What Kind of Explosion Is This?

Linghua did not stop. She sidestepped a long blade, raised her left arm, and drove her elbow heavily into the second puppet's head.

Bang!

The puppet's head exploded on the spot.

The third puppet's chain wrapped around her arm, trying to drag her into the puppet horde behind it.

Linghua clenched her five fingers.

Her palm, covered in jet-black Chakra, seized the chain and yanked hard.

That puppet, along with more than a dozen behind it, was forcibly dragged over.

"Too slow."

She brought down a punch.

Boom!

More than a dozen puppets exploded at once.

Fragments, severed limbs, metal gears, and Chakra wires scattered across the wilderness.

Sasori hid within Hiruko, and his voice changed for the first time.

"How is that possible?"

He stared fixedly into the distance.

Every one of those puppets had been crafted by his own hands.

Each shell had undergone special tempering. Ordinary Ninja could not shatter them barehanded; even with a ninja blade swung at full force, it would be difficult to truly break through them.

Yet Uchiha Linghua had not used any ninjutsu.

She had merely thrown punches.

One punch, one puppet!

Those sturdy puppets were as fragile as wood before her.

Deidara suddenly laughed.

"Sasori-senpai, don't be so quick to feel sorry for them."

"Didn't you notice what fell out of the puppets she smashed?"

Sasori froze.

The next moment, he saw great quantities of white material spilling from the puppet wreckage.

White clay!

Every puppet Uchiha Linghua had just destroyed contained Explosive Clay that Deidara had planted in advance.

High in the sky, Deidara formed hand seals with both hands, the grin on his face growing ever more arrogant.

"Drink!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The white clay on the ground exploded all at once!

Wild flames instantly engulfed dozens of puppet