Gold Dust Grand Burial Against the Red-Boned War God? Infinite Regeneration?!

Over a thousand Hidden Sand Village elites raised the kunai and mechanisms in their hands at the same time. The sound of bowstrings being drawn taut linked into one long wave, and the tense killing intent seemed ready to set the air ablaze beneath the scorching sun.

Yuan stopped. Behind him, the fifty shadow guards immediately fanned out, silent as fifty statues come to claim lives.

He tilted his head up and looked at Rasa, who stood in midair atop the gold sand. The corner of his mouth split into an arc arrogant to the extreme. He reached back, drew the short blade from his back, and casually rested its spine on his shoulder.

"Today, I'm not just here to run wild. I'm going to flip this crappy desert upside down. Rasa, where's that useless son of yours, Gaara, the one I stepped on? Didn't drag him out to help you feel brave?" Yuan's voice was not loud, but with the support of sage art chakra, it pierced precisely into the ears of every Hidden Sand Village ninja.

Rasa's face instantly turned ashen. The fact that Gaara had been stepped on and warned like a dog by Yuan during the Konoha Crush Plan was the one raw nerve in his heart that could not be touched.

"Impudent brat! Today, I'll let you witness the absolute power of the Kazekage!"

Rasa wasted no more words. His hands slammed together before his chest, his ten fingers forming a complex seal.

"Magnet Release: Gold Dust Grand Burial!"

With Rasa's explosive shout, the earth trembled.

The entire stretch of desert before the canyon churned violently like boiling water. Immediately after, overwhelming golden light surged madly from beneath the ground. It was not ordinary sand, but gold dust of extremely high density, heavy beyond measure!

Thousands upon tens of thousands of tons of gold dust gathered in midair, turning into a golden tsunami dozens of meters tall that blotted out the sky. Carrying a terrifying weight that could destroy everything, it slammed down viciously toward Yuan and the shadow guards behind him. This force was enough to flatten a mountain in an instant.

"My lord!" Seeing this, several shadow guards instinctively tried to form seals and defend.

"Fall back. No one is to interfere."

Yuan gave a cold shout. Not only did he not retreat, he strode forward to meet the gold sand tsunami crashing down from above.

The chakra inside his body erupted at that moment like an ignited nuclear reactor.

Dark-red light shot straight into the clouds, and an incomparably enormous skeletal bust condensed in an instant. Immediately after, muscle grew, meridians spread, and tengu armor covered the war god amid an ear-piercing grinding sound.

The embryonic form of the Complete Body Susanoo!

The giant red war god rose from the ground, its height even surpassing the cliffs of the narrow gorge. The war god's right hand grasped at empty air, and a greatsword dozens of meters long, burning with thunder and blazing flames, took shape in an instant.

"Open up for me!"

Standing inside Susanoo's crystal, Yuan's eyes flew wide open. His right hand controlled the war god and brought the sword cleaving down with ferocious force!

"Rumble, rumble, rumble—!"

The thunder-flame greatsword carried a shrill sonic boom that tore through the air and slashed without any flourish into the very center of the gold sand tsunami. Absolute violence, combined with the dual destruction of thunder and fire, forcibly split that dozens-of-meters-high giant wave of gold dust in two from the middle!

The cleaved gold dust smashed into the sand on both sides, blasting out two massive pits. Even the earth shook violently.

However, before Yuan could withdraw the greatsword, the gold dust scattered across the ground seemed to become living mercury, instantly re-forming and gathering. It climbed frantically up Susanoo's massive ankles like maggots clinging to bone, trying to wrap around this red war god completely and crush it apart.

"Your gold dust... can regenerate infinitely?" Yuan looked at the gold sand that kept surging over, almost covering half of Susanoo's leg, and raised an eyebrow.

High in the air, Rasa looked down from above at Susanoo, now surrounded by gold sand, and a wild laugh of certain victory appeared on his face.

"Fighting me in the desert was the stupidest decision of your life!" Rasa maintained the hand seal, pouring chakra into the ground in an unending stream. "There are endless gold sand mineral veins buried beneath this place! As long as I still have chakra, this gold dust will never stop! It will drain your strength bit by bit until it grinds you into meat paste!"

"Infinite? Drain me?"

After hearing Rasa's wild words, Yuan suddenly burst into unrestrained laughter. In that laughter was an incurable sorrow for the weak.

"Old man, you're comparing chakra reserves with me? Do you have any idea what kind of monster is packed into this body of mine?"

Yuan suddenly formed a seal, and several-thousand-degree flames erupted from the surface of Susanoo. The gold sand that had climbed up its leg was burned red by the high temperature, but because gold dust had an extremely high melting point, it did not melt immediately. Instead, it became even heavier.

Yuan did not continue trying to break free with brute force. He closed his right eye and used only the Mangekyo Sharingan in his left eye to lock firmly onto Rasa's hands in midair.

In his field of vision, the world became a pure diagram of flowing chakra.

Sage Art Sensing, combined with the Sharingan's insight, allowed him to see clearly: from Rasa's ten fingertips extended thousands upon thousands of extremely fine chakra threads invisible to the naked eye. These threads were like the strings of a marionette, passing through the air and connecting to every surging grain of gold dust on the ground.

Rasa was not controlling the entire desert at all. He was only using chakra threads to forcibly tug at those heavy metallic minerals!

"Found them. Those fragile puppet strings of yours."

Yuan sneered, a mocking red glint flashing in the depths of his eyes.

He controlled Susanoo and dispersed the thunder-flame greatsword in its hand. The war god's enormous arms suddenly spread wide, its palms aimed at the invisible chakra connection net in the air straight ahead.

Extremely violent black lightning began to gather madly in Susanoo's palms.