Tsunade, you're really drunk!

Sand's hand directly held Shino, and Hayate, who was watching the game outside, felt a little confused at this moment.

With Shino's strength, he should be able to dodge the sand claw's attack, so why didn't he avoid it?

If Shino could hear Hayate's inner voice at this moment, he would definitely give his answer confidently.

Because I am not afraid!

Gaara's right hand, which was controlling the sand, suddenly clenched at this moment.

"Sandfall Funeral."

The Hand of Sand began to compress further, and then made a creaking sound.

But Gaara felt something was wrong, something didn't feel right.

It didn't feel like crushing the other party, but rather like crushing a pile of hard stones.

At this moment, Gaara suddenly felt the sand begin to loosen uncontrollably, and the sand hand that originally wrapped Shino began to scatter from the outside, turning into loose sand bit by bit and falling to the ground.

"This is……?"

Gaara immediately understood that the chakra on the sand that he had previously controlled was now almost gone.

He took out all the sand from the sand gourd behind him, turned it into a sand shuriken and stabbed it towards the scattered sand pile in front of him.

"Sand Shuriken."

In the arena, the sand that originally wrapped Shino suddenly exploded, and he stood there intact, but at this moment, his body was covered with dense black beetles.

From a distance, people familiar with the Aburame clan might mistake it for a parasite, but the Aburame clan can see that the surface of this beetle seems to be covered with densely packed tiny scales, which sparkle with a shiny black luster in the sun.

This is exactly what happened after Shino's parasitic insects continued to reproduce, and through the continuous reproduction of the mutated parasitic insects, a new insect species was born - the scale beetle!

This kind of scale beetle not only inherited the ability of the parasitic insect to devour chakra, but can even withstand pressure that is dozens of times that of the parasitic insect!

And even the life cycle has been extended three times!

This was the reason why Shino had the guts to withstand Gaara's combination of skills.

But it was this scene that made many people in the audience choose to cover their eyes at this moment.

"What the hell! What the hell is this? It's so disgusting. Is this insect controller so disgusting?"

"I can't bear to watch this anymore, my trypophobia is acting up... Ugh~!"

"These... these little things look quite unique..."

Most of the audience found it physically difficult to accept the sight of Shino's body being covered with bugs.

Despite this, Aburame Shino's performance in withstanding Gaara's attack just now still made many viewers full of confidence in her.

At least the audience in Konoha felt that they had bet a little too much on this match before the match, and there was a good chance of making a lot of money, because the audience in Sand Village had placed a lot of bets on Gaara.

"Scale beetles, disperse."

Following Shino's order, this group of scaly beetles immediately spread out their transparent, thin wings under their scales like machines that had received instructions, and flapped them continuously, making bursts of buzzing sounds in the air, and flew towards Gaara.

The two of them were in the air, using their hands to constantly direct their respective sand and scale beetles to collide again and again in the air!

Gravel flew everywhere, and many scale beetles had their wings broken in the impact, and fell to the ground with a clatter.

The sand controlled by Gaara was also constantly devoured by the chakra in it due to the collision with the scale beetle, and scattered on the ground.

Until finally, all the sand and scale beetles were destroyed together, almost covering the center of the battle between the two.

Apart from Uchiha Hikaru whom he met in the Forest of Death, this was the first time he encountered such a difficult and disgusting enemy.

But he still believed he had an absolute chance of winning.

Because the chakra of a Jinchūriki is almost inexhaustible compared to that of an ordinary person.

The sand gourd behind him turned into loose sand at this moment and smashed heavily onto the ground!

The arena under Gaara's feet was constantly eroded and turned into gravel. A small part of the gravel turned into a floating platform at this moment, holding up Gaara.

Gaara looked down at Shino below from above, his face expressionless.

"You are quite capable, but your biggest mistake was trying to engage in a protracted battle with me."

"You have no chance of winning right now!"

As he finished speaking, Gaara raised his hands high, and in just a few seconds, almost one third of the huge venue turned into gravel!

"Quicksand Waterfall!"

It turned into a huge wave and swept directly towards Aburame Shino!

The sand flow was surging, sweeping forward like a small natural disaster.

It turns into a huge wave sweeping across the world, symbolizing the arrival of victory.

In the audience, many people who previously thought that Shino had a good chance of winning now became pessimistic.

"This kind of power... is this really a Genin?"

"This battle... Konoha probably can't win. Even among the jonin, I don't think many people can use ninjutsu of this scale."

The audience of Sunagakure was overjoyed at this moment, with golden light shining in their eyes.

"Go ahead, Gaara! I've bet a million ryo on you! Don't let me down!"

"This is the true meaning of the word 'monster'! Hahaha!"

Shino just looked calmly at the sand waves in front of him, silently raised his index and middle fingers, pushed up the sunglasses on his nose, and the corners of his mouth hidden by the high collar rose at this moment.

"That's about right. It's time for you to see the horror of an Insect Buff."

At this moment, his hands are also raised high like Gaara!

The ground beneath my feet began to vibrate and tremble continuously.

He changed his usual silent image and shouted loudly.

"Come on! My lovely children!"

"The sea of ​​insects is vast, and my scale beetles will devour everything!"

The floor beneath my feet was constantly swarming with dense scale beetles. Even the scale beetles that had previously broken their wings were now crawling from the ground towards the sand waves ahead, constantly blocking the advancement of the sand waves!

Thousands of scale beetles plunged madly into the sea of ​​sand ahead like a rainstorm that blocked out the sky.

One after another! No fear of life or death!

At this moment, Gaara couldn't believe the scene in front of him. In Konoha, besides Naruto, there was actually someone with such terrifying strength!

His heart was in turmoil at this moment.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, it seemed that if he wanted to win this game, he would have to use the power of Shukaku in his body.

But he soon gave up the idea. Unless it was absolutely necessary, he still wanted to win all the competitions through his own strength and get his father's recognition.

Jump directly from the gravel platform and step on the sea of ​​sand.

With a determined look in his eyes, he injected most of the chakra in his body into the sand below.

"Sand Falls Burial!"

Loud noises came from the sand under Gaara's feet. The originally surging sand waves were now all compressed and condensed downwards, and the entire venue began to lower by a few centimeters.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"