In the forest, Sasori kept watching Mecha Naruto, hoping he would reveal the true meaning of eternity.
In Sasori's heart, he, who had completely transformed into a puppet, was eternity.
But after hearing the story about Dr. Grey Wolf, he truly wanted to know if a genius like him understood eternity in the same way he did.
Sasori longed to find it, to find the existence called resonance, the resonance between geniuses.
The reason he never got along well with Orochimaru was because their understandings of eternity differed; Sasori acknowledged Orochimaru as a genius, but precisely because of their differing views on eternity, they couldn't resonate.
"Hey kid, keep talking!"
After waiting for a while, Sasori said impatiently.
"Hmm? Talk about what?" Naruto asked, feigning ignorance.
"Of course, what is the true meaning of eternity that Dr. Grey Wolf comprehended? And... where is the knowledge Dr. Grey Wolf left behind?"
As he spoke, the steel tail behind Sasori rose, as if ready to strike at any moment.
Seeing that he had teased him enough, Naruto pressed his hands down, signaling Sasori to calm down, and then continued.
"Dr. Grey Wolf, who created countless powerful Cyborg , comprehended the true meaning of eternity before his death."
"He initially believed that as long as the body didn't age and consciousness remained eternal, that was eternity!"
"But... after experiencing life and death, Dr. Grey Wolf discovered that even if the body became ageless, and after enduring the baptism of time, consciousness and the body still couldn't be eternal, couldn't achieve eternity!"
"True eternity is actually engraved in the hearts of others."
Naruto's words plunged Sasori into silence. After a moment, Sasori retorted, "Hmph! What engraved in the hearts of others, that's just nonsense."
"I thought that Dr. Grey Wolf would have the same goals and ideas as me, but now it seems... hehe."
At this point, Sasori asked again, "I already know Grey Wolf's eternity, but what about the knowledge he left behind?"
Naruto heard this and pointed to himself, saying, "I am the treasure trove of knowledge left by Dr. Grey Wolf!"
"It's simple to get Grey Wolf's knowledge; you just need to have a debate with me about what eternity is!"
Sasori: ...
Hearing Naruto's words, Sasori was speechless.
Who was he? Sasori of the Red Sand, who had studied and explored eternity for decades, and had transformed himself into a pure puppet, making himself truly eternal.
Debate eternity with him? Wasn't that just asking for trouble!
Even a genius like Orochimaru couldn't refute his way of eternity; as for a brat, Sasori could only inwardly scoff.
However, he didn't refuse the debate, as crushing others' theories with his own was a very fulfilling thing.
"Alright... then let's have a debate! I'll see how you can convince me!"
Mecha Naruto nodded. As he nodded, he began to search online for philosophical information.
In fact, what is called eternity, in Naruto's view, completely falls within the realm of philosophy.
"What is eternity? Eternity refers to the eternal existence of spirit and the world, which expresses the beautiful aspirations of humanity."
Naruto's single sentence stunned Sasori completely.
"Sasori, the eternity you believe in is actually just the eternity you believe in; this is also merely a manifestation of a beautiful aspiration!"
"What you are pursuing is fundamentally not pure eternity, but merely eternal companionship."
"You have always thought that what you believe in is material eternity, so you transformed your body into what you perceive as eternity, to fill the emptiness in your heart."
"In your view, only by achieving eternity will you not lose anything!"
Upon hearing this, Sasori immediately became enraged. "Enough..."
Sasori was very angry, not at Naruto's nonsense, but because Naruto's words struck directly at his heart.
Sasori was inherently a pitiful person who, due to an extreme lack of childhood care, had a distorted mentality.
The so-called eternal art he pursued his entire life was actually the pursuit of his longing for his parents, filling the pain of his childhood; this is the so-called spending a lifetime healing childhood wounds.
Because Naruto exposed Sasori's inner thoughts, Sasori lost the mood to continue the debate, and he intended to flip the table directly.
He no longer wanted the so-called knowledge of Dr. Grey Wolf either.
Just as Naruto was about to say something else, a steel tail directly pierced his chest.
Seeing this, Naruto immediately entered combat mode without another word.
When Mecha Naruto entered combat mode, cracks similar to those around his eyes appeared on his body's surface.
Streams of blue or red light flowed through these cracks.
The core of these cracks was a reactor in Mecha Naruto's chest.
After entering combat mode, Naruto threw the spatial backpack he was carrying far away, then placed his hands behind his back.
Flames erupted from his palms, directly causing Mecha Naruto to fly up.
Seeing Mecha Naruto enter combat mode, Sasori said coldly, "Let me see how strong Dr. Grey Wolf's masterpiece is!"
As he spoke, the steel tail, manipulated by Sasori, once again stabbed towards Naruto in mid-air.
This time, the tail came with even greater speed, and the pale purple glow emanating from the tip of the tail clearly indicated it was poisoned!
However, poison was useless against Mecha Naruto.
Mecha Naruto charged towards Sasori below, showing no intention of dodging Sasori's steel tail.
The steel tail struck Mecha Naruto's body, creating a shower of sparks, but it didn't cause him the slightest damage.
"Hehehe, Grey Wolf's creation cannot be harmed by such an attack!"
As he spoke, Mecha Naruto crashed into Sasori with a powerful impact.
Alloy versus wood, naturally, alloy won.
Mecha Naruto's alloy body directly shattered Sasori's outer shell.
At this point, Sasori's main body had no choice but to jump out of it.
"I didn't expect your body to be made of pure steel..."
Although Sasori was expressionless, his words conveyed a sense of shock.
Because when Mecha Naruto was not in combat mode, his surface had a layer of bionic skin, making it difficult to discern Mecha Naruto's material just by looking.
In Sasori's understanding, the main raw material for making puppets was still primarily wood.
Even when making human puppets, the support and joints still had to use wood as the main material.
Firstly, wood is the best Chakra conductor.
Among metals, apart from rare Chakra metals, other metals cannot conduct Chakra.
Puppet masters, in order to control puppets as if they were their own limbs, could only use wood as the main material.
Sasori never expected that Mecha Naruto's main body would be metal.
"Could it be entirely made of Chakra metal?"
As he spoke, Sasori directly pulled out the scroll with the character 'three' written on it from behind him; he intended to fight seriously.