Naruto: Swarm System

Seeing the black longsword in the Peacekeeper's hand slice through Sasori's puppet giant in one stroke, Shishou was not surprised at all.

The longsword in the Peacekeeper's hand was made of Shikotsumyaku, Wood Release, Susanoo, and Sage energy, all infused with a large amount of Wind Release chakra, making it as sharp as Rimei's Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Ordinary Wood Release techniques were nothing against it.

Boom! Boom!

The puppet giant was split in half from top to bottom, crashing to the ground with two dull thuds, shaking the earth.

Within the cut surface of the puppet giant, the mini-Gundam formed from dozens of human puppets was also split in two, revealing Sasori's figure.

Clad in black, Sasori looked at Shishou on the Peacekeeper and said, "Your strength has grown significantly. It seems I have no choice but to use my trump card."

Shishou raised an eyebrow, not expecting Sasori to have a trump card left.

He then remembered a scroll that Sasori hadn't used in the original series.

Using chakra strings, Sasori pulled out his last scroll from behind him and spoke calmly, "The body is the most fatal weakness of a puppet master. This is something all ninjas know. Although I have turned my body into a human puppet, strengthening this weakness..."

"I still couldn't rest easy. I thought: if my body were to be damaged, how would I respond?"

"And to prevent this, I came up with an idea."

"What idea?" Shishou asked at the right moment.

Sasori held the scroll, smiled, and said, "To summon a deadly poison, turning the surrounding kilometers into a toxic death zone."

Shishou raised an eyebrow and instantly appeared in front of Sasori, his hand covered in Phosphorescent Destruction Bugs, plunging into the spot where Sasori's chakra core was stored.

Even though they were in a desert, if Sasori managed to create a toxic zone, it would cause a lot of trouble for Pakura.

Seeing Shishou's hand inserted into his chest, Sasori calmly said, "As I thought, you did mark me with the Flying Thunder God seal."

Taking out Sasori's chakra core and crushing it, Shishou frowned.

Sasori's chakra core was clearly destroyed, but he seemed unaffected.

"Hehehe..." Sasori laughed maniacally, looking at Shishou. "I deceived you; there was no deadly poison."

With that, Sasori formed a hand seal with one hand.

"Release!"

In the next second, the wooden puppets at Sasori's feet turned into trees, entangling Shishou and the Peacekeeper, restricting their movements.

At the same time, hundreds of meters away on a sand dune, a lava tunnel appeared, and three figures shot out, quickly disappearing into the distance.

These were the three bloodline puppets Sasori had pulled out earlier, and the one fleeing rapidly was the Swift Release puppet.

After the three bloodline puppets escaped, the Sasori holding Shishou also fell to the ground, turning into an unresponsive puppet.

Crack!

Shishou broke free from the Wood Release bindings and looked at the three disappearing puppets, shaking his head with a smile.

"Wrapping himself in Wood Release, then immediately abandoning his main body and transferring his chakra core to another puppet?"

"To do this, he even lied to draw me in and restrict my movements."

"Tsk tsk tsk, truly a cunning fellow."

Muttering a few words, Shishou dispelled the Peacekeeper summoning.

Sasori's strength lay entirely in his puppets. Without them, he was no more than an elite Jonin, as weak as when he was resurrected through Edo Tensei.

Now, with most of his puppets destroyed, he was no longer a threat.

Picking up Sasori's main body puppet and examining it, Shishou smiled.

"This would make a good gift for Pakura."

He then took the scroll Sasori had been holding, opened it, and found it to be blank.

Disappointed, Shishou tossed it aside and disappeared with Sasori's main body.

...

Elsewhere.

Sasori, having transferred his chakra core to the Storm Release bloodline puppet, continued to flee using the Swift Release puppet, zigzagging until he was sure Shishou was no longer chasing him.

Stopping, Sasori collapsed weakly onto the desert floor, staring blankly at the bright moon in the clear night sky.

His last scroll wasn't just a blank scroll, but it wasn't a high-powered jutsu either. It was simply a scroll for storing his backup chakra core.

A backup chakra core was Sasori's lifeline.

Similar to a puppet clone that could act independently, its purpose was to replace Sasori at critical moments, allowing his main body to escape unnoticed.

It was this backup chakra core that had controlled his main body puppet, drawing the attention of the Flying Thunder God user, allowing him to escape.

After lying there for a while, Sasori stood up.

This time, almost all his puppets were destroyed. Only three bloodline puppets remained, and he had even discarded his main body puppet as a decoy.

His life-saving backup chakra core had also been used.

This was a significant loss.

Thinking about this, Sasori looked for direction and headed toward the Land of Earth.

To avoid being hunted by the Flying Thunder God user, Sasori decided to lay low for a while, hunting a few bloodline ninjas and returning to the Rain Village via the Land of Earth once the Flying Thunder God user stopped pursuing him.

According to rumors in the ninja world, Konoha's Fifth Hokage Tsunade, the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi, and the Two-Tails Jinchuriki Yugito Nii of the Cloud Village were all women of the Flying Thunder God user.

So, the Land of Earth was Sasori's only choice.

The Flying Thunder God user's swift appearance indicated a close connection with the Sand Village, possibly related to Pakura, who had been thought dead but suddenly reappeared.

Sasori even suspected that, like Tsunade, Mei Terumi, and Yugito Nii, Pakura had also become the Flying Thunder God user's woman.

This realization shocked Sasori.

That Flying Thunder God bastard had already taken control of four of the five great ninja villages within three or four years?

Achieving such a feat in such a short time was terrifying.

If he were the leader of the Akatsuki, Nagato's goals might have been realized long ago...

Facing such an opponent was truly daunting.