Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 665 On the Eve of the Great Extinction of Konoha

With Sakura, a medical expert, personally taking action, she had perfected the ninjutsu of the Minor Ailment Extraction Technique. In less than half an hour, she had examined all eighty-six people present.

Apart from a few civilians who had not used the insect medicine, the rest of the people had some residue in their bodies to varying degrees. However, this did not include Kakashi, because he had already expelled the insect medicine from his body through his own efforts, but he was unaware of it.

As for Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and Ino, they removed the insect poison early on for unknown reasons.

Sakura wiped the fine sweat from her forehead; she had a premonition that things wouldn't end like this.

At night, everyone dispersed and found places to stay.

Sakura returned to her room, tightly hugged Lee's green bodysuit, curled up on the bed, and sobbed with tears streaming down her face.

"Little Li..."

Naruto, holding Ino tightly in his arms, looked out at the sky through the roof, which had already been pierced by the roots of the Divine Tree. But there were no stars there, only chaos.

"Ino, do you think I should eat that fruit?"

Ino didn't understand at all; she just snuggled closer to him, wrapping her arms around his waist and instinctively trying to move down.

Naruto quickly grabbed her hands and firmly refused, "No, you're pregnant right now."

Sasuke didn't sleep either. He didn't go home because his house had already been destroyed by the Divine Tree. Instead of looking for a house that was still relatively intact, he jumped onto a big tree, put his hands behind his neck, and rested against the branches of the Divine Tree.

Suddenly he felt a strange fluctuation. In the children's rest room at the village entrance, there was a special path. He opened the door and headed straight for the roots of the sacred tree.

Kawaki's eyes were glazed over, as if he were sleepwalking, and he walked step by step toward the sacred tree. Beside him, Mirai was trying to persuade him, seemingly preparing to pull him to a stop.

However, it had no effect whatsoever. Kawaki made a decisive move, and his swift movements were not something a five-year-old child could possess. Future was no match for him and was quickly knocked unconscious.

Sasuke frowned slightly, just about to walk over, when a bright genjutsu world appeared before him.

Yakumo walked out step by step from inside. "I'm sorry, you can't go over there. This is his job."

"I don't understand, what exactly are you trying to do? Who's behind you?"

"God." A fervent light appeared in Yakumo's eyes. "Rest assured, I never intended to harm you. This is all divine guidance; we both have missions to fulfill!"

"What nonsense!" Sasuke acted decisively. Although he didn't like this outsider Kawaki and even found him suspicious, he never wanted to make him sacrifice the sacred tree before he even understood the situation.

But just as he conjured Susanoo and summoned the Totsuka Blade and the Yasakani no Magatama, before he could even activate them, he heard screams echoing through the village once again.

Yakumo maintained his smile and said, "It's about to begin. Actually, Sakura's biggest mistake was helping others expel the insect medicine instead of relying on her own hard work to expel it from her body."

"What do you mean?"

Yakumo smiled, dispelled the illusion, and turned to disappear.

The wailing from the village had already alerted everyone.

Sakura wiped away her tears and quickly slipped away to check on the others. She noticed that many of them were already showing signs of physical decay. As the first person to have their vital organs removed, Shizune was the first to be affected.

"Senior Sister Shizune, how are you? I'm here to save you." Sakura pressed her hands, which emitted green light, onto Shizune's body, but instead of easing her injuries, they worsened.

"It's no use, the genetic code in my body suddenly collapsed."

"No, that's not right, it can't be. Why are you the only ones who are hurt, but we're fine, and the children are fine too?" Sakura was extremely nervous, her hands were trembling, because this time she had made a huge mistake.

It was because she discovered a flaw in the insect medicine that she chose to remove them one by one from her body.

"We were wrong, Sakura. The insect medicine has no lethal effect. My job is to monitor the body's condition and recovery. It's connected to the chemical bonds in our genes. Your breakthroughs happened naturally because your bodies had reached a point of perfection with your genes, allowing them to heal on their own. But we..."

The voice in the silence was filled with anguish. "Go help those children; they still have stem cells in their bodies that can be activated. If we wait any longer, it will be too late for them."

"Shizune-senpai!" Sakura shouted, but the person was already dead.

She wiped away her tears; there was no time for sadness now.

There are only a dozen or so children left now. Fortunately, Kakashi had already teleported some of them to various parts of the ninja world.

Although they had no legal status, they had a high probability of surviving because they were children. The remaining children, however, were all gifted and not so lucky.

"It's all my fault, and I must do my best to make amends now."

Sakura shook the children awake. They rubbed their eyes sleepily, yawning, and said, "Sakura-neechan, we're so sleepy!"

"Yeah, we want to sleep."

"No sleeping, no one sleeping! Come closer, I'll treat you." Sakura held back her sobs and pulled all the children up, forming a circle around them.

Then, the diamond-shaped mark between her eyebrows spread all over her body, even extending along her hands to other children, constantly repairing the cells in their bodies that were about to collapse.

She knew this method would shorten their lifespans, but it was better than losing their lives instantly.

It's all her fault, no, it's the customer, Oil Girl Zhicheng, who actually poisoned his insecticide!

"Sakura, what happened?" Naruto had just arrived when he saw this scene.

"Don't come any closer, you're bothering me!" Sakura shouted. Naruto immediately realized the seriousness of the situation and blocked the doorway, preventing anyone from getting close.

At this moment, the Konoha civilians and ninjas who were about to lose their lives had gone mad, rushing frantically towards Sakura, preparing to break into the room.

"Let us in, we're going to die!"

"Dr. Sakura, please have mercy and save us."

"It's all your fault. You said the insecticide was poisonous and made us expel it from our bodies."

"Let's all rush in!"

"Stop and listen to me, everyone. Sakura is doing her best to save the child. Please wait a little longer, it will be your turn soon." Unfortunately, Naruto's words had no effect this time.

"Get out of my way!"

"You're killing us!"

"No!" Naruto acted decisively, knocking away one of the approaching people.

He didn't use much force, but the man's body was on the verge of collapse, and with just one punch, his flesh decayed and he became a corpse.

"I..." Naruto froze on the spot.