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#357 - Pain's Six Paths

"Whoosh!"

With a shift in the scene before his eyes, Liang Yue had already used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring Jiraiya to the Shikkotsu Forest, inside his own cultivation hut.

Looking at the fellow's shoulder, now empty and still bleeding, a hint of mockery flashed across his face.

A dignified Innate level expert, usually boasting and claiming to be a sage…

"Alas~ Careless!"

Jiraiya, however, was quite open-minded at this moment, his lips trembling slightly before leaning back against the chair with a calm expression, about to tend to his wound himself.

Seeing this, Liang Yue quickly took out the severed arm, and with a little collaborative micromanagement between the two, they managed to align the bones, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and so on at the break.

Afterward, he brought Jiraiya to the Slug Sage and asked it to help with the treatment.

Speaking of which, medical ninjutsu in the ninja world is definitely a highly effective branch of術法system.

The surgery to reattach a severed hand was just a small scene~

According to the original plot, Tsunade was once cut in two by Madara Uchiha during the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Her body was directly separated into two at the lumbar vertebrae!

As a result, after Suigetsu Hozuki corrected the reattachment position and the Slug Sage's clones performed emergency treatment, she quickly became lively again in a short period of time.

Now, Jiraiya's injury was really nothing to see~

According to normal procedures, Sakura should have been able to handle it by now.

However, Amegakure was a bit far from Konoha, and using the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport back to Konoha Hospital from there would be a considerable drain on Liang Yue.

So, he simply brought Jiraiya to the location of the Three Great Sage Lands, which was a more special place.

Sure enough, with the Slug Sage's treatment, Jiraiya's arm was healed in less than three minutes.

Except for a slight paleness in his complexion due to some loss of blood, everything else was back to normal.

…

"How much information did you gather on those six guys from the side earlier?"

Back in Liang Yue's hut, just as he had brewed a pot of tea, Jiraiya refocused his attention on the previous Six Paths of Pain.

As he spoke, the guy grabbed a meat pie, fruit, milk, and other items from the nearby refrigerator and swallowed them in large gulps.

Looking at him, the old codger seemed to want to replenish the blood he had just lost from Liang Yue.

"I've gathered quite a bit."

As he said this, Liang Yue took out a stack of photos from the front of his chest.

Then, he took out a large piece of white paper, as well as a writing brush, glue, and other items from a box in the corner of the room.

After spreading it out on the table, Liang Yue pasted the photos of the Six Paths of Pain in a vertical row on the paper, and then used the writing brush to mark the abilities of each of the six in the form of a tree diagram.

"Yahiko, the Deva Path, didn't do much in this battle, but according to the information provided by Orochimaru, we can roughly know that his ability is to control attraction and repulsion.

Of course, besides that, we can't rule out that he has other abilities."

"In comparison, the Asura Path's fighting style looks a lot like the Sand Village's mechanical puppets…"

"The Human Path, besides close combat attacks, other abilities have not been seen yet…"

"As for the Animal Path, it mainly uses various summoning beasts to fight, and I have a rough understanding of the photos and abilities of these summoning beasts…"

"The fat guy who is the Preta Path has the ability to absorb ninjutsu and chakra. If you want to deal with him, it is recommended to use taijutsu. As for genjutsu, it should also be absorbed, right…"

After selectively writing down what he knew on the paper, Liang Yue suddenly threw the topic to Jiraiya, who had already devoured three meat pies.

"It's about the same as the information you collected, but those six people give me a strange feeling. When fighting them, I felt like they weren't real people.

Moreover, even in Sage Mode, it is difficult to capture their aura with just mental power and smell, otherwise, I wouldn't have been injured before…"

"Are you saying that they are a special kind of humanoid puppet?"

Liang Yue interjected appropriately at this time, reminding him.

"That's about the feeling."

As he said this, Jiraiya suddenly stood up from his seat, bringing his head closer to the photos of the Six Paths of Pain, carefully examining them.

After a long while, he said with a bit of reminiscence and realization.

"I think~ my judgment should be correct, um… I remember, I seem to have seen these people before, when I traveled the ninja world a few years ago!"

After saying that, Jiraiya stretched out a finger and pointed to a male Animal Path in the photo who was wearing a ponytail.

"At first, I thought this person was my disciple Nagato, but now it seems he is not."

"So, your disciple with the Rinnegan eyes didn't appear before. If these six people are really humanoid puppets as you said, then Nagato is likely the one controlling them from behind."

After Liang Yue finished speaking, he picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.

Jiraiya slapped the table with a gleam in his eyes, and lightly shouted with certainty.

"That's right! That's how things should be!"

Afterward, a look of sadness and emotion suddenly appeared on his face.

"Alas… In that case, Yahiko seems to be really gone… Send me back to Konoha, I need to report this information to the Third Hokage and the others as soon as possible."

As he said this, Jiraiya rolled up the tree diagram of information on the table, put it in his clothes, and took a big red apple from the side.

Seeing this, Liang Yue didn't say anything, patted the guy's shoulder, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return with him to the windowsill outside Tsunade's office.

As soon as they looked up, the two were surprised to find that Naruto, Sakura, and others were also reporting their tasks to Tsunade.

Compared to three years ago, Naruto had undoubtedly matured a lot.

He no longer spoke in such a loud voice as before, but became much calmer, and had also grown taller.

As for Sakura, she had still followed the original plot in the past few years. Through Naruto's introduction, she became Tsunade's disciple and systematically studied medical ninjutsu.

Moreover, she had also signed a summoning contract with the Slug Sage…

In comparison, Liang Yue, the nominal disciple of Tsunade, was really a bit derelict.

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