Shimura Danzō had never imagined that a Konoha ninja would dare attack him inside the village.
Although Jing Xiu had not opened his eyes just now, while he was eating barbecue,
the sounds he had casually made had already trapped Shimura Danzō in a genjutsu.
Genjutsu, at its core, was an attack of spiritual power, a brief suppression of an enemy's divine soul by one's own.
Jing Xiu was already living his third life, with a divine soul of exceptionally high intrinsic quality and a wondrous method for cultivating it in Qi-State Origin-Flow.
He had far more than a thousand ways to deal with an old stubborn fool who had not fought in years.
This Uchiha Jing Xiu has even more terrifying potential than Kagami. I must find a way to eliminate him!
Having made up his mind, Shimura Danzō went straight to Hiruzen Sarutobi. "Hiruzen!"
"Regarding Uchiha Jing Xiu's blatant appropriation of prisoners of war,"
"and his crime of conspiring with Sasori of the Red Sands to murder the Third Kazekage, have you still not decided how to deal with him?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff on his pipe. "Danzo, although we in Konoha won the Third Shinobi World War,"
"it was no easy victory."
"The loss of the Hyuga's Byakugan, the devastating casualties at Kikyo Mountain..."
"As Hokage, I bear responsibility that I cannot shirk."
"So I intend to organize a ninja assembly to elect the Fourth Hokage."
Shimura Danzō thought of the man he supported and felt delighted.
Yet his face was full of displeasure. "Hiruzen, those are clearly two separate matters. Let us return to how we should convict Uchiha Jing Xiu."
How could Hiruzen Sarutobi not know what his old friend was thinking?
"Danzo, Jing Xiu is the village's future, and a hero of the