When Izayoi got serious, the members of Root were instantly rendered powerless.
Faced with his unsolvable gravity and repulsion techniques, they couldn't run, and all their ninjutsu and secret arts were ruthlessly blasted away and scattered.
Even genjutsu had no effect.
They tried to escape, blending into the darkness, but were still hunted down and killed by puppet shinobi skilled in Lightning Release nature transformation.
Before long, apart from Shimura Danzo, who had been turned into a vegetative state, and another guy hiding whom Izayoi deliberately spared, every last member of Root had been wiped out by the Kurokuwa clan.
As one Root member fell after another, beams of light in various colors—green, blue, and even purple—flew from their corpses toward Izayoi.
"Disassemble."
"Disassemble."
"Disassemble them all..."
Faced with the system's relentless notification barrage, Izayoi chose to disassemble everything.
In an instant, his points skyrocketed again, reaching — [97277].
Looking at the number on the points bar, Izayoi felt both thrilled and pained.
Thrilled because a single Root organization gave him more than 80,000 points—almost a tenth of the unknown-rank shard.
Pained because it came at the cost of wiping them all out.
A unit as elite as Root—there were barely any like it in the entire ninja world.
For Izayoi, who could repeatedly farm keywords, this was like a money tree that kept growing golden ingots.
The ideal approach would've been to come harvest it periodically.
But Izayoi hated being targeted and didn't intend to save Hiruzen Sarutobi either.
So to avoid being marked by Shimura Danzo, Izayoi chose to strike first—eliminating Danzo directly.
If he missed the Konoha Crush plan, he wouldn't get such a golden opportunity again.
Even if he could kill Danzo by force later, it would cause a huge commotion.
Although Izayoi's Transformation Jutsu was perfect, it couldn't change chakra signatures, so the risk of exposure was extremely high.
Now that he had bonds in Konoha, Izayoi didn't want to live a life where everyone feared him as a rogue ninja.
Raising his hand and forming a few seals, he signaled a shadow clone by the Nanga River to control a group of puppets to collect all of Root's corpses into large sealing scrolls. Then, using gravity, he lifted Shimura Danzo and walked toward a certain direction.
Once Izayoi and the puppets had left, from a shadow near the ceiling, heavy breathing could finally be heard.
After only a few breaths, the person held their breath again, not daring to undo their stealth jutsu.
As for running away—absolutely out of the question.
However, everything—from Izayoi's transformation into the Deva Path Pain, his abilities, to his conversation with Danzo—was remembered by the one hiding in the dark.
Boom—
Standing before a mountain wall connected to the Hokage Rock above, Izayoi placed his hand on it. Repulsion burst out like waves, slamming into the rock wall again and again.
The stone, internal metal, and various seals were violently blown away.
Soon, a hidden chamber entrance appeared before Izayoi.
Inside the chamber stood several bookshelves, each filled with scrolls of various sizes and colors.
The space was divided into three zones: Intelligence, Ninjutsu, and Secret Arts.
The only thing missing—was a Forbidden Jutsu section.
Danzo didn't have any forbidden jutsu scrolls? No way Izayoi would believe that.
That was one reason he had spared his life—for now.
Walking over to the Secret Arts bookshelf, Izayoi only glanced briefly before clicking his tongue in surprise. "Damn... Boldly collecting secret techniques of the Yamanaka, Nara, Akimichi, and even the Aburame clans? Not even the Hokage would dare do that. Truly worthy of 'Lord Danzo!'"
If this secret room was exposed, Shimura Danzo would instantly become a public enemy.
Secret clan techniques were high-level jutsu and the foundation of the ninja clans—only select members could even hope to learn them.
Even Hiruzen Sarutobi as Hokage dared not lay a hand on them.
That alone showed just how powerful Danzo was in Konoha, and how utterly reckless he had become.
What the village has, I can take; what the village doesn't have, I still have.
Taking out this tumor early on—definitely the right call.
Izayoi scanned the shelves and quickly found what he was looking for.
He picked out a small red scroll from the pile. On the seal were the words—Mind Reading Technique.
"Since I haven't awakened the Mental Orb yet, I'll make do with this secret jutsu for now," Izayoi said as he opened the scroll and started reading.
Before long, Izayoi had mastered the secret Yamanaka technique used to firmly control the Interrogation Department.
His ultimate dojutsu's Yin Release chakra, paired with the nature transformations unlocked by the Tenseigan, made learning jutsu feel like cheating.
Especially his chakra control, which was at gold-grade level.
This talent helped Izayoi almost as much as the Tenseigan itself.
If he didn't have this gift, at best he'd have only mastered the Ultra Hurricane Ball by now—or maybe developed Naruto's Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
He wouldn't be able to casually merge two or three nature transformations into various original ultimate moves.
If this talent couldn't be upgraded in the future, then once he evolved his Otsutsuki bloodline to the next unknown level, Izayoi's next goal would be to upgrade chakra control to red-tier.
"Ninja Art: Mind Reading Technique!"
Placing Shimura Danzo on the ground, Izayoi touched his head. A wave of powerful Yin Release chakra surged into his brain and began reading his memories.
Soon enough, Izayoi got what he needed.
"So they're all stored at the clan estate, huh? As expected of such an audacious bastard," Izayoi muttered.
He dismissed the shadow clone's control, summoned a puppet, and drove its blade into Danzo's neck, putting an end to this source of chaos.
A purple and a blue beam of light flew from Danzo's corpse and merged into Izayoi.
After disassembling them, Izayoi's points finally broke past the 100,000 mark.
Then he picked up Danzo's body and walked out of the secret chamber, retracing his steps—letting that hidden observer witness Danzo's corpse with their own eyes.
At the same time, countless puppets shunshined into the room and rapidly emptied the scrolls inside.
All the elite subordinates Danzo had trained over decades, all the ninjutsu and secret arts he had seized through countless means, all the intelligence collected through who-knows-how-many sacrificed spies—were now all Izayoi's.
And the Konoha Crush plan had barely even started. The villagers hadn't even all been evacuated to the shelters yet.
Half of Konoha's heritage had already fallen into Izayoi's hands.
Along with Hiruzen Sarutobi's old best friend—who left this world ahead of him.
But…
It still wasn't enough!
Exiting the underground base, Izayoi glanced toward the central district, the corners of his mouth curling upward.
Then he vanished with a flicker.