"No, you don't understand. The peace you have now is false peace, liable to collapse at any moment. True peace can only be achieved through the Eye of the Moon Plan." Six Paths Madara shook his head, rejecting Nagato's claim.
"The shinobi world will know eternal peace." Nagato didn't know what the Eye of the Moon Plan was, but his instincts told him Madara's methods were wrong.
"The one who doesn't understand is you, Madara. As long as people exist, there will be desires. With desires come conflicts. It's unavoidable." A golden flash appeared between the two of them. The speaker was Naruto. He had already dealt with Toneri and arrived here, watching Madara's gradual transformation into Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, Six Paths Madara.
"If you really want eternal peace. Then you have to wipe out all of humanity. No people, no war."
"No, the Eye of the Moon Plan can do it. In the dream world, everyone can find happiness, and desires will be fulfilled. Because it's a dream, no one gets hurt, and no one dies. That's the ideal world."
"That's just a false utopia." Naruto denied it without mercy. "It only looks peaceful for a short time. Have you thought about the future? What about a few years from now? A dozen years? Decades?"
"Because they're trapped in a dream, humans will stop reproducing. The old will gradually die off, and humanity will go extinct. How is that any different from just wiping people out directly?"
"You don't actually think people trapped in a dream can transcend death, do you?"
"Hmph. Sophistry." Six Paths Madara clearly wasn't that easy to fool. The guy was stubborn as hell.
"Once I'm done, you'll understand."
Then Six Paths Madara suddenly changed the subject, "But until then, you can just watch from the Pure Land."
Having become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and gained the power of the Six Paths, Madara felt his strength had reached an inconceivable level.
He believed Nagato was no longer a match for him. As for Naruto, he didn't know him, hadn't seen his fight with Toneri, couldn't sense his chakra, and since Naruto was wearing an Akatsuki uniform, he figured he was probably just some Akatsuki member.
Not worth worrying about.
"I'll kill you both right here!"
Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, Six Paths Madara gathered his Six Paths-level chakra, gripped his shakujo, and struck the air.
The next instant, a massive shadow fell over the land.
They looked up. The sun hanging directly overhead was being swallowed bit by bit, the once clear sky gradually darkening.
A truly terrifying sight.
The air hummed and vibrated around them. The ground trembled without end. A solar eclipse?
No. It was a meteor blotting out the sky, swallowing the sun, descending at tremendous speed, and its target was Nagato.
"Incarnation of God?" Madara murmured Nagato's title, then gave a humorless laugh. "A delusional frog who has no idea what he's up against. Witness the true power of a god."
"Six Paths: Shattered Heaven!"
Shattered Heaven, a technique exclusive to the Rinnegan, but requiring only the Rinnegan's chakra, not the actual Rinnegan itself (canon setting). In the original story, Madara used this technique during the Fourth Great Ninja War, reducing thousands of meters of battlefield to rubble and nearly wiping out the Allied Shinobi Forces' Fourth Division.
And Six Paths: Shattered Heaven was an enhanced version of the ordinary Shattered Heaven. If the ordinary Shattered Heaven could only devastate a battlefield spanning several thousand meters, then Six Paths: Shattered Heaven could inflict massive damage on the entire planet.
The difference in combat power between the late and early parts of Naruto was simply too vast, the two were not even in the same dimension of style. If one had to classify them, it could only be below Edo Madara and above Edo Madara.
Just this one move, Six Paths: Shattered Heaven, was enough to elevate Naruto's combat power from the level of ordinary Five Ninja Village skirmishes to the destructive scale of the early Dragon Ball's 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai.
"Naruto, don't interfere this time." Seeing Naruto looking eager to jump in, Nagato immediately said, "This is a fight between me and Madara."
Though a bit regretful, Naruto nodded. "Got it, then leave it to you."
"I need to show some real skill too."
The Six Paths of Pain puppets remained in place, while Nagato himself stood directly beneath the Six Paths: Shattered Heaven.
If the current Madara had absorbed the power of the Ten-Tails and become Ten-Tails Jinchuriki Six Paths Madara, then the current Nagato had absorbed otsutsuki Chakra and become Six Paths Nagato.
Nagato's Rinnegan emitted a pale purple light, and then his body, like Toneri's, became covered in a faint layer of chakra.
Except Toneri's was pale green, while Nagato's was pale purple.
Finally, facing the massive meteor rapidly closing in from the sky, he slowly extended both hands and pushed forward.
"Six Paths: Super Almighty Push!"
Another forbidden technique of the Rinnegan, unlike summoning a meteor, this one uses repulsive force to attack. In the original story, Nagato used this move to level all of Konoha.
Shattered Heaven vs. Super Almighty Push
The meteor and repulsive force collided, creating a chain of sonic booms as dust and rubble filled the sky.
The entire land shook violently, as if the earth itself were being torn apart. Countless deep chasms split open across the ground. Because the battle raged directly above Amegakure, the surrounding buildings crumbled to dust. It was a scene of sky collapsing, earth sinking, like Doomsday.
Fortunately, all ordinary ninjas and commoners within Amegakure had already been evacuated. Otherwise, even the shockwaves from Nagato and Madara's battle would have devastated them.
The shockwaves spread so far they even reached the Allied Shinobi Forces fighting on the outskirts of the Land of Rain.
The ninjas froze, staring blankly at the giant meteor in the distance.
The meteor shattered into countless fragments, raining down in all directions like a blooming meteor shower.
Even the Allied Shinobi Forces caught a few fragments. It took several hundred ninjas using their ninjutsu together to break them apart.
"As expected of Boss Pain. A fight at that level is already beyond our ability to interfere." Deidara gazed toward Amegakure and sighed. "This level of destruction probably can't even be achieved by my Ultimate Art. Looks like I still have room for improvement, un."
"Next time, I'll show you my improved Ul-Ul-Ultimate Art."
"Un-un, Deidara Senpai is the best," Kurotsuchi, standing beside him, chimed in repeatedly. "Let me see a super-sized firework next time, okay?"
"Kid!" Onoki materialized beside Deidara. Hearing his words, shock crossed his face. "Are you saying that the one fighting over there is the Leader of the Akatsuki?"
Deidara looked unfazed. "That's right, Boss Pain is over there. That attack that stopped the meteor from falling must have been his Almighty Push."
'Onoki wiped the sweat beading on his forehead.
'Good thing we surrendered early. That one attack alone would have wiped us all out.'
'During that fight back then, the other side was still holding back. Given today's performance, it wouldn't have been difficult for them to simply erase Iwagakure.'
"Nagato was able to block my Shattered Heaven?" The one more astonished than the Allied Shinobi Forces was Six Paths Madara. As the user of Six Paths: Shattered Heaven, he knew the technique's power well.
Nagato had blocked that attack all by himself.
No wonder he couldn't beat him earlier. So he was a Six Paths-level opponent.
He thought that after ascending to Six Paths Mode and surpassing Hashirama, he would be unrivaled. Now another one had popped up.
"That's perfect!" Madara's eyes blazed with high fighting spirit, and his entire aura surged once more.
'Limbo: Border Jail!'
Four shadows split from Madara's body, each emanating a chakra signature no less than sixty percent of the original's. This was the exclusive ability of Madara's Rinnegan, stronger than Shadow Clones or Wood Clones, leaving no trace in the eyes of ordinary people. They were solid clones that only Six Paths-level ninjas could see and perceive.
"Six Paths of Pain!"
Nagato, on the other hand, was not to be outdone. All six Six Paths Puppets moved out together. Because he possessed the Rinnegan and his chakra was also on an otsutsuki level, Nagato could not only sense Limbo: Border Jail but also see it clearly.
Six Paths of Pain versus Limbo: Border Jail. Although Six Paths of Pain had the numerical advantage, Limbo: Border Jail was stronger in individual combat, so the clash between them was still a fifty-fifty match.
"Obito, you're truly pitiful now." As Nagato and Madara clashed, Naruto approached the dying Obito. Looking at this man who had stirred up most of the conflicts in the Shinobi World and caused so much chaos, he only felt derision in his heart.
Whether in the original story or now, everything he did was just a stepping stone for others.
He brushed his right eye, and the Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in Naruto's hand.
"Such power is wasted on you. I'll be taking these tools away."
"A blood feud for one's parents cannot be shared under the same sky. No matter your reasons, you have no excuse for killing mine." Naruto raised two fingers, aiming them at Obito.
"So... disappear!"
A white-hot Ki Wave engulfed Obito's body. In this world, there was no longer anyone named Obito.
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