From the night of genocide, marching towards the strongest.

Hiruzen, in the end... I still can't compare to you...

Thinking of the Third Hokage fighting above Konoha Village at the same time, Danzo's eyes flashed with melancholy, and his chakra surged even more fiercely, with countless ink-like chakra gushing out from his body!

"Your determination is commendable, but unfortunately, I also know your Inner Four Symbols Technique."

Sasuke looked at Danzo with amusement, took a few steps back, and took out a scroll from his pouch.

"You know what? Danzo, life needs a sense of ritual."

Sasuke's tone was full of mockery. What he liked most was seeing these guys who thought they could control everything, and then they would become hysterical when they found that they couldn't control anything.

This contrast was quite amusing to Sasuke.

"Farewell!"

Sasuke said something softly, tore open the scroll in his hand, and threw it at Danzo, who seemed to have turned into a vacuum suction hole. Sasuke then leaped away from the hall.

Bang!

After a puff of smoke, a huge black cauldron emerged from the scroll. Upon seeing this cauldron, Danzo's resolute expression faltered, but once the Reverse Four Symbols Technique was activated, it was irreversible.

Danzo could only watch helplessly as the huge black pot came crashing down on him.

boom!

A sound like a vacuum explosion came from the hall behind him, and Sasuke's lips curled up slightly.

He put in a lot of effort to find such a big black pot.

Even though Sasuke knew it was pointless, he was having fun!

As long as you're happy!

Sasuke shook his head, glanced at Danzo's right arm on his right hand, then put it into a storage scroll and headed off in another direction from the Root base.

Danzo placed the "Tongue Curse Extinction Seal" on the tongues of all Root members. If the person affected by the seal said anything about him, they would become paralyzed, unable to speak or move.

Danzo used this to restrain his subordinates, preventing them from revealing secrets about him.

However, these cursed seals lost their effectiveness after Danzo's death.

Now, the other Root members must have realized that their leader, Tuanzang, is dead, and they will surely return soon.

There's something Sasuke wants here, but he doesn't want anyone to know that he killed Danzo, so he has to hurry.

brush!

His figure moved like a ghost, incredibly fast, and surprisingly without making a sound. Based on the information he had previously obtained from Aburame Torune's mind, Sasuke made his way to the Root organization's biological laboratory with practiced ease.

He found what he wanted here!

At the base, inside a laboratory, a sudden exclamation arose.

"The seal that eradicates the root of tongue-related calamities has actually disappeared?"

"Could it be that Lord Danzo...?"

"Shut up, Lord Danzo can't possibly be in trouble, but we have to go check on him right away."

While the researchers in the lab were arguing, Sasuke suddenly burst through the door. The sudden appearance of the stranger startled the dozen or so researchers, who all questioned him:

"You? Who are you?! Huh!"

Sasuke glanced at the laboratory and didn't answer their questions. These ninjas, who were essentially in administrative roles, weren't very strong in combat.

Sasuke simply turned his Sharingan around, and countless bolts of lightning instantly killed everyone present.

This biological laboratory was used by Danzo to study the First Hokage's cells and the Sharingan.

After killing these guys, Sasuke put the First Hokage's cells, as well as all the documents and materials on the table, into a storage scroll.

He then focused his gaze on the crimson eyes in the bottles of nutrient solution and the dozen or so corpses soaking in formalin, and remained silent for a while.

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, I hope you will not blame me too much."

Sasuke murmured something softly, then put the nearly one hundred Sharingan eyes and the dozen or so corpses into the storage scroll.

He planned to continue using these Sharingan eyes, and he intended to give these Uchiha corpses a proper burial at a later time.

It was perhaps a small consolation for Sasuke after he had insulted their eyes.

After doing all this, Sasuke pointed his finger lightly, and a black flame roared out, instantly turning into an overwhelming black flame that burned everything in the laboratory to ashes.

Sasuke continued on to the next place, where, besides these things, there should be something else he wanted.

That's the ninjutsu from the Book of Seals!

Although the Book of Seals is a forbidden book kept by the successive Hokage, the Third Hokage's surprised expression upon seeing Orochimaru use the Impure World Reincarnation technique suggests otherwise.

Orochimaru definitely didn't learn this forbidden technique through normal channels. He either stole it or Danzo gave it to him when he was working with Danzo.

However, Aburame Torune's information did not include Danzo's information about the Book of Seals, so Sasuke had to find it himself.

After searching the Root organization's base for a while, Sasuke found some other useful items, but no trace of the Book of Seals.

"Never mind, I'll just go to the Hokage Building to get it."

Seeing this, Sasuke shook his head, giving up the idea of ​​continuing the search. He had already realized that the main force of the Root organization had arrived here.

With a flash, he disappeared from his original spot and headed towards the ground.

As for the actions of Root and Konoha after discovering Danzo's death, that was not Sasuke's concern.

Orochimaru killed the person, what does that have to do with me, Uchiha Sasuke?

Oh.....

Chapter 153 The Passing of Light and Shadow

Konoha Village, inside the finals venue.

The ninjas from Sunagakure, Sound Village, and Konoha clashed in a chaotic battle. The sounds of metal clashing, blood splattering, screams, wails, and roars filled the air.

The most eye-catching feature is a raccoon dog in the center of the hall, roaring to the sky with blue and white patterns all over its body, made of a lot of sand.

One-tailed Shukaku!

"Roar!"

Shukaku roared and whipped its tail, forcing Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and the others to retreat. Then, it gathered powerful wind-style chakra in its mouth, creating a turbulent flow of energy.

Wind Release: Sky Bullet Training!

boom!

Shukaku spewed out a massive, highly compressed whirlwind containing a large amount of chakra, but its target was not the few ninjas in front of it, but the audience seats behind them!

Seeing this, Kakashi was startled and quickly shouted, "Sakura, Naruto, Genma, protect the villagers!"

"Hi!"

"Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!"

"Earth Escape·Earth Flow Wall 1"

"Konoha Hurricane Dragon Roar..."

As soon as they finished speaking, the four of them simultaneously released ninjutsu, some for attack and some for defense, to block the massive, raging wind ball and stop Shukaku's attack!

"hateful!"

Naruto clenched his teeth. They had many opportunities to hit the suddenly appearing monster, but due to the terrain, they were unable to do so.

In order to protect the audience in the stands, the group had to put in a lot of effort to do so, which made them feel constrained for a while!

"Hahahaha! This is great! I haven't been out in ages, let me have some fun!"

Shukaku, the One-Tailed Beast, burst into maniacal laughter, its murky and terrifying pale yellow eyes appearing even more horrifying and eerie!

The black chakra particles compressed to their limit in his mouth suddenly coalesced into a huge black sphere.

Tailed Beast Ball!

It is a ninjutsu formed by compressing Yin and Yang chakra into a sphere at a ratio of 2:8. It is extremely powerful and can cause landslides and earthquakes!

"This is!?" Kakashi was stunned, his face showing horror. They could block Shukaku's Sky Bullet, but the Tailed Beast Ball was another story.

"Watch out, everyone, prepare to fight to the death!"

"Understood, Kakashi-sensei!"

Sensing the danger posed by the black sphere, even the usually carefree Naruto's expression darkened, and his body suddenly erupted with massive chakra; he was about to unleash the Eight Gates.

"Kid, you can use my power now!"

Just as Naruto was about to use the Eight Gates, a very tempting whisper resounded from Naruto's inner world.

Naruto frowned but did not respond to Kurama's whisper.

"With your current strength, you can't protect Konoha behind you. Come on, use my power. Just a little bit and you can beat this tanuki up, just like you did back in Takigakure."

Seeing this, the Nine-Tailed Fox did not give up, but continued to tempt her.

"You're the Nine-Tails, right?" Naruto replied indifferently. He had sensed something was wrong when the Nine-Tails suddenly unleashed a strange burst of chakra in Takigakure.

Later, during his conversation with Fu, and reflecting on the rumors circulating in the village over the years about his identity as a fox spirit, even the most foolish man understood where that power came from.

"I don't need your power. As a taijutsu ninja, my master told me to believe in my own strength, to be firm in my beliefs, and not to rely on external things!"

"you!"

Nine-Tails paused, speechless. For a thousand years, countless ninjas in the ninja world have dreamed of obtaining its power, yet this brat actually turned away the power that this great master offered to him.

hateful!

"Hmph! Very well, you ungrateful brat!"

After saying this, Kurama fell silent, not uttering a word. It was not that it lent Naruto its power for no reason, but rather that Shukaku's tone, which sounded like "the air of freedom is so sweet," had somewhat angered it.

It wanted to use Naruto to teach its old nemesis Shukaku a lesson!

"Open the door, open the door to rest, open the door to life, open the door to injury!"

Naruto opened four gates in a row, and at this moment he felt that he had reached the threshold of the fifth gate, the Gate of Closure. Just as he was about to open the fifth gate, someone was much faster than him!

boom!