128: Super Shinra Tensei VS the Seven-in-One Mechanical Devil!

The sky was completely torn apart.

With Heaven Realm Pain at the center, the figures of the other five Pains suddenly blurred, transforming into five streams of pure Chakra torrents, all pouring into Heaven Realm’s body.

Heaven Realm Pain glowed all over, the radiance dazzling and violent, unlike anything from the human world, as if he would collapse into nothingness in the next second.

In the high sky, the black energy sphere was no longer purely black; a gravitational singularity seemed to have been born within it, light was distorted, sound was swallowed, and ripples visible to the naked eye appeared in the surrounding space.

Doomsday had arrived.

“Quick! Defend!”

Inside Hidden Sand Village, Fourth Kazekage Rasa roared himself hoarse. Golden sand rose from his feet, transforming into layer upon layer of incredibly thick, giant shields, protecting the Village’s front.

“Roar—!”

Shukaku inside Bunpuku also smelled death. It completely went berserk, its massive Chakra mixed with high-density sand and soil, constructing a colossal sand wall inscribed with countless incantations.

The strongest absolute defense!

The core of Senro · Myriad Unbinding furiously operated, extracting hard minerals from deep underground, mixing them with Chakra, and condensing its ultimate defense in front—Kazekage Shield!

Jia Jian, meanwhile, curled into the most perfect spherical shape. On its yellowish-brown carapace, the luster of obsidian steel flowed, and layers of Earth Release: Hardening Jutsu light covered it, like a stubborn meteorite, blocking in front of all defenses.

Four layers of absolute defense!

This was the strongest protection Sunagakure could muster, having poured everything into it.

Nagato, through Heaven Realm’s Rinnegan, looked down on all of this with indifference.

The struggles of ants, pathetic and ridiculous.

“Before the power of God, all is illusion.”

His raised hands were about to swing down.

However, just a second before destruction descended, Tang Yan, sitting on the back of Shanxiao - Giyan, suddenly curved his lips into a strange, somewhat fanatical smile.

It wasn’t the self-mockery of someone facing a desperate situation, but the unique anticipation of a hunter seeing his prey step into the final trap.

Heaven Realm Pain’s movement, because of this smile, paused for one-thousandth of a second.

Incorrect.

Nagato’s thoughts froze for the first time.

This man had no despair, no fear, and even… not the slightest intention to defend!

How could he?

The next instant, an anomaly suddenly occurred!

On the battlefield, the young puppet Pharmacist Qin, which had been providing support to its allies, suddenly erupted with dazzling light from its “pseudo-core” energy core in its chest!

But what was released in the light was not healing Yang Release Chakra, nor was it a mutually destructive, sickly green poisonous mist!

Instead, it was tens of thousands of transparent threads, finer than hair, almost imperceptible to the naked eye!

Tang Clan Hidden Threads! Hair-thin Shadowless Silk!

These threads, like a living spider web, connected precisely and accurately to all the puppets on the battlefield at a speed exceeding lightning!

Whether it was Asura · Modified, Shanxiao - Giyan, or Jia Jian, which were firmly entangled by the King of Hell’s Ghost Hand.

Or Senro · Myriad Unbinding, which was constantly rubbing sand from a distance.

Or even Netherworld, which had just awakened a new power in its energy clash with the King of Hell.

Even Owl · Stealth, which had fallen to the ground with its eye-piece dimmed!

Seven puppets, at the same moment, were connected into an unprecedented whole through these Shadowless Silks!

“What is that thing?!”

For the first time, an alarm named “loss of control” appeared in Nagato’s mind.

It wasn’t Chakra threads! The essence of this thing was beyond his comprehension!

Tang Yan didn’t answer him, but merely issued the final command through a mental link, in a tone almost like a chant.

“Hidden Protocol… Activate!”

“Codename—”

“Seven Stars Conjunction · Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Craft!”

Boom!

The moment the command was given, without chanting or hand signs.

The core energies of the seven puppets, under the forced connection of the Tang Clan Hidden Threads, erupted into an unprecedented violent resonance, forming a huge and complex energy closed-loop!

They were no longer independent entities!

They were decomposing! They were reconstructing!

“Crack! Crack, crack!”

Jia Jian’s perfect spherical armor shattered in response, transforming into hundreds of thick rhomboid armor plates, which, under the traction of an invisible force, reassembled at an astonishing speed into a ferocious humanoid skeleton!

An indestructible torso!

“Hiss—!”

Shanxiao - Giyan’s eight-legged blades were forcibly torn from its main body, accompanied by the piercing shriek of metal friction, transforming into eight ferocious ribs, fiercely embedded on both sides of the new torso! The poisonous barbs at their ends gleamed with a faint green cold light!

The six arms torn off by the King of Hell from Asura · Modified, along with all the hidden mechanisms within its broken main body, disintegrated with a crash! They transformed into a torrent of steel, all pouring into the gaps of the new skeleton, forming its internal structure, joints, and weapon system!

Peacock Plume, Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle, Wrath of Buddha Tang Lotus… all of Tang Clan’s peerless hidden weapons, at this moment, were fully loaded and ready to fire!

Immediately after, Senro · Myriad Unbinding’s sand core integrated into it, and endless adamantine sand surged out from its body, covering the surface of the new body like liquid metal, forming a layer of sand armor that could flow at will!

In the corner, Owl · Stealth’s dimmed night vision crystal eye suddenly burst forth with strong light, whistling as it flew to the top of the new body’s head, embedding into a newly formed groove, transforming into a scarlet single eye providing a 360-degree, dead-angle-free field of vision!

Pharmacist Qin’s “pseudo-core” core, at this moment, completely burned! It transformed into the beating heart of this giant, with tens of thousands of Shadowless Silks as its nerves and blood vessels, perfectly connecting this terrifying pile of “parts”!

Finally, Netherworld!

Its black body, containing the power of termination and Samsara, crashed heavily into the new puppet’s chest like a meteorite, transforming into a bottomless energy vortex!

The decaying stony texture, following the core, rapidly spread like a plague to every inch of the entire mechanism!

A colossal mechanical creation, over twenty meters tall, combining defense, assassination, burst, long-range, area-of-effect, extreme poison, and petrification, stood on the ground!

It was like a war demon god that had stepped out of ancient myths!

Nagato, through Heaven Realm Pain’s perspective, watched this “monster” that had completed its assembly in mere seconds, and for the first time, intense ripples appeared in his Rinnegan.

What is this thing?

Is this… puppet jutsu?

What a joke!

“Feel Pain.”

Heaven Realm Pain’s cold voice finally sounded.

He swung his hands down.

Almighty Push!

Explode!

The world instantly lost sound and color.

Only a pure, merciless, repulsive white light remained, intent on completely leveling, crushing, and turning everything in heaven and earth into dust!

The outermost buildings of Hidden Sand Village evaporated silently the moment they touched the white light.

The four layers of absolute defense constructed by Rasa and Shukaku couldn’t even hold for a second before that god-like power.

The first layer, the giant golden sand shield, vaporized!

The second layer, the Shukaku sand wall, shattered!

The third layer, the Kazekage Shield, disintegrated!

The fourth layer, Jia Jian’s main body, which should have been at the very front, had now become the skeleton of the demon god!

The halo of destruction descended directly upon the newly combined war demon god!

Nagato’s face already showed the ruthlessness of erasing everything.

It was over.

Such a thing should not exist in this world.

However, that giant war demon god, facing this world-destroying attack, made a move that Nagato could not comprehend.

It did not defend.

It raised its gigantic sharp claw, composed of countless hidden weapons and blades, and fearlessly met the center of the destructive halo, without dodging!

On the surface of the sharp claw, that layer of decaying petrifying Qi Poison surged wildly!

“Using a puppet’s body to resist Shinra Tensei?”

“Seeking death!”

The next second.

The ultimate confrontation of repulsion and construction collided head-on!

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only a silent, intense hum, powerful enough to make the entire desert plate tremble!

Light swallowed everything.

After an unknown period, when the destructive repulsive field finally exhausted its energy, smoke and sandstorms still enveloped the entire battlefield, obscuring everyone’s vision.

The outskirts of Hidden Sand Village had been forcibly erased into a huge semicircle, with edges as smooth as a mirror.

Rasa and Bunpuku, covered in blood, lay collapsed on the ground, staring in horror at the chaotic area.

Lost…

Everything…

Nagato, through his Rinnegan, stared intently at the center of the smoke.

Had he won?

Nothing could possibly… withstand that level of Almighty Push…

In the dead silence, a faint metallic scraping sound came from the core of the smoke.

“Click.”

The sound wasn’t loud, but it clearly entered the mind of every Pain.

Immediately after, in that chaotic smoke, a point of scarlet light suddenly lit up.

Like the eye of a demon god that refused to close in the dark night.