Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 133 Clay Explosion

Thinking of the terrifying power of Dust Escape, Li Yao's confident mood subsided slightly.

Dust Release is a terrifying bloodline limit that can even turn Madara Uchiha's Susanoo to ashes.

Will the new black iron chains be able to stop them?

Li Yao shook his head, feeling that it was unlikely to be able to stop it.

But it doesn't matter, he's fast enough now. If he can't outrun me, he can at least escape.

Moreover, with his chakra sensing ability, he only needs to avoid Onoki.

"Hmm... someone's coming!"

Li Yao suddenly frowned as a man standing on a large bird suddenly appeared within his five-kilometer chakra perception range.

That big bird... it's neither a giant bird from a traditional Chinese ink painting nor a giant eagle from a spirit beast; it must have been formed by a new secret technique.

Judging from the amount of chakra in the man, he should be one of the stronger Jonin, with about three katakana of chakra. Combined with special secret techniques, his strength is around that of an elite Jonin.

Of course, this is only from the perspective of chakra quantity.

We'll only know their true strength after we fight them.

Li Yao stood up, withdrew all his shadow clones, went outside the wooden house, and took out a huge scroll from the Black Water Space and opened it.

Li Yao reached out and placed his hand on the scroll, drawing chakra from it.

The enormous sealing scroll is the same one used by Sarutobi Tensuke to seal the Adamantine Sealing Chakra. Li Yao, who cannot currently inscribe the Devouring Sealing Array, uses it to store the Adamantine Sealing Chakra he usually accumulates, so that he can replenish his chakra in critical moments.

Just like now, Li Yao's dantian chakra was quickly filled.

"I'm actually a little reluctant to part with it!"

After carefully storing the massive sealing scroll, Li Yao glanced back at the wooden house, smiled, and then leaped into the sky, conjuring an ink-wash eagle that flew towards the approaching person.

He no longer needs to run away at the sight of someone approaching.

However, I definitely can't stay here any longer.

"How did they discover this place?"

Along the way, Li Yao had a vague feeling of unease, as if his whereabouts would always be found, which was not a good thing.

"Is that the island?"

A thousand meters in the air, Tutai Dalaran, wearing a thick woolen coat, stood on a clay bird, holding a long telescope, looking at the suddenly protruding mountain range in front of him, searching for Li Yao's whereabouts.

"That's... Li Yao!"

Suddenly, a jet-black eagle came into Dalaran's view through the binoculars. He quickly spotted Li Yao standing on the eagle's back, and the other party seemed... seemed to be waving at him.

"We've been discovered!"

Dalaran smiled slightly, reached into his waist pouch with his right hand and pulled out a lump of white clay. After injecting chakra, it condensed into three streamlined white clay birds with three pairs of small wings.

"go."

Dalaran threw out three small birds, then formed a hand seal with one hand.

Bang bang bang!

In the air, the three small birds instantly transformed into three one-meter-long birds. Two of them flew towards Li Yao like sharp arrows, while the other turned and flew away to report back to the Third Tsuchikage that it had found Li Yao.

"I heard this guy can also use the Third Raikage's Black Lightning!"

"No, we need to keep our distance."

Dalaran controlled the clay bird to turn and fly away, creating distance between himself and Li Yao, while simultaneously turning to face Li Yao.

The powerful Lightning Release technique somewhat countered his Clay Explosion Release.

His Explosion Release requires the use of white clay made from Earth Release chakra; once the clay is hit by Lightning Release, it becomes a dud.

"I wonder if Li Yao is aware of this restraint."

Dalaran glanced at Li Yao chasing after him and thought to himself.

Not many people know how to use Clay Explosion Release, and even fewer know that Lightning Release counters Clay Explosion Release.

Information in the ninja world is actually very closed off, especially regarding ninjutsu techniques that have a counter-relationship; those who know about them rarely share them with outsiders.

Everyone wants to sabotage someone at a crucial moment.

shhhhh!

The white clay bird with its three pairs of flapping wings moves very fast, and its flight path is irregular, sometimes left, sometimes right, sometimes up, sometimes down, making it more difficult to lock on.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

Dalaran silently calculated the distance between the clay bird and Li Yao. He didn't need to attack Li Yao at close range; he only needed to get within twenty meters of Li Yao and detonate it.

At that time, the rapidly spreading C4 nanoscale micro-insects will instantly envelop Li Yao and merge into his body.

Facing Li Yao, who was capable of using the Wood Release ninjutsu, the god of ninjas, Dalaran attacked with a swift and decisive blow, without any intention of testing him.

"Hmm?" At this moment, Dalaran suddenly frowned and exhaled softly, "This is troublesome."

Sizzle... hiss... Before Dalaran could count to one, the clay bird entered within a hundred meters of Li Yao.

Li Yao used his Lightning Release chakra to condense countless tiny lightning needles and shot them forward.

Faced with the dense, overwhelming lightning bolts that seemed to come like a rain curtain, the clay bird with its three pairs of wings, no matter how fast it was or how difficult it was to lock onto its flight path, was useless. It was instantly impaled like a hedgehog and fell to the ground.

"As expected, it's Deidara's clay bomb-like ninjutsu."

Seeing the white bird, struck by a bolt of lightning, immediately plummet like a toy airplane that had lost power, Li Yao's eyes lit up slightly.

He was very interested in the clay bomb ninjutsu and wondered if it could be combined with the jutsu patterns on the explosive tags.

After Li Yao copied the ninjutsu chakra from the explosive tag, he couldn't find a stable carrier. He originally planned to wait until later to find Konan to copy the paper jutsu chakra and condense it into paper to make explosive tags.

Now it seems that clay is also a good carrier for the chakra of explosive tag ninjutsu.

If it works, the combination of the detonating tag and the clay bomb, when stacked together, will surely create an even more powerful explosion.

"Hmm...that's right!"

Li Yao suddenly frowned slightly.

About 1.5 kilometers ahead in the air, the enemy abandoned the clay bird beneath their feet, reassembled it into a large bird, and flew away. As the abandoned clay bird flew towards Li Yao, its body gradually swelled up.

Li Yao quickly adjusted the ink-wash eagle to fly upwards, preparing to fly around it from above.

That huge clay bird must have had a tremendous explosive force.

It certainly wouldn't hurt Li Yao, but if it were detonated prematurely, the resulting shockwave would slow him down.

The clay bird that the opponent later conjured also had three pairs of wings and flew very fast.

"drink!"

Before Li Yao could even take off, the clay bird exploded at its maximum expansion, a kilometer away.

The expected massive shockwave did not materialize; instead, a huge cloud of white smoke exploded and quickly dissipated into the air.

"Damn... it's a C4 nanobomb."

In his chakra perception, a large cluster of densely packed chakra dots surged toward him. Although Li Yao did not have Sasuke's Sharingan that could see chakra, his chakra perception was much clearer, and he could sense that each dot was like a nano-sized clay worm.

Li Yao instantly realized that this was a nano-bomb developed by Deidara during his battle with Sasuke, which almost killed Sasuke.

(End of this chapter)