Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 277 The Terrifying Puppet Array

The Third Kazekage created clone spirits by continuously inputting chakra into the bodies of living people who were inscribed with the Puppet Seal.

Thus, one obtains a perfect clone with complete memories of the original body and the same origin of the soul.

In a sense, it is achieved by constantly creating new clones.

The Third Kazekage could live indefinitely because his puppet clone technique was a secret art that could grant immortality.

However, it still cannot escape the limitations of flesh and blood.

Sasori combined his own human puppetization technique with the puppet clone of the Third Kazekage to create an even more powerful and perfect soul replication technique.

At that moment, a mechanical arm extended from the ceiling, opened the scorpion's puppet body, and removed a cylinder from the location of his heart.

On the white, enclosed cylinder, seven or eight buds pulsated in sync with the heartbeat inside.

This scene gave Ye Yi goosebumps all over.

"This guy is terrifying!"

A deep fear flickered in Ye Yi's eyes, the kind of fear an ordinary person would feel when seeing a freakish scientist.

Li Yaofeng's clone was watching Scorpion's actions with great interest, which made Ye Yi, who was watching from the side, tremble with fear. She wanted to remind him of something but dared not disturb Li Yaofeng's clone, who was already engrossed in the moment.

Scorpion manipulated the mechanical arm to remove his own heart, then inserted it into the hole in the middle of the humanoid puppet's chest, fitting it in perfectly and seamlessly.

Soon, the puppet hand seals engraved on the inner wall of the cave began to absorb the chakra from Sasori's heart, including the physical energy in the heart and the spiritual energy in the soul.

In Li Yaofeng's perception of his clone's soul, the soul stored in Scorpion's heart was being broken down into massive amounts of spiritual energy, which was being continuously absorbed by the puppet seal on the hole in the humanoid puppet's chest.

Then, streams of extremely condensed spiritual energy emanated from the puppet's seal and flowed through the internal meridian channels in the humanoid puppet's body, just like blood flowing through the blood vessels of the whole body.

Physical energy and mental energy flow in the puppet's meridians in the same way.

The absorbed chakra is then transformed by the Puppet Seal and reassembled in the heart.

For a time, the heart was both draining the body's energy and nourishing itself with chakra, caught in a cycle of destruction and repair.

dong dong!

Thump...thump...!

Thump...thump...!

Ten minutes later, the heartbeat of the scorpion in the center of the humanoid puppet's chest began to slow down, from once per second to every two or three seconds, with the intervals gradually increasing.

Li Yaofeng's clone could sense that Sasori's heart was gradually losing its vitality, while the spiritual energy on the humanoid puppet seemed to have been purified countless times and had begun to possess a trace of soul.

As long as this wisp of soul energy degenerates into a true soul.

The technique of replicating Scorpion's soul was thus successful.

"One, two, three, a puppet array formed by the combination of three puppet seals."

"Scorpion is a genius!"

Li Yaofeng's expression changed slightly as he activated his clone. He sensed that there were actually three puppet seals on the humanoid puppet, whereas at first he thought there was only one.

He now discovered there were three. These three puppet seals appeared to be one, but in reality they were independent of each other, and their transformation functions were also different.

Spirit, body, soul!

The three puppet seals can transform these three types of material energy respectively. When they form a magic array, they can recombine and fuse these three types of material energy.

Spirit, body, soul.

These three substances and energies represent everything about a person.

Scorpion used the puppet array to reorganize and merge his spirit, body, and soul, replicating everything about himself onto the humanoid puppet.

In a sense, this is even more terrifying than soul possession. It's somewhat similar to parasitic consumption, like the alien in the movie, first parasitizing a humanoid puppet, and then gestating a complete life form from the humanoid puppet.

This is roughly the meaning of Scorpion's puppet array; it's much more powerful and complex than the soul transmission that Li Yaofeng initially guessed when he used his clone.

If successful, it would be as if an alien was born from a humanoid puppet, becoming a true puppet life form, like a machine coming to life, possessing all sorts of incredible abilities.

To be honest, after seeing this, I understood the terror of the Scorpion Puppet Array. For the first time, Li Yao's Wind-Escape clone lost control of Scorpion's future.

Compared to this puppet array, the Puppet Heart is child's play; it's at most just a tailed beast.

The puppet array can transform, reorganize, and fuse the spirit, body, and soul. Once bound by such an array, then... Li Yaofeng's clone thought carefully. If he were to be hit by this puppet array, once the array was activated, he would most likely not be able to withstand the fate of being transformed, reorganized, and fused.

Just like Scorpion now, once the puppet array is activated, he loses all power to resist; he either succeeds or dies.

"no."

"Scorpions are too dangerous!"

Li Yaofeng's clone's eyes flickered slightly. The appearance of the puppet array made him feel the threat from Scorpion.

This threat is not present, but future.

The scorpion's mind is too dangerous.

No one knows what terrifying puppet array he will develop in the future.

The current puppet array can already manipulate spirit, flesh, and soul at will; what about in the future?

If Scorpion continues to grow stronger in the future, what if one day he discovers the truth about his clone identity?

What if the two of them become enemies one day?

What if that old man, the Sage of Six Paths, comes out to lure Sasori into becoming his enemy?

He didn't want to think about it or worry about it, but the thought of Li Yaofeng's clone made him restless, and he unknowingly fell into a state of paranoia.

"Don't worry, Scorpion will be fine."

At this moment, Ye Yi noticed the restlessness in Li Yaofeng's clone's heart and thought it was because he was worried about Scorpion, so he spoke up to comfort him.

Little did they know that Li Yaofeng had almost decided to kill Scorpion immediately just now by using his clone.

However, after hearing Ye Yi's words of comfort, Li Yaofeng, having regained his senses through his clone, suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly.

Ye Yi is right.

What is he worried about?

The fact that Scorpion could perform the final puppet transformation in front of him shows that he has absolute trust in him.

Because at this moment, Sasori was like the puppet clone of the Third Kazekage he poisoned; before a soul was born, it had no power to resist.

If Li Yaofeng's clone were willing, a casual slash would destroy the magic array transformation within the humanoid puppet, and Scorpion would die instantly.

Scorpion placed his life and death before Li Yaofeng's clone, which shows how much he trusted Li Yaofeng's clone.

Sasori possesses a rare research-oriented personality in the ninja world. He researches puppets not to defeat anyone, but purely to study the puppets he envisions.

His artistic heart is very pure, much purer than Deidara's, who constantly talks about art as an explosion.

Li Yaofeng's clone technique meant he didn't need to worry about Scorpion's growth threatening him.

Even if Scorpio really does run into him someday.

He has nothing to be afraid of.

He may not have Scorpion's scientific mind, but he's no slouch when it comes to improving his strength.

Flying Thunder God Technique, Black Hole Space, Dust Release, High Temperature Scorching Release, Steel Release, Wind Release Slash, Wood Release, and in the future, Dragon Vein Chakra that can manipulate space and time, and the Uchiha clan's genjutsu Izanagi that can rewrite reality, etc.

Li Yaohui has too many tricks up his sleeve. Whether it's saving his life or escaping, he has no shortage of methods. He has nothing to fear about facing Scorpion one day.

Even if they were to clash, the one who should be afraid would be the Scorpion.

Besides, he didn't necessarily want to have a life-or-death battle with Scorpion.

After taking his revenge on that monkey, Hiruzen Sarutobi, he had no attachment to this world.

If all else fails, just use the Flying Thunder God Technique to go to the Naruto world of Loulan in the Dragon Vein.

As long as he condenses the Dragon Vein Chakra, Li Yao will not be rejected by the world because the Dragon Vein power is sealed, and he can live in that Naruto world forever.

Could it be that the future Scorpion could travel through time and space to hunt him down?

If Sasori can really grow to that level, then... the Otsutsuki clan is still around. It wouldn't be bad to let Sasori test the Otsutsuki clan's strength then.

In short, Li Yaofeng's clones don't need to be too worried about Scorpion's future development.

Of course, from now on, Li Yaofeng's clones will place an even higher level of importance on Scorpion.

Once the Water Release clone succeeds, he will have it secretly possess a puppeteer from Sunagakure, learn puppetry from Sasori, and then join Sasori on the glorious path of mechanical ascension, secretly controlling all the puppetry techniques Sasori develops.

In this way, even if the two become enemies in the future, Li Yaofeng's clone will not be completely unaware of Sasori's abilities.

(End of this chapter)