Tsunade Dies? Concept Overwhelms Chakra Enhanced Strength! The Passing of the Fifth Hokage

Tsunade roared, and all the chakra in her body boiled over completely like a lit powder keg. She knew that if she backed down, Hidden Leaf Village would not even be able to hold this final line today.

She abruptly cut off the chakra supplying her right arm, allowing it to be completely disintegrated into nothingness by "Erasure." Immediately after, she formed seals one-handed with her remaining left hand.

"Creation Rebirth: Strength of a Hundred Technique... Limit Release!"

This was the ultimate form that burned the source of her life. The chakra Tsunade had accumulated over decades was released without reserve in an instant. Her originally smooth, firm face began aging rapidly at a visible speed. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes sank deep, her skin became shriveled and rough, and her long golden hair quickly lost its color from the roots, turning gray-white in the blink of an eye.

In the span of a single breath, she went from the peak beauty of a thirty-year-old to the decrepit state of someone in her fifties.

"I've owed Hidden Leaf Village my whole life... today, I pay it all back!" Tsunade, bearing her aged body, drove her left fist forward with destructive power enough to flatten an entire mountaintop, smashing viciously toward Yuan's face. The speed and force of this punch were fully three times stronger than before!

Yuan did not dodge at all.

The muscles on his body suddenly tightened, and the violent strength that had long since broken past the human limit under the system's enhancement all gathered into his right fist.

"Old hag, hurry up and die!"

The two fists slammed hard into each other in midair.

There was no stalemate, no evenly matched contest.

The ultimate Chakra Enhanced Strength Tsunade had obtained by burning her life lasted less than half a second before Yuan's pure physical power.

"Crack!" The bones in Tsunade's left arm shattered inch by inch, the jagged fragments even piercing through her withered skin.

Yuan's right fist was like a siege hammer crushing rotten wood, directly blasting aside her resistance. Carrying a savage blast of wind pressure, his punch punched straight through Tsunade's chest cavity!

"Pfft!"

The fist went in through the front of her chest and came out through her back. Blood dripped down Yuan's arm and pattered onto the stone slabs of the ruins.

Tsunade's whole body shook, and she spat out a huge mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. She did not die immediately; the remaining Strength of a Hundred chakra was still trying to repair the fatal penetrating wound, but Yuan had already driven the power of "Erasure" directly into her body through his fist.

Her internal organs began to fall apart under that conceptual-level power.

Tsunade looked at the young man before her, his eyes bloodshot, like an asura. In the final few seconds of her life, she felt no anger, only deep helplessness.

"You killed so many people... turned Hidden Leaf Village into a sea of blood... for what?" Tsunade coughed blood, her voice as faint as fallen leaves in the wind.

Yuan looked at her coldly, not a trace of pity in his eyes. "For the 1,327 clansmen who died under Hidden Leaf Village's butcher knives on that rainy night six years ago."

Tsunade closed her eyes, tears flowing down mixed with blood. "They're already dead. No matter how many people you kill today, even if you kill me... they won't come back."

Yuan was silent for a second. He pulled out his blood-soaked right hand.

"I know. But I don't just want to send them off. I want to send you enemies down to be buried with them. Killing every last one of Hidden Leaf Village's hypocritical higher-ups... is the only thing I can do."

Under the effect of "Erasure," Tsunade's body began to give off a golden light of collapse. In her mind, Kato Dan's smile, Nawaki's dream, and Jiraiya's back flashed past like a revolving lantern, until at last everything returned to darkness.

Thud. The body of the Fifth Hokage scattered into countless points of light, leaving only a tattered green haori and a pool of blood behind.

[Ding! Killed Kage-level Tsunade! Obtained orange fragments ×50!]

[Fragment quantity has reached the requirement! Does the host wish to exchange for skills?]

"Exchange for [Strength of a Hundred Technique], [Chakra Enhanced Strength Punch], and [Medical Ninjutsu Mastery] immediately! Use all the remaining fragments to strengthen my cellular regeneration speed!" Yuan decisively gave the order in his mind.

A powerful surge of chakra flowed through his meridians, and Yuan's muscles were instantly filled with the memory of that extreme explosive technique. Although a diamond-shaped mark did not appear on his forehead, his physical self-healing ability had already reached a terrifying level.

"Clink."

A crisp sound rang out. The First Hokage's chakra crystal necklace that Tsunade had worn around her neck in life fell into the pool of blood.

Yuan lowered his head and glanced at it, then bent down and picked it up. He wiped the blood staining it away with his thumb.

"A relic of the First Hokage. It contains immense vitality. It's a good thing, actually."

Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the ruins.

Aunt Mihui, dressed in black nightclothes and clutching a kunai in her hand, rushed in breathlessly. The commotion at the Hokage Building earlier had been too great. Afraid something had happened to Yuan, she had directly left the people in the clan grounds behind and hurried over.

When she saw the blood all over the ground and Tsunade's iconic coat, her whole body froze.

"You... you killed the Hokage?!" Mihui looked at the blood covering Yuan's hands, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

Yuan handed the First Hokage's necklace to Mihui. Mihui fumbled as she caught it.

"She contacted Danzo's people." Yuan's tone was flat, as if he were talking about crushing a bug.

Mihui gripped the necklace tightly, her eyes red-rimmed. "She was the Fifth Hokage! She just helped the village block Orochimaru! She was protecting Hidden Leaf Village! Why did you kill her? She wasn't a direct enemy from the massacre back then!"

Yuan suddenly turned around, the red light of his Mangekyo Sharingan blindingly sharp in the smoke.

"She protected Hidden Leaf Village. But that Hidden Leaf Village is the Hidden Leaf Village that wiped out my whole clan!" Yuan pointed at the pool of blood on the ground and gritted out each word. "Since she enjoyed the power of the Hokage, she had to bear the sins committed by Hidden Leaf Village's higher-ups. Shielding Danzo was a capital crime."

Mihui's tears fell. She took a step forward. "Yuan, enough. Revenge can't turn into slaughter. The way you are now, if Uncle Cheng were still alive, what would he think—"

Hearing the words "Uncle Cheng," Yuan's fury instantly soared to its peak. That was the most painful scar in the original owner's memories, and also the one bit of familial attachment he had kept in this world.

"Uncle is already dead!" Yuan roared at Mihui, his voice shaking the broken bricks around them into jumping. "Stabbed to death by the Anbu! Forced into it by Hidden Leaf Village's higher-ups! Killed by Danzo's orders! Tell me, who am I supposed to forgive? What right do I have to let them go?"

Mihui was shouted into silence. She looked at Yuan's crazed yet lonely face and let out a deep sigh.

"I don't know... but I do know... when Uncle taught you how to hold a kunai back then, he hoped you would protect the clan. He would absolutely never have wanted you to become a monster swallowed by hatred like this."

Yuan snorted coldly, wiped the blood from his face, and turned to walk outside.

"Uncle is gone. From that night six years ago onward, the obedient Uchiha Yuan no longer existed in this world. I'll walk my own path. Whoever blocks me, I kill."

Yuan's back disappeared at the end of the street.

Mihui stood where she was, tightly gripping the First Hokage's necklace with its immense vitality. She did not collapse and sob like an ordinary woman; the hardships of these six years had long since tempered her heart into something incomparably tough.

"Yuan walks his path. I walk mine." Mihui wiped away her tears, hung the necklace around her neck, and picked up a basic medical ninjutsu scroll that Tsunade had not had time to put away from the ground beside her.

"The Uchiha need a home where they can survive, not a battlefield where people die forever. Since all you can do is kill, then from now on, when the clansmen bleed, I'll save them." She turned and ran toward the clan grounds. She would use this necklace and this scroll to build a medical team that belonged only to the Uchiha.

At the same time, in a dark underground cave dozens of kilometers away from Hidden Leaf Village.

A plant resembling a pitcher plant emerged from the wall. Zetsu's half-black, half-white face was exposed, transmitting everything that had happened in Hidden Leaf Village to the headquarters far away in Hidden Rain Village through the Magic Lantern Body Technique.

In the dark tower, Pain's Rinnegan, rippling with purple rings, suddenly opened. A terrifying pressure instantly swept through the entire hall.

"He even killed the Fifth Hokage... this Uchiha Yuan's way of doing things has completely exceeded the scope of our control." Pain's voice carried not the slightest emotion.

Beside him, Konan folded a paper flower and looked up at him. "Should we have Kakuzu and Hidan go deal with him?"

"No. Have those two capture the tailed beasts first. As for Uchiha Yuan, he is now the greatest variable in the plan. This man... must die."