Reverse Scale! Tsunade, You Dare Collude with Danzo?

Yuan rested his hand on the hilt of the short blade at his back, just about to step out through the gates of the Hidden Leaf Village. An autumn wind swept up the dead leaves on the ground, and from midair came the faintest flutter of wings.

The Mangekyo Sharingan in Yuan's eyes turned, the red hexagram pattern locking hard onto a black crow flying overhead. This was no ordinary bird. Its feathers were covered in tiny curse marks carved with flowing chakra.

Yuan was far too familiar with those curse-mark patterns. He had seen them countless times in Danzo's underground base. This was Root's exclusive urgent intelligence transmission formula!

What made Yuan's blood boil was that the crow's destination was not some secret underground contact point, but the tallest Hokage Building in the center of the village! There was even a trace of the current Hokage Tsunade's chakra left on the crow, serving as a two-way beacon.

The Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village was secretly colluding with the intelligence network of the enemy he wanted to kill!

"You're courting death." The bluestone slabs under Yuan's feet suddenly shattered. His whole body turned into an afterimage wreathed in lightning, forcibly changing direction in midair as he charged straight for the Hokage Building.

Inside the Hokage's office.

Tsunade was standing before the newly replaced solid-wood desk, holding a secret letter she had just taken out of a small scroll. Nara Shikaku stood to the left, checking a map, while Shizune held Tonton at the side and organized the records.

"The message from Danzo's hidden line has been confirmed. Hidan and Kakuzu of the Akatsuki did indeed show themselves at the border. Their original target was us, but for some reason, they suddenly changed route." Tsunade slapped the secret letter onto the desk, her brows knotting tightly.

Shikaku sighed. "No matter where Danzo is hiding, the intelligence network in his hands is indeed useful to the village. What we lack most right now is..."

Bang—boom!

Before Shikaku could finish speaking, the two-inch-thick double doors of redwood to the Hokage's office, along with half the walls on either side of the frame, exploded straight into a storm of wooden fragments and brick rubble.

The violent blast sent Shizune tumbling to the floor, while Tonton squealed and scrambled wildly all over the room.

Amid the smoke and dust, Yuan strode in over the wreckage covering the floor. He did not even glance at Shikaku. Those blood-red Mangekyo eyes nailed themselves directly to Tsunade's face.

"You're working with my enemy?" Yuan's voice was not a roar, but the extreme, suppressed, icy killing intent in it made the room's temperature instantly drop to freezing.

Tsunade did not retreat even half a step and met Yuan's gaze head-on. "This is Akatsuki intelligence sent back by Root's hidden agents. I'm using their intelligence network to track the Akatsuki and guard against foreign enemies invading!"

"You're using my enemy's intelligence network?" Yuan tugged at the corner of his mouth, revealing an extremely dangerous, arrogant sneer. "I told you to dig Danzo out at any cost. Not only have you not gone to tear down his den, you're here exchanging information with him?"

"I am the Hokage!" Tsunade slammed her palm onto the table, and the heavy solid-wood desk split straight in two from the middle. "I have the right to use any resource to protect the Hidden Leaf Village! The village can't withstand turmoil right now. You cannot interfere with my decisions!"

"You have the right? Fine." Yuan drew the short blade from his back with a backhanded motion, and ear-piercing thunder instantly erupted along the edge. "Then I have the right too. Today, I'll kill off all your resources right here!"

The instant his words fell, Yuan kicked off the ground and crossed seven or eight meters in one bound, his short blade carrying berserk lightning-nature chakra as it chopped straight at Tsunade's face.

Tsunade had long been on guard against this lunatic making a move. She did not form a single hand seal. The muscles in her right arm swelled violently, all her chakra concentrating in her fist as she punched out to meet the lightning.

Chakra Enhanced Strength Punch!

Blade and fist crashed violently together. There was no sound of the blade slicing through flesh; Tsunade's fist was covered in a layer of high-density chakra defense. The immense recoil directly tore away more than half of the top-floor ceiling of the entire Hokage Building.

Shikaku pulled Shizune up, and the two rolled and scrambled out the window, fleeing this monster-level clash of gods.

In the first exchange, Yuan sensed immense resistance coming from his short blade. This woman's strength was ridiculously great.

Yuan turned sideways to dodge Tsunade's follow-up left hook, the wind from her fist directly smashing the load-bearing pillar behind him into powder. He tossed aside the short blade, his right hand changing from palm to fist, and the pure violence enhanced by Kage-level physical reinforcement blasted back without the slightest restraint.

The two fists collided in midair again.

Crack! Tsunade's wrist gave a crisp snap, and her whole body slid three or four meters backward, her feet plowing two deep furrows through the hard floor tiles.

She shook her numb arm, her eyes full of shock. "Your strength... is even greater than mine?"

"Warm-up's over." Yuan was too lazy for more nonsense. Chakra overflowed from his body like a volcanic eruption, rapidly condensing into a giant red skeletal upper body. Susanoo directly smashed through the remaining walls, its huge bone fist hammering down toward Tsunade's head.

Tsunade knew ordinary methods could not block this monster at all. Her hands quickly formed seals, and the purple diamond mark on her forehead suddenly released.

Black runes rapidly spread from her forehead to her cheeks and across her entire body.

Ninja Art: Creation Rebirth: Strength of a Hundred Technique!

Tsunade's aura multiplied explosively. She raised her head, facing Susanoo's bone fist, and threw more than a dozen heavy Chakra Enhanced Strength Punches in succession, each one tearing through the air.

Boom boom boom!

Her fists rained down on Susanoo's red bones. The terrifying destructive force actually smashed several fine cracks across Susanoo's surface. Meanwhile, Tsunade's own hand bones kept breaking under the violent backlash, only to instantly re-form and heal under the terrifying recovery power of the Strength of a Hundred Technique.

"As long as I still have chakra, you can't kill me!" Tsunade roared, kicking apart one of Susanoo's defensive ribs.

Yuan stood within Susanoo's phantom, watching those wounds that had just shattered immediately heal again, and sneered.

"Strength of a Hundred Technique. Not bad. You're practically the best sandbag." Yuan withdrew Susanoo and directly closed in on Tsunade. "But your chakra... how much do you have?"

"Enough to last until you're exhausted!" Tsunade neither dodged nor retreated, punching toward Yuan's heart.

"I won't get tired. But you will."

Just as Tsunade's right fist was about to touch Yuan's chest, Yuan suddenly thrust out his left hand and clamped down hard on her wrist.

The hexagram of the Mangekyo Sharingan spun wildly.

His dojutsu, Extinction, activated!

An invisible, conceptual-level force of decomposition poured directly through Yuan's palm into Tsunade's arm.

There was no explosion, no cutting. Starting from her fingers, the flesh, bone, and blood vessels of Tsunade's right arm began to peel away and dissipate inch by inch, like sand weathered for a thousand years.

Tsunade's expression changed drastically. She desperately drove the chakra of the Strength of a Hundred Technique toward her right arm, trying to regenerate it, but that decomposing force was tyrannical to the extreme. The moment the Strength of a Hundred's cells divided and proliferated, they were immediately erased completely by Extinction.

Her regeneration speed could not keep up with the decomposition speed at all!

"What... what kind of ninjutsu is this?!" The intense tearing pain made Tsunade scream. She desperately tried to pull her hand back, but Yuan held her in a death grip.

"Conceptual-level decomposition. Your Strength of a Hundred... can't regenerate this." Yuan's fingers continued exerting force, and Tsunade's entire right forearm had already turned to flying ash.

Tsunade bit through her lip and forcibly pressed her left hand against the root of her right arm as it continued to collapse. The agony made even her voice tremble, but her eyes remained fierce. "Even if I die... I'll stop you!"