Uchiha's personal opinion

The kusarigama in his right hand flew off his hand toward Elder Chiyo, slashing upwards under the control of the chains, while the katana in his left hand, held in reverse, also slashed downwards as he charged closer.

"Puppet Secret Technique: Mechanical Shield!"

Elder Chiyo remained calm, quickly gathering the Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters and simultaneously releasing her chakra to form a shield together with the puppets, blocking Hanzo of the Salamander's attack.

"Chikamatsu Haku's Secret Technique: Puppetry - Binding!"

A blue-faced puppet extended two iron whips from its head and lashed out at Hanzo the Salamander. Hanzo parried with his left-hand katana while retreating.

"Chikamatsu White's Secret Technique·Three Treasures Absorbing Collapse!"

The three puppets opened the mechanisms in their abdomens again, emitting a huge suction force. Hanzo the Salamander was caught off guard as he retreated, and his body swayed and he stumbled.

"Puppet Technique - Assault!"

Another puppet wielding a huge blade slashed at Hanzo the Salamander, whose steps were unsteady.

"Water Instantaneous Movement Technique!"

"Ninja Law·Sand Law Realm!"

Just as Hanzo the Salamander was about to use his Body Flicker Technique to escape, Elder Chiyo simultaneously used a technique to create a sandstorm barrier to block him.

Hanzo the Salamander had no choice but to forcibly stop his Body Flicker Technique, kneeling on one knee and raising his blade to parry the puppet's large sword slash.

"Clang!"

"Old man with the ventilator! You're dead meat!"

Elder Chiyo, who had successfully blocked Hanzo the Salamander, revealed a cruel smile.

Hanzo the Salamander remained calm, swinging his right hand to release the chain and pressing his palm to the ground.

"not good……"

Elder Chiyo immediately sensed something was wrong.

Fire Release: Exploding Flame Formation!

As Hanzo of the Salamander pressed his hand to the ground, a black curse mark rapidly spread out. Then, paper slips made of explosive tags burst from the ground and swept towards Elder Chiyo and the nearby Sand Village ninja.

"burst!"

Sansho Hanzo silently thought to himself.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!"

The sound of countless detonating tags exploding echoed through the sky.

The bright moon, hanging high in the sky, seemed unable to bear witnessing the bloody battles on earth, so it summoned dark clouds to slightly obscure its appearance.

Under the even darker night sky, the bloody battle between the Rain Village and the Sand Village continued relentlessly, a fight to the death.

"For Lord Hanzo!"

A young Rain Ninja, whose left arm had been cleaved in half by a wind blade, charged toward the Sand Ninja with a ferocious expression, summoning the last of his chakra. Before he could get close, he was struck in the abdomen by another wind blade, his intestines and blood gushing out from the huge wound.

"For the sake of Amegakure..."

The young Rain Ninja continued to mutter to himself, using his last bit of chakra to activate the explosive tags bound to his body.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!"

The Sand Village ninja scattered and tried to dodge, but the other Rain Village ninja seized the opportunity and quickly rushed forward to launch an explosive tag attack.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

As the smoke and dust cleared, Elder Chiyo, protected by the blue chakra shield, gradually revealed her face. Although Hanzo of the Salamander's Explosive Flame Array had failed, the massive shockwave from the explosion still caused her considerable internal injuries.

Looking around, Hanzo the Salamander had once again charged into the crowd of Sunagakure, slashing and killing indiscriminately as if he were in an empty field.

Chapter 94: Hanzo's Symphony that Proclaims Death

Hanzo the Salamander charged into battle alone, opening the door to victory for the Rain Ninja who launched a night raid on the Sunagakure camp. It was as if the goddess of the rabbit, hanging high in the sky, was smiling down on the Rain Ninja, who had a tragic fate.

Despite heavy casualties, under the vigorous leadership of their leader Hanzo the Salamander, they are steadily advancing towards the central part of the Sunagakure camp.

Although outmatched in skill, inspired by their leader's invincible courage, the Rain Ninja disregarded their own lives and forcefully suppressed the multiple counterattacks of the stronger Sand Ninja.

However, the Rain Ninja's advantage relied entirely on their own desperate actions and the leader's charge, and it couldn't be maintained for long against the Sand Ninja who were gradually stabilizing their position.

……

Under Hanzo's chakra control, a water tornado rose from the ground, rapidly expanding to a diameter of tens of meters, swallowing up the surrounding trees, rocks, soil, and corpses.

"Water Release: Great Tide Water Bullet!"

The towering waterspout revealed its ferocious maw, sweeping and tearing in all directions, forcefully breaking apart the formation of the Sand Village ninjas surrounding it. More than ten Sand Village ninjas who did not have time to use the Body Flicker Technique were bitten head-on by the waterspout and instantly turned into a cloud of blood mist. They were then pulled into the waterspout's body and continued to fight.

"Hanzo!"

Elder Chiyo, who witnessed all of this, was furious.

After unleashing a high-level Water Release ninjutsu, the exhausted Hanzo of the Salamander quickly poured an entire bottle of soldier pills into his mouth, swallowing them all without even chewing them, and once again brandished his chains and katana as he charged towards Sunagakure.

His goal was simple: to disrupt the Sand Village's formation as much as possible, so that the Rain Village would have a chance to continue their advance.

As for their own safety, they didn't care about anything except for injuries that would surely kill them.

Elder Chiyo had considered imitating Hanzo and charging into the Amegakure crowd several times, but she couldn't bear to see the Sunagakure being slaughtered by Hanzo, so she could only try her best to chase and block them from behind.

Sunagakure, being one of the five great ninja villages, had ninjas of far superior quality than Amegakure. After the initial chaos, they quickly regained their footing and, under Ebizo's command, stopped retreating, withstanding the Amegakure's desperate offensive.

Hanzo the Salamander was gradually surrounded by more and more Sand Village ninjas, and after several attempts to break through, he was unable to do so.

Meanwhile, the twelve trusted ninja under Hanzo of the Salamander had somehow fallen behind and disappeared.

"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"

More than ten Sand Village Jonin joined forces to unleash a high-level Wind Release ninjutsu, which was used against the Rain Ninja who were still charging forward desperately.

The highly compressed wind-style chakra burst out among the Rain Ninja, blasting away groups of Rain Ninja who died tragically, like a super-heavy cannon.

The Rain Ninja's charging waves created vacuum zones under the attack of ninjutsu, but these were then filled by the Rain Ninja following up, who continued their charge.

Of the 2,700 Rain Ninja who launched the night raid, more than 500 have been killed or wounded.

Despite suffering heavy casualties, they did not stop their offensive even slightly.

In the eyes of the Rain Ninja, there were only the leader who was fighting relentlessly among the enemy troops ahead and the enemies in front of him. As for death or injury, he had long forgotten about it.

The explosive tags distributed before the battle became the most lethal weapons for the wounded Rain Ninja. Disregarding their own safety, they grabbed corpses from the ground as shields, squeezed out the last of their chakra, and rushed into the Sand Village crowd to detonate the explosive tags, exchanging their last lives for the destruction of the Sand Village.

Hanzo the Salamander, who was charging ahead, also witnessed all of this.

Tears streamed down his face beneath the mask, and he wielded the kusarigama and katana with even greater speed, leaving no one in his path unchallenged.

The summoned beast Sanshoku, Ibuki, who had been fighting alongside him, was already covered in wounds.

Whether it was the Sand Village's Wind Release ninjutsu, ninja tool attacks, or Chiyo's puppet attacks, the massive Salamander couldn't dodge in time and took the brunt of countless attacks, also shielding its master from numerous assassination attempts.

Black blood dripped continuously from the salamander's body onto the ground, stirring up plumes of highly poisonous smoke.

Even so, the Rain Ninja's offensive was gradually suppressed by the more well-trained Sand Ninja's counterattack, and they showed signs of retreating.

Hanzo himself was completely surrounded by sixteen Sand Village Jonin and Elder Chiyo, and was unable to break through.

The surrounding Sand Village ninjas quickly shielded Hanzo from the Rain Ninja's charge, separating him from the Rain Ninja forces.

"Hanzo! Surrender!" Elder Chiyo shouted through gritted teeth. "If you surrender, I might spare your life!"

"How ridiculous..."

Hanzo the Salamander finally stopped attacking, his voice and breathing becoming rapid and hoarse, like a bellows.

"What on earth has gone mad?"

Elder Chiyo surveyed the battlefield once more, where countless corpses of Amegakure and Sunagakure ninja lay scattered about, their blood staining the earth crimson.

"The Rain Ninja... just don't want to keep crying..." Hanzo of the Salamander said haltingly, "You great nations should also witness the wrath of the Rain Ninja!"

He knew that Chiyo's words were a delaying tactic, and that her real purpose was to gather more Sand Village ninja to surround him. However, Hanzo of the Salamander was already exhausted from the continuous fighting. He needed some time to recover his strength and to digest the soldier pills he had swallowed as soon as possible so that he could continue to extract chakra.

Meanwhile, his summoning beast, the Salamander Ibuki, was also convulsing, using its muscles to forcefully squeeze out the kunai, shuriken, and other ninja tools stuck in its body, causing black blood to gush out once again.

Fortunately, the Salamander Ibuki was originally a summoning beast carrying highly poisonous substances, and it had extremely strong resistance to poisons. The poison on the Sand Village ninja tools had basically no effect, otherwise it would have collapsed and died long ago.

“A small country is a small country…” Chiyo felt reassured as she saw that the Sand Village ninjas had suppressed the Rain Village ninjas. “Even if one person is strong, it is useless in front of a large country. Don’t you understand this?”

Upon hearing this, Hanzo the Salamander burst into laughter, accompanied by a series of coughs.

"Are we... going to let you great powers take what you want and bully us with impunity?"

"It was you who destroyed the peace of the ninja world!" Elder Chiyo's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

"Peace...what a beautiful word..." Hanzo of the Salamander surveyed the Sand Village, whose encirclement was constantly tightening. "Unfortunately...the peace of the Five Great Nations and the Five Great Shinobi Villages...has never been a thing of the past for small countries..."

Elder Chiyo stopped speaking, her face grim as she flicked her fingers, causing the ten members of the Shin-Matsu group to form a battle formation in front of her.

Peace and peace were never on her mind; everything she said was just to give herself time to complete the final, deadly formation.

"Chiyo..."

"Hanzo the Salamander," he suddenly said.

"Ok?"

Elder Chiyo responded, her fingers still moving rapidly, and the Chikamatsu Killing Formation was complete.

"Speak... Hanzo, I allow you to give your final words." Elder Chiyo breathed a sigh of relief and said to Hanzo of the Salamander with apparent compassion, "No need to thank me, this is Sunagakure's final respect for the strong."

"It's said... you were once a beauty of Sunagakure..." Hanzo the Salamander began to tease, which was unusual for him, "and it seems your son was taken in by Konoha ninjas in the Land of Rivers..."

Elder Chiyo's face instantly darkened, and before Hanzo the Salamander could finish speaking, she quickly activated her secret technique.

"Chikamatsu White's Secret Technique: Ten Machines Practice - Heavenly Net!"

Ten puppets, passed down from the puppeteer Chikamatsu Monzaemon, simultaneously activated their mechanisms and launched a coordinated attack on Hanzo the Salamander.

The surrounding Sand Village members simultaneously prepared to launch ninjutsu to assassinate them.

Hanzo the Salamander remained calm despite seemingly being in a hopeless situation.

"Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!"

A massive wall of water rapidly rose up, blocking the first wave of attacks from the Chikamatsu Ten, but it was immediately broken through.