Chapter 111: “lava Release: Great Eruption” Illuminates Konoha!
At the moment when Uchiha Ikeizumi’s right arm, surging with rolling scorching lava, swiftly punched forward, the rapidly expanding right arm had already transformed into an exaggeratedly massive lava fist.
Especially in the eyes of the Shimura Clan ninjas, the terrifying volume of that crimson lava fist was countless times larger than the combined bodies of all of them.
It was just like a crimson furnace larger than a house pressing down on them from all directions.
The intense pressure and suffocation made them shudder in horror.
A terrifying thought arose in their hearts—Uchiha Ikeizumi’s punch would likely engulf the entire Shimura Clan compound in lava! Everyone would die!
But it also ignited their will to survive, causing them to swiftly form hand seals and simultaneously unleash their signature techniques.
“Wind Release: Great Vacuum Sphere!!!”
“Wind Release: Vacuum Spheres!!!”
“Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!!!”
“Wind Release…”
Various Wind Release ninjutsu were unleashed together, showing that the Shimura Clan’s proficiency and foundation in Wind Release were still quite substantial.
Surging gales, sharp wind blades, vacuum spheres breaking through the air… collided with Uchiha Ikeizumi’s lava fist.
In an instant!
The front of the lava fist was bombarded with numerous exaggerated grooves and one deep, bottomless hole after another. When a massive vacuum sphere swiftly struck, the surface of the lava fist was like a pond smashed by a boulder, splashing massive amounts of lava.
But they had clearly overestimated themselves and underestimated Uchiha Ikeizumi, who had purged countless Ninja World villains during this time.
The fist, carrying terrifying impact force comparable to a volcanic eruption, shattered all the varied Wind Release ninjutsu in the instant it made contact!
Instead, the Wind Release ninjutsu crashing into the lava fist caused the splashed lava to become a deadly threat as it flew everywhere.
A Shimura Clan youth was unfortunately splashed on the shoulder by a fist-sized clump of scalding crimson-hot lava.
At that moment, he suddenly felt his left arm lose control.
He hurriedly turned his head to look, his face instantly filled with horror.
His left arm had already fallen to the ground, and the shoulder area looked as if it had been gnawed away by lava, the entire left shoulder “erased” directly by the lava!
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
The intense, indescribable pain made him cry out in agony.
The splashed lava also landed on the Shimura Clan’s buildings, instantly igniting all combustibles. In the blink of an eye, most of the Shimura Clan compound was engulfed in a sea of fire.
Yet the lava fist did not stop!
Several Shimura Clan members and a summoned beast that had been summoned could not dodge in time and were directly swallowed by the lava fist.
They didn’t even have time to scream.
Shimura Shoya hurriedly dragged his aged body, leading the few remaining elite Shimura Clan ninjas around him, and frantically retreated backward.
Until the scorching lava fist stopped just less than a meter from Shimura Shoya’s nose tip.
But before they could catch their breath.
They shockingly saw the surface of the stopped lava fist suddenly glow with even more dazzling crimson lava light. It was as if something terrifying was about to erupt from within!
The lava fist did “erupt,” and on a scale comparable to a volcanic explosion! The entire lava fist burst apart, transforming into countless dense lava bombs that sprayed and shot out in all directions!
Each lava bomb was larger than an adult!
Boom!!!
A lava bomb smashed into an open area within the Shimura Clan compound, instantly blasting a pit several meters in diameter into the ground, with scalding hot lava still continuously burning the ground.
Boom!!!
A lava bomb landed on a three-story house, completely collapsing the entire house in an explosion, with raging flames igniting and plunging the house into a sea of fire.
Boom!!!
A Shimura Clan elite ninja was struck head-on by a lava bomb, his entire body erased as if rubbed out by an eraser, his fragile flesh and blood directly evaporated and vaporized by the lava.
Boom!!!
Boom!!!
Every lava bomb caused unimaginable exaggerated destruction to the Shimura Clan compound, while also lighting up half of Konoha, alerting countless ninjas to the commotion here.
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“It’s indeed too late…” Sarutobi Hiruzen, still within the Uchiha Clan Compound, gazed at the lava bombs rising into the sky in the distance, his old face filled with deep helplessness and regret.
Sarutobi Hiruzen had witnessed Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Lava Release many times.
After seeing such a massive disturbance, he realized that the entire Shimura Clan likely had no survivors.
Oh, no…
If there were any good people in the Shimura Clan in Ikeizumi’s eyes, perhaps one or two might survive.
The problem is…
After years of being influenced by Danzo, who served as Konoha’s black glove, did the Shimura Clan really have any innocent good people?
Sarutobi Hiruzen felt a twinge of guilt while expressing considerable doubt.
The guilt was because Danzo as the black glove existed with his tacit approval. The Shimura Clan being shaped by Danzo did have some relation to him, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
“…Ikeizumi’s Lava Release is truly astonishing.” On the other side, Uchiha Fugaku’s expression was complex as he suddenly recalled that Uchiha Setsuna had been deeply involved in this matter.
Although Uchiha Setsuna claimed he had no subjective intent to harm Uchiha Ikeizumi, only inadvertently leaking some information he shouldn’t have, and even he was unsure of its authenticity.
As for whether the Shimura Clan would act on that information, it had nothing to do with him, Uchiha Setsuna.
But…
In Ikeizumi’s eyes, would such “excuses” really work?
When Uchiha Setsuna explained that he only “inadvertently leaked information,” it was like no silver three hundred taels—he was probably just making excuses for himself.
Fugaku’s gaze was quite heavy.
As the Uchiha Clan Head, he might have the ability to stop Uchiha Setsuna, but he lacked the ability to stop Uchiha Ikeizumi.
After all…
Even the Hokage couldn’t stop him.
…
“In such a vast Uchiha, such a vast Konoha, is there really no one willing to step forward and discipline that extreme brat?”
Uchiha Setsuna was also watching the distant scene.
The massive lava bombs rising into the sky were like exploding fireworks. Though the scene was brilliantly gorgeous, it now made him shiver all over, cold sweat oozing from his palms.
His heart was not as calm as his surface appeared.
Uchiha Setsuna gritted his teeth; he had already sensed the threat.
His life felt no longer under his own control.
Because Uchiha Ikeizumi had “precedents,” each one showing that the extreme brat would not show mercy due to Uchiha Clan blood ties.
“…Damn it!!!”
The expression on Uchiha Setsuna’s old face finally cracked.
His subconscious told him—after the Shimura Clan met their doom, he would be next on that brat’s list!
No…
More precisely, he had already been targeted; the reason the brat hadn’t acted yet was likely because he was always surrounded by many Uchiha radicals.
The opponent probably just wasn’t certain of taking him down in one go, so hadn’t rushed to act!
Such a thought flashed through, making Uchiha Setsuna’s expression even uglier.
“So… I’ve long been a lamb to the slaughter in his eyes!”
Uchiha Setsuna’s old teeth were nearly ground to pieces.
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Meanwhile, within the Shimura Clan compound.
Shimura Shoya, who had hastily dodged an incoming lava bomb, was trembling all over.
But even he couldn’t tell if his trembling was from anger or fear.
Or both?!
His turbid eyes horror-strickenly gazed at Uchiha Ikeizumi ahead, bathed in lava, as if seeing the Nine-Tails Demon Fox from years ago that wreaked havoc in Konoha!
In his eyes, the destruction caused by Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Lava Release was no different from the Nine-Tails Demon Fox back then!
Simply a humanoid tailed beast!
Watching the Shimura Clan compound reduced to ruins in an instant, eyes bloodshot as clan members perished in the lava sea one by one, Shimura Shoya breathed in the pungent sulfur-filled air rapidly, the scalding air burning his lungs painfully.
“Uchiha Ikeizumi! I… will kill you this villain who rampages under the guise of lofty justice, for Konoha!”
Shimura Shoya’s wrinkled old face was twisted in madness.
He tore open his clothes, revealing mysterious curse mark patterns etched across his skin.
“You, perish with the Shimura Clan!!!”
He roared, dodging lava bomb after lava bomb while swiftly closing in on Uchiha Ikeizumi’s position.
“Ninja Art…”
“Inner Four Symbols Seal!!!”
The sealing technique activated in an instant, slits opening across Shimura Shoya’s skin as massive amounts of blood sprayed from his body, the sprayed blood outlining a massive Inner Four Symbols Seal on the surrounding ground.
Suddenly!
The sealing technique pattern rapidly expanded into a massive spherical ball, enveloping everything within it into the “Inner Four Symbols Seal” and pulling all matter into the underworld, sealing it entirely!
When the eerie sphere vanished, the Shimura Clan’s sole elder was reduced to bones with no corpse left!
“Huff… huff… huff…”
A Shimura Clan youth who had lost an arm to splashed lava but luckily survived gasped in terror, staring at the area swallowed by the “Inner Four Symbols Seal.”
That area was missing a huge chunk of matter, even much of the deadly scalding lava gone.
“Shoya Elder…” The Shimura Clan youth teared up, choking out: “He used his life to kill that evil Uchiha! Uchiha Ikeizumi, finally…”
At that point, his words cut off like a duck with its neck pinched.
His grief-stricken eyes gradually filled with horror and disbelief.
In his sight—
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s hellish demon-like figure slowly approached, the lava’s scalding heat distorting the air and his silhouette with weird fluctuations.
Shoya Elder’s desperate mutual destruction was utterly useless!!!
Uchiha Ikeizumi was not successfully sealed!!!
How could this be! Is this Uchiha demon invincible!?
Clutching his shoulder and enduring the agony, the Shimura Clan youth panicked completely, unable to control his legs as fear-induced weakness buckled his upper body, collapsing to the ground with a thud.
As Uchiha Ikeizumi drew nearer, the terrifying heat curled the hair on the Shimura Clan youth.
He felt every inch of his skin as if doused in boiling water.
“Shimura Harushima, three years ago, killed three civilians in the Land of Fire while testing the lethality of a self-created C-rank ninjutsu.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi, like a purgatory judge from the underworld, coldly stated the other’s sins.
Filling the Shimura Clan youth named “Shimura Harushima” with horror and despair.
His last shred of hope vanished.
“Today, deeply involved in the plan to assassinate Uchiha Ikeizumi.”
“Sin level… Red Name.”
Shimura Harushima’s eyes widened in terror, but before he could utter a word, overwhelming crimson lava surged toward him like a tsunami.
The lava instantly swallowed him and surged toward the Shimura Clan compound, destroying the few remaining intact houses.
The entire Shimura Clan compound was razed to the ground overnight, turning into a sea of lava!
The lava’s glow illuminated the entire night sky in crimson brilliance.
The Shimura Clan…
Annihilated!!!
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By the time Sarutobi Hiruzen, Uchiha Fugaku, and others hurriedly arrived, all they saw was a sea of unextinguished lava, the pungent air stimulating everyone’s nerves.
Even Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, and others waiting in the Hokage’s Office Building, wanting Sarutobi Hiruzen to demand an explanation from Uchiha Ikeizumi, had gathered outside the Shimura Clan compound.
Even unrelated clans like the Hyuga Clan, Nara Clan, Inuzuka Clan, and others came to check the situation.
At this moment, all Konoha ninjas present fell into silence.
They silently watched the “vanished” Shimura Clan compound.
The lava’s glow illuminated faces with varied expressions.
Nara Shikahisa had his hands in his pockets, a toothpick in his mouth. He was the first to break the deathly silence, saying to Yamanaka Inoichi beside him: “Tonight, we’ve gained a deeper understanding of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s absolute justice. This man leaves a profound impression with everything he does. But are you so sure he won’t wrong any good people?”
Yamanaka Inoichi slowly said: “Ikeizumi never kills the innocent. Every corpse I’ve handled that he killed belonged to villains bearing sins. The memories in their minds are so horrifying just to recall.”
“Moreover…”
Yamanaka Inoichi paused, then countered: “Do you think a ninja clan like the Shimura Clan really has innocent people?”
Nara Shikahisa sighed: “True…”
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“Hiruzen, what is going on…” Koharu Utatane forcibly suppressed her shock, her old face stern as she asked Sarutobi Hiruzen: “From your reaction, you knew something like this would happen in advance, didn’t you?!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen silently stared at a Shimura Clan ninja’s corpse lying nearby.
He stood wordlessly for a moment before saying grimly: “They tried to assassinate Ikeizumi and set up numerous explosive tags in the Uchiha Clan Compound, nearly killing many innocent Uchiha civilians.”
Hearing this, Koharu Utatane understood.
—The Shimura Clan brought this on themselves! And in a way no one could easily defend!
But Koharu Utatane still nitpicked: “He could have just killed the mastermind to set an example! Annihilating a ninja clan… the impact is too severe. Hiruzen, how will the other clans in the village view this?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen said: “Non-bloodline limit clans might feel sympathy. But those bloodline limit clans…”
He paused, saying no more.
Koharu Utatane realized—Danzo’s hunting and research of bloodline limits was already public knowledge, making the Shimura Clan distrusted and wary by bloodline limit clans.
Clans like Uchiha, Hyuga, moonlight, etc., upon seeing the Shimura Clan annihilated.
They were probably delighted to see it!
At least, they had no objections to Uchiha Ikeizumi’s actions this time.
Koharu Utatane fell silent too, but her resentment toward Uchiha Ikeizumi didn’t fade. Tonight, not only was the Shimura Clan gone, but two Utatane Clan youths were also killed by Uchiha Ikeizumi without reason!
On the other side.
Homura Mitokado asked with a complex expression: “Hiruzen, before annihilating the Shimura Clan, the people Uchiha Ikeizumi killed, including my cousin… did they do something to provoke his killing spree?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed: “Kakashi, you know more than I do. Explain it to them.”
“Yes, Hokage.”
Kakashi said flatly with his dead fish eyes: “The dozen or so people Uchiha Ikeizumi killed this evening were all suspected of large-scale smuggling and trafficking of contraband drugs in Konoha. The corpses are under Yamanaka Clan custody, and evidence will soon be confirmed.”
After Kakashi swiftly cited the “Yamanaka Clan,” Koharu Utatane, about to retort, was speechless.
Though she instinctively didn’t believe her clansmen would do such things.
But what if?!
What if the Yamanaka Clan really found something?
“He should have captured them for interrogation first, then punished them according to the Land of Fire’s laws. Not use his extreme, inhuman vigilante justice.”
Koharu Utatane stubbornly insisted.
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