"And who do you think you are?"
Looking at Fukasaku and Shima on the screen, Uchiha Ren spoke with disdain.
"If you want to be hounds, then learn your place."
"Don't bare your fangs at your betters."
"You've gone too far!"
"Fifth Hokage, Uchiha Ren, don't think a sharp tongue makes you powerful. The Great Toad Sage's might is beyond your imagination!"
Fukasaku and Shima were furious.
Utterly furious.
They felt as if their lungs were about to explode.
They were respected figures in their own right.
Never had they been humiliated and mocked in public like this.
Uchiha Ren clearly did not take Mount Myōboku seriously.
He did not even take the legendary Great Toad Sage seriously.
"Heh."
Hearing their words, Uchiha Ren no longer bothered with them.
His gaze shifted to the upper-left corner of the giant screen.
There, the Great Toad Sage was staring at him expressionlessly.
Neither side spoke.
Yet through the two-way broadcast, the air seemed to tremble faintly.
"Great Toad Sage?"
Uchiha Ren stood with one hand behind his back.
His voice was calm, but the moment it spread through the screen, the entire shinobi world fell silent.
"From now on, you should change your name to the Great Dog Sage."
No one had expected this.
After seeing Mount Myōboku's Great Toad Sage, Uchiha Ren immediately turned his hostility toward him.
He even told the Great Toad Sage to rename himself the Great Dog Sage.
The meaning was obvious.
In Ren's eyes, the Great Toad Sage was Hagoromo's dog.
This was terrifying.
With the Great Toad Sage's status in the shinobi world, even Kage-level experts had to speak carefully before him.
But now, in front of the whole shinobi world, Uchiha Ren had torn away his final shred of dignity.
He had pointed at the Great Toad Sage and called him a dog.
"Insane. Absolutely insane. The Fifth Hokage really is terrifying. He directly told the Great Toad Sage to change his name to the Great Dog Sage."
"Lord Fifth is too fierce. In front of everyone, he showed the Great Toad Sage no respect at all."
"Face? Face is earned, not given. Mount Myōboku has clearly chosen to stand against Konoha. Why should Lord Fifth give him face?"
"Hahaha, no matter what happens, there's going to be a good show. Unless the Great Toad Sage plans to hide in his shell, he'll definitely lose his temper."
After a brief dead silence, the entire shinobi world erupted.
Countless voices spread like a storm.
Many faces were filled with disbelief.
After all, Uchiha Ren's words were too ruthless.
Who was the Great Toad Sage?
The ancestor of Mount Myōboku.
A toad who had lived for more than a thousand years since ancient times.
He possessed extremely accurate prophetic power and immense senjutsu chakra.
More importantly, he was a true Six Paths-level existence.
And now, this Six Paths-level existence had been insulted by Uchiha Ren in front of the entire world.
Just thinking about it was enough to send chills down people's spines.
"Fifth Hokage, Uchiha Ren, watch your mouth!"
Fukasaku finally could not endure it anymore.
His expression turned dark as he shouted coldly, "You've gone too far! The Great Toad Sage is not someone you can insult!"
"Outrageous!"
Shima was even more furious.
Her senjutsu chakra surged violently, as if she would attack at the slightest disagreement.
They had seen arrogant people before.
But they had never seen anyone as arrogant as Uchiha Ren.
He truly did not take the Great Toad Sage seriously.
Calling him the Great Dog Sage in front of the whole shinobi world was no different from publicly slapping Mount Myōboku across the face.
"Noisy."
Facing Fukasaku and Shima, who were shouting furiously, Uchiha Ren shook his head calmly.
"You two are insignificant."
"You may die now."
"Careful!"
The Great Toad Sage, who had remained motionless until now, suddenly seemed to sense something and cried out.
But it was already too late.
The next instant, before Fukasaku and Shima could react, the giant screen in the sky seemed to become an extension of Uchiha Ren himself.
Two devastating beams of Six Paths power burst out.
"This is bad!"
"Great Toad Sage, save us!"
Fukasaku and Shima froze in terror.
Their faces filled with panic.
"Damn it!"
The Great Toad Sage's senjutsu chakra surged as he prepared to act.
But the two attacks seemed to pierce through space itself and vanished.
Yes.
They vanished.
Then, in the very next instant, they reappeared directly in front of Fukasaku and Shima.
Under their disbelieving gazes, the attacks slammed into them.
"Ah!"
"Why is this happening?"
Facing those sudden attacks that tore through space, Fukasaku and Shima desperately gathered their senjutsu chakra.
But it was useless.
The terrifying power still struck their bodies head-on.
Two explosions rang out.
Fukasaku and Shima's bodies were blown apart on the spot.
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