Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 424 C4 Shiva Linga, Death Without Action
On the other side, Huang Tu, wielding a giant axe, frantically swung it at Jiao Du in front of him. Each swing of the axe caused the earth to tremble, and mud and rocks flew everywhere, displaying astonishing power.

Kakuzu's entire body is covered in a hard shell, which even shimmers with a metallic luster, making his defense extremely formidable. His hands and feet have turned into heavy rocks, and his every move is imposing.

This can be considered an enhanced version of "Earth Escape: Earth Spear".

However, faced with the unreasonable and brute force of the loess soil, the defense, which should have been indestructible, proved to be inadequate.

Clang! Clang! Boom!

The giant axe and the rock fist collided repeatedly, producing a deafening clang of metal against metal and the sound of rocks cracking.

The loess's offensive was wide-ranging and powerful, striking at the relatively weak points in the Kakuzu Rock Armor's defenses.

Kakuzu has more combat experience and a more solid defense, but he is slightly inferior to Huang Tu in terms of pure strength and attack capability, and gradually becomes at a disadvantage.

"Turong Tulong Spear!"

Seizing the opportunity after a heavy chop of loess, Kakuzu stomped his right foot down, and several sharp rock spears suddenly pierced out from under the loess.

Bang!
Huang Tu slammed his giant axe into the ground, sending shattered rocks hurtling towards Kakuzu like cannonballs. The axe dragged along the ground, carving deep furrows, before charging forward, its blade aimed straight for Kakuzu's head.

Kakuzu quickly crossed his arms, creating several shallow craters on his rock armor. He swayed slightly, sliding back a few steps, his eyes dark and brooding.

The power of the giant axe in Huang Tu's hand was too great. The power of his earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of astral projection) body alone was not enough to defeat Huang Tu in a head-on confrontation.

However, it is a pity.

This is a battlefield, this is war.

Boom!

Faced with the slashing yellow earth, Kakuzu neither dodged nor evaded. Instead, he crossed his fists and pushed his rock armor to its limit, enduring the blow head-on.

Above, several flying puppets swept across the sky, their chakra cannons aimed at the yellow earth below and fired.

At the same time, the air ninjas swooped down and threw several detonating bombs.

Akatsuki's air superiority is their greatest advantage.

Huang Tu's face darkened, and he veered off course when he swung his giant axe, which slammed heavily into the ground beside him. A thick, curved earthen wall rose from the ground, blocking the attack from the air.

Boom boom boom!
Chakra cannons and detonators exploded on the earthen wall, scattering debris everywhere, forcing the loess soil to distance itself from Kakuzu once again.

"Yellow Earth, war is not a one-on-one samurai duel." Kakuzu formed hand seals, slammed his hands on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Earth Release: Rock Stealing Staff."

boom!Boom!

Suddenly, several sharp rocks pierced the ground, aiming at Huang Tu from various tricky angles. Huang Tu swung his axe to block them, splitting most of them, but a few still managed to trap him.

Just as Kakuzu charged towards the yellow earth, a sharp thunderclap suddenly rang out.

呲!
Almost as soon as the thunder was caught by sound, the bolt of lightning had already reached the target area.

Its speed precedes the sound!

Kakuzu's gaze instinctively swept toward the source of the sound, where he saw a pale lightning bolt, no thicker than a finger, streak past at a terrifying speed exceeding the speed of sound!

The slender lightning bolt pierced through the seemingly empty air in the distance.

"Ah!!" A painful scream suddenly rang out from that direction.

With a scream, a dark and deep spatial portal appeared, and Hanzo, now back to his normal height, fell into it with crackling lightning crackling around him.

"Hanzo!" Mifune's hoarse, angry voice rang out, "Are you trying to escape?!"

Under Mifune's gaze, at the last moment, Hanzo turned his face to the side, his scars on his face were hideous and terrifying, but the look he left behind made the anger in Mifune's eyes pause.

That rascal……

Kakashi rushed over immediately, almost turning into a purple lightning bolt, but the spatial gate had already closed and disappeared without a trace, and his attack missed.

He could only stop and turn his head to look in the direction from which the lightning bolt had come.

On a slightly higher, broken wall in the distance, Uchiha Sasuke remained in the posture of drawing his silver bow, his body wreathed in fine arcs of electricity.

The wind blew his black hair across his forehead, revealing his eerie eyes. The scarlet kaleidoscope slowly stopped spinning, and a tear of blood flowed out.

Eight Thunder Gods - Roaring Thunder.

This is "Thunder," symbolizing speed and penetration.

Sasuke used his eyes to locate Hanzo after he shrunk and hid, and launched an attack with "Rakurai," the fastest of the "Eight Thunder Gods."

In Boruto, Sasuke used his Mangekyou Sharingan to see Isshiki Otsutsuki and his black rod after they were shrunk by the "Shona Higana".

Although his eye power is not as strong as it was in Boruto, the enemy he faces is not Isshiki Otsutsuki, but Hanzo who only possesses the 'White Knot'.

Thunderclap, a strike that sacrifices power for speed, is enough to severely injure Hanzo; even if he doesn't die, he'll be left barely alive.

"Cough, Kakashi..." Mifune, who was nailed to the ground by black rods, looked at Kakashi, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end his head tilted to the side and he completely lost consciousness.

Gekko Hayate, who was also severely injured, coughed up black blood after witnessing Hanzo's escape, his head drooped, and he fell into a coma.

"Medical team! Quick!" Kakashi shouted immediately.

He rushed to their side and saw that the "herpes miasma" inserted into Moonlight Gale's abdomen was barely keeping him alive, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he immediately turned to look at the distant loess land, where Kakuzu's face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

He looked around as the allied ninjas began to surround him and Huang Tu.

He knew very well that he was neither Hashirama Senju nor Madara Uchiha.

Without Hanzo's poison mist to restrain him, he would be in dire straits if surrounded by over ten thousand ninjas, even with air support.

"We must deal with the loess soil, then evacuate immediately!"

Kakuzu made a decision in an instant, his eyes flashing with sternness. He was about to order the air force to provide fire support at all costs, creating an opportunity for him to kill Huang Tu.

However, at this moment.

"Hahahahaha!!"

A burst of excited, unrestrained, and manic laughter suddenly erupted from the smoke-filled, fire-flaming sky above everyone's heads, the rolling sound even drowning out the clamor of the battlefield.

High above, beneath the clouds, the giant clay bird that once belonged to Deidara was now tattered and missing in many places, spinning rapidly toward the ground!
"Whoa! Deidara! We're going to fall!"

On the back of the clay bird, Kurotsuchi screamed in panic, desperately channeling her remaining chakra into her feet in an attempt to steady herself, but to no avail. Akatsuchi was also covered in cold sweat.

Even a ninja would surely die if falling from that height!
Moreover, Wuwei, controlling 'Wu', along with Kakuzu's Wind Release clone, transformed into two afterimages, one on the left and one on the right, swooping down towards them like predatory eagles.

They wanted to take this opportunity to eliminate the three of them completely!
However, right next to Kurotsuchi and Akado, Deidara himself, who was also falling with the wreckage, remained indifferent to his approaching death.

His face was covered in soot and sweat, his golden hair was whipped about by the wind, but his eyes shone with a frightening light, burning with fanaticism and reckless madness.

His entire focus was on the ugly lump of clay in front of him, nearly two meters in diameter, which was created by the combined efforts of his chest, hands, and three mouths.

"Haha! My work is finished!"

Deidara laughed wildly, pushed his hands forward, and the huge, ugly clay ball detached from his body, flying towards the oncoming Wuwei and Wind Release clones.

"sucker Punch!"

Further away, the lightning clone laughed, raised its staff, gathered lightning at the tip, and shot it out with a thunderous roar, accurately hitting the lump of clay.

However, Deidara wore a mocking smile.

Sizzle! The lightning entered the clay lump, but instead of extinguishing it, it made it even more unstable. Light overflowed from it, and terrifying fluctuations emanated from within, sending chills down one's spine!
"How is this possible?" The Lightning Release clone's smile froze instantly, turning into incredulous astonishment.

"Not good!" The wind clone, which shared the same mind and senses as the lightning clone, instantly sensed the deadly threat, and a look of horror appeared in its vertical pupils.

It let out a sharp screech, its wings vibrated to their limit, and it made a nearly 180-degree turn in mid-air, climbing upwards with all its might!
While Wuwei's 'Enlightenment' also sensed the danger, its massive size and relatively cumbersome turning ability prevented it from being as agile as the Wind Release clone.

Wuwei's expression changed drastically, and he tried to order it to turn around or defend, but it was too late.

"Art is an explosion!" Deidara roared, his hands forming a hand seal in front of his chest, using his last ounce of strength. "Crack!"

boom! !

Centered on that lump of clay, a pale light suddenly burst forth!
Wherever the light touched, space seemed to distort for a moment.

The first thing to be grasped is "enlightenment".

The massive body, upon contact with the pale light, disintegrated and vanished silently from the point of contact, like a pencil mark erased by an eraser!
Thick fur, strong bones, surging chakra...

All matter was forcibly dismantled under that pale light, returning to the most basic and disordered particle state!
That's too late.

As Wuwei watched the engulfing light approach, the fear in his eyes gradually turned into calm.

"It seems we can only die here, Wugou."

Wuwei looked down at the 'Enlightenment' beneath him...

No, he should be called Wugou. He's not a monster, just my own son.

Wuwei was not an ambitious person like Shennong or Biluhu. The reason he chose to stay with Akatsuki was very simple.

It's because the Box of Bliss is in the hands of 'Shadow,' and his son, Immaculate, is still inside the Box of Bliss. He just wants his son to be resurrected.

Later, 'Shadow' agreed, but her pure soul had become part of 'Enlightenment' and could not be separated. (Chapter 212)
'Shadow' made the immaculate soul the master of 'Enlightenment', therefore, this monster is his son.

As a condition for Wugou's resurrection, Wuwei, at the request of the 'Shadow', remained in the Akatsuki organization to continue serving.

Wuwei had no objection to this, because Wugou had become a monster and could no longer return to a normal life.

It wasn't until the 'Shadow' broke ties with Nagato and the others that Wuwei thought the 'Shadow' would make him leave the Akatsuki organization as well, but unexpectedly the 'Shadow' made him continue to obey Nagato's orders.

There's no need for him to be a double agent or pass on any intelligence; he simply needs to obey Nagato's orders, just like when the 'Kage' was still in the Akatsuki.

“Death is not terrible,” said Shadow. “Death is not the end of life; it is merely the eternal sleep of the soul.”

“After the Lord descends, whether it is you, Immaculate, or anyone else, you will be reborn after death.”

"You just need to remember this, and then accept death with equanimity."

Wuwei remembered clearly what 'Shadow' said, but he couldn't understand or believe it.

But at this moment, truly facing death, watching the dissipation of Wugou and himself, Wuwei was surprised by his own calmness, and his final thoughts surfaced in his mind.

"If God truly exists, if new life truly exists, it doesn't matter how I become."

"Please let Wugou be born into a happy family and spend her childhood like a normal child."

This was the last request of an incompetent father.

call……

The bodies of Wuwei and Wuwu vanished like sandcastles blown away by the wind.

—Wuwei and 'enlightenment', the Azure Dragon of the Akatsuki organization, died.

The wind-style clone that had just escaped some distance was also not completely spared.

Although it was fast, the light spread even faster and over a wider area, instantly catching up with its speeding figure and completely covering its lower body.

"Ah!!" The wind-style clone looked terrified and let out a shrill scream.

Its lower body, including its legs which had transformed into claws and part of its waist and abdomen, met the same fate as Wuwei and "Enlightenment" the moment it came into contact with the pale light.

Annihilation.

There was no explosion, no flying blood and flesh; it simply vanished into thin air, turned to dust, and dissipated with the wind, as if it had never existed.

The remaining upper body and wings, having lost their support, struggled to flap their wings frantically towards the distance, their broken surfaces as smooth as mirrors, while the black lines within its body continued to fall off.

The pale light lasted for about two seconds before slowly dissipating.

The sky above it passed through seemed to have been washed clean, with even raindrops and clouds disappearing briefly, leaving behind an eerie vacuum.

Only a few specks of dust remaining in the air testify that the attack had just occurred.

"I told you, that old geezer forced me to learn a lot of things I wasn't interested in before, but this is my true art... cough cough..."

Gazing at the blank sky, Deidara's voice was hoarse as he grinned with satisfaction. Suddenly, everything went black, he lost consciousness, and plummeted straight down.

In the original work, his "C4 Garuda" is a nanoscale clay spider that is scattered in the air. Any creature that inhales it will be completely destroyed from the inside out.

That was a ninjutsu that Deidara invented in order to kill Itachi Uchiha after he was defeated by Itachi.

However, the current Deidara has not joined the Akatsuki organization, nor has he encountered Itachi Uchiha, so naturally he would not create "C4 Garuda".

He was treated as one of Onoki's successors and received more systematic and comprehensive training.

Just as "C2 Dragonfly" is a technique developed by combining "Earth Release: Light and Heavy Rock Technique", "C4 Shiva Linga" is a technique developed by combining "Dust Release".

Given Deidara's age, it's impossible for him to master Onoki's Dust Release, which is a Kekkei Tota.

However, he was a genius, and he used a clever method to master the three nature transformations of wind, earth, and fire required for Dust Escape.

By infusing clay with three different chakra attributes through the three "mouths" in his chest and hands, he created "C4 Shiva Linga," a form with similar shape and power.

With a single blow, Wuwei and Wuwu were completely killed, and the Wind Release clone was severely injured.

call!
Sai and the others, who were standing on the black bird, appeared just in time below Deidara, Kurotsuchi, and Akatsuchi, and caught the three of them safely as they fell.

"..." Sai looked down at Deidara, who was still grinning even while unconscious, and whispered, "What a madman."

"But he's also a genius."

As soon as he finished speaking, he flew towards the medical platoon behind the position, and Chi Tu took over command of the Allied air force.

"Damn it." Kakuzu looked up at the scene and saw the air ninjas in chaos due to the loss of command. He knew that if he didn't leave now, he really wouldn't be able to escape.

boom! !

Without hesitation, he slammed his fists into the ground, causing a violent tremor and sending up a cloud of dust that instantly obscured everyone's vision.

"Kakuzu!" Huang Tu roared as he broke free of his restraints, and his giant axe slammed down, instantly cracking the ground. When the dust settled, only a bottomless pit remained.

Earth Release: Earth Dragon Concealment Technique?
"Damn it, he got away!" Huang Tu's face darkened, and he turned to look around.

The Akatsuki's air force, under the command of the Raiden clone, has begun a fighting retreat towards the fortress.

Only the Akatsuki's ground armored forces and puppet forces remained surrounded by the Allied Shinobi Forces. The former had completely disintegrated due to the loss of command.

"Gather the troops!" Huang Tu raised his giant axe and said in a deep voice, "Leave no one alive!"

The Rain Fortress has long since disappeared; it has probably already passed through the Land of Fire and is now flying towards the border of the Land of Hot Water.

We must quickly resolve the remaining troubles here and get the troops back together to rejoin the pursuing forces.

(There's a bonus video chapter later, showing Isshiki Otsutsuki using Jigen's body to unleash his Karma One and Two forms, fighting against Naruto and Sasuke. You can also see the effects of Daikokuten and Sukuna Bikona's abilities.)
(End of this chapter)