Crack... crack...
The Asura Path Pain made the first move.
Uehara Naraku stood on high ground, looking down as the arms of the Asura Path Pain transformed into two heavy machine guns, spraying bullets continuously with flashes of fire bursting from the muzzles!
Under the crossfire of the Asura Path's two heavy machine guns, Jiraiya could only roll on the ground awkwardly, quickly forming hand seals.
"Earth Release: Earth Wall!"
A solid earth wall appeared in front of Jiraiya, giving him a moment of relief, but the next second, the newly erected solid wall was blown to pieces!
Jiraiya seized the opportunity to swiftly complete a jutsu with hand seals: "Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bomb!"
A torrent of flames surged from his mouth!
The Preta Path Pain leaped forward, blocking Jiraiya's Fire Dragon Flame Bomb, his arms slightly open, absorbing all the Chakra from it!
The Pain of Six Paths.
These are six puppets that can cooperate with each other, not only complementing each other's abilities but also sharing their vision.
With a serious expression, Jiraiya stared at the Pain of Six Paths, having learned from the earlier information that these Pains were merely puppets controlled by Nagato, although he hadn't expected these puppets to possess such varied and magical abilities!
Just two of the Pains made his hopes seem futile, these two were incredibly powerful, so what of the other Pains?
Jiraiya's gaze shifted slightly, pausing on the Deva Path of Pain, who hadn't moved the whole time. Clearly, Jiraiya never believed that the puppet made from Yahiko's corpse wouldn't be formidable, sure to have even more eerie abilities!
Sure enough.
The Deva Path Pain flew towards Jiraiya, a Yin Yang Release Black Rod forming in his hand, stabbing directly towards Jiraiya's body, initiating a Taijutsu battle between former master and student!
The Asura Path Pain's arm transformed into a sniper rifle, firing a sneak shot from the side. With the shared vision of the Pain of Six Paths, the Asura Path Pain hardly needed to aim, directly shooting at Jiraiya!
Jiraiya could only twist swiftly!
In an instant, a dark bullet grazed Jiraiya's body, bursting a flower of blood on his shoulder!
Just a few minutes into the battle, Jiraiya was directly injured by Asura Path's chilling shot!
The next moment, Jiraiya quickly pressed his shoulder, his eyes flickering slightly, leveraging his way into a tunnel!
From Jiraiya's experience, he didn't believe there was any point in staying any longer.
Just the collaboration of two or three Pains made him helpless, he had to find a way to separate the Pain of Six Paths!
If no way could be found, he would have to escape.
Jiraiya fully understood why no intruders ever left the Hidden Rain Village; surrounded by such bizarrely capable enemies, escape indeed seemed a luxury.
"But, I am the Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku!"
Jiraiya chuckled bitterly in an attempt to find joy in adversity, hiding within the tunnel, rushing towards another exit.
"Jiraiya-sensei, escaping is pointless."
The face of the Asura Path Pain began to change gradually, quickly turning into a strange device, scanning back and forth for Jiraiya's fleeing direction. Evidently, this was a radar scanning tool similar to Chakra imaging.
Uehara Naraku stood in the air, watching everything, his eye twitching involuntarily; back then he had prompted Nagato to modify the Asura Path Pain, seemingly filling the last loophole of the Pain of Six Paths, which was the shortcoming in long-distance Perception Ninjutsu.
In the next moment, the radar panel on the face of the Asura Path Pain locked onto Jiraiya's position, suddenly raising his hand, strange missiles appearing beneath his palm, launching fiercely towards the tunnel exit that Jiraiya fled through.
These missiles, with peculiar trajectories that made their directions impossible to discern, flew into the tunnel without any explosion sounds during the course.
Obviously, these were cruise missiles, all controlled by the Asura Path Pain, set to attack only upon discovering the target.
Inside the tunnel, Jiraiya watched the incoming missiles, attempting to dodge their attacks, not expecting them all to fly directly towards him!
This was the unique trait of cruise missiles.
Evidently, Jiraiya was unaware of these missiles' distinct differences.
"No time to form hand seals!"
Jiraiya's expression changed, hurriedly draping his hair over himself: "Ninpo: Needle Jizo!"
The first missile directly blasted Jiraiya away!
Jiraiya could only helplessly endure this hit, luckily being blasted away by the missile bought him a bit of time!
"Fire Release: Great Flame Bomb!"
Jiraiya's mouth suddenly spewed dense flames, directly triggering the remaining cruise missiles to explode, barely allowing him to relax: "They can actively track the target?"
"Toad Concealment Jutsu!"
Jiraiya rapidly folded his palms, and in the passage, a toad appeared, slowly swallowing him, hiding him within its belly.
Hiding in the toad's stomach, Jiraiya held his wound, revealing a bitter smile on his face, he hadn't anticipated that at the very start of the battle, he'd already been severely injured by Pain.
What should he use to fight now?