Konoha.
The Senju Clan compound.
“Danzo.”
“Why can I sense the aura of Wood Release inside your body?”
Chiba stopped ten paces away from Shimura Danzo.
His voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached everyone present.
Boom!
The question struck the crowd like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
The entire area erupted into an uproar!
Everyone’s expression changed.
Hyuga Hiashi sharply turned toward Shimura Danzo in disbelief.
Uchiha Fugaku’s pupils trembled, and his hands clenched tightly.
Nara Shikaku even stopped breathing.
The aura of Wood Release?
That was the exclusive Kekkei Genkai of the Senju Clan!
Shimura Danzo was an outsider without a drop of Senju blood.
How could his body possibly carry the aura of Wood Release?
The various clan leaders were not fools.
An appalling suspicion formed in their minds almost instantly.
Human experimentation!
Bloodline theft!
A high-ranking official had actually committed an act that violated one of the shinobi world’s greatest taboos!
Every ninja clan valued its Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques above all else.
If Konoha’s leaders dared to steal even the First Hokage’s bloodline in secret, had their clans not long since become fish on the chopping block?
Dozens of hostile, guarded gazes instantly pierced Shimura Danzo like sharp swords.
Danzo’s expression froze.
Cold sweat poured down his forehead like a waterfall.
How was this possible?
How had Chiba discovered the secret of his right arm?
Danzo had clearly concealed it beneath more than a dozen advanced sealing techniques!
Even the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan could not see through them!
How on earth did this brat know?
“Nonsense!”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about!”
“You’re slandering an elder of Konoha!”
Shimura Danzo roared hysterically.
His voice was as shrill as a rooster being strangled.
He could never admit it, even under threat of death!
If he admitted to stealing Wood Release, not only would the position of Hokage remain forever beyond his reach, but every ninja clan in Konoha would regard him as a public enemy!
By then, even Sarutobi Hiruzen could not protect him!
“Chiba!”
“You can’t make such accusations recklessly!”
“Danzo’s right arm was injured during the Second Shinobi World War.”
“He has to keep it wrapped in bandages to suppress the injury.”
“How could it possibly carry the aura of Wood Release?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen anxiously stepped forward and placed himself between Chiba and Danzo.
But inwardly, he was equally flustered.
Others might not know the truth, but how could he not?
He had turned a blind eye to Orochimaru’s experiments.
He had also sensed, at least to some extent, that Danzo’s right arm concealed secrets.
But this could never be brought into the light!
If it was exposed, the credibility of Konoha’s leadership would collapse completely!
Chiba quietly watched Sarutobi Hiruzen block his path.
That hypocritical old face filled him with disgust.
Senju Chiba had not returned to Konoha to reason with this collection of rotting filth.
He intended to tear away their hypocritical facade through the most violent means possible!
Under everyone’s gaze, Chiba instantly vanished from where he stood.
His Peak Kage Level physical strength combined with a Late-Stage Super Kage chakra burst.
With both forces superimposed, Chiba’s movement speed exceeded the limits of human vision.
“Protect Lord Danzo!”
The few Root ninja had time only to cry out in alarm.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Several dark figures flew backward like tattered sacks and smashed through a distant wall.
“What?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen saw only a blur.
A violent gust of wind struck his cheeks with painful force.
Before he could react, Chiba had already passed him and appeared directly in front of Danzo.
Less than half a meter separated them.
Danzo’s single eye widened.
Overwhelming fear instantly froze his blood.
He could not move.
He could not move at all!
The killing intent radiating from Chiba pinned him in place like an iceberg.
“You look truly ugly when you lie.”
Chiba’s cold voice rang eerily in Danzo’s ear.
The next second, Chiba’s right hand shot out like lightning.
His five fingers clamped around Danzo’s bandaged right shoulder like iron pincers.
“No!”
Danzo let out an agonized scream.
Rip!
The ear-piercing sound of tearing flesh echoed throughout the compound.
Blood splattered!
Warm blood shot into the air like a fountain and sprayed across the nearby grass.
The scene seemed to freeze.
Chiba had torn off Danzo’s entire right arm by force!
No hand seals.
No ninjutsu.
Only pure violence and overwhelming physical strength!
Everything happened too quickly.
Less than a second passed between Chiba’s disappearance and Danzo losing his arm.
Danzo had no time to activate Izanagi or even mobilize his chakra.
The survival trump card in which he took such pride became an utter joke before absolute speed and power.
“Aaaagh!”
Danzo clutched his bleeding shoulder and rolled across the ground, wailing in agony.
Bean-sized beads of sweat covered his aged face, his features twisted in pain.
The entire area fell deathly silent.
Only Danzo’s screams echoed through the compound.
The various clan leaders stared in stunned disbelief.
An inexplicable chill surged from the soles of their feet to their scalps.
Too ruthless!
Without another word, Chiba had torn the arm from one of Konoha’s highest-ranking officials!
Was this truly the Senju Clan renowned for its benevolence?
He was an Asura reborn!
“Chiba!”
“You’ve gone mad!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen finally reacted.
He spun around, his eyes bloodshot as he roared.
An immense amount of chakra erupted from him.
He had never imagined that Chiba would dare cripple Danzo right in front of him!
This was a blatant slap in the Hokage’s face!
Yet Chiba did not even look at Sarutobi Hiruzen.
He casually flicked his hand and tossed the severed arm into the air.
His chakra shredded the special bandages wrapped around it.
The next moment, the arm’s true appearance was exposed for everyone to see.
The air froze.
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s roar abruptly died in his throat.
Everyone’s gaze locked onto the severed arm.
It was as pale as paper.
The surface of its skin even possessed the faint texture of wood.
The vitality unique to the Senju Clan continuously radiated from it.
Wood Release!
The arm had unquestionably been cultivated from Senju Hashirama’s cells!
But it was not only the aura of Wood Release that sent the crowd into an uproar.
It was what had been embedded in the pale arm.
Scarlet.
Dazzling.
Eerie.
Four blood-red eyes were embedded in its skin in a grotesque arrangement!
Three black tomoe slowly rotated within each eye.
Even separated from their original bodies, the four blood-red eyes still radiated a chilling aura.
Sharingan!
And all four were three-tomoe Sharingan!
Hiss!
“This is…”
“How ruthless!”
Gasps erupted throughout the crowd.
Everyone’s scalp went numb, and their stomachs churned.
Too disgusting.
Too horrifying.
One arm had actually fused the Senju Clan’s Wood Release cells with the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan!
How could this be called a human arm?
It was clearly a monstrous abomination stitched together from stolen parts!
“Danzo…”
Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura collapsed to the ground in terror.
They pointed at the writhing Danzo, their entire bodies trembling like sieves.
In truth, they had known that Danzo was conducting human experiments.
But they had never imagined that his insanity had reached this extent!
“Shimura…
Danzo!”
At that moment, terrifying killing intent erupted from the crowd.
It was so cold and biting that the air seemed to freeze.
Uchiha Fugaku stepped forward.
His shoulders heaved violently with extreme rage.
His scarlet eyes locked onto Danzo on the ground.
The three tomoe in his pupils spun madly, faintly beginning to connect into a distinct pattern!
The moment Uchiha Fugaku saw those four Sharingan, his reason completely snapped.
That was the Uchiha Clan’s bloodline!
Those eyes had belonged to deceased members of the Uchiha Clan!
The Uchiha had bled and sacrificed for the village, yet even in death, their bodies had not been allowed to rest.
For the entire Uchiha Clan, this was the greatest possible humiliation!
“You beast…”
“You dared to desecrate the eyes of my Uchiha Clan!”
“…”