Second Body was a bit confused as to why An Lushan, who didn't even have a single puppet left, still dared to be so confident, but it didn't stop her from planning to watch the show.
"Ms. Pakura, this An Lushan is a future rogue Ninja from your Hidden Sand Village. How about you deal with him? He looks very weak."
Second Body tried to trick Pakura into testing the waters to see the source of An Lushan's confidence, but Pakura just gave her a Byakugan and had no intention of attacking this so-called future rogue Ninja of Sunagakure.
"Hahahaha, do you think I only have these puppets? Let me tell you, the whole city is my puppet army! Revive, my legion!"
An Lushan connected Chakra threads to the Dragon Vein Chakra energy pipeline, intending to control all the puppet army in the city to enter a semi-automatic attack mode.
Unfortunately, no matter how he sensed, he couldn't find any controllable puppets, as if all the puppets he had created were merely illusions.
"How is this possible! Where are my puppets? Who touched my puppets! Ah...! You damn little thief! Don't let me catch you!"
An Lushan was going crazy. He found that apart from the hundreds of puppets around the central tower, all his other puppets had been dismantled.
Second Body struggled to hold back her laughter. This was the second time she had seen An Lushan's expression change from extremely arrogant to furious, and both times it was because of her.
Seeing Second Body secretly laughing, covering her mouth and her shoulders trembling occasionally, An Lushan immediately found his target of hatred. He guessed that even if his puppets weren't destroyed by this little brat, she was definitely involved.
"You damn Konoha Ninja, today I'm going to make you all die!"
After Sara rescued the Roran civilians, Naruto saw An Lushan cursing the Konoha Ninja, and he couldn't hold back. He immediately went up and delivered a powerful swing.
An Lushan's body crashed heavily to the ground, his face shattered, revealing precise puppet components. This ruthless man, like Sasori of the Red Sand, had transformed himself into a puppet.
And with the support of Dragon Vein Chakra energy, he had a ritual array burned into his body to draw in Dragon Vein Chakra energy, so he no longer needed Sara to control the Dragon Vein Chakra energy. This was also why he planned to eliminate Sara.
An Lushan wrapped himself in his cloak, and then his body suddenly expanded, quickly turning into a giant spider. However, its body was entirely made of puppet parts, and the spider's head even had long hair with a middle part, which was incredibly ugly.
"Ah hahaha, behold, this is my ultimate physical form."
An Lushan's voice became arrogant again, but only Naruto and Pakura were stunned. As for her, she had already analyzed the principle of this nano-mechanical puppet technology.
It mainly involved producing identical basic components using standardized modules. These components were all mixed with chakra metal, and with the massive Chakra from the Dragon Vein Chakra energy, An Lushan could control these components to combine and transform at will.
These components were all very tiny. Although each component had not reached the nanometer level, they were as minuscule as dust.
It was indeed an impressive technology. Although it was unknown how these tiny components were produced, this technology would not be outdated in the future new generation, regardless.
As for why it suddenly became so large, it was mainly because every component on An Lushan's puppet body had Summoning Technique runes burned into them.
As long as the Dragon Vein Chakra was sufficient, these components, which had been branded with a Summoning contract, could be summoned in large quantities from the component library, just like the principle of Ninja tool summoning.
It must be said that this guy was indeed a genius. Sasori of the Red Sand might not have been able to defeat him without the Third Kazekage's puppet.
An Lushan controlled the components of the spider's legs to reassemble and transform into sharp blades, continuously stabbing at Naruto.
However, the movements were extremely slow, so even Naruto could easily dodge them. Second Body also didn't rush to rescue, mainly because Minato and the others had already heard the commotion and were rushing over.
However, An Lushan also controlled the remaining puppets in the central area to chase after Minato and the others. Fortunately, by relying on Exploding Tags, they managed to carve out a bloody path.
"Rasengan!" Naruto and a Shadow Clone quickly formed a Rasengan and pressed it directly onto the head of the attacking An Lushan giant spider, but unfortunately, it failed to break through its defense.
However, the explosive power of the Rasengan knocked the An Lushan giant spider head over heels, smashing it against a wall and creating a huge dent in it.
An Lushan quickly controlled a large number of puppet components to merge, making its body even larger. At this time, Sara had already taken the Roran civilians whose leg shackles had been removed and planned to leave through the passage.
At this moment, Minato Namikaze and his group also arrived, but behind them were hundreds of puppets. This was after they had continuously attacked with Exploding Tags and Ninjutsu along the way, reducing the number to just over a hundred.
Upon reaching the relatively narrow space of the production factory, the group used a combination of Ninjutsu to attack together and shatter these puppets.
Naruto used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to jump onto the An Lushan giant spider and continuously attacked with Chakra short swords, but unfortunately, he couldn't break through its defense.
The Shadow Clones were thrown off and disappeared into smoke. Second Body looked at Naruto's somewhat weak combat ability and couldn't help but sigh that Sage Mode was the true turning point for Naruto's rise.
"Alright, I'll do it. You all take Sara to shut down the Dragon Vein Chakra source at the bottom of Roran. I'll handle this An Lushan."
Second Body wanted to capture An Lushan to interrogate him about these interesting techniques, and among these people, only she had the most suitable offensive capabilities.
"Ah, but he's very strong, you..." Naruto hesitated. Although he knew the Konoha short Ninja was quite strong, he probably wouldn't be able to handle it alone.
"Alright, Naruto, trust Second Body. It can be said that she is the strongest among us here."
Minato Namikaze pulled Naruto, ready to retreat, and escorted the Roran civilians with Kakashi and Shisui to seal the Dragon Vein Chakra.
"Don't even think about running! You little dwarf, you think you can stop me? Overestimating yourself!"
An Lushan watched Naruto escape with Sara, and he became a bit scared. He had to get rid of Sara, otherwise, if she shut down the Dragon Vein Chakra source below Roran, he would be finished.
"Scorch Release: Incinerating Steam Kill!" Pakura attacked first, knowing that she couldn't slack off anymore, and decided to test this giant puppet first.
Unfortunately, while Scorch Release had extreme destructive power against living organisms, it was ineffective against this type of inorganic enemy.
The main damage of Scorch Release relied on high temperature rather than explosions, and the An Lushan giant spider's body was made of Chakra alloy, whose melting point exceeded the short-term burning temperature of Scorch Release. Furthermore, it had a certain Chakra absorption ability, so it was not afraid of Scorch Release's Incinerating Steam Kill at all.
"Scorch Release! You are Pakura? How is that possible? You shouldn't be in Roran at this time, hahaha! But it doesn't matter, the damage of Scorch Release is nothing special, just an empty name, and you will also be betrayed by Hidden Sand Village in the future and die miserably!"
An Lushan was still relatively young when Pakura was alive and had never met a prominent figure like Pakura. He recognized her through her Scorch Release.
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