Saving the Uchiha clan starts with becoming the clan leader.

Although it lacks those fancy methods.

However, the Human Path has the ability to make a decisive judgment. Among the six Paths of Reincarnation, the Human Path is positioned for intelligence gathering and close combat because his ability is to capture memories and souls. As long as he grabs the head, he can forcibly read the other person's memories. By pressing down on the target's head or other parts of the body, he can forcibly extract the other person's soul.

Yes,

correct,

The Human Realm possesses the ability to forcibly extract the soul of its target.

Once captured by the Human Path, the enemy's soul can be extracted regardless of all defensive techniques. At most, the extraction speed will be affected by the target's chakra or spiritual energy, but the soul extraction itself cannot be stopped. At most, the soul cannot be completely extracted from a target with strong spiritual energy.

While engaged in that fierce battle of offense and defense with Zongxian

Pain was pondering how to achieve victory. Even though he was confident that the Rinnegan was absolutely invincible, when he actually started fighting Sogen, he immediately realized that the Sixth Hokage was the strongest enemy he had ever encountered in his life, and it seemed a bit difficult to crush him with brute force.

He has not yet resorted to self-destructive tactics to win.

Therefore,

We'll have to find a way to outsmart them.

The Human Path, which had been useless and had been left aside, immediately transformed into an assassin, silently sneaking underground and slowly approaching Zong Xian's feet. Then, seizing the opportunity, it moved like a rabbit and grabbed Zong Xian's ankle.

fighting,

ended.

Once the Sixth Hokage is dealt with, the Konoha ninjas, having lost their leader, will be nothing more than fish on a chopping board, at his mercy, even though they still have many strong members.

"what?"

A look of surprise flashed across Payne's eyes.

He saw it clearly.

The Human Path failed to pull Uchiha Sogen's soul out, its right hand still gripping Sogen's ankle... The pulling action was not carried out, which was by no means because Pain had softened his heart. The Human Path's pulling was not a simple action.

A detailed breakdown can be divided into three steps: touching the soul, grasping the soul, and finally pulling the soul out.

But the problem now is,

The Human Path failed to touch Uchiha Sogen's soul.

After breaking through the protection of spiritual energy, the Human Path could not find the soul in Zongxian's body. It was just an empty shell without a resident, just like... himself. Payne suddenly couldn't help but shiver, and a bad premonition quietly rose in his heart.

"Alas! The Human Realm? Is it preparing to plunder my soul?"

Zongxian lowered his head.

A mocking smile appeared on his lips.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, my soul... is not here at the moment."

"How is that possible? Where did your soul go?"

Renjiandao stared at Zongxian in astonishment.

Having failed in his attack, the Human Path did not rush to escape, because escaping under the watchful eyes of Uchiha Sogen was impossible, and besides, it was just a clone of the Human Path... To be honest, losing it was no big deal. More than that, he wanted to find out where Uchiha Sogen's soul had gone.

"Is it a spiritification technique? No, that's not right. If it were a spiritification technique, your body should have lost consciousness... Could it be a Sand Village puppet technique? No, that's not right either. Even Sasori's puppet technique couldn't achieve this level..."

Payne possessed a wealth of knowledge.

He not only received instruction from Jiraiya, but also, after mastering the Rinnegan, he absorbed a great deal of knowledge from the countless corpses. He not only learned a great deal of ninjutsu, but also mastered many secrets.

Regarding the situation where no soul can be found in Zongxian's body.

He made several conjectures, but he would propose a conjecture one second and then deny it the next. After discarding the most unlikely possibility, it seemed that there was no ready-made answer that could perfectly explain Uchiha Munen's situation.

Is it really that hard to guess?

Zongxian's smile grew even brighter.

"Your body... doesn't it also lack a soul? I thought I'd be immediately exposed after you touched it! Did you genuinely not notice, or are you simply unwilling to believe this absurd possibility?"

Humanity is silent.

However, Payne's expression in the distance showed a very obvious shock.

"Don't limit your imagination! Nothing is impossible! Just like how our Uchiha clan has so many Mangekyou Sharingan... is it any strange that we have another pair of Rinnegan?"

Those scarlet eyes shone with a new light at that moment.

A mysterious, deep lilac replaced the overly menacing scarlet, and concentric ripples replaced the eight-leaf windmill-like pattern... For Payne, this was a familiar sight; he saw it in the mirror almost every day.

"How is this possible? The Rinnegan... This is impossible! This is a genjutsu?! This is a genjutsu?!"

Pain's chakra surged, and the power in his eyes became turbulent. However... all of this only proved that he was not under a genjutsu. It was all real, and everything he saw was genuine.

That change was definitely not a simulation of the Transformation Technique. He could sense the difference, but it was nothing more than the same eye power of the Rinnegan.

At such close range,

He didn't think he would make a wrong judgment.

"It's true? But how is this possible? Why... do you also have the Rinnegan?"

The Way of Man questions the Way.

Do not,

Precisely,

It was Nagato, hidden in the safest and most secluded spot in Amegakure, who posed the question.

On that enormous transportation machine, Nagato gripped the cold machine with both hands, his long crimson hair swaying, his eyes wide open, his light purple Rinnegan eyes filled with disbelief that someone else had the same eyes as him—something he couldn't accept.

He proclaimed himself a god.

It is precisely because of this Rinnegan, which should have been unique.

He believed that he would become the new Sage of Six Paths in the ninja world, just as the Sage of Six Paths had created the ninja world. He believed that he would create a new and peaceful world, just as the Sage of Six Paths had created the ninja world.

However now,

The Rinnegan is no longer unique.

He is no longer the one and only.

"Nagato? Are you alright? What happened?"

beside,

Konan, who was guarding Nagato, couldn't help but feel a little fear and unease at this moment.

She had never seen Nagato like this before. Even during the time when Yahiko was lost, Nagato was only deeply saddened... never as shaken as he was now.

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line of sight

Let's turn back to Zongxian and Renjiandao.

"Of course, it's because the Rinnegan and Sharingan are essentially the same thing! The only difference between them is the level at which they are developed." Zongxian answered Renjiandao's question softly, then ignored whether Renjiandao was satisfied with his answer.

He calmly raised his palm and placed it on the head of the Human Path.

The next second, a powerful repulsive force erupted.

This is—

The technique of 【Shinra Tensei】!

Human Dao's head shattered completely with a loud "crack," like a ripe watermelon being struck by a pile driver. The sparse blood and brain matter didn't splatter out; instead, they were firmly stuck to the ground by the repulsive force of the impact.

sound,

At this moment, it was as if everything around them had been erased.

In order not to interfere with the conversation, the Asura Path has temporarily stopped bombarding with rockets. Only Uchiha Chihaya and the Animal Path's summoning beast army are fighting at the edge of Amegakure, which is far enough away that it will not interfere with the conversation here.

Not far in front of Zongxian,

"Six Paths... Clone!!!"

Payne gritted his teeth.

He spoke it out, word by word.

Only the six avatars can move freely like ordinary people without the aid of a soul, and can unleash powerful combat strength.

Bingo! Congratulations, you guessed right.

Zongxian smiled and snapped his fingers.

Immediately,

He took a white mask from his pocket and put it on his face.

It was a very common mask without any expression of joy or sorrow, the only difference being that the character "天" (heaven) was engraved on the forehead of the mask.

Yes,

This is the Heavenly Path Avatar among Zongxian's Six Paths Avatars.

From the very beginning, the one traveling with Uchiha Chihaya, Jiraiya, and Yakushi Kabuto was a clone of the Deva Path.

Unlike Nagato, who was not the original owner of the Rinnegan and could not perfectly control its power, he could only maintain the state of having the eyes open forever. If he were not also a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths and had inherited the Sage's body, he would have been dried up by the Rinnegan long ago.

Zongxian's Rinnegan belongs to him alone.

From the Sharingan to the Mangekyou Sharingan, then to the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, and finally to the Rinnegan... he has reached this level step by step, and his control over the Rinnegan at the root level is unmatched by Nagato.

He can freely switch the shape of his eyes.

It is possible to achieve the three-tomoe Sharingan, the Mangekyou Sharingan, or even the Rinnegan.

Moreover, it's not just the main body; this state can even be fed back to the Six Paths clones. The clones can also control Susanoo. After all, even the Wood Clone can activate Susanoo. In the original future, Madara Uchiha activated more than twenty Susanoo to carry out a massive cleanup.

If the Wood Clone can do such a thing, it's quite normal that this equally special Six Paths Clone can activate Susanoo and use the Mangekyou Sharingan's eye techniques, isn't it?

Zongxian, with the help of Hiruko, modified several high-quality corpses from Konoha Prison. He selected the best of the best and made six of them into his Six Paths clones. Through repeated experiments, he came up with the idea of ​​using the Six Paths clones to act in his place.

To this end, Hiruko even specially commissioned Hiruko to give the Heavenly Path clone a makeover, perfectly replicating Sogen's appearance. After all, transformation techniques don't last long and are easily detected. It's safer to just have plastic surgery.

Unless you see the black rods used to transmit chakra that are hidden by hair on the back of the Deva clone's neck, don't think you can easily recognize Sogen's Deva clone.

then,