My name is Uchiha Touhuan, and I beat the villagers so badly they cried out in pain.

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After dealing with the Hyuga matter, Uchiha Touhuan also left the Hokage's office and went to the new prison by the Naka River with his sword.

After rescuing Hiashi Hyuga from his clan, Kakashi returned to this side and intensified his interrogation and trial of the remaining forces of Utatane and Mitomon throughout the night.

After Yuta Tatene and Kouno Mito admitted to receiving financial assistance from Iwagakure, Kakashi found the matter much easier to handle.

Kakashi made a special trip to the Yamanaka clan and transferred two former Jonin who had been forcibly retired. To show his sincerity, Yamanaka Inoichi personally took them to the Nakagawa Grand Hotel.

The captured ninjas from both clans were not even interrogated. After the Yamanaka clan forcibly obtained their information using their secret techniques, they were rendered incapacitated and then executed on the spot.

For rogue ninjas, except for a few with special identities, this is the general procedure for most ninja villages.

Furthermore, throughout the entire process, Kakashi thoughtfully tied the current clan leaders of the two clans, who had already become one-armed warriors, and the two advisors who had been captured earlier, to chairs and watched the whole thing unfold.

Watching their carefully cultivated clan ninjas being eliminated one by one, the two advisors were furious. If they hadn't been gagged beforehand, they probably would have already started cursing Kakashi and Uchiha Touhuan with the most vicious words.

Soon, Uchiha Touhuan arrived. After seeing Uchiha Touhuan enter the interrogation room, Kakashi gave up his chair in the interrogation room.

After sitting down, Uchiha Touhuan looked at the four people tied to the chairs in front of him with a half-smile.

Upon seeing Uchiha Touhuan, the two advisors struggled violently, their heads shaking incessantly.

"It seems the two former advisors have something to say?" Uchiha Touhuan winked at Kakashi, who then waved away the others in the room before stepping forward alone and taking out the rags that had been stuffed into their mouths.

"Uchiha Touhuan! You'll die a horrible death!" As soon as Koharu Utatane was able to speak, she couldn't wait to curse Uchiha Touhuan.

However, the next second, a police baton landed on her mouth. Kakashi probably wanted to do this for a long time, and this time he really went all out. With one blow, Koharu Utatane's old teeth fell out one or two, and her cursing stopped abruptly.

"Actually, I'm quite curious," Uchiha Touhuan said slowly, "I already spared your two clans out of respect for the Third Hokage. In any other village, your entire clan, as losers, would have been wiped out. Why did you have to court death?"

"Hmph, how dare you, an inherently evil Uchiha, become Hokage? When the Second Hokage suppressed the Uchiha Setsuna Rebellion, he should have wiped out your entire clan!" Mitokado Homura also cursed, but before he could finish speaking, he followed in the footsteps of Utatane Koharu.

"You have the nerve to mention the Second Hokage?" Uchiha Touhuan chuckled. "Did the Second Hokage teach you that colluding with other villages' forces is acceptable to achieve your own goals?"

"Hmph, Uchiha Tohsuke, you'd better think about how to explain this to the Daimyo!" Koharu Utatane spat out a mouthful of blood, her words muffled by a lisp, "You've only just taken office as Hokage and such a huge incident has already occurred in the village! The Daimyo won't let you off the hook! Your good days are about to end!"

"Is that so?" Uchiha Touhuan smiled and pondered for a moment. "It seems that's really the case. How are we going to explain this to the Daimyo? This is truly a difficult situation."

"So, why not just change your name?" Uchiha Touhuan chuckled.

Just then, a person rushed in from outside the interrogation room.

"Hokage-sama! Urgent report from the Fire Capital! Orochimaru has led an assassination attempt on the Daimyo. The Crown Prince is dead, and the Daimyo is seriously injured! The Twelve Guardian Ninja are fighting desperately to hold them off! Please, Hokage-sama, proceed to the Fire Capital to provide support immediately!"

The urgent report from this person echoed throughout the underground interrogation room. Uchiha Touhuan and Kakashi both looked at the four people in the interrogation room with ambiguous smiles.

"Uchiha Touhuan...you...you..." Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado looked at Uchiha Touhuan in horror. It was not hard to tell from their expressions that this matter was inseparable from Uchiha Touhuan. Uchiha Touhuan's courage was completely beyond their level of understanding.

"Kakashi, send the two on their way. Then, gather the village's elite Jonin, and we'll head to the Fire Capital to support the Daimyo."

The two advisors wanted to say something, but the next second, sharp kunai slit their throats. Their cries turned into weak hoarse sounds like broken bellows, and their life force quickly faded as they collapsed helplessly.

Uchiha Touhuan swiftly finished off the remaining two men with his sword before walking out of the interrogation room and looking at the daimyo's direct subordinate ninja who had come to deliver the information.

"What?! They actually dared to assassinate the Daimyo! Kakashi! Gather all the elite Jonin still in the village. I'm going to support the Daimyo first. You all follow me as soon as possible!"

"Understood!" Kakashi nodded in acceptance and then rushed out of the guard station as fast as he could.

Uchiha Touhuan then turned to the ninja who had come to deliver the message: "You come with me and give me all the detailed information on the way!"

"I...I understand." The ninja who came to deliver the message nodded, panting heavily.

The next second, after the two left the guard station, Uchiha Touhuan lifted the other person up, then stepped on lightning and transformed into a bolt of lightning, rushing towards the City of Fire.

Meanwhile, Kakashi quickly gathered the village's elite Jonin and set off overnight to provide support towards the Fire Capital.

At this very moment, in the capital of the Land of Fire, Orochimaru was controlling Manda, wreaking havoc in the daimyo's palace. The once magnificent palace had been reduced to ruins. Only in front of a small palace were a few ninjas desperately trying to resist the onslaught of the man and the snake, using various ninjutsu and a golden chakra barrier formed by the Thousand Hands of Kannon. Meanwhile, Orochimaru's army of wandering ninjas was mercilessly slaughtering the samurai guarding the daimyo's palace on its perimeter.

"Asuma! When will the Hokage's support arrive?!" In front of the only relatively intact sleeping quarters, a monk dressed in robes stood with his hands clasped together, doing his best to maintain the Thousand-Armed Kannon barrier that enveloped the sleeping quarters. However, he was also covered in sweat and was clearly at his limit.

"I don't know either! My old man is no longer the Hokage!" Sarutobi Asuma said, using a series of fire-style ninjutsu to repel the Manda's attack on the barrier.

"Damn it! Wasn't this guy your father, the Third Hokage's, disciple? Why is he suddenly trying to assassinate the Daimyo?!" A man wearing a blank headband roared at Asuma beside him, "I always said the nation's ninjas should be completely subservient to the Daimyo, and the position of Hokage shouldn't even exist!"

"What kind of time is this to be talking about this?!" Asuma roared, turning around. "Besides, this guy became a rogue ninja years ago, and the village has never stopped hunting him down!"

"Stop arguing! I can't hold on much longer!" The senior monk between the two said through gritted teeth.

"Jiri! You remove the barrier first, go back and refine your chakra. The rest of you, come with me and hold them off! We absolutely cannot let him hurt the Daimyo and the young prince again!" Asuma roared upon seeing this.

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The next second, the golden barrier shattered with a loud bang, and Di Lu groaned as he fell to the ground. The others guarding the palace rushed forward fearlessly.

Four of the ninjas, their bodies crackling with lightning, rushed swiftly to Orochimaru and Manda's vicinity and began forming hand seals.

Four bolts of lightning-attribute chakra converged in the air, forming a lightning cage that enveloped Orochimaru and Manda.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Dream Lightning Man!" The four attackers shouted simultaneously, increasing their chakra output.

"A combination ninjutsu?" Orochimaru looked up at the lightning cage above his head for a while before suddenly fixing his gaze on the caster closest to him. "It looks quite powerful. I can't let you complete this smoothly."

The next instant, a giant snake burst from the ground beneath the feet of the caster in the southeast corner, opened its scarlet mouth and swallowed him whole. With one of the casters gone, the lightning cage that had enveloped Orochimaru and Manda's heads vanished instantly.

"Star Dragon!" Asuma shouted, trying to rush forward to help, but a terrifying mud dragon rose from the ground and kept spraying earth-attribute chakra projectiles at him.

"Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!"

"Wind Release: Vacuum Dayama!"

Faced with the siege, Orochimaru calmly and methodically formed hand seals and released one ninjutsu after another. Although the twelve guardians directly under the daimyo were all top-notch Jonin, Orochimaru seemed to be strolling leisurely when facing them.

With Orochimaru and Manda working together, the twelve ninjas perished one by one under the onslaught of ninjutsu and the snake's jaws. Soon, only Asuma and Kazuma, the two strongest of the Twelve Guardian Ninjas, remained. However, their stamina and chakra had been exhausted while resisting Orochimaru's storm of ninjutsu.

"It's time to end this." Orochimaru said, forming hand seals. "Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!"

At that moment, the earth's veins surged wildly, and a gigantic mud dragon, comparable in size to Manda beneath Orochimaru's feet, rose from the ground. Chakra gathered in the mud dragon's mouth, and a terrifying earth-attribute chakra energy blast slowly materialized.

After a muffled roar from the mud dragon, the earth-attribute chakra projectile hurtled towards the only remaining building in the entire palace, amidst the despair in Asuma and Kazuma's eyes.

However, the next second, a thunderclap came from the sky, and a streak of azure lightning flashed, shattering the earth dragon bullet.

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(End of this chapter)