People in Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began with Demon Slayer

Madara Uchiha's taunts enraged the ninjas of Sunagakure, who vowed to kill him and wash away their shame.

"Wind Release: Thousand Faces of Wind!"

The wind-style ninjas of Sunagakure united and unleashed the Thousand Faces Wind.

Thousands upon thousands of small wind-cutters swept towards Madara Uchiha and his army of White Zetsu.

Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!

It spewed out a large expanse of flames, as vast as the sea, forward.

Fire Release counters Wind Release, but the Thousand Faces Wind released by the Sand Village ninja was instead used by Madara Uchiha.

With the help of the wind, Madara Uchiha's Great Fire Annihilation was amplified to a new level, and the flames swept over the ninjas of Sunagakure.

The ninjas of Kirigakure are not skilled in water-style techniques, and since Sunagakure is located in the desert, even if there are ninjas who can use water-style techniques, they cannot unleash their full power.

In order to withstand Madara Uchiha's flames, they could only use the Earth Formation Wall to defend against them.

However, some ninjas still perished in the flames.

As a result of the battle, Madara Uchiha was completely unharmed and suffered no injuries whatsoever.

On the contrary, the Sand Village side lost a group of ninjas first.

The superiority of one over the other is obvious at a glance.

The battle horn was sounded, and the White Zetsu army charged forward in a mighty wave.

The ninjas from Sunagakure also rushed forward.

Although the number of Sunagakure ninjas and the White Zetsu army were evenly matched.

However, Sunagakure also possesses puppetry techniques, giving them a numerical advantage.

Moreover, White Zetsu is not very strong; at most, they are only at the Chunin level.

It seems the scales are tipping in favor of Sunagakure.

But no one let their guard down.

Because the most important person, Madara Uchiha, hasn't made a move yet.

While the White Zetsu army charged, Madara Uchiha sat there listlessly.

This battle held absolutely no interest for Madara Uchiha.

Maki broke through the White Zetsu's encirclement and stood before Madara Uchiha.

"Wind Release: Wind Blade!"

The chakra emanating from Maki's fingertips was like a sharp knife, piercing straight towards Uchiha Madara.

However, Madara Uchiha neither dodged nor avoided the attacks, allowing Maki to continue attacking him.

But at the very moment it was about to pierce Madara Uchiha's body.

A transparent shield appeared around Madara Uchiha's body, absorbing Maki's wind blade.

Maki quickly retreated, putting distance between himself and Madara Uchiha.

Madara Uchiha got up from the ground: "Let's play around with you guys before that guy arrives."

Maki didn't understand who the guy Madara Uchiha was talking about was, but seeing that Madara Uchiha was going to fight, Maki became extremely alert.

"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Song Technique!"

Madara Uchiha unleashed four fire dragons at the ground, attacking Maki simultaneously from the top, bottom, left, and right, leaving Maki with no way to dodge.

The four fire dragons struck Maki simultaneously, causing an explosion.

The smoke and dust cleared.

Gold dust appeared around Maki, blocking Madara Uchiha's Dragon Flame Song Technique.

As the gold dust dissipated, a figure appeared before Maki—it was none other than the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.

Ten chakra threads appeared at Maki's fingertips, connecting to Rasa's body.

"Oh? A human puppet?"

Madara Uchiha looked at Maki and Rasa's puppets with disdain: "They're just defeated opponents. Do they think they can beat me just because they're controlling a corpse? How naive."

Ignoring Madara Uchiha's taunts, Maki declared: "Magnet Release: Gold Sand World Technique!"

Maki manipulated the human puppet Rasa, creating sharp, bamboo shoot-like gold dust that pierced towards Uchiha Madara.

"Susanoo!"

Madara Uchiha only used the first stage of Susanoo, which resembled a skull, to fight the enemy.

The sharp gold dust could not penetrate Susanoo's defenses at all.

"Magnetic Escape? Placer Gold!"

Maki used Rasa to convert highly condensed chakra into magnetism, and then channeled the Magnet Release chakra into the ground through hand seals, creating a vast expanse of gold dust resembling seawater.

He then formed another hand seal: "Magnetic Release: Great Burial of Gold Dust!"

Maki buried Uchiha Madara along with Susanoo deep into the gold dust, which then caused a massive explosion.

It blasted a deep crater in the ground.

Chapter 369 Wind Shadow Maki

Human puppets should only be able to be created by Sasori of the Red Sand.

However, with the loss of the Kazekage Rasa, Maki's strength and prestige could no longer convince the people of Sunagakure.

It was around that time that the Five Shadows Conference was held.

Because the identities of Akatsuki members were revealed in Kagerou Village.

Everyone knows that Sasori of the Red Sand is the rogue ninja who killed the Third Kazekage of Sunagakure.

In order to solidify their position and gain strength.

Maki found Scorpion's grandmother, Chiyo.

Maki believes that Chiyo, as Sasori's grandmother, must know the secret of the human puppet.

Therefore, Maki begged Chiyo to teach him the art of puppetry.

Sasori was already researching human puppets when he was still in Sunagakure.

Before leaving, Scorpion did not destroy the manuscript about the human puppet, but preserved it.

The manuscript of this human puppet is currently in Chiyo's possession.

Chiyo refused Maki's request for the skill of creating human puppets without hesitation.

Because the methods of making human puppets were too cruel and violated human ethics, Chiyo did not want anyone else to master the art of making human puppets.

However, Maki had made up his mind to obtain the technique of making human puppets.

Just then, the Five Kage Summit ended, and the five great ninja villages formed the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Maki recounted to Chiyo in detail the disrespect and humiliation Sunagakure suffered at the Five Kage Summit.

Maki believes that the village was treated this way because it lacked power.

As long as you have strength, regardless of how you acquired it, as long as you are powerful, you can protect Sunagakure and earn respect.

Maki didn't want to experience the humiliation he suffered at the Five Shadows Conference a second time.

Chiyo sensed Maki's resolve and also realized that Sunagakure was declining day by day.

When Rasa was alive, although the Land of Wind was very poor, he was still able to use the Kekkei Genkai Magnet Release to collect gold dust in the desert to subsidize the village and provide it with funds.

However, after Luo Sha died, the village's funding completely dried up.

The daimyo of the Land of Wind was powerless to help in this situation.

If things continue like this, Sunagakure will eventually fall out of the ranks of the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Chiyo finally agreed and handed over the manuscript left by Sasori to Maki.

Machi studied the manuscript day and night.

Although in terms of talent, Machi was not outstanding.

However, diligence can make up for lack of talent. Maki not only wrote the manuscript but also added his own understanding, and finally created the first human puppet belonging to Sunagakure: Rasa, which completely preserved all of Rasa's ninjutsu and bloodline limit.

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Looking at Madara Uchiha buried in gold dust, and at the Sand Village ninjas still fighting against the White Zetsu army, Maki felt extremely excited!

"The harsh environment of flying sand and dust will become excellent food for cultivating ninjas. I am still the Fifth Kazekage of Sunagakure, Baki!"

Seeing Madara Uchiha buried in gold dust, the ninjas of Sunagakure were all excited and kept calling out for the Kazekage.

However, the good times did not last long.

Suddenly, branches began to emerge from the gold dust, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And then Madara Uchiha's voice came through.

"Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees!"

Numerous tree roots broke through the gold dust, emerging from the soil and scattering the gold.

On one of the branches, Madara Uchiha sat, looking down at everyone below with disdain, his gaze finally settling on Maki.

"Your puppets are far inferior to that brat Sasori. The Sand Village is truly a barbaric land, full of incompetent fools. If they are only this good, they can't even please me."

Enraged by Madara Uchiha's disdain, Maki once again manipulated a puppet to attack Madara.

"Magnetic Escape? Placer Gold Spear!"

Maki condensed the gold dust into a drill-like shape and thrust it at Uchiha Madara, who was sitting on a tree branch.

"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"

Madara Uchiha created a giant wooden dragon.

The wooden dragon directly blocked the drill-shaped gold dust.