"Minato-sensei!"
Minato panted heavily, glancing back in the direction of Madara.
Madara had already obtained the Rinnegan. No one was his match before, and now, even fewer could hope to stop him.
"Obito, let's head back first!"
Minato took Obito, Kakashi, and the others, activating the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave the battlefield.
Hanzo and Danzo were fleeing at top speed.
Hanzo knew nothing about Madara; he was completely in the dark, but he was also someone who had emerged from the Warring States Period.
Seeing that deep blue Susanoo, he knew Madara had been resurrected.
Hanzo cursed at Danzo, "Danzo, you bastard, you've really gotten me killed this time."
Danzo didn't reply, desperately refining Chakra to perform the Body Flicker.
He could now fully understand why his teacher, Tobirama, had specifically targeted the Uchiha.
That hundred-meter-tall Chakra giant—when that sixty-meter blade swung down, Minato was instantly silenced.
Is this even still a Ninja?
Madara, why don't you just tell the Great Buddha of the Fire Temple to move over so you can sit there yourself?
Teacher, back then, your heart wasn't hard enough, and you weren't ruthless enough.
Danzo swore that as soon as he returned to the village and found an opportunity, he would crush the Uchiha to death.
While Tobirama had been wary of the Uchiha's power, Shimura Danzo had been scared witless by Madara. After returning, he felt he'd have to kill eight or ten Uchiha just to settle the fear of Madara in his heart.
A massive sense of oppression loomed; Danzo didn't even dare to look back, he could only flee for his life.
But there's a very simple logic—flying is faster than running, right?
Madara was flying through the sky in his Susanoo, chasing Danzo and Hanzo. Even if he gave them a three-minute head start with their Body Flicker, they couldn't escape Madara's pursuit.
But there's another logic that friends who often run away know: you only need to run faster than your teammate.
Danzo turned back and unleashed a Wind Release: Vacuum Wave at Hanzo.
Hanzo was fleeing with all his might and didn't have a bottom line as shameless as Danzo's; caught off guard, he was struck by Danzo's Wind Release.
He slowed down for a few seconds.
"Danzo—!"
Hanzo roared in fury, but it was too late. Madara arrived with his Susanoo and swung his blade down at Hanzo.
In an instant, this world-renowned Demigod of the Ninja World and leader of the Hidden Rain Village was cleaved in two.
Madara kicked Hanzo to death as casually as if he were kicking a wild dog by the roadside.
Madara deactivated the Susanoo and descended from the sky, stepping onto Hanzo's body, which was now only a torso.
Hanzo's vitality was quite resilient; even with only half a body left, he was still breathing.
He looked at Madara in disbelief, "...Uchiha Madara, how are you still alive? This is impossible!"
Madara looked at Hanzo with disdain, "So you're the one called the Demigod, Hanzo. Who gave you the right to call yourself a god?"
Hanzo's eyes slowly lost their light. What else could he say?
I'm truly sorry for not being able to make Lord Madara use his full strength!
If he had one more chance, Hanzo would never cooperate with Danzo again.
He was essentially screwed over to death by Danzo.
"Boring!"
With a kick from Madara, Hanzo's head was sent flying into the distance.
Madara felt a bit bored. After obtaining his eyes, he had hoped for an opponent like Hashirama to make his blood boil.
But unfortunately, even Hanzo, who was hailed as a Demigod, couldn't withstand a single strike from Madara.
This world is too small, and too fragile.
Madara looked in Danzo's direction, reached out his palm, and activated a Rinnegan Dojutsu.
"Bansho Ten'in!"
Danzo had already run several hundred meters away, but in the next second, he was sucked back by Madara's Bansho Ten'in.
Madara gripped Danzo's neck and sneered, "Tobirama's brat of a disciple?"
Danzo showed not a shred of intent to beg for mercy, "Uchiha Madara, I hate this! If I had killed Uchiha Ryou earlier, you would never have seen this day."
"I regret it so much. I was still too soft-hearted toward the Uchiha Clan. I should have slaughtered your entire evil clan long ago!"
"A mere rat!"
Madara sneered, and the powerful impact of the Rinnegan instantly blasted Danzo into a mist of blood.
Madara clapped his hands, then activated the Deva Path ability of the Rinnegan, controlling gravity and repulsion to fly toward Ryou.
In a world without Hashirama, who else can fight me?
It's lonely at the top!
Once Madara had flown far away, a swarm of insects flew to the spot where Danzo had been torn to pieces, burrowed in, and rescued a thin figure.
That figure was... Danzo!
He wasn't dead yet. The bandages on his right eye socket fell away, revealing a Sharingan that had lost its light.
After realizing he couldn't escape, Danzo had cast Izanagi.
In the original story, Obito's claim that activating Izanagi required both Senju and Uchiha power was incorrect.
When Madara faked his death during the battle with Hashirama at the Valley of the End, he hadn't transplanted Hashirama cells yet, but he could still cast Izanagi.
The Uchiha Clan had experienced a wave of destruction caused by the abuse of Izanagi during the Warring States Period, and it was Izanami that stopped the Uchiha's destruction.
The power of the Senju is Wood Release and Hashirama cells. At that time, Hashirama probably hadn't even been born yet, so where would the Uchiha have gone to transplant his cells?
Izanagi can be used with a three tomoe Sharingan.
Danzo weakly reminded Aburame Ryoma, "Ryoma, return to Konoha immediately."
"Yes!"
Beneath the Gedo Statue, Ryou saw that Yahiko's eyes were still intact and suggested transplanting Yahiko's eyes into Nagato.
Nagato was silent for a moment before agreeing. In his words:
"I want to take Yahiko's eyes and witness a world without conflict together with him."
Ryou used Medical Ninjutsu to transplant Yahiko's eyes into Nagato, and Nagato soon regained his sight.
Without those Rinnegan, Nagato felt his condition was much better.
The heavy burden was gone.
Konan used Paper Release to wrap Yahiko's body, preparing to take it to the place where they had trained under Jiraiya for burial.
After transplanting the eyes for Nagato, Ryou went to treat the members of the Akatsuki.
There weren't many the Akatsuki members left: Daibutsu, Kyosuke, Kie, plus three or five others.
The Akatsuki, which once numbered in the hundreds, was left with only these few people.
The Akatsuki had participated in the previous battle, fighting against Danzo's Root and the Hidden Rain Anbu.
Although it was a one-sided slaughter, they had managed to kill a few Root Ninjas.
Everyone looked at the battlefield, which had become a ruin, and wondered who the winner was.
It truly lived up to the saying that in war, there are no winners, only losers!
Ryou took Candy and the Snowy to clean up the battlefield. With auto-loot turned on, he picked up every Kunai and shuriken on the ground.
Candy was a Ninja Cat that crafted weapons, and it needed these materials.
Ryou looked around to see if anyone was still breathing.
Flipping through the corpses on the ground, if he saw someone with only one breath left, he didn't care which camp they were from. Waste not, want not—he refined them on the spot.
Ryou had consumed more than half of his life spores in the previous battle; if he didn't refill them, he wouldn't feel at ease.
If he saw someone who could still be saved, he didn't care if they were Root, the Akatsuki, or Hidden Rain.
He showed some kindness and helped them out of critical condition.
After one round, he had saved about a dozen people, some from the Akatsuki, some from Hidden Rain, but none from Root.
This proved that the people from Root were all suicide squads; when they fought, they went all out.
The Hidden Rain people were very grateful to Ryou, their impression of him still being that of the kind-hearted Yakuganra.
Ryou took the opportunity to win people's hearts. These people were the elites of the Hidden Rain, the lowest being Special Jonin.
A Hidden Rain Anbu asked Ryou, "Ryou-sama, do you know what happened to Lord Hanzo?"
Ryou said sorrowfully, "Lord Hanzo was killed. He was killed by Konoha's Shimura Danzo. This was all a trap by Konoha."
"Lord Hanzo was also deceived!"
Ryou didn't know the exact situation of Hanzo and Danzo, but being pursued by Madara with the Rinnegan, what chance of survival could they have?
If they weren't dead, they might as well be!
Hanzo was dead. What would happen to the Hidden Rain? He could only loot the bodies with tears in his eyes.