The Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven

What surprised Uchiha Yu was that there were as many as sixty-three young ninjas being promoted to chunin this time, the youngest only thirteen.

Incidentally, the oldest was already eighteen.

Yes, that was Uchiha Yu himself.

Especially when he was being watched by a bunch of little brats, each of them clearly thinking, "How did this guy worm his way into our team of geniuses?" Any normal person would have felt awkward.

But Uchiha Yu would not. When it came to thick skin, could twenty years of training as a neighborhood cop be surpassed?

Besides, three years ago, some nine-year-old white-haired brat had openly become a chunin, blinding who knew how many people.

Because of that, Uchiha Yu had often been summoned by the clan head and elders for talks. Some scolded him, some encouraged him, but in short, they all demanded that he not disgrace the Uchiha clan.

Yet he still ate when he should eat, drank when he should drink, and patrolled when he had work. Getting promoted to chunin? No thanks.

Had the clan head not considered how dangerous it was to become a chunin outside wartime?

One option was to apply to the Hokage for a special examination, fighting a chunin or even a jonin. Win, or earn the Hokage's recognition through overall performance, and one could be promoted.

This kind of examination could be called open and fair. As long as Uchiha clan genin awakened their Sharingan, they had a good chance of passing. Even if they failed, they would not be beaten to death, so safety was guaranteed.

Unfortunately, the Third Hokage had never accepted an application from the Uchiha clan. That road was blocked.

The final path was to participate in the annual Chunin Exams. There were far too many tricks involved there, with countless opportunities for foul play.

Uchiha Lan, Uchiha Guangzhao, and Uchiha Naoto—these were cousins Uchiha Yu knew well, all of them possessing strength far beyond ordinary chunin. Naoto in particular had awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan even earlier than him; his individual strength was practically the ceiling among chunin.

Yet after one examination, all three cousins were gone.

If anyone said nobody was setting up the Uchiha, not even dogs would believe it.

But the clan head and elders acted as if they were blind, treating it as nothing while continuing to urge the clan's young ninjas to take the examination.

It was utterly nonsensical.

No matter how the clan head encouraged him or how the elders threatened him, Uchiha Yu held firm and refused to take the Chunin Exams.

Perhaps Uchiha Yu being expelled from the Military Police Force had been rooted in this matter. Uchiha Setsuna had merely spoken up for the others.

Look at him now. Once the war began, Uchiha Yu had smoothly received missions, smoothly completed them, and then naturally been promoted.

He also knew that the promoted chunin were not limited to the sixty-three before him; many more were being promoted at the same time. But this group was all under eighteen. Quite a few had even accumulated their merits during the current, not particularly intense war. Every one of them could be called a genius.

Geniuses received treatment unlike ordinary people. Hiruzen Sarutobi naturally had to meet them first and give another lengthy speech about the Will of Fire.

No one knew when the war would fully erupt. The next time these geniuses could be gathered together to reinforce the Will of Fire's propaganda would be very, very difficult.

Uchiha Yu had survived until today because he had his own skills, the greatest of which was lying low.

The reason he had blended in among more than sixty little brats without the Third Hokage noticing him so far was that, the moment he sensed something was wrong, he had immediately retreated into the crowd. Then he bent his knees into a Horse Stance, forcibly disguising his 183-centimeter height as 145 centimeters.

No matter how sharp the Third Hokage's eyes were, they were not the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan. Naturally, he could not see Uchiha Yu in the rear half of the crowd.

Hiruzen Sarutobi handled countless affairs every day and had to scheme against people of every sort. His mind was filled with more matters than he could possibly count.

As long as he could not see him, the Hokage would not remember a nobody like Uchiha Yu, and naturally would not take the initiative to create trouble.

Unfortunately, this was not the right occasion to slip away. Anbu ninjas were watching from every direction, and Uchiha Yu did not dare stand at the very back. He could only shrink into the crowd.

The only problem now was the Third Hokage's long-winded speech. His voice was booming as he repeated stale platitudes over and over. To ninjas of the Ninja World, it was deeply brainwashing, but to Uchiha Yu, it was deadly.

He was sleepy as hell.

[I can't fall asleep. If I start snoring, I'm finished.]

[I can't enter meditation either. I can't control the time right now. The Third can ramble better than anyone, but he doesn't have two hours to talk here.]

[This won't work, that won't work—this is so damn annoying!] (The monkey shakes his head)

[No, my Heart Monkey has grown stronger again. Is it because of the Third's bullshit Will of Fire?]

[That's right. He said my heart fire was blazing, reaching the heavens, so the Heart Monkey dared to defy heaven.]

[What a fitting name for a wild monkey. Its nature is to overturn the natural order. Give it even a little energy, and it wants to disrupt my spiritual platform. I need to be careful.]

Uchiha Yu controlled the flow of Natural Energy. Following the changing rhythm of his breathing and heartbeat, it shook through the meridians across his body, causing echoes within his Dantian.

The red puddle within his Dantian had grown much larger, nearly reaching the scale of a broad, shallow pond. Yellow, mud-like earth-natured matter had gathered within it, scattered over the water's surface like patches of mudflat.

The vibrations from his meridians echoed and surged continuously within the Dantian. Whenever they passed through the mudflats, their frequency changed greatly, taking on a deep, heavy resonance.

Gradually, the vibrations in the Dantian reversed their primary and secondary roles with those in his meridians. Like the sound waves of great bells, they swept through Uchiha Yu's entire body, affecting his heartbeat and washing away the manic, violent intent brewing within.

Within Uchiha Yu's mental realm, he seemed to see a giant ape covered in crimson fur being repeatedly hammered by the vibrations of heaven and earth. Golden light scattered from the battered ape's body, while specks of impurity turned into sparks and fell away. Its body shrank bit by bit.

The crimson giant ape grew increasingly furious, wildly pounding its chest with both fists and producing the booming sound of war drums as it resisted the hammering of heaven and earth.

The crimson giant ape's resistance was incredibly frenzied, even throwing the vibrations of heaven and earth into disorder. Reflected outside his mind, it caused changes in the circulation of Uchiha Yu's meridians, making them sluggish one moment and violent the next.

The changes in his meridians caused the agitation in Uchiha Yu's heart to surge. He was filled with the urge to leap up, shout wildly, and howl.

Fortunately, he was not truly eighteen. He knew very well that if he lost control and stood up, disaster would surely strike.

The most immediate issue was that this was the wrong setting. A sudden outburst of madness would draw everyone's attention to him, making him the village's most conspicuous spectacle. No matter how the Uchiha clan handled him, the Third Hokage and Shimura Danzō would certainly realize that they had overlooked an Uchiha before. That would be a huge problem.

After that, intensified surveillance, probing, even assassination, kidnapping, and imprisonment would all be unavoidable. Uchiha Yu would never have another peaceful day.

But the most terrifying danger was not those external factors. If his mentality collapsed under the Heart Monkey's assault while subduing it, allowing the dead monkey to successfully overturn the natural order, then Uchiha Yu would be finished.

The Heart Monkey was the inner demon. After suffering a Havoc in Heaven, Uchiha Yu was like the Jade Emperor, kicked to the ground with no Tathagata Buddha to beg for help. He would inevitably lose his supreme throne.

In other words, after his ecstatic, frenzied dance, Uchiha Yu would most likely no longer be the immortal cultivator who had transmigrated eighteen years ago.

The Heart Monkey would take his place.