Naruto: The Age of Ninja Swordsmen Begins from the Hidden Cloud Village.

At the same time that the Third Raikage led people to support the Iwagakure Village, the Kumogakure Village also sent people to support the Sandgakure Village, but it was not the Thunder God transformed by Black Zetsu, but Scorpion.

There is only Scorpion, but one person is enough.

"Fourth Hokage, hasn't the support from the Hidden Cloud Village arrived yet?"

Looking at the battle situation in the village, Chiyo was very anxious.

Although Danzo Shimura did not show up this time, he had a full 100,000 dark ninja troops. Not only was the number ten times more than that of that year, but the individual strength was also stronger, and some even had the combat power of a Kage.

Moreover, that kind of dark wood escape is more devouring and has a very horrible corrosiveness, which even the Four Red Yang Formation cannot completely resist.

If this continues, the entire Sand Village will be captured in less than ten minutes.

"The news has spread."

On the Kazekage Building, Luo Sha was carrying the jar that sealed most of the One-Tail on his back, his brows furrowed.

He originally thought that it would be Shimura Danzo who came personally, and then he would use the One-Tail as a bargaining chip to get rid of it, otherwise he would kill the One-Tail himself.

Although the tailed beasts can be resurrected, it will take a long time, and he doesn't believe that Danzo Shimura is willing to wait for several years.

Who would have thought that they were just a group of dark ninjas, leaving him no chance to negotiate with them.

Now we can only pray that the support from the Hidden Cloud Village will be stronger, otherwise we will be in trouble.

"Hopefully soon."

Chiyo is worried that Danzo Shimura has been more prepared over the years than they imagined, and it is unknown whether the Sand Village can survive this disaster.

At this moment, a flash of lightning shot out from the northeast sky, passed through the broken barrier of the Sand Village and landed on the rooftop of the Kazekage Building.

"At such an old age, he still doesn't know how to retire and make way for the young people."

A voice was heard, and then a two-meter-tall iron man slowly flew out from the lightning.

"scorpion?"

Hearing that voice, Chiyo's body trembled, and she turned around abruptly, looking at the floating iron man with uncertainty.

The tone was very similar to that of his granddaughter, and the person who could say such words was obviously an acquaintance. After thinking about it, it could only be the grandson who ran to the Hidden Cloud Village and never came back.

Iron Man's helmet disassembled itself and hid at the back of his neck, revealing a handsome face and flowing red hair.

The one who came was Scorpion.

"Are you alone?"

Luo Sha frowned. He had thought that a large force would come to support, but who would have thought that there was only one person, and that was Scorpion.

Although Scorpion had good talent when he was a child, it was only in the field of puppetry. What can a puppeteer do in this situation?
Even Chiyo was very vulnerable in front of that kind of ninja army. As soon as they started fighting, nearly half of her Kage-level human puppets were destroyed.

It was only because I acted in time and used sand to pull it back, otherwise he would have died long ago.

Scorpion of the Red Sand replied while looking at the dark ninja army.

"Shimura Danzo went to the Iwagakure Village, and the Third Raikage brought people over to provide support."

"Attack our Sand Village and the Iwagakure Village at the same time!"

Luo Sha's expression became even gloomier, it seemed like he didn't take them seriously at all.

"So he went to Iwagakure Village."

Chiyo suddenly realized that she had been wondering why there were only the dark ninja army but not Danzo Shimura. It turned out that they had gone to the Iwagakure Village.

"You can go back to the Hidden Cloud Village. I will not leave the Hidden Sand Village."

Taking a final look at her lonely grandson, Chiyo shook her head.

It is obvious that my grandson alone cannot fight against so many dark legions, so I am afraid that he came here to take me away.

But this is her home, she has lived here all her life, she will not leave, even if she dies she will die here.

"So you are out of date and should give way to the young people. Today I will show you what the real puppet art is."

Scorpion's expression remained indifferent. He raised his hand to the sky, and a beam of light blasted out from his palm. The space in the sky twisted, and soon a vortex-shaped space gate was formed.

This is the Tianshimen authority that Tiancun Hao gave to Xie, which can open a space gate to quickly deploy the puppet army.

The next moment after the space gate stabilized, dense black spots flew out from it. They were all iron men, flying quickly in the air with energy spraying from their hands, feet and backs, and rushing into the Sand Village which had turned into a battlefield.

There were so many of them, tens of thousands of them, and then a huge monster rushed out from them. It was a steel giant one hundred meters tall, with two long swords on its back.

"boom!"

It fell to the ground with a bang, causing the entire Sand Village to shake. Then the steel giant drew out the double swords behind him. In an instant, the double swords were heated to dark red, and he slashed at the wood-style creatures of the Dark Legion.

The tens of thousands of steel legions plus the steel giant, even though they were outnumbered, were still able to overwhelm the 100,000 dark ninja troops.

The Iron Legion has the ability to fly and is quite fast, so they have absolute initiative. The Iron Giant is even more terrifying. Not only is he powerful, he is also equipped with many energy weapons and even has a three-meter diameter chakra cannon on his chest.

Not to mention the Sand Village ninjas, even Chiyo and Rasa who were standing on the Kazekage Building were stunned by this scene.

"Is this the new puppetry technique that Hao Jun invited you to develop?"

It took him a while to come back to his senses. Luo Sha remembered what Scorpion said when he returned from the Konoha Forest of Death. At that time, he seemed to have said that steel should be used instead of the wood of the puppets.

No one took it seriously at the time. The villagers had thought about finding better materials to make puppets. Steel was available, but unfortunately steel was too heavy and would seriously slow down the speed of the puppets, which was fatal.

So he didn't take Scorpion's words to heart, but who would have thought that the steel puppet made by the other party would be like this.

If I had known this earlier, I would have definitely kept Scorpion and given him strong support.

"I said back then that we would create an era that belonged to us puppet masters, but unfortunately you all didn't believe me."

Scorpion glanced at the regretful Luo Sha and a hint of pride appeared on his face.

Although his puppet system has not been officially unveiled for the sake of confidentiality, it is already quite complete.

The aerial fortress is full of puppet systems, and he even established a puppeteer academy there to specialize in teaching the technology of the puppet system and assist in their own research and development.

If things continue to develop in this way, they will surely usher in an era that belongs to them, the puppet masters. At least they, the puppet masters, will not be eliminated by the times.

"You're right. I really have to give way to the young people sooner."

Chiyo smiled bitterly. She couldn't help but accept this, but she was relieved in her heart.

After all, this is their grandson, and this is the puppetry of their puppeteer.

Not to mention the Sand Village which was caught in a fierce battle, the Iwagakure Village on the other side had been almost completely destroyed by the Black Lotus of Destruction, and the entire village was shrouded in dark wood escape.

Even though Ōnoki personally led the team to fight against the expanding Dark Wood Release, it was still difficult to stop.

Even though the Third Raikage and others tried their best, it was still not very effective. Instead, they made themselves in an embarrassing situation and were in danger.

However, the agreed time has arrived. Ohnoki, the Third Raikage and others deliberately came to the west of the Black Lotus of Destruction.

The next moment, a beam of light shot out from the eastern sky and instantly reached the Iwagakure Village.

The barrier formed by the dark chains and dark chakra lasted for a moment before being broken, and then bombarded the Iwagakure Village, and the black lotus of destruction was naturally also hit.

In response to this, the World-Destroying Black Lotus immediately lifted up the tree roots on the ground to block them.

However, this chakra beam is not only powerful in attack, but also continuous.

He held on to the end, but was still bombarded by the beam of light and fell onto the black lotus of destruction.

Ohnoki and his companions used the Black Lotus of Destruction to resist the bombardment of the light column. This was their earlier plan. They stayed behind to hold back Danzo Shimura so that the chakra cannon of the Hidden Cloud Village could bombard them.

This is not over yet. They are waiting for the right opportunity and when the beam of light from the chakra cannon stops, they will rush towards the black lotus of destruction and try to break it. It would be even better if they can kill Danzo Shimura inside.

The chakra beam lasted for ten seconds before it stopped. The entire Iwagakure Village was wiped out, leaving behind a canyon that was hundreds of meters deep, thousands of meters wide, and had no end in sight.

And at the site of the Hidden Rock Village, there remained only a broken lotus floating in the air, which was the Black Lotus of Destruction.

The Black Lotus of Destruction was severely damaged by that blow, and even a corner of the Box of Bliss buried deep inside was revealed.

“Go!” The Third Raikage shouted and rushed forward, ready to completely smash the broken black lotus of destruction.

Everyone burst out with all their strength and rushed forward. They would certainly not miss this good opportunity to beat the enemy when he was down.

However, at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared behind Ohnoki, and with a flash of a knife, Ohnoki was beheaded.

Then a palm pierced into Ōnoki's back and went straight into his abdomen, pulling out half of the Five-Tails in the sealed space.

"Fell into a trap!"

The Third Raikage who was charging forward suddenly stopped, turned his head and saw Ohnoki who had been beheaded and the Five-Tails had been extracted. He was immediately filled with anger.

"The next one will be your Hidden Cloud Village, and our grievances will be settled by then.

Danzo Shimura looked at the furious Third Raikage, and then his figure turned into a mist and disappeared. The broken Black Lotus of Destruction also disappeared, as it was summoned away by someone using summoning magic.

"Lord Tsuchikage!"

The remaining Iwagakure ninjas cried out in grief and rushed towards the head of the Tsuchikage that had fallen to the ground. Now only this head was left.

The Third Raikage and the others could only suppress their rage and descend, looking at Ōnoki's head with expressions of sadness.

This sadness is real to most people, and the only ones who know the real plan are the Third Raikage, Yotsuki Ai and Fukai.

These secrets need to be kept strictly confidential, and they will not even tell their closest relatives. They will even use illusions to modify the memory later to make what is happening now become facts.

The Hidden Cloud Village has always done things in an open and aboveboard manner and has never plotted against its allies. In the end, they sent people over to take over the country only because they were forced to do so and clean up the mess.

Otherwise, if they don't come to occupy it, those people from Konoha will come. Instead of letting Konoha get an advantage, it is better to let them occupy it.

Moreover, they also have a completely reasonable and legal legal system. Ohnoki's granddaughter and disciples are studying in their Cloud Village.

The only remaining ninja from the Iwagakure Village had no doubts about this. After all, the Hidden Cloud Village was really fighting hard this time. The only thing they could blame was Danzo Shimura for being too strong and too insidious, and in the end he even sneaked up on their Lord Tsuchikage.

Damn Danzo Shimura!
Damn Konoha!
At the same time, Scorpion in the Sand Village suddenly looked in a certain direction as if he sensed something.

I saw a person, or rather two people, appear there.

It was none other than Danzo Shimura and the headless bodies of Ōnoki.

"It's Shimura Danzo!"

"That was the Tsuchikage, he killed the Tsuchikage!"

Chiyo and Rasa also looked over, and when they saw the headless corpse in Shimura Danzo's hand, the size of the body and the tattered clothes on the body proved his identity as the Third Tsuchikage of the Iwagakure Village.

The Tsuchikage was actually killed by Danzo Shimura!

Danzo Shimura, who was summoned by spirit, looked at the battle situation around him, especially the iron men flying everywhere and the iron giant, and was slightly surprised.

The son-in-law had sent him intelligence about this Iron Puppet Legion, but he didn't take it seriously. He didn't expect it to have developed to this extent.

But that's all!
Without delay, enormous eye power and dark chakra emerged, forming a 500-meter-tall dark Susanoo with dark fire burning on its body. The dark fire condensed into two long swords, overlooking everything in the Sand Village, and with a casual swing of the sword, he split the rushing steel giant in half.

Seeing this scene, Scorpion took out a small iron armor from the scroll, wrapped his grandmother beside him, and flew away with her. It was obvious that he did not want to confront Danzo Shimura.

Luo Sha also controlled the sand pad to fly away quickly, barely escaping from Shimura Danzo's attack range.

"Shimura Danzo, I am willing to exchange the One-Tail for you. As long as you withdraw from our Sand Village, the One-Tail will be yours. Otherwise, I will kill the One-Tail.

Even if Yiwei can be resurrected, it will take a long time. You don't want to wait that long, right?"

Holding the jar that seals the One-Tail, Rasa negotiates with Danzo Shimura.

Not only is One-Tail sealed in this jar, but it also contains 100 million detonating talismans, which are enough to blow the sealed One-Tail to pieces and kill it.

Danzo Shimura remained silent about this, and then he appeared in a direction the next moment. His palm turned into a wooden thorn and pierced the body of a Sand Ninja who was fighting. The wooden thorn quickly split and pierced out from the body, turning him into a hedgehog, with his internal organs completely destroyed.

As his body was pierced, the Sand Ninja's body surface collapsed and turned into sand, falling off, revealing another face, which was that of the Fourth Kazekage Rasa.

As Luo Sha's main body suffered severe damage, the shadow clone who was controlling the sand pad to fly up for negotiations also collapsed on its own. The detonating talisman in the sealing jar was triggered and exploded into a hot ball of light, and the sealed tail inside was shattered.

But ten dark chains extended out, forming a barrier that enveloped the entire area, gathering the chakra and original power of the One-Tail that was shattered by the explosion.

"I don't need a living one, nor a dead one."

With a sneer on his face, Danzo Shimura didn't care about the life or death of the One-Tail, as long as he could get the original power of the One-Tail.

"Why... why?"

Rosa spat out a large mouthful of blood, feeling very unwilling. Why was he discovered even though he was disguised so well? And why did Danzo Shimura have this kind of spatial power that appeared without any warning?

Danzo Shimura had no habit of explaining to his enemies, so he was ready to use Wood Release to completely devour Rasa, but suddenly Rasa used a secret technique to turn himself into sand.

It was not a means of escape, but a means of suicide. He did not want to die at the hands of Shimura Danzo, as that would devour even his soul.

Danzo Shimura didn't pay much attention to this. He glanced at Sasori and Chiyo who were flying high in the sky, and commanded the Dark Army to continue to surround and devour those Sand Ninjas.

Seeing this, Scorpion could only control the Iron Legion to search for women and children and fly away. There was no point in continuing to fight to the death in this situation, so whoever could be saved should be saved.

"Still can't resist?"

Chiyo was flying high in the sky with the armor, feeling distraught. Even though she had this premonition a long time ago, she still couldn't accept it when the day really came.

"Sorry, the main gun of the aerial fortress was used in the Hidden Rock Village before. It needs some time to cool down and recharge, so it cannot provide long-range support here."

Scorpion felt helpless as he looked at the Sand Village which was falling into purgatory.

Although he has brought puppetry to an unprecedented level, it is still not enough to fight against someone of Shimura Danzo's level, who has far surpassed the first Hokage.

If the main gun was in good condition, it could still be mobilized for bombardment. Unfortunately, it had been used before in the Iwagakure Village and it would be difficult to use it again in a short period of time.

"It's good enough to save these. When we get back, tell the Raikage to let them take over the Kingdom of Wind."

It took Chiyo a while to come back to her senses. Looking at the women and children who were brought out by the iron puppets, she felt a little comforted. At least some people were still alive.

But she knew that the Sand Village and the Wind Kingdom were finished, or they were eliminated by the times. Whether it was the overall strength of the Ninja Country or the top strength of individuals, they were outdated, so it was not surprising that they were in the current situation.

After all, it's because the foundation of their Sand Village is too weak to support the advancement to the Ninja Kingdom era, and now it has lost completely.

Scorpion didn't say much about this. He was not interested in politics. He came here just to accept orders and provide support. He brought with him the elite puppet army he had built, but unfortunately they were still no match for Shimura Danzo's level of strength.

Unless an aerial fortress is brought over, it has not only one main gun but also tens of thousands of secondary guns, which is enough to blow up Shimura Danzo's Dark Susanoo.

Danzo Shimura was a little afraid of that kind of chakra cannon. It was stronger than he had imagined. Although he could withstand it, the dark ninja army under his command could not.

So after spending ten minutes slaughtering and devouring the entire Sand Village, they evacuated.

Then Scorpion flew back with everyone. Looking at the devastated and dead silent Sand Village, the surviving women and children all cried.

It’s gone, everything is gone, not even a corpse is left.

Chiyo was also very sad. She walked out of the armor to pick up the blood-stained forehead guards.

Although the person was devoured, most of his belongings were left behind, and these were the only things he could use to be buried instead.

This is the only thing you can do as a survivor.

The women and children also came over with tears in their eyes to collect the items. Scorpion did not move, but instead controlled the Iron Legion to come over to assist.

"Only unification can bring true peace to the ninja world."

Looking up at the scorching sun in the sky, Scorpio also has a stronger desire for peace, and the only way to achieve peace is unification.

Neither the Ninja Village Era nor the Ninja Country Era is enough. Only comprehensive unification can achieve lasting peace.

The Ninja Village Era has been proven to be wrong by the Ninja World War, and the same is true for the current Ninja Country Era. As long as opposing forces exist, there will inevitably be conflicts, which will then evolve into wars.

Coupled with the promotion of some ambitious people, so many tragedies have been brewing.

So the only option is unification. If there is unification, he hopes that the Hidden Cloud Village will be the unifier. At least at this stage, the Hidden Cloud Village is the best in this regard, and the others are far behind.

(End of this chapter)