Orochimaru had no intention of making a move and watched the entire show.
The Chakra of the four people was all used to maintain the Four Red Yang Formation, so their main bodies could only use Taijutsu attacks at this time.
Chakra would be split, but the strength and Taijutsu within the body were copied by Ninjutsu and would not be affected by the Shadow Clone.
Ino's Taijutsu was impressive, and Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Kakashi were all powerhouses who had fought their way through countless battles, each with stronger Taijutsu than the last.
Ino kicked at a puppet doll with red eye shadow, when suddenly a female puppet doll holding two large blades rushed out from the side.
This thing was incredibly fast, one blade aimed at the neck, the other at the lumbar spine.
Puppet dolls didn't have human methods of exerting force; they were controlled by Chakra threads and didn't need to build up power, so these two strikes were both fast and vicious.
Ino pressed her foot down, stepping on the puppet doll's wrist, using the leverage to perform a backflip in the air, dodging the decapitating strike.
Then, she drew her short blade "Akisui," imbued it with her Water Release Chakra, and cut the Chakra threads controlling the puppet doll.
"You're very well prepared," Ebizo said, flicking his finger, and the female puppet doll retreated, as a bull-headed puppet doll ferociously lunged forward.
At the same time, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Kakashi also engaged the puppet dolls of the Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets with their Taijutsu.
Kakashi's blade technique had recently been picked up again and practiced for two days—literally two days, not one more—but luckily, his foundation was still there.
His Sharingan preemptively saw through the puppet doll's movements, and his exquisite blade technique allowed him to cut off the Chakra threads behind one puppet doll within ten seconds of engaging.
Jiraiya's offensive was the most ferocious, punching and kicking.
He didn't use a Chakra Blade, but instead relied on the Rasengan, forcefully destroying a puppet doll whose body was as hard as steel.
On the other side, Tsunade and Ino cooperated, the master and disciple simultaneously using Super Strength Fist and Painful Sky Foot, attacking from front and back, also shattering a puppet doll.
The Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets became the Seven Puppets, and Ino and her three Kage-level companions surrounded Ebizo, a seventy-year-old man known for his wisdom.
At the twenty-fifth second, Ino stepped on Tsunade's arm and leaped into the air, as light as a butterfly.
Akisui flew from her hand, streaking a white light, and impaled itself on Ebizo's shoulder collarbone.
Akisui was incredibly sharp, piercing through front and back, creating a large hole.
Ebizo's speed in controlling the puppet dolls with his right hand suddenly slowed down.
"Ebizo, you have no chance of winning," Jiraiya felt that victory was assured and wanted to say something, but unexpectedly, Ebizo expressionlessly suddenly tore off his arm.
Not a single drop of blood flowed from the severed limb.
He inverted the severed arm, gripping his shoulder with his palm, and aimed the greenish bone at the four.
Then, the bone split and deformed, and in one second, it transformed into a dark green Chakra cannon.
A dark black, highly compressed Chakra sphere flew out.
Ebizo's puppetized arm was instantly shattered into pieces, with no human flesh visible in the dust.
This arm had fulfilled its mission; the Tailed Beast Bomb, sealed within the arm years ago and weakened by about thirty percent of its power, directly blasted towards the four.
There was a loud "boom."
Their main bodies all retreated, as the Four Red Yang Formation could even block the Ten-Tails, let alone a Tailed Beast Bomb of this level.
The Shadow Clones controlled the formation, lowering a crimson curtain in front of each of their main bodies.
The Chakra of the Four Red Yang Formation was a seamless whole, with no weak points at all.
The power of the explosion was extremely fierce, but still within the formation's tolerance.
The five people, including Orochimaru, showed no signs of wavering, as the shockwaves of the explosion were canceled out by the four walls, with not a single trace of energy leaking out.
"Go ahead and perform; if you escape today, then we lose."
"Hey, old man, if you've got the guts, fire another shot!
Judging by your old arms and legs, you probably won't have a second shot, right?
If you've got the guts, come and hit me!" Ino was extremely displeased with Ebizo's comment about her coming from a 'wild boar's den,' and couldn't help but taunt him, while also probing.
Ebizo, with two white eyebrows drooping at the corners of his eyes, scrutinized their Four Red Yang Formation.
He had exposed a trump card and blown off his right arm, significantly reducing his combat power, but the result was not good.
He "hmph-ed," and with a flick of his left hand, the remaining five puppet dolls continuously poked his left arm's Chakra points with their fingers in a special rhythm.
The last two puppet dolls then disassembled each other, scattering themselves into a pile of parts.
"Stop him quickly!" Tsunade shouted.
Ino and the others all made a move, ran two steps, and then retreated to the formation's curtain with even greater speed.
A large amount of Iron Sand emerged from Ebizo's Chakra points, and his left arm completely disintegrated.
This arm also had no human flesh.
The remaining seven puppet dolls of the Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets were like candles encountering high temperatures, disintegrating into Iron Sand within two seconds.
Then, the walls, floor, and furnishings of the small room, everything was rapidly contaminated into Iron Sand with special Chakra.
Jiraiya was a bit depressed: "It seems like the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release."
This ability wasn't actually that strong, but using it now was a bit disgusting.
They had already guessed Ebizo's intention.
They saw dense Iron Sand completely envelop the armless Ebizo, then continuously transform, accumulate, transform again, and accumulate again within the room.
The small space was completely filled, the internal space entirely packed.
After being compressed to the limit, the Iron Sand began to exert pressure on the four walls of the Four Red Yang Formation.
Layer after layer of Iron Sand was melted by the Four Red Yang Formation, but this substance only melted, it didn't disappear into thin air.
The residue would cool down for a while and then turn back into Iron Sand, in a continuous cycle.
It was unknown how much of the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release Chakra Ebizo had stored in his body, but under the continuous transformation and compression of the Iron Sand, the Chakra consumption rate of the four was extremely fast.
Considering they were currently in enemy territory, they couldn't afford to waste Chakra.
Jiraiya asked, "Is Ebizo still alive?"
Ino sensed for a moment, then thought: "That old man has been crushed into a meat patty by the Iron Sand.
Currently, I don't detect any vital signs; it seems he committed suicide to prevent information leakage.
However, the extent of this old man's body modification is deeper than expected.
I don't really understand their Puppet Technique, so I'm not particularly sure."
Ebizo did not use human puppet technology, but rather a more mechanized modification.
Ordinary machinery simply cannot function as a Ninja's limbs because metal lacks Chakra pathways and Chakra conduction properties.
The Ebizo before them made it difficult for Ino to complain; the old man's arms and belly were not ordinary metal, but rather modifications using special Chakra metal!
When Ino went to the Land of Iron, she had a familiar contact, and also robbed a temple, and finally, forging a short blade cost her over ten million ryo.
Ebizo's project was much larger than hers; that old geezer must have embezzled a lot to forge two arms!
Ino hated corrupt officials the most!
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