Chapter 130: Naraku Absorbs Pure Vitality & Dragon Scale Power, Danzō's Growing Obsession with Dakkon, Hiruzen's Frontline Plan, and Madara's Interest in Youth-Restoring Blade
Naraku began receiving the first reward: pure vitality.
As the pure vitality slowly poured into Naraku's body, he felt as though every cell in his body was moaning—a pleasure seemingly surpassing reproduction washed over him.
Some hidden injuries in his body seemed to recover because of it.
At this moment he even unconsciously wanted to press his fingers into his temples.
Unfortunately, the pleasure came quickly and left just as fast. After savoring it for a while,
Naraku turned his gaze to the second reward: Dragon Scale Power—increased attack power plus perception of demon-class weaknesses?
Fine, it was somewhat useful. Naraku accepted it—after all, the ninja world still had the three great holy lands, right?
He could spare Katsuyu, but that Gamamaru—who had a good relationship with the Sage of Six Paths—if it dared to spout nonsense,
it would be courting death. Naraku would have to grab it in an instant and refine it into equipment.
Naraku was quite curious whether Gamamaru's prophecy had foreseen it being refined.
Of course, if Gamamaru didn't cause trouble, Naraku had no interest in messing with it.
Naraku then felt an additional power within his body. He gripped Hachifusa and injected that power—fine dragon scales appeared on Hachifusa.
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By now Root's prison had been completely cleared out by Danzō. Danzō sensed his now-unmatched physical strength and terrifying chakra.
Emotions he had suppressed for years suddenly exploded—he began laughing maniacally like an Uchiha!
"Hahahaha!"
After laughing for a while, Danzō opened eyes that—for some reason—had turned bloodshot. He looked at his right arm.
He discovered his right arm was covered in dense green dragon scales. He wrapped it with bandages.
He thought inwardly: For Konoha, what's a little price like this?
Then Danzō went to find Naraku.
Naraku smiled at Danzō and greeted warmly: "Lord Danzō, you're awake!"
But Danzō still harbored resentment toward Naraku in his heart, thinking: Evil Uchiha brat—just wait until you finish forging the Guardian Divine Machine [Supreme Throne], then I'll kill you immediately!
However, Danzō still knew how to feign compliance. He said calmly to Naraku: "Where is my Hachifusa?"
Naraku began attempting to influence Danzō using Weapon Sovereignty. He discovered Dakkon was extremely intelligent for a weapon.
And it was precisely this intelligence that made Naraku's control feel completely natural.
Naraku smiled and said: "Lord Danzō, Hachifusa and Dakkon have different attributes. Using both at the same time would cause your power to go berserk. And you already have Dakkon, don't you? Dakkon is a weapon with growth potential—it might even ultimately surpass Lord Third Hokage's Infinite Armor! So what you should focus on now is fully elevating Dakkon!"
Suddenly, a wave of disgust toward Hachifusa surged in Danzō's heart!
Danzō snorted coldly: "From now on, forge weapons properly for Konoha! I'll give you what you want!"
Danzō painted a big picture and left.
As he walked away, his mind was filled with thoughts of properly elevating Dakkon's power—and once he had enough strength, naturally controlling Uchiha Naraku would be easy.
He completely forgot his revolving-lantern moment and the intense desire to kill Uchiha Naraku upon waking, as well as his once-favorite blade Hachifusa.
Naraku watched Danzō's departing back and felt no anger at Danzō's earlier harsh words—it was like a person ignoring the yapping of a puppy. A weakling's threats only make the enemy find it laughable.
Of course, this was mainly because Dakkon's influence over Danzō wasn't yet complete and Naraku hadn't exerted much control.
In Danzō's current state, Naraku couldn't fully control him. For example—if he ordered Danzō to slit his own throat, Danzō would definitely resist.
But the time for that shouldn't be far off!
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Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the greatly changed Danzō before him and felt shocked. Previously he had been full of white hair, atrophied muscles, and covered in greenery.
Yet now standing before him was a man with jet-black hair—even his face looked younger than before the injury.
Sarutobi Hiruzen even felt Danzō had grown taller and more muscular.
For Sarutobi Hiruzen—who was beginning to feel himself gradually aging—this made him greatly desire such power. Perhaps later he could ask Naraku for a share too.
Sarutobi Hiruzen still didn't realize his gradual aging was inextricably linked to Infinite Armor—normally his aging rate shouldn't have been this fast.
Moreover, neither Sarutobi Hiruzen nor Shimura Danzō fully recognized that Naraku's weapons were sometimes poison.
But with the front lines in chaos, Sarutobi Hiruzen's thoughts were pulled back. He said to Danzō: "The Third Raikage A is rampaging on the front lines. Right now even my three disciples combined aren't his match. If this continues, the frontline troops will collapse!"
As soon as Sarutobi Hiruzen finished speaking, Danzō said viciously: "Then kill him!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the now-confident Shimura Danzō and once again recalled Danzō's earlier miserable state.
He felt his old partner hadn't learned any lesson at all!
If Sarutobi Hiruzen knew Sasuke right now, he would definitely understand what it meant by "the sky clears after the rain—Danzō thinks he's fine again!"
"Nawaki has woken up, but after years in a coma, his combat power hasn't fully recovered. I plan to personally go to the front lines to defeat—or at best heavily injure—the Raikage. You come with me too! The village will be temporarily left to Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura!" Sarutobi Hiruzen ultimately didn't feel safe leaving Danzō alone in Konoha.
Danzō agreed immediately and left the Hokage office without delay—he only wanted to reach the front lines quickly and make the battlefield flow with rivers of blood!
Sarutobi Hiruzen watched Danzō's departing back and muttered: "Naraku, is there anything your weapons can't do?"
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Underground, Obito danced with joy: "Big news, big news! Lord Madara will definitely love this news!"
Then, using White Zetsu's special nature, he passed the information up level by level.
It quickly reached Uchiha Madara's hands.
By now Uchiha Madara had already relocated to a new base. He had left the ninja sword Nuclear at the previous base and assigned White Zetsu to guard it.
The strange poison and bizarre poisoning method of Nuclear—Uchiha Madara still hadn't figured out.
But he knew to stay far away.
Uchiha Madara looked at the information Obito provided—a ninja sword that could actually make people younger!
No one else knew his current condition—why else would he make so many plans?
Wasn't it because after his battle with Hashirama he had almost no strength left?
The only thing he could rely on now was his dōjutsu.
Even his current life was maintained by the Gedo Statue.
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