I Know How to Kill You Now

Five meters behind Yuan, Danzo stepped out again, completely unharmed. Only, on his right arm, another Sharingan slowly closed, losing its luster.

"Do you see? This is Izanagi! In the gap between dream and reality, even if you kill this old man ten thousand times..." Danzo had not finished his arrogant words.

"Then I'll kill you ten thousand times."

Yuan whipped around, his hands instantly completing seals at a speed the naked eye could not distinguish.

"Fire Style: Poison Fire Prairie Blaze!"

A raging inferno mixed with purple-black deadly poison surged out like a tsunami, giving Danzo no room to dodge at all. The high heat and deadly poison swallowed Danzo whole in an instant. An extremely shrill scream rang out from within the sea of fire, and in less than two seconds, Danzo's body was burned into charcoal.

However, space warped again. The charcoal scattered.

Danzo appeared beside a stone pillar more than ten meters away, gasping for breath. This time, he did not waste any more words, his hands forming seals at high speed. "Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Waves!"

Dozens of invisible wind blades, sharp enough to slice through steel, howled as they cut toward Yuan.

"Petty tricks." The Mangekyo Sharingan in Yuan's eyes flared, and red chakra instantly condensed into the armored form of a half-body Susanoo. The wind blades struck the armor and left only a string of sparks.

Yuan pushed through the wind blades' assault and drew the short blade on his back with a reverse grip. Rampaging lightning-nature chakra instantly coiled around the blade, giving off an ear-piercing shriek like ten thousand birds crying.

"Flame-Lightning Chidori!"

Yuan turned into a bolt of blue-black lightning and instantly cut in front of Danzo. The blade flashed past.

"Squelch!" Danzo's head spun straight into the sky, and blood sprayed more than two meters high from the cavity of his neck.

The third kill!

Space warped for the third time, and Danzo's figure appeared again in the distance. But this time, his face was already as pale as paper, and his breathing was as heavy as a bellows. The eyes that had originally remained on his right arm were already more than half closed. The massive backlash from the Hashirama Cells left him almost unable to stand steady.

He finally realized a terrifying fact—Uchiha Yuan, standing before him, simply did not care how hard he was to kill. In this monster's eyes, the ultimate forbidden technique he took such pride in was nothing more than a punching bag that gave him a few extra chances to vent his rage! The gap between each revival was squeezed so tightly that he could not even cast one complete ninjutsu!

"Any normal person should have figured it out by now." Yuan shook the remaining blood off his blade and closed in on Danzo step by step, the wild grin at the corner of his mouth like an evil ghost that had crawled out of hell. "The Sharingan on your right arm are your lives. Kill you once, one closes. Before they're all closed, you'll never die. So let's see whether you've got more eyes on your arm, or my blade is faster!"

Danzo's heart was finally drowned by endless fear. He clenched his teeth hard, then suddenly reached out and pressed down hard on an inconspicuous protrusion on the stone wall beside him.

"Rumble!"

The ground between the two of them suddenly caved in, and a specially made sealing refined-steel gate half a meter thick fell from above, smashing heavily into the ground and cutting Yuan and Danzo off from each other.

"You wait for this old man! Sooner or later, I'll dig out those eyes of yours!" Danzo let out an enraged roar from behind the steel gate, then turned and jumped into an underground secret escape passage that had long since been prepared, fleeing madly without looking back.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

An extremely terrifying series of impacts instantly came from the steel gate. The half-meter-thick refined steel, under Yuan's Susanoo's consecutive blows coupled with Chakra Enhanced Strength Punch, was smashed into three huge dents like putty.

The fifth punch!

"Boom!" The refined-steel gate was forcibly blown apart, shards of iron flying everywhere.

Yuan stepped over the wreckage and looked at the pitch-black underground passage, but he did not immediately give chase. A complicated Root hidden passage like this was full of self-destructing explosive tags. Chasing in would not only waste time, but that old dog Danzo definitely had other ways to shed his shell and escape.

"Next time I come, I'll dig out every eye on your right arm. Not a single one left."

Yuan gave the depths of the passage a cold glance, then sheathed his blade.

He turned and looked at Shikaku, who was sitting in the corner with a deathly pale face, shocked speechless, then walked over and yanked him up from the ground.

"This is already the second time. Do you Hidden Leaf Village higher-ups only know how to hide behind other people's asses and wait to die?" Yuan unceremoniously threw Shikaku onto a patch of dry ground to the side.

Shikaku gasped for breath, looked at the Root elites strewn across the ground after being slaughtered by Yuan like chickens, and shook his head bitterly. "Yuan... why didn't you chase him just now? That arm in Danzo's possession, the one covered in Sharingan... that's..."

"I know what it is." Yuan interrupted Shikaku, his scarlet Sharingan narrowing slightly as his mind frantically replayed the chakra flow at the instant Izanagi activated during the four times he had killed Danzo just now.

A glimmer of analytical blue light flashed through the system in his mind.

[Ding! Through combat observation, the system has recorded the activation mechanism of the incomplete forbidden technique "Izanagi": Sharingan ocular power conversion + Hashirama Cells maintenance.]

The corner of Yuan's mouth lifted into a cold smile filled with danger. He raised his head, as if he could see through the thick layers of earth to Danzo's fleeing back.

"I already know how to kill you."