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Chapter 136: Since Everyone is Here, Let's Settle This All at Once!
On the sea surface.
The Deva Path abruptly extended his right hand. "Bansho Ten'in!"
A powerful suction force suddenly erupted from his loosely gripped palm, enveloping Konan entirely.
Her body was pulled uncontrollably toward him.
He extended a black receiver from his left hand, aiming the sharp tip at Konan's right shoulder.
Being a creation of Yin-Yang Release, once inserted into the body, it would immediately disrupt the circulation of chakra throughout the body.
Bang!
Konan's entire body exploded, turning into paper sheets that scattered in all directions.
They reformed into her shape outside the range of the suction force.
Some of the paper sheets emitting visible cold air were sucked in front of the Deva Path.
Sensing something wrong, he stopped the attractive force and switched to a repulsive force.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
All the paper sheets were repelled by the omnidirectional repulsive force.
They fell onto the sea surface, freezing patches of ice.
"Ice Release!" The Deva Path's pupils contracted. "You really aren't Konan!!"
Seeing the Ice Release, the other Akatsuki members were finally one hundred percent certain that this person was not their companion.
They immediately attacked.
"Dare to impersonate Big Sis, prepare to face my wrath!" Deidara flipped onto his large white bird and flew into mid-air.
"Taste the power of my explosive clay; it's not just used for planting trees!"
The explosive clay in his hands was quickly molded into small birds, rushing toward Konan in mid-air.
On the sea surface, Sasori controlled two floating puppets, their mouths opening wide to shoot sharp hidden weapons.
Kisame used the Water Dragon Bullet Technique, while Kakuzu split off a mask monster that spat out a spear of lightning flashing with blue light.
He shouted coldly: "Lightning Release: False Darkness!"
Hidan still held his book, making no move.
He couldn't attack a high-flying target for the time being.
As for Itachi Uchiha, his Mangekyo Sharingan was active, ready to release genjutsu and dojutsu at any moment.
Seeing the familiar Paper Release, doubt flashed in the Deva Path's eyes.
In his cognition, Paper Release was indeed something only Konan knew.
But it absolutely did not have Ice Release effects.
It was highly likely the enemy in the air used some method to learn his companion's secret technique.
As long as he captured her, everything would be known.
The Deva Path raised his hand upward. "Bansho Ten'in!"
The Akatsuki members coordinated tacitly, completely sealing off Konan's dodging space with their respective attacks.
Explosive birds, poison needles, water dragons, lightning, and gravity attacked her from all directions.
Floating in mid-air, Konan's eyelids took on a purple hue.
With Alex's help, she instantly entered Sage Mode again.
She looked down coldly at the familiar figures below.
Since they attacked, and since they were all fakes, she couldn't be soft-hearted anymore.
She had to catch Nagato and get news of Obito Uchiha from him.
Paper sheets drifted from Konan's body.
They shot outward in a 360-degree radius without any blind spots.
Wherever they passed, they seemed to freeze the void.
The white birds froze in an instant and fell into the sea with plop plop sounds.
The water dragon turned directly into an ice sculpture, also crashing down.
The lightning was blocked by the Ice Release on the paper sheets; the lightning chakra was consumed rapidly, dissipating after traveling half the distance.
The poison needles shot by Sasori were easily knocked down by the paper sheets, which had stronger defense.
As for the Deva Path's Bansho Ten'in...
Konan was too familiar with this move. Seeing him raise his hand, she immediately condensed a block of ice in front of her, blocking the path of the gravity pull.
The Deva Path could only suck in a block of ice.
Even if he continuously changed position and angle, Bansho Ten'in ultimately only pulled over blocks of thick ice.
The gravitational pull couldn't land on Konan at all.
In mid-air, Konan turned into an infinite turret again.
Paper sheets radiating biting cold air shot down continuously.
Suppressing the Akatsuki members below so they couldn't lift their heads, forcing them to dodge wretchedly.
"So fierce!!" Kisame hopped continuously on the sea surface, shocked. "This guy's Ice Release is so domineering, far stronger than Haku's. My Water Release is countered by her; it's useless."
He jumped onto a frozen patch of sea, swinging Samehada vigorously with both hands to knock down the paper sheets shooting from above.
Kisame had tried using Water Release, but every time he launched it, it was domineeringly frozen by the paper sheets almost immediately.
It was completely useless.
His powerful Water Release ninjutsu was rendered totally ineffective against such unreasonable Ice Release.
And Sasori, the weakest, couldn't dodge.
He could only pull out puppets one by one to block above his head.
Even though they were frozen into a ten-meter-thick layer of ice, the thickness was still increasing at a visible rate.
The ice layer on the sea around his body was also thickening, trapping him firmly inside, unable to move.
Being completely frozen was inevitable.
"Fire Release: Searing Migraine!"
"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"
Kakuzu used all five mask monsters, using three to block the attacks from the sky.
The remaining two, Wind and Fire attribute mask monsters, released a combination ninjutsu, creating a red sea of fire covering a radius of hundreds of meters on the ice surface.
The scorching heat baked the ice layer, causing massive amounts of steam to rise.
The surrounding thick ice melted rapidly.
Sasori, Hidan, and Kisame, who were almost buried inside, managed to escape.
They jumped to Kakuzu's side one after another.
"Kakuzu, thanks." Kisame let out a huge sigh of relief, his nose, eyebrows, and hair hanging with thick frost.
"When the battle is over, I'll reward you with top-tier cuisine."
Hidan and Sasori also sighed in relief and expressed their thanks.
"No need for that." Kakuzu waved his hand. "We are companions; I can't sit by and watch you in danger."
He looked at the sky. "The enemy's large-scale Ice Release is too powerful, and she can fly. It's really tricky."
"We can only rely on Deidara and the Leader. Let's protect ourselves on the sea surface and not drag them down."
"Don't hurt my companions!!" In mid-air, Deidara shouted angrily.
Riding his large white bird, he rushed toward Konan at high speed.
He scattered strangely shaped white creations. "Explode!"
They detonated as soon as they were released.
The speed of the incoming paper sheets was far greater than the flying objects he created; to avoid being frozen again, he had to detonate them quickly.
For a moment, continuous explosions rang out in the sky.
Three meters in front of Deidara, the firelight didn't stop for a second.
At such close range, the black smoke blackened his face.
Thanks to this, the incoming paper sheets were scattered by the explosions, allowing him to get close to the target.
"Almost there, almost there!" Deidara stared dead at Konan, twenty meters away.
"Just a little closer, and she absolutely won't be able to escape!"
"Right here!"
When the distance reached ten meters, Deidara violently threw the explosive doll in his hand.
As soon as it left his hand, the palm-sized explosive doll expanded rapidly like a balloon to a diameter of ten meters.
Just in time to stick close to Konan.
A white giant seemed to appear in the sky.
"Hah! C3: No. 18!" Deidara shouted: "Explode!!"
But it was futile.
Crackling electric sparks flashed across the surface of the giant doll.
The lightning attribute Senjutsu chakra injected by Alex directly caused it to misfire.
The explosion failed, and it plummeted straight into the sea.
"Nani?!!!" Deidara was so shocked his eyes almost popped out.
Lightning countering Earth was correct, but it shouldn't be this exaggerated.
Such a huge explosive doll, you countered it with Lightning Release in just an instant?
"Don't underestimate me!!"
Deidara tore open his chest clothes, and a large pitch-black mouth began to chew the explosive clay in his hand.
"Prepare to witness the power of C4: Karura, you bastard!"
Unfortunately.
Before he could complete the ninjutsu, the large bird beneath him, along with himself, was instantly covered by paper sheets, frozen into an ice block, and fell.
Whoosh!
Just then, a figure shot over from the distance.
Konan's pupils contracted, recognizing the identity—the Animal Path of the Six Paths of Pain!
Completing the hand seals, she landed beside the Deva Path and slapped the ice surface: "Summoning Technique!"
Poof! Poof! Poof!
A series of white smoke plumes rose, and the remaining four Paths appeared instantly.
Deva Path, Animal Path, Naraka Path, Human Path, Asura Path, Preta Path...
The Six Paths of Pain were all present!
Itachi Uchiha, Kisame, and the other Akatsuki members stood around them in sync.
"All here..." Konan's face was cold. "Then let's settle this all at once!"
"Sage Art: Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!!"
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