Your Cheat Has Expired

The night wind carried the pungent smell of blood, and the atmosphere in the square plummeted to freezing point.

Danzo held his pale, deformed right arm aloft, his remaining ten Sharingan swirling eerily in the darkness. Each eye radiated the resentment and unwillingness of Uchiha clansman dying with his will.

"Sasuke, and that Nine-Tails brat." Danzo's aged face twisted into a ferocious grin. "Before Izanagi, all your attacks are meaningless. How many times can you kill me? Once? Twice? Even after you've exhausted your Chakra, I'll still stand at the highest point of Hidden Leaf!"

Before he finished speaking, his only remaining left hand suddenly pulled out from under the bandage and quickly Hand Seals.

"Wind Release · Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"

Danzo bulged his mouth, and an extremely dense, high-pressure vortex spewed out. The air was forcibly sucked out, producing a piercing sonic boom. The vortex exploded in mid-air, transforming into dozens of crescent-shaped, sharp wind blades that swept indiscriminately towards Naruto, Sasuke, and Tsunade and the others behind them.

This old man unleashed a wide-range killing move, showing no regard for the lives of the civilians and Konoha Ninja around him.

"Step back!" Kakashi shouted sharply, his hands quickly Hand Seals to prepare to erect the Earth Style Wall.

"There's no need to go through all that trouble."

Naruto remained motionless, and golden Yang Release Chakra suddenly ignited on his body. A golden-red halo appeared in his eyes, and Sage Mode and Pure Byakugan were activated simultaneously.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Nine dark gold Chakra Chains burst from the ground, instantly weaving into an impenetrable golden net in front of everyone.

"Clang! Clang!" The wind blades struck the Adamantine Sealing Chains, exploding into a trail of sparks. They didn't even leave a white mark before shattering into a chaotic gust of wind.

Just as the shockwave subsided, a dark shadow suddenly flashed past in front of us.

Instead of taking the opportunity to create distance, Danzo charged straight at Naruto's face like a gaunt, mad dog through the gap in the chains. He held a Kunai in his left hand, his chest wide open, making absolutely no attempt to defend himself.

"You're asking for death!" Sasuke's eyes bulged with bloodshot veins, and lightning crackled on his Kusanagi Sword as he prepared to slash forward.

Don't touch him!

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's shoulder and yanked him back half a step. At the same time, Naruto's right leg rose high like a battle axe, carrying a ferocious Monster Strength that tore through the air, and struck Danzo in the chest.

"Bang!"

A sickening cracking sound rang out. Danzo's sternum collapsed instantly, and he flew backward like a cannonball, smashing into a stone sculpture ten meters away. Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed all over the ground.

Completely dead.

But only a few seconds passed.

The pool of blood on the ground, along with Danzo's mangled corpse, suddenly vanished without a trace, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, its surface rippling.

"Despair."

At the top of the Clock Tower, twenty meters away, Danzo appeared unharmed. On his right arm, the second Sharingan slowly closed.

"I've already told you, all your struggles are futile." Danzo looked down at the crowd, his tone laced with condescending mockery. "That kick just now had considerable power, but unfortunately, I have plenty of life left to fight you..."

"Shut up, you old dog. I'm embarrassed for you just listening to your bragging."

Naruto picked at his ear, directly interrupting his boasting.

Danzo's cold smile froze.

Naruto raised his head, his Pure Byakugan fixed on Danzo in eyes.

"Using other people's lives to recharge your own account, you really think you've got an invincibility cheat?" Naruto scoffed, his voice not loud, but clearly carrying throughout the entire area. "One eye, in exchange for one minute of invincibility. You just rushed over to get hit not because you're not afraid of death, but because your one-minute trial card for that eye is about to expire, and you don't want to waste it, right?"

Upon hearing this, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.

Tsunade paused for a moment, then realized, "A time limit? Isn't it based on the number of deaths?"

"Yes." Naruto pointed to Danzo's pale right arm. "Izanagi, that lousy technique, can turn the damage the caster receives into an illusion during its activation. But once the time is up, the eye that comes at the cost will close forever. He still has nine eyes left on his arm. All told, he only has nine minutes left to live."

Danzo's eye twitched violently twice.

He never imagined that his ultimate trump card, which he had kept hidden for so many years and was so proud of, would be seen through so easily by a teenager.

"And another thing," Naruto's lips curled into a cold smile, "You risked your life to get close to me just now because you have the 'Reverse Four Symbols Seal' Cursed Seal engraved on your chest, right? You wanted to take advantage of Izanagi's invincibility to get close to us and self-destruct, taking us both down with you?"

Danzo's expression changed completely. If being seen through by Izanagi earlier only startled him, then having his Reverse Four Symbols Seal broken now sent a chill down his spine.

Just how far can those Byakugan see?!

"Orochimaru's Hashirama Cells rejection reaction must have been quite painful, right? Your Chakra is almost depleted from suppressing that arm." Naruto mercilessly stripped Danzo last pair of underwear.

Kakashi stood below, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth beneath his mask.

As expected of Naruto, these words directly transformed Danzo from a "mastermind with impeccable strategies" into a "useless old codger who barely survives by stealing spare parts."

"Kill once per minute..." Sasuke repeated under his breath, veins bulging on the back of his hand gripping the Kusanagi Sword. He looked up, the killing intent in his Mangekyō Sharingan almost tangible. "Sounds pretty stress-relieving."

"Don't kill him too quickly." Naruto cracked his neck, his knuckles popping. "Leave one eye alive. I still have a score to settle with Obito."

"You arrogant brats! I'll show you what true power is!"

Danzo, Danzo bit his finger and roared. His right arm, implanted with Hashirama Cells, instantly swelled, and several thick tree trunks burst from his skin, strangling towards Naruto and Sasuke like raging pythons.

"Wood Release: Wood Release: Tree Root Explosive Burial!"

"Trying to use Wood Release in front of me with this thing? If the First Hokage knew, he'd be turning in his grave."

Instead of retreating, Naruto advanced, charging directly into the massive, overwhelming tree roots. Pure Yang Chakra surged wildly in his right fist; without any fancy Ninjutsu, it was just an extremely simple and brutal straight punch.

"Boom!"

The violent force of the punch transformed into a visible white shockwave. Tree roots, strong enough to crush steel, crumbled inch by inch the moment they touched the force of the punch, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

Naruto's figure left a golden trail through the wood chips, instantly appearing in front of Danzo.

"Too slow."

Naruto grabbed Danzo, grabbed his face with his left hand, and slammed it hard against the bluestone ground below.

"Bang!"

The ground was smashed open, creating a crater five meters in diameter. Danzo's skull shattered, and blood gushed out.

The third Sharingan closed.

Danzo's figure reappeared on the trunk of a large tree nearby. Just as he showed his head, a sharp bird cry suddenly came from mid-air.

"Chidori Sharp Spear!"

A five-meter-long, purple-blue lightning spear descended from the sky, piercing Danzo's neck without any resistance and pinning him firmly to the tree trunk. Sasuke's figure had appeared above him at some point, his Mangekyo Sharingan coldly watching him.

"Eight minutes left," Sasuke coldly announced.

Danzo once again vanished as a phantom.

Before he could even get his footing on the other side of the ruins, an Explosive Tag was already lightly affixed to his forehead.

"Boom!"

Kakkō shot into the sky.

"Seven minutes left." Kakashi withdrew his hand Hand Seals and stared expressionlessly at the corpse that had been blown in two.

Collapse.

A complete collapse.

Danzo originally thought that by activating Izanagi, he could toy with these juniors like a god. But he was wrong, terribly wrong.

This is not a battle; it's a one-sided public execution!

Naruto, Sasuke, and even Kakashi joined in. They didn't care what Ninjutsu Danzo used; they only did one thing—kill him the moment he appeared, using the fastest and most violent method.

Wind Release was torn apart, Wood Release was smashed, and even close-quarters combat was not even in the same league.

"Pfft!"

The Kusanagi Sword severed Danzo's head.

"Bang!"

The Rasengan blasted half of his body apart.

One by one, the eyes on my right arm closed. Seven, five, three...

Each death, though the body would regenerate, left the pain of being torn apart, burned, and smashed etched into the mind. In just a few minutes, Danzo was killed seven or eight times in various ways, and his mind was on the verge of collapse.

"Huff... huff..."

Danzo and fell awkwardly onto the steps of the Hokage Building. His once-proud right arm was now covered in disgusting, bark-like textures; his chakra depletion was making it difficult for him to suppress the engulfing effects of Chakra's Hashirama Cells.

Only two Sharingan remained open on his arm.

One of the ordinary eyes is rapidly losing its pupil power and is about to close.

The other one is the Kotoamatsukami Eye, hidden deep within the palm of Shisui Uchiha!

"No... I can't die here!" Danzo's single eye was filled with terror and madness. He glanced at Naruto and Sasuke, who were closing in, and suddenly ripped off the bandage from his right eye.

He didn't want to waste any more time. He was going to activate Kotoamatsukami to forcibly control the Nine-Tails- Tails and make it and Sasuke kill each other! Even if it meant the complete collapse of this body.

However, just as Danzo ripped off the bandage...

Less than ten meters away in the shadows underground, a strange black viscous liquid silently seeped out.

Black Zetsu's head, resembling a Shisui plant, revealed half of its yellowish eye in the shadows, staring intently at Sharingan's Danzo in Danzo's palm.

"So that's where it was hidden... It really saved us a lot of trouble." The cold, hoarse muttering voice traveled far away along the Leyline.