Chapter 371: Power To Freeze Time!
"Danzo-sama!!"
Seeing Danzo being killed by Yu once again, the nearby Root members could no longer hold back. Countless shuriken and kunai were thrown toward him, and they pulled out their weapons, performing the Body Flicker Jutsu to rush forward.
"Overestimating yourselves..."
Yu, with his Observation Haki, detected the approaching Root Ninjas and the countless shuriken flying toward him. He didn't even bother to blink.
He withdrew his hand, which was emitting black Chidori, from Danzo's body, tossing Danzo's corpse aside like garbage. The corpse incidentally blocked all the incoming shuriken and kunai in the air.
"Sage Art: Chidori - Star Crusher!!"
Immediately after, the black lightning on his hand flared up again, and he launched a dark beam of energy. The violent power instantly obliterated the Root Ninjas who were rushing toward him, along with the ground beneath their feet, reducing everything to ashes!
"This guy's strength..."
Watching Danzo being killed by Yu again and again, along with the instant obliteration of their comrades who rushed in, the Root Ninjas, who usually had no emotions and acted like numb machines, seemed to be stunned by Yu's terrifying power.
"Another Sharingan used up..."
"Your time is running out, Danzo."
Ignoring the trembling Root Ninjas around him, Yu looked at the pale-faced Danzo, who had just resurrected using Izanagi once again. With a calm smile on his face, Yu spoke cruel words, intending to completely crush Danzo's spirit.
But then...
Just as he finished speaking, Yu's brows furrowed slightly. His Observation Haki, which had been trained to its second-stage peak, seemed to glimpse a fragment of the future.
As expected, at some point, the twenty or so Root Ninjas around him had formed a special formation, subtly surrounding him. The air around him was now filled with mysterious black Cursed Seals.
"A Self-Cursing Seal, huh..."
Yu suddenly realized that his body could no longer move. The black lightning of the Chidori in his hand dissipated, and even the flow of chakra within his body began to stagnate. Mysterious black Cursed Seals also started to gradually appear on the surface of his skin.
"Hahahahahaha!!"
"This is the Self-Cursing Seal Formation, which can only be activated by several dozen ninjas working together!!"
Noticing the look of surprise on Yu's face, Danzo, whose expression had turned grim, finally broke into a maniacal laugh. "Not only does it seal your movements, but it also seals your chakra!!"
"I know you're powerful, perhaps so strong that even all the ninjas in Konoha combined wouldn't be a match for you. But a ninja without chakra is powerless. In your current state, you probably can't even perform the most basic Substitution Jutsu, can you?!"
Self-Cursing Seal Formation?
Ignoring Danzo's grim, maniacal laughter, Yu felt his body completely immobilized and his chakra entirely halted. His gaze fell on the surrounding ninjas who were holding their hands in the sealing jutsu formation, and he quietly contemplated.
The Reverse Four Symbols Seal, which seals everything external into the user's body, the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal that prevents anyone from revealing Root's secrets, and now the Self-Cursing Seal that is being used to seal his actions and chakra.
These Cursed Seals and Sealing Jutsu likely originate from the lost Secret Jutsu of the Uzumaki Clan. It seems that Danzo has been scheming for years, bearing countless humiliations, just to deal with me. He certainly has prepared quite a few trump cards...
"One cut ends it all, Yakushi Yu."
Seeing that Yu had finally fallen into the Self-Cursing Seal Formation he had meticulously prepared over the years, Danzo's twisted and sinister face could hardly conceal his excitement. "Once I kill you, and then have Orochimaru take down Sarutobi, all of Konoha will be mine!!"
"For the sake of fulfilling my ambition to unify the entire ninja world, you should obediently die here in this dark underground, becoming a nameless soul!!"
After speaking, Danzo waved his hand, giving the order. Aside from the twenty ninjas maintaining the Self-Cursing Seal Formation, all the surrounding Root Ninjas began forming hand seals.
"You plan to obliterate me with a barrage of Ninjutsu? You're too naive, Danzo..."
As countless Ninjutsu were about to be unleashed around him, a cold smile crept across Yu's lips. Just as Danzo had said, a ninja without chakra is powerless. Even the strongest ninja would likely face certain death if caught in the sealing of the Self-Imposed Curse Binding Formation.
However, Danzo could never predict one thing: besides the Ninja's Chakra, Yu also possessed the power of the Thread Fruit and five Devil Puppets hidden in Kaio's dimension.
Moreover, in the past few years, he not only reached the strength of a Super Kage level, fully stepping into the realm of Devil Fruit awakening, but even the Devil Puppets in his hands had all entered the stage of Devil Fruit awakening!
"Open your eyes wide and watch closely..."
"In the face of true power, you are nothing."
So, although it seemed like a desperate situation, Yu was not nervous at all. On the contrary, the gradually cooling smile on his face made Danzo's heart tremble.
However, all the Root Ninjas around had completed their hand signs and simultaneously unleashed countless Ninjutsu that covered the sky, including Wind Release, Fire Release, and Lightning Release. For a moment, the entire dark underground world became as bright as daylight, and the entire scene seemed to freeze.
"Ma-Ha-Pa-Da-Ma!!" (Mahapadma)
Facing a life-or-death situation, at this moment, Yu's lips curled slightly, and he slowly uttered five obscure and mysterious words, one by one.
Suddenly, the temperature in the entire dark underground world changed. Unbeknownst to anyone, Toshogun, who had been in the alternate dimension, had transformed into the Ice Devil and appeared behind Yu. An indescribable freezing power erupted from Toshogun, instantly freezing the entire underground world!
Centered around Toshogun, the surrounding space and time were frozen by this overwhelmingly powerful icy force!
Seeing that, aside from himself and Toshogun, all the ninjas in the underground world were frozen in place, still maintaining their previous expressions and postures—even the countless Ninjutsu attacks suspended in mid-air—Yu smiled coolly.
"Thousand Arrows: Flap Thread!!"
Yu activated the awakening power of the Thread-Thread Fruit, turning the ground beneath him and the surrounding objects into threads. Thousands of threads infused with Armament Haki then shot out, piercing through all the surrounding ninjas, including Danzo, in an instant!
After accomplishing all of this within a second, the freezing power that had stopped time and space gradually dissipated, and time began to flow again. The Root Ninjas who had cast the Self-Cursing Seal Formation and Danzo himself all fell to the ground, dead.
"Off White!!"
Meanwhile, the countless Ninjutsu attacks that had been unleashed were all blocked by several large white threads that suddenly emerged from the ground on either side of Yu, filling the dark underground world with deafening explosions.
"What just... happened?!"
"Danzo-sama?!"
After the time-space freeze was lifted, the remaining Root Ninjas looked around in disbelief at the sight of dozens of their comrades and their leader, Danzo-sama, lying dead on the ground.
Mahapadma—a Buddhist term referring to the Great Red Lotus Hell of Ice, is Toshogun's ultimate technique, which can only be used after his Ice Fruit ability has awakened. It unleashes an extreme freezing power, freezing the entire surrounding space-time at absolute zero. In this frozen space-time, only Toshogun and Yu can move freely.
Although, given Toshogun's current level of ability development, he can only use it once a day, and the freeze lasts only one to two seconds at a time, it's evident that one or two seconds is more than enough time for a ninja of Yu's caliber to finish any battle.
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