The Uchiha clan, which was wiped out entirely, lacked vision.

Chapter 26 All for One's Life

The sudden appearance of the supposedly dead Minato Namikaze left everyone momentarily stunned.

Except for the Aburame Take Root.

For Root ninjas, completing the mission is the most important thing; nothing else matters.

The Root ninjas who died in the wake of "Shinra Tensei" are not important, nor is the Fourth Hokage's sudden "resurrection".

The only important thing is to complete Lord Danzo's mission and kill that evil Uchiha!

So just as Uchiha An turned his gaze over, Aburame Torune immediately launched a surprise attack on him.

The complete Susanoo is an ability that can only be used after synthesizing the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Uchiha An forcibly created it by relying on the special nature of his eye technique, but the price was that it consumed too much chakra.

He was first bombed by a human bomb in a confined space. After releasing the Nine-Tails, Konan's explosive tags showed no mercy and covered him up as well.

In order to reduce the area affected by the explosion, he had to cancel Susanoo again and use the powerful perception of the Mangekyou Sharingan to dodge Konan's rain of explosive tags.

Then Pain entered the fray, and his "Shinra Tensei" attacked everyone indiscriminately. Of course, he wouldn't activate Susanoo to shield the people of Konoha from disaster at that moment.

As a result, when Aburame Torune launched his surprise attack, he was not protected by Susanoo, which was when his defenses were at their weakest.

However, the powerful perception of the Mangekyou Sharingan allowed him to spot Aburame Torune when he got close, and he quickly drew his sword to block the attack.

With a "clang," the two swords clashed, and a purple mark quickly spread from the point where the swords met, covering most of the blades in the blink of an eye.

Those are rapidly multiplying nanobots!

Uchiha An hurriedly released his grip on the sword and threw it away. With a flick of his left hand, he launched a shuriken to distract the enemy. He then leaped backward, intending to create distance and activate his Susanoo.

But Aburame Torune knew that once Susanoo was activated again, he would completely lose this opportunity. So he ignored it and let the shuriken in his hand pierce his body without caring. He just kept chasing after Uchiha An's figure.

He punched and kicked, even ramming himself against the ground, each attack carrying a desperate determination to take everyone down with him, wanting the phosphorescent insects on his body to stick to Uchiha An.

Seeing that his target was so clear, Uchiha An immediately abandoned the idea of ​​activating Susanoo and did not use any ninjutsu. Instead, he threw shuriken at him one by one. Each shuriken precisely avoided vital points, deliberately prolonging this cruel cat-and-mouse game.

In just a short while, Aburame Torune's body was covered in thorns, like a hedgehog, with blood streaming down his face and wounds all over his body.

But he remained silent, relentlessly launching a fierce attack.

However, his physical skills, which he usually took pride in, were completely exposed in the face of the Mangekyou Sharingan's powerful perception.

Every time he swung his sword or kicked, Uchiha An could predict the trajectory of his taijutsu and easily dodge it.

"Haha..." Uchiha An laughed heartily, then said with a sarcastic tone, "Hey, you don't actually think I became a Jonin just because I'm an Uchiha, do you?"

"Whether it's taijutsu, genjutsu, or ninjutsu, the Uchiha Jonin are a small group of people who stand at the pinnacle of the ninja world!"

"Unfortunately..."

The image of corpses strewn across the clan's territory that night flashed through Uchiha An's mind again, making his blood boil. The anger and hatred in his heart were hard to suppress, and his chakra began to run rampant.

His voice was filled with deep-seated hatred as he roared.

"The hypocritical Hiruzen Sarutobi, the ruthless Danzo Shimura, the jealous and envious clans, the ignorant and foolish ordinary ninjas, and the apathetic villagers of Konoha..."

"Your combined efforts led to the annihilation of the Uchiha clan!"

"You...you all deserve to die!"

Uchiha An's Sharingan spun wildly, and the chilling aura emanating from his body intensified once more.

The Sharingan is also a bug-like bloodline limit. The amount of Yin Release chakra is completely controlled by mental state. The more extreme the emotions, the stronger the amount of chakra tends to be.

In his rage, Uchiha An's original idea of ​​toying with Aburame Torune vanished.

The murderous intent was like a flood bursting its banks, impossible to suppress any longer.

He quickly formed hand seals, opened his mouth, and a fire dragon spewed out, roaring deafeningly, and surged towards Aburame.

"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Moreover, when he threw the shuriken earlier, he attached a specially made transparent steel wire to the back of one of the shuriken.

With this steel wire as the conductor, Aburame Torune had no chance to dodge this ninjutsu attack.

However, Aburame Torune didn't dodge at all. Taking advantage of the moment when Uchiha An paused while uttering his ninjutsu, he completely abandoned his defense, poured all his chakra into the Phosphorous Beast, and charged at it.

"call!"

The instant he was struck by the flames, Aburame Torune was instantly ignited, burning fiercely like a human candle. Purple poisonous mist swirled within the flames, emitting a pungent, acrid smell.

But he emerged from the flames, covered in fire, and successfully approached Uchiha An, grabbing him onto his arm.

"We succeeded!"

Aburame Torune's voice was so hoarse it was barely human, but it was filled with the ecstatic joy of victory.

He gripped Uchiha An tightly, his chakra surging out wildly, causing the phosphorus worms on his body to multiply rapidly and crawl towards Uchiha An.

Visibly, Uchiha An's arm began to turn purple little by little.

At the same time, two more Root ninjas suddenly appeared behind Aburame Torune, rushing forward regardless of their own lives. One of them emitted the glow of burning explosive tags from beneath him, while the other quickly formed hand seals.

"Earth Release: Earth Prison Hall Without End!"

The ground shook violently, and the familiar stone prison walls rose up from all sides once again, locking the three of them inside.

Uchiha An snorted coldly, his Mangekyou Sharingan spinning wildly in his eyes, and his Susanoo reappeared, protecting him and Aburame Torune inside his abdominal cavity as it broke through the narrow stone prison.

At the same time, his knife flashed and he slashed at Aburame Tokonoe.

But Aburame Torune was only focused on stimulating the reproduction of the Phosphorous Waste, and didn't even dodge the attack, only barely managing to dodge.

With a "thud," blood splattered as the blade struck, and Aburame Torune was cleaved in two from the shoulder and back. Even after falling, his eyes remained fixed on Uchiha An, intent on watching how he would die.

With a loud "boom," the self-destructing ninja successfully rushed to Susanoo, grabbed Susanoo, and exploded.

However, this stone prison was maintained by a single ninja and was too small; it was already burst by Susanoo.

Without the restraint of the stone prison, the power of the explosion was severely affected.

However, this time the explosion had many more detonating tags than the last time, which still caused Susanoo to shake violently, and its armor was covered with cracks.

Uchiha An's left eye was bleeding profusely, and he was panting heavily.

Most importantly, due to the explosion, Uchiha's power was maintaining the Susanoo's defenses, but it was unable to resist the erosion of the Phosphorous Worms, and half of his body had turned purple.