Blasted Apart!

The instant Cao Ya sprang into action and launched his attack, Danzo's first thought was that Orochimaru had taken control of Cao Ya and was shamelessly using him to launch a sneak attack.

Otherwise, how would Cao Ya alone dare to attack him?

Did he really think the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal was just for show?

"Whether it's Orochimaru or not, since Cao Ya might be under someone else's control... I'll just kill him." Danzo's gaze was cold. He was only a jōnin. Danzo valued him somewhat, but that was all.

If it had been an elite jōnin, he would truly have felt the loss.

Against a jōnin like Cao Ya, Danzo could not even be bothered to use the armful of Sharingan.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"

Danzo swiftly formed hand seals and spat a sharp stream of air from his mouth. Like a chakra blade, it could slice through objects.

He even saw Cao Ya's body cut in two by the technique.

Snap!

The two halves of the corpse turned into two pieces of rotten wood.

"Substitution Technique?" Danzo froze, then felt a surge of anger. A subordinate had actually tricked him into wasting a technique?!

But suddenly, his heart lurched with dread.

Boom!!!

Terrifying power struck from behind and to the side, blasting the air apart!

Taijutsu?

This is Cao Ya?!

The thought flashed through his mind, and Danzo burst apart, blood spraying everywhere.

Cao Ya had launched a surprise attack and killed Danzo with a single blow, but he was not pleased. He remained utterly serious.

The next second, a voice came from the woods.

"Cao Ya... no, you definitely aren't Cao Ya. Who exactly are you?"

Danzo emerged from the shadows with a dark expression. His right arm was fully exposed, a dense row of scarlet Sharingan covering it. At his shoulder was a blurred human face, deathly pale and chilling.

Of the ten Sharingan on his right arm, one had already closed.

"My Sharingan..." Danzo was furious.

Every Sharingan was another life!

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Cao Ya glanced at the Sharingan covering that arm and said evenly, "If Itachi knew about all the Sharingan on that arm of yours, I wonder what he would think?"

"You know Itachi?" Danzo's brows immediately furrowed.

During the Uchiha Clan Massacre, Itachi and Obito had acted, and so had his Root.

Otherwise, where would that pile of Sharingan have come from?

"Whoever you are, you're going to die today," Danzo said impassively. Forming hand seals with both hands, he spat out a mass of razor-sharp chakra blades.

Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!

"Indestructible Diamond!"

Cao Ya activated the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art, and his entire body instantly turned into a little golden figure.

This was one of the supreme Dharmakaya arts of the Shaolin Temple in the Real World of The Masters of This World. It could condense the Immovable Wisdom King Dharmakaya.

Though inferior to the Tathagata Golden Body, it still counted as a superior Dharmakaya.

It was an elevation of the Vajra Dharmakaya cultivated through the Golden Bell Shield!

Driven by the power of the Outer Scenery Seventh Heaven, the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art already possessed the initial characteristics of an indestructible diamond.

Not to mention that Cao Ya also had sixth-rank qi-blood from Global Martial Arts and jōnin-level taijutsu from Naruto.

Even if Susanoo appeared, he would dare to charge up and trade blows with it!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A succession of clear ringing sounds rang out, but Danzo's Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves failed even to break through Cao Ya's defenses.

"What kind of taijutsu is this?" Danzo was shocked.

The Eight Gates Released Formation?

No! The Eight Gates Released Formation produces all kinds of steam, and... I can barely sense any chakra coming from Cao Ya at all.

It seemed that Cao Ya was using purely physical strength, mixed with only a little chakra.

A samurai?

But how is that possible?

How could a mere samurai rival a ninja's power?

Boom!

Cao Ya had no intention of explaining. He shattered the ground beneath his feet, charged across dozens of meters in an instant, and seized the moment when Danzo was distracted to blast him apart with a single punch!

Perhaps Danzo thought that, with ten Sharingan,

he had ten lives, so he was far too relaxed and had not grown tense even after dying once. The next second, Danzo appeared in another direction, staring at Cao Ya with a gloomy expression.

"Heh, Izanagi... how many times can you use it?" Cao Ya sneered and charged straight at him, killing Danzo head-on.

Danzo's expression grew even darker. A bad feeling rose in his heart.

This "Cao Ya" seemed to know his intelligence inside out.

Even now, he still did not believe that Cao Ya was Cao Ya.

Izanagi was a forbidden Sharingan technique. When Danzo was on the verge of death, Izanagi's protection would activate. In an extremely brief span of time, it could turn the caster's injuries and adverse factors, including death, into a dream.

It could overturn certain death!

The price was permanent blindness in the Sharingan, which could never open again.

Cao Ya attacked with overwhelming force. The Indestructible Diamond Divine Art was powerful, with strong defenses, attack power off the charts, and wickedly fast speed. It could be said to cover every aspect.

After all, it was a supreme Dharmakaya art from a vast super-world like The Masters of This World.

Most importantly, Cao Ya knew Danzo's intelligence inside out. Every countermeasure Danzo might take was within Cao Ya's plans.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!"

"Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"

"Wind Release: Shuriken!"

"Wind Release: Vacuum Blade!"

"Summoning Technique: Baku!"

Danzo summoned Baku, the legendary dream-eating beast. Baku had only just opened his mouth, preparing to use Wind Release to swallow Cao Ya, when Cao Ya came straight at him and blasted him apart with a punch of peerless brute force.

He was simply a god of war!

Danzo died once more.

"Wood Release: Tree Root Burial!"

"Wood Release: Exploding Spear Tree!"

Soon, every Sharingan on Danzo's right arm had closed. All ten Sharingan had gone permanently blind.

Danzo could no longer use Izanagi.

"Damn it, I have to use Shisui's Kotoamatsukami! I was saving it to control a key figure when I competed for the position of Hokage." Danzo ground his teeth, hating Cao Ya to the bone.

"Kotoamatsukami!"

At this point, Danzo also became decisive. The Mangekyō Sharingan he had transplanted from Shisui gathered chakra as he looked toward Cao Ya.

"Change your will! Become my most loyal subordinate! Power like this is worth one use of Kotoamatsukami!"

Danzo instilled the message of permanent loyalty and never disobeying his orders as he aimed Kotoamatsukami at Cao Ya.

"Too slow!"

When he sensed that Danzo was about to use Kotoamatsukami, Cao Ya relied on his unparalleled physique to evade Danzo's line of sight, tore through the air, and unleashed his strongest punch with every ounce of his power!

Rumble~~~~~

It was as though the heavens were collapsing!

The earth shook and the mountains rocked!

The ground cracked, and a trench hundreds of meters long and dozens of meters deep appeared in the Forest of Death.

Before Danzo could even utter his last words, Cao Ya blasted him into fragments.

One of Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan was thus destroyed forever.

As for the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, there was simply no time for it to activate.

"Whew~~~~"

Cao Ya withdrew his fist and stood deep within the shattered Forest of Death, panting slightly.

Killing Danzo ten times in a row was no easy task.

"Danzo's dead, and the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal has vanished. Those Root members should all have regained their freedom." Cao Ya murmured to himself, then suddenly looked up to one side and said with a light chuckle, "Come out."

After a moment of silence, several figures jumped out. Cold and murderous in bearing, they were all Root members-Torune Aburame, Yamanaka Fū, and others.

As they looked at Cao Ya, their faces were filled with shock.

Cao Ya?

Wasn't he a jōnin? He actually killed the Darkness of Konoha-Shimura Danzō?!

They even suspected that their perception was mistaken.

But the disappearance of the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal was undeniably real.

"Cao Ya, who exactly are you?"