Naruto: I became a super shadow in the Anbu.

Chapter 376 The Pinnacle of Shadow

Hiruzen Sarutobi, wielding the Vajra Staff, descended in an instant.

His speed and power were so great that the ground cracked extensively when he landed.

The dust from the collapse behind the Konoha wall was blown away by the wind brought by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Ye Guang assessed from the side that Hiruzen Sarutobi's chakra reserves were enormous, comparable to his own at present.

At his peak, Hiruzen Sarutobi primarily used ninjutsu, so he must have possessed a large amount of chakra.

If he weren't so concerned about being the Hokage, allowing him to be a lone assassin, unleashing the Five Elements Great Barrage everywhere, his destructive power would be no less than that of a Tailed Beast.

The yellow dog landed and hurriedly asked the Jonin in charge of Konoha prison, "What happened! What's going on!"

The Jonin in charge said in a terrified voice, "Someone ambushed Jonin Hiyu Sarutobi and knocked him out of prison."

Then...then in the woods outside the prison, he killed Jonin Hiyori with the Five Elements Great Combo!

I think I heard Jonin Hiyori shout something like... "What a rebellious son..."
Yes, it's the phrase 'rebellious son'.

When the yellow dog heard the Five Elements Great Combo, it already guessed that it was Sarutobi Kanosuke. Upon hearing "rebellious son," its last shred of hope vanished.

Just how much did Sarutobi Kanosuke hate Sarutobi Hiyori? He actually infiltrated the village and murdered his father.

How could someone commit patricide and matricide?!

Bang!
White smoke appeared around Hiruzen Sarutobi.

After the white smoke dissipated, the Vajra Ruyi Cudgel disappeared, and a monkey as tall as a person appeared.

The Ape Demon King took a few steps forward, looked at the crater tens of meters wide left by the Five-Element Great Barrage, and said:
"Hiruzen, I never expected that besides you, there would be someone else who could use the Five Elements Great Combo with such great power."

He turned and went to Hiruzen Sarutobi's side, continuing:
"Hiruzen, your intelligence system is utterly rotten; it's as if you're blind."

Someone has infiltrated Konoha without your knowledge.

Someone attacked your people without your knowledge.

A robust intelligence system must be established; the intelligence system is the foundation of everything.

The yellow dog beside it lowered its head in shame.

The intelligence system is now in his hands, and he has handed it over to the gibbons to manage.

The gibbons are exceptionally capable, and the spy systems of major countries function very well.

However, the long-armed ape's strength was far from sufficient when facing a Kage-level rogue ninja.

To monitor Madara Uchiha's rogue ninja organization, a Kage-level ninja must be dispatched.

The number of Kage-level ninjas in Konoha is limited, and none of them would stoop to the arduous task of searching for rogue ninjas.

Danzo used to be willing to do the dirty work for his father, the Third Hokage, but after being weakened repeatedly, Danzo had long since retired.

The yellow dog looked at the fox.

The fox arrived at the scene earlier than him; the fox was very strong.

The fox is willing to do dirty and tiring work, but the problem is that the fox has just been compared to the Third Kazekage, which has made the father wary of it, and he plans to put it on hold for a while.

Yellow Dog said to Fox, "Fox, arrange for people to guard the perimeter. Don't let ordinary ninjas come over. Tell everyone that someone is training ninjutsu here."

Ye Guang nodded and went to arrange the outer perimeter of the incident site.

The other ninjas weren't stupid. The walls of Konoha had been blown open; how could they possibly be training ninjutsu?

Hiyu Sarutobi was killed by his illegitimate son, Kasuke Sarutobi, which was a major scandal for the Sarutobi clan.

The nearby ninjas, seeing that the ANBU had taken over the area, stopped advancing.

Outside the cordon, Danzo strolled over leisurely.

The ANBU ninjas on duty all turned around to look at Vice Minister Fox. Fox waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to make way.

Danzo was displeased to see that the Anbu ninja had to ask the fox for permission before making way for him.

He didn't look at any of the ANBU ninjas, nor at the fox; he kept his eyes forward and walked towards the back of Konoha Prison.

Arriving beside Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo and Hiruzen looked at the deep pit together.

The flames from the explosion were extinguished by the ANBU ninjas, leaving the crater charred black.

Hiruzen Sarutobi said, "Danzo, you can't hide any longer."

Using the Hashirama cells you transplanted, establish an intelligence system to deal with the troublesome Wood Release stealth ability.

Sarutobi Kanosuke, Tobi, and White Zetsu all possess Wood Release techniques for stealth.

Konoha Village is not a place they can come and go as they please.

"I can't hide any longer?" Danzo sneered.
"Why bother? You used one incident after another to strip me of my secret service and spy system."

Now you want to rely on me to build a new intelligence system?
Why don't you rely on your son Shinnosuke? Or why don't you rely on the fox? Doesn't the fox also possess Wood Release?
Wood Release is not my primary fighting method; my mastery of it is far inferior to that of the fox.

"Danzo, don't do anything rash," Hiruzen Sarutobi said.

"The fox's Wood Release technique is very strong, but he has risen too quickly. He needs to mature, be tested, and be evaluated."

The new intelligence system is not suitable to be handed over to him.

"Danzo, you will use Wood Release to establish an intelligence network. We cannot allow the enemy to easily infiltrate Konoha."

Danzo said, "My Roots need to expand. Ten Heavenly Stem codes are not enough. I need twelve Earthly Branch codes, for a total of 22 ninjas."

Hiruzen Sarutobi said, "You've already expanded. Whether I agree or not, you've secretly developed more than 20 subordinates, haven't you?"

After Danzo semi-retired, he focused on developing his own strength and cultivating his subordinates, which can be considered a formal confrontation with Hiruzen Sarutobi.

After receiving Hiruzen Sarutobi's response, Danzo turned and left.

Hiruzen Sarutobi took out his pipe and began to smoke.

If only Mitokaku inflammation were here, it would be helpful for me to refer to.

Looking at the huge pit, Hiruzen Sarutobi was very troubled, and the pressure from the rogue ninja was getting heavier and heavier.

He always had a feeling that the rogue ninja might cause big problems. Could he really wait until Madara Uchiha died of old age?
The news of Hiyuu Sarutobi's murder was spread quietly under the leadership of the Hokage Building. However, many more dead trees appeared in the village.

In spring, tree trunks should sprout green buds, but these withered trees are like dead trees.

Ye Guang held up his binoculars and looked at a dead tree in the distance.

In order to scout out White Zetsu, Tobi, Sarutobi Kanosuke, and others, Danzo seems to have developed some reconnaissance-type Wood Release techniques.

All the chakra of the dead tree is concentrated in its root system, monitoring the chakra fluctuations beneath the ground.

Nightlight was very cautious and decided to find an opportunity to test the effectiveness of these dead trees in reconnaissance.
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The full moon was like a silver plate.

On the night of the new full moon, Ye Guang immediately used the Mayfly Technique within Konoha Village.

He burrowed underground and transformed into a mass of organic matter.

Twenty seconds later, someone rushed out of the Hokage Building!

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura noticed something amiss; both were clad in armor and looked ready to fight to the death.

Nightlight had long since abandoned the mayfly technique, using water to instantly disappear and hide in the shadows.

20 seconds—the only 20 seconds left for Ye Guang to act.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura searched around but found nothing and returned disappointed.

There is a chance of resurrection this month. For several nights in a row, Ye Guang used the Mayfly Technique to test Danzo, making him extremely tired.

The village learned that Madara Uchiha's rogue ninja organization was frequently probing Konoha.

At the end of this month, Ye Guang approached Qian Shou Hua Mu, ambushed him, and died at his hands.

[Host death detected. The Moonlit Arc System is activating...]

He obtained an elite Jonin-level amount of chakra from Senju Hanamori.

His chakra level increased from 4.5 times that of a Kage to 4.7 times.

Since Senju Hanamori is one of their own, once Ye Guang acknowledges his Senju clan identity, he doesn't need to worry about Senju Hanamori targeting him.

Given the Senju clan's current weakened state, Senju Hanamori would be overjoyed to learn that the fox was a spy for the Senju clan.

The night of the full moon in April of Konoha Year 42.

Ye Guang then approached Yamanaka Igen, the patriarch of the mountain tribe.

Now that he is the son-in-law of the mountain clan, he will not have any life-or-death conflict with the mountain well garden.

The mountain tribe has struck it rich by having a deputy head of the secret service as their son-in-law.

[Host death detected. The Moonlit Arc System is activating...]

He obtained an elite Jonin-level amount of chakra from Yamanaka Ien.

His chakra level increased from 4.7 times that of a Kage to... 4.8 times?
Logically speaking, the chakra of an elite Jonin is equal to 0.2 parts of the chakra of a Kage-level ninja.

His chakra level should be 4.9 times.

However, his chakra level only increased by 0.1.

Ye Guang looked down at his hands and carefully sensed his body.

limit···
My body has reached its limit.

Chakra is a mixture of spiritual and physical energy, and neither spiritual nor physical energy can grow indefinitely.

At the peak of Kage level, with 4.8 times the chakra of a Kage level, he reached his limit.

Or rather, for the ninja world and for ordinary people, the peak of the Kage level is the limit for all ninjas.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, the Third Raikage, and others were all unable to break through this limit.

There are many ninjas from the Senju and Uchiha clans, but not many of them have broken through to the Kage level.

The Mangekyou Sharingan, Wood Release, forbidden techniques, Sage Mode, body modification, etc., are all considered Kage-level techniques, but they will all have their limits.

To break through the limits, we must achieve a qualitative breakthrough using existing methods.

In the history of the ninja world, only a handful of people have broken through the limits of strength and reached the level of Super Kage, crushing ordinary Kage-level ninjas.

The two most recent ones are Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.

The two were able to break through their limits because of their reincarnations as Asura and Indra.

Of the two, Hashirama Senju's increase in strength was more unreasonable.

Madara Uchiha's growth can be traced: Mangekyou Sharingan, Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Summoning the Nine-Tails. No matter how strong Madara Uchiha was, Hashirama Senju always surpassed him.

Ye Guang kept thinking about how to break through his limits.

I haven't tried many methods yet.

The first is magic.

Natural energy will be essential in the future fight against the Otsutsuki.

Natural energy comes from this world and is fundamentally different from the divine tree.

The magical arts of Mount Myōboku, the magical arts of Ryūchi Cave, and the magical arts of Shikkotsu Forest each have their own emphasis.

I don't know which glow-in-the-dark option suits me best.

The second is to replicate Hashirama Senju's path.

The scroll Tsunade gave him said that Hashirama Senju had once visited the Fire Temple, where his strength suddenly increased, and he gained terrifyingly high abilities such as the Wood Release: Wood Release, Top Transformation Buddha, and True Several Thousand Hands.

Sage Mode combines chakra with natural energy, while Hashirama Senju combined chakra with the legacy of the Fire Temple.

The improvement of strength cannot stop. Next month, I will try to learn about immortal techniques or the Fire Temple's inheritance.
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In the Land of Rain, inside a tree hollow.

The sound of a wooden pipe breaking rang out, and the Gedo Mazo stopped injecting power into Uchiha Madara.

Madara Uchiha slowly stood up and raised his Uchiha fan.

(End of this chapter)