"What an extreme little fellow!"
Li Chuan watched Deidara, who had been blown away and was awkwardly getting up from the ground, put away his Flying Sword Wings and landed opposite him.
Among the members of the akatsuki, each person had a tragic past, and it was precisely because of these tragic growth experiences that they became the way they are now.
In fact, many of them were originally quite normal.
Nagato and Konan originally followed their good friend Yahiko around, lobbying various countries, hoping to achieve peace through dialogue and prevent war; they were true idealistic peace envoys.
However, they were jointly ambushed and killed by Hanzō of the Salamander, the Leader of the hidden rain Village, and Danzo, leading to Yahiko's death and ultimately shaping Nagato's current extreme ideology.
Among them, Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko were all orphans. Nagato, in particular, originally had a happy family, but his parents were mistakenly killed by Konoha Ninja during the war.
Obito goes without saying; he wanted to create a World with Rin. His personality drastically changed only after the woman he loved most was killed. Originally, he was an optimistic, cheerful, kind child who often helped elderly women cross the road, and his biggest dream was to become Hokage.
Since childhood, Scorpion's parents were killed by the White Fang of Konoha, who was Kakashi's Father. He had an extreme lack of security and as a child made puppets of his parents to hold himself, which twisted his personality and made him feel that life was too fleeting.
Kakuzu risked his life to accept the Village elders' order to assassinate the First Hokage. He narrowly survived and escaped back to the Village, where he should have been a hero, but was instead heavily punished and imprisoned by the Village elders for failing the mission.
From then on, his personality changed drastically; he only trusted money, not people. He broke out of prison, stole the Village's secret jutsu, Jiongu, and took the hearts of all the Village elders before beginning his wandering.
Hidan was born in the Land of Hot Water, which yearned for peace. Because he was captured by the jashin cult and subjected to cruel human forbidden jutsu experiments and modifications, he became a cruel and murderous jashin follower.
Kisame loved his Village but constantly had to slaughter fellow Ninja for the Village's safety. Itachi, for the sake of the Village's safety and Sasuke, personally killed his own parents, a large number of clan members, and the girl he liked.
Even Zetsu was trying to save his Mother, Otsutsuki Kaguya, who was sealed on the moon.
However, only Deidara was different from everyone else. He was born in Iwagakure, was exceptionally talented from a young age and was taken as a disciple by the Tsuchikage. His Senior Brother and Shimei from the same school also cared about him greatly.
He grew up in a very loving environment, but ultimately became an extremely self-centered pursuer of explosive art.
At the age of nine, he began causing explosive terrorist incidents in the Village. At twelve, after being defeated by Itachi, he willingly became a rogue Ninja and joined the akatsuki, completely disregarding the people in the Village who loved and cared about him, acting however he pleased.
To Li Chuan, such a person was the type he could least understand or approve of, like a child with an inherently extreme personality.
"You actually dared to scorn my art! Let me let you try this!"
The contempt in Li Chuan's eyes seemed to sting Deidara, instantly enraging him. Furthermore, if he hadn't reacted quickly to the recent explosion and used clay to create an Earth Release defense on the surface in time, he would have almost died.
"Exploding Clay: Centipede!"
A white clay centipede broke out from under Li Chuan's feet and quickly wrapped tightly around him.
Although extremely self-centered, Deidara's combat talent was not low. The moment he landed, he had already prepared a clay centipede ambush underground, waiting for this very moment.
"Hah!"
He formed a hand seal with one hand, activating his Explosion Release.
"Boom!"
A massive explosion instantly erupted on Li Chuan's body.
"Haha, the art of explosion! No one is better than me!"
"Oh, is that so?"
Li Chuan brushed off the dust that had risen from his body, revealing his muscular upper body like a devil-like strongman, and replied calmly.
In immortal mode, this level of explosive power, aside from blowing up his clothes, couldn't cause him any harm at all.
"How is that possible?"
Looking at the completely unharmed Li Chuan, Deidara instantly showed an expression of disbelief.
Although the clay centipede wasn't his most powerful Ninjutsu, exploding so close to the body could blow even an iron man into pieces.
"Then it can only be this! This is the Ninjutsu I created to kill Itachi!"
Deidara stuffed a large lump of clay into his mouth and chewed for a while. Moments later, a giant clay doll that looked exactly like him appeared before Li Chuan.
"C4: Karura!"
"If you didn't know the intelligence about this Ninjutsu, it really would be quite troublesome."
Looking at the ten-meter-tall clay Deidara in front of him, Li Chuan muttered to himself.
Normally, seeing such a large clay doll, one would subconsciously assume it's a giant bomb, unaware that it's just a smokescreen Deidara uses to deceive people.
After this clay doll explodes, it won't cause any damage. Instead, it will release countless dense, invisible small clay spiders that silently enter the enemy's body and explode internally.
Even if the external defense capability is strong, the internal organs definitely cannot defend against it.
To be honest, even with Li Chuan's current monstrous body, if he were truly exploded from the inside, he would definitely be severely injured.
However, with his healing ability, he could quickly recover even from severe injuries, so it wasn't a major problem.
It's just that for normal Ninja in this World, it is indeed a very difficult move to defend against.
Of course, since Li Chuan knew the intelligence, he definitely wouldn't let those small clay spider bombs enter his body.
So he formed hand seals with both hands, once again making the signature Ninja gesture of the Fire Temple.
"Sage Art: Welcoming Thousand Hands Killing!"
A Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue, no smaller than the giant doll, completely enveloped Li Chuan's body.
Since he was currently in Konoha, some Ninjutsu that were difficult to explain, such as Eight Gates, Multiple Mutual Exploding Tags, Mangekyo Rinnegan, etc., definitely couldn't be used.
However, even without using those, with his body and the Ninjutsu and magic he mastered, he was more than capable of dealing with all the members of the akatsuki.
Just like this Fire Temple Ninjutsu he was currently using, under the boost of immortal mode, although its power was far less than Sage Art: Susanoo: Three-Headed Six-Armed Mode, it was more than enough to deal with Deidara.
Countless golden giant palms directly blasted the giant doll apart. Under Deidara's control, the countless small clay spider bombs inside frantically tried to squeeze into Li Chuan's body but were completely blocked by the Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue outside.
"It seems your art isn't all that great!"
Li Chuan's mocking voice made Deidara tremble with rage. He no longer tried to make the small spiders break through the Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue. Instead, he directly controlled them to gather on the surface of the Thousand-Handed Guanyin statue and detonate simultaneously.
Even without entering the body, the power of so many small spider bombs exploding simultaneously was actually quite terrifying.
The main reason was that those giant golden palms were already attacking him. He dared not directly take a hit from the golden palms that could kill Kakuzu, so actively detonating the small spider bombs was a desperate move to save his life.
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