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Chapter 175 All Killed and Danzo Surrenders

Feeling the exploding tags coming from all directions, Danzo never imagined that he would be so close to death one day!

At that moment, he understood everything.

Why was Nagato covering the rear, and why did he expose his Rinnegan?

Because this was bait; the allure of the Rinnegan was so great that he and Hanzo wouldn't split their forces and would concentrate all their elite troops here.

Why is the battlefield on the lake?

Because the detonator was in the lake, it first eliminated the possibility of escaping from the bottom of the lake, and secondly, the power of the explosion in the water was considerable; even if it was deep underwater, the shockwave could seriously injure a person.

On the contrary, it is difficult for an explosion to penetrate the soil layer on land.

If the battlefield is on land, a person using Earth Release can hide under the soil and withstand countless explosive tags.

But there was still one question that Danzo couldn't understand!

"You're just a seven-year-old child, how can you use such magic? Why don't you hit me?"

"Because I'm a genius!" Ning Yuan's voice actually cut through the countless explosions around him, reaching his ears: "I could use A-rank ninjutsu when I was five years old!"

"How is this possible!" Danzo exclaimed in disbelief.

"Anything is possible, and both Hiruzen Sarutobi and Biwako Sarutobi know about this!"

"You're one of Hiruzen Sarutobi's men? No way!" Danzo saw that Shinnosuke Sarutobi was blown up, so why would one of Hiruzen Sarutobi's men attack his own son?

It sounds a bit unreal that such a distinguished elite Jonin died like this.

But the explosive tags are that powerful; they can blow up low-level ninjas as well as high-level Madara Uchiha.

Ningyuan used the best paper, the best materials, and the highest level of craftsmanship to create explosive tags that could kill Jonin.

Even if this person knows Earth Release: Earth Spear Technique or Lightning Release: Lightning Armor, it's useless.

The wealthy Konan has proven that as long as you have enough explosive tags, even if you know space-time ninjutsu, you'll have to obediently hand over your Sharingan.

Furthermore, Konan's math skills weren't great, and the placement of the explosive tags wasn't perfect, resulting in most of the 600 billion explosive tags being wasted, with only a small portion threatening Obito.

Another major problem is that she doesn't know how to multiply explosive tags.

If she knew this technique, Obito would have been dead long ago.

Ning Yuanhui knows this technique.

He not only knew how to do it, but he also improved upon it.

The biggest problem with the previous multiplicative detonating tags was that although the attack power was strong, it could only attack one target!

This is a single-target attack ninjutsu used by the Second Hokage to counter Susanoo!

Ning Yuan changed the locking mechanism of the multiplication explosive tags, changing it from a single-target ninjutsu to a multi-target ninjutsu. Moreover, the way to summon explosive tags is no longer by summoning, but by triggering nearby explosive tags.

This not only greatly conserves chakra, but the scene of a large number of explosive tags relentlessly bombing a person to the death is also quite spectacular.

Truly good-looking and productive!

Seeing Danzo's puzzled look, he immediately gave a proud thumbs up: "There were 60 million explosive tags to blow you up! That's 10,000 tags per person! Aren't I amazing!"

Danzo was speechless. Who asked you that?

"So, you're not one of Hiruzen Sarutobi's people either? Hiruzen Sarutobi already knew about your talent, yet he didn't take any precautions and allowed you to freely enter and leave Konoha Village?" Danzo frowned. He was beginning to believe that Ning Yuan had subdued the Akatsuki organization.

With such a dazzling skill in using explosive tags, and the financial resources to buy 60 million explosive tags, what organization can't be subdued?

"Because the talent I revealed at the time was medical ninjutsu, and the A-rank ninjutsu I used was the Palm Healing Technique!" Ning Yuan laughed. "Why would he be wary of a medical ninja!"

"You've really hidden it well!" As soon as Ning Yuan said this, Danzo immediately understood.

It wasn't that Hiruzen Sarutobi wasn't on guard; rather, the child in front of him was too good at hiding his true intentions.

Despite his immense strength, he disguised himself as a medical ninja.

Yes, the news I heard was that a medical ninjutsu genius emerged from the ninja academy.

Look at all these corpses sinking to the bottom of the lake. Is this what you call a medical ninjutsu genius?

"To think that someone so young would have such thoughts. It's a pity I didn't know sooner, otherwise I should have gotten rid of you, this scourge of Konoha, much sooner!" Danzo said viciously.

"There's nothing I can do!" Ning Yuan spread his hands. "The Third Hokage and you, one wants his son to become Hokage, and the other wants to become Hokage yourself. The two of you are so obsessed with the Hokage position that if anyone shows even a little bit of talent and poses the slightest threat to the position, you want to eliminate them. Kato Dan, Nawaki, Hatake Sakumo—with so many examples of this, do you think I shouldn't hide it?"

Before Danzo could even finish speaking, he flew into a rage: "Kill me if you want, but don't slander this elder! I, Danzo, have worked diligently for Konoha for decades; when have I ever done anything you're talking about!"

"There's no one else here, so what are you pretending for!" Ning Yuan spread his hands: "Thanks to the hard work of the Third Hokage and you for decades, the Senju clan is gone, the Uzumaki clan is gone, Tsunade has gone far away, Jiraiya has been wandering around outside for years and never returned to the village, and Orochimaru has been sidelined. Everyone has seen all of this!"

"You say you're not stupid, but does that mean you can treat us like fools?"

Danzo fell silent, but his anger continued to rise.

It wasn't because Ning Yuan had slandered him, but because his deepest secret had been exposed, which made him furious and ashamed.

This child is only seven years old, how can he see so deeply?

Did he see through me, or is there someone else behind him?

The Hyuga clan? That shouldn't be the case, the Hyuga clan's main family and branch families are so severely divided.

Or is the system of main family branches a lie to the Konoha leadership?

Having been deceived by Ningyuan once, Danzo began to doubt everything.

Ning Yuan continued, "Actually, I know why you want to be Hokage. Back then, Konoha and Kumogakure made peace, but it was disrupted by the Gold and Silver Brothers. During the pursuit, the Second Hokage needed someone to cover the rear. Although you also wanted to do that, you weren't as quick-witted as Hiruzen Sarutobi, and he spoke first. Who would have thought that the Second Hokage would actually cover the rear himself, handing over the Hokage position to Hiruzen Sarutobi? From then on, the Hokage position became your obsession, right?"

"So what if it is!" Danzo said irritably. He was no longer in the mood to ask how Ning Yuan knew such a secret matter; it didn't matter.

He now had only one thought: to wait for Ning Yuan to get closer, and then perish together with him.

Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi truly deserve to be called brothers. They may be cowardly and selfish, but when they are truly desperate, they are not lacking in the courage to perish together with their enemies.

But Ning Yuan wouldn't go over, continuing, "It's a pity you don't know, if you had said you were going to cover the retreat first, then you really would have been the one to do it!"

"How is that possible!" Danzo immediately forgot about the idea of ​​dying together with his opponent, because this was an obsession he had held for decades.

Every moment, every time he regrets his actions, every time he wakes up in the middle of the night, he thinks about this scene and wonders if he had spoken first back then, maybe he would be the Hokage now.

Now someone is telling me that it has nothing to do with that sentence, and that the position is destined to belong to Hiruzen Sarutobi?

Who could stand this?

"This isn't a question of possibility; you'll know once you analyze it!" Ning Yuan asked, "In terms of strength, who's stronger, you or Hiruzen Sarutobi?"

Danzo shook his head: "That's not important at all. As long as I become Hokage and inherit the Hokage lineage, I can become even stronger!"

"Okay, let's analyze this from another angle. Why did you want to kill Shuten-dōji and Rope Tree?"

Danzo remained silent.

"Isn't it simply because Dan's lover is Tsunade, Nawaki's sister is Tsunade, and Tsunade herself has enormous prestige and connections, and is also the granddaughter of the First and Second Hokage? If she wanted to support someone to become Hokage, that person would most likely succeed, right?"

"So what if it is? What does it have to do with me?" Danzo asked irritably.

"Someone as smart as you saw Tsunade's lover and younger brother, so how come you didn't see that Tsunade also had a close relative?" Ning Yuan retorted.

"Who?" Danzo was startled, then immediately realized: "Hiruzen Sarutobi!"

"That's right!" Ning Yuan nodded. "Don't forget, you're all alone, while Hiruzen Sarutobi is Tsunade's teacher!"

Danzo fell silent.

"If you were the Second Hokage, and you had two potential successors who were roughly equal in appearance and strength, but one of them was your granddaughter's teacher, which one would you choose?"

This statement might sound like it's implying that the second generation was selfish, but that's not actually the case.

He was just an old man who faced death calmly, and he only did a little calculation for his family.

Not to mention that Hiruzen Sarutobi possesses all five elemental abilities, and his talent and strength are even stronger than Danzo's.

Danzo clenched his fists, looking somewhat bewildered.

I thought I lost ten years ago, but I didn't expect I had already lost twenty years ago.

Yes, I only remembered Tsunade's lover's younger brother. How come I kept ignoring Tsunade's teacher?

"Ah!" The final scream came from Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

As expected of an Earth Release ninja, he withstood forty explosive tags before being blown up.

At this point, all was silent above Tang Valley.

Without needing to transmit sound secretly, Ningyuan's voice could reach Danzo's ears.

"There are still so many left!" Ning Yuan called out as he dived underwater with the explosive tags, disappearing without a trace just as he had come.

But Danzo knew that if he wanted, those tens of millions of explosive tags could still be unleashed at any time.

Therefore, I am still hovering on the edge of death.

"Why didn't you kill me?" Danzo asked, then suddenly realized something: "I understand, you also want to become Hokage, so you want to get some evidence of Hiruzen Sarutobi's crimes from me, and then use it to bring him down?"

"Why would I want to take him down!" Ning Yuan shook his head. "I never even considered becoming Hokage."

Yeah, all I want is to be the Fifth Hokage's man.

"That is..." Danzo was completely bewildered. What exactly do you want to do? Just give me a straight answer.

"Alright, I'm just teasing you!" Ning Yuan said, "Actually, I have another identity!"

"I am a historian!"

"Huh?" Danzo thought Ning Yuan was about to reveal some incredible information, but unexpectedly, it was just a historian?

What is this thing?

"A historian, as the name suggests, is an expert in the study of history!" Ning Yuan said. "I come from the Hyuga branch family and have loved reading since I was a child. The main family is very strict about training manuals, but they don't restrict various notes and historical stories much, so I grew up reading all sorts of historical stories!"

"However, after I started school, I discovered that the historical stories at school seemed quite different from those recorded in my family!"

"Not only may the time and place of an event differ, but a person's merits and demerits may also be misrecorded or omitted."

"Later, I had the opportunity to travel to various cities across the country for performances, and I was able to see the local historical records. Then I discovered that the histories of different places also had this problem!"

"Then an idea came to me: I wanted to restore the truth of history, and I wanted to create a well-reasoned, reliable historical record for future generations to study and reference!"

Ning Yuan looked at Danzo: "Lord Danzo, your age spans the Warring States period, World War I, and World War II, and you held such an important position as the leader of Root. Therefore, you must know many secrets. I kept you here to explore these secrets and record them in history!"

"Hmph!" Upon hearing that he would be recorded in history, Danzo, having finally understood what a historian was, became even more resistant: "Why should I cooperate with you? If you record what I've done, won't I be left with a legacy of infamy?"

"What good reputation can you possibly leave behind?" Ning Yuan retorted. "Without a good reputation or a bad one, you'll truly be forgotten in history, just like countless good and bad people in ancient times. They may have done many good or bad things, but because no one recorded them, no matter how great their influence, they will ultimately be forgotten!"

"You have left behind a bad reputation, but as long as this book exists, people a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand years from now will still remember that there was an elder named Danzo in Konoha Village who did many evil things. Your image may be portrayed in various theatrical stories, and some people with special personalities may regard you as an idol. Your portraits and sculptures may even become bestsellers in the five great nations due to the popularity of the theatrical stories."

Danzo raised an eyebrow. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed quite exciting.

"So, is it better to die in obscurity, or to live as a villain for thousands of years?" Ning Yuan asked.

Danzo had a strange feeling that he might have been persuaded!

Yes, I'm destined to have no good reputation. Even if I do good deeds, this kid will probably erase them. I might as well play a villainous role and be remembered by the world!

Don't think that playing a villain is bad; other people would love to play one but don't even have the chance!

Look at Madara Uchiha, how wicked he was! Decades have passed, who still remembers him?

Besides, I'm not alone as a bad guy. How much better is Hiruzen Sarutobi than me?

He can't escape the consequences of most of what I do!

After all, Ning Yuan had said that not only did he want to become Hokage, but Hiruzen Sarutobi also wanted his son to become Hokage.

What does this mean?

This means that Hiruzen Sarutobi could be implicated in all the bad things he did to get the Hokage position.

You regret your actions, huh? Watch how I drag you down with me!

However, the words that were about to come out of his mouth changed to: "How can I believe your book will be passed down to posterity? What if nobody buys it at all!"

"I am the author of 'Primordial Era'!" Ning Yuan said calmly.

Danzo's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was immediately put at ease.

He had read "The Primordial Era," and found the story captivating, the writing excellent, and the logic sound; it was a masterpiece.

Even their ninja school collected a large number of articles from "The Primordial Era" as teaching materials.

I never expected it was written by this kid in front of me.

He didn't doubt whether Ning Yuan was lying to him, firstly because there was no need, and secondly because the age matched.

"The Primordial Era" was released two years ago, and Ning Yuan began to emerge two years ago, at which time he also started performing outside the area.

The timing all fits.

Since there are no concerns about succession and sales, then...

A true man, if he cannot live on five tripods of food, he shall die cooked in five tripods of broth. Cheers!

"What do you want to know?"

"Tell me first how you became the apprentice of the second-generation master!"

(End of this chapter)