The massive gold dust spear shot through the air, the familiar piercing shriek echoing once more!
If it were only this gold dust spear, a crisis of this level could be resolved by White Fang with a single swing of his blade.
The problem was, he was simultaneously being attacked by Chiyo and Ebizo, the two living fossils of Sunagakure's puppet masters!
In the original work, an aged and physically weakened Chiyo could still single-handedly control the White Secret Technique: Chikamatsu's Ten Puppets and fight on par with Sasori.
And as everyone knows, the fewer puppets a puppeteer controls, the more focus they can dedicate to each.
Here, with her age locked at her final peak, and controlling the puppets jointly with her brother, each needing to control only five puppets, the ability Chiyo could unleash was far beyond what she could achieve later in life.
The current Chiyo wasn't an addition… she was a multiplication!
Therefore, White Fang had no opportunity to block Rasa's attack.
This was the combined strength of at least three Kage-level opponents!
Thus, after deflecting a few strikes with some difficulty, White Fang turned and prepared to break through!
After all, he was a blade, sharp, capable of cutting through many things. But White Fang was never the type to engage in prolonged, static battles.
The one who could fight you all day long to a stalemate in a static battle was Hatake Kakashi, not Hatake Sakumo.
However, having finally caught White Fang again, with a chance to avenge her son and daughter-in-law, how could Chiyo let him escape?
Bang!
Beyond the White Secret Technique: Chikamatsu's Ten Puppets, another scroll unfurled!
On this scroll were written the names [Father] and [Mother]!
Two figures very familiar to White Fang burst from the scroll, controlled by Chiyo to block his path!
Chiyo's voice rang out: "White Fang, these were originally prepared for my grandson, who likely strayed onto a dark path."
"But now, facing you, they are just right!"
"Son, go take your revenge!"
"Manipulation: One Heart, One Body!"
Under Chiyo's control, the Father and Mother puppets joined their palms together, then pulled out five steel wires.
Five extremely fine, yet incredibly sharp wires shot towards White Fang, aiming to entangle him!
Just as Chiyo predicted, upon seeing the Father and Mother puppets, even though White Fang had already died once, his movements faltered.
"To manifest the dead using puppets... The dead cannot return to life. Are all Sunagakure's Ninjas this twisted?"
White Fang asked in astonishment, simultaneously drawing his short blade and slicing through the incoming wires.
Hearing White Fang's words, Chiyo only sneered: "Hmph! 'The dead cannot return to life', who said that?"
"If they cannot return, then what are you? Nothing more than a Ninjutsu!"
"And how do you know I haven't developed such a Ninjutsu?" Chiyo snorted coldly.
"Sister!" Hearing Chiyo's words, even Ebizo looked at her in shock!
As for Rasa and White Fang, their reactions went without saying!
Seeing this, Chiyo's eyes narrowed!
Wasn't revealing this information precisely for this moment?
Manipulating the puppets, Chiyo subtly moved her left pinky.
The next second, three puppets from the Ten Puppets stacked themselves into a triangle shape!
Channeling Chakra into the puppets, Chiyo sharply shouted: "Ninja Art: Three Jewels Suction Crushing!"
Following Chiyo's actions, an immensely powerful suction force erupted from the center of the stacked three puppets!
A violent tornado was born!
The tornado pulled at everything around it, sucking in all objects and grinding them to pieces!
Under the pulling force of this Wind Release, even White Fang found it difficult to move!
However, his feet remained firmly planted on the ground, not moving an inch!
Such lower body stability was astonishing!
But Chiyo never intended to kill White Fang with the Three Jewels Suction Crushing!
What was a certain kill for others was merely a restraining skill for White Fang!
After all, Chiyo had teammates!
"Rasa! Ebizo! Help now!"
Chiyo shouted heavily!
"Alright, Sister!" Ebizo nodded.
"Hmph!" Rasa let out a displeased grunt, and he wanted to say 'Don't order me around'.
But, tempted by the opportunity to defeat White Fang, Rasa's body acted straightforwardly despite his mouth's complaints!
Seizing the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Rasa manipulated the gold dust to form a net that blotted out the sky, descending upon White Fang!
If this strike landed solidly, even Konoha's White Fang wouldn't be able to break free!
White Fang knew this too!
Therefore, he erupted his Chakra, and a mode similar to the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, but more focused on speed, appeared around him!
White Fang's speed instantly increased noticeably, and he broke free from the Three Jewels Suction Crushing.
Unfortunately, at that moment, the remaining puppets controlled by Ebizo charged forward.
As a male-female pair, their division of labor was very clear: Chiyo controlled the ranged puppets, while Ebizo controlled the close-combat puppets.
Now, a female-form puppet wielding twin blades, accompanied by two puppets connected by a chain in the middle, and another puppet with a helicopter-like spiral blade meat grinder on its head, a total of four puppets, surrounded White Fang!