The sudden action of the 'Gedo Statue' broke the expectations of both Shinji and Nagato, catching them both off guard.
But relatively speaking, this sudden change was more favorable to Nagato, who was at a clear disadvantage in the war situation.
However, in the confrontation with Shinji just now, Nagato not only consumed a large amount of chakra, but the three tomoe on his Rinnegan also disappeared due to the loss of pupil power. After all, the 'Three Tomoe Rinnegan' was not a stable state.
So at this time, Nagato's pupil power had not recovered, unable to assist the 'Gedo Statue' in competing with Shinji for Tailed Beast chakra. He could only squat halfway on the head of the 'Gedo Statue' covering his eyes, watching all this happen helplessly.
Shinji's pupil power was obviously much stronger than Nagato, so he reacted immediately.
His 'Susanoo' extended both arms, fiercely grabbing those chains piercing into his body, trying to stop those chains from dragging Tailed Beast chakra out of his 'Susanoo'.
Originally Shinji wanted to wave his sword and cut these chains directly.
But the blow that slashed and injured the 'Gedo Statue' before had exhausted his accumulated power. Wanting to wave that slash just now again, he must accumulate chakra for a while again.
However, these chains spewed from the mouth of the 'Gedo Statue' had too domineering a restraining effect on Tailed Beasts. Tailed Beast chakra simply had no way to contend. So Shinji had no time to slowly condense chakra, must make a countermeasure immediately.
Otherwise, before his chakra here was condensed sufficiently, the Tailed Beast chakra inside his 'Susanoo' would probably have been dragged away by the chains completely.
The situation fell into a wrestling match again.
Only this time the wrestling parties were no longer Shinji and Nagato, but Shinji's 'Susanoo' and the 'Gedo Statue'.
Clatter...
The 'Gedo Statue' was still pulling chains violently. Even with the power of Shinji's Perfect 'Susanoo', it faintly couldn't hold these chains, letting chains slide slowly between 'Susanoo's palms.
Shinji's face sank seeing this.
Right now Nagato's pupil power opposite hadn't recovered, he could still hold on. But once Nagato's pupil power recovered, it would be hard to say.
The situation suddenly fell into a stalemate, but various forces on the battlefield didn't react.
This was not because ninjas of various forces were slow to react, but because the blow Shinji and Nagato exchanged just now raised a shock wave directly sweeping a range of dozens of miles.
For a time, the battlefield was dark, sand flying and stones rolling, as if a natural disaster occurred.
Under such circumstances, let alone ordinary ninjas, even the Five Kage couldn't ensure their own safety. Everyone could only drift with the tide, either using gullies on the ground to dodge, or activating defensive ninjutsu to resist hard, or directly blown away by the shock wave.
Even members of the two Akatsuki organizations were too busy to look after themselves at this moment.
After all, the Perfect 'Susanoo' activated by Shinji with Six Tomoe Rinnegan was already not inferior in prestige to Madara Uchiha's Perfect 'Susanoo' in the Fourth Great Ninja War in the original timeline. Plus Shinji absorbed all chakra of seven Tailed Beasts in one breath.
It happened that the battlefield here in the Land of Rain was a large plain. If it were the battlefield terrain during the Fourth Great Ninja War in the original timeline, Shinji's slash waving out would definitely shatter more mountain peaks than Madara Uchiha's slash!
Even because of the terrain, not directly hit by the sword wind, the shock wave raised by the sword wind razed the headquarters built by the Ninja Village Alliance with huge sums of money to the ground.
Fortunately, when Shinji and Nagato just fought before, ninjas inside the headquarters had already begun to evacuate, so there were no major casualties.
In the sky-filling dust, Yakumo raised both hands to protect her head, line of sight penetrating through fingers, barely observing the situation of the core battlefield.
Although her 'Ketsuryugan' could see through, the core combat zone was full of violent chakra at this moment. What entered her vision were all shock waves composed of pure chakra, so she couldn't clearly perceive the specific situation either.
"Why are the chakra fluctuations on the battlefield so violent?"
Somewhat uneasy Yakumo hurriedly sensed Ido, letting Ido go to the core battlefield to check the situation.
Compared to her, Ido, a spirit body possessing flying ability and unaffected by physical attacks, was obviously more suitable for reconnaissance.
Obito, also in the dust, was also paying attention to the core battlefield.
Just his Mangekyo Sharingan couldn't even see through, so he wasn't clear about the situation on the core battlefield either. He could only rely on his own 'Kamui' ability, probing to approach the core battlefield bit by bit.
Further away.
Because there was no leverage point in the air, Karin and Konan blown away by the shock wave just now barely stabilized their figures at this time.
Seeing chaos over the core battlefield, both panicked a bit, rushing over there coincidentally.
The reason Karin took action personally to resist Konan was, on one hand, the prestige of Konan's hundreds of billions of explosive tags was too terrifying. Except for her, other colleagues in the organization really might not have the confidence to block Konan. On the other hand, she was very confident in her 'Mind's Eye of the Kagura', feeling even distracted confronting Konan, she could also pay attention to the battle situation on Shinji's side.
But as the war between Shinji and Nagato escalated constantly, chakra fluctuations on the core battlefield became more and more violent, her 'Mind's Eye of the Kagura' also gradually failed along with it.
At this time in her perception, the core battlefield had turned into a chaotic state, filled with various chakras inside. She couldn't get any effective information from it.
This kind of perception failure caused by overly violent, overly huge chakra, she encountered for the first time, so she appeared so helpless.
Just as both sides began to react, each sending people rushing to the core battlefield.
Shinji wrestling with the 'Gedo Statue' suddenly changed his expression, because he noticed Nagato opposite seemed to have recovered pupil power.
Shinji's insight was not wrong.
After panting for a while, Nagato put down the arm covering his eyes, casting his gaze towards Shinji.
Although his pupil power hadn't fully recovered, it could already support him to take action. So with a clap, he clasped his hands together, pouring all recovered pupil power into the 'Gedo Statue', assisting the 'Gedo Statue' to drag chains.
The 'Gedo Statue' already having an advantage, after obtaining Nagato's pupil power support, the force of chain dragging increased greatly instantly.
Clatter...
As the sliding sound rang out continuously, Shinji found his 'Susanoo's arms could no longer hold these chains.
Realizing he couldn't win this wrestling match, Shinji simply gave up continuing wrestling, directly releasing 'Susanoo'. Then with a Body Flicker he closed in front of Nagato, pressing a palm on Nagato's body: "Contract Seal, Release!"
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