Revealing His True Form / Magnet Release: Sand

The Ice Release construct created by White Ghost of Leaf Village is utterly devoid of aesthetic appeal, revealing him to be a crude and uncouth person.

People in this world are ultimately superficial; there are too few with noble souls like his and Deidara.

Uchiha Shingen: "..."

Is this guy's art switch on and then impossible to turn off?

My Zaku is so powerful, and the first thing you looked at was whether its design was good-looking?

Your body isn't even as big as my foot, where does your sense of superiority come from?

"Is art such a fragile thing?" Uchiha Shingen stood in the "cockpit" constructed with Susanoo, looking down at Hiruko, who now seemed like Hiruko. "Can you withstand this kick from me?"

"How crude... Well, I am a ninja after all."

Sasori's exclamation was drowned out by the roar that followed the Ice Release Giant's actions.

Uchiha Shingen had already manipulated the giant to stomp down.

However, sand is not as good as soil and rocks, and it is much less supportive of the Ice Release Giant. In order to ensure that the Ice Release Giant would not sink into the sand, he turned the air conditioning on full blast and froze the sand under the giant's feet. However, this affected the Ice Release Giant's agility.

The commotion was quite significant.

If Sasori can't even dodge this, then he truly insults the presumptuous title of Kage Level.

Before the Ice Release Giant's foot even landed, the icy air had already frozen the sand, but Hiruko was nowhere to be seen.

The giant foot still landed, stepping on the frozen sand. The frozen sand emitted an unbearable groan. Uchiha Shingen ignored it. The Ice Release Giant had already made a sword-wielding gesture with both hands—although what it condensed in its hands was a two-handed hammer.

Since the opponent was a puppet, Uchiha Shingen was too lazy to use his Majestic Attire; ice magic was enough.

The whack-a-mole game can begin.

"Get out of here!"

The enormous hammer slammed down on Hiruko, who was still gliding through the air with the wind.

In mid-air, Hiruko suddenly stretched out a hand, and the Chakra Threads unique to puppeteers shot out and stuck to the hammer surface.

In that instant, Hiruko swung to the side, just barely missing the giant hammer.

But this is just the beginning.

Hiruko's tail, like a chisel, pierced the hammer's surface, causing Hiruko to leap above the Ice Release Giant's arm.

At this moment, the giant hammer finally landed on the sand.

Like a heavy cannon shot, with a deafening roar, the entire sandy area sank into the ground, and large swaths of sand were squeezed and ejected into the air.

The two children, perfectly protected by the Susanoo cockpit, each had a different expression.

Kimimaro was initially stunned, but after regaining his senses, he looked at the huge thing he was in, then at his own small arms and legs, and his little brows furrowed.

Deidara, seeing the power of that hammer blow, was extremely envious.

He wasn't after the sledgehammer itself, he was after its power.

He felt that Uchiha Shingen was his artistic mentor, and the effects that Uchiha Shingen produced always inspired him.

The sheer power and destructive force released in that instant was breathtakingly beautiful.

Hiruko landed steadily on the arm of the Ice Release giant, which was unable to retract its grip for the time being. Using the airflow as support, it glided and launched a rapid attack on the location of Uchiha Shingen.

"Interesting." Uchiha Shingen smiled as he watched this scene.

To manipulate puppets to this extent, Scorpion truly lives up to his name.

However, the beauty of mechs lies in their immense power in every movement and their absolute visual impact.

Size equals power!

Even if it's just a mass-produced machine!

He'll make Scorpion truly understand why mecha is a man's romance!

Chapter Forty Reveals the True Form

Hiruko is really fast when she runs.

It was likely a Wind Release ninja in its previous life; Uchiha Shingen had been observing this Human Puppet.

The only Ninjutsu it displayed was Wind Release, and even that was only support-type.

Honestly, perhaps because it was an early work and the technology was not mature, Hiruko didn't have much of a presence in the field of Ninjutsu; its attacks and defenses relied on puppet mechanisms.

But one thing is certain: Hiruko is indeed Human Puppet, and Sasori has always been Human Puppet.

In the original timeline, after the Third Kazekage's Human Puppet was destroyed, he believed that with Chiyo, the Human Puppet's potential was limited, so he stopped using other Human Puppet. Therefore, the exact number of Human Puppet he kept remains a mystery.

But that was more than a decade later. Now, the number of Human Puppet is definitely limited; the kind where destroying one means one less.

As for the Performance of a Hundred Puppets using ordinary puppets, regardless of whether Sasori has this technique now or not, it poses no threat to Uchiha Shingen.

The puppet mechanism posed no threat to him now that he had mastered Susanoo.

Therefore, unlike Chiyo and Sakura Haruno, Sasori needs to Human Puppet to deal with him, and Human Puppet was powerful in life and had powerful enough Ninjutsu.

The only Human Puppet that Uchiha Shingen could think of was the Third Kazekage, who appeared as nothing but an empty shell.

Seeing Hiruko rushing towards him along his arm, Uchiha Shingen did not stop her.

Despite his conviction, he also wanted to see how Sasori's puppet mechanism could destroy his Ice Release constructs.

Anyway, they even used Susanoo to create a cockpit inside, providing double-layered defense, which means they can handle both layers with ease.

At the same time, through observation of Sasori 'Chakra, Uchiha Shingen was able to confirm that Sasori's Chakra was "Tailed Beasts level".

For a Chakra to reach the level of Tailed Beasts, they need two things: a large quantity of chakra and a high capacity for circulation.

By rationally allocating the amount of Chakra for refining, outputting, storing, and feeding back physical energy according to one's own actual situation, one's Chakra seems to be inexhaustible.

To achieve this, both scale and technology are indispensable.

Some Tailed Beasts- level creatures are more about weight class, while others are more about technique.

In Uchiha Shingen's view, scale is slightly more important than technique.

Technical skills can be practiced, but overall ability relies more on talent.

The larger the total quantity, the easier it is to control technically; conversely, the opposite is not true. When technologies are at the same level, even a slight difference in total quantity can easily lead to overwhelming superiority.

Every time Senju Hashirama defeated Uchiha Madara, his chakra reserves were almost depleted.

He had only a tiny bit more than Uchiha Madara, but because of that tiny difference, Uchiha Madara was completely suppressed by him.

The Sharingan clearly reflected Sasori of the Red Sands's Chakra activity. This Tailed Beasts level was a very traditional technique-based one, but the technique was ridiculously good, achieving zero loss.

Uchiha Shingen was amused.

Because Sasori used Chakra Threads many times to maintain balance, Uchiha Shingen learned how to do it after watching him.

We won't need to prepare steel wire anymore.

That feels so good!

In a few moments, Hiruko finally reached the cockpit, and her tail shot forward, piercing the ice wall ahead.

Uchiha Shingen was able to understand the other person's thoughts.

Like a helmet lying alone on the ground on a battlefield, someone will always want to kick it, even if they suspect there might be a mine buried underneath.

After all... how will you know if there are any landmines down there if you don't try?

In the original timeline, Shimura Danzō used Kunai to stab Susanoo, probably with the same mentality.

The same goes for scorpions nowadays.

In order to make Sasori give up and be able to show off his Third Hokage Wind Human Puppet in peace, Uchiha Shingen decided to give him this opportunity.

When Rasa met Uchiha Shingen, he was very wary, as if he was afraid that Uchiha Shingen would steal his Ninjutsu.

He's a liar Gold Dust Technique.

If you're going to be a prostitute, be a prostitute for Iron Sand.

The tail spike, made of a special alloy, pierced the ice spike, leaving a rather deep mark.

That's all.

Uchiha Shingen in creating giants using Ice Release was based on the inherent strength of his Ice Release, not on any kind of Majestic Attire.

This minor scratch can be easily fixed with "polishing".

Ice spikes shot out from beneath Hiruko's feet, but Scorpion maneuvered them to dodge.

Under Sasori's control, Hiruko ran like a professional parkour artist on the Ice Release giant that Uchiha Shingen was on.

He's a good parkour player.

When Hiruko finally ran back to the ground, Uchiha Shingen put away the ice spikes that had been transformed earlier.

"That's enough, stop playing around." He said to Scorpion, "Any other tricks up your sleeve? Come out in your true form and switch to a different puppet, this one won't do."

"Hmph." Scorpion was somewhat displeased.

The Ice Release of the Leaf Village's White Ghost is indeed very tough; Hiruko cannot cope with such Ninjutsu.

Unexpectedly, he was about to reveal his true form.

He was very reluctant to reveal his true form in this place.

"White Ghost, you know me quite well," Sasori said. "I'm curious, when I left this village, you hadn't even left Leaf Village, had you?"

"Yeah, so you Akatsuki have a mole inside." Uchiha Shingen chuckled.

It's good to be skeptical; the more skeptical you are, the better.

After all, it's a tradition in the Ninja World that when in doubt, there's always an inside job!

"Boring," Sasori thought, finding the Leaf Village's White Ghost's sense of humor rather perverse.

It wasn't that he trusted Pain that much, but the Akatsuki only had two or three core members right now.

If we're talking about a traitor, it's Orochimaru, isn't it?

Nobody ever considered him one of their own.

Hiruko into a cloud of smoke on the spot.

As the smoke gradually dissipated, a slender figure slowly emerged.

He was a young man wearing a red cloud robe and with short red hair.

Scorpion has delicate features, with particularly distinctive eyes—the upper eyelids droop downwards, making them appear lifeless and cold, like a puppet.

But if you look closely, you'll find his gaze quite eerie and sinister, because when he looks at people, his gaze doesn't seem to be looking at them at all.

"Huh?" Deidara exclaimed in surprise, "So this is what you look like? You're not that much older than me."

Upon hearing Deidara's voice, a slight smile appeared in Sasori's eyes.

"Kid, I'm much older than you." He retorted, his gaze returning to the Ice Release giant where Uchiha Shingen was, his smile fading. "Leaf Village's White Ghost, hand this brat over to me, and I can leave now."

Uchiha Shingen didn't even bother to respond to him.

The Ice Release Giant, amidst a deafening roar, had already repositioned itself in the standard whack-a-mole stance.

The Ice Release giants, including Deidara and Kimimaro, also began to move, with the three giants arranged in a triangular formation.

"How boring..." Scorpion muttered under his breath, not knowing who he was talking to.

The scroll slid from his right sleeve into his hand, and Scorpion held it up horizontally, slowly opening it.

The smoke expanded again.

Chapter 41 Sand Magnet Release

Rasa is rushing forward.

To be precise, it was the current Kazekage leading the charge, with a group of Jonin running at full speed.

Also among them was a group of Jonin from other villages.

Whether they're there to watch the show or something else, Sand Village really can't stop these people from going.