Ebizo was nearly sixty himself. For someone in a profession with a casualty rate as high as a ninja's, reaching that age was already a blessing.
Moreover, Ebizo was Sunagakure's wise man. He did not possess Chiyo's ninjutsu.
But his wisdom had provided Sunagakure with countless strategies, sustaining the village's livelihood and stability.
Yet that bastard Liao Wu actually intended to use Sunagakure's wise man to lure out Chiyo and Sasori.
He truly was the lowest of the low!
Baki wanted to say something, but Liao Wu's Ninja Cats had already taken over guarding Ebizo from the Sand Ninja.
Hanging Ebizo up would have to wait until they reached Rōran!
Liao Wu was simply telling the Sand Village ninja about the vile thing he was doing.
Someone like Sasori was bound to have left spies in the Sand Village. Those spies did not know they were spies, but once the Subconscious Mind Manipulation Sand in their minds was released, they would remember that they worked for Sasori.
In an underground ruin in the Land of U, Rōran's minister Anrokuzan led his Dragon Vein puppets in building a puppet factory to produce more puppets.
Anrokuzan discovered that the dragon vein was not exclusive to Rōran. It was simply a hundred times more active there.
The presence of a dragon vein in Rōran did not mean there were none elsewhere. There was simply far less of it, as was the case in the underground ruin they currently occupied.
Once puppets specialized in underground work descended a thousand meters, they could extract dragon vein power from the earth.
"The dragon vein here is worlds apart from Rōran's. Lord Sasori, we must find a way to seize Rōran!"
Anrokuzan advised Sasori like a minister addressing his sovereign.
Sasori had just returned from outside,