The speed of their Ninjutsu collision was very fast.
In just a few seconds, the explosion was complete, leaving only ruins.
Sasori's eyes widened; the scroll patterns in front of him had disappeared.
The eighteen puppets from earlier were like single-use items; the scroll was blank.
Sasori could only rely on the puppet's body to keep himself from falling.
The explosion earlier wasn't just the Chakra inside those puppets; the Chakra used for the forbidden Ninjutsu was also extracted from his core.
"Deidara, I never thought I would end my life in your way."
In his dying moments, Sasori's life flashed before his eyes.
His regret now wasn't that he wasn't leaving this world in the artistic way he believed in.
He also never expected that person to possess such terrifying Lightning Release.
However, he couldn't see that person now; presumably, they had turned to ash in the clash and vanished from the world.
To make him violate puppet art and unleash the puppet forbidden Ninjutsu he least wanted to use, his opponent was a formidable foe.
The day he created this puppet Ninjutsu, he considered it a forbidden art.
It went against his artistic beliefs.
Thump, thump, thump!
Hearing the sound, Sasori looked up and saw Sakura and Chiyo, weakened, walking towards him from a distance.
Sasori looked at Chiyo, and the figures of his parents appeared in his eyes.
There were also images of Chiyo teaching him puppet Ninjutsu when he was young.
"In ten days, at noon, at the Grass Ninja Village's Heaven and Earth Bridge, I have a spy with Orochimaru, and he will meet me that day.
Although it wasn't you who defeated me, still... that guy is too disgusting..."
Puff!
Before he could finish speaking, blood spurted from Sasori's chest core, and his puppet eyes closed.
Sakura and Chiyo never expected Sasori to reveal information about Orochimaru in his dying moments.
Sakura released Granny Chiyo, stepped forward to examine him, and pulled out the core from inside the puppet.
"Physical energy depleted, Chakra exhausted, so he died?!" Sakura murmured to herself.
At this moment, Sasuke's figure filled her mind.
Puff!
Sakura's five fingers clenched, and Sasori's core was crushed by her.
"Granny Chiyo..."
Just as she was about to speak, she saw the emptiness in Granny Chiyo's eyes.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew, carrying away the decades-old longing that had just been stirred... now drifting away with the wind again.
The purple hair on both sides, stirred by the wind, carried the elder's thoughts.
"Sakura, let's go. This old body still has one last contribution to make to Hidden Sand Village."
Granny Chiyo spoke herself, without waiting for Sakura to open her mouth.
"Yes."
Sakura supported Granny Chiyo and chased in the direction of Kakashi and the others.
After walking for three minutes, they finally exited the core crater of the explosion...
"Wuwu~ What good luck."
On the cliff, Might Guy hugged a long, horizontal tree, tears streaming down his face.
If he hadn't run fast just now, he would have been gone.
He wiped his tears: "Right, my three beloved disciples..."
Beep, beep!
He quickly pressed the radio by his ear.
But after pressing for a long time, there was no response.
"No way... Wuwu... My beloved disciples... in the explosion..."
Might Guy's already tear-streaked face immediately streamed with tears like a waterfall.
Click!
Suddenly, Might Guy's continuously pressing hand stopped.
He took off the radio.
He realized the sound just now was the radio breaking.
"Radio broken?... Ah... My beloved disciples."
Immediately, infinite hope rose in Might Guy's heart, and he quickly climbed the cliff...
On the huge mountain wall, a three-meter giant spherical shape was perfectly illuminated by the sun.
Neji was embedded in the mountain wall, spread-eagled.
"Not dead..."
Crack, crack~
The sound of bones dislocating came from his body.
Neji used the little Chakra he had just recovered to open his Byakugan.
He quickly reset the bones in his body.
Under that powerful attack, it was fortunate that the clones had resisted, otherwise he might have truly died.
Even so, his Chakra and body were severely depleted.
He would probably need some time to recover before he could support Naruto and the others.
Fortunately, his distance was neither too close nor too far, so the aftershshocks weren't very strong...
"The radio is broken..."
Lee was behind a fallen giant tree that five people could embrace, looking at the radio in his hand.
He had trees around him, and he ran fast, so his injuries were not severe; only the radio couldn't withstand it and was damaged.
Standing up, he quickly climbed to the top of the remaining trees and looked in the direction from which the attack had come.
All he saw was a scene of devastation.
The forest he was in had fallen like wheat swept by the wind.
Only in his slightly more remote area did a few individual trees withstand the aftershocks.
Gulp~
Lee swallowed.
"Sakura..."
Suddenly, he remembered something, and a worried expression appeared on his face.
He quickly climbed down the tree and ran towards the direction from which the attack had come...
Whoosh~
On the huge Earth Style Wall, a twin-bunned head emerged.
Looking forward, of the ten layers of Earth Style Wall, only the one beneath her was intact.
The other nine layers of Earth Style Wall had been destroyed, leaving only rubble.
"Sensei Satoru is boasting again; he actually had so many layers broken by someone else's aftershocks. I must complain about him when I get back."
Tenten grumbled.
But seeing the scene in the distance, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter what, she had escaped a disaster.
"Right, I wonder how Teacher Guy and the others are doing?"
She patted her body and quickly pressed the radio.
A moment later, she found no one responded.
Swish!
Out of worry, Tenten quickly walked in other directions.
She was worried about Teacher Guy and his three disciples.
She knew they weren't good at defensive Ninjutsu!
Under such a wide-range attack, they must have broken arms and legs...
Zetsu emerged from beside Sasori, holding a shattered ring engraved with jade.
"Amazing, a ring made with the Rinnegan actually shattered directly under such an attack."
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a figure snatched the ring from him.
"It's broken, it's broken! I won't be able to become a full Akatsuki member now, will I?" A Masked Man, lively and jumpy, held the ring.
"There's no one here now, stop pretending, it's really annoying!"
"Yes, truly remarkable... Sasori." The Masked Man said in a deep voice.
"Let's go. The Konoha people will probably come to investigate later; they didn't die."
Zetsu picked up another piece of shattered flesh in his hand.
It was Sasori's core, crushed by Sakura.
"Heh, it's coming soon, this world full of war."
The Masked Man's body twisted and disappeared in front of Zetsu.
Zetsu stared at him for a moment, a mysterious smile on his lips, and then drilled into the ground and disappeared.
Some time after they left, a figure in a green jumpsuit appeared here.
Looking at the puppet that was now just an empty shell.
"The enemy is dead, Sakura should be fine." Lee didn't see Sakura's figure and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
But what exactly happened just now?
He looked around.
It took him about three minutes to walk from the outer edge of the crater to Sasori's location.
What kind of attack was it... could it have been caused by Granny Chiyo or Sakura?