Boom!
The moment the massive slap struck Danzo, his head exploded like a watermelon.
Scalding blood splattered across the frozen ground.
Ye Fan didn't stop. He spun around and kicked Danzo in the chest.
The tremendous force blew Danzo's body into a cloud of blood. The surrounding earth split apart, forming a series of bottomless chasms.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Danzo had turned everything into a dream, but he was now on the other side, coughing nonstop.
Every time he coughed, he spat up blood.
"Cough, cough, cough... How is this possible? I'm still within Izanagi's range. How can I still be injured?!"
Feeling the blood surging inside him, Danzo was aghast. His face turned deathly pale.
Izanagi was a forbidden technique that could turn all the damage he took into a dream, yet he was still injured.
This turn of events made Danzo feel that something was wrong.
It seemed that even with Izanagi's power, he still couldn't stop Ye Fan.
"Ninjutsu: Summoning Technique!"
Danzo summoned a massive Summoned Beast: the Baku.
The Baku's eyes were bloodshot as he snarled at Ye Fan. He seemed to share a bond with Danzo and knew that the boy before him had beaten Danzo so badly he could barely fight back.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Wave!"
Working together with the Baku, Danzo unleashed a highly destructive ninjutsu.
"Hmph. Pathetic parlor tricks!"
Ye Fan stood perfectly still, making no attempt to dodge as the Vacuum Wave swept toward him.
Just before it could hit him, an even more powerful force tore it apart, scattering it into nothing.
"Th-this... What is this?!"
Danzo stared wide-eyed at the yellow light surrounding Ye Fan.
He could feel an extraordinary power radiating from Ye Fan.
It wasn't Chakra being released. Its level and the power it contained were many times greater than Chakra!
"Is this... the power of a god?"
Danzo's limbs went weak, and his whole body trembled. He was nearly scared out of his wits.
The aura Ye Fan gave off pressed down on Danzo from the depths of his soul.
For a moment, Danzo felt that Izanagi and the Sharingan were nothing but garbage in the face of such power!
"A god?" Ye Fan paused, then said, "To you—and to the entire shinobi world—I really am a true god!"
Bang!
Ye Fan vanished from where he stood. By the time Danzo saw him again, Ye Fan had already punched the Baku to pieces.
The Baku didn't even have time to react before he burst into a cloud of blood, which splattered across the frozen ground.
Danzo was still reeling from the shock when his body turned into a cloud of blood once more.
This time, Ye Fan had added a little "Qi" to his punch.
Izanagi's power turned everything into a dream once again.
When Danzo came back to life, he found his body completely restored, without a single visible wound.
But his arms wouldn't respond at all, and waves of unbearable pain tore through them.
It wasn't like the pain of a physical wound. It was something he had never experienced before.
"Heh. It seems this legendary Izanagi isn't all that powerful after all!"
"It can restore physical injuries, but it can't seem to heal damage to the soul!"
Danzo was stunned. He wasn't a fool; he understood exactly what Ye Fan meant.
"You... You can attack the soul and sever my arms?!"
The intense pain had Danzo drenched in sweat, his features contorted into a hideous grimace that made him look like a monster.
At the same time, Danzo realized something else.
If Ye Fan could sever his arms, couldn't he also cut off his head?
Only then did Danzo understand that Ye Fan had been toying with him!
Ye Fan had always been capable of killing him. He simply hadn't done it yet!
At the thought, boundless terror surged through Danzo.
Both Ye Fan's strength and the way he operated filled Danzo with utter dread.
He couldn't believe that he, who had always made others fear him, could now feel terror and despair at the hands of a boy!
"Shimura Danzō, feel the pain. Feel the fear."
"I'll slice your soul apart piece by piece and make you watch, helpless to do anything."
With a crack, Danzo felt all sensation vanish from his legs.
The pain came in fragments, each one striking his nerves and driving him to the brink of madness.
Just as he had said, Ye Fan used Qi to slice the legs of Danzo's soul into pieces.
The searing pain knocked Danzo unconscious again and again.
But Izanagi kept bringing him back to consciousness.
Pain and unconsciousness. Waking up. Pain and unconsciousness. Waking up...
Danzo was trapped in this cycle, truly experiencing what it meant to be unable to live and unable to die.
At that moment, he hated Izanagi with all his heart. He never wanted to feel this pain again. All he wanted was to die as quickly as possible!
After slicing apart Danzo's soul limbs, Ye Fan continued cutting into his upper body.
"Pfft!"
Danzo spewed blood, despair filling his eyes.
This level of pain was far more agonizing than being cut a thousand times.
"Kotoamatsukami!"
Enduring the excruciating pain, Danzo forcibly activated the Sharingan that had once belonged to Shisui Uchiha.
In an instant, the Sharingan blazed with dazzling light.
Ye Fan had already prepared for this. He instantly released the Qi within his body, wrapping himself in it from every direction.
When he was three years old, he had used this method to defend against Uchiha Itachi's Genjutsu. That was why he could act with such confidence now.
Otherwise, no one facing a dōjutsu that could seize control of the brain and change a person's thoughts in an instant would dare to be so dismissive.
The Qi released from Ye Fan's body instantly dispelled Kotoamatsukami and spread in every direction.
The whole of Konoha trembled under Ye Fan's aura. Everyone who felt this power was filled with boundless fear.
They could feel just how vast the gulf was between them and this power.
Faced with such power, they couldn't even summon the will to fight back!
Everything within a hundred meters of Ye Fan, except the ground beneath his feet, became a bottomless pit.
That was after Ye Fan dispelled Kotoamatsukami and quickly brought his aura under control.
If he hadn't held back, the moment all the Qi in his body burst out, it would have been enough to destroy the entire planet!
Ye Fan glanced around and sensed the area with his Qi. Danzo's aura was already gone.
Danzo had long since turned to dust and dispersed into the world. He would never appear again!
"I've collected the first installment of interest. Now it's time to settle the rest of the score!"
Ye Fan moved and appeared atop the Hokage Rock in Konoha.
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