Hearing Kai's voice, the vigilance honed from years of battle made Danzo shiver, his hair standing on end!
But it was already too late!
Kai's figure disappeared before his eyes!
"Not good!"
This was the only thought that flashed through Danzo's mind, and before his body could react, a lava fist pierced through his heart from behind!
Steel Fist: Lava Mountain Collapse!
"How is this possible!? Within the Outer Four Symbols Barrier, how can you still use the Flying Thunder God Technique!? That's impossible! And when did you inscribe the Flying Thunder God marking behind me!? How did you do it!?"
Danzo's face was full of shock, unable to believe what had happened before his eyes—defeated by Kai in an instant!?
How could this be!
"Who told you I was using the Flying Thunder God Technique! Ignorant!" Kai's expression showed some disdain.
Divine Descent!
Kai's figure disappeared again from behind Danzo, reappearing at his previous position, and the lava fist in his hand slowly returned to the color of normal skin.
Danzo clutched the hole in his chest tightly, his eyes fixed on Kai, still unable to believe he had been defeated so quickly.
"Danzo, face reality, you're nothing but a weakling."
Kai looked at Danzo, speaking calmly, completely ignoring Danzo's furious expression.
At the same time, a Rasenshuriken appeared in Kai's hand, infused with more than half of Kai's chakra, making it much larger than the regular form of the Rasenshuriken. Its piercing sound was sharp enough to rupture eardrums.
As soon as the Rasenshuriken was thrown from his hand, Kai's figure disappeared from the faintly black hemispherical barrier, appearing outside the barrier in the next moment.
At the same time, the Rasenshuriken thrown by Kai exploded directly inside the barrier. The barrier swelled violently, seemingly trying to resist the explosion's power.
However, this was a Rasenshuriken infused with more than half of Kai's chakra, and its explosive power was definitely not something an ordinary S-rank forbidden technique could compare to.
Boom!
A loud noise echoed outside the Hidden Leaf Village!
In the end, the entire barrier shattered, and even the four Root ninjas maintaining the barrier were killed by the explosion's shockwave.
As the dust settled, Kai's figure appeared in the original place.
After scanning for a while, he didn't find Danzo's corpse.
Kai had a feeling that Danzo didn't die in the explosion, frowning, "I blasted Danzo's entire heart, how could he still be alive?"
"Could it be Izanagi!?" A flash of realization crossed Kai's eyes.
"I didn't expect that old thing to start researching the Sharingan so early, but if I can kill you once, I can kill you a second time. You'd better not appear in my sight again, Danzo."
"Huh!?"
Kai suddenly glanced at the corpse of a Hyuga clan member lying on the ground, noting the pure white eyes in their sockets.
Perhaps because they were confident of victory, or simply because they were carrying out an assassination plan around the village, the Hyuga clan had sent main family ninjas.
Without the presence of the 'Caged Bird', the Byakugan wouldn't suffer any damage after death.
However, due to the massive power of the Rasenshuriken, only three pairs of intact Byakugan were left from the five Hyuga clan members.
"To withstand the explosion of the Rasengan, they must be at least at the level of elite Jonin, so these three pairs of Byakugan are probably at the third stage of the Byakugan."
Although the Byakugan doesn't have clear levels like the Sharingan, there are still significant differences based on different functions and abilities.
First Stage: Newly awakened Byakugan, possessing farsight ability, allowing observation of objects within a kilometer radius in 360 degrees.
Second Stage: Clairvoyance ability, enabling the user to clearly see the body's meridians, acupoints, and chakra flow.
Third Stage: Enhancing the user's own abilities, allowing chakra to be released from all acupoints throughout the body, which is why Hyuga clan ninjas can perform Revolving Heaven, a super-strong defensive taijutsu.
Apparently, the three pairs of Byakugan in Kai's possession are the highest-level Byakugan currently.
Although Kai wasn't particularly interested in the Byakugan, he was very interested in the Tenseigan, which evolves from the Byakugan—a bloodline limit not inferior to the Rinnegan!
Sealing the three pairs of Byakugan in a scroll, Kai used Divine Descent to leave the scene.
Such commotion likely already alerted the Third Hokage in the village. It's not that Kai was afraid of confronting the Third Hokage, but he had three pairs of Byakugan in his possession now, and he wouldn't hand them over. It was better not to meet the Third Hokage at this moment.
Just a few minutes after Kai left, the Third Hokage arrived at the scene fully armed, leading a squad of Anbu, and inspected the bodies lying on the ground.
"Root and Hyuga clan ninjas, damn it, Danzo couldn't hold back from taking action, could he?"
After thoroughly examining the site, which resembled a ruin, the Third Hokage didn't find Danzo or Kai's body, and he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
However, his expression soon turned grim again. If Danzo had captured Kai, it would undoubtedly lead to internal chaos in the Hidden Leaf Village, which was already in a precarious situation.
This was not the situation the Third Hokage wanted to see!
Without notifying the accompanying Anbu squad, the Third Hokage dashed towards the village.
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Mitarashi Residence.
Kai held a transparent glass bottle in his hand, containing the Byakugan he obtained from the battle with Danzo. At this moment, the originally smooth and round Byakugan had become as dry as withered wood.
And Kai's left eye had turned a pure white color!
"As I expected, the Sage of Six Paths, being the eldest son of Kaguya Otsutsuki, inherently possessed the Byakugan bloodline, but the Rinnegan was too dominant, suppressing the appearance of the Byakugan. As the Sage of Six Paths' son, Asura also inherently possessed the Byakugan bloodline, but similarly, the perfect sage body was too powerful, suppressing the appearance of the Byakugan."
"And by absorbing the ocular power of three pairs of third-stage Byakugan, the latent bloodline of the Byakugan within Asura's bloodline has awakened. Therefore, if I absorb enough ocular power, my eyes definitely have the chance to evolve into the Tenseigan!"
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