Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 274 Puppet Research Institute

"So it was you who did this!"

When Sunagakure received news that Kumogakure and Kirigakure were also attacking the Land of Fire at almost the same time, Li Yao's Wind Release clone began to react.

He knew that White Zetsu's transformation technique could fool the Byakugan, and even his chakra perception ability.

The opponent's transformation technique is no different from the Perfect Transformation Technique, except that it cannot conceal chakra; both can simulate the nature of another person's chakra.

In the original work, only Naruto's sense of malice could distinguish which of his own ninjas was a White Zetsu in disguise.

"It seems Madara can't wait any longer!"

Li Yaofeng used his Wind Release clone to laugh. Madara was eager to increase the pressure on Konoha, obviously wanting to force Obito and other genin who had just graduated from the Ninja Academy to the battlefield.

Only in this way can his plan proceed.

In that case, Li Yaofeng doesn't need to worry about using his clones; he can just continue as things are.

"Sir, is Ogura with you?"

Ye Yi stood behind Li Yaofeng's clone, gently massaging the clone's shoulders with both hands as he spoke.

"Hmm." Li Yaofeng's clone nodded, not denying it.

"That's wonderful." Ye Yi immediately bent down, enveloping Li Yaofeng's clone with his great embrace, and said, "This will further solidify your position, sir."

This woman is truly devoted to the original owner of this body.

But these are all mine now.

Li Yaofeng escaped into the body and mind path.

"Have you received any news from Scorpion?" Li Yaofeng asked, using his clone.

Before he left, Sasori said that his tailed beast puppet was almost complete, and he wondered how it was doing now.

When the matter was brought up, Ye Yi straightened up. Even so, Li Yaofeng's clone could still feel two soft breasts lingering behind his head, which showed how amazing the woman's breast size was.

"No," Ye Yi replied after thinking carefully.

Upon hearing this, Li Yaofeng used his clone to smile but said nothing, preparing to go directly to Scorpion's location later.

Just then, a small bird flew over from a distance.

Li Yao's Wind Release clone instantly sensed the anomaly and immediately turned to look. He didn't see anything; yellow sand filled the sky outside the window, and the bird was still quite far away. However, his chakra perception was accurate.

A small bird with chakra is flying towards us.

Could it be a transformation technique from some Sand Ninja?

Before Li Yaofeng could think any further, the little bird with chakra inside its body had already entered his field of vision.

It is the size of a pigeon and its shape is very similar to that of a pigeon.

It's made entirely of metal and wood, not a real pigeon.

"It's a puppet bird!!"

Li Yaofeng's clone was surprised.

It wasn't that I was surprised that someone could make a flying puppet pigeon, but rather that this puppet pigeon didn't have any chakra threads connected to it by a puppeteer.

"Hahaha!"

Li Yaofeng, using his clone, suddenly burst into laughter. Looking out the window at the human-like puppet pigeon watching him, he guessed that Scorpion's new puppet research had succeeded.

"My lord, that is..." Ye Yi noticed the puppet pigeon by the window and instinctively stood in front of Li Yaofeng's clone.

"Don't worry, it's Scorpion's puppet."

Li Yaofeng used his clone to pat his married secretary's plump, round buttocks and laughed, "Go open the window and let the little guy in."

"Scorpion..." Ye Yi frowned, walking towards the window while saying unhappily, "Since you're here, why don't you come and see Lord Fengying yourself?"

In Ye Yi's view, using a puppet to meet Li Yaofeng's clone was disrespectful, and for Ye Yi, who regarded Li Yaofeng's clone as her own life, this made her very unhappy.

But Li Yaofeng didn't say anything when he created a clone, so she couldn't retaliate.

Open the window, and the puppet pigeons flew in.

"I'm sorry, Lord Ye Yi, I'm still at the research institute."

The puppet pigeon spoke, its voice belonging to Scorpion. It seemed to know Ye Yi's character and immediately apologized to her. After all, Ye Yi was Feng Ying's secretary and wife, and Scorpion had to show her the respect she deserved.

"What?"

"You didn't come?"

Ye Yi was a little shocked and quickly stuck her head out to look outside. She did not see the scorpion. She turned around and stared at the puppet pigeon flying in the air.

"How did you do that?" Ye Yi asked, her face full of curiosity.

The institute's full name is the Puppet Research Institute, located in the northern corner of the village, at least four kilometers away from the Wind Shadow Building.

Such a long distance!

How did Scorpion manage to control the puppet pigeons with such precision?

"Tell me about it, I'm curious too," Li Yaofeng said with a smile, using his clone as a wind-based technique.

"Lord Kazekage." The puppet pigeon flew to Li Yao's Wind Release clone and said respectfully, "It's hard to explain in a short time. You can come to the research institute and see for yourself to better understand the operating principle of the new type of puppet."

"Let's go then."

Li Yaofeng used his clone to leave the Fengying Building with his wife and secretary, and followed the puppet pigeon towards the research institute.

"Kazekage-sama."

"Kazekage-sama."

Upon entering the research institute, people stopped to respectfully greet Li Yaofeng's clone.

In the battle back then, the ten major families suffered heavy losses, and now most of the villagers are supporters of Li Yaofeng's clone technique.

Of course, Li Yaofeng's ability to create clones also deserves their support.

Ye Yi doesn't actually need to worry about Li Yao's Wind Shadow clone's position being unstable.

His position is secure; no one can challenge him.

The entire village was under the control of Li Yaofeng's clone.

The reason why the people in the research institute respected Li Yaofeng's clone was not only because of his strength and status, but also because he broke the knowledge blockade on puppetry.

Previously, advanced puppet-making techniques were controlled by the ten major clans, and ordinary ninjas had no chance of obtaining these techniques.

This is also why Kankuro inherited Sasori's puppets in the original work, while other Sand Ninja did not.

Sectarianism is very serious in this world.

Because Sasori and Kankuro are from three of the ten great families, while the others are not, they cannot obtain advanced puppet-making technology.

Now, Li Yaofeng has made his puppetry technique public. Anyone with the ability can learn it by paying a certain amount of money.

After all, researching puppets is very expensive.

Things given away for free are not valued.

Money is needed to further promote the research and development of puppet technology.

After Li Yao's Wind Release clone became the Wind Shadow, he immediately established a Puppet Research Institute, where everyone could join in and conduct research together.

The goal was to develop more powerful puppets and the puppetry techniques he needed.

It seems the results are quite good.

The puppeteers in the Sand Village have improved significantly in the past year.

As the director of the Puppet Research Institute, Scorpion had the support of the entire village and did not disappoint Li Yao's Wind Release clone's expectations, developing a new type of puppet that Li Yao was most interested in.

Bang! The doors swung open to reveal a spacious hall inside.

This is Scorpion's own research hall.

Inside, the long tables were filled with various puppet parts, and mechanical arms-like structures hung from the ceiling.

If it weren't for the wooden structures on the robotic arm, Li Yaofeng's clone would have thought he had entered a top-of-the-line car manufacturing workshop.

Strands of chakra were attached to the robotic arm, their ends connected to Scorpion's back, and all were under Scorpion's control.

"Kazekage-sama!"

Scorpion bowed slightly, his face somewhat stiff. He had already completed the puppet transformation from the original work, with only his heart remaining as flesh and blood.

"Hmm." Li Yaofeng's clone simply nodded casually, then quickly walked to Scorpion's side and looked up at the huge sphere floating in mid-air.

"What is this?"

Ye Yi followed Li Yaofeng's clone to his side, staring at the large sphere with fear in his eyes, his whole body tensing up instinctively.

Boom!

Boom!

The sound, like a heartbeat, emanated from the sphere, which resembled a grid of small squares.

The surface of the sphere has different heights between each grid, resulting in an uneven grid pattern on the entire surface.

These grids contract and expand to varying degrees in response to the thumping sound inside the sphere, much like the movement of pistons in an engine.

A dazzling pale blue light emanated from the gaps in the contracting movement of the grid.

Even Ye Yi, whose perception was very weak, could feel the powerful chakra fluctuations emanating from the sphere as the pale blue light emanated from within.

"If this thing explodes, it could blow up half the village."

The thought flashed through Ye Yi's mind, and then he looked at Scorpion. This guy actually put such a dangerous thing in the village.

If Li Yaofeng's clone hadn't also been there, she would have directly questioned Scorpion.

(End of this chapter)