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Chapter 138: Akatsuki Wiped Out, Purple Hydrangeas Bloom
The fiery red giant wore armor, holding a gourd in its right hand and a red shield in front of it with its left.
It was Itachi Uchiha's third-stage Susanoo!
In the nick of time when the ice spikes attacked, he unhesitatingly followed his body's instinct and used Susanoo.
But he only managed to protect himself, unable to protect his other companions.
"Kisame! Kakuzu!! Sasori!!"
Seeing his companions' corpses floating on the sea, Itachi Uchiha was grief-stricken.
"Rest assured, I will carry out the Akatsuki's philosophy of protecting ninja world peace to the end!"
This enemy was too dangerous, the greatest threat to peace in the ninja world.
Even if it cost him his life, he would slay her right here.
Itachi moved his gaze from his companions' corpses and stared fiercely at Konan, who had just stabilized herself in the distance.
A trail of blood flowed from the corner of his right eye.
"Amaterasu!"
"Hm?"
Konan looked expressionlessly at her right arm, which had ignited with black flames.
Her left hand chopped down like lightning, severing her right arm at the root.
Before it hit the ground, it was burned into nothingness by Amaterasu.
Her wings flapped, flying at extreme speed to avoid Itachi's line of sight.
A patch of pitch-black flames followed closely behind her.
New sheets of white paper squeezed out from the stump of her right arm, reforming into a perfectly intact arm.
Konan waved her hand, and sky-filling paper sheets shot above the fiery red giant.
They condensed like lightning into a towering iceberg.
Its volume was comparable to twice the size of the Susanoo below. With a boom, it crashed down like Mount Tai crushing an egg.
It directly bent the fiery red giant's back.
"Blargh..." Suddenly suffering heavy damage, Itachi spat blood.
His right eye closed involuntarily, interrupting Amaterasu.
His whole body trembled uncontrollably.
The terrifying weight on his shoulders caused the load of Susanoo on his body to intensify abruptly, severe pain spreading to every cell.
The black flames behind Konan disappeared.
Glancing at the restrained Itachi in the distance, she paid him no more attention.
Changing direction, she charged toward the Deva Path on the sea surface.
The real-world Itachi and Akatsuki members were very strong.
Perhaps because the versions in this world weren't cold-blooded or cruel enough and had experienced fewer battles, there was a gap in combat power.
Not to mention Konan's strength exceeded theirs by a level; they were simply no match for her.
On the sea surface, the Deva Path's white robe with blue clouds was mostly destroyed, revealing a robust upper body.
He scanned the corpses of his companions on the sea one by one, remaining silent, but his aura became even deeper.
He was beyond angry.
Whoosh!
He suddenly flew off the sea surface, condensing a black receiver in his hand, stabbing at the incoming Konan's face.
But it was futile!
Konan showed no fear, merely using her palm to catch the sharp black receiver head-on.
One palm strike down.
Snap! A crisp sound of breaking rang out.
The black receiver snapped in response!
The Deva Path, close at hand, had his purple eyes trembling, his face full of shock.
This was a black receiver made with Yin-Yang Release!
The material was exceptionally sturdy; not to mention breaking it, even touching it would disrupt chakra.
The opponent actually snapped it forcibly with just a flesh palm. How high was her physical durability?!
The Deva Path didn't have time to think much, because Konan's attacks were continuous.
Fast and fierce.
A pair of tender fists waved extremely fast, leaving countless afterimages.
The air whistled, and the fists roared.
Punch after punch, she struck at the Deva Path.
Both were adept at flight and taijutsu, changing positions rapidly in the high altitude.
Sometimes soaring high, sometimes falling back to the sea surface, fighting completely with close-quarters taijutsu.
Intense, swift.
Every clash of fists sent visible white shockwaves sweeping into the surroundings.
At first, the Deva Path could barely parry, but as time passed, Konan's punch speed didn't decrease at all.
While he found it increasingly difficult to keep up.
Fist after fist landed on various parts of his body, leaving obvious dents.
Nagato, controlling from behind the scenes, was extremely shocked.
This body of his friend had been specially reinforced with puppet techniques, as hard as iron.
He wasn't afraid of fighting anyone at close range with taijutsu.
The final winner would inevitably be him.
How could an ordinary flesh-and-blood body compare to the Deva Path's diamond-like body?
Yet at this moment, it was ineffective...
He didn't know how the opponent's body was made, but it was actually stronger and harder than the Deva Path.
Fists landing on the body felt like super-alloy hammers.
The force was incredibly huge and very hard.
If it were an ordinary person's body, it would have been punched through long ago.
More critically, the fists also carried freezing attacks.
More and more ice layers appeared on the Deva Path's body, inevitably affecting his speed and making him sluggish.
Facing a punch aimed at his face, he stopped trying to take it head-on. A "Shinra Tensei" repelled her and all the ice on his body.
He fell back to the sea surface, retreating rapidly.
Clasping his hands together, he stared dead at the charging Konan.
After a fierce battle.
He knew that ordinary taijutsu and ninjutsu couldn't defeat her.
He could only gamble on one last move!
In mid-air, seeing the Deva Path's starting stance, Konan's brow tightened.
She knew what the opponent was going to do.
It was also his final move.
Konan accelerated again, rushing toward the Deva Path.
The Deva Path flew up simultaneously, accelerating backward.
The two seemed to turn into two streams of light, flying away from the sea surface to the sky above the land.
"That's about right..." The Deva Path released his hands and roared: "You will pay the price for what you have done!"
"Seal, Chibaku Tensei!!"
A black sphere floated from his hand and merged with a white sphere floating from nearby.
Forming a pitch-black gravity sphere the size of a ping-pong ball, suspended high in the sky.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In an instant, endless beams of light erupted, sweeping toward the ground.
The terrifying gravitational field immediately shattered the earth, sucking up massive rocks one after another.
The ground heaved violently as if a magnitude ten earthquake had erupted.
Countless rocks and mountains were sucked into mid-air, accelerating toward the gravity sphere.
Konan was also within the coverage of the gravitational field.
Her body rose uncontrollably.
She jumped on the large rocks, her gaze fixed tightly on the gravity sphere high above.
Alex had told her how to break this move.
While the gravity sphere was exposed and not yet protected by layers of rock, destroying it immediately would interrupt "Chibaku Tensei."
Konan gave a low shout, and endless paper sheets rolled into fine needles, surface emitting rising cold air.
Turning into dense streams of light, they attacked the gravity sphere.
However.
Just as these ice needles were about to pierce the gravity sphere, a black flame suddenly blocked the front.
Expanding abruptly, it instantly engulfed all the ice needles, burning them to nothing.
It was Amaterasu!
Itachi Uchiha had unknowingly rushed to the sea surface and was trying to widen his right eye, using Amaterasu flames to protect the gravity sphere from destruction.
"Luckily Itachi acted, otherwise... Nani!"
Before the Deva Path could fully exhale, another mutation occurred in the air.
A grayish bone spike suddenly extended from Konan's chest, the tip piercing through the pitch-black gravity sphere above like lightning.
A crisp crack of shattering could be heard.
Chibaku Tensei was destroyed; the gravity sphere wailed and disintegrated into broken light, disappearing.
The rocks and soil in the air rumbled back to the ground.
Following that were more massive bone spikes hidden within the rocks.
With unstoppable momentum, they pierced through Itachi Uchiha below.
Even though the Deva Path used Shinra Tensei to repel some, taking advantage of the cooldown before the next Shinra Tensei...
Densely packed bone spikes had already pierced his body—nowhere to run, nowhere to hide!
Under Alex's Sage Art: Corpse Bone Pulse, the remaining two Akatsuki members were destroyed again.
In mid-air, Konan changed direction and flew rapidly toward Amegakure.
Through the direction of chakra transmission from the black receivers, she had found Nagato's main body.
It wasn't in the same location as in reality, but it wasn't far.
Inside a bright tower.
Nagato, sitting in a wheelchair, looked calmly at the figure landing in front of the door.
"You've come..." His voice was weak, filled with indescribable complexity.
Konan walked into the room, looking at Nagato in the wheelchair.
With withered red hair and a gaunt body, his condition was much better than in reality.
He was looking at her peacefully.
"Nagato..." Konan walked closer, her eyes dazed.
The deceased companion seemed to appear before her eyes again.
"Cough, cough..." Nagato coughed lightly and sighed. "Seeing your reaction with my own eyes, I can finally confirm that what you said before is likely true. I... and them, as well as this world, seem to be fake, nonexistent."
"That person should be like you, from the so-called real world;"
Nagato was very relieved, seeming to have seen through everything. "He saw the situation was bad and left long ago, probably to find stronger power to deal with you."
"Konan, do it..." He looked up out the window. "Even if this world is fake, my feelings for my companions are real. I should go on the road with them, and you must complete your unfinished business."
He looked at Konan one last time, smiling. "You are Konan, right?"
"I am Konan." Konan walked to Nagato's side, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Rest in peace, Nagato."
Ice spread, instantly freezing him. Nagato still had a peaceful smile on his face.
Konan looked up.
Two lines of bloody tears flowed from the corners of her eyes. The three pitch-black tomoe in her pupils unknowingly merged.
Three blood-colored purple hydrangea petals bloomed in her pupils...
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