"Let me show you the ultimate explosive art I prepared specifically for Itachi!"
"C4, Garuda!"
Chapter 170: Orochimaru, the instigator of disaster
"Ugh—"
Deidara chewed, mixing his Chakra and Nine-Tailed Chakra into the clay.
After he vomited it out,
A giant clay clone, nearly ten meters tall and looking exactly like Deidara,
Fell to the ground with a loud bang.
"Hahaha, I have large-scale art too, hm!"
Deidara laughed, very pleased with his gigantic clay clone.
Hashirama, standing on top of the wooden dragon, had a look of disgust on his face.
"Hmm, another Ninjutsu vomited from the mouth..."
As he spoke, he glanced at the three white snakes that had approached and stopped in front of them.
Hashirama's voice wasn't loud, but because he was standing on the dragon's head, he wasn't far from Deidara in the sky.
Therefore, Deidara heard everything clearly.
This also caused Deidara to clench his fists in fury and argue loudly.
"Bastard, my art isn't disgusting like Orochimaru's methods!"
"Soon, you'll soon see that fleeting, ultimate brilliance that surpasses ordinary art!"
Deidara controlled the giant clay bird to gain altitude.
At the same time, he formed hand signs and shouted towards the puppet army beneath the distant white snakes.
"Master Sasori, control your puppet troupe to stay away; this time it's an uncontrollable ultimate art!"
Sasori below, hearing Deidara's shout, frowned and looked at the huge clay clone emitting a dangerous aura.
He ultimately controlled the puppets, abandoning the battle-scarred white snakes, and flew backward.
"This brat actually used his trump card. Doesn't he know Orochimaru is my prey?"
"After this, I must teach him a good lesson and make him understand to obey his senior's orders!"
Seeing the puppets retreat, Deidara clasped his hands in front of his chest and roared.
"Hah!"
In an instant, the huge clay clone began to rapidly expand and deform, like a constantly inflating balloon!
"Is it starting?"
Although Hashirama had a look of disgust on his face, his heart was not relaxed in the slightest.
He immediately controlled the wooden dragon to move forward, coiling and wrapping its front half around the expanding clone.
As for the wooden dragon's rear tail, it plunged into the earth with a crash.
Finally, it burst out from beneath the three white snakes, encircling and binding them, and pulling them towards the huge clay clone.
Hashirama did this to prevent Orochimaru from secretly escaping while he was fighting!
"Damn you, First Hokage!"
Orochimaru, sensing the wooden dragon's pull, poked his head out of the grotesque snake's mouth again.
In his hand, he held a white ring engraved with the character for 'empty'.
Orochimaru had indeed planned to use the opportunity of Deidara's explosion to make a clean getaway.
But now that he was being pulled towards the explosion, his small tricks wouldn't go unnoticed.
So he had no choice but to take out the ring, using it at the critical moment to attract others' attention and then escape with his life!
In front.
Deidara's huge clay clone did not stop expanding due to the wooden dragon's entanglement.
Instead, a large amount of its body squeezed out from the gaps in the wooden dragon's coils.
Upon reaching its limit, it burst open with a 'whoosh', like an over-inflated balloon!
The shattered body also strangely melted into the air!
"This is!!!"
Although there was nothing in the sky after the explosion,
In Hashirama's perception, a dangerous Chakra, a mix of gold and blue, was rapidly expanding outwards!
In the blink of an eye, it enveloped him and the wooden dragon completely!
Orochimaru, also quickly enveloped on the other side, was filled with shock and anger.
Being intimately familiar with his own body,
He instantly sensed the nano-level clay bombs filling the blood vessels throughout his body!
"Damn it, this explosion boy actually has such terrifying Ninjutsu!"
"No, I can't keep this ring anymore!"
As the thought arose in Orochimaru's mind,
The nano-level clay bombs within his body exploded!
Due to their extremely small size, these bombs did not produce a terrifying explosion sound.
Instead, they silently destroyed and annihilated blood vessels, flesh, internal organs, and bones!
His body was like a sandcastle collapsing in a strong wind!
Piece by piece, it turned into dust, dissipating in mid-air!
Hashirama's body on the other side was in the same condition as Orochimaru's.
Even the skin of the wooden dragon beneath his feet constantly shattered and dissipated with him.
Hashirama's shocked face was now filled with intense killing intent.
"This silent, annihilating explosion, if used on a battlefield, would be no weaker than a Tailed Beast, perhaps even stronger!"
"This young man using Explosion Release is too dangerous and too powerful for the Ninja World; I must eliminate him here!"
In Hashirama's view, Deidara's move had a slaughtering effect on the battlefield no less than a Tailed Beast Ball wiping out an area!
In fact, because it was more insidious and difficult to guard against, it was even more practical than a Tailed Beast Ball!
However, Tailed Beast Balls are generally used for deterrence.
After all, if you control a Tailed Beast to bombard me with a Tailed Beast Ball, I can also control a Tailed Beast to bombard you.
Ultimately, both sides would be injured, leaving only two barren, scorched lands.
Therefore, the ability Deidara displayed made Hashirama even more worried and serious.
Especially since Deidara was part of a terrifying organization like Akatsuki!
Deidara, unaware that he was on Hashirama's kill list,
Was standing on the giant clay bird, laughing wildly down below.
"Hm √! Hm √! Hm √!"
"Beautiful, it's truly beautiful!"
"This is my masterpiece, fused with the art of wind!"
"The range, propagation speed, and destructive power all satisfy me to the point of breathlessness!"
"This is the ultimate art, this is incomparable explosion, hahahaha!"
After fusing about half of the Nine-Tailed Chakra Feng Xu gave him,
The concentration and range of his nano-bombs were at least double what they were before!
They could almost cover half of the Hidden Sound Village!
And the power was even stronger!
Originally, things that were blown up would still have small fragments remaining.
But now, they were basically indistinguishable from smoke and dust, like grains of sand.
Blown everywhere by the wind, they were barely perceptible to the naked eye!
Having repeatedly witnessed the benefits brought by obtaining Nine-Tailed Chakra, Deidara was now completely devoted to Feng Xu.
Even if Feng Xu were to ask Deidara to turn against Sasori, whom he greatly respected, right now,
Deidara would feel he had made a mistake if he hesitated for even a second!
Thinking of Feng Xu, Deidara remembered the ring Feng Xu was looking for.
He immediately fixed his gaze on Orochimaru.
After his nano-bombs finished exploding, he would go to Orochimaru's ashes to find the ring first!
Orochimaru, whose body had already largely dissipated, also sensed Deidara's gaze.
Without hesitation, he threw the ring in his hand towards Hashirama.
"First Hokage, this ring is the reason the Akatsuki Organization is hunting me!"
"It is also a clue that can uncover more intelligence about the Akatsuki Organization!"
"Since the Akatsuki Organization wants to kill me and reclaim the ring, I would rather die than leave the ring to this evil organization!"
After throwing the ring and saying these few words,
Orochimaru's remaining half-body inexplicably accelerated its collapse.
The white snake manifested by the Eight Branches Technique also dissipated into smoke with a 'bang'.
Only a barely perceptible small indentation was left on the original ground.
Chapter 171: Hashirama: You are too powerful, so I must arrest you!
"Orochimaru, it seems that in your dying moments, you found the will of fire you had lost..."
Hashirama's arm, which had turned to dust, rapidly recovered and reformed in mid-air.
Finally, he grasped the ring Orochimaru had thrown.
"Don't worry, I will definitely root out this organization that harms the Ninja World and avenge you!"
With determination on his face, Hashirama clutched the ring tightly in his hand, waiting for the rest of his body to recover.
In the distance, Deidara also saw Orochimaru throw the ring.
Like Hashirama, he ignored the rapidly dissipating Orochimaru and flew above Hashirama's head.
"Orochimaru's reanimated corpse, as expected, still can't be killed like before; it can only be sealed with Sealing Ninjutsu."
"And my clay is mostly used up; I can't continue to explode recklessly..."
Thinking of a countermeasure, Deidara's hands once again reached into the pouches at his waist.
As all the nano-bombs in the air exploded,
Sasori, with his distant puppet army, returned to the location.
"Did that stinky snake really die under Deidara's C4?"
Standing where Orochimaru had been standing before,
Sasori immediately saw the hidden indentation and crouched down to dig away the soil.
He saw loose, soft soil, unlike the hard ground around it, as if it had been disturbed.
But before he could think further, Deidara above shouted out.
"Master Sasori, the ring was thrown to this reanimated corpse by Orochimaru. All we have to do now is deal with him, hm!"