Chapter 372: How Can Ants Shake Trees,
Nagato himself was a taijutsu expert, but facing Isshiki's simple attacks, he found blocking them nearly impossible.
Isshiki didn't know techniques like "Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack," but those seemingly simple punches and kicks each carried mountain-crushing weight.
The black receivers Nagato used for defense were condensed from the Rinnegan's Yin-Yang Release power. Their hardness far exceeded refined steel—capable of withstanding even tailed beasts.
Yet under Isshiki's seemingly casual fists and kicks, these receivers shattered like fragile glass!
Each collision transmitted indescribable penetrating force, shaking Nagato's arms numb, splitting his palms. Blood dripped along black receiver fragments.
This taijutsu could crack the complete Susanoo after charging. Nagato's peak-level shinobi world combat skills proved completely worthless before such absolute power. Within moments, he'd fallen into desperate straits.
Shocked and furious, Nagato began forming a gravitational black sphere in his hands.
"Planetary Devastation!"
The black gravitational core shot from Nagato's hands, instantly expanding and erupting with terrifying attraction, completely enveloping the space where Isshiki stood.
Earth fractured. Countless rocks and soil broke free from the ground, roaring toward that black sphere. They rapidly accumulated and compressed on its surface, forming an ever-growing rocky sphere.
Yet under this massive gravitational field, Isshiki seemed completely unaffected—moving freely beneath the giant sphere's shadow.
That force capable of warping space and dragging mountains appeared entirely ineffective against him.
"How is this possible?"
Nagato's Rinnegan constricted violently. He felt his entire worldview being reconstructed.
"Nothing's impossible in this world."
Isshiki maintained his casual demeanor, his composure lofty and aloof.
His words carried transcendent arrogance—like a human lecturing zoo monkeys.
"You only think it impossible because of your ignorance.
"For stellar life forms, controlling gravity is merely instinct.
"How can ants shake trees? Watch closely!"
With that, his body suddenly shifted, transforming into streaming light and diving straight toward Planetary Devastation's gravitational center.
The embryonic Planetary Devastation had already taken initial form. The sphere formed from tens of thousands of tons of rock emitted deep humming. Powerful gravity began tearing at everything nearby—the ground literally ripped apart into spiderweb-like fissures.
Against Isshiki charging in like a moth to flame, the gravitational field naturally drew him inside, pressing countless massive boulders layer upon layer against him.
But his body halted abruptly before entering the gravitational core. Then he simply clenched one fist and struck out fiercely.
Where his fist landed, that massive stone sphere—as though struck by a Tailed Beast Ball—exploded thunderously.
BOOM!
The sphere condensing massive matter and gravity shattered from a single punch, disintegrating from within.
The formed gravitational field completely collapsed, ending prematurely.
Countless rocks, losing gravitational constraint in an instant, were pulverized by internal shockwaves—transforming into powder and raining stone fragments that began falling.
Through the curtain of cascading sand and stone, Isshiki drifted back leisurely, not a speck of dust on him—as though he'd merely crushed a mud ball.
"Abilities are certainly important, but possessing a body that can perfectly utilize those abilities is the foundation of everything.
"These eyes are utterly wasted on you."
"You should obediently hand them over. Let me teach you how to properly use dojutsu."
Nagato's expression turned extremely ugly. His hands clapped together.
Poof poof poof...
White smoke billowed, blotting out the sky.
Amid rumbling earth tremors, hellhounds, chameleons, rhinos... a legion of diverse, massive, ferocious summoned beasts charged from the white smoke like a violent beast tide, launching a fearless assault toward that small yet terrifying figure in the sky.
"Is this the extent of your skills?"
Isshiki frowned slightly, disappointment crossing his face.
He extended one hand forward. His golden-black eye rotated slightly, rice-grain patterns flowing continuously within the pupil.
"Daikokuten!"
Space rippled like water struck by stones—silent waves spreading outward.
Immediately after, enormous black cubes appeared without warning, "growing" from the centers of those spatial ripples.
Defying gravity, they accelerated instantly, carrying piercing air-splitting shrieks as they covered the area below like meteor rain.
These black cubes were Yin-Yang products—items of the same grade as black receivers. Impossibly heavy and indestructible.
So despite these summons' massive size, they proved utterly helpless before these black cubes.
Hellhounds had their skulls crushed on impact. Split dogs were flattened to pulp before splitting. The eight-span crow was struck and exploded midair. The crab's thick shell shattered like paper...
Utterly devastating!
These summoned giants that could terrify ordinary shinobi armies proved like clay sculptures before Daikokuten—instantly smashed with broken bones and scattered flesh.
Agonized screams mixed with shattering bone sounds and the heavy thuds of cubes striking ground became the battlefield's current theme.
Within mere breaths, the violent beast tide transformed into a blood-flesh swamp and wreckage ruins.
Massive black cubes stood like cold tombstones above summoned corpses—some embedded deep in earth, others stacked together, forming an eerie black stone forest.
Life instantly replaced by death and silence.
This dense Daikokuten assault naturally didn't miss Nagato either.
Just as the beast horde perished, one cube far larger than others—a super-sized black cube—locked precisely onto Nagato, crashing down with mountain-crushing force.
Shadow instantly swallowed him.
At this life-or-death moment, Nagato frantically poured chakra into his Rinnegan, activating the repulsive field once more.
"Shinra Tensei!"
A repulsive field even more massive and solid than before expanded upward with him at its center—like a shield thrusting toward heaven, slamming violently into that descending black coffin.
THOOM!
A muffled sound so deep it nearly stopped hearts erupted. The black cube's descent halted abruptly, suspended in midair.
The invisible repulsive field began shaking violently, its form becoming visible in the air, surface rippling densely.
Both forces formed brief but deadly stalemate in the sky.
But before the black cube showed weakness, Isshiki had already doubled down.
"If one block isn't enough—then add another!"
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