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Chapter 150: Crushing
Danzo naturally knew the characteristics of the rinkaichu, so he immediately decided to stall for time, waiting for more insects to enter Konan's body.
"White Tiger." He looked at Konan sternly. "Last month, your Akatsuki organization attacked Konoha. You ran away before I could make a move."
"Now you've delivered yourself to my door, saving me the trouble of tracking you down."
He adjusted the Hokage hat on his head. "As the Sixth Hokage of Konoha, it is my duty and responsibility to protect the peace of the village and eliminate any existence that threatens it!"
"You came just in time. Last time, Naruto was soft-hearted and let you go. This time, I won't be like that foolish Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and let you retreat safely."
Konan stared coldly at Danzo, deep-seated hatred in her eyes.
She had remembered this disgusting old face for over a decade.
"Danzo." Her tone was chilling. "Do you think I don't know you're stalling for time?"
"It's just that... all your struggles are futile. Today, you must die!"
Whoosh!
Intense cold air suddenly erupted from Konan's body, sweeping through the surroundings like a cold current.
It swept across Torune Aburame and Danzo Shimura in front of her.
The void almost froze, and the two were instantly frozen into ice sculptures.
In mid-air, ice particles the size of sesame seeds fell to the ground.
Inside each was a tiny rinkaichu.
Although invisible to the naked eye and undetectable... through the fluctuation of natural energy, Konan could detect the dense mass of rinkaichu in the air.
Torune and Danzo's scheme never had a chance to succeed.
These insects couldn't enter her body; they were frozen to death by the cold air as soon as they approached.
At this moment, all the rinkaichu in the air were instantly frozen to death by the erupting cold current, posing no threat whatsoever.
Bang! Bang!
The two ice sculptures suddenly shattered.
However, no blood was seen among the ice chips. Obviously, they were not the real bodies, just two Shadow Clones.
They were still alive.
Whoosh!
Just then, a corpse was violently thrown from the corner of the hall.
With an orange ponytail almost pulled into a straight line, the speed was incredibly fast.
It was Fu Yamanaka!
He looked very bizarre; his skin was a black-purple color, extremely eerie and terrifying.
"Forbidden Technique: Jar of Poison!" Torune Aburame shouted.
"Explode!"
In the next instant, Fu Yamanaka's corpse exploded in mid-air.
It turned into a cloud of extremely dense purple-black poison, twisting and stretching like a living creature.
It descended straight towards Konan!
But it was futile.
Before it could land, sheets of white paper had already shot into it.
The bone-chilling cold instantly froze the entire poison cloud.
Turning it into a large block of purple-black ice, it crashed to the ground with a bang.
"???!!" Torune Aburame looked shaken, his eyes filled with horror.
His trump card, the poison insect secret technique, was actually broken so simply.
And in such a violent and domineering way.
Not a single insect could approach the enemy, unable to cause even a trace of damage.
All his poison insect secret techniques failed; he was no match at all.
"Lord Danzo!" In the corner, Torune said urgently, "The enemy is extremely strong. Please retreat as soon as possible!"
"The opponent can use Ice Release. I'm afraid that one of the combatants in that terrifying battle at the Land of Fire's border yesterday must be her!"
Danzo's expression was gloomy to the extreme, his gaze very solemn.
Retreat? Retreat where?
After White Tiger used Ice Release to instantly kill their Shadow Clones just now, he realized the opponent was powerful.
He had intended to retreat first and gather Konoha ninja to besiege her together.
But he couldn't retreat.
He could sense the icy cold air coming from all entrances and exits; they were all sealed off.
If he tried to escape and used ninjutsu to blast the frozen exits, the opponent would inevitably fly over immediately.
There was no way to escape; he could only fight head-on.
Danzo raised his right arm, looking at the ten blood-red eyes opened on it, feeling slightly reassured.
As long as he used them well, he might be able to ambush and kill the enemy.
The village must have already discovered the anomaly at Root.
The most extreme situation would be that he was no match for her, but he just needed to stall for time and wait for outside support.
Although the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was stupid, his strength was quite good.
He would definitely not let White Tiger kill a Konoha elder.
Torune wanted to continue persuading Danzo to leave, but the attacks raining down from above interrupted his next words.
White kunai, emitting a chilling cold, shot down.
Dense and numerous, covering almost the entire space above them.
There was simply no room to dodge.
Torune's face changed. He slammed his hands on the ground and shouted, "Secret Technique: Insect Sphere Wall!"
In an instant, the purple mass on his arms squirmed and was injected into the ground, raising a purple wall composed entirely of poison insects.
It blocked in front of and above the two of them.
But it was futile.
Kunai made of senjutsu chakra were not something mere bugs could withstand.
As the kunai struck it, extreme cold spread, and a large number of insects were frozen to death.
The purple insect wall thinned visibly; it couldn't hold up at all.
"Lord Danzo!" Torune roared, sweating profusely. "My insects are dying too fast, chakra consumption is rapid! I can't hold it!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the insect wall vanished.
The ground was piled high with frozen, dead poison insects.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Blade!"
Danzo blew visible Wind Release chakra from his mouth, injecting it into the kunai in his hand to form an extremely sharp, translucent chakra sword.
He waved it like lightning in front of him, slashing at the large number of incoming kunai.
For a moment, the hall rang with intense clanging sounds of metal colliding.
"What kind of kunai are these!!"
Danzo's left pupil shrank as he said in shock, "Even my Wind Release chakra sword can't cut them!"
Among the five elements, Wind Release chakra was the sharpest, cutting through everything.
But facing these kunai now, he could only knock them down, unable to cut them at all!
What shocked Danzo even more was that these kunai were imbued with Ice Release!
Every collision sprayed extreme cold onto his arm, forming a layer of ice crystals and causing stinging pain.
In less than a second, he had knocked down nearly a hundred kunai, but his sword-wielding left hand and arm were already covered in ice crystals.
His movements inevitably slowed down.
These hard and cold kunai seemed endless.
Fast and dangerous.
Danzo's idea of hacking a path to survival with his Wind Release chakra sword was instantly shattered.
"Not good!" Seeing that he couldn't keep up with the speed of the incoming kunai, he glanced sharply out of the corner of his eye at Torune Aburame, who was crouching beside him, panting rapidly with his chakra greatly depleted.
"Torune, you are useless now!" Danzo's voice contained no emotion. "With this offensive, you will definitely die; there is no escape."
"Before you die, make this last contribution to me!"
While speaking, without waiting for Torune to reply, he grabbed him with his right hand and held him in front as a defensive shield.
He rushed out of the range of the kunai raining down from above at extreme speed.
"Ahhh!" As a large number of kunai struck his body, Torune let out a scream.
The cry faded quickly, eventually becoming inaudible.
Thanks to this, Danzo, using Torune as a shield, used the Body Flicker Technique to escape the dangerous area.
Bang!
He casually threw away Torune's corpse, which was riddled with kunai, and stared solemnly through the pursuing kunai, searching for Konan's figure.
He didn't see her.
"Where is she?!" Just as Danzo was about to use a sensory ninjutsu to detect the enemy's location...
Suddenly, with a squelch, he felt a pain in his chest.
A white paper blade pierced through his chest, the tip stained with blood and steaming.
Konan, whom he was looking for, was right behind him, holding the blade in her right hand, piercing straight through his heart!
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