No Opportunity

"Falling Moon Style: Flash Blade!"

Gripping the Fubuki Tachi tightly in his right hand, Uchiha Yue prepared to use Falling Moon Style: Flash Blade the instant he closed in on Jingbian Duleisi, intending to take the life of this Sunagakure rising star directly. Back when he had been unable to use chakra, Uchiha Yue had still been able to instantly kill jonin-level ninja with the formidable power of Falling Moon Style: Flash Blade.

Now that Uchiha Yue's chakra had recovered, killing Jingbian Duleisi with Falling Moon Style: Flash Blade was simply too easy.

However, just as Uchiha Yue was brimming with confidence, certain that he could claim Jingbian Duleisi's life...

A layer of pitch-black light suddenly burst forth from Jingbian Duleisi's body!

The next second, Jingbian Duleisi's entire body was covered in a layer of pitch-black armor before Uchiha Yue's eyes!

Moreover, that layer of pitch-black armor actually helped Jingbian Duleisi evade Uchiha Yue's fatal strike!

"Bang..."

Even the Wind Style Chakra, pushed to the extreme of its nature transformation and attached to the Fubuki Tachi, failed to break through the pitch-black armor Jingbian Duleisi wore. Thus, when Uchiha Yue's fatal blow missed, even he could not help using Purple Eye to take another look at the black armor on Jingbian Duleisi's body—the Black Iron Puppet Jingbian Duleisi possessed!

Then, after closely examining it with Purple Eye, Uchiha Yue discovered that Jingbian Duleisi's Black Iron Puppet differed from ordinary puppets. Normal Puppet Masters used the puppets in their hands as weapons. Sasori of the Red Sands was that kind of Puppet Master. No matter how powerful a puppet Sasori of the Red Sands created, those puppets could not directly affect his own body; they could only be used as his weapons.

But Jingbian Duleisi's Black Iron Puppet was different. The