Invincible
Sasori controlled the remaining dozen or so Human Puppets to scatter, charging towards the Earth Dragon from different angles, heedless of the consequences.
To eliminate the two reanimated corpses that had been summoned, his Human Puppets had been wiped out by a combination of Fire Release and Wind Release in one fell swoop, losing ten of them.
Even if he had fewer puppets, he could control them more precisely, and the corresponding Human Puppets could exert greater combat power, but could he defeat Lin Ke with just regular Human Puppets?
He didn't know how many shadows the other party could still control, or what kind of invisible 'Summoned Beast' they had summoned.
"Boom!" The ground suddenly writhed, rapidly transforming into a desert, with sand waves rolling towards the sky.
The originally agile Human Puppets froze helplessly at this moment, allowing the sand waves to engulf them all.
Gaara formed hand seals, and the sand waves crashed back onto the ground, with fragmented Human Puppet parts flying everywhere amidst the compression.
Kankuro's face twitched as he watched, as it included two puppets that he had painstakingly pieced together with a lot of savings.
Could it be that Sasori has gone crazy without preparing anything?
Lin Ke thought, his Stand behind him was almost out of time. For Sasori of the Red Sand, facing two elite Jonin and three 'Genin', he hadn't even managed to reach him. It was really—
"Huh?"
"Bang!" The ground beneath the Earth Dragon was breached, and a puppet wielding a long sword stretched its body, leaping into the air.
The moment Lin Ke's eyes met Sasori's eager gaze, an interesting idea suddenly occurred to him.
Could it be that my existence has changed him?
"Thump!" The Earth Dragon swung its head, directly smashing the Human Puppet, which had lost its core in an instant, back into the ground.
Just kidding, even if it wasn't good at melee combat, it wouldn't be a problem to swat a mosquito with its hard scales.
"He's still underground!" Hyuga Hinata exclaimed.
Before her voice faded, three somewhat damaged puppets charged onto the Earth Dragon's body from different angles.
So persistent in wanting to obtain something from me?
Lin Ke's shadows surged from beneath his feet, meeting the Human Puppets, silently holding onto his wallet.
As expected, the shadows failed to stop Sasori, being broken through after a brief entanglement of two rounds, but the three Human Puppets were reduced to one.
Hyuga Hinata spread her hands, her expression tense as she prepared for battle.
As the distance closed to ten meters, Lin Ke unhesitatingly threw his wallet out, activating the Mystical Palm Technique. He completed the release of the Body Binding Technique at an extremely fast speed.
Just now, he had actually drawn a pretty good Stand, but unfortunately, it was a close-combat type. Since the opponent wanted to get close, how could he let the enemy have their way? Dragging it out would only make the Stand's time run out.
After all, Sasori and they had been fighting for nearly ten minutes, and the re-summoned Stand wouldn't be as useful. It was better for him to throw money directly.
"Thump!"
Sasori was firmly bound in place, the core with his name written on it not detached, countless tadpole-like patterns crawling all over his body.
To actually capture an S-rank rogue ninja so smoothly?
Lin Ke felt it was a bit too smooth, but logically, there didn't seem to be any major problems. He subconsciously had the shadow discard the hand that had released the Five Elements Sealing.
Puppet Technique doesn't seem to require hand seals, right? I wonder if the Five Elements Sealing is actually useful.
Just as he was thinking, he suddenly stopped the shadow.
Orochimaru's experimental data, the captured Yakushi Kabuto, Sasori running to Orochimaru's base...
Seal, prototype, could it be that this guy's purpose is to obtain the Five Elements Sealing?
Lin Ke dispelled the Clone Jutsu, took back his hand, and then re-applied a Clone Jutsu, reaching out to grab the Chakra Scalpel he had created.
Since he couldn't be sure, he wouldn't use the Five Elements Sealing.
"He, he's also a puppet!" Hyuga Hinata said, she had just realized that the strange opponent's core was actually the Chakra core that had been constantly jumping since just now, "He also has Chakra threads on him."
A fake body? Lin Ke was slightly surprised, but quickly understood. The last time he was almost able to catch Sasori, so using the same means this time would be impossible.
No matter how strong the Body Binding Technique was, its range was only ten meters, and it couldn't distinguish between real and fake, requiring him to identify it himself.
With Sasori of the Red Sand's combat experience, it would be strange if he fell for the same trick a second time.
"You've noticed it too, haven't you?" Sasori of the Red Sand on the distant treetop took the initiative to expose his position, "The value of your technique."
Lin Ke did not respond, because he suspected that this Sasori of the Red Sand who was speaking might also be a Human Puppet.
Or rather, the other party could transfer at any time if they wanted to. If they really wanted to escape, at this distance, he, including his companions, would not be able to truly restrict the other party from escaping using the Summoning Jutsu.
The two sides had reached a stalemate.
To put it humorously, in the entire Naruto world, there seemed to be no technique that could effectively restrict space-time Ninjutsu, which was why the Flying Thunder God Technique was so unsolvable.
So unsolvable that one could abandon a mission upon encountering Namikaze Minato.
Therefore, in the finale, Kakashi, who possessed Kamui, was able to participate in the battle against Kaguya.
To put it bluntly, Ninjutsu had its own hierarchy. All sorts of secret techniques were nothing compared to the domineering space-time Ninjutsu.
Losing the space-time nature of the Summoning Jutsu due to a mutated Ninjutsu, it was hard to say whether it was a loss or a gain in the long run.
With Sasori of the Red Sand having lost his main body, he can transfer his core even more unscrupulously. I need a space-time Ninjutsu, or mutate one. Or, more directly, obtain or mutate a technique that can seal space-time...
Lin Ke set his new goal.
"Orochimaru has gone far," Sasori of the Red Sand continued, "I think we have room for cooperation."
"Your technique, and my mind, together we can easily change this world."
Fighting Lin Ke and leaving the Akatsuki was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but it was also planned.
Apart from the main body he had lost long ago, he had indeed tried his best just now. Even so, he had not forced the other party to show more of his abilities. The invisible 'Summoned Beast', which had not used its abilities from beginning to end, was even more unknown as to what kind of abilities it possessed this time.
All the Human Puppets that could be used for combat had been destroyed. It could be said that his two battles with Lin Ke had wiped out more than twenty years of accumulation in one fell swoop.
Continuing to entangle would be meaningless. He clearly understood that he did not have the ability to defeat Lin Ke, and the fake body prepared in advance to deceive the Seal had not succeeded.
Then, with the most calm and rational judgment, the only path he could take was cooperation.
Sasori of the Red Sand opened his palm, and with a *poof*, a Scroll appeared in his palm. He placed the Scroll on the treetop and said, "This is my sincerity."
With that, the core in his chest disappeared, and the Puppet fell to the ground.
"His Chakra reaction is gone," Hyuga Hinata reported.
Lin Ke nodded, and had his shadow and three subordinates clean up the battlefield. He gazed at the dense night.
Orochimaru has gone far...
That sounded a bit troublesome.
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