Chapter 179: Emergency High-Level Meeting! The Young Clan Head's Trial!
The various forces stirred up by the trial within the Uchiha clan were accumulating and expanding within Tsukasa.
Instead of fusing into Sage Chakra, he'd been directly infused with violent natural energy. The result was that the Dark Expanding Rasengan swallowed by Tsukasa began frantically drawing upon his own chakra—and even the Zero-Tails' chakra within the Eight Trigrams Seal.
It spun, spun, spun wildly!!
Heading toward chaos, toward violence, toward expansion—transforming into the purest destructive power.
Uchiha Yashiro was increasingly desperate.
This blast, even if it only grazed him, would likely vaporize him.
Thinking of this, he wanted to slap himself hard.
The Great Elder had his reasons for choosing this boy—why had he insisted on testing him so harshly?!
Yashiro couldn't understand how this kid, clearly only twelve years old, could be so powerful.
Now things had gone catastrophically wrong! Even he himself was going to be caught in the blast!
At this critical moment, Tsukasa's eyes suddenly cleared again.
Sensing the chaotic state within his body, he felt utterly helpless, on the verge of tears!
"There's no other way—I can only set off a big firework. God, Buddha, whoever's listening, please protect me! I hope nothing important gets blown up this time!"
"I really can't afford to pay for it!!!"
He immediately deactivated his Sharingan, severing the natural energy channels flowing into his body.
Only then did he temporarily regain some control.
Immediately afterward—
He yanked his arm out of the ground and threw a powerful punch at his own jaw.
This punch sent him flying, his body inflated like a balloon, flipped over onto his back, face skyward!
He forcibly changed the trajectory of the Hollow Cannon once more, his head tilted back, mouth agape, aimed at the heavens!
BOOOOOM!!!
A violent, jet-black beam of light shot into the sky—
A raging gale-force wind sweeping around it!
In an instant, the elegant zen courtyard was torn to shreds!
Rock gardens, rubble, white sand, pond water, koi fish, ancient trees—
All were uprooted and flung into the air by the force!
The immense recoil crushed the ground beneath him, creating a spiderweb of cracks and a massive crater ten meters in diameter!
Gazing at such power, Yashiro abruptly dropped his shinobi blade, collapsing to the ground, his eyes glazed over.
Decades of arduous training, countless efforts to awaken the three-tomoe Sharingan, the pride he held dear as an elite jōnin—
All of it was shattered and pulverized in that moment, reduced to a murmur of disbelief!
"Why... as an Uchiha, can he obtain such power without relying on the Sharingan!"
"The power of our First Dōjutsu bloodline limit seems so insignificant compared to him!"
"Is this...?"
"The Great Elder's choice?"
Just then—
A hand, its outer layer of skin scorched by flames and covered in burns, was suddenly extended before Yashiro.
Staring at the open, burned hand before him, Yashiro blankly raised his head and saw a boy—
His body covered in burns, his short-sleeved outfit burned to tatters and hanging from his frame—
Standing barefoot amidst the ruins.
The boy gave him a rather cheerful smile and asked:
"Yashiro-senpai,"
"Although it hasn't been ten minutes yet, I should be considered to have passed the inheritance trial, right?"
The boy's voice pulled Yashiro back to reality.
He was suddenly stunned, then nodded vigorously.
For a moment, he felt an urge to cry.
Yes—
No matter what—
This was an Uchiha child!
He was a young genius who surpassed Uchiha Kagami, broke through the limitations of bloodline alone, and stood above even elite jōnin with only two tomoe!
He might even reach the level of their ancestor, Uchiha Madara, in the future!
He was the Uchiha's hope!
"Uchiha Tsukasa!" Yashiro's lips trembled as he reached out and gripped the hand before him tightly.
"I acknowledge you! I acknowledge you!"
"To hell with Uchiha Fugaku!"
"No matter what others say, from this day forward, you are the only choice for young clan head in my heart!"
Yashiro's gaze sharpened, his crimson eyes filled with unwavering determination as he promised the boy before him:
"I will do everything in my power to assist you!"
"To make you the head of the Uchiha clan! To make you a high-ranking official of Konoha! To make you the Hokage!"
"To accomplish a feat that no previous clan head has ever achieved!"
Hearing this, Tsukasa couldn't help but twitch his lips.
He quickly raised his hand and weakly interrupted: "Let's not talk about that now."
"Yashiro-senpai,"
"Please don't send me to the hospital! I can heal on my own!"
"Don't waste money on medical bills."
"Please!"
With that, Tsukasa swayed weakly and collapsed into Yashiro's arms.
He closed his eyes.
Two Hollow Cannon shots—especially the last one—had completely drained all the chakra he could draw from his body. He was now utterly exhausted.
He needed to rest!
Yashiro stared blankly at the boy who'd collapsed into his arms, sleeping peacefully.
After a long while, he couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle.
He's really just a child after all!
Only then did the Hollow Cannon, launched into the sky, arc downward and blast a huge hole in the barrier above Konoha!
The entire population of Konoha stopped in their tracks, looking up in astonishment to admire the magnificent, dazzling "firework" in the sky.
Except for the members of the Konoha Barrier Team—
And also a certain red-haired beauty imprisoned in Mito Uzumaki's former residence.
At that moment, Kushina stared blankly at the gaping hole in the sky, thinking about the immense workload that would leave her no time to breathe in the coming period.
"Who—who did this?!"
"My date! My date with Minato!!!"
Half an hour later, an emergency meeting was held in the Hokage Tower to discuss the aftermath of Uchiha Tsukasa's Half-Tailed Beast transformation and the deployment plan for jinchūriki-level weapons.
The development of Tsukasa's new ultimate form had both advantages and disadvantages for Konoha.
The good news was that since the First Shinobi World War, the intensity of conflicts had gradually increased, and various nations were attempting to use jinchūriki as weapons in battle.
While Konoha possessed the most powerful Nine-Tails, various circumstances prevented them from deploying it in combat.
However, the appearance of Tsukasa, with his immense destructive power in Half-Tailed Beast form, showed Konoha the possibility of using this ultimate humanoid weapon in war!
The bad news was that the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi—
Along with the Legendary Sannin Tsunade and Orochimaru, Homura Mitokado, Koharu Utatane, Danzō Shimura, the heads of Konoha's various clans, and members of the barrier team—
Had been urgently summoned to the conference room in the Hokage Tower.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression twisted slightly as he looked at the figures on the damage report. After a moment of silence, he announced the meeting's agenda:
"So then—the significant losses caused to Konoha by Uchiha Tsukasa's Half-Tailed Beast transformation and rampage."
"Among these, the estimated damage to the former Senju clan's buildings and vegetation, the Uchiha clan's ancestral shrine and structures, the Naka River, and the destruction of Konoha's barrier... exceeds one hundred million ryō."
"However, due to Uchiha Tsukasa's outstanding contributions on the battlefield in the Land of Rain, and the immense potential for his abilities in the subsequent Third Shinobi World War..."
"In summary—let's hear everyone's opinions."
Hiruzen Sarutobi set down the damage assessment, leaned back in his seat, and rubbed his forehead with a slight headache.
At this moment, three women sat around the conference table, their faces filled with resentment.
End of Chapter 179
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