The Death of S-Rank Rogue Ninja Kakuzu and Hidan! Flaying Skin, Ripping Out Hearts! Severing a Greed That Lived for a Century!

Yuan gave a cold laugh, and his legs, bound by Earth Grudge Fear's black threads, suddenly erupted with a blinding burst of black lightning-flame.

The scorching heat and destructive power of Flame-Lightning Chidori instantly raced along the threads.

"Sizzle!"

Those incredibly tough black threads twisted madly like snakes being electrocuted, then were burned to ash under heat of several thousand degrees.

Kakuzu's eyes sharpened. He had lived nearly a hundred years and seen countless powerful fighters, but someone like this young man before him, whose chakra was as violent as a volcano and seemingly endless, was absolutely one of a kind.

"Do it!" Kakuzu wasted no words and directly controlled the four masked monsters behind him to launch an all-direction bombardment.

"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"

"Fire Release: Searing Migraine!"

The wind and fire masked monsters opened their mouths at the same time. A raging hurricane mixed with an overwhelming sea of fire, turning into a fire cyclone powerful enough to burn the entire forest to ash in an instant as it swept toward Yuan.

At the same time, the lightning-style masked monster also spat out Lightning Release: False Darkness, like a long spear, sealing off Yuan's escape route from the flank.

This kind of compound ninjutsu attacking from three sides was something even a Kage-level powerhouse would have to avoid for the moment.

But Yuan not only did not retreat; a bloodthirsty red light instead burst from the depths of his eyes.

"You dare set off kiddie fireworks like this in front of me!"

Dark-red chakra erupted from Yuan's body like a tsunami reaching the heavens. In just one-tenth of a second, a half-complete Susanoo dozens of meters tall and clad in tengu armor thundered up from the ground!

The massive fire cyclone and lightning slammed viciously against Susanoo's red crystal surface, only stirring up a violent ripple. They could not even leave a single crack.

"What kind of monster defense is this..." Kakuzu's face changed drastically. He immediately prepared to control the masked monsters to scatter and fight while moving.

But Yuan gave him no chance at all. The red war god Susanoo reached out with its right hand and grabbed into the void, and a thirty-meter-long Thunder-Flame Greatsword instantly took shape.

"Your hearts... are too few!"

Standing inside Susanoo, Yuan swung his right hand down hard.

"Boom—!"

The enormous Thunder-Flame Greatsword carried a sonic boom that could destroy everything as it swept straight out. The two Wind Release and Fire Release masked monsters, which had just finished using their ninjutsu and had not yet had time to dodge, along with dozens of giant trees behind them so thick several people could barely wrap their arms around them, were cut in half on the spot by this single slash!

Black lightning and flame directly burned those two hearts into charcoal.

"Two down." Yuan's voice was as cold as frost.

Kakuzu felt his scalp go numb. His main body immediately used Earth Release: Earth Spear to harden himself, then turned and tried to burrow underground.

"Trying to run?"

Yuan dismissed Susanoo and unleashed his full speed. With the Raikage's speed boosting him, he seemed to cross the distance of space in an instant, appearing directly above the Lightning Release masked monster.

"Shatter!" A Chakra Enhanced Strength Punch descended from the sky, smashing that Lightning Release monster straight into a twitching puddle of sludge on the ground.

In just three breaths, the three lives Kakuzu had saved up over decades were crushed in such an unreasonable fashion.

Kakuzu's main body had only just emerged halfway from the earth when a bloodstained hand already clamped around his neck like iron pincers, forcibly yanking him out of the ground.

"Old man, the game of hide-and-seek is over." Yuan held Kakuzu up with one hand, and his left Mangekyo Sharingan erupted with the strange ocular power "Extinction."

The power of conceptual decomposition rushed straight into Kakuzu's body through Yuan's palm. The Earth Grudge Fear black threads that had originally been tangled inside him, trying to resist, snapped and withered one after another as if they had touched sulfuric acid.

Kakuzu struggled desperately. His last Water Release mask tried to attack, only for Yuan to crush its heart bare-handed with his other hand!

"No... my hearts..." Kakuzu vomited great mouthfuls of black blood, his eyes filled with despair.

At this moment, when his life was about to be cut off, countless revolving images began flashing before his eyes. He saw his young self from a hundred years ago, going to assassinate Hashirama Senju with a heart full of loyalty to his village; saw the humiliation of being heartlessly abandoned by the village higher-ups after the mission failed and thrown into prison; saw the days when he killed all the higher-ups, seized Earth Grudge Fear, and began frantically amassing money in the black market like a walking corpse.

He had lived so long just to prove that he could outlive those who had abandoned him.

But now, all that greed and obsession turned to ash beneath these scarlet eyes.

"I'll send you down to count your money."

Yuan's right fist condensed terrifying Chakra Enhanced Strength, and without the slightest mercy, he punched through Kakuzu's chest. Together with the final heart of his main body, it was completely crushed into a paste of flesh.

He casually tossed Kakuzu's corpse aside like garbage. Yuan turned his head and looked at the figure more than ten meters away, who was trying to drag his ruined body deeper into the woods.

Hidan's severed left arm was still bleeding. Right now, he had been scared completely out of his wits. What evil god, what immortal body? In front of that demon who had smashed his hands and feet with one punch and was still waiting for them to grow back, it was all bullshit.

"Help... Kakuzu, you bastard, don't die!" Hidan desperately clawed at the dirt with his right hand.

A pair of black leather boots stopped in front of his head.

Yuan looked down at him from above. "Immortal? I'd like to see whether you really can't die, or whether you're just overdue for decomposition."

His left Mangekyo Sharingan locked tightly onto Hidan. The ocular technique "Extinction" activated.

This time, Yuan did not choose to erase him instantly. Instead, he deliberately controlled the speed of decomposition.

"Aaaaaah—!"

Hidan stared in terror at his own legs. The immortal cells that had been modified by the evil god ritual actually began to peel away and dissipate bit by bit like a weathered sand sculpture.

There was no blood, no wound, just pure "disappearance." From the toes to the calves, then to the thighs.

"Stop! Please stop! I'll die! I'll really die!" Hidan screamed madly. For the first time, he felt the true fear of death.

In his revolving memories, he saw himself once preaching madly in the Land of Hot Water, using his scythe to harvest one innocent life after another, and the pleading expressions on those people's faces. Now, that despair had finally come swinging back like a boomerang and smashed onto his own head.

"Your god can't protect you."

Yuan looked at Hidan, who only had half a body left, his eyes utterly unmoved. He directly raised one foot and stomped down hard, crushing Hidan's head while it was still frantically begging for mercy!

[Ding! Killed S-rank rogue ninjas Kakuzu and Hidan! Obtained orange fragments ×100!]

[Detected that the host completely destroyed the enemy's faith and physically crushed them, triggering a double critical hit! Final reward obtained: orange fragments ×200!]

[Unlocked enemy abilities: Earth Grudge Fear fragment, Immortal Curse (because the system determined this curse to be too disgusting, it has been automatically converted into accelerated cell regeneration enhancement)!]

Feeling the life force inside him surge once again, Yuan twisted his neck in satisfaction.

He stepped over the two mutilated corpses and raised his head to look west, toward the Land of Wind, red light flickering in his eyes.

"Who's left in Akatsuki... Sasori, Deidara, Pain, Konan, Obito. Next up, it's you art-playing pieces of trash."