Soon, the giant created by Deidara's "C4 Karura" gradually began to dissipate.
In reality, it transformed into countless tiny Clay Spiders.
Once these tiny Clay Spiders were inhaled into the human body along with the air, they would cause a comprehensive double explosion from inside and out.
Most people probably would not even know how they had died.
Of course, it was not only people. Everything within the range of the Clay Spiders' spread would be blown apart.
According to Deidara's plan, the entire Sunagakure would be buried alongside Hyuga Chiba.
"Deidara, you've finally shown some real skill."
Seeing this scene, Hyuga Chiba first nodded, then shook his head. "Unfortunately, it's useless against me."
"Universal Pull—Thunder Dragon Rotation!"
In the next moment, Hyuga Chiba released Lightning Release Chakra throughout his body while spinning at high speed, forming a gigantic thunder dragon.
A powerful suction force immediately acted on the tiny Clay Spiders that were completely invisible to the naked eye.
The moment these Clay Spiders touched the thunder dragon, they instantly became ineffective.
"Damn it, what the hell is wrong with this guy?"
Deidara's once-handsome face now looked somewhat savage from shock and fury. "Isn't he from the Konohagakure Hyuga Clan? Why can he use Lightning Release on such a massive scale?"
"No, why has he been using Lightning Release this whole time? Did he really know my weakness from the very beginning?"
At that moment, Deidara inexplicably felt as if he had been led into a trap.
"In that case, I'll show you my ultimate art, hmm!"
Quickly regaining his composure, Deidara stripped off and threw away his Red Cloud black robe, which had already been somewhat damaged during the battle, and prepared to unleash his strongest technique, "C0 Self-Destruction."
As the name implied, this technique sacrificed his own life to create a terrifying explosion capable of causing massive destruction to everything within a ten-kilometer radius.
In the original story, Sasuke had relied on summoning Manda and hiding inside its stomach to escape.
The price was that Manda died as a result.
"Art? Hahahaha, how ridiculous."
At this moment, Chiba in the sky laughed loudly as if he had heard some amusing keyword. "That tiny bomb of yours wouldn't even be enough to qualify as a firework, and you call it art?"
"To be frank, you know... nothing about art!"
Before his voice had even faded, a green Chakra Orb took shape in Chiba's left palm. It shot into Deidara's body with incredible speed, then flew out through his back carrying more than ninety percent of the Chakra inside him, creating a massive explosion in the sky that spread across a thirty-kilometer radius.
Everyone in Sunagakure could look up and see a "Patrick Star" lying horizontally in the sky.
Of course, under normal circumstances, it would not have been this powerful.
But to further prove that Deidara truly knew nothing about art, Chiba added a tiny bit—one hundred million tiny bits—of his own Tenseigan Chakra to the Chakra Orb from earlier.
There was no other reason. He simply felt that Deidara was a talent, and it would be a shame if he died like this.
"..."
At that moment, Deidara sat weakly on the ground, having lost a massive amount of Chakra. He stared at the enormous "firework" in the sky with a look of utter disbelief and remained dazed for a long time.
"How is this possible?"
After gradually coming to his senses, Deidara still found it impossible to believe. "It was clearly only ninety percent of the Chakra in my body, yet it created art several times more powerful than my Self-Destruction?"
"That green orb of his was also clearly faster than I am at creating Clay Bombs."
"Could it be that Hyuga Chiba really understands art better than I do?"
"No!" Although Deidara was already deeply shaken inside, he stubbornly declared, "No one in this world understands art better than I do."
"That naturally evil Tenseigan brat is even less likely to!"
"Heh. A frog in a well who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth and only wishes to remain immersed in his own world." Chiba descended before Deidara and sneered condescendingly. "You can keep eating Clay and deceiving those ordinary fools who don't understand true art, but did you really start believing that no one could surpass your understanding of art?"
"Have you ever seen an explosion that can reach tens of millions of degrees Celsius and emit terrifying radiation? As a friendly reminder, the temperature at the center of the sun is approximately fifteen million degrees Celsius."
"Have you ever heard of art capable of destroying an entire planet?"
"And what about art capable of destroying a galaxy, or even the entire universe? Have you ever thought about that?"
"Compared to those, what is your Self-Destruction? It sounds intimidating, but it might not even be able to kill someone who hid inside a snake's stomach."
"The temperature at the sun's core, destroying planets, destroying galaxies and the universe..." Deidara was left dumbfounded by Chiba's words.
Some of those things even exceeded the limits of his knowledge.
"Does art like that really exist?"
Deidara asked Chiba like a student thirsting for knowledge.
At the same time, he felt somewhat uneasy, because he truly wanted to witness the art Chiba had described, and even create it himself.
But he was worried that all of it was merely something Chiba had made up on the spur of the moment, with no possibility of becoming reality.
Seeing this, Chiba did not answer directly. Instead, he asked, "Do you want to keep deceiving yourself with those fireworks of yours that are no better than children's toys?"
"Or do you want to take a gamble and follow me, seeing with your own eyes whether the art I described truly exists?"
"Oh, no. You're an invader who trespassed into my territory. You've already earned the right to die."
"I was only willing to give you a chance because you, like me, pursue great art, and I didn't want to watch you remain trapped in your own narrow view."
"If you refuse... sigh, what a pity. This world will be down one person who can barely keep up with my artistic footsteps."
"Out of my final mercy toward you, go ahead and blow yourself up."
"..." Deidara's expression shifted repeatedly.
For some reason, he always felt that the blue-eyed brat before him was trying to deceive him.
But the "true art" the other party had mentioned really did make his heart itch.
Even if the art Hyuga Chiba had described—art capable of destroying planets and the universe—was fake, Chiba had undeniably used Deidara's own Chakra to create art more effective than his Self-Destruction.
Moreover, Hyuga Chiba was currently the only person who acknowledged Deidara's art.
Even Sasori, the elder brother Deidara had always respected, had enormous disagreements with him when it came to art.
"Oh, you're unwilling?"
Seeing that Deidara remained caught in indecision, Chiba raised his hand. Another Green Chakra Orb appeared in his palm. "I didn't expect that you would not only lack sufficient devotion to art, but also be unwilling to prove yourself through Self-Destruction."
"Although it would dirty my hands a little, I'll be the one to completely end your life."
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