Yagami reported on his mission in the Land of Rain while in Yellow Dog's office.
He briefly mentioned clearing an A-rank target from the assassination manual.
He primarily focused on another matter:
"Minister, I encountered another one of those birch-bark subordinates belonging to Uchiha Madara. I overhead them mentioning something about the Final Valley. I suspect the Final Valley is very important to Uchiha Madara, and there might be a secret base of his inside. I am not certain, so I want to go and investigate.
Madara has been active mainly in the Land of Rain these past two years. Even if there is a base in the Final Valley, it is likely abandoned, so it isn't urgent. The rewards are small, but if there is some kind of setup by Uchiha Madara there, the risk is high. It would be dangerous for my single squad to go, so I would like to request that two squads complete the investigation together."
Yellow Dog nodded repeatedly. Fox was always very prudent in his actions. He said:
"The Black Ant squad cannot easily leave the village. They need to monitor the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and deliver orders for the Hokage. The Golden Eagle and Lynx squads are currently out of the village to clear targets from the assassination manual.
The pressure from the manual is heavy on every squad. Investigating Uchiha Madara is extremely dangerous, so let's wait until the Golden Eagle or Lynx squad returns before discussing it further."
Yagami nodded repeatedly. Yellow Dog was quite easy to talk to.
The upper echelons naturally possessed a self-preservation trait. When Yellow Dog was a Captain, he was one who charged through blood and wind, but since becoming the Anbu Vice-Minister, he had clearly become much more cautious.
Of course, the enemies of the Hidden Leaf Village were also more dangerous now. Uchiha Madara was an enemy that Yellow Dog could not deal with.
After leaving Yellow Dog's office, Yagami walked out of the Anbu headquarters.
Entering the secret training room in the backyard of the Tavern, Yagami pulled down some vines from the wall and used them to weave a spiral-patterned mask with two eye holes.
It was similar to Tobi's mask from the original story. Because Tobi matched Obito's single eye, Yagami wove his with two.
This time he would use a new persona. Not the alias White Ghost, but a minor alias: Spiral White Zetsu, posing as a rogue ninja from the Sarutobi clan who had defected to Uchiha Madara.
This minor alias, Spiral White Zetsu, would then use the Five-Element Combo Jutsu. With his left hand, he would throw a bucket of dirty water on Uchiha Madara, and with his right, he would throw another bucket on the Sarutobi clan.
Madara was already so tainted; surely he wouldn't mind a little more mud... right? As for the Sarutobi clan, they would just have to swallow this bitter pill.
The wood vines moved upward from the center, forming two spirals at the positions of the left and right eyes.
After carving a seal inside the spiral mask to block visual prowess, Yagami vanished into the ground.
His speed was incredibly fast, transmitting rapidly through the underground organic network.
In just over 10 minutes, he appeared at the Final Valley.
Keeping White Crane alive was for this very moment—to deliver false intel to Danzo.
Outside the Hidden Leaf Village, Danzo led the four current members of the Root and over a dozen new recruits in training, rushing toward the Final Valley.
There were originally 20 recruits, but several had died during training from non-combat attrition and mutual slaughter.
C hesitated to speak several times on the way. The Final Valley was only 50 kilometers from the village; they should have called A to come along.
A was also a Root ninja. Could Orochimaru really not perform missions for the Foundation anymore? 50 kilometers wouldn't delay his experiments.
However, Lord Danzo seemed unable to do anything about Orochimaru, especially after Orochimaru became the Hokage Assistant and was being groomed as the next Hokage.
The Final Valley was the site of the final battle between the First Hokage and Uchiha Madara.
They had completely destroyed the nearby terrain, creating a waterfall and a canyon on a branch of the Naka River.
Danzo led his men into the canyon.
He stood on the water, looking at the two hundred-meter-tall stone statues in the distance.
On one side was Senju Hashirama, and on the other was Uchiha Madara.
These two statues were built at the request of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, to commemorate the Uchiha clan's greatest genius, Uchiha Madara, and their final battle.
It was said that at the time, the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, strongly opposed it, saying it was childish—what village leader would create such massive statues for himself and his enemy? But the First Hokage insisted, and the arm couldn't twist the thigh.
Who could have imagined that the First Hokage hadn't killed Uchiha Madara at all, and that Madara was still active in the Land of Rain today.
After several clashes with Uchiha Madara, Danzo had suffered setbacks.
Between the statues of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara was a waterfall several dozen meters high.
Danzo waved his hand. C and F took the 10 recruits in training and stepped forward to investigate.
The Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame ninjas among the recruits carefully approached the waterfall and began their search.
The roaring sound of the waterfall made Danzo feel irritable.
Inside the waterfall, Yagami, wearing the spiral mask, emerged from within the rushing white torrent.
Danzo was extremely cautious. If he could let his subordinates test the waters, he would absolutely not take action himself.
No matter how useful a Shadow Clone was, it was not as good as flesh-and-blood subordinates with sharp reflexes.
Not long after, C returned to Danzo's side.
"My Lord, we have confirmed repeatedly that there are no signs of life around the Final Valley waterfall, but there is a small cave behind the falls!"
Danzo relaxed upon hearing several ninjas from powerful scouting clans say there were no signs of life.
"Go, take me to see that cave."
Danzo and the remaining members of the Foundation continued toward the waterfall.
When they were fifty meters away from the waterfall, Danzo suddenly looked up.
Above the waterfall, a person appeared in an extremely strange manner.
His upper body emerged from the water's surface. It didn't look like a Water Clone or a Water Flicker; it looked more as if the water itself had directly formed the body.
The target wore a white spiral mask with two eye holes.
The spiral mask was woven from vines. The entire head and neck were made of vines, clearly indicating some inseparable connection to Wood Style.
Yagami stood with his arms crossed over his chest, looking down at Danzo and the Foundation in the canyon.
"Shimura Danzo, you actually dare to come and destroy Lord Madara's statue!"
Hearing the strange, suppressed voice of this person, Danzo secretly applied force to his feet, ready to dodge at any moment.
However, in the next instant, a daze appeared in Danzo's single eye.
Spiral White Zetsu formed a seal, and four Shadow Clones appeared above the waterfall.
Five in total... why did this look so familiar?
Isn't this the starting stance of Sarutobi Hiruzen?
In the next instant, the daze turned into shock.
"Five-Element Combo Jutsu!"
Each Shadow Clone formed a seal with one hand.
Earth Style: Flying Stones!
Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!
Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!
Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!
Lightning Style: ThunderClap!
Individually, each jutsu was only a B-rank technique, but to be able to release them with a single seal, the ninjutsu strength of Spiral White Zetsu was terrifying.
Enormous impact-type ninjutsu spewed from the mouths of the five!
Yagami's chakra reserves had naturally grown to 2.3 times that of an elite jonin.
The ten seals he developed could store the chakra required for five ninjutsu.
Adding in the chakra he extracted himself, the scale of the five ninjutsu was extremely exaggerated.
Each jutsu spanned over a hundred meters, heading straight for Danzo and the Root in the canyon.
Danzo was terrified. To be honest, five elite-jonin level elemental jutsu weren't hard to deal with, but...
If it truly was Sarutobi Hiruzen's Five-Element Combo Jutsu, then the five elemental chakras would cause a horrific secondary explosion due to their mutual restraint!
In this way, elite-jonin level ninjutsu would exert an effect comparable to Kage-level ninjutsu!
The power of the Five-Element Combo Jutsu lay not only in the fact that five-element ninjutsu had no weaknesses, but in using the massive explosion caused by the conflict of the five elements to create a special blast.
The Root ninjas used ninjutsu one after another to block.
For a moment, Earth Style: Mud Wall, Water Style: Water Wall, and Great Breakthrough appeared beneath the valley.
Danzo turned around immediately, using the Body Flicker Jutsu with all his might.
Boom!
With Danzo's back to the waterfall, a terrifying light from the explosion erupted behind him!
It came—it wasn't just five simple ninjutsu!
It really was the Five-Element Combo Jutsu!
In an instant, the entire Final Valley was shrouded in the explosion.
All the Root ninjas, even Danzo, who had fled at the first possible moment, were swallowed by the blast!
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