Escape and Interception!

Uchiha Clan Compound.

Yongye strolled through the courtyard, admiring the moon and listening to the three women playfully bicker in the bathroom, as though he had never left.

A system notification sounded in his mind.

[Ding—Target Hiruzen Sarutobi has suffered a severe mental blow!]

[The host framed him with precision, perfectly linking his signature Ninjutsu to the attack and leaving him unable to prove his innocence. Suspected by his closest companions, humiliated to his face by an old rival, his authority as Hokage has collapsed. Psychological damage far exceeds the threshold!]

[Congratulations, host. You have received an Advanced Blind Box ×1. Open it now?]

A smile tugged at Yongye's lips.

The Third Hokage cracked once this afternoon and again tonight. Twice in one day. He's even more efficient than that old dog Danzo.

"Open it."

[Ding—Advanced Blind Box opened!]

[Congratulations, host. You have received: Tsunade's Giant Strength Technique!]

The next instant, a ferocious force erupted inside Yongye.

His muscle fibers began to vibrate wildly. It was neither twitching nor cramping. Every fiber contracted and relaxed at tremendous speed, again and again.

His arms, legs, chest, abdomen, and back—more than six hundred muscles crackled at once, as though ten thousand strings had been plucked together.

Heat bloomed deep in his marrow. His blood surged faster.

He could feel his muscle density climbing with almost brutal speed.

With every heartbeat, scalding blood rushed into the deepest reaches of his muscles, where cells ravenously devoured it, transformed it, and stored it.

The Chakra in his meridians began flowing along an entirely new route of its own accord.

He was not guiding it. The power itself was teaching him—Chakra rose from his lower abdomen along his spine, split toward both arms at his shoulders, surged into his forearms, and finally