Before Asuma could speak, Pain cut him off.
These guys really were rogue ninja. Not one of them had any discipline. They did not even look at the situation before chatting away.
They had come here today to carry out a mission and fight for the future of the Akatsuki, not to hold a tea party.
Jie and Itachi had also caught up a little, but those two brothers had been ruthless when they attacked.
Especially Jie's Rasenshuriken. Although it had missed, the power of the explosion was enough to show that Jie had not held back.
But Deidara and Asuma had actually started chatting right in front of the enemy. That was going a little too far.
So, in order to complete his plan sooner, Pain directly stopped this little reunion. The moment Pain spoke, all the words Asuma had been holding in were instantly stuck in his throat.
He could neither say them nor swallow them back down. For a moment, he felt extremely stifled.
But when it came to Pain, Asuma did not dare complain. After all, in terms of strength, Pain was far stronger than him.
And right now, in the entire ninja world, only Pain and the Akatsuki dared to take in a ninja like him, who was wanted by Konoha.
If he really angered Pain, not only would his revenge become hopeless, but before long, someone would probably take his head back to Konoha for the bounty.
As soon as Pain gave the order, the Akatsuki members immediately moved to their positions.
Darui and Kisame Hoshigaki stopped Yugito.
Kumogakure's matter naturally had to be settled by Darui, a rogue ninja from Kumogakure, and Yugito herself.
As for Kisame, he was mostly there to help from the side. After all, Yugito was a Jinchuriki. Darui alone could not stop her.
Deidara and Asuma blocked Rasa. When it came to his teacher, Onoki, Deidara still had some hesitation in his heart.
If it was not necessary, he really did not want to face Onoki.
Besides, Deidara had only developed his art to the level of C3. If he wanted to deal with Onoki, he was still far from enough.
So he and Asuma, the weakest member of the Akatsuki, simply chose Rasa, the weakest among the Five Kage.
As for Obito, he joined Mei Terumi to deal with Onoki.
Of course, in order to hide his true strength, Obito naturally let Mei take the lead while he assisted from the side against Onoki.
Among the Five Kage, that left Jie, who would be handled personally by Itachi and Pain. Seeing how the Akatsuki had divided their opponents, a faint smile appeared on Jie's face.
It seemed Pain really did take him seriously. He had even entered the fight himself.
But that suited Jie just fine.
"The Rinnegan."
"Then let me see just how powerful the legendary Rinnegan really is."
Although Jie already knew the Rinnegan's abilities from the original story, that was only secondhand knowledge.
Now that this was a real Naruto world, Jie did not know whether the Rinnegan still had other strange hidden abilities.
So Jie planned to let Pain show off his abilities first and give him a rough understanding of the Rinnegan.
As for whether Pain would obediently cooperate, that was not up to Pain.
"Universal Pull!"
Pain raised one hand, and Jie immediately felt a powerful pulling force come from Pain's direction.
Feeling the pull acting on his body, Jie raised an eyebrow. This power was not bad, but it still felt weaker than he had imagined.
Was the Rinnegan's ability only this strong, or had he become so powerful that even the Rinnegan's effect on him had weakened a lot?
This level of pull was not impossible for Jie to resist. His body only shifted slightly before he stood firmly in place.
Seeing how relaxed Jie looked, Pain's expression did not change, but Jie suddenly felt the pulling force more than double.
'Is this the limit?'
Feeling the stronger pull on his body, Jie thought silently, then let go of his control over his body.
Although the pull had been strengthened, for Jie, as long as he wanted to resist, that force alone would still have a hard time shaking his powerful body.
But the battle had only just begun. If he showed too much strength and accidentally scared Nagato away, where would he go to find the Rinnegan?
Was he supposed to go to the Land of Rain and turn the whole country upside down?
For rats hiding underground like this, he had to lure them out step by step. Once the right chance came, he could catch them all in one net.
Nagato, who was hidden outside the village, watched through Pain's eyes. When he saw that even Jie seemed unable to resist the power of the Rinnegan, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"As expected, the Rinnegan's power is the strongest."
Right now, Jie was suspended in midair by the pull, seemingly unable to resist. Pain naturally would not miss such a good opportunity.
"Almighty Push!"
Pain shouted softly, and a powerful repulsive force burst out from his body, slamming heavily into Jie.
Under the double effect of attraction and repulsion, Jie felt like the filling in a meat bun, being squeezed crazily from both sides.
'Attraction plus repulsion. This kind of move really is pretty good.'
'If my body wasn't strong, I probably wouldn't dare take a move like this head-on.'
Even an ordinary Almighty Push had enough force to rival an S-rank Ninjutsu. And with the help of Universal Pull, the power of Almighty Push was increased even further.
Jie felt that under Pain's combo just now, an ordinary Kage-level ninja would probably suffer a huge loss.
Unfortunately, he was not an ordinary Kage-level ninja.
Although Almighty Push did bring some impact to Jie and made his body shake for a moment, under the recovery ability of his advanced Sage Body, all discomfort disappeared in just a few seconds.
When Pain saw Jie completely unharmed, his gaze sharpened. It seemed his previous judgment of Jie had been too shallow.
This Jie Uchiha was clearly not as simple as he looked on the surface.
Just the fact that Jie could take his combo without injury meant that even if Jie's strength was not equal to his own, the gap would not be too large.
A faint unease rose in Nagato's heart. But when he thought of Yahiko's dream, he forcibly suppressed it.
"Now, let me show you the true power of the Rinnegan."
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