The gourd fragments behind him suddenly floated up and gathered above Deidara's head, forming the prototype of a miniature sand waterfall burial.

"Art needs to bloom more intensely, ah!" Deidara's golden hair danced wildly in the air currents as he tore open the clay bag on his chest and quickly kneaded it into the shape of an eighteen-winged centipede with his ten fingers.

Just as Kakashi's Lightning Blade was about to touch his neck, three clay clones suddenly shot out from the belly of his mount.

Naruto's two thousand shadow clones simultaneously formed hand seals.

The golden storm created by the Giant Rasengan shredded the clay centipede into dust, but the purple poisonous mist from the explosion instantly devoured half of the clones.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame burned a path through the poisonous fog, and Susanoo's bow finally locked onto Deidara's true form.

"Now!" Kakashi's Lightning Blade suddenly changed direction, cleaving through the icy mist that enveloped Gaara.

The sand, controlled by the wind spirit, seized the fleeting opening and transformed into six chains that bound Deidara's limbs.

The sand and gravel suspended high in the air poured down like a torrential rain, riddling the wings of the clay bird with holes.

Deidara's lips suddenly curled into a manic arc.

He bit his left thumb with his bloodied teeth, and amidst the chakra turbulence created by the combined attack of the crowd, his right hand quietly reached for the small clay scroll hidden behind his waist.

The fingers bound by the gold dust twitched almost imperceptibly, and a clay creation shaped like a pigeon slid down the broken ice towards the edge of the battlefield.

Chapter 350 The Scorpion of the Red Sand

The poisonous mist seeping from the cracks in the ice suddenly solidified into frost.

Deidara's severed thumb was still spinning in the air when the broken clay fragments were frozen in place by some unseen force.

The sand gold chains emitted a grating scraping sound, and Gaara's pupils suddenly contracted—the enemy who should have been bound was now standing on an ice spike thirty meters away.

Sasori's Scarlet Sand Shell gleamed with a cold metallic light under the moonlight, while the Third Kazekage's puppet's Magnet Release chakra transformed the entire battlefield into a floating sea of ​​metallic sand.

As he raised his hand, the chakra threads he created rippled blue in the air, and the poisonous senbon unique to Sunagakure rained down like a storm, instantly turning Kankuro's crow puppet into a hedgehog.

Twelve against two? Sasori's voice came from the puppet's abdomen. The Third Kazekage's sand spear was already pressed against Kakashi's throat. "Your blood will nourish this frozen land."

Sasuke's Susanoo bow was entangled in magnetic sand, and the Amaterasu black flames were blocked by the sand and iron barrier as soon as they ignited.

Sakura's powerful punch that shattered the ice only kicked up a cloud of poisonous mist, and the blood she coughed up condensed into ice crystals on her collar.

Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique had barely touched Sasori's puppet strings when it was forced back three steps by a sudden burst of iron sand spikes.

The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is actually trembling? Deidara, riding a giant clay bird, swept over Naruto's head, his wings made of exploding clay brushing against Hinata's hair. "Wait till I turn your limbs into fireworks launchers, hmm?"

Naruto's palms were covered in cold sweat as he gripped the Rasengan.

He could hear Hinata's rapid breathing behind him, smell the blood emanating from Sasuke's wound, and sense that Kakashi's chakra reserves for his Lightning Blade were dwindling.

Five hundred meters away was the Konoha border post, but at this moment the sand and iron barrier had already blocked the entire sky.

Roll your eyes!

Hinata suddenly shattered the ice beneath her feet, and the vortex of Gentle Fist chakra dispersed the poisonous fog in front of her.

Her eyes, veins bulging, turned to the Third Kazekage puppet behind Sasori. Her voice trembled but was exceptionally clear: His chakra threads... had a 0.3-second delay at the third joint of his right scapula!

The sand-iron spear suddenly shifted half an inch, and Kakashi's Lightning Blade grazed Sasori's puppet shell, tearing a crack in the surface of Hiruko.

Shikamaru's shadow seized the opportunity to entangle the ankles of the two puppets, while Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame flowed upstream along the chakra lines, instantly burning through the defensive barrier composed of five Magnet Release sand iron bars.

At twelve o'clock! Naruto's shadow clones suddenly burst out of the poisonous mist, all nine clones simultaneously forming the hand seals for Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

The violent chakra flow tore through the magnetic sand barrier and precisely struck Sasori's exposed joints.

As Sasori of the Red Sand manipulated the Third Kazekage's puppet to retreat, Hiruko's outer shell suddenly emitted a strange, rattling sound.

His cold gaze swept over the Hyuga girl who was adjusting her Byakugan. His puppeteer's intuition allowed him to instantly grasp the situation—that Byakugan ninja who could see through the flow of chakra was more dangerous than the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Deidara's blond hair was lifted by the aftershocks of the explosion. He squinted at Hinata, who was struggling to maintain her Byakugan amidst the magnetic sand storm. Three miniature bombs quietly condensed from the tail feathers of the clay bird.

When Sasori's tail suddenly turned and stabbed at the medical team, the art duo exchanged a knowing glance amidst the flying iron sand.

The crisp sound of ice crystals shattering mingled with Deidara's sinister laughter as three clay spiders climbed up Hinata's chakra cloak.

Naruto's neck hairs stood on end, his orange chakra cloak suddenly expanded, and his six tails, accompanied by a wave of energy, completely enveloped Hinata in his arms.

The instant the orange light of the explosion illuminated his pupils, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword had already pierced through two clay spiders.

"Loser!" Sasuke's curse was swallowed by the sound of the explosion, and the purple ribs of his Susanoo barely blocked the splashing poisonous sand.

The wound on his right shoulder, where the iron sand had grazed him, began to turn blue, but his Sharingan remained fixed on the puppet strings behind Sasori.

Seven cracks suddenly appeared on the outer shell of the Hiruko, and the sand iron spear of the Third Kazekage puppet suddenly changed direction.

As Naruto rolled around with Hinata in his arms to dodge, he suddenly realized that Sasori's real target was not them at all—five experimental subjects covered in puppet strings burst out of the ground, their rotting fingers grabbing Sasuke's ankles.

The Uchiha brat deserves a different way to die. Sasori's chakra threads gleamed with a bluish-purple poisonous light under the moonlight. Suddenly, the mouths of the three test subjects opened wide, splitting to their ears. The sizzling sound of acid corroding the ground made Shikamaru throw out kunai.

Just as Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame burned through the skull of one experimental subject, two other subjects spewed out poisonous mist mixed with magnetic sand.

Just as Naruto's shadow clone rushed into the poisonous fog, the chakra link was severed by the suddenly closing sand iron cage.

He heard Sasuke coughing up blood five meters away, but the ring barrier formed by Magnet Release had completely separated them.

Hinata's trembling hand suddenly pressed down on his wrist: Right behind him... Sasori's joints are vibrating!

The moment the Nine-Tails' chakra, wrapped in wind blades, tore through the barrier, Sasori's Hiruko shell suddenly emitted a screeching sound like gears jamming.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade tore open a gap in the sand storm, and the Hatake family's ancestral short sword precisely pierced Sasori's right scapula third joint.

With a crisp cracking sound of metal breaking, Deidara swooped down on his clay bird: Sasori!

The clay giant bird's wing grazed Kakashi's back, but was pierced through the core by the Lightning Blade just before it was about to explode.

The silver-haired Jonin's headband had been pushed up at some point, and Deidara's astonished face was reflected in his crimson Sharingan: You're distracted.

The last thing Deidara saw as the lightning pierced his chest was Sasori's furious, venomous tail sting.

The claws formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra suddenly seized the scorpion's tail, and Naruto's azure pupils burned with unprecedented golden flames.

As Sasori's true form leaped out of the broken puppet shell, Gaara's sand-gold chains finally entangled his regeneration core.

The sins of the Sunagakure rogue ninja have come to an end. The Kazekage's Sand Burial and Kankuro's puppet strings tightened simultaneously, and Sasori's regeneration core cracked with a teeth-grinding sound under the pressure of the gold dust.

The iron sand cones he finally unleashed, controlled by the Third Kazekage puppet, were all shattered by Hinata's Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.

The battlefield suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Sasuke, supporting himself with the Kusanagi Sword, knelt in the acid-corroded pit, his Sharingan still fixed on the shattered remains of Sasori's puppet.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade still ripped a scorched trench in the ground, and Deidara's corpse was slowly swallowed by the gold dust.

"Medical team!" Sakura's voice startled the stunned crowd. Her green-glowing hands pressed against Sasuke and Naruto's wounds simultaneously.

Hinata's Byakugan was still bleeding, yet she stubbornly pointed northwest: "Two kilometers away... there's still a chakra reaction."

Naruto suddenly pressed down on her cold hand, and the remaining golden flames of the Nine-Tails' chakra danced between his fingers.

He looked up at Tianzang, who was reinforcing the barrier, with iron sand fragments still falling onto the surface of the barrier.

Kakashi's Sharingan slowly closed, and when he turned around, his headband had covered his eyes again, but the hand holding the sword was still trembling slightly.

Contact the Hokage immediately. Gaara's sand gourd was slung back behind him, and gold dust was forming a teleportation array beneath his feet. The residual Magnet Release here would affect the messenger hawk.

Chapter 351 A Combined Attack with All Its Might

The dust and mist from the sandfall burial had not yet dissipated when the Konoha medical team carried stretchers through the sand and iron debris scattered everywhere.

Sakura used her chakra scalpel to cut the last puppet string and knelt on the sand, panting heavily.

Sasuke's Sharingan had faded to black, and the burn marks left by the cursed seal on his neck were faintly visible under the gauze.

The barrier team rearranged formation number three! Tenzo's voice echoed between the ring-shaped mountain walls, and the vines sprouted by Wood Release were climbing along the cracks.

Tsunade's crystal ball rippled on the command post desk, the shattered Magnet Release sand interfering with chakra imaging.

Naruto suddenly pressed down on his right arm, which was throbbing with intense pain. The meridians, which had been pierced by the Nine-Tails' chakra after it had dissipated, felt like they had been pierced by a thousand needles.

He stared at Hinata's Byakugan, which was wrapped in medical bandages, and his grit-covered fingernails dug deeply into his palms.

The northwest wind carried the scent of decaying leaves, mixed with a sweet, herbal fragrance.

On high alert!

Kakashi's sharp shout startled the crows on the rocks.

The barrier at the seven o'clock position suddenly twisted into a vortex, and a black-robed man wearing a snake-patterned mask appeared out of thin air.

The crushed iron sand beneath his feet made a rustling sound like a snake shedding its skin, and the short knife at his waist gleamed with an ominous purple light.

His chakra concentration was five times that of an ordinary Jonin. Shikamaru's shadow stretched across the sand, and he was absorbing the remnants of Magnet Release at the cracks in the barrier.

The moment Tsunade smashed the corner of the table, slugs had already crawled all over the command center along with her chakra.

The mysterious man suddenly raised his right hand, and twelve black jade prayer beads floated in a ring, with the incantation of the Kusanagi sword appearing on the surface of each bead.

He handed over the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. The hoarse voice sounded like two tones overlapping, and the red light shining through the eye holes of the mask swept across Naruto's still bleeding right shoulder, or perhaps he was watching Konoha become a second Roran.

A burning, metallic taste rose in Naruto's throat as the Nine-Tails' remaining chakra suddenly surged wildly through his meridians.

He saw Sasuke's Kusanagi sword casting a swaying shadow on the sand, Kakashi's right hand, which was not yet in hand seals, making secret signals behind his back, and Gaara's gold dust condensing into an imperceptible thin blade high in the sky.

Don't be fooled! Tenzo's roar was dispersed by the sudden burst of chakra turbulence.

Naruto had already transformed into a golden afterimage and rushed towards the barrier rift, the sand and iron shattered by the Rasengan leaving a comet-like trail behind him.

The hissing sound of the masked man's chuckle was reminiscent of a snake shedding its skin.

The Yin seal he was holding in his left hand suddenly transformed into a strange Si seal, and the twelve black jade prayer beads simultaneously emitted purple light.

Just as the Rasengan was about to touch the mask, it suddenly twisted into a vortex, carrying gold dust and puppet remains back towards Naruto himself.

Beware of space-time ninjutsu! Kakashi's three-tomoe sword spun wildly, but his Lightning Blade struck the suddenly rising sand and iron barrier.

The mysterious man's black robe fluttered in the air currents as he slowly drew a void talisman with his right index finger, pointing directly at Naruto's heart.

When the iron sand fragments carried by the Rasengan were only three inches away from Naruto's throat, Gaara's gold sand finally solidified into a fine net.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade pierced precisely through the gaps in the sand net, and the purple arc of electricity collided with the black jade rosary, bursting out a blinding light.

Naruto was thrown into the sand by the shockwave, and the chakra surging through the meridians of his right arm burned his skin with scorch marks.

The price of recklessness. The mysterious man raised his hand to catch the falling rosary beads, and the sand-iron barrier suddenly transformed into thousands of poisonous needles.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword had just severed three poison needles when the fourth pierced through his left shoulder.

The dark purple toxin spread through his blood vessels faster than the Chidori Stream, and he staggered, smashing half of the puppet's remains.

Sasuke! Before Sakura's Healing Palm Technique could fully form its green light, the mysterious figure suddenly made a fist with five fingers in her direction.

The puppet strings left on the sand suddenly came to life, wrapping around her ankles and pulling her toward the still-spreading storm of poison needles.

At the critical moment, the wooden plank wall of the Tenzo burst out of the ground, and wood chips mixed with gravel covered Sakura's face.

Suddenly, the slugs in the command post exploded en masse, and Tsunade instantly appeared in the center of the battlefield.

Her punch to the ground with such force created a shockwave, shattering the flying iron sand into dust three meters away from everyone. "If the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki dies at your hands, Konoha Hospital's medical records for the past thirty years will have to be rewritten!" She grabbed Naruto by the back of his collar and hurled him towards Shikamaru, her medical chakra transforming into golden chains that bound his rampaging meridians.

Shikamaru's shadow silently entangled Kankuro's puppet strings.

As the mysterious man raised his hand to form a seal again, three raven puppets suddenly pounced out from three blind spots, their poisoned Thousand Needles and Shadow Imitation Technique arriving simultaneously.

This brilliant coordination caused the mysterious man to take a half-step back for the first time, and an angry hiss came from under his mask.

Kakashi-sensei was in charge of the remaining Magnet Release in the southwest, while Gaara controlled the gold dust to form a refractive layer. Shikamaru spoke faster than he formed hand seals; the tactical diagram his fingertips drew on the ground glowed with chakra. Naruto used Shadow Clones to create chakra turbulence, waiting for his prayer beads to begin absorbing it—

"You think this childish game can trap me?" The mysterious man suddenly interrupted the plan, and the circular array of twelve prayer beads suddenly expanded.

Shikamaru's shadow was bounced back the moment it touched the array, and the gold dust refraction layer melted away like a spider web encountering a raging fire.

The three shadow clones that Naruto had just created suddenly attacked each other uncontrollably, and the chakra turbulence from the Rasengan explosion overturned the barrier team that was setting up defenses.

Sasuke tried to stand up, but the poison made his vision go black.

He saw Sakura's Healing Palm Technique's green light flickering in the sand and dust, and Kakashi's headband had shattered at some point, revealing his bleeding Sharingan.

The thin, gold-plated blade high in the sky was corroded by the purple light of the rosary beads, creating honeycomb-like holes, and blood trickled from the corner of Gaara's mouth.

The mysterious figure rose into the air on floating prayer beads, his black robes flicking like a viper's tongue amidst a storm of chakra.

He formed a reversed "巳" hand seal with his left hand, and the scattered iron sand on the battlefield suddenly all floated to the surface, each grain of sand displaying the Kusanagi sword incantation. The game should end. The hoarse, heavy voice made everyone's eardrums ache, and the rumble of collapsing buildings came from the northwest.

Shikamaru's pupils suddenly contracted—the incantations were absorbing the remnants of ninjutsu from the entire battlefield.

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