Art Is an Explosion

"Really?" Deidara asked, still not believing it.

"Of course it's true." Shiyu wanted to play with Deidara a little longer, after all, Sasori and Chiyo 'Xiao Xing battle wasn't over yet.

"I still don't believe it. What if you change your mind?" Deidara said, equally skeptical.

"Okay, I promise that if I use Lightning Release, I'll be your fan from now on. You'll be my most admired artist, and I'll wholeheartedly acknowledge your art!" Shiyu made this promise.

"Haha! You said it yourself! Don't regret it! My explosion is really powerful!"

Deidara was secretly pleased with himself. His final provocation had worked perfectly; the enemy knew his weakness and wasn't going to use it again.

"Show me what attack you have, or you'll be dead the moment I make a move." Shiyu knew Deidara was extremely arrogant, but Shiyu himself was even more arrogant. He was that confident and inflated by his own strength.

"Ha! Don't blame me!" Deidara then took out the Explosive Clay and ate it himself. Immediately afterwards, he spat out a super-giant Deidara from his mouth.

"This is C4 Garuda! Savor this move! We agreed you weren't allowed to use Lightning Release! Otherwise, I'll look down on you, and you'll have to keep your promise and acknowledge my art!" Deidara also revealed a smug smile.

"This is my most powerful move yet! Without using Lightning Release, let's see how you dodge it!" Deidara finally raised his finger and shouted loudly, "Hah!!!"

Immediately afterward, the enormous Deidara turned into dust. Shiyu, using his Scouting Eye, could clearly see that these tiny specks of dust were actually extremely small clay spiders.

"I remember Deidara used this technique when he fought Sasuke. Once inhaled, it reacts with Deidara's chakra, eventually exploding and completely destroying the person." Shiyu didn't move, letting the smoke and dust rush towards him.

"However, if I use Lightning Release, it should quickly deactivate these Explosive Clay. It seems Deidara believed my assurance. Even Susanoo shouldn't be able to withstand the explosion inside a person's body. That's quite an interesting move." Although Shiyu spoke with great importance, he made no attempt to defend himself.

Shiyu didn't bother to dodge this attack, and thus directly inhaled a large amount of Explosive Clay into his body.

"Hahahaha! You brought this on yourself, don't blame me! But you're such an honest baby! I'll give you a good compliment with an explosion!" Deidara was very pleased with himself; Shiyu indeed hadn't used Lightning Release.

"Praise me? Ha! Interesting, let's see how you praise me." Shiyu showed no fear.

"You're about to die and you still don't know?! What a complete idiot! Even more of an idiot than Tobi!" Deidara retorted.

"Die, Shiyu! Art is an Explosion! Drink!" Deidara roared, eagerly anticipating the massive explosion that Shiyu would unleash.

Logically Shiyu should have exploded immediately, but Shiyu's body did not change at all.

"Huh? What did you do?" Shiyu asked knowingly, just wanting to annoy Deidara.

"Damn it! Why isn't it exploding? Drink! Drink! Drink!" Deidara could clearly sense the Explosive Clay inside Shiyu's body, but he couldn't make it explode.

"Hey! Did you secretly use Lightning Release to inactivate them?" Deidara asked, taking the initiative to ask.

"Huh? You're not good enough, are you? I've been here the whole time, but I didn't move an inch, did I?" Shiyu also expressed her helplessness.

"How is this possible?! How could my Explosive Clay fail?!" Deidara was also completely baffled.

"Since that's the case!" Deidara quickly created another small spider, which didn't explode at first but instead crawled onto Shiyu's body. Only then did Deidara shout, "Hah!"

However, this batch of Explosive Clay remained unchanged.

"Hahaha! You've gained another weakness! Looks like that's all you're capable of?!" Shiyu had discovered a new way to turn all of Deidara's Explosive Clay into duds.

"Deidara, your ability is to use the 'mouth' on your body to chew and mix in your own chakra, which can then be used to create various explosives to trigger explosions."

"Because your chakra has been mixed in, you can use 'Hah!' to detonate the Explosive Clay anytime, anywhere, as long as your chakra can be sensed. If Lightning Release is involved, the earth-attribute Explosive Clay will lose its explosive ability."

"However, besides using Lightning Release against the exploding clay, there's another way to completely counter you: absorb the chakra within the Explosive Clay!"

"Once the Explosive Clay absorbs your chakra, Explosive Clay will no longer be under your control and will no longer respond to your commands, thus preventing it from detonating. Am I right?"

"What you said is true! But absorbing chakra is just too unbelievable!" Deidara was surprised, but still somewhat incredulous.

"Ha! You don't need to believe me. It's time for you to leave the Shinobi World stage." Shiyu then used a super-fast Teleportation to firmly grab Deidara's neck.

"Also, as long as the speed is fast enough, your Explosive Clay won't have any effect, understand?" Shiyu's eyes had transformed into the Nine-Tomo Rinne Sharingan, and he released a Genjutsu directly at Deidara.

"I, Deidara, had no ability to resist and fell directly into Shiyu's Genjutsu."

"Since you consider yourself an artist, I'll grant you a dignified death. Prepare to self-destruct!" Shiyu can briefly control enemies with weaker mental strength, making them do certain things.

Deidara, naturally unable to resist Shiyu's powerful mental strength, mechanically released the seal on his left chest, allowing it to begin consuming large amounts of Explosive Clay.

Then Shiyu ordered, "Wait five minutes before you explode."

"I hope you'll say what you most want to say before you die." Shiyu then returned to the cave.

The battle between the three had reached a fever pitch, with Xiao Xing using Sage Mode and Chiyo using the Chikamatsu Ten.

Scorpion then used the Red Secret Technique: Hundred Machine Manipulation, controlling over a hundred puppets to charge towards the two.

However, since Scorpion's hundred puppets were relatively weak, they were quickly destroyed by the two, leaving only a small fraction of them.

After seeing Shiyu, Sasori said, "Looks like you defeated Deidara? Zetsu, are you done yet?"

"It's all done!! But you'll need to hold them off a little longer," Jue said.

"Ha, what a cunning old fox!" Shiyu's words were, of course, absolutely true.