Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Heavy, muffled footsteps drew closer from afar as a vast crowd of cold-faced people rushed over.
One moment, they were still in the distance; the next, the crowd was right before them.
Dressed uniformly in black, they presented an imposing sight. From a distance, they looked like a black torrent charging forward to sweep away and destroy everything.
All the onlookers except Xuandou and Hikari immediately scattered like birds.
As old hands in the Pure Land, they knew which commotions they could watch and which they could not.
Of these two sides, one was a base established here with a record of annihilating souls, while the other was a man and woman capable of using force in the Pure Land. Neither was to be trifled with...
Everyone kept well clear, watching from several hundred meters away.
"So many familiar faces..."
With Xuandou's composure, he naturally felt no fear at their numbers. Instead, he studied the crowd with interest.
There were quite a few old acquaintances from his days in Konoha among them:
Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Aburame Torune, Yamanaka Fū...
And many, many others who had once been hostile toward him:
The Land of Fire's Daimyō, Gato from the Land of Waves, Kara core member Victor, high-ranking officials from the Land of Earth...
Of course.
Besides these "old acquaintances," there were many people he did not recognize mixed in among the familiar faces.
Xuandou's lips curved, and he gave Danzo, who stood at their head, a friendly smile.
He had already begun considering sacrificing Danzo to the God Tree.
Under the Pure Land's special rules, Danzo's missing right eye and his arm, withered from having so many Sharingan transplanted into it, had been restored. He had fully regained the bearing he originally possessed as Tobirama's