Everyone stared intently at the raging flames. As the fire gradually spread, the flowing toad oil continued to force them back.
As time passed, the Toad Sage had vanished without a trace, disappearing into the blaze. No one knew whether he had escaped or hidden himself within the flames.
"Shisui!!!"
Someone suddenly called his name from afar. Uchiha Shisui looked up and, upon seeing Fugaku and Itachi, hurried over and quickly explained the current situation.
"Toad oil?" Fugaku Uchiha snorted coldly. His Mangekyō Sharingan instantly unleashed its ocular technique, and black flames devoured the fire fueled by toad oil.
The flames of Amaterasu could consume all things, generating energy to continue burning until that energy was exhausted.
In the original work, Amaterasu's flames could be called benevolent flames—they burned everything except people.
Fugaku Uchiha activated his future-predicting ocular technique. His eyes could not withstand the backlash, and blood streamed down his cheek.
In the future, he saw where the Toad Sage would appear.
"Follow me." Fugaku Uchiha covered one eye with one hand. The unbearable pain had made his voice hoarse.
"I've already seen the future."
"Are you all right?"
Uchiha Shisui was concerned for Lord Fugaku's condition. Only those who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan could understand the bodily damage caused by its depletion of ocular power.
"I'm fine. We absolutely cannot let him escape."
Fugaku Uchiha waved away Itachi's support. "Come with me, quickly."
The Toad Sage had successfully used the flames from the toad oil to escape. He secretly congratulated himself. In the end, he had been more cunning; these youngsters had truly underestimated an old fellow like him.
There was more than one path out of Mount Myōboku. As the instigator who had once incited Hagoromo Otsutsuki and his mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, to turn against one another,