"Change targets and attack others. We can't kill Yotsuki today."
Seisuke frowned and glanced around. Konoha and Sunagakure ninjas were engaged in a chaotic battle. He couldn't use large - scale attacks as it would harm his own people.
Asuma nodded and retreated with Seisuke and Kurenai.
Yotsuki looked at them reluctantly, wanting to give chase, but she knew that Seisuke, like her, could launch attacks without forming hand - seals. Even though he was injured now, he was still hard to deal with.
"I'll find a way to kill you later."
Under the cover of her companions, she briefly treated her wound and then rushed to another part of the battlefield.
"Summoning Technique!"
A large snake, slightly smaller than the black snake, appeared. Standing on the snake's head, Seisuke said, "Charge with all your might and hold Chiyo back. Don't let that old woman give orders."
The main reason he had suffered a setback this time was that Chiyo had seen through his abilities. An experienced veteran like her had to be contained from the start. Otherwise, she would cause great losses to Konoha.
Kurenai said, "But all the Konoha jounin are currently pinned down. Even Lord Orochimaru and Captain Shinnosuke are. My father is also in the battle."
"Then I'll go." Seisuke gritted his teeth and said, "We're currently facing enemies from both the front and the back. Ebizo is right behind us. As long as I don't come into contact with water, my body can hold Chiyo back until my chakra runs out."
For now, Konoha had the upper hand, but with enemies on both sides, the team sent to deal with Ebizo might lose. If that happened, Konoha might face defeat.
This battle was of great significance. Orochimaru was temporarily held back by Rasa's Gold Dust, and there were several Sunagakure jounin around him, so he couldn't break free for a while. It was a bit difficult for Shikaku and the other strategists to deploy troops on their own.
"But..."
"I have to go." Seisuke took a breath and said, "Asuma, take care of Kurenai."
"Go, and don't die."
Hearing this, Seisuke cursed with a smile, "Can't you wish me something good? I won't die so easily. Don't look down on me!"
"Be careful." After saying that, Asuma pulled Kurenai off the snake's back.
Kurenai asked, "Why does Seisuke have to go? It's so dangerous."
Asuma said in a deep voice, "But many of Konoha's combat forces are being held back by the Sunagakure ninjas. If we don't find a way to turn the situation around, it'll be a lose - lose situation. Trust Seisuke. He won't die so easily."
Looking at that departing figure, he said, "He definitely won't die!"
"You Konoha brats! Die!"
Chiyo, still full of energy despite her age, controlled her puppets to rampage on the battlefield and commanded the battle with ease. As a puppet master grandmaster, controlling four puppets was far from her limit, but four were enough on this battlefield.
Ordinary Konoha jounin couldn't get close to her, let alone launch a sneak attack.
Seeing a large snake charging towards her brazenly, Chiyo smiled. "The disciple of that Orochimaru brat? How audacious. Charging straight at me?"
"Old hag! Die!"
Seisuke roared. Chiyo's face darkened. "You're not even that old, yet you have such a foul mouth. Konoha's education isn't so great. It seems I need to teach you a lesson on behalf of your teacher."
One of the puppets flew towards him. The mechanism in its abdomen opened, spraying out a large amount of black liquid.
Thinking it was water, Seisuke immediately jumped away. The liquid landed on the snake's head. At this time, a tube extended from one of the puppet's hands, and a burst of intense flames shot out, igniting the black liquid.
"Oil?"
He immediately realized that it wasn't water but oil.
After the oil was ignited, the snake writhed in pain on the ground, crushing many unlucky fellows, including both Konoha and Sunagakure ninjas.
Neither of them cared.
Chiyo's fingers moved rapidly. Two puppets flew out, and two fingers on each puppet ejected, connected by steel wires, which wrapped around Seisuke and tied him up.
"What the... "
As his body fell, Seisuke, who was about to break free, saw Chiyo forming hand - seals and felt something was wrong.
"Lightning Release: Earth - Walking!"
Lightning traveled along the steel wires and entered his body. "Aaaaaah!"
He immediately felt a sharp pain and numbness.
"Damn it, I can't completely immunize against Lightning Release?"
Lightning, this formless energy, actually affected his elementalization. His body would suffer some damage, but it wouldn't be fatal.
But the feeling of being completely paralyzed was really unpleasant.
"Konoha brat, this is the difference in combat experience. Your body is very special, somewhat similar to that of the Hozuki clan. Their bodies can't resist Lightning Release, and yours can't resist Water Release. But formless pure - energy attacks can still harm your body."
Chiyo walked over. The four puppets guarded her. Facing Seisuke, who was lying on the ground, she said softly.
"Is that so? Teacher Orochimaru also said that. I just forgot. Damn it, this is what happens when you don't pay attention in class. However, Granny Chiyo, you're a qualified commander, but not a qualified elder. Sasori of the Red Sand became what he is partly because of you."
Hearing the name of her precious grandson, Chiyo's face froze. She felt guilty towards Sasori. She hated White Fang of Konoha, who had killed her son and daughter - in - law, but she couldn't refute Seisuke's words.
It was precisely because of her neglect of Sasori and the failed education in Sunagakure that he had gone astray.
The Third Kazekage had been a close friend of her son and felt guilty about the death of her son and daughter - in - law. That was why he had taken good care of Sasori and trusted him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been killed by Sasori's sneak attack.
The Third Kazekage, who possessed Iron Sand, was the bane of puppets. Most of Sasori's abilities were in his puppets. If it weren't for the Third Kazekage's excessive trust in Sasori, he probably wouldn't have died, right?
Thinking like this, Chiyo looked at the boy younger than her grandson and said, "So, you've seen Sasori?"
"What do you think caused those rumors in Sunagakure? I saw him attacking with the human puppet of the Third Kazekage with my own eyes."
Chiyo knew that human puppets were created by Sasori, transforming a human body into a puppet while retaining the abilities of the deceased. So when the rumors in Sunagakure spread, she knew they were true.
"It seems you know where my lovely grandson is. You're lucky. I won't kill you, but I won't let you go either."
"If you can catch me, failed elder."
Flames suddenly burst into flames, gathering in large amounts on his body. Seeing this, Chiyo was about to stop him when she sensed a terrifying amount of chakra being compressed into a ball in Seisuke's body.
"You crazy kid!"
There was no time to retreat. She immediately used her puppets to protect herself.
"Art is an explosion! Ultra - Bomb!"
Boom!!!
A mushroom cloud slowly rose on the battlefield!