Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 243 Scorpion's Puppet Technique

"After the darkest hour comes the dawn; life is indeed full of surprises."

"Puppet Sign, how interesting!"

After viewing the memories of the Third Kazekage, Li Yao's Wind Release clone exclaimed with delight.

Li Yao's main body certainly wouldn't care about the Third Kazekage's puppet clone, but the puppet's core—the Puppet Seal—was able to decompose chakra into spiritual and physical energy, which surprised Li Yao's main body.

With the Puppet Seal, Li Yao's Perfect Transformation Technique could finally be perfected.

"With the Puppet Seal, Scorpion... hmm, I'll keep it."

After thinking it over, Li Yaofeng decided to use his clone to leave Scorpion behind.

There are already few research talents in the ninja world. If a puppeteer genius like Sasori stays behind to research more puppet ninjutsu, Li Yao can simply sit back and reap the benefits. Why not?

Next, he will become the Kazekage and take control of Sunagakure. Having a genius like Sasori will make things easier.

Subsequently, Li Yao's Wind Release clone absorbed the Third Kazekage's soul and then descended carrying the Third Kazekage's body.

Sasori remained standing there, wanting to know what Lee Yao's Wind Release clones did with the Third Kazekage's corpse, and if possible, whether he could have them.

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Li Yao threw the corpse of the Third Kazekage in front of Sasori and said, "Come on, let me see how you use your human puppets."

"You know about human puppets?" Scorpion's gaze sharpened, and he was startled.

He developed the art of puppetry in secret; no one knew about it, except for Feng Xing, who frequently went on missions.

"That's right, you must have been planning to kill the Third Generation for a long time."

Scorpion snapped out of his daze and thought for a moment before replying.

I can guess why Feng Xing knew that he could use puppetry.

Since the other party had long intended to kill the Third Kazekage, they must have thoroughly investigated the Third Kazekage's abilities and would naturally know that the Third Kazekage had developed the technique of creating human puppets.

It's not surprising that this genius puppeteer could use puppetry.

There was no point in thinking about it anymore; in any case, he finally got his first human puppet.

Sasori immediately took out a sealing scroll, broke the seal, and exploded on the spot into a large humanoid puppet in the shape of the Third Kazekage.

It's clear that Sasori had planned long ago to poison the Third Kazekage and then turn him into a human puppet.

Li Yaofeng used his clone to carefully sense the sealing technique array inscribed on the inner wall of Sasori's humanoid puppet, which resembled the Third Kazekage.

It bears some resemblance to the puppet hand seals of the Third Kazekage, but they are completely different.

Based on the research on human puppetry by predecessors such as the Third Kazekage, Sasori developed his own puppetry techniques and created his own puppet seals.

"I wonder how it differs from the Third Kazekage's?" Li Yao's Wind Release clone wondered to himself.

*Click click...* Sasori flicked his fingers, and two chakra threads connected to the humanoid puppet, causing it to sway and stand up. It walked to the corpse of the Third Kazekage, and its chest, head, and other parts of its body opened up from the middle, completely enveloping the corpse of the Third Kazekage.

Click, click, click... Long needles were inserted into the corpse of the Third Kazekage from the humanoid puppet that was wrapped around it, securing it in place.

Then the puppet stood up.

Sasori sat cross-legged, his hands outstretched and crossed in a strange hand seal. Ten chakra threads shot out from his fingertips, connecting to various parts of the puppet.

Sasori's chakra flowed continuously into the human puppet through chakra threads, and entered the Third Kazekage's corpse through the puppet seals engraved on it, following the long needles.

"It might take a long time. Do you want to continue watching, or should I just give you the puppet technique I developed?"

Scorpion turned to look at Li Yaofeng's clone beside him and asked.

Heh... Li Yaofeng, using his clone, laughed and said, "You don't seem afraid of me killing you."

Scorpion said calmly, "If you want to kill me, I can't resist, can I?"

Hehe... Li Yaofeng's clone chuckled, said nothing, and continued to sense the strange reactions occurring inside the puppet.

Seeing this, Scorpion immediately understood that Li Yaofeng's clone was not very interested in the puppet technique, so he didn't say anything more and focused on making the puppet.

In the blink of an eye.

An hour passed.

Li Yaofeng, using his clone to stare at the puppet, suddenly felt a slight stirring in his heart.

"Disappeared... no, it was absorbed."

In his perception, the corpse of the Third Kazekage inside the human puppet was being decomposed and absorbed by Sasori through the human puppet's chakra flowing via the puppet's magic seal.

Not only did the chakra remaining on the corpse decompose into spiritual and physical energy and be absorbed into the puppet seal, but the cells inside the corpse were also slowly decomposed into pure physical energy and absorbed.

As the absorption period lengthened, the Third Kazekage's corpse, like a weathered rock in the desert, gradually turned into a handful of black dust.

"It seems that the core of the Puppet Seal is the key ability to break down chakra into spiritual energy and physical energy."

Having seen this, Li Yao understood the core essence of the Third Kazekage's Puppet Seal and Sasori's Puppet Seal.

Despite using the same core abilities, the two took opposite paths.

The Third Kazekage used the Puppet Seal to transform living puppets into living dead puppets.

Then, through the Puppet Seal, he decomposed his own chakra into spiritual and physical energy to continuously nurture and transform the living dead puppet.

Ultimately, it gives birth to a soul, which becomes a puppet clone with the same strength and abilities as itself.

Sasori used the Puppet Seal to break down the chakra in the recently deceased corpse into spiritual and physical energy.

Then, along with the remaining physical and spiritual energy on the corpse, it was injected into the puppet's puppet seal.

The final result should be that the puppet possesses the chakra of the Third Kazekage, or that the chakra of the Third Kazekage is converted through the puppet seals inscribed within the puppet.

As for the related escape techniques, the spiritual energy from the decomposition of chakra is a kind of memory information, containing relevant escape technique information.

In this way, the puppet can use the escaping techniques previously used by the Third Kazekage.

Overall, each of the two puppet hand seals has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The puppet clone created by the Third Kazekage's Puppet Seal possesses the same strength and memories as him. In fact, it can be said that the puppet clone, having been given a soul, is an existence with an extra life, and is no different from the Third Kazekage's original body. If the original body dies, the puppet clone can continue to live.

This is the advantage of the third generation Kazekage's puppet clones.

It has advantages and disadvantages.

The downside is that it takes too long to create a human puppet clone. The human puppet clone of the Third Kazekage, who died while besieging Li Yao, took ten years to develop a soul.

With such a long time, the chances of something going wrong are too high.

Just like now, the puppet clone left by the Third Kazekage in the secret chamber of Sunagakure has not yet been born with a soul.

With his death, he was truly dead.

This time, there won't be a resurrection like last time.

The Scorpion puppet cannot be considered a clone with one life, but its production time is short, and multiple puppets can be created.

This is an advantage.

The downside is that when the puppet uses the ninjutsu in front of it, it actually consumes its own chakra.

As a result, even with the Third Kazekage as a puppet, Sasori, whose chakra reserves are not large, cannot use the massive Magnet Release ninjutsu like Sea of ​​Iron Sand as the Third Kazekage did.

Three hours later.

"It's done."

Scorpion stood up with a delighted expression, flicking his fingers lightly.

Click... The puppet opened, and the corpse of the Third Kazekage was gone, leaving only his clothes and a pile of black ash.

"Let's give it a try," Li Yaofeng said with a smile, using his clone as a cover.

Sasori nodded, then crossed his hands and whispered, "Magnetic Release - Iron Sand Manipulation."

Inside the Third Kazekage puppet, the puppet's hand seals activated, and a burst of Magnet Release chakra erupted. Under Sasori's control, the surrounding black sand and iron were drawn towards it.

"Suna Shigure!"

"Iron sand attacks the border!"

Sasori experimented with various Magnet Release techniques that manipulated iron sand, and he could do so with ease without any lag. However, due to the limited amount of chakra he had, his control over the iron sand was far inferior to that of the Third Kazekage.

But this is just a human puppet after all, and it's already quite impressive that it can control the sand and iron of the Third Kazekage.

"Don't rush to leave the Land of Wind. I will soon take the position of Wind Shadow. When you return to the village, I will fully support you in developing various puppet techniques."

After Sasori finished experimenting with the puppet's abilities, Li Yaofeng immediately sent an invitation to Sasori using his clone.

(End of this chapter)