The scene of a thousand Narutos descending at once was an awe-inspiring spectacle!
Whoosh! Every Naruto held a Rasengan, spinning furiously. All kinds of terrifying chakra properties filled the air, as if this immense power would turn the very fabric of space upside down!
In terms of sheer presence, compared to the so-called Hundred Puppet Performance, it was a crushing, higher-dimensional attack!
"How is this possible?! How can anyone do something like this?!" Sasori was utterly shocked, his mechanical face seeming to tremble slightly.
A glint flashed in Naruto's eyes, and a faint smile tugged at his lips. "If your jutsu can destroy a small country, then I guess I can conquer a great nation!"
With that, over a thousand Narutos charged at the puppet army!
There was almost no suspense. Every Rasengan that hit meant another puppet was instantly obliterated!
What's more, there were ten times as many Shadow Clones as puppets!
Crack, crack! The sound of puppets breaking rang out incessantly.
Everywhere you looked, twisted, mangled puppet wreckage littered the ground. The sight was horrifying.
And after just that one clash, the entire puppet army had been wiped out!
[Shadow Clones smash the Hundred Puppet Corps, Villain Points +398!]
"Not bad!" Naruto said with a calm smile.
"This... How is this possible..." Sasori's pupils shrank violently. His face was full of disbelief as he stammered.
It was no wonder Sasori was so shaken. Those puppets were the strongest corps he had always taken pride in!
They had never suffered such a crushing defeat, no matter how powerful the enemy.
Yet today, against Naruto, they had proved even more fragile than dirt and clay.
How could Sasori accept such a staggering reversal?
What made Sasori despair even more was that not a single one of Naruto's Shadow Clones had been dispelled after defeating the Hundred Puppet Corps!
In the shadowy depths of the trees some distance away.
"Hiss—" A strange rustling sound suddenly arose, and a mysterious black vortex appeared out of thin air. It emanated a ceaseless stream of trembling space-time energy, warping the air around it under its terrifying pressure.
A figure wearing an orange-yellow, one-eyed mask and a black cloak then emerged from the vortex, his body twisting like an evil spirit as he slowly came into view.
This was the Shinobi World's hopeless romantic, the man whose Kamui couldn't hide his tears—Obito Uchiha!
As soon as he appeared in the shade of the trees,
the Sharingan beneath his mask flashed with an eerie red light. He spoke slowly: "Uzumaki Naruto... He really did inherit his teacher's talent perfectly, along with Sister Kushina's constitution?!"
Just as Obito finished speaking,
another faint rustling sound came from the trees. Black White Zetsu slowly emerged from the ground.
"How terrifying!" Black White Zetsu had only just appeared, but the sight of the battlefield made him exclaim in astonishment.
He turned to Obito beside him and asked, "Madara... The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is growing far too quickly. Sasori must have lost! Should we step in now?"
A grave look flickered in Obito's eyes. Then he said in a low voice, "Let's wait and see. Unless we have no other choice, I really don't want to expose myself this early..."
Black White Zetsu fell silent for a moment, then nodded. "Mm, that makes sense. Revealing ourselves too soon could bring unexpected trouble..."
In reality, however, Obito was overwhelmed by helplessness.
He wasn't afraid of exposing himself too early. It was just that he had no confidence at all in this fight.
Obito knew full well that Naruto's Flying Thunder God Technique was every bit as good as his father Namikaze Minato's had been, while Naruto's other techniques were far beyond Minato's.
And even after all these years, Obito still didn't believe he could defeat Minato...
Now he was supposed to challenge Naruto, who was practically an upgraded version of Minato. That would be no different from walking to his own death.
It was like lighting a lamp in a latrine—looking for shit to eat!
The scene returned to the battlefield.
At that moment,
"Your art is nothing special..." the thousand Narutos said in unison, their eyes glinting with amusement as they looked at Sasori.
Sasori snapped back to his senses. Shock and fury surged across his face as he roared,
"Don't insult my art! It is eternal beauty!"
Naruto dispelled all his Shadow Clones on the battlefield. As the smoke slowly cleared, his teasing voice drifted over.
"But your art lost to me! That proves you're nowhere near worthy of calling it eternal beauty!"
As Naruto's words fell,
Sasori's pupils jolted. Then his eyes filled with confusion, and his voice trembled with despair. "I'm not worthy? I'm not worthy? I'm not worthy of eternal beauty?!"
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried across the battlefield, filling the air with sorrow.
[The host's words pierce Sasori's ninja way, Villain Points +123!]
"Oh?! So Talk no Jutsu can earn Villain Points too?" Naruto felt as if he'd discovered a whole new continent.
At that moment,
"I'm not worthy? I'm not worthy? I'm not worthy..." Sasori's voice continued to echo across the battlefield, like a mournful dirge.
Gradually, however, his voice grew crazed, like a wounded beast bellowing.
At last, the next moment came.
Sasori suddenly raised his head, his face contorted with utter rage. Like a demon, he roared at Naruto.
"I am eternal art! I am eternal beauty!"
With that, Sasori jerked his wrist. His chakra threads hooked the final scroll on his back and dragged it in front of him.
Whoosh! The scroll slowly unfurled in midair. A heaven-shaking pressure instantly descended over the battlefield, while rays of golden light burst from the scroll and shot into the sky.
Then, those rays of light slowly formed an incredibly dazzling character!
It was "Da!" A gigantic "Da!"
Naruto narrowed his eyes, a trace of surprise in them. "The scroll that wasn't used even at the end of the original story—is it finally going to appear now?!"
Sure enough, as Naruto finished speaking,
the next instant,
"Whoosh—" Sasori's feet slowly lifted off the ground. His body rose into the air, and he floated toward the character "Da," his face twisted with rage.
"Open!" Sasori abruptly formed a hand seal.
Whoosh! The character "Da" vanished in an instant, transforming into an unfathomably deep golden vortex.
At the same time, the chakra core in Sasori's chest began to flash continuously, its crimson light illuminating the entire battlefield.
The puppet wreckage was bathed in that light as well.
Then, a shocking sight appeared.
Whoosh! Every puppet fragment illuminated by the crimson light suddenly trembled, then floated up and shot through the air toward the golden vortex!
Beyond the golden vortex seemed to lie another world. As soon as the puppet wreckage entered, it vanished.
"Hmm?! What's going on?" Naruto asked in confusion.
Then he understood.
Because at that moment,
Boom! A deafening sound suddenly rang out,
and then,
Bam—
A terrifying Heaven-Toppling Demon Leg, radiating the sinister beauty of heavy machinery, burst through the golden vortex and descended with a crash!
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