Chapter 292: Five Elements Explosion
Yoru reported his mission in the Land of Rain to Kiiroinu in the office.
He glossed over cleansing one A-level target from the Assassination Manual.
He mainly talked about another matter:
“Minister, I encountered that birch bark-like subordinate of Lord Madara again. I overheard them mentioning the Valley of the End.
I suspect the Valley of the End is very important to Lord Madara, and there might be Lord Madara’s secret base inside.
I’m not sure, so I want to investigate.
Lord Madara has mainly been active in the Land of Rain these past two years, so even if there’s a base in the Valley of the End, it’s probably an abandoned base, not that urgent.
The gains would be small, but if there’s any setup by Lord Madara, the risk would be huge.
It would be very dangerous for one squad to go, so I want to apply to the Minister for two squads to conduct the investigation together.”
Kiiroinu nodded repeatedly. The Fox was still very steady in handling things. He said:
“The Kuroari Squad can’t leave the village easily. They need to monitor the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and also pass orders for the Hokage.
The Golden Eagle Squad and Lynx Squad are not in the village, as they’re cleansing targets from the Assassination Manual.
The Assassination Manual puts a lot of pressure on each squad.
Investigating Lord Madara is extremely dangerous, so let’s wait until the Golden Eagle Squad or Lynx Squad returns.”
Yoru nodded repeatedly. Kiiroinu was still easy to talk to.
High-ranking officials naturally had a fear of death. When Kiiroinu was a Captain, he was a Captain charging through storms of blood and gore, but since becoming Anbu Deputy Minister, he had clearly become much more cautious.
Of course, Konoha Village’s current enemies were also more dangerous. Lord Madara was an enemy Kiiroinu couldn’t handle.
After leaving Kiiroinu’s office, Yoru exited the Anbu.
He entered the secret training room in the izakaya backyard, tore some vines off the wall, and wove them into a double-eye swirl single-eye mask.
Similar to Tobi’s mask in the original work, Tobi’s was single-eye to match Obito, but Yoru wove a double-eye version.
This time, he would use a new sub-account, not the small sub-account White Ghost, but an even smaller one: Vortex White Zetsu, posing as a Sarutobi Clan traitor ninja who defected to Lord Madara.
With the small sub-account Vortex White Zetsu, using Five Elemental Great Exploding Air Bullet, left hand a basin of dirty water for Lord Madara, right hand a basin of dirty water for the Sarutobi Clan.
Lord Madara was so dirty, he probably wouldn’t mind this bit of dirty water… right?
As for the Sarutobi Clan, they would just have to swallow this mute loss.
The wood vines rose from the middle, forming two swirls at the left and right eye positions.
He engraved a seal inside the double-eye swirl mask to block clairvoyance, then Yoru disappeared into the ground.
He moved at astonishing speed, quickly traveling through the underground organic matter network.
In just over 10 minutes, he had arrived at the Valley of the End.
He had kept White Crane precisely for this moment, to deliver fake intelligence to Lord Danzo.
Outside Konoha Village, Lord Danzo led Root’s current 4 members and more than ten recruits in training, rushing toward the Valley of the End.
There were originally 20 recruits, but non-combat casualties and mutual killing during training had claimed a few.
On the way, C hesitated several times to speak. The Valley of the End was only 50 kilometers from the village; he should have called A along.
A was also a Root Ninja. Couldn’t Orochimaru carry out missions for Root?
50 kilometers wouldn’t delay his experiments.
However, Lord Danzo seemed unable to do anything about Orochimaru, especially after Orochimaru became Hokage Assistant and was being groomed as the next Hokage.
The Valley of the End was the site of the last battle between the First Hokage and Lord Madara.
They had completely destroyed the nearby terrain, creating a waterfall and gorge on a tributary of the Naka River.
Lord Danzo led his people into the gorge.
He stood on the water surface, looking at the two hundred-meter-tall stone statues in the distance.
One side was Hashirama Senju, the other was Lord Madara.
These two statues were built at the request of the First Hokage Hashirama Senju, to commemorate the Uchiha Clan’s greatest genius, Lord Madara, and also their final battle.
It was said that the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju strongly opposed it at the time, saying it was childish—who makes such huge statues of themselves and their enemy for their village—but the First Hokage insisted, and an arm couldn’t twist a thigh.
Who would have thought the First Hokage hadn’t actually killed Lord Madara, and Lord Madara was still active in the Land of Rain.
Lord Danzo had suffered setbacks in every clash with Lord Madara.
Between the statues of Hashirama Senju and Lord Madara was a waterfall dozens of meters high.
Lord Danzo waved his hand, and C and I took 10 recruits in training forward to check.
Hyuga Ninja, Inuzuka Ninja, and Aburame Ninja among the recruits cautiously approached the waterfall and began probing.
The roar of the waterfall made Lord Danzo irritated.
Inside the waterfall, Yoru, wearing the swirl mask, emerged in the turbulent white cascade.
Lord Danzo was extremely cautious; he would make his subordinates probe instead of acting himself.
No matter how useful a Shadow Clone was, it couldn’t compare to a subordinate with flesh and blood and quick reactions.
Soon, C returned to Lord Danzo’s side.
“Lord, we’ve repeatedly confirmed that there are no signs of life around the Valley of the End waterfall, but there’s a small cave behind the waterfall!”
Hearing that several powerful reconnaissance ninja clan ninjas said there were no signs of life, Lord Danzo relaxed.
“Let’s go, take me to see that cave.”
Lord Danzo and the remaining Root members continued toward the waterfall.
When still fifty meters from the waterfall, Lord Danzo suddenly looked up.
Atop the waterfall, a person appeared in an extremely eerie manner.
His upper body emerged from the water surface—not like water transformation, not like Water Clone, more like his body was directly composed of water.
The target wore a white swirl double-eye mask.
The swirl mask was woven from vines; the entire head and neck were vines, clearly inseparable from Wood Style.
Yoru had his arms crossed over his chest, looking down at Lord Danzo and Root in the gorge.
“Danzo Shimura, you dare come to sabotage Lord Madara’s statue!”
Hearing this person’s strangely suppressed voice, Lord Danzo subtly exerted force underfoot, ready to dodge at any moment.
But in the next instant, bewilderment appeared in Lord Danzo’s single eye.
Vortex White Zetsu formed a seal, and four Shadow Clones appeared atop the waterfall.
A total of five… why was this so familiar?
Wasn’t this Hiruzen Sarutobi’s opening move?
In the next instant, bewilderment turned to shock.
“Five Elemental Great Exploding Air Bullet!”
Each Shadow Clone formed a single-hand seal.
Earth Release: Flying Gravel!
Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet!
Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!
Lightning Release: Thunderous Roar!
Each ninjutsu was merely B-rank on its own, but releasing them with one seal made Vortex White Zetsu’s ninjutsu prowess terrifying.
The five spat out massively scaled impact ninjutsu from their mouths!
Yoru’s chakra amount had naturally grown to 3 times elite Jonin level.
The Ten Seals he developed could store chakra for 5 ninjutsu.
Plus the chakra he extracted himself, the scale of the five ninjutsu was extremely exaggerated.
Each ninjutsu spanned over a hundred meters, heading straight for Lord Danzo and Root in the gorge.
Lord Danzo was exceptionally terrified. Five elite Jonin-level elemental ninjutsu weren’t hard to handle, but…
If it was truly Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Five Elemental Great Exploding Air Bullet, the five elements would clash and trigger a terrifying secondary explosion!
In that case, elite Jonin-level ninjutsu would produce effects comparable to Kage-level ninjutsu!
The power of Five Elemental Great Exploding Air Bullet lay not only in the five elemental ninjutsu having no weaknesses, but in creating a special explosion from the clash of the five elements.
The Root Ninjas hurriedly used ninjutsu to defend.
In an instant, Earth Flow Wall, Water Wall Jutsu, Great Breakthrough appeared in the valley below.
Lord Danzo turned immediately, using Body Flicker Technique at full power.
Boom!
Lord Danzo faced away from the waterfall, with a terrifying explosion light behind him!
It was here—not just simple five ninjutsu!
It really was Five Elemental Great Exploding Air Bullet!
In an instant, the entire Valley of the End was engulfed in the explosion.
All Root Ninjas, even Lord Danzo who fled first, were swallowed by the explosion!
