Fugaku has gone mad; he's going to create a new Uchiha clan in Kirigakure.

As Fugaku Uchiha muttered to himself, the three tomoe once again coalesced into that eerie vortex pattern within his crimson Sharingan.

It was as if a rift had been torn open in the void.

A massive swamp vortex appeared out of nowhere in mid-air, with a diameter of over a hundred meters. At its center was deep darkness, and at its edges flowed a viscous, muddy substance.

The raging inferno that blotted out the sky collided with the enormous vortex.

There was no loud crashing sound.

There was no sound of mud being dried or scorched.

All that could be heard was the sound of gurgling, gurgling, like an unknown monster drinking water...

Accompanied by this sound.

The flames that filled the sky were swallowed up completely, as if they had been thrown into the sea...

"What...what kind of technique is this?"

Nara Shikaku's pupils contracted on the city wall; at this moment, his feelings represented those of the vast majority of ninjas.

But the only person who truly understood the purpose of this ninjutsu was Ao, a ninja from the Hidden Mist Village in the market.

He saw the flow of chakra through his Byakugan...

After the flames' chakra was absorbed by the vortex, it was flowing into Fugaku Uchiha's body through some invisible channel. That's why the body of the Uchiha clan leader began to glow with a golden-fire color, as if magma was flowing inside him.

"It's not going to explode, is it...?"

For some reason, Qing couldn't help but think this way. After all, in Kirigakure, whenever her clan leader took a liking to a man, even if it was just a slight attraction, something unexpected would inevitably happen to that man. This was the real reason she hadn't married yet...

"Susanoo!!!"

However, with a roar from Fugaku Uchiha, Ao's worries vanished.

The heavens and earth trembled.

Golden-red chakra surged from Fugaku Uchiha's body, condensing and taking shape in the air!

The massive ribs rose from the ground, enveloping Fugaku, Mikoto, Mei Terumi, and the Uchiha clan members and Kirigakure guards behind them.

Next comes the spine, scapula, skull...

Flesh and blood, along with meridians, spread across the bones.

Finally, there's the armor.

Dark gold armor covered the upper body of Susanoo, with crimson patterns flowing across its surface, like lava slowly flowing. The upper body resembled a small castle, much taller than the walls of Kirigakure.

"This...this is the true power of the kaleidoscope?"

Mei Terumi looked up at the Susanoo skeleton enveloping her and couldn't help but take a deep breath. There were records about Susanoo in Kirigakure's archives, but those were records from decades ago. People who hadn't seen it with their own eyes could never understand this kind of... shock.

"I...this is the first time I've ever seen this either."

Beside her, Uchiha Mikoto whispered, looking up at her husband perched atop the giant chakra being's head, surveying everything below like a king...

"Fugaku, are you alright?!"

Finally, Mikoto Uchiha couldn't help but shout out.

"fine."

Fugaku Uchiha's voice was like muffled thunder, but everyone could tell he was in a very good mood, extremely good. In fact, if he weren't so concerned about saving face, he might even have wanted to imitate the Uchiha's maniacal laughter...

After all, he had been planning for this moment for so long!

This was also why he previously thought his plan had a stroke of luck. After all, although he understood Danzo, there was too much randomness in what choices people made.

The more powerful the enemy's ninjutsu, the more chakra is absorbed and converted by the Yomizu Food House, and the greater the power of the Susanoo becomes.

That's why he deliberately provoked Shimura Danzo.

If he loses the bet, the Susanoo he can summon will be at best the kind Sasuke initially used in the original work—a single rib and an arm—which is meaningless against such a formidable opponent.

Fortunately.

After a series of build-up, Danzo's anger had already reached its peak.

All that's missing is this one sentence from myself...

Currently, he is probably in the third form of Susanoo, which is the size of the Susanoo when Itachi Uchiha fought against Sasuke Uchiha and sealed Orochimaru in the original work. Of course, his current state should be larger and more solid than the ordinary third form.

The reason he summoned Susanoo was not to show off, but to summon one of his signature weapons, the Blade of the Underworld.

That is, the huge samurai sword hanging on the left side of Susanoo at this moment.

This weapon, like Itachi Uchiha's Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror, has a special effect, and this effect is the key to his breakthrough!

...

On the city wall.

Danzo Shimura stared intently at the dark gold Susanoo with his single eye, the veins on the back of his hand gripping his cane bulging. As the dark side of Konoha who had experienced two Shinobi World Wars, worked with Kagami Uchiha for many years, and secretly researched the Sharingan for decades, he knew all too well what this meant.

Recently, even Itachi Uchiha displayed the power he possessed on the night of the massacre of his clan.

But the one in front of us is much larger and more solid than Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo, and it even has its own exclusive weapon.

In short, we've fallen for their trap...

The other party deliberately provoked him in order to force him to use the combined ninjutsu, that strange vortex eye technique that can devour ninjutsu and convert it into his own chakra.

"Lord Danzo, are you preparing for a second joint ninjutsu technique?"

A Root Jonin asked in a low voice.

"Still think it's not big enough?"

Danzo Shimura coldly stared at his subordinate with his only eye.

"Let's do it again, let him absorb us again. What, you want to fight someone stronger than the Nine-Tails?"

"Then we..."

"Form ranks, return to ranks, retreat!"

Without hesitation, Danzo Shimura issued the order.

As I said before, his rich combat experience allowed him to analyze Fugaku Uchiha's weaknesses in an instant. The third form of Susanoo was indeed large, but unfortunately it could not move. Moreover, the larger the thing was, the more chakra it consumed. So why fight him?

We'll come back when you've used up all your chakra. What will you do then?

Under Shimura Danzo's orders, the ninjas on the city wall jumped down, organized themselves into five small groups, and retreated in different directions.

"Since you're already here, why not stay..."

Once again, Fugaku Uchiha's muffled, thunderous voice echoed in the sky.

Under his control, Susanoo's right hand moved and gripped the scabbard.

With a clang~

The samurai sword is drawn.

But what slid out of the scabbard was not a blade, but a flowing, wavy pool of black mud.

"The Blade of the Yellow Springs and the Azure Pool".

Fugaku Uchiha said softly, pointing the sword tip downwards and inserting it into the ground...

...

"Boom!!"

In an instant, the earth shook and the sky trembled!

The entire eastern coast of the Land of Whirlpools trembled as if a natural disaster had struck!

Hundreds of black fountains erupted simultaneously, black sludge gushing from the ground, like countless springs of death that had been suppressed for thousands of years finally finding an outlet, rushing towards the retreating Konoha ninjas.

A Chunin dodged several attacks, but was eventually covered in mud. He watched in horror as the blackness spread rapidly, like a layer of quickly solidifying resin enveloping his calves, thighs, torso... and finally, his face filled with terror.

The whole process took less than three seconds. A living ninja was turned into a black statue, frozen in place in a struggling posture.

"Earth Release, Earthflow Wall!"

"Water Release·Water Formation Wall!"

...

Some higher-ranking ninjas attempted to use ninjutsu to combat the black mud, but their chakra ninjutsu was completely absorbed the moment it touched the mud...

Even the ninjas who tried to use chakra to isolate their footsteps from the mud were surprised to find that the chakra gathered at their feet was also completely drained. Moreover, because this chakra was connected to the chakra in their bodies, even the chakra in their bodies had been extracted.

Then, the ninja, having lost his chakra, collapsed limply to the ground, and then turned into a clay doll...

In short, this was a one-sided massacre...

Konoha's elite troops can practice perfect combined ninjutsu on the training ground and execute any tactic with perfect coordination, but when faced with this attack that is completely beyond comprehension and ignores conventional ninjutsu defense, all their training and experience become a joke.

Even the Jonin were barely holding on...

"Come closer to me!!"

Suddenly, Akimichi Choza roared, his body growing larger and larger, like a small mountain. Then, with a thud, he collapsed to the ground, blocking a large amount of mud from the spring. However, in an instant, black mud began to climb up his body, and after a few breaths, a mud figure the size of a small mountain lay there.

Moreover, his sacrifice was of little value; it only bought him a little time.

He blocked the muddy spring beneath him, and more springs gushed forth from all directions, with greater pressure and faster speed, as if someone had forcefully bitten open a juicy fruit, the juice splattering everywhere, turning the ninjas standing on him into statues along with him...

In the blink of an eye.

There were only two people who could move on the entire battlefield.

One was a young ninja with white hair and a blood-red eye beneath his mask. He was Kakashi, the Copy Ninja who rose to prominence in the years following the Third Shinobi World War.

With the help of Obito Uchiha's Sharingan and his own mastery of Lightning Release, Kakashi persevered through numerous perilous situations to the very end, though he was already panting heavily. After all, the burden of the Sharingan was undeniable...

The other one is Danzo Shimura.

He seemed much more relaxed and carefree, and even the hem of his clothes wasn't dirty. This was because his Wind Release technique wasn't so afraid of the mud. The essence of mud is to absorb chakra, but it doesn't absorb the effects caused by chakra. The effect of Wind Release is to affect the air. In other words, there is a layer of air between the mud and the chakra.

"Lord Danzo, what... should we do next?"

Having arrived at Shimura Danzo's side, Kakashi, though belonging to the Anbu, was now the highest-ranking officer, and therefore had to obey him.

"Kakashi, I order you to retreat and tell Hiruzen about the situation here."

"Aren't you coming with me?"

"Execute the command."

Danzo Shimura responded indifferently, his tone devoid of any emotion.

At the same time, he raised his hands high, and the two shuriken in his hands spun wildly. In an instant, they were covered with a massive amount of chakra, which stirred up the surrounding airflow and formed a sharp... wind!

"Whoosh!!"

The shuriken flew out with a fierce whoosh, cutting through the mud, the ground, and springs in its path, leaving a trail of destruction. However, this also created a path for Copy Ninja Kakashi to survive...

"call..."

Watching Kakashi burst out of the mud with a flash of lightning, Danzo Shimura turned around and looked at Susanoo in the distance. Compared to before, it had become extremely dim, as if it was about to shatter at any moment.

But that's normal.

After all, this enormous creature was constructed by absorbing the chakra of a thousand ninjas' combined ninjutsu, not by Fugaku Uchiha's own abilities. Of course, this is not to deny Fugaku Uchiha's abilities. This guy would be almost invincible on the battlefield. At least, the enemy's ninja army would never dare to use combined ninjutsu!

"The Uchiha clan, their potential is truly terrifying..."

Even Shimura Danzo, an enemy, couldn't help but sigh. One man had wiped out an entire ninja army of a thousand, driving himself, the darkness of Konoha, to the brink of destruction.

Of course, he could have actually run away.

However, he suddenly didn't want to run anymore.

It wasn't for any grand cause; he simply wanted to prove one thing with facts: back then, he was only half a step too slow. Throughout his life, Danzo was no less capable than anyone else.

At present, it seems certain that the Uchiha clan will join Kirigakure. By the time the main force from Konoha arrives, they will have already returned to the Land of Water. Therefore, the only thing he can do now is to kill Uchiha Fugaku.

Without Fugaku Uchiha, even if the Uchiha clan joins Kirigakure, they will only be dismembered and scattered. It's uncertain how many years it will take for them to regain their former strength. While it's still a temporary solution, it's the best he can do...

And he did indeed have such an opportunity, although he would have to give up his trump card for it...

...

finally...

The massive Susanoo shattered, and the gushing mud finally stopped.

Dead silence replaced the previous clamor.

On the battlefield, Konoha ninjas were everywhere, turned into clay puppets, each in a different pose, frozen in a moment of terror, struggle, or attempt to defend themselves.

Clearly, the Konoha ninja army has been completely wiped out.

Apart from one person, Danzo Shimura stood in the middle of the battlefield.

The wind blew his wide black coat, making it flutter loudly.

His face showed no anger, no fear, and even his usual gloom had faded, leaving only an almost icy calm.

Then, he moved.

There were no hand seals, no shouts, and not even any extra eye contact.

He merely tapped his cane lightly on the ground, and like an arrow released from a bow, he transformed into a blurry black shadow, rushing straight towards the market. His speed was completely different from his usual frail and slow demeanor; it carried an indomitable, death-defying, and fierce momentum...