Clay (Part One)

Bang bang bang!

Countless gray-white clay birds exploded above Deidara's head. The shockwaves immediately blasted away all the ice needles in the nearly ten-meter radius of airspace, hurling them far to the other side.

Deidara easily blocked this wave of ice needles.

"Quite capable! No wonder you're Ōnoki's disciple!" Qi Shuang nodded when he saw this.

"You know me?" Deidara asked in surprise, but his hands never stopped moving. He pulled another lump of clay from his pouch.

Qi Shuang smiled faintly and continued, "I know everyone in the Akatsuki, and I also know all of your backgrounds and techniques."

"For Ōnoki's sake, I'll give you a chance."

"If you surrender obediently, I won't make things difficult for you. I'm sure your old man must miss you after not seeing you for so long!"

Deidara was from Iwagakure and Ōnoki's direct disciple. He possessed extraordinary talent, and no one could match him in the use of Explosive Clay.

Therefore, even after Deidara had carried out countless bombing attacks in Iwagakure, Ōnoki still couldn't bear to execute him. He merely exiled him and had him settled outside the village.

Who could have expected Deidara to be bewitched by the Akatsuki and defect from Iwagakure?

Although killing this Explosion Release prodigy would not be difficult for Qi Shuang,

now that the Five Great Shinobi Villages had formed an allied army, killing this Explosion Release prodigy would surely make things difficult to explain to Ōnoki and harm the alliance's cooperation.

It would be better to capture him and hand him over to Ōnoki to deal with personally. He could also do the old man a favor, making it easier to divide the spoils after the war.

At the same time, upon hearing Ōnoki's name, Deidara's expression grew tense. Even the motion of kneading