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After dinner at the ramen shop, Team Minato disbanded.
In the past, Akira Tsubaki would go home and lie down, but this time he didn't.
Strolling all the way to the mountain behind Konohagakure, he circled to the shady side again.
"Danzō won't come again this time, will he?"
To be on the safe side, he looked around and confirmed no one else was present.
Tap!
Stopping in front of a stone wall, Akira Tsubaki stretched out his palm.
"Gravity Orb (Jūryoku Dama), it's time to test you out."
This was an unknown Jutsu evolved from the Rasengan, and Akira Tsubaki had never tested its power.
With Chakra surging in his body, he cast the Gravity Orb.
Hum~~
The pure white Chakra ball condensed in his palm, looking no different from the previous Rasengan.
But the next moment—
A sudden mutation occurred.
"My Chakra?"
Akira Tsubaki was surprised to find that the Chakra in his body was frantically pouring into the Gravity Orb in his palm.
It seemed entirely out of control!
In just a short moment, the Gravity Orb had absorbed one-tenth of his total Chakra.
"My Chakra volume is Kage-level, even Super Kage-level!"
Startled, Akira Tsubaki immediately threw the Gravity Orb into the air.
Hum!!!
The orb lifted into the air, instantly generating an extremely terrifying gravitational force.
Click, click.
The stone wall burst and crumbled into pieces of gravel, which were sucked into the orb one after another.
The ground shook, and cracks appeared.
"This is?"
Akira Tsubaki's pupils shrank sharply.
He witnessed a terrible scene.
The orb in mid-air remained the same size, but massive amounts of rock and soil that were pulled by the gravity vanished the moment they touched the orb.
Where did all the stones go?
"Did they get compressed inside the orb?"
What made him even more unbelievable was that even though the Gravity Orb had been thrown away, he still maintained some kind of connection with it.
"My Chakra is still being transported towards the orb, transported through the air?"
"No! It must be gravity!"
Akira Tsubaki speculated that he and the sphere maintained contact via gravity, and Chakra was also being transported via gravity.
This was a bizarre sight.
Akira Tsubaki stood on the ground.
The rocky soil around him cracked and rose into the air, merging into the sphere above.
But he himself was safe and sound!
"It can't go on like this. I need to cut off the supply of Chakra."
Looking up at the pure white Gravity Orb, Akira Tsubaki's body shot backward.
Boom!!!
Without the supply of Chakra, the Gravity Orb instantly exploded.
A massive explosion sounded, deafening.
The dazzling light was like a miniature sun, bright enough to cause temporary blindness.
The earth trembled and shattered.
Akira Tsubaki ran wildly, his scalp tingling.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Pieces of rubble caught by the shockwave flew over his head at incredible speed.
No!
He didn't look back at all, fearing the bright light would blind him.
"This Ninjutsu is outrageous. Fortunately, I chose the back mountain."
Galloping all the way, Akira Tsubaki was terrified.
If he had run any slower, he would have definitely been injured.
As for the total destruction the Gravity Orb caused after it exploded, he didn't even look.
"Haa!"
Running home, Akira Tsubaki collapsed onto his wooden chair.
"I was lying down the whole time. This has nothing to do with me."
The mountain behind Konohagakure exploded!
As soon as the explosion occurred, Sarutobi Hiruzen rushed to the scene with a large number of Anbu.
Danzō also arrived moments later, protected by several Root Ninjas.
In addition to the two leaders, people from other clans rushed to the site as well.
From the village's perspective, the back mountain still stood. But if you went around to the shady side, you would find the area was fragmented, and the mountaintop had collapsed.
Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned, surveying the destruction.
"Someone just tested some kind of Forbidden Jutsu here!" Danzō walked over and gave his immediate assessment.
"Of course, I know that! The question is, who is this person?"
Possessing a Forbidden Jutsu of this caliber meant the Ninja must be extremely strong.
But the question was: Did such a Ninja even exist in the village?
The names of the village's Jōnin flashed through Sarutobi Hiruzen's mind, trying to identify the secret tester, but he found no match.
Seeing the collapsed hilltop and the devastated ground, Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly felt a twinge of relief.
If that person had tested the Jutsu anywhere else, the village itself would have been affected.
"Hokage-sama, there is nothing around!" an Anbu suddenly reported.
"Keep looking. If you don't find anything around, check the rubble," Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered grimly.
He couldn't believe the tester had left no trace.
The back mountain was immense; there had to be some clues left behind.
Ten minutes later.
Clues were found.
An Anbu located a secret passage among the messy rubble.
"This…"
Looking at the passage, Danzō went numb.
Isn't this Orochimaru's secret research base?
"Go in and check!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen took the lead and walked in first.
Danzō could only grit his teeth and follow.
As Orochimaru's collaborator, Danzō knew well that this explosion had nothing to do with Orochimaru.
But the problem was that the secret laboratory had been exposed.
The two leaders entered the passage, and Ninjas from several other clans followed.
Passing through the long passage, the group stopped in front of a stone gate.
Boom!
The stone door exploded, revealing a wide cave.
"This is?"
"The body of an Uchiha Ninja?"
"And a baby?"
"There are Senju Clan members…"
Everyone was stunned.
There were over a dozen corpses in the cave, including Ninja bodies from the Uchiha and Senju clans.
Tap!
Fugaku Uchiha stepped forward and rushed to the corpse of his clan member.
"It's Uchiha Chi!"
"He's been missing for a long time, and he was killed by people from the village? His eyes were gouged out…"
Angrily muttering to himself, Fugaku Uchiha noticed a notebook on the table.
Whoosh!
Almost simultaneously, he and an Anbu rushed and grabbed the notebook.
"Get away!"
Fugaku Uchiha shouted furiously, and his Sharingan manifested in his eyes.
"Fugaku, don't be impulsive," Sarutobi Hiruzen warned.
"You dare use Genjutsu on an Anbu?" Danzō shouted angrily.
Pity.
They were too late.
That Anbu's body was already stiff; he had frozen in place.
Ignoring everything else, Fugaku Uchiha opened the notebook and saw the familiar handwriting.
"Orochimaru!!!"