Chapter 62: If You Don’t Go Now, It’ll Be Reduced To Rubble
When Yamanaka Inoichi immediately went out to prepare to notify the Third Hokage, he happened to see the eight Root Ninja that Danzo had brought, all charging toward the lone Uchiha Ikeizumi at the same time.
Four Root Ninja stood in four different directions respectively, trapping Uchiha Ikeizumi in the middle.
They all formed hand seals together, using some Sealing Ninjutsu from the blind spot in Yamanaka Inoichi’s knowledge.
Suddenly!
A beam of eerie green light shot up from each of the four corners, extending until it reached a height of over ten meters before stopping. The light beams extended light curtains connecting front, back, left, and right to each other, and then extended upward and downward to form light curtains sealing the top and the ground.
This formed a fairly large eerie green Chakra Cube, trapping Uchiha Ikeizumi inside it.
The other four Root Ninja charged forward with Ninja Swords in hand.
The blades of their Ninja Swords were all surrounded by Wind Release Chakra.
Invisible blade lights and sword shadows covered Uchiha Ikeizumi’s field of vision.
Although the Ninja Swords did not touch Uchiha Ikeizumi, the Chakra wind blades attached to them had already left one extremely ferocious “wound” after another on Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body.
Until one Root Ninja seized the opportunity and slashed off Uchiha Ikeizumi’s right arm with one strike, sending it flying high into the air.
“Good opportunity!”
Another Root Ninja drew a Sealing Scroll from his waist, quickly unrolled it, bit his thumb, slammed his palm onto the scroll, and shouted in a low voice: “Ninja Art: Sealing Evil Law Seal!!!”
Terrifying suction came from the scroll, pulling the flying arm inside and sealing it within the scroll.
The remaining Root Ninja immediately leaped backward, putting distance between themselves and Uchiha Ikeizumi.
This hit-and-run tactic seemed extremely coordinated and natural.
As if it had been practiced countless times.
“Heh heh…”
Danzo, who was also in the Chakra Cube Sealing Space, curled his lips into a mocking smile at this moment: “That special Lava Release Bloodline Limit of yours similar to the Water Transformation Technique, this old man already experienced it from your hand last time. Since ordinary physical attacks have little effect on you, then we’ll cut your body into pieces and seal them separately.”
This was one of the tactics Danzo had come up with over these past days to deal with Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Looking at Uchiha Ikeizumi’s missing right arm.
The mocking expression on Danzo’s lips grew even stronger.
However.
Danzo noticed that Uchiha Ikeizumi seemed to have no other reaction.
But the next second.
Danzo and the other Root Ninja suddenly narrowed their eyes, because they saw Uchiha Ikeizumi’s severed right arm actually beginning to surge slowly!
The lava at the shoulder kept extending until it reached the length of an arm, then gradually coalesced into the shape of an arm.
When the flowing lava dissipated, a completely intact right arm appeared on Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body!
Danzo was stunned.
“During the Third Shinobi World War, ninja from other villages had already tried to seal me with a similar method.” Uchiha Ikeizumi walked forward slowly, asking in a ghostly tone: “What strange confidence… makes you think you’re the ‘originator’ of this method? And what naive idea… makes you think the one trapped by this cube Sealing Technique is me?”
The moment the words fell.
Danzo clearly felt the surrounding temperature rising sharply!
He could even clearly see that half of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body had turned into rolling, flowing hot lava!
Suddenly!
The flowing lava expanded rapidly like those crazily proliferating flesh tumors from fantasy novels, and in less than half a breath, half of the cube Sealing Technique was already filled with lava.
Danzo’s pupils contracted; his back was already pressed against the light curtain wall of the Sealing Technique, yet he could no longer retreat even half a step.
Danzo’s alarm bells rang loudly. Without time to think, he urgently shouted to the four Root Ninja at the corners: “Dispel the Sealing Technique!”
The moment the lava approached within inches, the Sealing Technique was finally dispelled.
The shaken Danzo retreated rapidly backward.
——Boom!!!
The constantly expanding hot lava exploded outward, swallowing toward all directions. But just as it was about to engulf the buildings of the entire street, it suddenly stalled. As if pulled by an invisible force, the lava rapidly contracted back toward the central area.
The large amount of lava retracted into his body did not burst Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body.
He could produce lava indefinitely with Chakra.
He could also recycle lava back into Chakra.
Bang!
Uchiha Ikeizumi clapped his hands together: “Lava Release…”
The still shaken Danzo felt the ground under his feet trembling slightly. He was shocked to discover cracks appearing under Uchiha Ikeizumi’s feet, with crimson light emanating from the cracks.
“…Lava Dragon Bullet Technique!”
Boom!!!
The ground under Uchiha Ikeizumi’s feet shattered instantly, and a massive lava dragon head burst out from the earth, its ferocious maw biting toward Danzo.
“Damn it!”
Danzo cursed inwardly. He had brought so many subordinates, so why was this evil Uchiha brat only targeting him?
“Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!!!” Six Root Ninja arrived in front of Danzo at the same time, with four of them rapidly forming hand seals.
The other two simultaneously slammed their palms to the ground: “Summoning Technique!”
Four water dragons, clearly a few sizes smaller, collided fiercely with the massive lava dragon head in the air above Danzo.
Boom!
Boom!
Two Summoned Beasts resembling giant turtles in appearance and of no small size also suddenly appeared. They each opened their large mouths, spewing two beams of impact water streams from the mouths of the two giant turtle Summoned Beasts.
Danzo, with a grim expression, realized that his side inexplicably only had six people left, with two subordinates vanished without a trace.
They had probably failed to withdraw in time when the cube Sealing Technique was dispelled and were swallowed by the lava.
“Two pieces of trash!”
Danzo bit his thumb, glaring sinisterly at Uchiha Ikeizumi.
“Summoning Technique!”
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“…Seems like there’s absolutely no need for me to come over.” Although Yamanaka Inoichi had arrived at the Sarutobi Clan Residence at full speed, he could clearly sense the huge commotion coming from far behind him.
When he hastily turned back to look, he could see under the hazy moonlight.
A massive lava dragon intertwining and colliding with several water dragons in the air.
The fierce rumbling was like hundreds of Explosive Tags exploding simultaneously.
Everyone in the entire Konoha was alarmed.
Yamanaka Inoichi could even vaguely see two giant turtles taller than the surrounding buildings standing tall, and a “tapir” of an even more exaggerated size appearing out of thin air!
Yamanaka Inoichi did not know whose Summoned Beasts the two giant turtles were.
But he knew that tapir was Shimura Danzo’s Summoned Beast!
Had it already reached the white-hot stage so quickly?
Then his clan members…
And his wife and daughter…
Suddenly.
Figures leaped out from the Sarutobi Clan Residence one after another. The leader suddenly spotted Yamanaka Inoichi standing at the gate.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had already quickly changed into ninja combat gear and had an extremely ugly expression, suddenly paused.
“Inoichi? Why are you here?!”
Yamanaka Inoichi did not explain, merely forcing out a sentence: “Hokage, if you don’t hurry over, the Yamanaka Clan Residence might be razed to the ground.”
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