The intense repulsion finally faded.
At the center of the battlefield, everything had been flattened.
Only a vast, barren land could be seen.
Just a while ago, mountains, rocks, and trees were here but they had all been pushed away.
"Tsk tsk! What terrifying power."
Orochimaru muttered, watching from more than ten miles away.
Earlier, a casual Shinra Tensei from Pain had sent him flying.
But as the battle between Uchiha Yuta and Pain escalated, he didn't dare to get any closer.
Even from this distance, he could feel the overwhelming force.
It wasn't just the repulsion that was terrifying.
The colossal golden Susanoo was also memacing.
Orochimaru glanced at the Flying Thunder God mark on his body and sighed.
Escape was pointless.
Even if he found a way to remove the mark, if Yuta catches him again, he'll be in real trouble.
He might end up being revived through Edo Tensei and be forced to serve him indefinitely.
Living seemed like the better option to him.
Even from this far, he could tell that if he tried to run, Yuta could instantly kill him.
The looming presence of that golden Susanoo crushed any lingering thoughts of escape.
"Forget it! If they're going to fight to the death, let them."
Orochimaru sighed, feeling a rare sense of powerlessness.
He was one of the legendary Sannin, yet here he was, stuck in a hopeless situation.
Pain was once just a brat that Jiraiya trained.
But he had now become a monster wielding godlike power.
Yuta had once been nothing more than a little child struggling to stall him with the Eight Inner Gates.
But he was now fighting with Pain on equal footing.
What is Orochimaru's situation?
One wants to execute him for being a traitor, and the other wants to enslave him for eternity.
What the hell was happening to this world?!
Where did all these freaks come from?
As far as he was concerned, the best outcome was for both of them to kill each other.
...
Pain was in complete shock.
"How is this possible…?"
Yuta's complete body Susanoo was unharmed even after facing his strongest Shinra Tensei.
Earlier, Yuta had mentioned that his Susanoo was only in its second or third form.
But now, in its complete body state, the Susanoo had effortlessly withstood an attack that should have been capable of destroying a village.
This didn't make sense.
He wielded the Rinnegan, the legendary eyes of the Sage of Six Paths.
How could his power pale in comparison to the Sharingan of a single Uchiha?
A massive golden blade sliced through the air, rushing toward him.
"Shit!"
Pain used repulsion to barely dodge that attack.
Boom!
The ground below was slashed open, leaving a deep canyon that stretched for miles.
The force of the attack shook the battlefield.
Pain didn't dare to stay in place. He immediately flew further back.
Whoosh!
The Susanoo's golden wings flapped, sending a violent gust through the battlefield.
Pain wobbled in midair and struggled to stay in the air.
"This guy…"
His frustration increased.
Why did Yuta have so much chakra?!
Using a complete body Susanoo should take an immense amount of Chakra.
Even didn't have this kind of chakra reserve.
For a moment, he even doubted his own lineage.
Was his Rinnegan fake?
Was his Uzumaki heritage fake?
"Do you still want to keep fighting?"
Yuta's voice rang out from within the Susanoo.
"I told you before that you know too little about the world and even less about power."
Pain's expression darkened.
"You have the Rinnegan and the Uzumaki bloodline, yet you can't bring out the true power of those eyes." Yuta continued.
Rinnegan is the fusion of Indra's Yin and Asura's Yang.
Any wielder of those two forces can single-handedly overpower Nine Tails at it's peak.
But even after using Chibaku Tensei, Pain couldn't handle just half of Nine Tails' power.
When Madara had first regained the Rinnegan, he easily suppressed the tailed beasts.
When Sasuke awakened got a Rinnegan, he controlled the tailed beasts with a single glance.
Then, he trapped them inside a Chibaku Tensei as if they were nothing more than chakra batteries.
Nagato was different. He wasn't the original owner of Rinnegan, and his control over it was lacking.
Even his Shinra Tensei couldn't reach its full potential.
Pain clenched his fists.
"I haven't used all my moves yet!"
His voice was filled with frustration.
Yuta's words nearly made him doubt himself.
But he was certain of one thing. The Rinnegan's true power had yet to be unleashed.
Pain descended from the air, and pressed his hands together in a firm seal.
At the same time!
Within the hollowed-out tree
Nagato coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Konan worriedly said, "Nagato! What are you doing?!"
"There's no need to take it this far! If he's too strong, just retreat!"
Nagato shook his head as blood dripped from his mouth.
He said in a weak voice, "Don't stop me, Konan…"
"Uchiha Yuta… Let's see if you can handle this!"
A black sphere appeared in his trembling palm.
The air around the black sphere warped.
The black sphere was so dark, and so dense, that even light seemed to be devoured by it.
Nagato raised his hand and let go.
The black sphere shot into the sky.
"Chibaku Tensei!"
Pain's voice thundered across the battlefield.
A massive gravitational explosion erupted.
CRACK!
The ground split apart.
Everything including rocks, trees, even chunks of mountains began rising into the air, drawn toward the black core.
"What the hell is going on?!"
Even though he was over ten miles away, Orochimaru could still feel the pull.
If the gravitational force was this strong here, how insane was it at the center?!
He has to move.
Meanwhile, the golden Susanoo was also being pulled towards the core of Chibaku Tensei.
Orochimaru glanced back as he fled.
"Come on, Pain. Kill him." He muttered under his breath.
Pain was dangerous but at least he wasn't trying to enslave him.
If someone was going to win no matter what, he really didn't want that person to be Yuta.
Back on the battlefield, Yuta remained composed.
He let the Susanoo be pulled in, and let the Susanoo draw both of it's swords.
In the sky, a massive sphere that was hundreds of meters in diameter was forming.
But Yuta remained unfazed.
"Not now."
The Susanoo lifted its sword.
Yuta didn't resist the pull. Instead, he allowed the gravity to pull him in and then swung his blade.
BOOM!
A single earth-shattering slash tore through the sky.
The colossal sphere split apart. The black core at its center shattered instantly.
The entire Chibaku Tensei, Pain's ultimate technique was undone in a single stroke.
Pain's expression froze in horror.
"Impossible."