REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!Chapter 190: Clash of Arts
Seeing the enemy had superior numbers, plus that annoying blonde brat constantly dropping clay bombs from above for harassment, Sasori's hands immediately divided their work. One hand continued precisely controlling the Third Kazekage puppet while the other quickly formed a seal.
The explosive smoke from Deidara's detonated clay spiders gradually dispersed, revealing the tattered "Sasori" at ground zero beginning to distort and transform, ultimately becoming a puddle of ordinary sand that merged into the desert below.
"Sand Clone, then." Shisui immediately recognized the technique Sasori had used to evade the first wave of attacks.
"Missed? Damn! Then let's go again!"
The excited Deidara had his combative nature thoroughly ignited. He unhesitatingly threw out his next batch of prepared clay bombs—several cleverly crafted clay birds! They were programmed with instructions to automatically track and launch suicide attacks the instant they caught Sasori re-emerging!
Finally, on the other side of the battlefield, a figure slowly surfaced from beneath the sand.
"Art is an explosion! Hah!"
Deidara immediately shouted and detonated the birds!
Several clay birds shot like arrows toward the newly appeared Sasori, their bodies instantly beginning to emit blinding white light, about to explode beside him!
However, the re-emerged Sasori simply calmly raised one arm. The mechanism at his forearm's front suddenly opened, and a precisely structured puppet prosthetic hand actually launched out like a cannonball, accurately colliding with those incoming clay birds!
BOOM—!
The puppet hand self-detonated the instant it contacted the clay birds. The violent explosion formed a fireball in the air, mutually canceling out Deidara's clay explosion as shockwaves scattered in all directions.
"What an annoying brat... constantly going on about explosions. So noisy."
The voice Sasori emitted after re-emerging had become abnormally hoarse and aged, completely different from his previous clear youthful tone! Moreover, his figure had obviously become much shorter and hunched, with a steel tail blade extending from his back that gleamed with cold light and was clearly coated in deadly poison!
Where was that red-haired handsome youth from before? This was clearly a small, sinister, violent old man hidden inside an ugly puppet shell!
Sasori of the Red Sand's true body was concealed within the battle puppet called Hiruko!
"Without decay, eternal beauty is art."
Sasori articulated his aesthetics in that hoarse voice while manipulating Hiruko. Where the launched puppet hand had broken off, a backup hand quickly popped out and was reloaded with explosives!
In the next moment, another puppet hand whistled toward the ground like a cannonball, shooting at Shisui, Zabuza, and Haku!
At the same time, his other hand ceaselessly controlled the Third Kazekage puppet, continuously shooting iron sand needles one after another toward the C2 clay dragon high in the sky, trying to force Deidara to retreat or even shoot him down!
That puppet hand shooting toward the three suddenly disassembled mid-flight! Hidden inside were densely packed mechanisms that instantly sprayed out countless senbon as fine as ox hair!
These senbon gleamed with ghostly blue light in the sunlight—clearly each one was coated in deadly poison! They covered the area where the three stood like a rainstorm!
For Shisui, avoiding these senbon with Body Flicker Technique wasn't difficult. But Zabuza worried that he and Haku might have accidents under such dense attacks. Seeing this, he unhesitatingly formed hand seals at flying speed!
"Water Style: Great Waterfall Jutsu!"
With Zabuza's low shout, magnificent water-attribute chakra surged forth! In this extremely arid desert environment, a massive surging water flow appeared from nowhere, gushing out violently from before Zabuza like a breached flood, boldly charging toward Sasori's Hiruko!
Those densely packed poisoned senbon were instantly swept up and scattered by this sudden massive water flow, losing their original threat!
During this time, Zabuza no longer needed to evade Kirigakure ANBU pursuit or exhaust himself raising funds. Through his own diligent training, his chakra control and total amount had both improved significantly. He could already execute such large-scale Water Style jutsu in waterless lands!
In the sky, the massive C2 dragon continuously twisted its body, struggling to avoid the iron sand needles shooting up from below. Deidara could clearly feel that controlling such a huge target for evasion was becoming increasingly difficult. After all, this was originally created mainly for multi-person transport and intimidation—its flexibility was far inferior to small clay bombs.
However, facing such difficulties, not only was Deidara not frustrated, the corners of his mouth split into an arrogant and excited grin.
"Forget it! I'll just give you this big guy! Yeah!"
He decisively abandoned continuing to control the C2 dragon, suddenly opening his hand. That peculiar mouth organ rapidly secreted and spat out large quantities of explosive clay!
The clay took shape rapidly in the air, in the blink of an eye forming a clay giant bird with moderate wingspan and more streamlined design—Explosive Clay: Owl!
Deidara nimbly jumped onto this clay bird that could only accommodate one standing person. The bird immediately carried him away at high speed! Almost the second after he left, the C2 dragon that had lost control and was such a massive target was viciously pierced by several iron sand needles and began falling.
"I can feel a masterpiece coming! Yeah!"
Deidara stood on the high-speed flying bird, excitedly looking back at the falling dragon.
Just as the C2 dragon was about to hit the ground and happened to be near where Sasori was dealing with the Great Waterfall Jutsu, Deidara unhesitatingly formed seals and shouted.
"HAH—!!!"
The falling C2 dragon instantly erupted with heart-stopping blinding white light! The massive chakra contained within was detonated in an instant!
At the same time, the surging water flow produced by Zabuza's Great Waterfall Jutsu below also happened to rush before Sasori's Hiruko!
Above was the C2 dragon about to self-destruct, ahead was a massive wave capable of washing away everything! These attacks came from different directions with astonishing power, instantly putting Sasori on high alert. But simultaneously, that fervor in his heart to turn all these powerful opponents before him into collection pieces grew even more intense—these guys were all excellent materials, one in ten thousand!
BOOOOOM—!!!
A deafening explosion suddenly erupted! The terrifying energy contained in the C2 dragon completely released. The extremely dazzling white light instantly swallowed everything around it. The massive fireball mixed with shockwaves spread wildly, even instantly evaporating and scattering part of the surging water flow!
Even though Deidara had already fled the explosion's core range at high speed riding his clay bird, he couldn't help but look back, fanatically admiring his earth-shattering "masterpiece"!
Facing such a large-scale explosive attack by their teammate that didn't distinguish between friend and foe, Shisui, Zabuza, and Haku on the ground had already prepared countermeasures.
"Ice Release: Ice Mirror Technique."
Almost the instant Deidara shouted "Hah," Haku's hands had already completed the seals! A crystalline ice mirror instantly condensed before him.
"Please hold onto me, Zabuza-san, Shisui-senpai!" Haku said urgently while extending both hands.
Zabuza and Shisui grasped Haku's hands without hesitation. In the next moment, the three figures became blurred as if absorbed by the ice mirror, then swiftly emerged from another ice mirror previously set up in the distance, escaping the core coverage range of that destructive explosion.
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