[Root Base]
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Continuous rumbling sounds rang out, with massive trees constantly drilling out from underground.
Many nearby villagers were stunned to see this.
'What's going on?'
At this moment, angry roars vaguely came from the Root base, "Orochimaru! You are…"
Orochimaru's unique hoarse voice and laughter came through.
A figure whose body constantly changed shape and size, frequently turning into a snake, shot out from underground.
While looking back, he ran toward the outskirts of Konoha.
Orochimaru appeared calm and collected, after all, he had already prepared his escape route.
However, to lure more people out, he deliberately ran neither too fast nor too slow.
"Orochimaru! You can't escape!", Behind him, dense Root members came like a giant net to cover Orochimaru.
At the same time, in various parts of Konoha, members of the Hyuga clan held documents in their hands.
While moving, they scattered large amounts of leaflets outside.
They shouted the following content, "Shimura Danzo is conducting human experiments again."
"Shimura Danzo is harming the village's infants again."
Numerous villagers were extremely shocked, picking up the leaflets to look, both sides of the leaflet described two matters.
One was that Shimura Danzo, unwilling to be demoted to civilian, had resumed human experimentation.
The other side explained what tailed beasts were, and what jinchuriki were.
———
In the office, the Third Hokage had just received news that Rengoku was teaching knowledge about tailed beasts at the Ninja Academy.
"Damn it! What is Rengoku trying to do?"
The Third Hokage sprang up abruptly. If Naruto's identity was exposed, how could he continue to manipulate Naruto?
He had just walked to the office door.
The door was suddenly pushed open. Fortunately, he dodged quickly, otherwise, his face would've been smacked flat.
The two Anbu at the door didn't expect the Third Hokage to be heading out just then and were startled, "Apologies, Lord Hokage."
The Third Hokage knew that the Anbu wouldn't be so reckless without good reason.
"What happened?"
One of the Anbu immediately reported, "Lord Hokage, the Root base has been destroyed. A large number of trees pierced through the ground and sprouted out."
"Orochimaru appeared in the village and is currently being pursued by Root members."
Another Anbu pulled out a flyer, "The Hyuga clan has scattered large quantities of flyers, this is the content."
"Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Kairen have led elite forces out of their compound and are headed toward the village."
The Third Hokage's expression darkened. He snatched the flyer and his eyes quickly scanned it.
"Immediately notify Danzo, tell him to hide right away and not show himself."
"If our side comes over, do not resist."
"Go get Ryogen, have him lead people to stand by near the Uchiha compound."
"Inform Koharu, have them bring people to suppress public opinion and confiscate the flyers."
"Send Homura to lead a team to negotiate with the Hyuga and get them to stop spreading false propaganda."
"All Hyuga clan members are to be suspended from duty."
"Tell Kakashi and Tenzo to each lead a team to support me."
"I'm heading to Orochimaru's location now."
The Third Hokage rapidly assessed the severity of each situation and assigned personnel to each task.
But he knew that unless he went personally, Rengoku definitely wouldn't yield, so he temporarily put Rengoku's matter aside.
He led people to find Orochimaru first. After all, Orochimaru's side also involved Uchiha Fugaku and others, this side was more urgent.
———
While the Third Hokage was swiftly dealing with these issues,
Because they had prearranged the route, Orochimaru and Fugaku's group quickly converged.
Root members were completely unaware that Orochimaru had reinforcements.
They tightly pursued Orochimaru.
Unaware that Orochimaru was intentionally holding back.
When Orochimaru turned a street corner, Fugaku led three squads, the Great Elder brought four squads.
Together they formed twenty-two with three-tomoe Sharingan, and one Mangekyo, all pouncing toward Orochimaru.
The Root members were stunned for a brief moment.
Orochimaru and the Uchiha clan had already passed by each other.
Great Elder Kairen then roared, "Root scum! Kill!"
"Kill!"
The elite Uchiha clashed with Root members, who were vastly inferior in strength.
The Root members were no match for the Uchiha.
Although there were at least fifty people chasing Orochimaru, the Root members were still being steadily pushed back.
To those who wanted to exterminate their clan, the Uchiha showed no mercy.
The elite three-tomoe Sharingan users, all of them were elite-level jonin.
If accidentally caught in eye contact, they blacked out instantly, immediately killed.
Those who avoided eye contact still couldn't match their strength.
In just one round, Root left more than a dozen corpses behind.
A large number of people were wounded.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The Uchiha had long been prepared and were well-equipped.
Shuriken rained down on the Root members like a storm.
Fugaku also wielded a longsword, aggressively slashing toward the enemy.
Although Kairen had long hair and a white beard, he was equally fierce, swinging his longsword with the skill of a kenjutsu master.
He and Fugaku acted like two spearheads, instantly piercing through the Root formation.
"HAH! KILL!"
After breaking through the Root formation, Fugaku shouted angrily. His Sharingan transformed into the Mangekyo form.
A powerful wave of dojutsu surged.
Susanoo!
A massive purple-black Susanoo appeared, instantly cutting off Root's retreat.
With one sweeping blow, it sent several Root members flying.
The first person's head was smashed flat.
Others who were merely grazed immediately coughed blood and were thrown back.
The Uchiha clansmen surrounded them from both flanks,
With momentum soaring, they shouted, "Mighty Clan Head!"
"Mighty Clan Head!"
Root didn't even have a chance to catch their breath, they were beaten senseless by the Uchiha.
Of the more than fifty Root members, only eight managed to escape.
The rest were all slain on the spot.
Blood smeared the entire ground.
The Uchiha side had only one minor injury, just a few lightly wounded.
Only at this point did the Third Hokage finally arrive late.
"Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Kairen! What are you doing?"
Fugaku and Kairen calmly wiped the blood from their swords and sheathed them.
"Hahahaha, what are we doing? Spies from another village were pursuing our Uchiha honored guest, Lord Orochimaru, we naturally had to help," Kairen laughed wildly while shouting in a booming voice toward the Third Hokage.
At this time, Orochimaru stood at the back of the Uchiha formation with a faint smile on his face.
A fierce battle had just occurred here, and Konoha had issued a shelter alert. Still, many villagers were poking their heads out to watch.
"Nonsense. How are they spies from another village?"
The Third Hokage saw the ground covered with Root corpses, and his heart gave a hard jolt.
Just then, the Hyuga clan, Hiashi, Sarumito (Great Elder), Kenshi (Second Elder), Hisashi (Third Elder), along with Sota, all appeared nearby.
Immediately following, the Ino-Shika-Cho clans also arrived in succession.
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