Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 189 Genuine vs. Counterfeit
Kato Dan's Spirit Transformation Technique is far more terrifying than Umino Sasuke's infrasound shock.

Infrasound shockwaves can only silently interrupt the hand seals of regular ninjas, while Kato Dan's Spirit Transformation Technique can silently take a person's life.

While hardening techniques or other defensive earth-escape techniques can potentially block infrasound shocks, Kato Dan's Spirit Transformation Technique ignores these obstacles and distances, entering the enemy's mental world to control or obliterate their soul—a truly bizarre technique.

The reason why Bakuten was ambushed was that his subordinates had been controlled by Kato Dan's Spirit Transformation Technique.

The art of spiritification is so powerful that it is almost unsolvable, but it naturally has its flaws.

Once the spirit transformation technique is released, the soul leaves the body, and the body becomes unable to protect itself and must rely on others. If the protection is inadequate, the physical body may be harmed or even die.

Furthermore, when controlling or erasing an enemy's soul, if the soul's strength is not as high as the enemy's, it is impossible to effectively control the enemy, and there is even a possibility that the enemy will reverse the control or absorb the chakra.

It can be described as extremely dangerous.

Kato Dan released his Spirit Transformation Technique but did not directly possess Explosion Release: Hunting's body. It was precisely because of this risk that he did not easily possess him.

Kato Dan and Explosion Release: Gari are both near-Kage level powerhouses. Their forbidden techniques are so powerful that they can unleash weak Kage level combat power.

Even though Kato Dan's soul strength is stronger than Explosion Release: Gari's, it is still only slightly stronger. After killing many Jonin from Iwagakure, Kato Dan's soul strength may not be much stronger than Explosion Release: Gari's now. If he were to possess someone, there is a good chance that he could be controlled instead.

However, even though Kato Dan did not possess the body of Bakuten-sai, the tactical effect was still enormous. Seeing that even Bakuten-sai was almost ambushed and killed, the demolition team automatically distanced themselves, fearing that their teammates had been controlled by the enemy and would also be ambushed and assassinated.

This created a huge flaw in the demolition team's defensive formation.

"Continue the advance!"

With a wave of his hand, Sasuke Umino, leading nine mecha puppets, charged ahead, attempting to break through the demolition team's retreat line.

The demolition squad members were all elites, almost all of them possessing hardening skills, but they were unable to effectively defend against the mecha golems equipped with decapitation swords.

Hardening Technique is indeed powerful; it can be quite effective in defending against general attack ninjutsu, and even regular A-rank ninjutsu.

However, facing the decapitation sword of the mecha puppet is almost equivalent to enduring a single-target attack of an A-rank ninjutsu. Except for a very few Jonin from Iwagakure, one strike will almost always break through the defense.

Once their defenses are breached, given the speed at which the decapitation sword draws blood, these Iwa ninjas will bleed profusely in the face of the rout of the ninja army. Within minutes, they will all have bled to death.

Of course, the main task of the nine mech puppets is not to kill the enemy, but to break through the demolition force's defenses and create opportunities for the bladed weapon squad behind them.

The mecha golems had extremely strong defenses; the explosive tags and kunai thrown by the weapon squad exploded along with the mecha golems.

As long as it's not a bundle of explosive tags that explodes directly on the mecha golem, but just a few explosive tags, the mecha golem can completely defend against them. And those flying kunai fragments are just like an itch to the mecha golem.

For the Iwa ninja explosive squad, those kunai fragments were actually the biggest threat.

Unless a large amount of chakra is consumed to maintain the Hardening Technique, it is very easy to be riddled with holes by kunai shards.

How can a ninja's flesh and blood body defend against the ubiquitous shards?

Faced with this situation, the Iwa ninja could only maintain the Hardening Technique, which not only consumed a lot of chakra but also slowed down their retreat.

At the same time, maintaining the Hardening Technique also affects the speed of dodging attacks. Only those Jonin from Iwagakure can achieve a perfect balance of offense and defense. Ordinary Iwagakure ninjas are like lumps of iron, waiting for the mecha puppet's slashes.

If it weren't for Explosion Release: Hunter holding back four mecha puppets, the combined explosive tactics of the mecha puppets and explosive tag kunai would have been enough to completely crush the Iwa ninja's explosive force. "Damn Konoha thieves."

Seeing his hard-earned demolition squad being blown to pieces, Explosion Release Hunter felt his heart bleed. He cursed Konoha for its insidious and shameless behavior, saying that when Iwagakure established its demolition squad, Konoha must have secretly established one as well.

Konoha had kept this hidden for so long, only revealing its demolition unit now.

The reason why Explosion Release Hunter cursed Konoha was not entirely because of Konoha's treachery, but because he discovered that none of Konoha's explosive units had mastered Explosion Release. They had only achieved such results by relying on their powerful explosive tags.

The explosives unit he trained relied on genuine Explosion Release ninjutsu, supplemented by a small number of explosive tags from Yangyan Village.

Now, his legitimate demolition squad has been defeated by Konoha's subpar demolition squad. How can he accept this?

Seeing his subordinates fall one by one, like wheat being harvested, constantly being reaped by the explosive tags and kunai, even if Explosion Release Hunter couldn't accept reality, he had to admit that conventional ninjutsu was simply no match for the overwhelming explosive tags.

Explosion Release Hunter was also very surprised. How could there be so many explosive tags? Even if Konoha was a large and powerful family, it was impossible for them to be so extravagant, unless Konoha didn't want to live anymore.

Before the arrogant and domineering pseudo-money-escape technique of Exploding Blade and Flying Foam, everything else is insignificant.

Even the powerful Iwagakure demolition squad is no match for the arrogant pseudo-money-escape technique, let alone other squads.

With the added shock and suppression of infrasound, it's like adding wings to a tiger.

Once morale collapses and the demolition team suffers a complete rout, the terrifying power of Kato's Spirit Severing Technique will immediately become apparent.

Kato Dan specifically targets those Iwa ninja who have lost their minds, constantly controlling and eliminating them. His harvesting speed is even faster than that of the nine mecha puppets.

Upon witnessing such a powerful spiritification technique, Sasuke Umino felt a surge of excitement.

"I must exchange for this ninjutsu after this great battle is over."

Compared to his slow progress in the Flying Thunder God Technique, the Spirit Transformation Technique is more suitable for him. Given his current soul strength, it should be able to meet his demanding cultivation requirements.

Even if one cannot successfully cultivate, improving one's soul strength is still a good thing.

At the very least, it can be used to improve immunity to illusions, or even to resist the Mind Transfer Technique of the Mountain Clan.

"Weave in and out of their way!"

After defeating the demolition team and chasing them for more than ten miles, Umino Sasuke did not continue his advance. Instead, he detoured to the right, intending to intercept the main force of the Iwa ninja army.

Currently, due to the presence of the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, the three legendary Sannin of Konoha are advancing slowly but have been unable to completely defeat the right-wing ninja army and implement flanking maneuvers.

This difficult task has now been accomplished by the Umino unit.

However, even at full strength, the Umino unit only numbered two hundred men. With the addition of three hundred miscellaneous troops temporarily brought in, it was indeed not easy to completely intercept the main force of the Iwa ninja army.

If not handled properly, they might be crushed to pieces by the retreating main force of the Iwa ninja army.

(End of this chapter)