Fierce Battle Under the Moon

At the entrance of Hidden Leaf Village, a streak of orange light plummeted from the sky, crashing diagonally outside the main gate and kicking up a cloud of dust.

As the dust settled, a pair of scarlet, crystalline eyes glowed. Uchiha Nen wiped the blood from his cheek, raised his head, and looked into the village, his gaze as calm as still water.

Soon, Sarutobi Hiruzen led a group of Hidden Leaf Village Ninjas out of the village. These individuals all possessed considerable strength, uniformly at the Jonin level. Hiruzen himself was clad in combat attire, carrying the Adamantine Staff transformed from Enma on his shoulder, exuding a menacing aura.

"Uchiha Nen, you have slaughtered your comrades and damaged the village, your crimes are unforgivable. You should surrender obediently!" Hiruzen coldly declared.

"Me? Slaughtered my comrades?" Nen seemed to have heard something amusing, pointing at himself and raising an eyebrow slightly, "Lord Hiruzen, did you ascend to the position of Hokage through your skill of blaming others?"

Hiruzen's expression darkened instantly. Before he could respond, a Jonin beside him immediately rebuked:

"Bold! How dare you disrespect Lord Hokage! Who do you think you are!"

"Exactly, Uchiha Nen, Lord Hokage allowed you to graduate early from the Ninja Academy and exceptionally promoted you to Chunin. Instead of being grateful, you dare to insult Lord Hokage!"

"Hmph, defecting from the village and slaughtering comrades, your crimes are simply unforgivable!"

"There's no point in talking to him, let's attack together and kill him!"

Nen ignored their clamoring, maintaining a cold demeanor. His eyes were fixed solely on Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen, I'm just curious, why are you so quick to act against me, labeling me as a Rogue Ninja? Are you afraid that I will seek revenge on Hidden Leaf Village in the future?"

Hiruzen's eyes were shrouded in gloom, his low tone suggesting an impending storm, "I don't care where you learned about your father's affairs, but my actions back then were not wrong! And... you must die here today!"

"Hahahaha!" Nen burst into laughter, a hint of desolation in his voice, "Five years ago, on the day I entered the academy, you stood impeccably dressed on the platform in the Ninja Academy's square, spouting nonsense about the Will of Fire. I couldn't understand a word of it back then, but now I finally know why..."

"What?" Hiruzen frowned.

"Because... from the first moment I saw you, I hated you!" Nen stretched his neck, "Sarutobi Hiruzen, let me tell you a secret, I never intended to avenge my father in the first place. You are the ones who forced me to do this!"

He abruptly flung his hand, and countless wooden vines spread wildly along his arm, growing inch by inch in mid-air, transforming into menacing tentacles that reached out to grab the crowd.

"Adamantine Staff·Gale!" Hiruzen waved his hands repeatedly, and with incredible speed, the Adamantine Staff transformed directly into a whirlwind, stirring up a heavy gust of wind.

The wooden vines struck, but seemed to fall into a meat grinder. Under the tearing force of the gale and the staff's shadow, cracking sounds rang out continuously, turning into countless fragments of wood flying in all directions.

"Attack!" Hiruzen ordered in a deep voice.

Three Ninjas from the Sarutobi Clan immediately jumped out, simultaneously completing hand seals: "Fire Release: Great Flame Technique!"

They puffed out their cheeks, and three streams of crimson flames merged into one, transforming into a raging sea of fire, accompanied by distorted heat waves, rushing towards them.

Nen snorted coldly, his body glowing with an orange aura. Susanoo reappeared, but this time it had transformed from the original skeleton into a massive half-body Skeleton, wielding a majestic light hammer, completely ignoring the attack of the flames.

The massive Skeleton bathed in the sea of fire, dividing it into two streams with its body alone. It raised the giant hammer high and slammed it fiercely on the ground.

The Ninjas felt a jolt in their eardrums, as if thunder had exploded close to their ears. A clear golden lightning bolt traveled along the ground, quickly illuminating the earth.

These individuals were all battle-hardened Jonin, some even veterans of the Shinobi World War, so their sense of danger was extremely acute. Therefore, the moment the giant hammer landed, everyone jumped away, allowing the lightning to surge across the ground, and no one was hit by the attack.

At this moment, Nen in the Susanoo suddenly raised his eyes, the vermilion pupils swirling with black patterns, quickly locking onto the Ninjas in front of him, the whites of his eyes blooming with fine blood vessels.

This was the moment he had been waiting for!

"Amaterasu!"

In the blink of an eye, a jet-black flame ignited everyone, including Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Hokage, who couldn't evade this sudden attack.

Black flames spread, writhing ferociously!

This flame was incredibly hot, possessing a temperature far exceeding ordinary Fire Release, and carried an extremely strong adhesive property. Screams quickly erupted from the crowd.

Hiruzen's experience in battle was quite extensive. He immediately recognized the difficulty of this flame. Seeing the black flame crawling along his arm guards towards his entire body, he threw out the Adamantine Staff at the first moment, then decisively tore off his upper garment, not daring to let his skin touch even a spark.

Even so, his entire arm was fiery red, his skin scalded instantly. The wind blew, bringing a piercing pain.

The clothing fluttered down, and before it could land, it turned into a wisp of burnt smoke and dissipated into the air.

However, not all Ninja were as quick-witted as him. Apart from Hiruzen and two Hyuga Clan Ninja who timely used *'Rotation'*, everyone who was entangled by the black flame was burned to ashes in a few breaths, even the screams stopped abruptly.

Among them, a Jonin from the Akimichi Clan tried to activate the *'Multi-Size Technique'* to extinguish the flames, but the flames actually surged along with his body. Apart from turning into a larger black flame, his ending was no different from the others.

The air was heated to thousands of degrees, turning into twisted evil spirits. Just taking a breath would burn the respiratory tract into ashes.

Nen rotated his eyes, wanting to take the opportunity to bring more Ninja into the range of *'Amaterasu'*.

But his whole body suddenly shook. A furry fist landed on the face of the half-body Skeleton. The enormous force came, causing Nen to stagger.

It was because of this short interval that the release of *'Amaterasu'* was successfully blocked. Nen couldn't help but kneel on one knee, the crazy stinging sensation making him unable to stop covering his right eye, as if it was about to burst open. Fresh blood gurgled, constantly seeping through his fingers.

"Is this *'Amaterasu'*? It's really an Eye Technique that hurts the enemy a thousand, and damages oneself eight hundred!"

He gasped for breath. Because his Eye Power was unstable, the Susanoo·Initial Stage also swayed, almost collapsing.

The offensive continued to come. Only then did he see the attacker clearly. It turned out to be the Monkey King, Enma, who had transformed into his original form!

Just now, Hiruzen threw the Adamantine Staff out of the range of *'Amaterasu'*, and Enma was using the blind spot in his vision to transform into a monkey body and quickly launch a counterattack.

Eye Power became unstable due to the explosive input of *'Amaterasu'*. Nen simply released the Susanoo to relieve the pressure on his eyes, but it was this action that completely exposed himself to Enma's iron fists.

Under the moonlight, Enma's huge body completely enveloped his thin body. Seeing that he was about to be smashed into meat paste, he calmly raised his palm.

*"Multi-Size Technique!"*

In an instant, Nen's entire arm became incomparably huge. The millstone-sized palm actually caught Enma's fist head-on!

But this wasn't the end. Not only his arm, but Nen's body was still expanding inch by inch. In the horrified eyes of everyone, it exceeded the size of his half-body Susanoo, like a giant, pressing Enma firmly on the ground!

In an instant, the advantage reversed!

He swung his huge fist and smashed it wildly at Enma's head. The ground continued to explode in the powerful bombardment.

*"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Bullet Technique!"*

Sarutobi Hiruzen jumped high, and a galloping Lightning Dragon went straight for Nen's head, seemingly wanting to force Nen back with this move.

Nen just raised his hand slightly and easily crushed the Lightning Dragon. Countless electric currents crawled along his fingertips, but apart from bringing a slight tingling sensation, there was no impact.

He smashed a few more punches to relieve the numbness in his right hand, but more people used Ninjutsu to bombard him, forcing him to retreat.

The disadvantage of being huge is that you have to take all the attacks.

Thinking like this, he quickly shrank and returned to his original size.

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