The Road to the Throne of White Eyes

"Has the problem over there been resolved? Looks like I, the old woman, am the one holding them back," Chiyo said with a hint of sadness as she looked at Scorpion standing a few dozen meters away.

She understood why Maki and the others hadn't returned. The Sand Village had a poor foundation and few talented people. If they could control the human puppet, it would be considered one of the Sand Village's foundations in the future. For the sake of the village's development, even the Third Kazekage's body had to be used.

"I've actually been controlled by you guys. Maybe I should develop the human puppet's automatic combat function!"

Scorpion tore off his already tattered clothes and controlled a group of puppets to pounce on Chiyo and the others again.

"This infiltration operation has come to this, so let's put an end to it properly!"

Even though he was in a desperate situation surrounded by the Sand Shinobi, Scorpion seemed to have no intention of breaking out and was still determined to fight Chiyo.

"Okay, let all this sadness end today!"

Chiyo's eyes became serious, and her fingers danced like flying flowers, controlling the five puppets to move forward.

With the same focus and dedication, Chiyo and Scorpion continued their puppeteer's pinnacle battle as if they only had each other in their eyes.

Under their control, the puppets' movements were more flexible and sharp than those of ordinary Chunins. The use of mechanical props and the choice of attack directions left the Sand Ninjas stunned.

This time, with the help of Temari's occasional wind blades, Chiyo fought a little easier. However, due to the disadvantage in numbers, Chiyo's puppets were destroyed one by one, while Scorpion still had more than a dozen puppets left.

"it's all over!"

Seeing that Chiyo had no strength to resist anymore, Scorpion did not control the puppet to continue moving forward, but pounced on Chiyo himself.

"Elder Chiyo!"

Temari was a little too far away, and by the time she risked the poison to rush towards Chiyo, it was too late.

"Yeah, it's all over!"

Just when Scorpion was only two steps away from Chiyo, a dark sealing rune suddenly appeared under his feet, and then his body suddenly stopped moving. Then the two puppet father and mother who were originally broken and lying on the ground suddenly jumped up and hugged Scorpion.

嗤

Unexpectedly, the two puppets did not bring a hug, but two sharp steel knives that stabbed straight into the place where the word "scorpion" was written on the human puppet!

......

"Brother Scorpion!"

In the sky, Deidara and Gaara have been chasing each other for a while. Both sides are looking for gaps in offense and defense to try to defeat the other in one fell swoop.

Generally speaking, Gaara has always had the upper hand. Deidara has never had a chance to break through due to insufficient explosive clay.

After the struggle, he regained his composure and prepared to reunite with Scorpion and retreat. However, when he found a gap and looked down, he discovered that his puppets were shattered on the ground, and he himself had been beaten to death.

Perhaps it was too arrogant to attack a ninja village, or one of the five major ninja villages in the ninja world, with the strength of two people. This thought came to Deidara's mind for the first time.

At this moment, Scorpion was no longer able to fight. He just fell to the ground dejectedly as if he was making arrangements for his last affairs. Deidara decided to retreat alone.

"Continuous sand and rain"

As if sensing Deidara's intention to escape from the gradual retreat of the clay bird he was controlling, Gaara suddenly used ninjutsu to shoot out dense round sand bullets like a machine gun, interrupting his retreat.

Gaara then adjusted his strategy and no longer used a large amount of sand to form sand snakes to pursue, but instead continued to use continuous sand to attack.

The continuous sand bullets made Deidara jump up and down, and all his attempts to retreat were cut off one by one.

"Since you won't let me go, then let these Sand Ninjas below be buried with me!"

Being chased and shot at like a fly, Deidara's anger was rising. He was running low on explosive clay, and seeing that he couldn't escape, Deidara made up his mind and threw one of the small bird dolls he had thrown out.

By now, Gaara had consumed a lot of chakra, mental and physical strength. He was so focused on blowing up Deidara's exploding clay that he actually ignored the little doll for a moment.

However, as the puppet rapidly expanded as it descended, Gaara sensed a strong sense of danger. He felt that the puppet would not only severely injure the Sand Ninja below, but also potentially damage the entire Sand Village. He didn't care whether Deidara might take advantage of the opportunity to escape; he could only choose to protect his own village.

"Shukaku, I don't have enough chakra in my body. Please lend me some of your power."

In his own consciousness, Gaara asked for help from Shukaku, the One-Tailed Fox that had been a little noisy since the war began.

"Take it, take as much as you can. This kid's strength is very interesting. Just use my strength to collide with him, hahahaha."

"Empty sand wall defense"

Gaara, supported by the power of the one-tailed Shukaku, emitted terrifying chakra. Without making a sound, countless amounts of sand gathered in the sky hundreds of meters high, forming a huge barrier with a diameter of one kilometer, blocking the clay doll that had expanded to several meters in size.

The sand wall covered the sky, and the Sand Ninjas below felt that it was suddenly dark where they were.

Boom!

The clay figure rapidly expanded upon contact with the sand barrier, then exploded. The crimson devastation sent the sky ablaze with blazing flames, instantly illuminating the sky crimson. The devastating explosion shocked the Sand Ninja below and the nearby residents of the Sand Village.

Although Gaara protected them and they avoided the direct impact of the C3 explosion, the sound waves caused by the impact still caused severe pain in their eardrums.

The huge impact force generated by the explosion caused the sand barrier to sink dozens of meters, which frightened the Sand Ninjas below. Fortunately, Gaara used all his strength to stop the barrier from falling in time.

"go with!"

In order to prevent the barrier from falling and causing harm to the people below, Gaara forcibly squeezed out his own strength and Shukaku's chakra, turning the huge barrier into sand and dumping it in an uninhabited place outside the village.

"Haha, goodbye. Next time I'll come to the Sand Village to release more powerful explosive clay!"

In the air, Deidara was blown dozens of meters by the force of the explosion, even the clay bird beneath his feet was destroyed. He created a new bird mount and fled while spitting blood, his posture revealing a sense of pride amidst the embarrassment.

"You stay here!"

Gaara used all his strength to manipulate the sand away from the village. Unable to pursue Deidara, he resorted to forming sand snakes from the sand in his gourd and the components of his sand armor to intercept Deidara. An enemy so skilled at large-scale explosions could not be allowed to escape, as that would be irresponsible to the safety of the village.

Deidara seemed to have consumed a lot of chakra at this moment, and the speed of controlling the bird slowed down a lot. He was about to be caught up by Gaara's sand.

At this moment, Deidara actually turned around and dodged the pursuing sand and flew backwards towards Gaara, with a smug smile on his face.

"You've fallen into a trap!"