Chapter 176: Nagato is crushed
After continuously maxing out his own buffs and at least reaching a state where the basic panel would not be crushed by Uchiha Feiyu, Uzumaki Nagato, who was floating in the sky, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Uchiha Feiyu, who was standing on the ground, looked at Uzumaki Nagato in the sky and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He had originally planned to kill Nagato and then go looking for trouble with Jiraiya and the others, but he didn't expect that Uzumaki Nagato would directly summon the two Toad Sages from Mount Myoboku, which saved him a lot of trouble.

"Sage Mode... You don't think you're the only one who can do it!"

Although Uchiha Feiyu's appearance did not change at all, the natural energy surrounding him seemed to be swallowed by some invisible object and poured into his body madly.

Even the sun in the sky burst into dazzling light in an instant, and then became dim. The endless light was absorbed by him. In Nagato's perception, Uchiha Feiyu seemed to have turned into an endless black hole.

"Nagato-chan, be careful... The opponent's Sage Mode is so terrifying! It can absorb so much natural energy!"

"I know...it seems we all underestimated him!"

However, this state did not last long. The original Uchiha Feiyu could be in Sage Mode all the time, constantly absorbing the natural energy produced by the planet. However, since he discovered that he was about to enter the energy state, he cut off his way of absorbing natural energy.

That's why he needs to increase the Sage Mode Buff before the battle, and he dare not stay in the Sage State for too long, otherwise he will most likely slide directly into the direction of Otsutsuki's evolution and become an energy-state life.

"Be ready, don't blink!"

Looking at Nagato standing in the sky, Uchiha Feiyu said slowly, and the Susanoo armor with flashing lightning instantly appeared on his body, and he appeared in front of Nagato in an instant.

A look of horror appeared in Nagato's purple eyes of samsara, and a terrifying repulsive force erupted from his body again:
"Shinra Tenzheng!"

"Shinra Tenzheng!"

With a loud bang, the two identical repulsive forces collided with each other. After a moment of stalemate, Nagato was directly flung away.

"How is it possible... that guy... how could that guy possess the ability of the Rinnegan?!"

Nagato fell to the ground and rolled for a while before standing up. However, he could no longer conceal the horror in his eyes when he looked at Uchiha Feiyu standing in the sky.

"In theory, the Samsara Eye is indeed the manifestation of the Sharingan evolving to its final form... but... this guy is just an ordinary Uchiha, how is it possible... it's really puzzling."

Black Zetsu, who was attached to Nagato, was also puzzled and muttered a few words. On the surface, it seemed that Hashirama Senju's cells plus the Eternal Mangekyō could awaken the Rinnegan, but in fact, Black Zetsu knew very well that without the chakras of Ashura and Indra, awakening the Rinnegan was just a dream!
You have to know that Uchiha Madara's strength is one of the best among all the Indras in history - not every generation of Indra has brothers and sisters, and not every generation of Indra's brothers and sisters can awaken the Mangekyō!
Without brothers and sisters' Mangekyō, no matter how talented Indra's reincarnation is, it is impossible to reach the level of Eternal Mangekyō. It can be said that Uchiha Madara's strength can at least rank in the top three among Indra's reincarnations over thousands of years!

And Hashirama Senju is even more perverted. Indra always has the upper hand in the battles between the reincarnations of Indra and Ashura. Even in the first battle between Indra and Ashura, Ashura had to bring the Nine-Tails to fight against him.

However, as the Ashura of this generation, Hashirama Senju completely killed Uchiha Madara, the Indra, and even forced Uchiha Madara to find the Nine-Tails as a summoned beast, but it was still beaten up by Hashirama Senju!
When he had three magatama, Uchiha Madara was beaten up by Hashirama Senju. When he had Mangekyō, Uchiha Madara was beaten up by Hashirama Senju who had awakened his Sage Body and Wood Release. When he had Eternal Mangekyō, Uchiha Madara was beaten up by Hashirama Senju who had learned the Sage Mode!

It can be said that Uchiha Madara, the reincarnation of Indra, had a tragic life of being beaten by Hashirama Senju. Until his resurrection, he had never defeated Hashirama Senju once.

Uchiha Feiyu even suspected that Hashirama Senju's strength was probably even greater than that of the first generation Ashura.

After all, the two sides have an obvious reference. Kurama's strength will only become stronger than it was a thousand years ago, not weaker. Since the original Kurama could participate in the war a thousand years ago instead of being regarded as a burden by Indra Asura, it is obvious that even if his strength is slightly inferior to Indra Asura, it is by no means a world of difference.

In the battle between Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, although Kurama was able to intervene, the strength he displayed was just that. In fact, in a one-on-one fight, even without counting the Sharingan illusions and Wood Release's control over the tailed beasts, it would be very easy for Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama to defeat the Nine-Tails.

From this we can also see that the strength of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama is not much worse than their ancestors, and Senju Hashirama may even be stronger than Ashura!
These two reincarnations of Indra and Ashura are already the most talented combination in a thousand years. Even so, after fusing with the cells of Hashirama Senju, it took Uchiha Madara several decades, until he was almost old and frail, before he awakened the Rinnegan.

Just an ordinary Eternal Mangekyo, fusing a little bit of Hashirama Senju's cells to awaken the Samsara Eye? How is that possible?

However, the pupil power displayed by Uchiha Feiyu made Black Zetsu and Nagato very sure that although the other party only had three magatama in his eyes, he had indeed awakened the Rinnegan, and his use of the Rinnegan was definitely better than Nagato's.

This is nonsense. After all, Nagato's eyes were transplanted. No matter how they were used, they could never compare to Uchiha Feiyu's original awakening.

Uchiha Feiyu, who was floating in the sky, stretched lazily, and his joints made crackling sounds. It had been a long time since he had fought with all his strength.

Even in the battle with the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee, Uchiha Feiyu actually suppressed a lot of power. At least he did not use either the Sage Mode or the Rinnegan, but only used the White Fang Sword Technique and Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Now feeling the endless power in his body and looking at the opponent in front of him who was barely worthy of a fight, Uchiha Feiyu also perked up a little.

When Uchiha Feiyu looked at Uzumaki Nagato, Uzumaki Nagato actually had a vague feeling as if he was being targeted by a natural enemy, and his body trembled slightly.

"Be careful, Nagato! That guy is going to attack again!"

The Toad Sage who was lying on his shoulder gave a loud reminder. At the same time, Uchiha Feiyu turned into a flash of lightning and chopped down with the long sword in his hand again!

A rumbling sound exploded in the air, and at the same time, a white umbrella-shaped air wave was set off around Uchiha Feiyu. The aftermath of the movement alone was no less than that of a normal C-level or even B-level wind ninjutsu! Since he had the Samsara Eye, Nagato had never been unable to see the opponent's situation clearly. However, when Uchiha Feiyu broke through the sound barrier and reached a speed of five times the speed of sound, he only felt a flash before his eyes, and the knife light was already approaching.

Fortunately, under the Sage Mode, Nagato's perception ability was greatly increased. Even if his eyes could not see clearly, he could still feel the opponent's imminent attack. In an instant, two arms grew on his shoulders, crossing in front of the black sword.

With a crack, the two arms instantly exploded into pieces, but Nagato also took this opportunity to escape from Uchiha Feiyu's attack range and breathed a sigh of relief.

"The ability of Shura Dao? It's just nonsense!"

Without giving Nagato time to catch his breath, Uchiha Feiyu appeared in front of Nagato again with a terrifying sonic boom, as if teleporting, and chopped him down with the same simple move.

"Senjutsu - Frog Kumite!"

The two toads standing on Nagato's shoulders stretched out their tiny frog fists, and formed invisible energy arms with condensed natural energy, and slammed towards Uchiha Feiyu who was rushing over. There was a brief stalemate with Uchiha Feiyu's chopped long sword, and then they were directly shaken away.

However, this brief period of stalemate allowed Nagato to recover. He glared and used Shinra Tensei once again.

However, this time, the Shinra Tensei was not intended to attack Uchiha Feiyu, but to directly bounce Nagato himself away!
"Tsk, is there any point? If you keep dodging like this, you are no match for me!"

Uchiha Feiyu slowly rose from the ground and stood in the sky. He looked at Nagato below who looked rather embarrassed, and spoke lightly.

"Look around you! If you keep dodging like this, Akatsuki will probably be destroyed."

Upon hearing this, Nagato's eyes narrowed and he glanced around. Even though the fight between the two was only a few quick rounds and he was still in a passive state of being beaten, for strong men of their level, just moving at full speed was enough to be called a natural disaster, not to mention performing ninjutsu.

Moving at several times the speed of sound, it was enough to create an air ripple that was close to a B-level ninjutsu. The few moves of Shinra Tensei that he casually performed were enough to destroy a city block with each strike. Every time Uchiha Feiyu slashed down with his sword, it created a sword energy that was enough to split mountains apart...

In just a dozen seconds, half of the Akatsuki base had been destroyed, and more than a hundred Akatsuki ninjas had died in the aftermath alone!

Seeing this scene, Nagato's face looked very ugly. You have to know that the current Nagato is not the cold-blooded Pain in the original work, and these members of the Akatsuki organization are not those traitors who have committed heinous crimes and deserve to die. Nagato still has a lot of feelings for the current members of the Akatsuki organization.

"Don't waver! Nagato! Facing an opponent like this, we don't have the luxury of controlling the scale of the battle!"

The two toad sages sitting on Nagato's shoulders immediately spoke up to remind him. After hearing this, Nagato's face straightened and he nodded slightly:

"I understand, Shima-sennin, Fukasaku-sennin!"

Although he felt very sad about the worthless sacrifice of the Akatsuki members, the dead were ordinary members of the Akatsuki after all, not Nagato's close friends like Konan and Yahiko, so it was not enough to make Nagato lose his mind.

However, Uchiha Feiyu only said this casually. Seeing that Nagato did not waver, he did not care and chopped down again with his sword.

From the beginning till now, apart from occasionally using Shinra Tensei and Mankind Seiki, Uchiha Feiyu relied on his extremely strong physical fitness to crush Nagato and put him in danger.

Although Uchiha Feiyu has now truly stepped into the threshold of the Six Paths level and possesses a variety of powerful ninjutsu, when facing opponents of the same level, he finds that this simplest physical technique is still the most useful.

As for ninjutsu, unless they are some unique secret techniques, conventional ninjutsu at the Six Paths level can only be used as auxiliary abilities in battles at the same level. They can be used to force the enemy to retreat and regroup, but they have no lethality.

As for illusions, even if Uchiha Feiyu possesses secret techniques such as the Dushen Jutsu, he is restricted by the limitations of chakra energy itself and has no way of using it against an opponent who also possesses the Rinnegan.

Only physical skills will never go out of date. As long as you are strong enough, fast enough, and physically fit enough, you can defeat either Ōtsutsuki Kaguya or Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with just one punch.

Just like now, Uchiha Feiyu did not use any powerful offensive ninjutsu, nor did he use any unique Samsara Eye technique. He just relied on his strong physique added by chakra and the Lightning Armor to increase his own strength and speed to an incredible level. With just a random blow from him, Nagato would have to do his best to resist.

Seeing that Uchiha Feiyu was about to attack him again, Nagato, who had just recovered from the five-minute cooldown period of Shinra Tensei, activated Shinra Tensei again and flung himself away.

"No, this guy is too fast and too strong... He can't even catch his breath. There's no way we can do that..."

Uzumaki Nagato had no time to think about the rest of the thoughts, because Uchiha Feiyu appeared in front of him again and chopped him off on the head with the same sword.

But this time, when he drew his sword, a faint light flashed in Uchiha Feiyu's eyes, and he glanced at a toad sitting on Uzumaki Nagato's shoulder.

In an instant, three magatama appeared in the eyes of the toad. In just a moment, Nagato felt the fairy chakra in his body, which was originally a trinity and flawless, tremble.

Shima Sennin, who was on one of his shoulders, was now controlled by Uchiha Feiyu's illusion and had completely stopped absorbing natural energy.

Although Nagato could use Yin-Yang Release and the power of the Rinnegan to help Shima Sage break the illusion within a second, he lost the balance of Sage Chakra in that instant. Even if he did not exit the Sage Mode, his strength would undoubtedly be weakened a little bit.

(End of this chapter)