Naruto: Help Madara rejuvenate and launch a counterattack on Konoha

Liao Wu's immense chakra poured into the earth, and tree roots burst forth, quickly intertwining and coalescing into a giant wooden dragon with a long hooked nose, thorns all over its body, and a size far exceeding that of a tailed beast.

Sasori's eyes widened: "Wood Release? How is that possible? How do you know the First Hokage's Wood Release?"

The Uchiha and Senju clans have a blood feud spanning generations. How could the power of the First Hokage of the Senju clan be taken by the Uchiha clan?

Sharingan and Wood Release! Is this even human?

Liao Wu stood atop the wooden dragon, and the sand iron spikes released by the Third Kazekage couldn't break through the wooden dragon's defenses at all.

The wooden dragon's defense is not very strong; even a tiny iron needle with a very small diameter can penetrate it.

But the advantage of the wooden dragon lies in its endless vitality; the moment you damage its body, it will instantly replenish itself.

The wooden dragon soared into the sky, and with a few flicks of its tail, it destroyed the Third Kazekage's iron sand barrier.

The Wood Dragon is comparable to Susanoo, and the easiest thing for it to deal with is a tailed beast with a large amount of chakra.

"Wood Release!!"

The cat's eyes widened again, then it was overjoyed: "I'm rich! I'm rich now!"

With the Sharingan combined with Wood Release, is there anyone who can be a match for Liao Wu?

Cat thought that Liao Wu's solo trip to Sunagakure was a near-certain death, since Sunagakure, no matter how weak, was still one of the five great ninja villages.

However, if one possesses Wood Release, that's a different story.

Furthermore, judging from Liao Wu's Wood Release technique, it seems to be very similar to that of the First Hokage.

Hmph! Uchiha clan of Konoha, you're doomed to lose!

The wooden dragon lashed out with its tail at the Third Kazekage, sending him flying far away.

Because the distance was too great, Sasori's chakra threads couldn't be controlled that far, and Sasori directly lost the Third Kazekage's control.

The scorpion plummeted from the sky, its eyes blazing with fury: "Damn it!"

Wood Release is a completely unreasonable technique. Sasori doesn't know what technique he can use to defeat it.

Unless his puppet is a Gundam!

Sasori's situation is dire; without the Third Kazekage, he's basically half-crippled.

He himself was a puppet, and his body had undergone many modifications, but no matter how he was modified, he could never surpass the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release.

Even so, Scorpion did not beg for mercy from Liao Wu. He was an extremely proud man and had never begged for mercy from anyone.

If this is his destiny, then Scorpion accepts it.

Although Sasori was defeated by Wood Release and Sharingan, he felt that he was not neglected.

Scorpion took out a scroll he named "Hundred".

He shouted, "Uchiha Ryogoku, I admit you are strong, but I—absolutely do not approve of your art."

"I will defend the honor of a puppeteer!"

"Red Secret Technique: Manipulation of One Hundred Machines!"

Scorpion unrolled the scroll, and hundreds of puppets dressed in red robes appeared out of thin air. Instantly, the entire sky was filled with Scorpion's troops.

Sasori's regeneration core releases chakra threads that connect to these red-robed puppets. Each puppet uses a different weapon, and their actions are controlled by the chakra threads emitted by the regeneration core.

In the original story, Scorpion easily destroyed a small country using this technique.

The puppet's will is dominated by the "regeneration core," so Scorpion doesn't need to use his hands to control the puppets. He can control hundreds of puppets as freely as he would his own hands and feet.

This is something the human body cannot do.

Sasori's Hundred Puppet Techniques have overturned the limitations of traditional puppeteers, making him arguably the strongest puppeteer in the history of the ninja world.

Liao Wu stood atop the wooden dragon, mimicking Ban's gesture of giving Scorpion a thumbs-up: "Scorpion, among all the people I've fought with in terms of puppetry, no one is better than you."

"I, Uchiha Ryou, acknowledge you as the strongest!"

Liao Wu had never fought against a puppeteer. When the war broke out between Konoha and Sunagakure, he hid in the medical ward in the logistics department watching ultrasounds.

He would feign death as soon as the war reached the logistics sector.

Scorpion can be said to be the first puppeteer that Liao Wu encountered!

But is there any puppeteer in the ninja world stronger than Sasori?

Nagato's Six Paths of Pain—sorry, that's a Rinnegan eye technique, not a puppet technique.

Nagato is a puppeteer, not a traditional puppeteer.

The automated puppets of the Otsutsuki clan on the moon are AI, or automated robots.

In the puppetry school, Scorpion is the modern-day Double Flower Red Stick!

Kankuro, the ninja who represents the puppetry school in the original work, has crows and black ants that are all puppet toys that Sasori made when he was a child.

Later, Kankuro also took Sasori's original puppet body, as well as his "father" and "mother," as trump cards.

It's true what they say: Sasori of the Red Sand has fallen, and Kankuro has had his fill!

"Thanks!"

Scorpion sincerely thanked Liao Wu, for nothing is more worthy of pride than the recognition of one's opponent.

But we still have to fight.

Scorpion manipulated hundreds of red-robed puppets to attack Liao Wu.

Liao Wu controlled the wooden dragon to swing its tail and attack.

But Scorpion also employed tactics to keep the puppets from gathering together, causing them to fly around in different places.

The puppets with ranged attacks unleashed flying arrows, poison needles, and kunai at Liao Wu.

These attacks were ineffective against the wooden dragon.

But they all beckoned to Liao Wu, and even with his Asura Immortal Body, Liao Wu was not in good shape.

He conjured a wooden ingot wall on top of the wooden dragon to block the scorpion puppet's ranged attacks.

There were too many puppets, and they were very fast. Moreover, because they were puppets, the wooden dragon could not absorb their chakra.

For the time being, Liao Wu really couldn't do anything to Xie.

He got angry!

"Sasori, since you've greeted me with your strongest technique, then I'll respond with mine!"

"Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"

Liao Wu transferred his chakra to the wooden dragon, and instantly a giant wooden figure rose from the earth, its entire body made of dark green, coarse-grained, hard wood.

It has a heavy texture and is covered with knots and cracks.

Its face is shaped like a majestic demon mask, with deep-set eyes that glow green.

The wooden dragon, which the scorpion could not defeat, suddenly became a pet on the arm of the wooden Arhat.

The wooden Arhat figure is 100 meters tall and looks like the Buddha who stepped out of Buddhist mythology.

"..."

At that moment, the whole world fell silent.

Scorpion, along with his red-robed puppets, froze.

Scorpion really wants to say, do you have any manners?

Is it really necessary to use such a technique to deal with him?

"What, what is that?"

In the distance, the town that had been attacked by scorpions saw a tall, god-like wooden figure. The town, which had just emerged from the threat of death, seemed to have seen a deity.

"It's God! God has come to us!"

"Kneel down quickly, do not be disrespectful to God."

"Yes, yes, we must not be disrespectful to the gods."

Even with such a huge disparity, Scorpion was like a moth drawn to a flame, and all the red-robed puppets attacked the wooden figure together.

The wooden figure slammed down with its fist, instantly smashing all of Scorpion's puppets to pieces.

Scorpion is back to square one!

Even his own body was smashed, leaving only a regeneration core that symbolized the core.

Liao Wu sank the wooden figure into the earth, then picked up the scorpion's regeneration core and sealed it with Wood Release.

The snow leopard and the cat joined in.

The candy activated its auto-pickup feature and retrieved the Third Kazekage puppet that had been knocked away by Liao Wu.

As it picked up the item, it scouted the surroundings and sensed the chakra of some ninjas who had come to this place.

Candy alerted Liao Wu: "Liao Wu, ninjas are coming this way!"

Liao Wu nodded and jumped onto the cat's back: "Let's leave this place!"

Liao Wu was in the territory of a noble lord, and the battle taking place there had already attracted the attention of the ninjas in the area.

Liao Wu's trip was a secret operation to capture Shukaku, and he didn't want it to become public knowledge.