Chiyo suddenly felt a terrifying pressure descend from above, like mountain pressing down, as if the entire sky were about to collapse.
Greatly alarmed, she did not dare hesitate in the slightest and performed several quick, agile rolls in succession. Trying to escape from beneath the sky-covering palm of Rengoku's Susanoo.
However, all of her efforts were in vain.
With a loud "Bang," Susanoo's thick, powerful hand slammed fiercely into the ground.
In an instant, the earth shook violently, and the once solid ground was smashed into a bottomless crater.
At the same time, an incomparably powerful force swept Chiyo's entire body away like a hurricane, flinging her aside.
After all, Chiyo was already advanced in years. Even though she had once been a battle-hardened and formidable warrior.
At this moment, after suffering such a heavy blow, her body was already covered in injuries.
Her once nimble and agile body now staggered unsteadily, swaying as if it might collapse at any moment.
As for the other high-ranking figures of the Sand Village, Rengoku was not actually familiar with them.
But now that he had finally found an important target like Chiyo, he naturally could not let her die so easily.
After all, compared to Rasa, Chiyo clearly still had a certain degree of value to be used.
Rengoku directly picked Chiyo up and threw her toward Konoha's formation.
"Tsunade, don't let her die."
Tsunade snapped out of her shock, leapt up at once, and caught the unconscious Chiyo.
Rengoku drove Susanoo's pillar-like, massive legs forward, each step accompanied by deafening booms.
He walked toward the Sand Village ninja who were fleeing in collapse.
The two giant swords clenched in his hands were casually waved with light motions.
On the ground, one deep, horrifying crater after another instantly appeared.
Those unfortunate Sand Village ninja who were brushed or touched by the blade light did not even have time to let out a scream, their bodies instantly shattering into countless tiny fragments.
In just a few short minutes, the number of casualties on the Sand Village side had already reached well over a thousand.
The remaining Sand Village ninja who were still alive were now terrified out of their wits, having completely lost the courage to continue fighting.
They could only flee desperately like startled birds, caring about nothing else.
Such terrifying killing power and deterrence was precisely the overwhelming strength displayed by Susanoo in its God of War form!
However, after chasing them for more than ten minutes, Rengoku finally came to a slow stop.
At this point, he realized that he had already opened up quite a large distance between himself and the Konoha companions behind him.
Of course, even those Konoha ninja would never dare approach Rengoku lightly in his current state.
After all, the unparalleled pressure radiating from him was simply too horrifying.
Rengoku turned his head and glanced at the Sand Village ninja who were still fleeing frantically, then decisively dispelled Susanoo.
It was not that he could not continue slaughtering these enemies, but that after the intense battle just now, the Sand Village ninja had already completely scattered and fled in all directions.
Under such circumstances, wiping them all out in one go would not be so easy.
So Rengoku decided to let them off for the time being, waiting until these Sand Village ninja regrouped before launching another, even more ferocious sweep.
However, the moment Rengoku's feet touched the ground, a powerful wave of exhaustion and pain surged through him.
Especially around his eyes, where a searing, burning pain flared up.
This discomfort was precisely the aftereffect caused by the excessive use of ocular power earlier.
Even so, after all, this was the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Its endurance was completely different from that of an ordinary Mangekyo.
Enduring the pain, Rengoku flashed forward and arrived at the front of Konoha's ranks.
Everyone gazed at Rengoku with reverence. Especially the members of the Uchiha clan, whose eyes looked upon him as if they were beholding a god.
With an expressionless face, Rengoku issued his orders, "Clean up the battlefield immediately. Capture all prisoners with value and bring them back. As for those with no use at all, kill them all."
"Be careful while cleaning up the battlefield. Do not suffer any non-combat losses. The next pursuit will be tomorrow. Rest well today."
Everyone responded in unison, "Yes, Hokage-sama!"
Before the echoes had even faded, the Konoha ninja surged out like a pack of hungry wolves, spreading out like a vast net that covered the sky.
And all of this seemed to be merely to clear the road for Rengoku.
Rengoku strolled into the tent, where Tsunade was standing.
Chiyo, after Tsunade's treatment, had stabilized her condition, though she was still unconscious.
Tsunade asked with some confusion, "Why did you keep this old woman?"
Although she acknowledged Chiyo's skill with poisons and her ability to control puppets.
Tsunade truly did not understand what Rengoku was planning to do.
Rengoku stroked his chin thoughtfully and said slowly, "Chiyo developed a secret technique that can share one's life force with others."
He paused, then continued, "That technique is very valuable to the research you and Orochimaru are working on."
Hearing this, Tsunade could not help but show surprise.
"But don't you yourself already possess a similar technique?"
Rengoku gently shook his head and explained, "This technique is not part of the same system as mine."
"Then how do you plan to recruit her? You know, all of Chiyo's children died at the hands of White Fang."
As Tsunade spoke, she cast her gaze toward Hatake Sakumo, who was standing nearby.
Well, what a coincidence. The man himself was right there.
Yet, faced with their looks and discussion, Hatake Sakumo remained expressionless and showed no reaction at all.
After all, in those war-torn years, on battlefields where life and death clashed head-on.
Being able to kill the enemy's commanding officer was undoubtedly a crucial step toward victory.
"It's actually very simple. What Chiyo desires most is to see her children again."
"We'll go dig up their bodies, and later use the Impure World Reincarnation technique to bring them back to the living world."
"That way, there shouldn't be any problem. And if that's still not enough, we can think of something else."
Rengoku added, "Besides, the Sarutobi clan has provided plenty of sacrifices."
Hearing this, Tsunade nodded slightly in agreement.
Back then, Sarutobi Hiruzen had shown no mercy even to the Senju clan. How could she possibly care about the lives of the Sarutobi clan now?
However, in Rengoku's heart, there was still another half of the thought left unspoken.
At this moment, Sasori had almost completely lost his pursuit of life and purpose.
If Konoha were to openly announce that Konoha's White Fang had been resurrected.
No one could predict whether Sasori would betray the Akatsuki or not. It was hard to say.
If his parents could be revived, getting Sasori to come to Konoha would be an extremely easy matter.
It had to be said that Sasori was truly a rare talent.
When it came to genius puppet masters in this world, there was one and only one, and that was Sasori.
And Sasori's talent was by no means limited to puppet manipulation alone. His truly astonishing strength lay in puppet design.
Nowadays, all of Sunagakure's outstanding puppets were created according to the unique designs devised by Sasori.
Given enough time, if one were to keep climbing and developing along the technological tree, and let Sasori step into the field of civilian puppets, or machines.
Wouldn't that be effortless, something he could do with ease?
"For now, lock her up. After this battle is completely over, we'll deal with her then."
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