341. I Will Bring Danzo Back

"Whoosh!!"

The moment Danzo finished speaking, a sharp whistling sound pierced the air. Danzo couldn't help but glance to the side—it was an attack launched by the remaining guardian shinobi.

A massive boulder fell from the sky, crashing directly toward Danzo.

"Forgot to clean up these small fry," Danzo clicked his tongue, then unleashed a surge of astonishing power.

White chakra erupted from his body, instantly forming a towering Susanoo several dozen meters tall.

With a casual swing of its massive fist, the Susanoo effortlessly shattered the incoming boulder.

Seeing this, Nauma, one of the radical faction members, immediately pulled out a scroll from his robe and poured a large amount of chakra into it.

Soon, the ground began to tremble violently. Four enormous gates rose from the ground, surrounding Danzo from all four directions—front, back, left, and right.

Each gate was adorned with a massive statue: the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Black Tortoise.

As the gates fully emerged, the statues began to radiate terrifying power. They resonated with each other, forming a massive semicircular barrier that trapped Danzo within its boundaries.

At the same time, Kazuma's other subordinates demonstrated their mastery of Earth Style techniques.

First, they used the Earth Style: Earth Core technique to drastically alter the battlefield's terrain, sinking Danzo and the surrounding ground below the horizon.

Then, with the intention of burying Danzo alive even if they couldn't break his defenses, they launched the Earth Style: Rock Lodging Destruction technique from above, causing the edges of the massive pit to crumble and send a barrage of falling rocks toward Danzo.

"Barrier Gate Sealing Technique: Eight Gates Closure, huh..." Danzo, at the center of the attack, immediately recognized the barrier technique Nauma had used.

Indeed, while it appeared to be four gates, each gate was actually a pair, making a total of eight gates.

However, the number of gates didn't matter much to Danzo. They were all just a single slash away from being destroyed.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the white giant surrounding Danzo moved.

It donned a heavy and majestic tengu armor, and the massive tanto at its waist was drawn in an instant.

With a flash of white light, the blade's arc swept across the battlefield, shattering all the incoming rocks and obliterating the barrier Nauma had painstakingly set up.

In an instant, the battlefield was engulfed in dust and debris.


While everyone was still reeling from the shock, Danzo emerged alone from the dissipating smoke, appearing before Nauma in a flash.

He grabbed the man by his neck, lifting her into the air.

His crimson eyes, like those of a malevolent dragon overlooking the mortal world, gazed down at her with disdain.

"Do you feel despair?" Danzo asked coldly.

"Dammit..." Nauma, choked by Danzo's grip, couldn't speak, let alone answer such a bizarre question.

Seeing this, Kazuma immediately unleashed his long-hidden secret technique—Earth Style: Creation of Earth and the Dead!

"Feel the power of hell!" Kazuma's face twisted with ferocity as he slammed his hand onto the ground.

A surge of foul-smelling mud erupted from his palm, carrying with it countless corpses that flowed toward Danzo like a mudslide.

The dead rose from the muck, shambling like zombies, clawing their way toward Danzo as the mud carried them forward.

Seeing this technique, which bore some resemblance to the Impure World Reincarnation, Danzo raised an eyebrow.

"I must admit, while your strength is lacking, the secret techniques you possess are quite interesting."

Whether it was the Lightning Style: Limelight, Chiriku's Thousand-Armed Kannon, or this weakened version of the Impure World Reincarnation, Danzo saw potential in all of them.

"In that case, I'll spare your lives for now," Danzo said, his eyes flashing red as he infused Nauma's mind with a surge of ocular power.

He then turned his attention to the horde of corpses.


Unlike the Impure World Reincarnation, these corpses weren't immortal.

In fact, they were incredibly fragile, crumbling like mud at the slightest touch.

For such weak opponents, Danzo took a deep breath. "Wind Style: Wind Scythe Jutsu!"

A massive amount of Wind Style chakra transformed into a fierce gust of wind, which Danzo manipulated into sharp scythes that swept through the horde of corpses.


In less than a second, every corpse was sliced in half.

Kazuma, who had only recently mastered this technique, turned pale.

His trump card, which he had been so proud of, had been dismantled in less than a second.

It was clear that the enemy's strength far exceeded his expectations.

While dealing with the corpses, Danzo's main body had quietly appeared behind Kazuma.

By the time Kazuma noticed, his body was already tightly bound by branches that had grown out of nowhere.

"Now, let's not waste any more time," Danzo said, glancing at the remaining radical faction guardian shinobi.

Before they could flee, invisible slashes materialized out of thin air.

In the next moment, their world began to spin as they saw their own headless bodies collapse to the ground.

"Some kind of invisible slashing attack... Is this the power of Danzo's Mangekyō Sharingan?" Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others, while observing the battle, were carefully analyzing every detail.


Despite having been away from the battlefield for so long, these veterans had decades of combat experience and were quick to deduce Danzo's abilities.

"Alright, now it's our turn," Hiruzen narrowed his eyes and immediately performed the Summoning Jutsu.

With a puff of white smoke, Enma, the strongest summoning beast, appeared once again.

"Hiruzen, who's the enemy this time?" Enma asked as soon as it appeared.

The fact that Hiruzen had summoned it meant that he was facing an extremely formidable opponent.

In other words, Enma didn't deal with weaklings.

But when Enma saw who the enemy was, its expression changed drastically.

"Danzo?" It looked at Hiruzen in shock, as if to ask, "Has Konoha split apart?"

Hiruzen could only shake his head with a bitter smile. "There's no time to explain. Please help me win this battle. No matter what, I must bring Danzo back!"