Yes, the Hokage!

[Indeed, it's quite tricky.]

Danzo took a deep breath: "Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"

He unleashed a gust of wind blade, but his target wasn't Obito charging towards him; instead, it was the ground.

The attack raised a cloud of dust, temporarily obstructing the Sharingan's vision. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he quickly formed the three hand seals: Mao, Hai, and Wei.

Izanagi, activate!

This is the ultimate eye technique of the Uchiha clan, which Danzo learned from Orochimaru... Why does Fenglan know this? Because he also saw this in the scroll left by Orochimaru.

Although many people mock Danzo for using the Sharingan as a resurrection coin, that's not actually the case. It's actually a period of invincibility. Of course, this invincibility doesn't mean ignoring any attack, but rather that even if the attack kills you, you can revive anywhere within the death range.

The exact duration depends on the individual's constitution. Obito, with his Uchiha constitution, could use it for a full ten minutes, while Danzo, who was not an Uchiha, could only use it for about a minute. So what he needed to do now was to quickly give up his own life, then use a resurrection technique to catch the opponent off guard and seize the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Relying on his Izanagi, Danzo charged straight into the smoke and dust, only to be stabbed in the face by Obito.

"drink!"

Obito suddenly formed a hand seal, and the wooden strip that had been inserted into Danzo's body immediately extended in all directions, as if an umbrella had been opened inside Danzo's body.

The extremely bloody and brutal Wood Release: Wood Spike Technique once again unleashed its power, instantly turning Danzo into a pincushion from the inside out.

"Oh!"

Obito stepped on Danzo's old face and said coldly, "You think you're worthy of using the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan?"

“I am not only qualified to use it, but I use it better than you.”

Danzo's mocking voice came from behind him. Obito's expression froze abruptly. He turned around abruptly and saw a large hand heading straight for his eyes.

He reacted very quickly, immediately turning his head to dodge, but although Danzo did not hit Obito's eyes, he still made solid contact with Obito's body.

Old Deng immediately used another of his signature ninjutsu, the Self-Binding Curse Seal!

He used this technique against Sasuke in the original work, binding the opponent's entire body with the cursed seal, rendering the enemy unable to move. However, after binding Sasuke with this technique, he did not rush to attack, but instead insisted on talking to Itachi instead, which resulted in Sasuke unleashing the evolution of Susanoo and breaking free from the cursed seal.

And this is what Fenglan wanted to see.

He even foresaw that Orochimaru would head straight for Nagato. Since he had arranged for Obito to deal with Danzo, there was no reason not to warn him to be wary of Izanagi. However, the fact is that Obito was caught off guard.

【Come on, Obito, unleash your third power!】

Obito also had a Flying Thunder God kunai, so even if something really happened, Feng Lan would have time to save him in time, but he didn't rush to take action.

As for the other subordinates, Feng Lan has always treated Obito as a pawn, so while they cherish him, they also have to hone him a lot, such as in the previous avalanche and the current situation.

In addition, he also wanted to verify one point: many people say that Obito's Hollowfication is a passive skill, but there is no official setting to support this claim, so Fenglan decided to test it himself here.

Obito's body is currently bound by the Self-Destruction Seal, making it impossible for him to actively activate Kamui. Otherwise, Sasuke would have used Amaterasu to finish him off when Danzo attacked him. If the Hollowfication was passive, he certainly wouldn't have had his eyes taken away, but if it was active...

"Now... these eyes that transcend cause and effect and the horizon, those eyes that belong to the divine realm, are mine!"

Even with Danzo's shrewdness, he couldn't help but show a look of ecstatic joy the moment he reached out his hand. Those eyes were simply too outstanding, too overpowered.

Obito, on the other hand, immediately felt a bone-chilling danger and cold. Clearly... Hollowfication was not a passive process!

Seeing that his power was about to be taken away, Obito's eyes immediately became bloodshot. If Danzo took away his Mangekyou Sharingan, he would lose his biggest trump card and the ability to protect Rin!

He could even feel Danzo's fingertips touching his eyelashes. Even Feng Lan sighed and prepared to activate the Flying Thunder God Technique to save him.

But at that moment, Obito felt as if time had frozen, and countless images flashed through his mind.

At the Kannabi Bridge, a giant boulder crashed down, shattering half of his body. The excruciating pain nearly made him faint. Lying in a pool of blood, looking at the gray sky above, he felt he was about to die.

But at that moment, a pair of soft, warm hands held me tightly, and tears dripped onto my face, sweet and hot.

"Obito, don't die... please don't die..."

He could almost hear Lin's sorrowful, trembling plea from that time—no, not just that one sentence, but also the words he himself uttered before lying on the experimental table: "If you die, I will follow you, whether the destination is the Pure Land or the other shore..."

I can't die, I still need to protect Lin.

The transplantation of Hashirama cells, the awakening of the Kaleidoscope, the power of Kamui, the branches of Wood Release... He grew stronger step by step, climbing from the bottom of the class to where he is today.

Danzo's fingertips pressed against Obito's eyeballs, a cold sensation spreading from the corners of his eyes, causing Obito's body to tremble violently. Not from pain, but from fear. He had never been so afraid, not even on the day he was crushed under a rock, thinking he was going to die.

If he loses his eyes, can he still protect Lin? Can he still stand in front of her and shield her from all danger?

No, no!

"Absolutely not!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Obito let out a beast-like roar, his voice filled with resentment, anger, and an unwavering determination to protect.

The Uchiha's chakra surges due to emotional fluctuations, and this surge stimulates the Sharingan, awakening new power...

The Mangekyou Sharingan spun rapidly, the trajectories of the tomoe forming a black and red vortex. Danzo's fingers were repelled by an invisible force, and he was forced back several steps, his face filled with horror.

"This is?!"

His greedy old face was filled with terror.

A surge of powerful chakra erupted from Obito's body. It was a deep purple, not Sasuke's light purple, but a dark purple, as deep as the night sky before sunrise.

The third power... Susanoo!

A burst of deep purple chakra erupted suddenly, soaring into the sky and rapidly taking shape.

It all started with the construction of his skeleton. Thick purple ribs emerged from around him, firmly protecting Obito within them. Each rib gleamed with a metallic luster, and strange black patterns flowed across its surface, like blood vessels or the marks of a curse.

Then came the arms, two enormous purple arms extending from the sides of the ribs, with jagged bone spurs protruding from the joints, and the fingertips of the bones sharp as knives.

Next came the spine, extending segment by segment from behind the ribs, barbs that plunged downwards into the ground, fixing Susanoo's body to the earth. The barbs embedded themselves in the rock, the ground beneath their feet cracked, and rubble was sent flying by the chakra, turning to dust in mid-air.

Finally, there was the head, a purple skull emerging from above the ribs, with black and red light burning in the empty eye sockets, like two balls of ghostly fire rising from the depths of hell.

This is the first stage of Susanoo, the skeleton form.

"What...this is?!"

Witnessing this power firsthand, everyone was stunned. It was clear that Susanoo was a secret known to very few even within the Uchiha clan.

[So, besides the abilities of the Mangekyou Sharingan's left and right eyes... there's a third power?] Even the usually composed Shisui couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

"what!"

Danzo hurriedly retreated, but it was too late. With Obito's roar, the giant skeleton reached out and grabbed him.

"Very good." Feng Lan's lips curled into a slight smile. "Sasuke hasn't even been born yet, and the skeleton dog has already arrived."

Chapter 73 Hehe, I must survive!

"Goo!"

Danzo was held in the giant skeletal hand by a deep purple skull, a scene not unlike when he fought Sasuke. This time, however, he didn't get the chance to complete the world-famous painting of kunai piercing Susanoo.

He tried to form hand seals, but both his hands and body were tightly gripped, and he couldn't break free at all. Obito's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Die!"

"Clap!"

His entire body was crushed into a meat patty, and blood dripped from the giant skull's palm. The scene caused the Root members nearby to shout in grief and anger.

However, the Root members themselves were not in a good situation either. Although they were elites, Feng Lan had brought many experts with him this time. In particular, he had specially arranged for the Uchiha to deal with the Root organization. If it were someone like Hyuga or Aburame, the other party might have shown mercy, but the Uchiha and the Root organization were mortal enemies, and they were extremely ruthless.

However, Danzo was still alive! The reason was simple: Izanagi still had some duration. The corpse held in the skeleton's hand disappeared, and a new Danzo appeared not far away.

However, Danzo dared not launch another attack this time. The reason was simple: Izanagi was about to expire. Without the protection of Izanagi, he would be crushed to death in a single move when facing Obito with his double Kamui Susanoo.

So this time, Izanagi was resurrected in the position furthest away from Obito, and before anyone else could react, he took off running!

But just because others couldn't react didn't mean Feng Lan couldn't. Almost at the same time Danzo took off running, he grabbed a megaphone and shouted: "Hey, loyal elites of Root, Danzo, who brainwashed you into risking your lives for him, has run away while you were fighting a bloody battle!"

As he said this, he used his perception ability to accurately point out Danzo, who was on the run, with the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger.

Because the loudspeaker volume had been turned up to maximum, and Feng Lan was relatively close to the Root organization, most of the Root organization members heard it.

Even the most steadfast and loyal people couldn't help but turn their heads to take a look, and sure enough, they saw Danzo fleeing in a sorry state.

At that moment, the battlefield seemed to be paused.

Danzo Shimura, the leader of the Root organization, is the one who personally rescued them from orphanages, slums, and the brink of death (most of those abducted from various families have been rescued by Fenglan, and these loyal ones are mostly orphans raised from childhood).

The person who told them, "From today onwards, you are no longer orphans. You are the branches of the Roots, the guardians of Konoha in the shadows"; the person who used an iron fist and authority to etch an unshakable mark of loyalty into their hearts... was now running headlong toward Amegakure without looking back.

His cane was nowhere to be found, his bandages fluttered wildly in the wind, his crimson Sharingan eyes gradually dimmed, and his expression was filled with panic, making him look like a stray dog.

"Lord Danzo?!"

Someone shouted incredulously, but Danzo didn't even turn his head.

"How is this possible... How is this possible?!"

At that moment, the string that had been taut in the minds of all the elite members of the Root organization snapped.

Even though they became rogue ninjas along with Danzo and left their homes to come to Amegakure, they never wavered in their beliefs. Because Danzo had said that Konoha was being deceived, and that those of them who had temporarily left were Konoha's last line of defense. For Konoha, they were willing to sacrifice everything!

He said that even if he carried the darkness of the whole world on his back, he would walk to the end with his back straight.

But now? And now!

It turns out that the spine had been broken long ago.

At that moment, the elites of the Root organization suddenly felt like laughing; their feelings were just like those of Hiroshi Hyuga, who had been betrayed by the head of the main family.

The Root organization does not allow ego, doubt, or questions. They are trained to be emotionless blades, yet even blades can break under extreme temperature variations.

Ultimately, ninjas are human beings, and naturally they experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. Inhumane brainwashing training inherently has significant drawbacks.

In that instant, they realized with sorrow and profound understanding that they were not Konoha's last line of defense; they were rogue ninjas, while the Uchiha on the other side... the Uchiha that Danzo called the cancer of Konoha, were the ones who truly represented Konoha.

Although they haven't laid down their weapons, their fighting spirit... has waned considerably.

What Fenglan needs to do is to eradicate Danzo, the biggest cancer in the Root organization, and also to extinguish the last fighting spirit in the hearts of those people.

Danzo wasn't completely oblivious to the danger, but he didn't turn back to see the Root members who were fighting for him. Instead, he looked to see if Obito had caught up. The duration of Izanagi had already passed, and his right eye was now completely black. If that kid really caught up, he would surely die!

Although he always said he would do anything for Konoha, when the moment of his death came, he was undoubtedly trembling with fear. Moreover, Danzo would find a good excuse for himself: "It's not that I'm afraid of death, but that I can't die for Konoha!"

Turning around, Danzo saw that Obito was chasing him, but not very fast. He was temporarily relieved, but before he could turn around again, he felt a strong wind coming from in front of him, and a terrifying impact slammed into his stomach.

Rasengan!

"Wow!"