Chapter 193: Overwhelming Ninjutsu
Shisui's figure wove through the puppet army like a phantom, his Sharingan efficiently capturing every puppet's attack trajectory.
However, in the midst of this dense offensive, his gaze suddenly sharpened—he was shocked to see that embedded in one puppet's eye sockets was a pair of crimson Sharingan!
This guy... had he attacked members of the Uchiha clan too?
An irrepressible fury instantly surged through Shisui's heart. He absolutely would not allow a fellow clansman's remains to be desecrated like this.
Slash!
In the next moment, his figure appeared behind the puppet embedded with Sharingan as if teleporting. The short blade in his hand stabbed with perfect precision into its core drive mechanism! The movement was clean and efficient, without the slightest hesitation.
Almost the instant he succeeded, he activated Body Flicker Technique again, his figure blurring as it vanished from its original position, narrowly avoiding a poisoned blade swinging from another puppet behind him.
Immediately after, he cleaved another puppet attempting a sneak attack from the side in two at the waist!
Though these puppets' movements were fierce and vicious, before him—bearer of the "Shisui of the Body Flicker" name—they still appeared slow and clumsy, completely unable to truly capture his figure.
On another side of the battlefield, the two bizarrely shaped clay puppets Deidara controlled were launching extremely troublesome attacks on the puppet army.
Their clay bodies could transform at will—sometimes forming sharp lances to thrust, sometimes sharp blades to slash, even splitting off small clay insects for harassment.
What made Sasori find them even more troublesome was that when the puppets' poison-coated weapons slashed at the clay puppets, they had almost no effect.
Even if they managed to sever the clay, those severed pieces didn't become ineffective. Instead, they would rapidly reconnect and reorganize through clay threads, transforming into even smaller, more agile clay clones!
And these small clay clones were like maggots clinging to bone—once they approached a puppet, they would immediately launch suicide explosive attacks!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Continuous small-scale explosions kept erupting within the puppet group. Each explosion could destroy or heavily damage at least one puppet!
Watching his art continuously blow apart Sasori's puppets, Deidara, safely remote-controlling from the rear, showed an extremely satisfied smile on his face.
Sasori naturally noticed this blonde brat continuously using explosions to destroy his beloved collection pieces. He immediately controlled several puppets, attempting to bypass the frontal battlefield and charge directly at Deidara in the rear!
However, Deidara didn't even bother glancing at those attacking puppets, remaining focused on controlling his clay art.
Just as those puppets rushed within a certain distance—
Several clay centipedes that had been buried in advance suddenly burst from beneath the sand! They wrapped around those puppets with lightning speed, then unhesitatingly self-destructed!
BOOM!
The explosion once again engulfed the ambushing puppets!
Seems Deidara had already calculated all the attack distances and defensive positions.
"Hahaha! Now this has destructive value! But... as expected! Compared to eternal, momentary beauty is the true art, yeah!"
Feeling his "momentary art" seemed to be suppressing the opponent's pursuit of "eternal art" to some degree, Deidara couldn't help laughing wildly, his tone full of pride.
These hundred-plus puppets looked intimidating, but unexpectedly most were just cannon fodder level, completely unable to withstand a single blow!
In the rear area of the battlefield, Zabuza and Haku stood back to back, struggling to resist the puppets surging toward them like a tide.
Though each sword swing could precisely shatter a puppet, Zabuza's rich combat experience allowed him to keenly perceive—these puppets' movements were becoming increasingly precise, increasingly troublesome.
Was it because the controlled numbers had decreased, so the operation could become more refined?
Zabuza immediately understood the reason. Though they'd already destroyed a considerable number of puppets, looking around, the puppet legion Sasori controlled still blotted out the sky, seemingly endless.
After Haku used sharp ice pillars to precisely pierce through several puppets attempting ambushes, he noticed Zabuza beginning to form seals.
He immediately understood, rapidly moving to Zabuza's front. With a wave of both hands, several massive ice spikes condensed from nothing, temporarily driving back the surrounding puppets like a fence, buying Zabuza precious time to form seals.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!"
Zabuza's low roar rang out as magnificent water-attribute chakra surged forth! A massive water dragon suddenly rose from behind him, releasing a deafening roar!
And at the instant the water dragon took shape, Haku standing beside Zabuza also completed his final seal. The Ice Release kekkei genkai chakra within him erupted without reservation!
In the next moment, a miraculous transformation occurred—the massive water dragon Zabuza had summoned actually began freezing at a visible rate.
Haku's Ice Release chakra perfectly fused into the water dragon, instantly transforming it into a crystalline, translucent ice dragon emanating extreme cold.
"ROAR—!!"
The ice dragon released an even more oppressive roar, carrying the terrifying cold that could freeze everything, boldly charging toward the densely packed puppet group ahead!
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Wherever the ice dragon passed, those sturdy puppets shattered like fragile plastic toys, or were directly frozen and cracked by the terrifying cold.
Zabuza concentrated his mind, using chakra to control this powerful ice dragon, conducting a one-sided slaughter through the puppet group.
At the same time, Shisui in the battlefield's center also clearly felt the pressure—the surrounding puppets were indeed becoming stronger, their attacks more cunning, their coordination more seamless. He understood he needed to end this quickly.
No longer sparing chakra, massive Yin Release chakra carrying a cold aura surged wildly from the Mangekyo Sharingan in his eyes!
"Susanoo!"
With this declaration, a huge red skeletal framework formed from energy appeared from nowhere, enveloping Shisui! This was the power from Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan—Susanoo!
After switching to these eyes, Shisui naturally inherited this legendary power.
The skeletal framework was rapidly covered by muscle tissue formed from chakra, its form becoming more complete and powerful—Susanoo: Second Form!
A ten-meter-tall, half-body red giant stood majestically on the battlefield, emanating suffocating, terrifying pressure!
"What... what is that thing?!"
Even Sasori of the Red Sand, well-traveled and self-proclaimed to have art beyond common reason, couldn't help showing shock and alarm when seeing this red giant like a descended myth, his voice filled with incredulous horror.
The red giant raised one massive hand, terrifying energy beginning to converge and compress madly in its palm.
"Yasaka Magatama!"
In the next moment, three enormous magatama burning with red energy flames shot out from Susanoo's hand like meteors, viciously smashing into the most densely packed puppet group!
BOOOOOM—!!!
Destructive explosions and shockwaves instantly cleared a vast area. Countless puppets turned to powder before this absolute power.
Watching his originally sky-blotting puppet legion's numbers plummet under these consecutive terrifying strikes, Sasori's heart sank heavily.
A cold fact lay before him—
It seemed... he couldn't win against these people!
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