Naruto: Boruto Returns to Shippuden

Chapter 190 The Third Generation Kazekage

"Further words are useless, Grandma Chiyo." Sasori's voice was cold. "Let's prove with our strength whose puppetry is the true art."

During the standoff between Sasori and Granny Chiyo, Sasori quickly summoned several puppets, which moved rapidly toward Boruto and Granny Chiyo and launched an attack.

In response, Boruto formed hand seals, pressed them to the ground, and chanted, "Summoning Jutsu!"

As Boruto summoned, the ground suddenly trembled, and a powerful surge of chakra erupted from the ground. Then, a giant red one-eyed snake appeared beneath Boruto.

As soon as Xin Ya appeared, it displayed its thick tail, directly wrapping up several puppets summoned by the Red Sand Scorpion, tightly binding them before forcefully flinging them to the ground, crushing them into a pile of parts.

Sasori of the Red Sand looked at the summoning beast Boruto had summoned with some surprise: "Oh? Shinja?"

Xin Ya was somewhat surprised when he heard someone he didn't recognize call out his name: "Huh? Who are you? How do you know me?"

Sasori of the Red Sand smiled and said, "Not only do I know you, but I also have a collection that you might be interested in."

As he spoke, a scroll slipped from Sasori's sleeve. He unfolded the scroll in his hand, and a striking number "three" was written on it.

Sasori's tone carried a hint of smugness: "And by the way, I'll show you something special. I'll accept your gratitude. It's a treasure I finally managed to obtain after killing him, and it's my favorite piece."

As soon as Sasori of the Red Sand finished speaking, a thick cloud of smoke burst forth from the scroll in his hand, quickly spreading out and revealing a humanoid puppet within it.

Chiyo's face showed disbelief as she stared intently at the puppet summoned by Sasori of the Red Sand, a storm of emotions surging within her. She murmured to herself, "This...this is...could it be...?"

The moment Sasori summoned the humanoid puppet, Shinja's rage was completely ignited. Its massive body trembled with fury as it let out a deafening roar towards the sky: "Bastard!"

It couldn't believe that the guy who had betrayed their deep bond years ago had reappeared in its sight today.

Boruto saw the intense emotional fluctuations in Shinya, and his intuition told him that the puppet in front of him was the ninja who had betrayed Shinya.

He said to Xinya, "Calm down, Xinya! That's just a human puppet."

After hearing Boruto's words, Shinya calmed down a little, but his one eye was still filled with rage, wishing he could destroy him immediately.

Seeing Shinya's strong reaction, Sasori of the Red Sand said with a hint of amusement, "It seems you have a special feeling for this puppet, Shinya."

Sasori's lips curled into a mocking smile: "Although it's just a puppet, it was made from a real person's corpse. How about it? Nostalgic, isn't it?"

Granny Chiyo's face showed shock, and her voice trembled as she said, "That was the Third Kazekage! How could this be? More than ten years ago, the Third Kazekage suddenly disappeared from the village. Although we tried our best, we could never find the strongest Kazekage... Sasori... you actually..."

Granny Chiyo couldn't accept the reality before her eyes. Her grandson had killed the Third Kazekage and even made a puppet from the Third Kazekage's corpse. At this moment, her feelings were extremely complicated.

When Sasori of the Red Sand confronted Granny Chiyo with a cold laugh, he replied, "So what? You old hag who's been living in seclusion waiting to die, you want to avenge the Third Kazekage? Isn't that a bit too much of a hassle?"

Grandma Chiyo's voice was filled with heartache: "My grandson! It would have been one thing if you had just joined the evil party, but I never imagined you would also betray the village."

"Alright, let's get started." Sasori's tone revealed obvious impatience, having lost interest in continuing the conversation: "Thousand Hands Technique!"

Sasori of the Red Sand manipulated the talisman on the left arm of the puppet Third Kazekage to summon a thousand arms, intending to use these arms to trap Boruto and the others.

Xin Ya immediately opened its huge mouth and spewed out a dark purple petrified liquid, which covered the arms like a flood.

The moment the petrifying liquid touched the arms, the arms, made of parts, were instantly petrified. Then, Sinya's tail swept across like a giant whip, shattering the petrified arms into a pile of rubble.

After Sasori's attack was thwarted by Shinja, he activated the Third Kazekage's puppet, causing the tubes on its hands to emit a poisonous mist. This mist spread out, forming a dangerous poisonous zone.

Boruto gathered chakra in his mouth, forming a vortex-like storm, and then unleashed it with a bang: "Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"

This wind-style ninjutsu created a large-scale explosive whirlwind that directly dispersed the poisonous mist released by Sasori of the Red Sand. At the same time, taking advantage of the wind created by Boruto, Shinja suddenly raised its huge tail and swung it down hard at the Third Kazekage puppet.

Xin Ya's attack sent the puppet flying, crashing heavily into the ground some distance away and causing massive damage.

When Sasori of the Red Sand was thrown backward by the impact, he used chakra threads to stabilize the puppet in mid-air.

"Magnetic Release: Iron Sand Rain!"

Sasori manipulated the damaged puppet, and suddenly a large amount of iron sand formed into fine needles spewed from the puppet's mouth. These iron sand needles rained down on Boruto like a dense raindrop.

"Combined Ninja Art: Purple Lightning Water Dragon Bullet!" Boruto mobilized his chakra to unleash the ninjutsu. Immediately afterward, the surface of the lake behind him began to churn violently, and a giant dragon made of water and lightning rose into the air from the lake.

Purple lightning crackled around the water dragon as it charged toward Sasori of the Red Sand.

The lightning-infused water dragon opened its enormous mouth, swallowing all the fine iron sand needles, and continued forward without stopping, tearing towards the Red Sand Scorpion.

Seeing the lightning and water dragon's attack was incredibly swift, Sasori of the Red Sand quickly pulled the chakra threads hidden in the puppet with both hands, guiding the puppet's movements.

With his control, the rain of iron sand attack came to an abrupt halt. The puppet's form rapidly changed, and the iron sand re-condensed in the air, forming a solid circular iron sand wall.