A massive meteor hovered in the sky, blocking out most of the sunlight.
Because it was so conspicuous, everyone in the Hidden Leaf Village couldn't help but look up into the distance.
With the fighting in the village already subsided, Tsunade had also cut off her chakra link with Katsuyu and was now standing behind Jiraiya.
The two stared at the meteor in the sky, unable to suppress the unease rising within them.
"Jiraiya, could that be…?" Tsunade's eyes widened as she spoke in disbelief.
Jiraiya's gaze sharpened. At that moment, Uzumaki Naruto and Kakashi arrived beside him.
"Pervy Sage! Something big has happened!" Uzumaki Naruto called out softly. Jiraiya slowly lowered his head, looking at him.
Kakashi stepped forward and opened his palm.
"Lady Hokage, Jiraiya-sama, I tried injecting chakra into the bone Rorin gave me, but even after a long time, there was no response!"
Hearing this, both Jiraiya and Tsunade's expressions turned grim. Jiraiya slowly took out the bone Rorin had given him earlier from his clothes and clenched it tightly.
"Tsunade, it looks like I need to go take a look. Things have gotten worse."
Tsunade nodded slightly. At that moment, Uzumaki Naruto stepped up beside Jiraiya, looking at him with determination, clearly wanting to go along.
Jiraiya bit his thumb, quickly formed hand seals with one hand, and slammed his palm onto the ground.
Summoning Technique!
As the smoke cleared, a ninja hawk appeared. Jiraiya leapt onto it, followed by Uzumaki Naruto and Kakashi.
The hawk carried the three of them and flew out of the Hidden Leaf Village.
...
Meanwhile, inside the giant tree formed by Paper Release.
"You didn't have to go this far, Nagato," Konan said, slightly astonished as she looked at the meteor in the sky.
"I sensed a tremendous threat from him. If I didn't go all out, I might very well lose."
"Besides, this is still far from what the Sage of Six Paths could do. Legend says he could create a meteor as large as the moon."
Nagato looked up at his creation, modestly downplaying it.
...
Inside the meteor.
Rorin struggled to open his eyelids, but they felt as if they were being forcibly pressed shut, making it extremely difficult. Darkness surrounded him.
Didn't expect to be treated like this… heh.
He mocked himself inwardly. Then, the five fingers of his right hand twitched slightly, and a faint glow slowly began to rise from his palm.
...
Below the meteor, Deva Path stared at it for a long time. After confirming that Rorin wouldn't break free, he slowly lowered his head.
"Farewell, Kaguya Rorin. Next, it's time to capture the Nine-Tails!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Just as Deva Path turned his back and stopped paying attention to the meteor, explosions suddenly echoed in the sky.
"How is this possible?"
Deva Path turned to look upward.
Thick smoke billowed beneath the meteor. Focusing his gaze, he saw a white sphere of energy pierce through the smoke.
Then, a figure clad in black bone armor emerged, holding a massive white energy sphere in his raised right hand.
Sage Art: Spirit Bomb!
Through the black bone helmet, Rorin's gaze locked onto Deva Path. The black bone wings on his back spread wide as he looked down from above.
Being sealed really feels awful… Fortunately, at the last moment, he recalled the senjutsu he had developed in Mount Myōboku based on the Rasengan.
Because his newly developed senjutsu contained a decomposition property, he was able to break free from the massive meteor formed by Planetary Devastation.
As for the name of the technique, he had hesitated at first, but then suddenly remembered the Spirit Bomb from Dragon Ball.
It looked quite similar—both were white spheres of energy—so he lazily went with that name.
Rorin reappeared in the sky, staring at Deva Path, and hurled the one-meter-wide Spirit Bomb from his right hand.
The Spirit Bomb shot toward Deva Path at the speed of light.
"Not good! This jutsu…" Deva Path raised his right hand. Facing this technique, his very soul trembled.
Almighty Push!
Using the repulsive force of Almighty Push, Deva Path altered the Spirit Bomb's trajectory—but only slightly. He couldn't completely deflect it.
Boom!
The Spirit Bomb exploded. The already cratered terrain caused by Planetary Devastation was completely annihilated, leaving behind a massive deep pit.
Far away, inside the trunk of the giant tree formed by Paper Release, Nagato's body suddenly shook violently. Blood flowed from his seven orifices as he struggled to lift his head and look into the distance.
Konan hurried to his side. "Nagato! What happened?!"
Meanwhile, Jiraiya and the others, who were rushing toward the battlefield, suddenly paused. Jiraiya and Uzumaki Naruto exchanged glances.
In the sky, Rorin panted slowly. That move had consumed nearly one-third of his senjutsu chakra.
Looking down, he assessed the situation. Just now, Deva Path had likely used Almighty Push to forcibly alter the Spirit Bomb's trajectory.
"He should still be alive…" Rorin muttered.
He flapped his bone wings and slowly descended.
As his toes touched the ground, Rorin began searching for Deva Path.
Thud… thud…
Not far away, several rocks shifted slightly before being pushed aside. Deva Path slowly sat up, gasping for air.
Rorin approached him step by step. Seeing this, Deva Path became highly alert.
Staggering, Deva Path stood up and raised his right hand with difficulty.
Almighty Push!
As the repulsive force surged forward, the bone wings on Rorin's back rotated downward and stabbed fiercely into the ground.
Screech!
Sixty bone wings anchored into the earth. Rorin halted. Although his body was pushed slightly backward, the movement was minimal.
"He actually endured it head-on!" Deva Path was astonished. He had expected Rorin to use Flying Thunder God to evade the range and force of Almighty Push.
Rorin stabilized himself. A black spiral bone spear formed in his right hand, and a black bone shield appeared in his left. The wings that had been rooted in the ground returned to his back.
Holding spear and shield, Rorin charged at Deva Path. In an instant, he appeared before him and thrust forward with his right hand.
Slash!
The bone spear pierced through Deva Path's abdomen!
Deva Path's eyes gradually lost focus before slowly closing.
Afterward, the bone armor, spear, and shield on Rorin's body all slowly receded.
As for why he had used a shield earlier—Rorin simply thought it looked cooler. That was all.
He bent down and pulled out the black receivers from Deva Path's body one by one, tossing them aside. Letting out a slow breath, Rorin relaxed slightly.
As for locating Nagato, he wasn't going to stab himself with the receivers like Uzumaki Naruto did. For him, there was a simpler method.
He connected with the system again after a long time.
'System, you should be able to use the Rinnegan in this corpse to locate Nagato's real body, right?'
[Oh! Host, that's definitely no problem. Leave it to me!]
After understanding the situation, Rorin gently pried open Deva Path's eyelids with both hands.
Then the system began scanning the Rinnegan within Deva Path's eyes.