The crisp sound of the cane hitting the ground echoed through the underground space.
Danzo clutched his right arm, its wrist bone severed, and staggered backward.
His lone eye was bloodshot as he stared at the Mangekyo Sharingan in Lu Ming’s eye sockets, which displayed a pinwheel pattern.
“You… what exactly did you just do?!” Danzo questioned.
He hadn’t seen Lu Ming’s movements; he hadn’t even captured the trajectory of how Lu Ming crossed dozens of meters or how he severed his wrist.
This wasn’t a level that the Body Flicker Technique could reach.
Lu Ming stood where he was, looking down at Danzo.
“My Mangekyo dōjutsu is called ‘Skanda’.”
“This dōjutsu grants me extreme speed in movement, attack, and thought.”
“In the domain opened by Skanda, your movements, hand signs, and the release of Ninjutsu are slower than a crawling snail in my eyes.”
The remaining Root Ninjas nearby felt their scalps tingle.
Ultimate speed!
In the face of such speed, defense and counterattacks became a joke.
Danzo took half a step back, the fear in his eyes quickly overwhelmed by greed.
A Mangekyo Sharingan, and one with such heaven-defying dōjutsu at that.
Danzo stared at Lu Ming’s eyes, his heart pounding wildly in his chest.
If he could gouge those eyes out and transplant them into himself, combined with the Hashirama cells hidden in his right arm, he could master the two strongest powers in the Ninja World.
At that time, he could become a ruler surpassing Hiruzen Sarutobi and rivaling the Uchiha Madara of old.
“Lu Ming!”
Danzo endured the pain in his wrist, straightened his back, and roared,
“Since you possess such power, you should understand my painstaking efforts even more.”
“Everything I do is for Konoha!”
“The Uchiha Clan is inherently evil, an unstable bomb waiting to explode.”
“Only by handing your power over to me, to be controlled by Root, can the peace of this Village be truly protected!”
Danzo argued loudly, trying to use righteousness to mask his greed,
“Give me your eyes! This is for the future of Konoha!”
“For Konoha?”
Hearing those words, Lu Ming burst into laughter.
He walked toward Danzo step by step.
“Danzo, don’t package your selfish desires so loftily. Save those excuses for tricking children for when you’re in hell!”
“You keep saying it’s for Konoha, but in reality?”
Lu Ming raised his hand, pointing directly at Danzo’s bandage-wrapped right arm.
“You’re nothing more than a man coveting our Uchiha Sharingan while secretly lusting after Senju Hashirama’s remains.”
“You’ve taken these two forbidden powers for yourself just to satisfy your ridiculous and despicable dream of becoming Hokage!”
“You disgusting rat hiding in the gutters, only capable of playing with schemes and plots, are you even worthy of mentioning the name Konoha?!”
Danzo’s old face turned the color of pig liver, trembling with rage.
“Arrogant brat! I will kill you!” Danzo roared.
However, before he could even issue the attack order.
Boom!!!
A terrifying aura, comparable to Uchiha Madara’s peak, erupted from within Lu Ming!
The violent Conqueror’s Haki, mixed with the ultimate dōjutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan, swept through the entire underground space!
“Ugh!”
The surrounding Root Ninjas didn’t even have time to scream before the terrifying mental pressure knocked them unconscious, eyes rolling back and foaming at the mouth as they collapsed in unison.
Danzo, facing the pressure head-on, felt his vision go dark as he was pulled into an endless illusion of fear.
In the illusion, the sky was blood-red, and the earth was burning.
A Perfect Susanoo, dozens of meters tall and clad in heavy armor, was looking down at him.
The demonic god reached out with a Chakra palm and crushed his proud Root base completely into powder!
“No! My Root! My position as Hokage!”
Danzo let out a shrill scream within the illusion.
A strong survival instinct made him bite down hard on the tip of his tongue.
“Spurt!”
Blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and the sharp pain forced his eyes open, allowing him to break free from the illusion, drenched in sweat.
Yet, as soon as he opened his eyes and before his vision could focus, a large hand was already pressed onto his shoulder.
Thud!
Lu Ming was expressionless as he pressed down with one hand.
Terrifying physical strength poured down!
Danzo desperately tried to circulate his Chakra to resist, but in the face of Lu Ming’s overwhelming power, all his struggles were in vain.
Danzo simply couldn’t withstand the massive force; his knees buckled, and he was forced down onto one knee!
Humiliation!
He, a high-ranking official of Konoha and the leader of Root, was actually being pinned by the shoulder by an Uchiha youth, kneeling on the ground!
“Lord Danzo!”
From the shadows, dozens of elite Root Ninjas who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion were struck with shock at the sight.
They drew their ninjatō one after another, surrounding Lu Ming.
But facing the terrifying pressure radiating from Lu Ming, the hands of these elites gripped their swords and trembled violently; not a single one dared to make a move.
Kneeling on the ground, the sense of humiliation distorted Danzo’s entire face.
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Danzo gritted his teeth, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.
“Do you think you’ve won for sure today? Your mother, and that sister of yours called Runa, are both in Konoha Village right now.”
“With just one word from me, they will become two corpses!”
Danzo made a subtle gesture behind his back.
At the outermost edge of the encirclement, the top Root experts hidden in the shadows,
Torune Aburame and Fū Yamanaka, had already silently taken up the best attacking positions.
Fū Yamanaka’s hands were already formed into the sign for the Mind Body Switch Technique, while Torune Aburame’s hands were covered in lethal nano-sized venomous insects, waiting for Lu Ming to show a weakness to strike a fatal blow.
Lu Ming’s expression remained unchanged, not even glancing at the surrounding encirclement.
“Danzo, have you misunderstood something?”
Lu Ming released his grip on Danzo’s shoulder and stood tall.
“Who told you I came here alone today?”
As soon as he spoke.
The ceiling of the Root underground base was forcibly broken open from the outside by Chakra, and a hole over ten meters in diameter appeared above everyone’s heads.
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
A large number of Uchiha Clan members wearing uniform dark combat suits leaped down from the hole in the ceiling one after another.
Exactly forty-three figures landed steadily behind Lu Ming.
In this dim and oppressive underground space, forty-three pairs of crimson eyes lit up simultaneously.
In each pair of eyes, three tomoe emitting a cold aura were spinning.
Every single one of them was a young elite with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan!
“Sha… Sharingan? All of them are Three-Tomoe Sharingan?!”
The surrounding Root Ninjas retreated in fear.
This group of young elites, led by Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Nanami, and others, radiated a cold-blooded killing intent born from brutal real combat.
The massive dōjutsu of forty-three pairs of Three-Tomoe Sharingan gathered together, pressing down on the entire Root base.
The sharp and menacing pressure intimidated all the Root Ninjas present.
Torune Aburame and Fū Yamanaka, hidden in the shadows, went stiff, cold sweat pouring down.
Locked onto by over a dozen pairs of Three-Tomoe Sharingan simultaneously, they didn’t even dare move a finger to form a seal.
Danzo knelt on the ground, looking up at those forty-three pairs of cold Three-Tomoe Sharingan, his mind going blank.
He never imagined that the Uchiha Clan, despite being so crazily suppressed by him—to the point where even the Police Force’s funding was cut—could still harbor such a powerful and terrifying new generation of strength!
“Allow me to introduce them.”
Lu Ming looked at the deathly pale Danzo and smiled, spreading his hands and pointing to the young elites behind him.
“These are the members of the Uchiha Temple I have just established.”