Two battles established his might and shook the entire Shinobi World! Danzo, what could you possibly fight me with?

Deep underground in the Konoha, at the Root Base.

The surroundings were dark and damp, with the torches on the walls flickering on and off.

Shimura Danzō gripped his cane tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force. His single eye, peeking out from under the bandage, was filled with shock, anger, and a hint of fear he absolutely refused to acknowledge.

Through the sensory barrier of the Root, he clearly heard every word Uchiha Gen'yō said outside and saw every scene projected in the sky.

Rasa lost?

The Raikage's men were sold off to mine coal?

How is this possible! In just a few days, how could Uchiha Gen'yō, whom he originally regarded as a stray dog, have grown to such a monstrous level?

" Lord Danzo, what do we do?" The Root assassin beside him knelt on one knee, his voice filled with panic for the first time.

The terrifying pressure emanating from above sent shivers down their spines, even through these emotionless killing machines.

"What's the panic!" Danzo his cane on the ground and shouted angrily, "I refuse to believe he would actually dare to destroy Konoha! If he dares to make a move, he will be the enemy of the Shinobi World! The Daimyo will not let him get away with this!"

Danzo his teeth; his only hope now was that Hiruzen Sarutobi could withstand the pressure. As long as he remained hidden hundreds of meters underground, he could survive even if the city above was destroyed.

However, he overestimated Hiruzen Sarutobi's courage and underestimated the power of the gods.

Above the ground.

On the rooftop of the Hokage Building, Hiruzen Sarutobi leaned on his golden cudgel, his face as pale as paper.

" Gen'yō, you've already taken him away. Danzo is a high-ranking advisor to Konoha, you can't..." Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to make one last attempt.

"Can't?" Uchiha Gen'yō sneered. He didn't even bother to look at Hiruzen Sarutobi. The deep golden rune in his right eye suddenly contracted, turning into an unfathomable black hole.

"System, activate the second level of Eye of God privileges—absolute X-ray vision and spatial grasping."

Ding! 30,000 Prosperity Points consumed, privileges unlocked.

In Gen'yō's vision, the thick earth and solid barrier below instantly became transparent. His gaze pierced through the three-hundred-meter layer of soil, locking onto Danzo hiding in the air-raid Danzo.

"Found you, mouse."

Gen'yō stretched out his right hand and suddenly grabbed at the void.

" Kamui Great Grappling!"

Inside the underground base.

Danzo was plotting how to pin the blame entirely on Hiruzen Sarutobi when suddenly, he felt the space around him freeze.

Before he could react, an irresistible and terrifying force, like an invisible hand, gripped his neck.

"Ugh! What is this...?" Danzo his legs wildly, and was forcibly pulled into the air.

The next second, a huge crater suddenly exploded in the plaza in front of the Hokage Building.

Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people in the village, Shimura Danzō Danzo, a high-ranking advisor to Konoha and the leader of Root, was like a plucked, sick chicken, being forcibly pulled up from the ground by an invisible force, and suspended directly in mid-air.

" Danzo!" Hiruzen Sarutobi exclaimed in shock, completely dumbfounded.

Ignoring hundreds of meters of ground layers and defensive barriers, they could grab people directly from a distance? This is completely beyond the comprehension of ninjas.

"Let me go..." Danzo. He desperately tried to mobilize his Chakra, but found that his meridians had been completely locked by spatial power, and he couldn't even Hand Seals.

"Let you go?" Gen'yō looked at Danzo, Danzo like an insect, his eyes filled with disgust. "You've always loved hiding in the shadows and scheming against others. Today, I'll let you see your stinking heart in the Greater Yang."

Gen'yō's left eye narrowed, and the Kamui light screen lit up once more.

This time, however, the screen was not displaying images, but rather audio. It was a real conversation projected directly from Danzo's memories, which Gen'yō had forcibly read using his Eye of God.

"If this map is handed over to the Raikage, the Uchiha will be severely weakened..."

"Promise Rasa that after this is accomplished, the three major towns in the southern part of the Land of Fire will belong to the Land of Wind..."

"Today at the Five Kage Summit, we must force Hiruzen Sarutobi to declare the Uchiha missing-nin. Bring that woman named Mikoto to Root; I'll use her as bait..."

Insidious schemes and dirty deals that betrayed the village's interests echoed without reservation throughout Konoha.

The whole village was in an uproar.

Those civilians and ordinary ninjas who were originally hostile to the Uchiha all looked at Danzo in mid-air with the eyes of someone looking at a monster, and then turned to look at Hiruzen Sarutobi on the Hokage Building.

These are their revered Konoha High Command?

To suppress dissent, they were willing to sell out the territory of the Land of Fire? They were willing to collude with foreign enemies?

"You're spouting nonsense! This is Genjutsu! It's slander!" Danzo roared madly, like a dying wild dog, but his panicked eyes betrayed him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Gen'yō ignored Danzo and instead turned his gaze to the Hokage who looked twenty years older.

"This is the root of Konoha that you wanted to protect? It's rotten to the core."

Gen'yō's fingers tightened slightly, and Danzo in mid-air let out a shrill scream, the sound of bones shattering clearly audible.

"I can spare the city today." Gen'yō's voice was icy cold, devoid of any warmth.

But I'm giving you a chance to clean house yourself.

A Kunai gleaming with cold light was sent directly to Hiruzen Sarutobi's feet by the power of space.

"Pick it up and kill Danzo. Or, I'll help you dismantle the entire Hokage Rock, and make a big enough grave for him, along with you and Konoha."

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at the Kunai at his feet, his hands trembling like a leaf.

He glanced at the Konoha Ninja around him, whose eyes were now filled with doubt and anger, then at Gen'yō, who looked like a demon god in the sky, and finally fixed his gaze on Danzo, who was about to die.

He knew he had no other choice.

He has already lost all face for Konoha. If he can't even save his own life, he will be a sinner for all time.

Hiruzen Sarutobi down and picked up the Kunai.

" Hiruzen! How dare you! I did this for Konoha! I am the root of Konoha! You cannot..." Danzo looked at his old friend approaching, and extreme fear finally appeared in his eyes.

"Enough, Danzo." Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice carried a desperate sorrow as he raised the Kunai in his hand. "You were wrong. I was wrong too. The darkness of Konoha must end today."

Just as the Kunai was about to pierce Danzo's heart, the Danzo wrapped around Danzo's right eye suddenly burst open, exposing a scarlet Sharingan to the air. At the same time, the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on his body, due to extreme resentment and external stimulation, went into a bizarre reverse and rampage.

"If I die, none of you will escape unscathed! Reverse Four Symbols Seal!"

Danzo's chest skin instantly turned jet black, and black runes, like venomous snakes, surged outwards, attempting to drag everything around, including Hiruzen Sarutobi, into the space of death.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was terrified; it was too late to retreat.

Just as the black, deathly substance was about to engulf everything, a disdainful snort came from the sky.

"Trying to create a sealed space in front of me? Trying to teach a fish to swim."