BOOM!
The two of them, along with the wooden dragon, crashed heavily to the ground with a tremendous roar, the impact directly carving a massive crater into the earth.
A massive cloud of dust shot into the air, burying everything in the vicinity.
Within the crater, neither Yuto nor Hashirama Senju was harmed in the slightest.
Yuto let out a low grunt, forcefully pulling the wooden dragon's jaws apart as a torrent of violent power surged from his shoulders.
Schlick!
The sound of tearing cloth echoed throughout the center of the battle.
Over ten meters long, the wooden dragon was ripped cleanly in two by the explosive force from Yuto's arms.
Crack!
A sound like shattering glass rang out.
At the same time, Hashirama Senju broke free from the Adamantine Sealing Chains and attacked Yuto once again.
BOOM!
Another tremendous explosion erupted from the two of them as its center.
Under a large tree in a forest, some distance away from Hashirama Senju and Yuto.
"The battle is quite intense, but a fake is still a fake. I need to find Danzo before Hashirama Senju does."
Yuto sat on a branch, a hand resting on his forehead as he gazed at the distant scene of the battle, a slight smirk playing on his lips.
The Yuto currently fighting Hashirama Senju was, naturally, just a clone, but not an ordinary one.
Forget the standard Clone Technique, even a jutsu as advanced as the Shadow Clone could be easily seen through by Hashirama Senju.
Yuto's clone was created using the Water Mirror Jutsu, the Mirror Jutsu, supplemented by a vast amount of his chakra and several other minor techniques, making it a convincing enough replica to fool Hashirama Senju.
However, a fake is still just a fake, and this clone could not last for very long.
So...
Yuto's eyes flashed as he put his strength into his hands, leaping from the tree soundlessly and rushing toward Konoha.
For others, finding Danzo's location within Konoha would be extremely difficult.
But for Yuto, it was not such a difficult task.
Without a sound, Yuto's figure, like a black shadow, passed through the massive trees, rapidly closing in on Konoha.
At the same time, under the influence of Sage Mode chakra, Yuto slowlyperceived his surroundings.
However, the next moment.
The rapidly moving Yuto suddenly stopped.
A strange expression appeared on Yuto's face as he looked up in the direction of the battle between Hashirama Senju and his clone, muttering to himself:
"Could this be considered an unexpected blessing?"
The rumbling of explosions continued to erupt from the distance ahead.
The terrifying shockwaves cleared all the surrounding trees.
Danzo crouched low, suppressing his chakra fluctuations and doing his best to minimize his presence.
Danzo lifted his head, his gaze fixed on the distant battlefield, a layer of cold sweat beading on his forehead.
"Although it's not the first time I've seen it, such terrifying combat prowess is truly chilling."
Even though he was still some distance from the center of the battle, feeling the tremors from the ground, Danzo couldn't help but exclaim in the depths of his heart.
The stronger the combatants' performance, the more intense the greed in Danzo's eyes grew.
Thinking of the scene where he would control the First Mizukage, Yuto, under his Kotoamatsukami, Danzo couldn't help but swallow hard.
Now was not the time!
At this level of combat, let alone participating, Danzo knew that if he entered the center of the battlefield, he would likely be killed by the residual energy from Hashirama Senju and Yuto in an instant.
Although he possessed ten chances at revival, it didn't mean Danzo enjoyed throwing his life away.
Danzo was waiting.
Waiting for the moment Hashirama Senju and Yuto stopped their high-intensity battle.
Right now, both of their minds were extremely tense. In such a situation, if someone entered the center of their fight, even if they weren't killed by the shockwaves, they would be attacked by both simultaneously.
Danzo lay prone on the ground, his eyes locked on the distant battle.
The opportunity to dominate the shinobi world with Konoha was right before his eyes!
If he succeeded, even Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage who founded Konoha and ended the Warring States Period, would not be able to stand in his way.
Danzo had never agreed with Hashirama Senju so-called peace from the beginning to end.
I am the one who truly inherited Tobirama-sama's ideals, yet the position of Hokage was given to that Sarutobi Hiruzen guy!
Danzo's fists clenched slightly as he unconsciously fell into a memory.
Suddenly, Danzo's expression froze, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Without realizing it, he had fallen under a genjutsu.
Just as Danzo was about to turn and look behind him, a faint voice suddenly echoed from behind him.
"Released the genjutsu, have you? The amplification effect of the Sharingan on genjutsu is truly something else."
The moment the voice reached his ears, before Danzo could react, a searing pain shot through his right arm.
Schlick!
The sound of tearing cloth echoed in Danzo's ears.
A spray of blood erupted!
Danzo let out a惨叫 (cry of agony), scrambling to his feet in a flustered manner and tumbling backward.
Only after retreating a considerable distance did Danzo look, with an expression of disbelief and terror, at his right arm, which had been completely torn off.
"My arm... my Sharingan... my Sharingan!!"
Danzo's eyes were wide, and he had completely forgotten the pain in his arm, his voice tinged with a hint of madness.
Only then did Danzo jerk his head up to look at the figure that had attacked him.
The next instant, Danzo's entire body froze, his face filled with disbelief as he took a few steps back:
"The First Mizukage, Yuto... Yuto, weren't you fighting... fighting with Hashirama Senju-dono?"
Yuto's expression was calm as he looked at the arm he had torn off, still wrapped in bandages.
Unlike the large bandages on Danzo's arm, the bandages on Yuto's arm slowly fell to the ground, revealing a pale, eerie arm with ten Sharingan embedded in it.
"Such a disgusting sight. It seems you've collected quite a few eyes from the Uchiha clan. But it looks like you won't be able to use them anymore."
Yuto glanced disdainfully at the arm, then a surge of chakra erupted from his hands.
Under this torrent of violent power, Danzo's arm turned to ash and vanished completely before his eyes.
The troublesome part about Danzo, in Yuto's view, was this arm.
That was why, the moment Danzo fell into the genjutsu, Yuto had torn the arm off directly.
Yuto was not proficient in genjutsu, but with the amplification of Shisui Uchiha's Sharingan, the results seemed quite satisfactory.
Although Danzo had discovered he was under the genjutsu and quickly dispelled it in a short time, at least the immediate goal had been achieved. As for the genjutsu's power, Yuto didn't really care.
As for why he didn't gouge out the Shisui Uchiha Sharingan from Danzo's right eye the moment he was trapped in the genjutsu.
Because doing so would have been completely pointless.
As long as Danzo used the Izanagi jutsu, he would transform all negative states on his body into a dream.
In other words, as long as the Izanagi jutsu existed, there would be no meaning in even instantly killing Danzo.
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