Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

This kind of important transaction should have been handled by Huang Tu. But Huang Tu was a very honest person. Ohnoki was afraid that he would be sold out by Konoha, so he helped them count the money.

In fact, bringing back Deidara would not really solve the current problem of Iwagakure, but at least it could ease it.

Although Deidara is unreliable in many things and is obsessed with unreliable art, at least he is strong enough.

Even if he didn't inherit the Dust Release, he was more than qualified to be a Tsuchikage. After all, what Iwagakure lacked the most was this kind of top-level expert.

Qingye, on his side, also laughed after receiving the message from Iwagakure. Originally, after he sent a message to Iwagakure, there was no response. He thought the other party had completely rejected him.

Unexpectedly, a few months later, Ōnoki actually figured it out.

But since the other party has agreed, there is no point in keeping Deidara. These days, Konoha has already studied Deidara's explosive release theory thoroughly.

Although no one has been able to do what Deidara does at will, they have been able to successfully replicate the explosive release in the laboratory.

This means that Deidara's value has been basically squeezed out. He also gave Iwagakure the original chakra of the Four-Tails and the Five-Tails, which just met Aoba's needs.

At this point, when Deidara was mentioned, Aoba suddenly remembered that the other members of the Akatsuki organization were still in Konoha's prison.

Except for Uchiha Itachi who was hanging on to his life in the intensive care unit, Deidara, Kisame, Obiruko, and Sasori were all in Konoha's prison.

Of the remaining three, Kisame is a traditional ninja. His special feature is that he relies on Samehada. Although he is strong, in Aoba's eyes, his value is not high.

Konoha is not short of experts now. Even without Hashirama Senju, there are still Tobirama, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Namikaze Minato, Kakashi, Tsunade, Might Guy and many other Kage-level experts.

At the same time, Baiyun Zaojian, Yueguang Jifeng, Maoyue Xigao and others who were personally trained by Aoba have also reached the level of elite jonin.

What Konoha lacks the least right now is thugs.

In comparison, Okuroko and Sasori are obviously more valuable. However, Okuroko's Kiragaya no Jutsu had already been updated by Shin to Konoha. If he couldn't come up with anything new, he could only be considered a high-level fighter.

The only thing left is the Scorpion.

At present, the news of Scorpion's arrest is limited to Konoha's top brass and a few ANBU members who are carrying out the mission. Aoba did not reveal it to anyone because he was afraid that Sand Village would know.

Sasori in Sand Village and Deidara in Rock Village actually received the same treatment. Even though they were traitors in name, as long as they could turn back, the top leaders of both sides would accept them back without hesitation.

As for the issue of public opinion, although it is troublesome, it is definitely not a big problem for those who are truly in power.

The key is that Sand Village is different from Rock Village. Sand Village is Konoha's younger brother. Scorpion is a traitor, if the younger brother asks for it, Konoha has no reason not to give it to him.

Therefore, the best thing to do is not to let Sand Village know, wait until Scorpion's value is exhausted, and then do them a favor.

Scorpion is undoubtedly a genius. If nothing else, he can transform himself into a puppet while retaining the physical core that generates chakra. This operation is really outrageous.

Because this is equivalent to the perfect fusion of machinery and flesh and blood. It can be called the ninja world version of mechanical ascension.

And there was obviously something wrong with his chakra core. There was only a little flesh and blood left. But the chakra was still flowing endlessly. If you say he didn't do anything, Qingye would never believe it.

In addition, the flow of chakra between flesh and blood and machinery is faster than that of normal flesh and blood. And it is much faster. Otherwise, let alone the Hundred Machines Exercise, the Chikamatsu Ten People would not be able to perform it.

More detailed are the materials and joints of various humanoid puppets. Scorpion is far ahead in this field.

After Sand Village became Konoha's subordinate, they sent many scrolls of puppetry. Konoha also did some research. There were some results, but they were all mediocre.

At least it is completely incomparable to Konoha's current chakra coat technology. It can only be used as cannon fodder.

Aoba's idea is to combine puppetry with chakra outer garments to create a true chakra weapon.

At that time, the operator will directly remotely control the puppet wearing the chakra coat and go to the battlefield to fight.

Once the puppet is seriously injured, it can start the self-destruction program without hesitation to ensure that the chakra coat technology will not be leaked. By the way, it can also act as a super bomb to clear the field.

But to achieve this, a lot of technology accumulation is needed. The combination of the chakra coat and the puppet is one of the biggest challenges.

This thing was originally designed for flesh and blood. It doesn't work at all when it's installed on a puppet. It can't effectively conduct chakra.

Unless a large amount of chakra metal is used to create a connection network in the puppet body. But that is pure nonsense, and the price is so high that Konoha cannot form an army even if it goes bankrupt.

In addition, conventional puppets cannot release ninjutsu, and can only use mechanisms to release some set attacks.

There is also the issue of manipulation distance. The manipulation distance of conventional puppetry is very limited and cannot meet Qingye's requirements.

There are countless technical requirements like this.

At present, Konoha's puppetry is completely unable to meet the requirements. Even Sunagakure's puppetry is not enough. Only Scorpion's technology can achieve it.

But Scorpio was not very cooperative. Perhaps because of the excessive transformation, his emotions had become very weak.

And without a physical body, you can't torture him. Even mental illusions have little effect on him.

Even a ruthless person like the second generation felt helpless about this.

"In theory, we can stimulate his brain to make him feel pain. But that would easily destroy his brain and turn him into an idiot. I don't think you would like that."

"That's right. What I need is a complete Scorpion, not a useless piece of shit that has been tortured into an idiot. And it's actually very simple to solve this problem. He has no body, so why not just give him a body?"

Leaving the rest to Tobirama, Aoba turned and went to Kisame's prison.

At this time, Kisame's entire body was sealed by a sealing technique, and his body was also wrapped in chains, trapping him tightly in a corner of the cell.

He lowered his head, as if he was sleeping. But as soon as Qingye approached, he raised his head, revealing a pair of dim eyes.

After seeing that the person coming was Kamikawa Aoba, Kisame's eyes lit up slightly, and then returned to that gloomy look.

"I heard that you tried to commit suicide three times. That's why they tied you up completely. Can you tell me why you wanted to commit suicide?"

"Haha, Kamikawa Aoba, you are also a ninja. And one of the strongest ninjas in the world. Do you need to ask this question? Because death is the fate of a ninja."

"No, I don't agree."