In the middle of the training ground, two figures collided at speeds beyond normal comprehension.
Every clash between the Vajra Staff and the wooden right arm produced deafening explosions.
The Third Hokage used the momentum to leap back, his staff suddenly elongating and aiming directly for Danzō’s throat.
Unexpectedly, Danzō made no move to dodge, allowing the iron staff to pierce his neck.
However, the body that should have spurted blood and fallen instantly dissolved into an illusion.
This sudden turn of events caught the Third Hokage by surprise.
At this moment, the real Danzō emerged from the Third Hokage’s shadow, his grayish-white right arm coiling around the old friend’s waist and abdomen like a giant python.
“Wood Style: Deep Forest Burial!”
Sharp wooden spikes erupted from the arm.
The Third Hokage grunted, fragments of his armor scattering with blood.
However, the “Third Hokage” pierced by the wooden spikes in the next second turned into a log, while the real figure had already appeared ten meters away.
Blood flowed profusely from the wound on his abdomen.
The Third Hokage couldn’t help but smile wryly.
“I was a bit careless.”
“Hiruzen, you are no longer my match.”
Danzō’s Sharingan on his chest slowly closed, and his illusory body gradually solidified.
He stroked the eye that had closed and let out a sinister laugh.
“See? This is immortality! Even if you kill me, I can revive!”
The Third Hokage’s expression turned grim.
As a veteran who had experienced the Warring States period, he immediately recognized the jutsu, a secret technique of the Uchiha clan—
“Izanagi…”
Danzō formed hand seals with a mad laugh.
“It seems you’re not too old to have forgotten everything! You figured it out just from this!”
Saying this, Danzō attacked the Third Hokage once again.
However, the rhythm of the battle changed drastically.
Thanks to Izanagi, Danzō completely abandoned defense, and every move was a suicidal attack.
When the Third Hokage’s Fire Style: Fire Dragon Bullet engulfed him, his charred body regenerated in the flames;
When the Vajra Staff crushed his skull, a new Danzō emerged from the shadows.
“It’s useless, Hiruzen,” the revived Danzō licked his newly formed fingers.
“I can revive infinitely, but you…”
He looked at the Third Hokage’s profusely bleeding abdomen.
“How much chakra do you have left?”
By the third time he killed Danzō, the Third Hokage’s breathing was already labored.
The Third Hokage tried his best to regulate his ragged breathing and taunted, “Not much, but enough to deal with you.”
“Still so stubborn!”
Danzō quickly formed hand seals, his knuckles emitting a piercing sound as they broke the air.
“Wind Style: Vacuum Sphere!”
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!”
Dozens of compressed wind blades tore through the air, emitting a sharp whistling sound.
These translucent air blades zipped past the Third Hokage’s body at speeds imperceptible to the eye.
Instantly slicing him into several pieces.
As flesh and blood splattered, the severed body didn’t even have time to spurt blood.
With a soft sound, the mangled corpse suddenly dissolved into white smoke.
“Shadow Clone?!”
Danzō’s pupils contracted sharply, his Sharingan spinning wildly.
The ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled violently, and the Third Hokage’s low voice came from underground.
“Earth Style: Earth Flow River!”
“Rumble rumble rumble—”
The solid earth instantly turned into a surging torrent of yellow earth, engulfing Danzō like a breached dam.
The viscous mud mixed with gravel, pushing Danzō downstream with immense force.
His body tumbled in the mudflow, his right arm, strengthened by Hashirama’s cells, grasping futilely, finding no purchase.
And at the end of the mudflow, the Third Hokage’s true body was already waiting.
The old man raised his right hand above his head, his palm gathering a heart-stopping lightning.
Dazzling arcs of electricity leaped between his fingers, emitting “crackling” sounds and ionizing the surrounding air with a burnt smell.
“Lightning Style: Lightning Spear!”
As Danzō was swept to him by the mudflow, the Third Hokage swung his arm down without hesitation.
A three-meter-long lightning spear drew a perfect arc and struck Danzō fiercely.
“Boom—!!!”
Amidst the deafening explosion, lightning and mudflow reacted violently.
The conductive properties of earth allowed the lightning’s power to increase exponentially, and a dazzling blue-white sphere of light instantly expanded.
Danzō’s body convulsed violently in the electric light, his skin charring and peeling at a visible rate.
Finally, with a muffled sound, he exploded into countless charred fragments.
“Ha… ha…”
The Third Hokage knelt on one knee, large beads of sweat dripping from his forehead.
His abundant chakra was now almost depleted.
Every breath was accompanied by a stinging pain in his lungs.
This combination jutsu, which he could usually perform with ease, had now almost completely drained his remaining chakra.
“You’re old, Hiruzen. This little bit of exertion is already too much for you.”
However, in the next second, Danzō reappeared before the Third Hokage, completely unharmed.
Seeing Danzō’s intact figure, the old Hokage’s fingertips began to tremble slightly.
“Have you run out of tricks?”
But Danzō was unconcerned and continued to taunt.
“Let me see what other tricks the legendary ‘Professor of Ninjutsu’ has up his sleeve?”
However, the Third Hokage wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and suddenly grinned.
“Then please excuse my lack of skill.”
The Third Hokage pointed two fingers at Danzō.
“Enma, Transformation: Adamantine Sealing Wall!”
The Vajra Staff suddenly rose from beneath Danzō’s feet and instantly multiplied, transforming into four Adamantine Walls that trapped Danzō within.
Danzō scoffed dismissively.
His wooden right arm swelled and deformed.
“You can only trap me.”
“It’s not over yet!”
The Third Hokage’s true body quickly swallowed a soldier pill, and he and his four shadow clones suddenly appeared in five positions.
East, South, West, North, and Up, surrounding Danzō.
The five figures simultaneously formed hand seals, the fluctuations of chakra making the air tremble.
“Five Elements: Great Combined Bullet Technique!”
Furious gusts of wind, scorching fire dragons, high-pressure water cannons, blinding lightning, and dense rock spears—five elemental chakras violently collided, merged, and exploded in the confined space!
“Rumble rumble rumble—!!!”
Amidst the deafening explosions, the five-colored energies formed a terrifying chakra vortex.
The space within the Adamantine Sealing Wall was completely distorted.
Wind blades shredded muscle, flames burned bones, torrents scoured internal organs, lightning destroyed nerves, and rock spears pierced the body.
Five distinct destructive forces acted upon every inch of Danzō’s body simultaneously!
Even the outer walls began to crack, and blinding light burst from the spiderweb-like fissures.
The Third Hokage’s true body was flung dozens of meters back by the shockwave, his black armor rustling in the violent energy turbulence.
When the dust settled, only a twenty-meter-diameter scorched pit remained in the spot.
A small amount of grayish-white cell tissue remained at the bottom of the pit, vaporizing and dissipating at a visible rate.
This time, the Third Hokage’s chakra was truly depleted, and he knelt on the ground, his entire body exhausted.
The other four shadow clones quickly dispersed, returning their remaining chakra to the main body.
But this small amount of chakra was still a drop in the bucket for the current Third Hokage.
“Back then, I would have certainly died from this move.”
However, the worst thing the Third Hokage could have imagined happened.
Danzō’s figure appeared like a ghost not far from the Third Hokage.
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