In just a few seconds, Sasuke demonstrated terrifying destructive power. Tendo Pain was shocked, and Deidara and the others were equally astonished. The arrogance they had shown earlier vanished, and as they looked at Sasuke, fear appeared on their faces.
Tendo Pain seized the moment before Sasuke could attack them, taking the initiative with "Shinra Tensei." But in the next instant, Sasuke disappeared.
"Boom!" Tendo Pain's Shinra Tensei created a vacuum path several dozen meters long in front of him. However, Sasuke was already gone, and in the next moment, he appeared behind Pain. "Chidori!" "Crack!" Tendo Pain was much faster and more responsive than the other Pains.
In an instant, he dodged to the side, though a few arcs of electricity from the Chidori struck him. Although his back was injured, it wasn't a serious wound.
Sasuke didn't mind; he knew well that Tendo Pain's strength was far superior to the other Pains, especially with the Rinnegan. At that moment, Sasuke noticed several strange ants appearing beneath his feet. Without any hesitation, he vanished once more.
"Boom!" "Boom!" As expected, the ants exploded the moment Sasuke disappeared. The violent explosion blasted a crater several meters wide into the ground. If Sasuke hadn't used his spatial ability to relocate, he might have been injured.
This attack was Deidara's doing, and he was now standing on the back of a clay bird flying in the sky. Sasuke reappeared and looked up at Deidara. "I let you get away last time, but this time, you won't escape."
Seeing Sasuke look at him, Deidara felt a sense of foreboding. Sure enough, in the next moment, Sasuke hurled several kunai and shuriken at Deidara. Enhanced by lightning, their speed was incredible.
But Deidara sneered, "Hahaha, such petty tricks can't possibly harm me." Yet, in the next instant, the kunai and shuriken flying toward Deidara vanished in mid-air. Deidara's sense of foreboding intensified.
As he tried to locate the missing kunai and shuriken, a spatial vortex suddenly appeared several meters behind him in the sky. The vanished kunai and shuriken shot out from the vortex. Caught off guard, Deidara was hit by them.
"Boom!" Instantly, a violent explosion erupted in the sky, the force of which caused a severe tremor in the surrounding ground. A figure was flung from the explosion. Deidara, battered and bruised, hastily formed another clay bird in mid-air.
At this moment, his clothes were in tatters from the explosion, and blood dripped from the corners of his mouth. The explosion had hit him hard. Standing on the back of the clay bird, Deidara said with a grim expression, "I never expected that after playing with explosions for so long, I'd be blown up so badly."
"Uchiha Sasuke, I'll make you pay." With that, Deidara formed a dozen massive clay dragons in the air. "Explosive Dragons, Uchiha Sasuke, die!" The dozen clay dragons, each several meters long, charged from the sky toward Sasuke on the ground.
Just a single one could destroy an entire village. Now, there were dozens of clay dragons simultaneously attacking Sasuke. From above, Deidara laughed maniacally, "The explosion radius of these explosive dragons is one kilometer. No matter how fast you are, you can't escape the blast range, Uchiha Sasuke. You're going to die a miserable death, hahaha!"
Dozens of clay dragons descended from the sky as Sasuke stood on the ground, looking up at them. His gaze sharpened, and in the next moment, his eyes switched to the Mangekyō Sharingan. "Susanoo!" With a hum, Sasuke activated Susanoo in an instant, and a towering purple giant, 200 meters tall, appeared.
Susanoo drew its long sword, slicing through the dozen clay dragons in one swift motion. "Boom!" As soon as the dragons were cut in half, they exploded violently. The terrifying shockwave instantly transferred to the ground.
The ground was immediately covered in blinding light, shattering as massive chunks of earth were blasted into the sky like feathers. Just as these shockwaves were about to sweep across the entire Konoha Village, threatening to cause further damage to the already ruined village, they vanished into the void, forming visible ripples in the air.
The violent explosion was enough to cause horrific secondary damage to Konoha Village, but before the shockwaves could reach other areas, they were absorbed by some force. After the explosion, only the ground beneath Sasuke's Susanoo was affected.
However, because most of the shockwaves were blocked by Sasuke's Susanoo, and the ground beneath was just barren land, there were no casualties.
Sasuke's Susanoo bore the brunt of the shockwaves but remained unscathed. At this moment, Sasuke's Susanoo was even stronger than a fully-formed Susanoo, surpassing the power of Uchiha Madara during the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan period.
While using the power of Ōtsutsuki Urashiki, Sasuke's strength had reached the level of Rinnegan Uchiha Madara, though not yet at the Six Paths level. Standing inside Susanoo, Sasuke looked up at the shocked Deidara.
"Impressive explosion, but useless against me." With that, Sasuke controlled Susanoo to slice Deidara and his clay bird in half. "Boom!" Another violent explosion erupted.
This was the intense explosion that occurred when the clay bird was cut in half. As Sasuke cleaved Deidara in two, a terrifying flame erupted from the side. "Fire Release: Head Mincing Pain, Wind Release: Pressure Damage!" The wind fueled the flames, which surged towards Sasuke's Susanoo like a relentless sea.
Kakuzu roared, "Don't get cocky, you brat!" But Sasuke merely glanced at the wave-like flames and then ignored them, turning his attention to Tendo Pain, who was gathering chakra.
"Boom!" The wave-like flames, stretching hundreds of meters, crashed against Susanoo. The flames, capable of melting a person instantly, scorched Susanoo, but no matter how intense the fire, Sasuke's Susanoo showed no signs of cracking. Kakuzu was dumbfounded, "Damn it, what kind of jutsu is that? Why can't these flames harm him?"
Though Kakuzu was a ninja from the era of Senju Hashirama, he had never fought Uchiha Madara, so he didn't know about Susanoo. Sasuke had no interest in Kakuzu, as his abilities posed no threat to Sasuke. However, Tendo Pain could pose some threat to Sasuke.