Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 181 The Uchiha's blood and tears have run dry

The sun struggled to rise from the distant horizon.

The dim red light barely pierced through the thick, dark clouds, but it could not dispel the nauseating stench of blood and death that permeated the air above the Uchiha clan's territory.

The rain remained cold, washing over the scorched earth, but it could not cleanse the layers upon layers of corpses piled up like mountains, nor the streams that flowed together, turning the muddy ground into a dark red river of blood.

"Get out of the way! My body..."

"Captain, it's me! No..."

"No, don't come any closer! Please! Stop!"

Countless fine, almost transparent threads, resembling a spider web, extended from the 'Puppet Master's' wings in the sky, precisely connecting to the neck joints of the Konoha ninja below.

The 'Puppet Master's' abilities are certainly not powerful enough to control all the Konoha ninjas present. Controlling a living person with self-awareness and manipulating a corpse are not the same level of difficulty at all.

However, it doesn't need to do that.

These Konoha ninjas, controlled by the threads, did not have their minds stripped away; their bodies were simply manipulated like puppets.

Their eyes were filled with terror, despair, pleading, and pain, and tears mixed with rain streamed down their contorted faces!

They could feel their bodies spiraling out of control, and they could see who their kunai were stabbing.

A manipulated Jonin, his eyes bloodshot with rage, watched helplessly as he plunged a kunai into his colleague's heart.

puff!

Blood splattered as the ninja who was dealing with the others clutched his throat and slowly collapsed.

"No!"

The controlled Jonin roared, his body trembling violently but unable to stop. The threads pulled his arm, causing him to swing it at one of his former subordinates once again.

Those Konoha ninjas who were not controlled were also plunged into a state of near despair!
The enemy they faced was not a hideous monster, nor a ninja from another village, but their own comrades!
Seeing the terror and tears on those familiar faces, how could the people who were not being manipulated bring themselves to kill?
"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Think of a way to cut those wires!"

"Don't kill him! He's being controlled!"

They could only dodge and parry awkwardly, trying to attack the threads to awaken their companions and to subdue them without harming them.

However, while one side hesitated and yielded, the other pleaded, but its attacks were merciless, swift and ruthless, aimed at vital points!

"puff!"

"Ugh!"

"you……"

Hesitation costs you your life.

The battle was almost entirely a one-sided massacre.

Screams rose and fell, despair filled the air, and blood stained the ground.

The Konoha ninjas, whether it was the first wave that besieged "Evil Eye" or the reinforcements that came later, were like moths caught in a spider web, quickly withering away in the infighting.

At this moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi was also surrounded. Three Konoha Jonin, who were being controlled, launched a frenzied attack on him with tears in their eyes.

Their eyes were filled with pain and struggle, but their physical attacks were ruthless and precise!
"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

"Wind Release·Vacuum Wave!"

"Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!"

A massive fireball hurtled in, blocked by several sharp wind blades, and the earthen walls restricted movement!

Hiruzen Sarutobi's face was ashen, his eyes burning with fury.

He could certainly kill all three instantly, but all three were Jonin he had personally promoted and who had served in the Anbu. Losing any one of them would be unacceptable.

We mustn't kill them!

Absolutely not!

"hateful!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi roared angrily, disregarding the depletion of his chakra, and formed hand seals, creating a shadow clone that appeared beside him.

"Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!"

boom! !

The fireball slammed into the towering stone wall, turning into waves of flame that split off on both sides, and they lost sight of Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Earth escape: the art of beheading in the heart!

The next moment, a pair of hands suddenly appeared at the feet of one of the Jonin, completely outside the blind spot of the three Jonin.

However, before the Jonin could even react, his body had already reacted uncontrollably, raising his hands to form hand seals, concentrating chakra in his palms, and slamming them onto the ground. Earth Release: Earth Splitting Palm!

Kaka!

At this moment, his legs had been pulled into the ground, but under the effect of "Earth Release: Earth Split Palm", the originally softened ground hardened in an instant.

"Ugh!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's shadow clone exploded underground, and the Jonin's legs were crushed by the hardened soil, letting out a shrill and painful scream.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had already appeared beside the other two, became even angrier upon seeing this scene, but still managed to throw out his Vajra Staff and quickly raise his hand to form a hand seal.

"King Kong prison wall!"

It split into dozens of Vajra Ruyi Cudgels, which bound and imprisoned one of the Jonin.

At the same time, he suddenly retreated, narrowly avoiding a wind blade that came from afar, and appeared like a ghost behind the last Jonin, reaching out his hand and whispering, "Four Limbs Heavy Seal!"

The Jonin's body stiffened instantly, his limbs went numb, and he collapsed to the ground, temporarily losing the ability to move.

Within a few breaths, Hiruzen Sarutobi, relying on his extensive experience and ninjutsu reserves, temporarily subdued the three manipulated Jonin using non-lethal methods.

However, this kind of battle, where one is restricted and unable to exert full strength, consumes more chakra than when facing a real enemy.

He was already old, and he had exhausted his strength when facing the 'fierce eyes' before. Now he was just barely holding on to his spirit to fight the enemy.

Sensing that his chakra was almost completely depleted, Hiruzen Sarutobi subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of Hyuga Kumokawa.

Meanwhile, Hyuga Kumokawa, though not being controlled, was still enjoying the same treatment of facing several Jonin.

Moreover, whenever Hyuga Kumokawa tried to use Wind Release ninjutsu to cut the threads controlling the Konoha ninjas or attack the 'Puppet Master,' several people would rush out to block his way and force him to stop.

Several corpses were already lying around Hyuga Kumokawa. From the pained expression on Hyuga Kumokawa's face, Hiruzen Sarutobi could tell that those were people he had killed because he hadn't stopped in time!
This is essentially using the lives of other companions to make the kind-hearted Hinata Kumokawa hesitate to act!
This forced him to abandon his most proficient Wind Release ninjutsu and instead use Gentle Fist and Lightning Release ninjutsu, which he was less skilled in, to dodge and maneuver.

"asshole!!"

Upon witnessing this cruel scene, Hiruzen Sarutobi was so enraged that his chest heaved and he was practically fuming. He couldn't help but let out a furious curse.

At the same time, five more Konoha ninjas, who were being controlled, let out almost desperate and painful roars as they lunged at him like mad dogs!

Cutting those threads would only temporarily break them out of control, and illusions were ineffective; their bodies were being manipulated, not their minds, so only sealing techniques could be used…

Destroying the flying 'Puppet Master' will stop it immediately.

But the other two monsters, named 'Vortex' and 'White Fang', were standing right in front of the 'Puppet Master'!

This can't go on!
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes were bloodshot, his gaze piercing through the chaotic battlefield before him, fixed on the dark figure standing before the 'fierce eye,' indifferently watching everything unfold.

A surge of rage and a sense of powerless humiliation erupted within him like a volcano.

"you!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's roar drowned out the clamor, his voice trembling and hoarse with rage as he shouted, "Who are you people? Why are you doing this to Konoha?!"

Upon hearing Hiruzen Sarutobi's question, the 'Kage' slowly turned around, his face, shrouded in shadow beneath his hood, slightly raised, his hoarse voice tinged with laughter: "The Third Hokage is truly forgetful."

"I think you must have already heard about our deeds."

His tone was clearly smiling, but there was no mockery or anger in his voice, only a pure indifference that was chilling.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's face twitched with rage as he dealt with the attacks of the Konoha ninja while his words kept replaying in his mind.

This power and speed are completely unlike anything a human could possess, along with this bizarre ability that has never been seen or heard of before…

It had never existed in the ninja world before, and it didn't even seem like something a ninja could use...

Thinking of this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze suddenly stopped, and he looked sharply at one of the three figures, at the 'whirlpool' with red hair and female features!
“Uzumaki…” His heart pounded violently at the unbelievable guess in his mind, and his voice was hoarse as he said, “Kusagakure, Kusagakure was destroyed by you!”

"That 'whirlpool'... is it the Uzumaki clan member hiding in Kusagakure, the 'vengeful spirit' that destroyed Kusagakure?!"

How could this be? How could this happen!
So the so-called "vengeful spirits" actually exist, and are not some kind of "secret technique" as previously speculated?

In other words, the monster born from Uchiha Fugaku's body in Shisui-gumi, the monster named 'Evil Eye', is also a 'vengeful spirit'?

"No, no, they are called 'Void,' they come from the 'Void Realm,' they are not so-called 'vengeful spirits.'"

"Furthermore, please do not reverse cause and effect. The 'Vortex' was born from the pain that the Hidden Grass Village brought her in her previous life, and the destruction of the Hidden Grass Village by it was merely the result of a cause."

'Shadow' gently shook his head, correcting Hiruzen Sarutobi's mistake. He then looked at the devastated Uchiha clan territory, where blood flowed like a river, and laughed, "By the same token, this is what you deserve."

"The blood and tears of the Uchiha clan have been shed to the last drop. Now, you can no longer use the so-called Will of Fire to restrain the 'power' of the Uchiha."

As soon as he finished speaking, 'Fierce Eyes' slowly stood up behind him, standing like the shadow of 'Shadow'.

The chilling aura filled with hatred and anger caused Hiruzen Sarutobi's pupils to shrink as he faced it.

Was the Hollow, this monster, also born from the souls and resentment of Fugaku Uchiha and other Uchiha clan members after their deaths?
(End of this chapter)