At the same time, traveling through time, starting from subverting the war at the top

Chapter 135 Blood debt must be paid with blood

"You mean, the massacre of the Uchiha clan by Itachi was orchestrated by Danzo Shimura?!" Hiruzen Sarutobi exclaimed in shock.

Lin Mo looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with a mocking smile and said, "Don't all the higher-ups in Konoha know about this? As the Hokage, you are Konoha's face, while Danzo, who hides in the shadows and controls the Root organization, is Konoha's substance."

"Danzo Shimura has done so many shady things for the village over the years, and you, as the Hokage, know nothing about them."

The most classic example is the use of Hashirama cells for human experiments, which was actually initiated by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

In Konoha, in an attempt to regain the Senju clan's power, they tried injecting ninjas with a solution containing Hashirama cells, hoping they could absorb and utilize these powerful cells. However, the energy of Hashirama cells was too immense for ordinary people to withstand, and all the test subjects died from their inability to control it.

Due to the high cost and danger of the experiment, Hiruzen Sarutobi ultimately decided to suspend the research.

Nevertheless, Orochimaru and Danzo were still not satisfied, and they even went so far as to kidnap villagers and ANBU ninjas to conduct experiments.

Countless lives were sacrificed, but in the end only Dahe succeeded.

At this point, Orochimaru's whereabouts were exposed, and he had already defected.

After returning to the laboratory, Danzo discovered Yamato's abnormality, but he chose to conceal this discovery and secretly cultivated Yamato into the "Root" organization.

Unfortunately, Danzo was too optimistic. In the end, the only result of Hashirama's experiment was taken by Hiruzen Sarutobi, who took Yamato away and made him his direct subordinate ANBU.

Lin Mo looked up at the Anbu members behind Hiruzen Sarutobi. He could easily see the energy flow in other people's bodies and quickly discovered one of the Anbu members wearing a cat-face mask who possessed abnormal chakra energy. It was none other than the young Yamato.

"Are you trying to tell me that Danzo's large-scale invasion of the Uchiha base with so many Root ninjas was his own doing, without your tacit approval?"

"I am not Uchiha Shisui, much less Uchiha Itachi."

Lin Mo had no interest in continuing to play along with this old guy.

Before Hiruzen Sarutobi's astonished eyes, a pair of azure flame wings suddenly shot out from behind Lin Mo, their arc over ten feet wide resembling the wings of a phoenix, magnificent and stunning.

Lin Mo flapped his wings and flew, instantly arriving above Konoha.

Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly had a bad feeling and shouted, "What are you going to do?"

"Pay your debts, and pay your life."

"You slaughtered the Uchiha clan, so pay for your blood debt in blood."

Lin Mo looked at the Sarutobi clan's territory, and one tomoe after another appeared in his eyes, revealing the three-tomoe Sharingan.

Then the three magatama spun around, and the ink dots dissolved in the scarlet eyes, turning into the pattern of the sun.

next moment!
A deafening roar was heard.

The entire Sarutobi clan's territory began to show spatial distortions that were almost visible to the naked eye, and these distortions formed a huge black hole.

The streets and buildings within a radius of several hundred meters instantly showed signs of widespread collapse under the influence of the distorting force.

The cracks spread rapidly like a spider web, eventually reaching their limit.

Suddenly shattered.

Even rocks as hard as stone crumbled into powder, let alone the people inside.

A tremendous sound, like thunder.

This startled everyone in Konoha.

Hiruzen Sarutobi quickly jumped onto a nearby tall building, looked in the direction from which the loud noise came, and showed an expression of disbelief.

In his sight, his clan's territory turned to dust in an instant.

You should know that over a thousand members of his Sarutobi clan lived inside, including his eldest son's only remaining bloodline in the family, his eldest grandson Sarutobi Konohamaru.

Thinking of this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's vision went black, he clutched his chest, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. "Hokage-sama!"

"Lord Hokage!"

Upon seeing this, the ANBU members immediately flew to Hiruzen Sarutobi's side and surrounded him to protect him.

Lin Mo glanced at him but did not rush to take Hiruzen Sarutobi's life.

Instead, they continued their attack on the Shimura clan, the family of Danzo, which was much smaller than the Sarutobi clan.

Danzo focused more of his energy on himself and the Root organization he led.

In the village, the major clans—the Hyuga, Nara, and Akimichi clans—also reacted immediately.

After making arrangements for their clansmen, the clan leaders led the clan elites to the scene immediately.

They stared in shock at Danzo, who was pinned to the ground, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was coughing up blood.

For a moment, they didn't know what had happened.

How did the Sarutobi clan's territory turn into ruins?

Just then, they witnessed the entire process of Lin Mo attacking the Shimura clan.

Everyone was shocked.

Is this guy a god?
"It's all my fault, please stop! I'm willing to give you my life!" Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted at Lin Mo in the air.

At this moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt extremely bitter.

Did I really make a mistake in dealing with the Uchiha clan?
It shouldn't have ended this way; there should have been a better way to handle it.

The Konoha leadership, led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, had been discussing how to respond to the Uchiha clan's planned coup.

In fact, at this point, it's already a dead end.

Rather, the Uchiha clan should never have been allowed to reach this point in the first place.

The biggest internal reason why the Uchiha clan launched a coup was that the clan members had long suffered from suppression by the higher-ups and rejection by the villagers, which led to a great deal of resentment.

This oppression and discrimination never ceased, even during the war (when Kumogakure and Konoha were at war for three years), until the Uchiha clan was wiped out. The Uchiha clan had been enduring the oppression of the village ever since.

A rope can saw through wood, and water can wear away stone.

The resentment of the Uchiha clan intensified, but no matter how much the Uchiha clan backed down, the suppression from the higher-ups became more and more severe (they were forbidden from approaching the Nine-Tails during the Nine-Tails' rampage, were relocated to the edge of Konoha when the village was being rebuilt, and the Anbu's "open" surveillance became a daily task).

After the Nine-Tailed Fox's rampage.

In order to prove their innocence, the Uchiha clan lived a life of even greater resentment and suffering.

It's important to know that during the Nine-Tails' rampage, many members of the Uchiha clan volunteered to fight the Nine-Tails, which was a life-threatening endeavor.

However, it was directly suppressed by the Konoha leadership.

If you were a member of the Uchiha clan, what would you think?
The Nine-Tails' rampage had nothing to do with them.

Who cares about the Uchiha clan's years of forbearance?

The Uchiha clan did have problems, but they did not commit any evil deeds. The coup that led to the extermination of the clan was the responsibility of the Konoha leadership.

There should have been a better ending.

(End of this chapter)