In the Light Screen footage, as a heavy BGM suddenly began to play, as if heaven and earth themselves were shifting, Shimura Danzo's right arm seemed to come alive. It wriggled, twisted, and swelled, while white matter rapidly spread from his right arm to the rest of his body.
Just then, Hiruzen Sarutobi brought Enma's Staff down on him. With a loud clang, the enlarged, mutated right arm of Hashirama Cells blocked the strike with one hand.
"What!?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes widened in shock.
The next instant, a terrifying force struck him, forcibly blasting Hiruzen Sarutobi away. The impact turned him into a human cannonball, sending him crashing into the distant forest created by Deep Forest Emergence with a thunderous boom and shattering a large section of the trees.
The terrible impact made Hiruzen Sarutobi spit out a mouthful of blood. He had clearly suffered internal injuries.
This sudden turn of events left everyone stunned. Those inside and outside the Four Violet Flames Formation were dumbfounded. None of them had expected Shimura Danzo, who had been getting utterly beaten down, to suddenly rise up.
Moreover, a dark crimson aura radiated from Shimura Danzo's body, piercing through the Four Violet Flames Formation and spreading outward.
In an instant, everyone in Konoha with even a little sensory ability underwent a drastic change in expression. The terrifying aura emanating from Shimura Danzo reached them without obstruction, and an instinctive pressure from a living being blanketed all of Konoha and the surrounding region.
And this was only the beginning of Shimura Danzo's mutation.
Even Naruto and Sasuke turned solemn at that moment and looked toward the battlefield.
People in distant places sensed it as well.
This time, it was not mutual resonance between tailed beasts, but simply powerful beings sensing a certain terrifying aura.