Reborn Wind Shadow: Begins the Attack on the Fire Nation

"Dragon Vein: Shukaku Aspect~"

Along with a roar, the huge image of Shukaku appeared above the boundless desert.

With the blessing of dragon vein chakra, one can clearly see Shukaku's current appearance and his previous changes.

First of all, the surface no longer has the obvious gravel texture, but has become as smooth and delicate as real skin.

This is Dragon Chakra: the power of transformation.

All the sand merged into one.

This seemed to have no effect, but it made Shukaku no longer afraid of water-style ninjutsu.

Because the sand has merged into one, the gaps between the gravel have been lost, making it impossible for water to penetrate, increase the weight of the sand, and destroy the body of Shukaku.

In addition, the integrated body also enhances the defense, because the sand and gravel merge together to become a hard rock. It is very obvious which defense is stronger between a plate of loose sand and a stone.

In addition to the changes in appearance, Shukaku has also become much more flexible in his movements.

He was no longer as stiff as a puppet as before when he was fighting against Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya. Now he was like a real creature, his limbs were extremely fast and agile whether he was running, jumping, or punching. When his tail was waving, it contained the power to sweep away everything, and also revealed a sense of ease and lightness.

More importantly, it doesn’t require strenuous control.

It felt like going from a puppet controlled by chakra strings to a robot with its own program.

Although he still has no wisdom of his own, he can already fight on two fronts like a spiritual beast.

This is the power of the inorganic reincarnation of Dragon Chakra, which gives life to lifeless inorganic matter and controls it.

This allows Rasa's Shukaku form to have strong defensive power while also greatly improving its offensive capabilities.

However, this is not the limit of Shukaku's offensive capabilities under the blessing of Dragon Vein Chakra.

"call out!"

With a flash of the body, Rasa appeared above the head of Shukaku. He connected with the Shukaku under his feet through his own chakra, and at the same time, he formed seals with his hands. In response, the Shukaku under Rasa's feet also began to form seals with its own claws.

"Dragon Vein - Big Breakthrough!"

Or it should be Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!

The two techniques are exactly the same in terms of the method of forming hand seals and the effects of ninjutsu.

However, due to Shukaku's huge size and the use of dragon vein chakra, the wind escape released by Shukaku is obviously much more powerful. It is obviously only a C-level ninjutsu, but the destructive power released is completely comparable to A-level ninjutsu.

It was visible to the naked eye that a terrible storm was sweeping across the desert, sweeping up a sky full of sand and dust.

Just looking at this huge destructive power, Luo Sha was not satisfied.

There are two reasons...

First, although he has given Shukaku no Akatsuki vitality through the ability of Inorganic Reincarnation, in order for Shukaku no Akatsuki to release ninjutsu, he still has to connect his chakra with Shukaku no Akatsuki and use him to control the chakra changes in Shukaku no Akatsuki's body.

Second, the consumption of chakra is too huge. The sand that constitutes Shukaku's form is an inorganic substance and cannot produce chakra on its own. This means that after Shukaku's form releases the chakra consumed by ninjutsu, its own chakra will only become less and less, and it needs to be replenished by sand.

Although the Dragon Vein Chakra gave Rasa the four abnormal abilities of inorganic reincarnation, object transformation, super-speed self-healing, and chakra absorption, it still did not directly enhance his physique like Hashirama's cells, allowing him to transform from a chakra into a tailed beast-level chakra.

However, due to the lack of his own chakra, Luo Sha cannot continue to absorb dragon vein energy in order to maintain the balance of dragon vein chakra in his body.

From this perspective, eating the chakra fruit condensed from the dragon vein chakra might have solved this problem, but Luo Sha did not do so because he was also worried that eating the chakra fruit would cause the [wedge] in his body to thaw faster.

Although he has now greatly increased his strength through the power of the [Wedge], this does not mean that Luo Sha will relax his vigilance against the possibility of being possessed by the [Wedge].

Moreover, judging from his current state, his personal strength is already enough to deal with the current situation in the ninja world, and Shukaku should be able to hold off the perfected tailed beasts for a while.

There's no need to take too much risk.

It's just a pity that Luo Sha originally thought that the Dragon Vein Chakra's ability to absorb chakra could solve this problem, but after trying, he found that the Dragon Vein Chakra could only absorb chakra and could not use the absorbed chakra for his own use.

However, this does not mean that Rasa's development of Shukaku Aspect has reached its limit.

As Rasa put his hands together, the shape of Shukaku began to change, and like a slug in the Wet Bone Forest, it began to rapidly split into one hundred small Shukaku forms.

It is said to be small, but compared to the human body, it is still as big as a hill.

Luo Sha called it [Dragon Vein, Shukaku Aspect, Splitting Technique]

This is the inspiration that Luo Sha got from the puppetry of Red Sand Scorpion: Secret Technique: Hundred Machines Operation.

The purpose of Luosha developing this move is to make up for the shortage of military forces in the Sand Village.

With the ability of inorganic reincarnation of dragon vein chakra, even Rasa, who is not good at puppetry, can easily control these hundreds of small Shukaku. Moreover, through the transformation of dragon vein chakra, these hundred Shukaku puppets have their own weapons.

All of the hundreds of Shukaku puppets were holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. In addition, they weighed tons and had the ability to absorb chakra and were immune to most ninjutsu, so each Shukaku puppet could unleash the destructive power of a Chunin level, which meant that the Sand Village had one hundred more Chunins.

Unfortunately, although Rasa is the Kazekage of the Sand Village and knows some puppetry techniques, he is not proficient in them. It is already at the limit for one person to perfectly control 100 Shukaku puppets. Otherwise, the strength of these Shukaku puppets would not just be that of Chunin, and their number would not be just 100.

At this point, the development of the technique [Shukaku no Aspect] has almost reached its limit.

Next, it is the development of Luosha's own abilities such as [Magnetic Escape] and [Sand Control]...

At this time, in the Sand Village, under the leadership of Yekura and Yakawa, hundreds of Sand Village ninjas also left the village and rushed towards the direction of the attack from the Cloud Village and the Iwagakure Village.

Perhaps it was the success of the last raid on the Fire Nation.

This time, the villagers of Sand Village did not show the same deep-seated uneasiness about the impending war as before.

As time passed, battle reports from the front line continued to reach Luo Sha's ears.

The troops from the Hidden Cloud Village that landed in the Land of Demons from the coastline passed through the Land of Swamps and gathered in the Land of Birds with the ninja troops from the Hidden Cloud Village, looking like a large army approaching, ready to attack the Land of Wind.

After receiving the information, Yagawa and Yegura led the ninjas of Sand Village to the border to meet up with the ninjas of Kumo and Iwa villages to confront each other.

For a moment, the atmosphere along the border of the Wind Country became tense, as if a war would break out if there was no agreement. However, because neither side really wanted to start a war, they fell into a strange silence.

But at this moment, a new force that no one expected appeared on the battlefield and broke the peace!

Its name is: Xiao!