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Chapter 309 That's incredible! (First update)

"It seems I can replace another batch of more artistic puppets."

Sasori, controlling the Third Kazekage, looked at the Hyuga clan ninjas lying on the ground and spoke expressionlessly.

Unlike the normal puppeteers of Sunagakure, who use various materials to create all sorts of bizarre puppets, the genius created a new puppet technique—the Human Puppet Technique—when he was fifteen years old.

Human puppetry is created from the bodies of dead ninjas. In addition to being able to install various powerful mechanisms like normal puppets, the most terrifying thing is that it can also retain all the ninjutsu abilities of the ninja in life.

The first human puppet he created was the Third Kazekage, who possessed the terrifying Magnet Release and was known as the strongest Kazekage in the history of Sunagakure.

Therefore, fighting him is equivalent to fighting two Kage-level ninjas and a hundred ninjas with various different ninjutsu at the same time. The key is that they are all controlled by the same person, and their coordination is seamless.

However, most of those one hundred ninjas were ordinary ninjas with no special characteristics, which made him feel that they were not artistic enough.

This attack on Konoha is a good opportunity to select some well-known bloodline limit ninjas from Konoha and turn them into human puppets to replace the previous ordinary puppets.

As a puppeteer who pursues eternal art, he is not interested in Payne's philosophy. What he enjoys is constantly collecting more advanced materials to create more powerful and artistic puppets.

The reason for joining Akatsuki was to make it easier to collect materials.

Like this time, under normal circumstances, even he wouldn't dare to venture alone into Konoha, the strongest ninja village, to collect materials.

But now, the ground is full of all kinds of excellent materials, the famous Byakugan, the invisible Transmission, and ninjas with outstanding abilities.

By turning them all into human puppets, his art reached a new level.

"Is this the end for the Hyuga clan and Konoha?!"

Hiashi Hyuga, pinned to the ground by giant iron sand needles, felt a pang of sorrow as he looked around at the Konoha ninjas who were either poisoned or lying on the ground with serious injuries.

As the oldest and most powerful Hyuga clan, he never expected to end his life at his hands. He would not even have the face to meet the clan leaders of each generation after his death.

Now he only hopes that Neji, Hinata, and Hanabi, who were sent to take refuge, can survive this invasion and revive the Hyuga clan.

As the toxin invaded his body, his consciousness began to blur, and his eyes gradually closed.

But just as his eyes were about to close completely, a familiar voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Fortunately, most of the people here are only poisoned and injured, and they can be saved."

"Your Highness."

Upon seeing that the person in front of him was Li Chuan, Hyuga Hiashi stretched out his hand with difficulty, but finally fainted.

"To detoxify and save lives."

Li Chuan casually tossed Deidara and Kisame to the ground, then took out various antidotes and the most advanced antidotes from his small cloth bag and handed them to his shadow clones behind him, instructing them to go and rescue the people.

Unlike Kisame in the south of the village, who basically kills whenever possible, Sasori here, in order to ensure the integrity of the puppet he creates, usually injures and poisons the puppet unless absolutely necessary, stopping once it loses its ability to resist.

Therefore, with timely treatment and detoxification, they can be saved quickly.

"Deidara and Kisame were both defeated. It seems you do have some strength and are qualified to be one of my most satisfying works of art."

Sasori looked at Deidara and Kisame, who were thrown to the ground, and his tone revealed a morbid appreciation.

The fact that Li Chuan was able to defeat Deidara and Kisame in such a short time proves that Li Chuan's strength is indeed as strong as the information in the secret report said.

But after two consecutive high-intensity battles and creating so many shadow clones, he figured Li Chuan probably wouldn't have much chakra left.

Therefore, he did not believe he would be defeated when facing Li Chuan.

Of course, the main reason was that he felt he was stronger than Deidara and Kisame, and he was very confident in his puppetry skills.

Within the Akatsuki organization, apart from Pain, every member actually felt that they were stronger than most of the other members, after all, they were all geniuses with impressive achievements.

"But please don't touch my other prepared artworks without permission."

Sasori's ten fingers twitched, and the Third Kazekage puppet, which he controlled with his chakra threads, immediately activated its ninjutsu.

"Magnetic Release: Iron Sand Rain!"

Instantly, countless fine iron needles rained down on Li Chuan and all his shadow clones.

"Earth Release·Earth Style Wall!"

The shadow clones who detoxify and heal numerous ninjas remain unfazed as they continue to treat them with a combination of medical ninjutsu, healing magic, and antidotes, even as countless iron needles rain down upon them.

The other shadow clones stood in a row and joined forces to use Earth Flow Wall to block all attacks.

"Let's see how long your shadow clones can last!"

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, Scorpion pulled out a scroll from behind his back and released his hundred puppets.

He was confident he could defeat his opponent, but he also knew the opponent's strength was not to be underestimated, so he unleashed his full power in the fight.

"Red Secret Technique: Manipulation of One Hundred Machines!"

"Kill them!"

With a flick of his finger, Li Chuan summoned all the remaining shadow clones except for the dozens responsible for treatment, to meet the puppets.

Although shadow clones are physical entities, they are ultimately ninjutsu transformations, so they cannot possess the same strength as the original physical body. Therefore, people with exceptional taijutsu skills, such as Guy and Tsunade, rarely use shadow clones in battle.

The primary purpose of creating shadow clones is for espionage; even in combat, they are mostly used to lure the enemy.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Li Chuan's hundreds of shadow clones could not possibly be compared to the powerful puppets of people like Scorpion.

This is not the case.

Because Li Chuan's original chakra reserves were already enormous, and he was in Sage Mode, each of his shadow clones, while unable to possess the power of his original body, still had a considerable amount of chakra.

In particular, his limit is that he can split into two thousand, but now he can only split into two hundred, making the average chakra of each shadow clone even more prominent.

In addition, each shadow clone can cast various spells silently and without a staff, and can also use some Taoist techniques. The duration of the effect is not just a few minutes, but several days.

As long as the main body doesn't suffer too much damage, the overall strength of each shadow clone is actually comparable to that of a normal Jonin.

So when the group of seriously injured and poisoned Konoha ninjas were treated and regained consciousness, they witnessed this scene.

That was the Crimson Sand Scorpion who had just completely overwhelmed them with a single puppet. Now, controlling over a hundred puppets, he was being suppressed by Li Chuan's shadow clone and was in a precarious situation.

"Just using shadow clones is incredibly powerful!"

(End of this chapter)