The suddenly arising sand soldiers were too deadly!
Except for a few Hidden Sand Ninjas who have long roamed the edge of life and death, most of them were killed on the spot by the sand soldiers that suddenly appeared and launched an attack.
Thanks to the sand's defense, Gaara escaped another disaster. He looked in surprise at the emerging sand soldiers: "Is this Sand Controlling Jutsu?"
"Perhaps it's also Puppetry."
Maki, with a grave expression, swung his Ninja Blade, scattering a sand soldier. In his line of sight, each sand soldier was linked by a strand of yellow sand.
The ends of these yellow sands are in Uehara Naraku's hands.
Uehara Naraku chuckled lightly, looking at the survivors on the ground, and suddenly said, "Hey, what do you think about me taking the title of Desert Emperor in the future?"
"Not good at all!"
The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, wore a very ugly expression. He had spent Chakra to create a pyramid of gold sand to protect his subordinates' lives during the earlier tsunami.
Unexpectedly, just after escaping the life-threatening crisis of the tsunami, these subordinates were easily ambushed and killed by Uehara Naraku.
"Hmm, is it because this name hits where it hurts?"
Uehara Naraku hammered his palm, looking at Rasa with sudden realization. His lips curled in disdain and contempt: "No, it's because you people are too backward to know what an emperor means, right?"
"Such a stubborn brat!"
Rasa, standing on a sand mat, rose into the air. Under his control, a mass of gold sand transformed into a golden spear: "Magnet Release: Gold Sand Spear!"
The golden spear flew towards Uehara!
Under the power of Magnet Release Chakra, the golden spear spun rapidly like a drill, speeding towards Uehara's body.
The speed of the golden spear was so fast that Uehara could almost only see an afterimage!
Uehara Naraku quickly extended his hand, unable to form Hand Seals in the emergency, so he hastily released a Defensive Ninjutsu: "Wind Release: Wind Barrier!"
The golden spear was instantly blocked by a wind wall!
The numerous gold sands that followed closely behind the golden spear, under Rasa's control, were also effortlessly intercepted by the wind wall in front of Uehara.
The Fourth Kazekage's eyes flickered with surprise as he watched the wind wall: "A defensive-type Wind Release Jutsu?"
This was truly unheard of!
No wonder this little fellow Uehara Naraku was so arrogant; the Ninjutsu he mastered seemed very peculiar, and his usage was proficient.
This did not hinder Rasa's prior plan.
Now that one-third of the Anbu members and more than half of the Guardian Ninjas of the Hidden Sand Village had died at Uehara's hands, Rasa believed that if they couldn't capture Uehara Naraku to stop the losses, wouldn't the sacrifices of these ninjas be in vain?
Masses of gold sand surged up from the ground!
Rasa's aura surged; he intended to go all out here: "Since you refuse to obediently come with me, I'll break your arms and legs first!"
"Are you still deluding yourself at this point?"
A purple Chakra Broadsword suddenly appeared beside Uehara Naraku, automatically defending him against the harassment of the gold sand!
Uehara looked at Rasa, a smile gradually accumulating on his face: "Have you forgotten, Kazekage-sama? I intend to kill you here!"
"Brat, your Chakra is almost depleted!"
"Don't worry."
Uehara Naraku slightly closed his eyes, and masses of green energy rose from the bodies of the Hidden Sand Ninjas killed by the sand soldiers, entering his body.
Uehara Naraku's eyes opened, smiling slowly: "Compared to Kazekage-sama, my Chakra is more abundant than ever!"
"Is that... some kind of Kinjutsu?"
Rasa's brows furrowed instantly, observing Uehara's increasingly surging aura, and his heart gradually sank.
He miscalculated.
This Rain Village Ninja boy wielded too many strange powers.
Rasa had thought Uehara Naraku's Chakra would soon be depleted, only to find that Uehara had such a forbidden technique to extract Chakra from the dead.
"I must conserve Chakra..."
Since before the battle began, Rasa had wasted quite a bit of Chakra fending off one surge of the Roaring Wave's attack.
Earlier, to protect his subordinates, Rasa used various Chakra-intensive Jutsu like the Great Gold Sand Burial, Pyramid Defense, and Golden Sand Waves.
"Magnet Release: Gold Sand!"
Now, Rasa dared not directly surround Uehara with gold sand, instead trying to control it bit by bit to seize Uehara's limbs.
However, the purple Broadsword beside Uehara Naraku danced around, shattering the small streams of gold sand, seemingly still at ease.
From beginning to end, Uehara's face remained filled with immense confidence.
"Kazekage-sama, how long can your Chakra last?"
Uehara Naraku slowly extended his hand, and a puppet emerged from his palm: "I doubt you'll last two seconds, Command Shockwave!"
The puppet suddenly opened!
A distorted force appeared within everyone's view!
Rasa lost control of the gold sand in an instant, being pulled into a spiral-shaped golden sphere by the Command Shockwave.
"Not good!"
Rasa looked up at the huge golden sphere, his expression turning somewhat terrified. Without control over the magnetic manipulation of gold sand, the situation was dire.
The only thing that could give Rasa confidence was his Magnet Release Ninjutsu.
Fortunately, within just a second, Rasa felt he regained control of the gold sand, and his heart barely relaxed a little.
However, a voice suddenly reached his ears: "One second is enough to do anything, right?"
Rasa quickly turned his head, only to see an afterimage appear before him, and then a purple Broadsword struck heavily against his chest!
Rasa plunged from the air to the ground!
Even though he hastily turned the sand mat beneath him into a defense of gold sand to block his chest, he still couldn't stop the heavy blow.
Even more frightening for Rasa, cards flew and scattered from Uehara Naraku's hand, shooting rapidly towards his location!
Boom!
A firework explosion echoed in the sky!
The few survivors looked in terror at the falling Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, whose body was covered in bloody wounds.
Maki looked incredulously at the scene, his brows furrowing tightly: "Kazekage-sama... was defeated?"
"..."
Rasa did not respond.
The Fourth Kazekage struggled to get up. Earlier, his Magnet Release Gold Sand was inexplicably taken away for a second, and in the next second, Uehara struck him to the ground with one blow.
The fight wasn't over yet!
Uehara Naraku slowly extended his hand towards Rasa's direction, continuously shooting cards from his hand.
"Magnet Release: Gold Sand!"
Every card was intercepted by the gold sand!
Occasionally, a card explosion raised a cloud of thick smoke, ultimately unable to penetrate the defense of the gold sand. Rasa immediately realized the danger of the situation.
That second of losing control over the gold sand directly cost him the battle.
Coupled with the severe injury he just sustained and his nearly depleted Chakra, death might not be far away... This version of Rasa wasn't a Reanimation Being with Infinite Chakra!
While maneuvering the gold sand for defense, Rasa lowered his head to glance at his concaved chest wound, speaking coldly: "Maki, take Gaara and leave first!"
"Kazekage-sama!"
"Shut up!"
In an instant, Rasa analyzed the most appropriate course of action.
Currently, he was gravely injured and might not escape far. Furthermore, the few remaining Hidden Sand Guard may not hold off Uehara Naraku for long.
Who would've thought that merely testing whether Gaara could successfully utilize the One-tailed would nearly lead them to complete annihilation here...
Rasa turned to look at Gaara, addressing his son with a high-pitched voice, expressionless: "The final command as Kazekage, bring Gaara back to the village!"