Shimura Danzō's prized trump card, Kotoamatsukami, never even had a chance to activate!
Every time he tried to gather his ocular power and lock onto his target, Ye Chuan vanished from his sight a step ahead, as though toying with him!
"Damn brat... that sensory ability really is troublesome!"
Danzo's face turned livid, and he finally abandoned the idea of using Kotoamatsukami entirely.
But he did not back down. Instead, an even colder killing intent flashed in his eyes!
"Even without Kotoamatsukami, I've roamed the Shinobi World for decades! The power I command is beyond anything an ignorant child like you could imagine!"
He stopped hesitating and went on the offensive.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!"
Danzo sucked in a breath, then spat out several highly compressed air projectiles, firing them at Ye Chuan like bullets!
At the same time, he formed hand seals with one hand!
"Summoning Technique: Baku!"
Bang! As the enormous cloud of smoke cleared, a Baku as large as a small mountain appeared on the battlefield. It opened its huge mouth, generating powerful suction as it tried to suck Ye Chuan inside.
Not only that, but Danzo himself relied on the Sharingan's ability to track movement as he charged at Ye Chuan with a kunai, trying to coordinate a pincer attack with his summon!
He even tried activating the Hashirama cells in his right arm, making several thick roots sprout from the ground in an attempt to bind Ye Chuan!
For a moment, Wind Release, a summoned beast, Sharingan-assisted taijutsu, and Wood Release...
Danzo used almost every conventional means at his disposal.
Yet before Ye Chuan, all of it still seemed... utterly powerless.
Facing the Vacuum Spheres, Ye Chuan did not even bother dodging. Armament Haki covered his body, and he let the air projectiles strike him with dull thuds, unable to budge him in the slightest!
Facing the Baku's powerful suction, he merely snorted and delivered a backhand slash imbued with Chakra Enhanced Strength!
"Break!"
Riiip!
The tremendous wind pressure was forcibly torn apart by his blade!
The tip of Wado Ichimonji struck the Baku's enormous nose directly. The Baku let out an agonized wail, and Ye Chuan's single blow sent it straight back to the Summoning World!
As for Danzo's own Sharingan-assisted taijutsu attacks and those few feeble Wood Release roots...
Too slow!
Ye Chuan appeared before Danzo as though he had teleported, his Observation Haki having already seen through every move!
Clang! Wado Ichimonji easily knocked aside Danzo's kunai!
Then Ye Chuan's gaze turned cold, and his blade accelerated!
Squelch!
Under Danzo's utterly horrified gaze, the gleaming blade swept cleanly across his neck!
Blood gushed out like a fountain!
Shimura Danzō, the man who controlled the Darkness of Konoha...
Was beheaded with a single stroke!
However...
Just as Ye Chuan thought the battle was over, the head flying through the air actually began to blur like a reflection on water...
The next second, Shimura Danzō reappeared several meters away, completely unharmed!
He clutched his neck. Though uninjured, his face was filled with horror!
And on his arm covered in Sharingan, one of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan had lost its luster.
"Izanagi..."
Ye Chuan watched with icy eyes, not surprised in the slightest.
This was one of the Uchiha Clan's most powerful forbidden techniques.
At the cost of the sight in one Sharingan, it could, for an extremely brief period, turn any adverse circumstances affecting the caster-including death-into a "dream," while turning favorable circumstances into "reality"!
It was a "Creation Technique" capable of blurring the boundary between reality and dreams!
Ten Sharingan meant ten opportunities to rewrite reality.
In the original story, Danzo had relied on this to hold out against Sasuke for quite some time.
"Ten minutes of immortality?"
Watching Danzo, who looked as though he had gone mad, Ye Chuan's lips curved into an icy smile.
"Sounds like... I might get to stretch a little."
Before he had finished speaking, his figure vanished again!
Squelch! A blade flashed, and Danzo's body was cut in half at the waist once more!
The next second, Izanagi activated. Danzo appeared on the other side, completely unharmed, as another Sharingan on his arm closed!
"It's useless! You can't kill-"
Shhk! Before Danzo could finish, Ye Chuan appeared again like a phantom and drove his blade through his heart!
Izanagi activated again! The third eye closed!
"Slash!" Ye Chuan gave him no chance to catch his breath! Another vicious slash! His head flew off again!
Izanagi activated! The fourth eye closed!
"Stop! Stop now!"
Danzo finally felt fear.
The boy before him was an absolute monster.
He moved so fast that Danzo could barely react, and every instant of death felt utterly real.
And every resurrection meant another step closer to true death!
Yet Ye Chuan acted as though he had heard nothing.
Cut in half at the waist! Pierced through the heart! Beheaded! He even used an Armament Haki-coated fist to pound him into a bloody pulp!
The fifth time! The sixth! The seventh! The eighth! The ninth!
By the time Danzo revived through Izanagi for the ninth time, he had completely broken down in terror.
"..."
Ye Chuan looked at the old man before him, limp as mud and utterly bereft of the will to fight. There was nothing but coldness in his eyes.
He slowly walked up to Danzo and raised Wado Ichimonji.
"For that twisted way of protecting things, you certainly... sacrificed a great deal and stained your hands with countless people's blood."
"Unfortunately..."
"Your era, along with all the darkness you represent, must come to an end."
The blade fell without any surprises.
The final Sharingan for Izanagi did not even activate.
Ye Chuan calmly sheathed his sword.
Then several figures raced over from afar-Konoha ninja alerted by the intense disturbances from the battle here.
Leading them were none other than Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai Yuhi, and other jonin.
Even... Tsunade, who had only recently awakened and was still somewhat weak, arrived with Shizune supporting her.
When they saw the scene before them, everyone froze in shock.
Ye Chuan stood there calmly, with the corpse of Shimura Danzō, Konoha's elder advisor and leader of Root, at his feet.
Scattered across the surrounding ground lay more than a dozen unconscious Root ninja.
"Danzo... is dead?!"
"Ye Chuan... killed him?!"
"What... what on earth happened here?!"
Everyone was stunned speechless by the shocking scene before them.
Tsunade looked at Danzo's head, its eyes still open in death, then at Ye Chuan standing beside the corpse, his expression terrifyingly calm. Enormous waves surged in her heart.
She knew Ye Chuan was strong, even stronger than Jiraiya.
But she had never imagined that he would... that he would actually dare to kill a high-ranking elder like Danzo inside the village!
And he had succeeded!
This boy before her... the power he possessed... was already completely beyond her control!
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