Land of Rivers.
In a wilderness on the outskirts of a city near the Wind-Fire battlefield, Ryun blocked Sasori of the Red Sand, who had just ventured out not long ago.
"Who are you? Why are you blocking me?" A rough voice came from within Hiruko.
"Uchiha Ryun. I came specifically today to subdue you." Ryun showed Sasori a sun-like smile.
"Uchiha Ryun???"
"That joke is not funny at all..." The tone from Hiruko was first surprised, then turned to anger.
"You think I am joking with you? Then do not blame me for taking action..."
"Within three moves, I will smash the turtle shell you use to hide yourself." Ryun said seriously, holding up three fingers.
"Bastard!!!"
Sasori was instantly enraged. Hiruko's mouth opened wide, countless poison needles poured out, shooting towards Ryun densely.
Ryun leaped lightly into the air, avoiding all the poison needle attacks. Then, he flipped his hand, and a specially made kunai appeared in his grasp.
As he threw the kunai in his hand with great force, his hands also quickly formed seals in an instant.
"Ninja Art, Lightning Release, Kunai Shadow Clone Technique!"
The rapidly descending Lightning Release kunai instantly multiplied into hundreds and thousands. A 'rainstorm' of kunai with extremely strong penetrating power pierced the Hiruko on the ground into a sieve in an instant. Even the surrounding ground was riddled with holes by this attack.
Sasori was terrified inside at the fearsome power of this move. The puppet he made from ultra-high strength, hard materials could only barely block these kunai. After this strike, his Hiruko was basically scrapped.
But before he could feel distressed for long, a terrifying sense of deadly crisis quietly surged into his heart.
Ryun's figure in mid-air suddenly disappeared. When it appeared again, it was already above Sasori's head.
"Painful Sky Leg!"
Ryun came from above, stomping down hard on Hiruko's body.
Boom... Rumble!!!
The entire Hiruko was crushed into debris by this kick. The solid ground within a hundred-meter radius completely sank down due to that immense force.
In that critical moment, Sasori decisively abandoned Hiruko. But because he did not retreat quickly enough, one of his arms was grazed by the kick.
"Damn it!!!" Looking at the bloody, half-torn sleeve on his right side, Sasori felt both shock and anger.
If he had retreated any slower, he would definitely have become the first Kage-level powerhouse in ninja history to be stomped to death.
'Why is he so strong???' Sasori was horrified inwardly. For the first time, he doubted his own strength, and for the first time, he felt fear towards a person.
Ryun's simple two moves had left him with a psychological shadow that was hard to erase.
"Do you still think I am joking now?" The smile on Ryun's face was still sunny, but Sasori felt a chill in his heart seeing it.
"Sasori, submit to me. Do not put up a pointless resistance!" Ryun gave his advice.
"Submit to you? Stop dreaming! I am Sasori of the Red Sand!!!"
Sasori roared angrily, then opened a scroll on his person.
Poof!
As smoke rose, a figure stood tall in front of Sasori. This was his strongest Human Puppet, the Third Kazekage, capable of controlling Iron Sand!
"When he was alive, he was not my match. Now that you have refined him into a puppet, he is even less likely to be my opponent." Looking at the Kazekage puppet before him, Ryun shook his head and chuckled lightly.
"Do not look down on people! Whether he is a match or not, we will only know after fighting!" Sasori retorted furiously.
He swore, this was the first time he had been treated with such contempt, as if he were a child who could be bullied at will.
"Since you think this thing can beat me, then try again... My words remain the same. Within three moves, I will shatter your pride." Ryun pointed at the Kazekage puppet and said.
The next moment, as if by magic, his hand flipped, and another specially made kunai was held in his hand.
Hearing this, Sasori became extremely vigilant, and the Kazekage puppet was immediately activated at full power.
Electric light flickered on Ryun's hand. The kunai imbued with lightning was thrown out with great force once again.
Whoosh... Clang!!!
The specially made kunai shot out, then directly pierced into the heavy barrier formed by condensed Iron Sand.
"I want to see how you shatter my pride in three moves!"
Seeing Ryun's first move successfully blocked by the Iron Sand, Sasori could not help but shout provocatively.
He did not deny that Uchiha Ryun had the title and strength of a 'God', but Sasori of the Red Sand could not tolerate anyone looking down on him, the number one puppeteer in the ninja world, like this. Not even a god!
Since he could not defeat Uchiha Ryun, he would defend with all his might, to let this lofty 'God' know that he was not to be bullied easily.
"Then watch closely..."
As soon as Ryun finished speaking, his entire person disappeared like a ghost. Sasori simply could not see how the other party moved or exerted force.
In an instant, Ryun arrived in front of the previous kunai, then accurately kicked the very center of the kunai's handle.
Boom... Whoosh!
The Iron Sand barrier was instantly kicked open a large hole. That specially made kunai, under the force of the kick, shot out again, then violently stabbed into the body of the Third Kazekage.
The next moment, Ryun's figure disappeared again. When Sasori saw him again, the other party had already arrived in front of the Kazekage puppet.
Ryun reached out his hand and accurately struck the abdomen of the Kazekage puppet. A large number of sealing formulas instantly covered the entire Human Puppet.
"How is this possible!!!"
Sasori suddenly found that he had completely lost control of the Kazekage puppet. No matter how the chakra strings operated, no matter how much chakra he poured in, the Kazekage puppet remained standing motionless in front of Ryun.
Even though Ryun stood right in front of the puppet completely unguarded, Sasori just could not control his own puppet to attack him.
"What exactly did you do?" Sasori growled through gritted teeth.
"Nothing much. Just a sealing technique." Ryun replied lightly.
Sasori's most powerful Kazekage puppet, his pride and joy, was temporarily scrapped!
"Three moves have been used. You should submit now, right?"
When Ryun said three moves to shatter his pride, he was not ambiguous at all.
"Stop joking! Making me yield is not that easy! If you have the ability, use three more moves to break my strongest technique!"
As Sasori spoke, he opened another scroll.
Accompanied by a puff of smoke, one hundred sword-wielding puppets instantly appeared in the air above the two.
"Red Secret Technique, Performance of a Hundred Puppets!"
Sasori did not believe Uchiha Ryun could destroy his puppet army within three moves.
Seeing that Sasori could not recognize reality, Ryun's face immediately darkened.
He used two sets of three moves to dismantle the other's methods to make Sasori recognize the difference in strength. Yet this guy brought out a hundred puppets for him to destroy in three moves. What the hell did he take Uchiha Ryun for? A garbage cleaner?
"Have you had enough of this nonsense?"
Ryun asked coldly.
"Bastard, stop using that tone like you are lecturing a child... Who do you think you are looking down on???"
Sasori's face was iron-gray as he activated the Red Secret Technique at full power. The puppet army instantly emitted a series of dense clicking sounds.
"Three moves..."
"Within three moves, I will kill you."
Ryun's expression was indifferent, and he once again held up three fingers.
Hearing this, Sasori's pupils constricted sharply into pinpoints, and his heart throbbed violently at that moment.
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