Chapter 48: Konoha Collapse Plan
Nagato finally stood up!
Under many days of Yang Release nourishment, Nagato's depleted body finally recovered its health.
His originally skeletal frame gradually filled out.
His most severely injured legs also completely healed, becoming like a normal person's.
Nagato held Konan's hand, moving bit by bit back and forth at the tower's top.
Konan's face was full of emotion as she thanked Yasushi incoherently:
"Yasushi, I don't even know how to thank you!"
"Thanks to your help, Nagato can stand again."
"Hey hey, Konan, you don't need to be so polite." Yasushi grinned, waving his hand courteously. "Nagato is originally descended from the Uzumaki clan. His recovery ability was always very strong—he was just dragged down by the Rinnegan so his recovery ability couldn't manifest, which is why he looked like a mummy."
"I merely fed the Rinnegan full, so Nagato's own recovery ability naturally exerted its effect, allowing his body to recover."
Nagato and Konan only thought he was being polite, not considering at all why their own Rinnegan was actually a burden. They continued thanking him profusely.
After moving around several circles, Nagato returned to his seat, solemnly promising:
"Yasushi, I'll naturally do what I promised you."
"Sasori's mission was also completed very well—Kakuzu has been successfully recruited and will soon return to Rain Village."
"Summon everyone for a meeting. Once they return, we'll attack Konoha Village and let those from the great nations also experience war's suffering!"
After listening, Yasushi immediately felt great joy.
"Hahaha..."
"Excellent! I've finally waited for this day!"
Yasushi immediately went out to personally notify everyone to come to the tower top for a meeting.
Now that Nagato's body had recovered, naturally he no longer needed to hide behind the scenes. He could completely stand at the forefront, controlling the entire Akatsuki organization.
If anyone dared disobey, he could completely use force to suppress them.
Soon, everyone arrived at the tower top, gathering together.
Nagato sat upright in the conference room's head position. Behind him, the Six Paths stood in a line. Without saying anything, just standing there, anyone fixed by seven pairs of Rinnegan would feel their hair stand on end.
Previously active outside was Tendo Pain, and everyone thought Pain was Akatsuki's leader.
When facing Minato Namikaze last time, the Asura Path appeared briefly but vanished afterward.
Though other Akatsuki members were surprised by the second pair of Rinnegan's appearance, what followed—"Uchiha Madara," the "prophetic" Mangekyo Sharingan seeing the future, "immortality techniques," Pain's severely injured "Nagato" behind him—various matters arrived in succession, dazzling people and instead not drawing much attention to this matter.
After all, one pair of Rinnegan was already invincible. One more pair wasn't that remarkable.
They couldn't win anyway!
But sitting here now, they discovered the opposite side wasn't two pairs of Rinnegan at all, but a full seven pairs!
Seven pairs!
What kind of concept was that?
How many people were in Akatsuki?
If each pair of Rinnegan was as powerful as Pain, why recruit S-rank rogue ninja?
With this power, they could directly dominate the shinobi world, okay?
Facing everyone's shocked uncertainty, Nagato didn't keep them in suspense, directly saying:
"I am Nagato, and also Pain."
"All along, because of severe injuries, I could only recuperate at the tower top while Pain appeared in public, controlling Akatsuki."
"Now, thanks to Yasushi's help, my injuries have finally recovered."
"From today forward, I will step to the forefront, letting the entire shinobi world feel pain and thus begin cherishing peace's value."
"Pain and the other five are all puppets created by the Rinnegan's accompanying jutsu 'Six Paths of Reincarnation.'"
"I won't elaborate on specific intelligence. Everyone only needs to know these six all represent my will."
After listening, everyone immediately gasped.
They'd all witnessed Pain's power before. Now they learned this immensely powerful figure was merely a human puppet.
So how powerful was Leader Nagato, who controlled six human puppets?
No wonder Yasushi dared say once Nagato recovered his health, he'd be invincible!
This was truly terrifying!
Orochimaru had previously heard from Yasushi about the "Sage of Six Paths" immortality method—using Rinnegan plus Ten-Tails jinchuriki. So though he'd already begun working on the "Tenseigan" matter, he wasn't without covetous thoughts toward the "Rinnegan."
What Uchiha Yasushi could scheme for, why couldn't he, Orochimaru?
But seeing these six puppets now, his heart immediately chilled halfway.
After all, it was the "Sage of Six Paths" method!
So powerful!
But simultaneously, he also began anticipating the Tenseigan's might.
Yasushi had said the Tenseigan's power was no less than the Rinnegan's.
That meant even if Yasushi's words were somewhat biased and the Tenseigan was inferior to the Rinnegan, surely its power wouldn't differ too much?
Regarding everyone present's small calculations, Nagato didn't pay much attention. He only waved his hand, having Yasushi share intelligence with everyone.
Yasushi naturally accepted. He was extremely enthusiastic about leaking Konoha's intelligence and secrets.
"Konoha is the shinobi world's strongest ninja village. Who knows how many powerful ninja are inside? Those secret techniques and forbidden techniques are countless as cow hairs."
"I'll only mention intelligence on relatively threatening figures, but encountering figures outside the intelligence during combat isn't impossible."
"First are Konoha's Sannin. Lord Orochimaru is already one of us, so we'll ignore him."
"Tsunade Senju can also be ignored."
"Though her monstrous strength technique is very powerful and she has Senju clan bloodline, extremely durable in prolonged combat, she's now afflicted with hemophobia and cannot fight."
"If engaging her in combat, don't face her directly. Just splash blood on her and you can immediately reduce her combat ability to zero."
"Just seize the opportunity—don't let Konoha Village ninja rescue her—and you can easily eliminate her."
"Also, don't verbally provoke her, otherwise if you provoke her too much and cure her hemophobia, that'll be troublesome."
"The only thing needing attention is she has the Slug Sage contract and can summon massive quantities of slugs to replenish Konoha Village ninja's chakra and heal injuries."
"If so, she doesn't need to participate in battle at all. Just sitting in the rear can bring us certain trouble."
"Jiraiya, also one of the Sannin, has already mastered Sage Mode..."
"There's also Might Guy—don't know which Gate of the Eight Gates he's mastered..."
"Also be careful of mutual destruction forbidden techniques, especially 'Reaper Death Seal'—once hit, there's almost no solution..."
Uchiha Yasushi rattled off all the intelligence he knew. The detail was so thorough that even the Third Hokage himself might not be clearer than him.
Everyone listening was shocked, increasingly believing Yasushi's Mangekyo Sharingan ocular technique was "healing and prophecy." But simultaneously they also grew more wary of Yasushi, equally worried whether their own intelligence was grasped by him in such detail.
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