Konoha Village.
Senju clan compound.
“Danzo.”
“Why is there the aura of Mokuton inside your body?”
Chiba stopped ten paces away from Danzo.
His voice was not loud, yet it resonated with vivid clarity in the ears of everyone present.
Boom!
Those words were like a bolt from the blue, crashing violently into the center of the crowd.
An instant uproar exploded across the field!
Everyone’s expression transformed completely at this moment.
Hiashi Hyuga turned his head abruptly, staring at Danzo in utter disbelief.
Fugaku Uchiha’s pupils trembled violently, his hands clenching tightly into fists.
Shikaku Nara’s breathing came to a dead stop.
The aura of Mokuton?!
That was the exclusive Kekkei Genkai of the Senju clan!
Danzo Shimura—an outsider who didn’t even possess a single drop of Senju blood—how could he possibly have the aura of Mokuton inside his body?!
The clan heads of the various major families were no fools.
Almost in an instant, a hair-raising suspicion took shape in their minds.
Human experimentation!
Bloodline theft!
Such acts, which violated the ultimate taboos of the shinobi world, were actually taking place among the high command!
What every shinobi clan valued most was its own bloodline and secret techniques.
If the high command dared to secretly steal even the bloodline of the First Hokage, wouldn’t their clans have long since become meat on the chopping block?
In an instant, dozens of hostile, guarded gazes pierced toward Danzo like sharp blades.
Danzo’s expression froze solid.
Cold sweat poured down his forehead like a waterfall.
How is this possible?
How could Chiba possibly perceive the secret of his right arm?!
He had clearly used over a dozen high-level sealing formulas!
Even the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan couldn’t see through it!
Just how on earth did this brat know?!
“Absolute nonsense!”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about!”
“You are slandering an elder of Konoha!”
Danzo roared hysterically, his voice shrill like a rooster with its neck stepped on.
He couldn’t admit it—not even if it killed him!
Once he admitted to stealing Mokuton, not only would the seat of Hokage be forever out of his reach, but every single shinobi clan in Konoha would view him as a public enemy!
When that time came, not even Hiruzen Sarutobi would be able to protect him!
“Chiba!”
“You cannot spout such wild accusations!”
“Danzo’s right arm was injured during the Second Shinobi World War. To suppress the injury, he had no choice but to wrap it completely in bandages! Where on earth would any Mokuton aura come from?!”
Hiruzen Sarutobi grew panicked, taking a violent step forward to block Danzo behind him.
Yet in his heart, he was equally flustered.
Others might not know, but how could he not?
He had turned a blind eye to Orochimaru’s experiments back then, and he had more or less sensed the secret of Danzo’s right arm as well.
However, such a matter could never be exposed under the sun!
Once exposed, the credibility of Konoha’s high command would completely collapse!
Chiba quietly watched Hiruzen Sarutobi standing in front of him.
That hypocritical old face made him feel utterly disgusted.
Reason with them?
He, Senju Chiba, had not returned to Konoha to talk reason with this bunch of trash.
He was going to use the most violent means possible to tear apart this hypocritical fig leaf!
Under everyone’s watchful eyes—
Chiba’s figure vanished from the spot in an instant.
A physical body at the peak of Kage-level, combined with a chakra burst at the late Beyond Kage-level.
The two stacked together caused Chiba’s movement speed to surpass the limits of human vision.
“Protect Danzo-sama!”
Those few Root ninjas barely had time to cry out in alarm.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Several dark figures flew backward like tattered sacks, smashing straight through the distant perimeter walls.
“What?!”
Hiruzen Sarutobi felt a blur before his eyes as a violent gale whipped past, stinging his cheeks.
Before he could react, Chiba had already bypassed him and appeared directly in front of Danzo.
The distance between the two was less than half a meter.
Danzo’s sole eye bulged wide.
Extreme terror instantly froze his blood.
He couldn’t move.
Couldn’t move at all!
The killing intent radiating from Chiba suppressed him dead in his tracks like an iceberg.
“The way you lie is truly hideous.”
Chiba’s frigid voice echoed hauntingly beside Danzo’s ear.
In the next second—
Chiba’s right hand shot out like lightning.
Five fingers, like iron pincers, clamped down hard on Danzo’s bandage-wrapped right shoulder.
“No!”
Danzo let out a bloodcurdling scream of agony.
Rrrrip!
The ear-splitting sound of tearing flesh echoed across the entire field.
Blood sprayed wildly!
Warm blood gushed into the sky like a fountain, splashing across the nearby grass.
The scene seemed to freeze at this very instant.
Chiba had forcefully ripped off Danzo’s entire right arm!
No hand seals.
No ninjutsu.
Just pure, unadulterated violence—a brutal physical crushing!
Everything happened far too fast.
From the moment Chiba vanished to Danzo losing his arm, less than a single second had passed.
Danzo didn’t even have time to activate Izanagi, nor could he even channel his chakra.
The life-saving trump card he took such pride in became a complete, total joke before absolute speed and power.
“AAAAAHHHH!”
Grasping his gushing shoulder stump, Danzo wailed in agony as he rolled on the ground.
Bean-sized beads of sweat covered his aged face, his features contorted in horrific agony.
Dead silence blanketed the entire area.
Only Danzo’s screams of agony echoed.
The clan heads of the various major families were all dumbfounded.
An indescribable chill shot up from the soles of their feet straight to the crowns of their skulls.
Far too ruthless!
At the slightest disagreement, he directly tore off the arm of a Konoha high official!
Was this still the Senju clan famed for their benevolence and love?!
This was practically an Asura walking the earth!
“Chiba!”
“Are you insane?!”
Hiruzen Sarutobi finally snapped back to reality.
He turned around abruptly, roaring with bloodshot eyes.
Massive chakra violently exploded outward as the majesty of the Hokage was unleashed without reservation.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined Chiba would dare to mutilate Danzo right in front of his face!
This was a direct, humiliating slap across his face as Hokage!
However, Chiba didn’t even cast a single glance at Hiruzen Sarutobi.
With a casual flick of his wrist, he tossed the severed right arm into the air.
The specialized bandages wrapped around the arm were shattered into pieces by Chiba’s chakra.
The next moment—
The true face of the right arm was completely exposed to everyone’s view.
The air froze solid in this instant.
Hiruzen Sarutobi’s roar came to an abrupt halt.
Everyone’s eyes were pinned dead onto that severed arm.
It was an arm as pale as paper.
On its skin, subtle wood grain patterns were even faintly visible.
The incredible vitality belonging to the Senju clan continuously radiated from that severed limb.
Mokuton!
That was unequivocally an arm cultured from Hashirama Senju’s cells!
But what truly caused the entire field to explode—wasn’t merely the aura of Mokuton.
It was the objects embedded within that pale arm.
Crimson.
Blinding.
Ominous.
Four blood-red eyeballs, arranged in a nauseating pattern, were embedded directly into the skin of the arm!
Within each eyeball, three black tomoe slowly revolved.
Even separated from the host body, those four blood-red eyes still radiated a spine-chilling aura.
Sharingan!
And all of them were Three Tomoe Sharingan!
Gasp!
“Is that…”
“Insane! This is far too insane!”
A collective gasp burst forth across the field.
Everyone’s scalps went numb, their stomachs churning violently.
Far too sickening.
Far too horrific.
A single arm had actually fused the Mokuton cells of the Senju clan with the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan!
How was this a human arm?
This was clearly an abominable, monstrous monstrosity cobbled together from desecrated flesh!
“Danzo…”
Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado fell onto their rears in sheer horror.
They pointed at Danzo writhing on the ground, their whole bodies shaking like leaves in the wind.
In truth, they knew Danzo had been conducting human experimentation all along.
But never in their wildest dreams did they expect Danzo to be so utterly insane to this extent!
“Danzo… Shimura!”
Right at this moment, a terrifying surge of killing intent exploded from among the crowd.
This killing intent was bone-chillingly cold, nearly freezing the surrounding air.
Fugaku Uchiha stepped forward from the crowd.
His shoulders heaved violently from extreme rage.
A pair of crimson eyes stared dead at Danzo on the ground.
The three tomoe within his pupils spun frantically, faintly showing signs of connecting into a distinct pattern!
The instant he laid eyes on those four Sharingan, Fugaku Uchiha’s sanity completely snapped.
That was the bloodline of the Uchiha clan!
Those were the fallen ancestors of the Uchiha!
Their Uchiha clan bled and sacrificed for the village, yet even in death, their corpses were granted no peace!
For the entire Uchiha clan, this was the ultimate, unforgivable humiliation!
“You beast…”
“How dare you desecrate the eyes of my Uchiha clan!”