--- "Good... so fast!" Sasori, who was being held by Kenshi's Wind Release clone, saw the Third Kazekage instantly become a bloody mess, una
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"Good... so fast!"
Sasori, who was being held by Kenshi's Wind Release clone, saw the Third Kazekage instantly become a bloody mess, unable to react to the countless slashes. His heart contracted violently, and his heartbeat, which was about to beat, stalled.
The Third Kazekage, so powerful, wasn't even a match for Kazeyuki in one move.
Although there was the reason that the Third Kazekage didn't know about Kazeyuki's abilities and intelligence.
But who could withstand such a slash, so fast that even nerve reactions couldn't keep up?
At this moment, Sasori had a clearer understanding of Kazeyuki, who had firmly surpassed him in fame in the village.
"That slash…"
"It's so beautiful!"
For a moment, Sasori was even mesmerized by the art of cutting through everything in an instant.
Fortunately, his pursuit of eternal art brought him back to his senses.
Instantaneous art was indeed beautiful and moving.
But only eternity was the true essence of art.
"Hmm… still alive?"
Sasori, who had reasserted his heart for eternal art, came back to his senses and discovered that the Third Kazekage was still alive. Kazeyuki hadn't killed him.
Why?
Sasori wondered.
"Wait for me here."
Kenshi's Wind Release clone landed and threw Sasori aside. He said a sentence to him, then thought for a moment. The Wind Release Slash chakra turned into a refined wind rope bandage, binding the dying Third Kazekage. Then, he used his Wind Armor ability to fly with the Third Kazekage to ten thousand meters in the air.
Wind Armor was an evolved version of the Flowing Wind Armor.
The original Flowing Wind Armor didn't have the ability to fly.
After the Wind Release chakra broke through to the Wind Release Slash chakra, the Flowing Wind Armor that used it became a true wind armor, the Wind Armor.
The fine Wind Release Slash chakra of the Wind Armor made Kenshi's Wind Release clone's body like a gust of wind. He could move freely in the air and could also turn into an extremely refined wind rope bandage to bind his enemies.
It has to be said that Kazeyuki was truly brilliant in his development and application of Wind Release.
Kenshi's Wind Release clone reaped the benefits. His use of Wind Release chakra was also very unique.
"Third Kazekage, long time no see."
Ten thousand meters in the air, Kenshi's Wind Release clone thought for a moment and used the Perfect Transformation Technique to transform into Kenshi's appearance. The voice he spoke in also became Kenshi's voice.
The Third Kazekage wasn't familiar with this voice, but he remembered it.
After all, he was the first man to make the five Kage join forces against him.
The Third Kazekage wouldn't forget this voice. Hearing this voice that he remembered so clearly, speaking those words that were so chilling, "Long time no see."
Even though he was dying, the Third Kazekage still tried to open his eyes, which were covered in blood, and tried to look at the man in front of him.
"It's you!!!"
"You're not dead?"
"Impossible?"
"How could you possibly not be dead?"
The Third Kazekage looked at the man in front of him, who was completely unharmed. His eyes widened in shock. He had personally experienced the power of Dust Release back then.
In the face of such a powerful attack, Kenshi couldn't have survived.
Could it be… the Third Kazekage suddenly thought of a possibility.
"I'm also curious. You should have died back then."
Kenshi's Wind Release clone was also curious how the Third Kazekage had survived the Dust Release attack back then.
He had always thought that the Third Kazekage had died under Ōnoki's Dust Release back then.
But after he created Kazeyuki, the Sand Village's genius ninja, into a Wind Release clone and gained his memories, he learned that the Third Kazekage hadn't died.
And it wasn't until the end of the Second Shinobi World War that the Third Kazekage reappeared in the eyes of the ninja world.
But thanks to this, Kenshi could personally take revenge on his enemy.
Now, the Third Kazekage was a fish in his hands, at his mercy. Kenshi was in a good mood. He didn't immediately kill the Third Kazekage. He was interested in how the Third Kazekage had survived.
But it was obvious that the Third Kazekage wasn't going to tell him how he had survived.
Looking at the Third Kazekage, who was silent and seemed to have resigned himself to his fate, Kenshi's Wind Release clone didn't get angry. He raised his hand, grabbed the Third Kazekage's head, and activated the Rinnegan chakra, directly reading the memories in the Third Kazekage's soul.
After a while, a look of astonishment appeared on Kenshi's face.
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it!"
Perhaps no one would have expected that the Third Kazekage, who was known as the nemesis of puppeteers, was actually the first genius puppeteer to propose the concept of human puppets and had already created the first human puppet.
And his clan was the first clan in the ninja world to develop the secret puppeteer jutsu.
Perhaps it was because they understood the power of puppeteers and their prevalence.
The Third Kazekage's clan had been diligently developing both puppet jutsu and jutsu to counter puppeteers.
Magnet Release was born under these circumstances. It was also a kekkei genkai unique to the Third Kazekage's clan that they had been researching and inheriting for generations.
Over the years, the Third Kazekage's clan had used their powerful puppeteer techniques and Magnet Release to control puppeteers, sitting firmly on their throne and becoming one of the three great clans of the Sand Village. Even the First Kazekage was from the Third Kazekage's clan.
It has to be said that the Third Kazekage's clan was playing a very clever game.
The Third Kazekage also inherited the family's fine tradition.
On the surface, the Third Kazekage, who inherited Magnet Release: Iron Sand Control, was the nemesis of puppeteers. But behind the scenes, he was actually a genius puppeteer who was no weaker than the Red Sand Scorpion.
In his memories, the Third Kazekage had witnessed Tobirama Senju's Reanimation Jutsu during the First Shinobi World War and had the idea of creating human puppets that possessed the same abilities as they had in life.
Over the next few years, he combined sealing jutsu and successfully developed the Puppet Seal, the core seal of human puppets.
Through the Puppet Seal, he secretly saved a ninja from his clan who was seriously injured and about to die.
But this person was actually already dead. His soul was gone, and he had no consciousness. He was a living corpse.
Later, because of this incident, the Third Kazekage's research on human puppets was banned. All puppeteers were forbidden from researching human puppet techniques.
Because the research on human puppets had reached the Puppet Seal, it was basically at its end. To continue, they would need a lot of ninjas for human experiments.
And this was obviously not allowed.
The upper echelon of the village was afraid that those puppeteers would go overboard once they had the idea and would attack their comrades in the village.
But although research on human puppets was banned, there were still many people who secretly researched it. Including Chiyo and other top puppeteers, they were all secretly researching it.
But the only one who finally achieved results was the Third Kazekage, the founder.
In his memories, after the village banned human experiments,
The Third Kazekage took the first human puppet, which was in a vegetative state, back to his underground research lab and continued to research the Puppet Seal.
After years of research, the Third Kazekage was inspired by the Second Mizukage, Mu's, Splitting Technique.
If the Puppet Seal couldn't preserve other people's souls, then would it work if he used his own soul instead?
In the end, the Third Kazekage improved the Puppet Seal. He continuously injected his chakra into the human puppet's body through the Puppet Seal. Then, under the operation of the Puppet Seal engraved on the human puppet, it was decomposed into spiritual energy and physical energy, constantly nourishing the human puppet.
Finally, after ten years of nourishment, the human puppet developed a soul.
Perhaps because the human puppet was constantly nourished by the spiritual energy decomposed from the Third Kazekage's chakra, the Third Kazekage discovered that the soul born in the human puppet was like a fragment of his own soul.
From this point on, the first human puppet that truly possessed combat power was born.
In the years that followed, the Third Kazekage continued to secretly inject chakra into the human puppet, eventually making it a human puppet clone that was exactly the same as him.
It had the same body and soul as him and could use all the jutsu he could.
In terms of strength, it was also almost the same as the Third Kazekage himself.
In his memories, the Third Kazekage had originally planned to bring out the human puppet clone at a critical point in the war.
But the five Kage joining forces was unprecedented.
Even with the pressure from the Daimyōs of the five great nations, it was enough to show how terrifying Kenshi's strength was, which could make the five Kage join forces.
Plus, the five Kage all hoped that he would die.
So, the Third Kazekage had a backup plan back then. In the battle where the five Kage surrounded and killed Kenshi, it was his human puppet clone that was killed by Ōnoki's Dust Release. His real body was hiding in the Sand Village, secretly controlling the war.
The Sand Village was able to quickly use the hatred, after the Third Kazekage's death, to make the other hidden villages lower their guard. At the same time, they consolidated their forces and joined forces with Konoha to attack Iwa. They gained a lot from this.
This was all controlled by the Third Kazekage behind the scenes.
Otherwise, with the nature of the Sand Village's upper echelon, after the Third Kazekage's death, their first thought would have been to get the position of Kazekage into their own hands before they even thought about dealing with external enemies.
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