He appeared in a spacious, dim space, the ground covered in water.
The kind-faced old monk, Bunbuku, sat cross-legged on the ground with his hands pressed together, looking as if he were asleep, while behind him, a giant yellow tanuki clamored.
"Sharingan! You're a Uchiha! You're that Uchiha bastard!"
Praying Wind's expression was calm, and he said indifferently, "Now that you've discovered it, I, Uchiha Itachi, will no longer hide my identity."
"Uchiha Itachi!!!" Shukaku firmly etched this name into its mind, a name it would need to remember for the rest of its life.
"But for now, you should be quiet and behave yourself."
With a flash, he appeared above Shukaku's head, his hand directly grabbing its head and squeezing hard.
Bang!
Shukaku's enormous body instantly shattered like a bubble, turning into glittering grains of sand that scattered throughout the mysterious space.
He glanced at the well-behaved Bunbuku, with no intention of attacking him.
He left the space that sealed Shukaku.
After he left, Bunbuku slowly opened his eyes, his palms slowly unfolding and resting on his knees.
The palm of one hand had the character "Receive" written on it, while the other had the character "Heart." When the hands were pressed together, they formed the character "Love."
This character was not only used to teach Shukaku but also to constantly remind himself.
"Uchiha... Itachi, is it?"
Bunbuku repeated the name.
On the other side, after retracting the Sharingan, Praying Wind couldn't help but rub his eyes.
"This chakra consumption is too terrifying; anime really does deceive people."
In anime, Uchiha Obito controlled the Nine-Tails with the Three Tomoe Sharingan; that's one thing, considering he was personally taught by Madara.
Seeing Sasuke easily suppress the nearly berserk Nine-Tails with the Sharingan, and with such a nonchalant and dismissive expression, was too misleading.
It made Praying Wind a bit presumptuous.
"As expected, the protagonist's halo is real."
He glanced at the system's trial card time, less than three minutes remaining.
"Although there's still a bit of time, it's enough; it's about time to end this."
He turned to look at the small hill where the Sand Ninjas had been hiding before.
It had now disappeared without a trace.
Although the destructive power of the Tailed Beast Ball was greatly reduced by the Fivefold Rashomon, it was still terrifying.
That place had now become a living hell.
"Let's send one last big gift."
Saying that, he formed hand seals.
"Water Release! Great Waterfall Technique!"
Whoosh—
The target was not the Sand Ninjas but the Sand Ninja camp, which, although mostly evacuated, still contained a large amount of supplies.
Since he couldn't take it with him, destroying it would solve everything.
At the same time, a figure slowly emerged beneath Praying Wind's feet, it was Yekura's puppet.
Before he ambushed the Sand Ninja camp, he had Yekura's puppet use Earth Release to sneak in ahead of time, directly camping behind the camp, at the Sand Village's corpse disposal tents, packing everything up.
As well as those Sand Ninja corpses that he had washed away with mud in the camp from the very beginning.
This final move was also to wash away all traces, preventing anyone from tracing him back, even to his puppet's identity.
"Is it done?"
The puppet patted its bulging ninja tool pouch, "Don't worry, not a single one was missed."
"Good, let's go."
He put away the puppet and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return directly to the forest where he had left the Flying Thunder God Kunai beforehand.
Not far from where he fought Sasori.
At this time, it could be seen that the entire area was surrounded by Leaf Village ninjas.
Nara Shikaku and the others reacted quite quickly; after notifying Danzo, Danzo's response was also very fast.
After Praying Wind confirmed that his temporary puppet was okay, he used the Flying Thunder God Technique again to leave.
The more he used the Flying Thunder God Technique, the more he realized how useful it was.
Now that the trial card time was about to end, he didn't know if he could learn this technique.
He arrived at a very hidden underground base entrance.
This was left behind by Sasori in the Rain Country, which Praying Wind had accidentally discovered while on the road.
Although it was very well hidden, Tobirama Senju's perception ability was not a joke.
At the end of the First Ninja World War, Tobirama Senju took the young Hiruzen Sarutobi and others to the Cloud Village to sign a contract; when being chased by Ginkaku and Kinkaku, he merely reached out and sensed the ground slightly to determine the number and strength of Ginkaku and Kinkaku's forces dozens of miles away.
During the Fourth Ninja World War, after being resurrected by Orochimaru with the Impure World Reincarnation, he slightly sensed and determined the chakra thousands of miles away, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring Sasuke and Orochimaru and others over.
This terrifying perception ability, coupled with the Flying Thunder God Technique, was the reason he was known as the "Fastest Ninja in the Ninja World."
Therefore, after accidentally discovering this hidden base, Praying Wind decisively occupied it and made it his secret base.
Some more hidden things could be placed here in the future.
Just having the first secret base, Praying Wind suddenly understood why Orochimaru liked to build secret bases so much.
It wasn't just because a cunning rabbit has three burrows, but also because this dark and secretive feeling easily gave people a sense of mystery as if a small secret was underway.
He entered the base.
Inside, there were a large number of tools and parts for making puppets, and there was even a separate room filled with densely packed puppet limbs of all kinds.
