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Watching puppet after puppet charge towards him, Chiye seemed not to notice.
"Yomotsu Hirasaka!"
Chiye's Mangekyo Sharingan slowly rotated, his gaze locking onto Ebizo and the group of puppet masters in the distance.
The six-petaled Manjusaka flower pattern bloomed eerily in his crimson pupils.
Under the domain of "Yomotsu Hirasaka," Ebizo and the other puppet masters rapidly withered.
The puppets that reached Chiba fell to the ground like scrap metal, their bodies scattering into pieces, having lost control from their masters.
Crimson blood, filled with streaks, flowed from Chiye's eyes and dripped onto the ground along his cheeks.
His expression was grim, and his Mangekyo Sharingan vigilantly scanned his surroundings.
Just now, his Mangekyo Sharingan had caught something unusual.
Ebizo had already anticipated the attack; the Ebizo just now was not his true self.
Whoosh!
A sharp whooshing sound suddenly struck!
Chiye abruptly leaped to the left, a ghostly blue blade almost grazing his neck, the force of the wind it generated stinging his skin.
That was a humanoid puppet.
Unlike the crude creations of ordinary puppet masters, this puppet was entirely black, with precise Chakra conduction devices embedded in its joints, allowing it to move as flexibly as a real person.
Its arms extended sharp blades, their edges glowing with a ghostly blue toxic light, clearly laced with potent poison.
This puppet... was it Ebizo's trump card?
Chiye closed the eye that had just used Yomotsu Hirasaka and activated his Instantaneous Body Technique.
He quickly retreated, but the puppet followed him like a shadow.
The blades struck in rapid succession, forcing him to continuously dodge.
Chiye's open Mangekyo Sharingan narrowed slightly.
His gaze locked onto the puppet, and cerulean Chakra threads were captured by his Sharingan.
Following the threads, Chiye immediately pinpointed a potential hiding spot.
Boom!!!
Just as Chiye was considering how to temporarily suppress the puppet and assault Ebizo's location, a golden figure slammed into the battlefield like a cannonball.
A fist, imbued with terrifying monstrous strength, heavily struck the chest of the puppet in front of Chiye.
"Get lost!"
Amidst Tsunade's furious roar, the precise puppet was sent flying backward, crashing heavily into a sand dune and kicking up a cloud of yellow sand.
Chiye was startled and turned to look at Tsunade beside him.
At this moment, she was slightly panting, her fair cheeks stained with blood, but her eyes were surprisingly sharp.
Her fist remained in its striking posture, Chakra subtly boiling between her knuckles.
"Don't overexert yourself."
Chiye knew she had reached her limit, his tone low.
Tsunade shook her head, her gaze falling on his eyes, her expression complex.
"Your eyes..."
Chiye was silent for a moment, then chuckled softly.
"It's nothing, that one is a bit tired, so I've closed it to rest for a bit. As for the rest, I'll tell you after we've driven them back!"
Tsunade nodded seriously, her gaze returning to the puppet slowly rising from the sand pile.
Its chest was caved in, but it was still moving, its joints emitting a grating, teeth-aching sound.
"This thing... isn't an ordinary puppet.
"Ebizo, that old fox, has probably brought out all his trump cards."
Chiye nodded, his Sharingan rotating slightly.
"Its core isn't in its chest, it's in its head."
Tsunade's lips curved upward, looking at Chiye in surprise.
"Then I'll dismantle it!"
Before her words even finished, she had already charged out again, her monstrous strength erupting, causing the sand beneath her feet to crack like a spiderweb.
The puppet rapidly retreated, its arm blades crossing to block, and a switch on its shoulder activated.
Thousand needles wrapped with explosive tags shot out from within.
A flash of fire.
A violent explosion rang out.
Tsunade instantly dodged the explosion, circling to approach the puppet.
A sweeping whip kick directly shattered its left arm!
At the same time as Tsunade's movement, Chiye vanished with Instantaneous Body Technique.
Chiba's figure flickered as he rushed into the distance.
The surrounding scenery rapidly receded, and behind a large rock, he finally saw a figure.
Found him!
Indeed, it was that guy Ebizo!
Chiye's closed Mangekyo Sharingan opened again, instantly locking onto him, the blood vessels in his eyes increasing once more.
Warm blood oozed out, flowing down his cheeks.
"Yomotsu Hirasaka!!"
An invisible ripple, controlled by Chiye, concentrated and surged towards Ebizo.
Ebizo's eyes widened as he looked at Chiye.
"Damn it!"
At this moment, he felt as if his entire body was bound by a powerful force, and then his consciousness became blurry.
His skin instantly shriveled and turned dark.
In a blink of an eye, he was drained, falling heavily to the ground, lifeless.
At the same time.
Tsunade's punch shattered the puppet's head, exposing its core device to the air, which flickered with a dangerous Chakra glow.
"It's over."
Tsunade said coldly, raising her fist again.
Crack!
The puppet's core suddenly shattered on its own, and a purple poisonous mist instantly erupted!
"Tsunade! Get back!"
Chiye sharply turned his head, his heart skipped a beat, and he roared.
Though he warned her, it was clearly a bit late.
Seeing Tsunade about to be engulfed by the poisonous mist, Chiye disregarded the drain on his ocular power and abruptly activated the ocular Ninjutsu of his other eye.
"Karma Cycle!"
The poisonous mist suddenly vanished.
Tsunade stood rooted to the spot, stunned.
"Ah ah ah!"
Screams from Sand Ninja in the distance suddenly erupted.
Tsunade turned to look.
At this moment, near the densest concentration of Ninja in Sunagakure, the purple poisonous mist suddenly appeared, like sulfuric acid, immediately corroding several Ninja.
Where the poisonous mist spread, the sand ground was corroded into sizzling pits.
The belated Sand Ninja immediately began to form hand signs.
"Wind Release: Violent Wind Palm!!"
The Wind Release dispersed the poisonous mist, leaving behind unrecognizable figures.
A combat squad of twenty to thirty people was just gone...
Chiye returned to Tsunade's side.
"That guy's dead!"
Tsunade heard the voice, raised her gaze, and met his eyes.
Then, seeing the blood on Chiye's face, her heart ached.
"You..."
Before she could speak, Chiye reached out and ruffled her head, interrupting her.
"Those injured and Medical Ninja still need you."
After Chiye finished speaking, his gaze turned to the remaining Sand Ninja.
After forming a hand sign, his figure vanished.
When he reappeared, he had already charged into the crowd of Sand Ninja.
"It's that Uchiha!!"
With his sudden appearance, everyone immediately aimed their kunai and shuriken at Chiye.
Before they could even act, Uchiha Chiye's gaze swept over them.
The six-petaled blood-red Manjusaka pattern was now as vibrant as a rose.
"Yomotsu Hirasaka!"
An invisible ripple spread out from Chiye as its center.
A cold, terrifyingly suffocating power, as if gripping the very throats of their lives.
Nearly a hundred Sunagakure Ninja hadn't even had time to react before they felt a chilling cold seep from the depths of their bone marrow.
Their skin visibly withered and cracked at a rapid pace, their muscles atrophied, their life force seemingly forcibly drawn out by an unseen hand.
"Thump, thump!"
Ninja fell in droves.
Chiye stood in the center of the battlefield, the six-petaled Manjusaka in his Mangekyo Sharingan slowly rotating, his eyes crimson like the fires of hell.
In an instant, more than half of the Ninja on the Sand Ninja Village battlefield were gone.
A difficult swallow sounded.
The hand of a Jonin holding a kunai trembled, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
The bizarre and terrifying scene before them.
Undoubtedly refreshed their understanding of Ninjutsu and their fear of the unknown.
"Impossible..."
He stared at Uchiha Chiye, his eyes wide.
"A Jutsu of this scale, how could it be..."