on the ground due to his severe injuries, escaped unscathed from the attack. However, Choza and the other companions who surrounded him were cut in half at the waist.

"This attack method doesn't match the abilities Pain has demonstrated before. Could it be that this Pain possesses other abilities?"

Just as Kakashi was analyzing Pain's abilities with wide eyes, Li Yao's Pain sensed the dead people, nodded in satisfaction, and glanced at Jiraiya, who was staring blankly in the interlayer.

Let's see if you still don't care now!

Ha ha!

Li Yaotian smiled coldly at Pain, then pointed his right hand at Kakashi.

"Universal Guidance!"

Gravity emanated from Pain's palm, acting on Kakashi and pulling him toward Pain.

Clang!

A chain wrapped around a stone pillar, and at the critical moment, Kakashi used the chain to stop himself from flying towards Pain.

But this time, no one came to help him escape.

Moreover, this Pain is not Nagato's Pain.

Li Yaotian said that Payne smiled slightly upon seeing this.

"A pointless struggle!"

Suddenly, Li Yaotian saw Pain's right hand clench, and the diverging gravity instantly compressed into a thin line, acting on Kakashi's waist.

"not good!"

Kakashi's expression suddenly changed. If the force that had originally attracted him was a net, it would have pulled him toward Pain.

Now, gravity has transformed from a net into a thin thread around his waist, pulling him towards Pain.

Moreover, this thin thread has an incredibly sharp and strong gravitational pull.

The same force applied to a person will produce completely different results than that applied to a net and a sharp thread.

The former can also use chains to lock onto pillars to prevent themselves from moving.

But the latter was like forcefully crashing into a sharp blade.

Kakashi tried to escape. He instantly released his grip, intending to fall along the direction of the thin thread's gravity in order to avoid being cut off by it.

Unfortunately, as I said before, he wasn't facing Nagato's Pain.

Li Yaoying's clone, controlling the Deva Path of Pain, possessed far superior reaction speed, chakra control, and mastery of the Deva Path's abilities compared to Nagato, who could only utilize Madara's Rinnegan.

As soon as Kakashi loosened his grip, he felt a sharp pain in his waist.

Tear!

A sound like silk being cut suddenly rang out, and Kakashi's body was severed at the waist, split in two.

bump!

The two halves of his body fell to the ground, kicking up a small circle of dust. Kakashi, in his upper body, helplessly stared at Pain, the Deva Path, not far away.

He was not dead yet, but he was not far from it.

The slug's split body had been watching Kakashi closely. When it saw Kakashi being cut in half at the waist, it rushed over, but after looking at Kakashi, who was now in two halves, the slug remained silent for a moment.

In the end, it went over and pressed Kakashi's upper and lower body together, doing its best to prolong Kakashi's life.

Seeing this, Li Yao shook his head and smiled.

Indeed, people have varying degrees of closeness and distance, and love and hate are always intertwined.

When others were cut in half at the waist, the slug didn't do its best to save them. But when it was someone from the Hokage's lineage like Kakashi who was cut in half at the waist, the slug did its best to save him.

Human beings are bound by this distinction between close and distant relationships, which leads to various complexities of love and hate, and conflicts arise from this.

Naruto... we've gone off on a tangent!

Li Yaotian told Pain to shake his head, then raised his hand and flicked it lightly at Kakashi.

The repulsive force was compressed into a sharp blade and slashed towards Kakashi.

Tear!

The slug's split body had no fighting ability; it could only watch as Kakashi's body split in two again, this time starting from the middle of his forehead.

Kakashi died instantly, and the slug was powerless to help, so it could only tell Tsunade this cruel reality.

Tsunade learned through the slug's message that Kakashi had been cut in half at the waist, and that Pain had yet another unusual ability.

Why?

"Could it be that the information Jiraiya obtained at the cost of his life was wrong?"

Pain displayed two different abilities than gravity and repulsion in succession, causing Tsunade to become suspicious.

If each Pain's ability is not fixed, or if Jiraiya's discovery of the abilities is incomplete, then how strong would Pain be!

Despair began to engulf Tsunade's mind and body.

But as Hokage, she absolutely cannot fall.

"Follow me!"

Tsunade stood up and ran forward. She was going to fight Pain and couldn't let him continue his rampage.

As the Hokage, she had to defeat her opponent.

"Yes, Lord Hokage!" Tsunade's ANBU guards replied with red eyes.

Tsunade learned about the events unfolding on the battlefield through the slug, and naturally, they learned about them as well.

At this point, it was no longer time for them to remain in the rear and give orders.

This is a decisive battle, a fight to the death, with no way out.

"That's about it!"

After killing Kakashi, Pain slowly flew into the sky. Li Yao had already sensed a small toad filled with a large amount of natural energy appearing on the wall of Konoha.

It seems Naruto with Sage Mode will be back soon.

Before Naruto returns, he needs to give Naruto a gift from the original story.

"How many floors can you carry a bag of rice up?"

"One bag of rice can be carried up to the second floor!"

Pain muttered in a language familiar to Li Yao.

"etc!"

"Payne, what do you want to do?"

In the distance, Tsunade leaped from rooftop to rooftop, and looking at Pain soaring into the sky, she felt an indescribable sense of panic.

She didn't think Payne wanted to run away; rather, she thought Payne wanted to launch another large-scale attack.

call out!

Animal Path leaped high into the air, landing on the back of the flying bird-like spirit beast, and soared into the sky, flying towards the outside of Konoha.

Once they arrived above Konoha, the Animal Path used the Summoning Jutsu to summon the other six Paths clones and Konan back.

"Nagato, what just happened?"

"Why were I summoned back?"

After the Six Paths clones went out of control, Konan realized that something was wrong with Nagato, so she rushed to where Nagato was.

But before she could return to Nagato's side, Pain was resurrected, yet she still continued to fly towards Nagato.

Unexpectedly, they were summoned back by the Animal Path's spirit medium halfway there, leaving Konan puzzled and prompting her to ask Nagato for clarification.

"I'm fine. Fly in a different direction and come find me. Don't reveal my location."

"Beast Path Pain said that the Aburame clan has always been following Konan, and once they find Nagato's location, Li Yao will also be exposed."

We can't expose ourselves yet, and we can't kill Xiao Nan either. Xiao Nan will have to cooperate with the act later.

But we can't stop Konan from going to Nagato.

So the only option was to summon Konan back and have her take a detour to find Nagato.

(End of this chapter)