White Fang was strong, but ultimately, he was a figure who lived in legend, and his famous battle was the one in which he killed Sasori's parents.
Version power creep also had to be taken into account.
The later the version a ninja appeared in, the stronger they were.
White Fang's stats were still from the Second Shinobi War version, and the stats from that period could not compare with those in Shippuden.
The Sannin who deferred to White Fang were not the later Sannin, but the Young Sannin.
The Young Sannin could not even defeat Hanzō, so they could not have been all that strong.
As for the later Sannin, Orochimaru alone had killed two Kage.
Yet even that Orochimaru was a beaten dog hunted by the Akatsuki and Sasori.
At this point, Sasori had no puppets, so he used chakra threads to control the ninja in the Anbu squad from the Leaf Village.
The Anbu squad could still dodge ten chakra threads, but what about dozens, or hundreds?
Even without a Regeneration Core, Sasori had enormous amounts of chakra thanks to the endlessly sustained chakra of Impure World Reincarnation.
All that chakra was converted into chakra threads, which swept toward the Anbu squad in an overwhelming wave to control them.
Chiyo stared at those chakra threads in horror. "Sasori's puppet control has already surpassed mine. Even the founder of the Puppet Technique, Lord Shamon, the Second Kazekage, couldn't achieve what Sasori has."
Yugao found the sight extremely hard to bear as she watched from the side.
The people Sasori was fighting were her comrades, even though Yugao had never met Sakumo and they were not even from the same era.
But they all wore the Leaf Village's forehead protectors and ninja uniforms.
That made them Yugao's comrades.
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