Enlightenment

Boom!

An orange-red fireball exploded against the ground, and a scorching wave spread outward with the flames. The trees covering the area were utterly unable to withstand such unnaturally produced fire. In an instant, they were reduced to ash, then swept away by the heat wave.

Elemental Release techniques were not the same as natural phenomena. That was the power of nature transformation—it was an extreme manifestation of natural properties, far surpassing the destruction that corresponding natural phenomena could produce under normal circumstances.

Yet this powerful fireball could not achieve its true purpose. Its actual target had already left the area before it arrived.

Qi soon reappeared. His speed was more than enough to evade this kind of pinpoint attack.

"A dual-nature combination of Wind and Fire..."

He looked toward where he had been standing. Everything that had stood there before had been completely wiped out.

An ordinary fireball could not achieve that kind of destructive efficiency, unless it was the Uchiha Clan's Fire Style. Only then would it be possible.

"So this is a human puppet. Ordinary puppets really are trash compared to it."

Qi raised an eyebrow. At that very moment, a figure leaped before him, and a gust of fist wind swept toward him.

It was Sasori.

This time, Qi did not evade. He directly met it with a punch of his own.

With a loud bang, the two figures separated the instant they collided, each landing atop a tree and facing the other from afar.

"Hey, are you really human? You didn't use Iwagakure's Hardening Technique for that punch just now, did you? I can tell, you know. After all, I've killed quite a few Rock Ninja myself."

Sasori watched Qi with great interest from within his protective puppet.

"And you're immune to poison too. What