The Uchiha clan, which was wiped out entirely, lacked vision.

Chapter 74 Humanity, after all, has its limits.

"So fast!"

Nagato was startled and quickly abandoned his contempt. He wielded his black staffs with incredible speed, weaving them into a net in front of him to deflect the incoming air and fire shockwaves. Each collision produced a dazzling burst of sparks.

But this time Kai's attack speed was just too fast, and his fist shadows poured down like a torrential rain.

Nagato's eyes could keep up, but his body couldn't. He had to keep backing away while parrying, letting the fire shockwaves bombard the ground, shattering the earth and sending up clouds of dust.

The two men advanced and retreated, raising a trail of dust on the ground as they traversed hundreds of meters in an instant, leaving only a deep trench in their wake. The trench's edges still emitted scorching smoke, as if it had been plowed by a bomb.

Five seconds passed in the blink of an eye, and Nagato flipped his wrist again.

"Shinra Tensei!"

An invisible force field erupted from Nagato's center, and a tremendous repulsive force struck again, colliding head-on with Guy's "Morning Peacock".

"Boom boom boom..."

Violent explosions rang out continuously in the air, leaving trails of intense flames in mid-air, like a series of firecrackers.

However, these explosions could not shake the repulsive force of Shinra Tensei at all. The fireworks in the sky were forcibly compressed into a flat shape and resolutely bounced into the distance.

"what……"

Kai roared desperately, launching even stronger and faster attacks, regardless of the cracking and bleeding of his skin and the cracking of his bones.

However, willpower cannot change the balance of power. Faced with the powerful repulsive force of Shinra Tensei, no matter how hard Gai tried to unleash his power, it was all in vain.

The repulsive force slammed heavily into Kai, who was in mid-air and had no power to resist. He was immediately blasted away by the cannon.

His body, like a kite with a broken string, traced an arc in the air before being thrown heavily out and crashing to the ground. Like a stone skipping across water, it bounced repeatedly on the ground, covering a long distance and smashing countless rocks and trees before finally coming to a stop.

"Huff... huff..."

Kai was panting heavily, his lungs burning as if they were on fire.

He struggled to his feet, his body covered in blood, his bones cracking, and he was unsteady on his feet, swaying unsteadily. The ground beneath his feet was stained dark red with dripping blood.

But the fighting spirit in his eyes did not diminish at all; on the contrary, it became even stronger.

"What a formidable enemy!"

Kai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, revealing a bright, blood-stained smile.

"With just Jingmen and Chao Kongque, we simply can't break through his defenses!"

"Then we can only take it a step further!"

He looked down at his fist, which was beginning to twist and deform, and his chakra began to surge again.

"For our comrades!"

"For the village!"

"Burn, youth!"

Shouting nonsensical words, Kai suddenly ignited, and the green chakra flames on his body surged even higher, as if someone had added a large bucket of oil to them.

A torrent of sweat poured down Guy's body, only to be instantly evaporated by the violent chakra flow, forming blue steam that swirled and rose around Guy's body.

At this moment, Kai's eyes were bloodshot and his pupils were shrunken to the size of pinpoints. His whole body looked like a shrimp that had been boiled in steam, and his skin was an unnatural reddish-brown. He looked like he was about to die.

But Kai didn't care at all; the pain only made his smile even wilder.

His face was filled with fervor, and he shouted firmly:

"Eight Gates Formation, Seventh Gate, Gate of Shock, Open!"

With that roar, blue steam exploded, the shockwave blasting and blowing away the ground within a radius of several meters. Chunks of earth and gravel floated in the air as if weightless, then flowed upwards against gravity, forming a dust column with an exaggerated diameter.

"This guy..."

For the first time, a solemn expression appeared in Nagato's Rinnegan. He looked at Kai with some surprise, as if he saw his own resolute figure reflected in him.

This is the power of enlightenment!

He slowly lifted his body upwards.

The "Morning Peacock" technique from the Jing Gate had already put him struggling to keep up with his physical skills, and now that Kai was clearly much stronger, he could no longer underestimate him as he had at the beginning.

"The claim that you possess the strongest taijutsu in the ninja world is indeed well-deserved, but unfortunately... your strength is limited to taijutsu!"

"Human beings, after all, have their limits!"

Nagato hovered high in the air, looking indifferently at Kai below, his voice unusually tinged with admiration.

Although he paid more attention to Kai, he still showed no fear whatsoever.

As a god, he has every right to be so confident!

Watching Nagato take off again, Kai wasn't worried at all. Instead, he grinned and gave a thumbs up.

"Flying in the sky is indeed a good tactic; it almost guarantees victory."

"But you flew..."

"It seems a bit too low!"

Before he finished speaking, the ground beneath Kai's feet exploded with a deafening roar, and his figure vanished instantly, appearing above Nagato as if by teleportation. He raised his long legs high, his chakra condensing into a blue blade of light, and cleaved down from above like a battle axe.

Nagato hurriedly gripped the black stick in reverse, bringing it together with his forearm, and crossed it in front of his chest to block upwards.

With a deafening roar, the shockwave from the collision spread out in a spherical shape through the air.

Nagato's body crashed heavily onto the ground like a falling meteor.

The entire ground collapsed instantly, forming a large crater with a diameter of several meters.

"Ada da da..."

Kai plummeted downwards in mid-air, following closely behind Nagato's figure. With his arms raised high, he unleashed a barrage of punches like a torrential downpour.

Nagato braced himself against the ground, leaped backward, and dodged Guy's attack, letting the ground beneath him be shattered by Guy's blast.

But Kai followed closely, almost touching his body, and his fists came crashing down like machine gun fire.

Nagato's feet moved in a zigzag pattern, dodging what he could and using his black rod to block what he couldn't.

With the ground as a foothold, Nagato wasn't so easily blown away by Kai.

However, Nagato's taijutsu was far inferior to Guy's, who had opened the Gate of Shock. His defense was quickly breached, and he was punched in the chest again, sending him flying far away.

Even so, Nagato insisted on using taijutsu for defense instead of Shinra Tensei.

Because he had heard from Antio that when Kai was at the Jing Gate, he had a powerful move called "Morning Peacock," and when he was at the Jing Gate, he also had an even more powerful move called "Day Tiger."

Kai, with his power and speed from the Gate of Shock, could suppress him in physical combat, but he was completely unable to defeat him. Only the "Day Tiger" technique could possibly determine the outcome.

Therefore, Nagato decided to save "Shinra Tensei" for "Daytime Tiger".

What Nagato understood, Kai certainly understood even better.

He knew that his state of shock could not last long. Seeing that ordinary physical attacks could not completely defeat Nagato, nor could they induce Nagato to use "Shinra Tensei", he gritted his teeth, made up his mind, stood still, took a deep breath, and launched his most powerful attack.