The Uchiha Grand Elder's Judgment: The Opportunity for a Thousand Years of Prosperity (2nd Update)
Uchiha Myoji perfectly demonstrated what it meant to be arrogant and disdainful before playing a game, then mentally scrambled afterward.
Especially after he forced himself to start the game, only to reach the first scare and experience his body completely beyond his control while the evil spirit at his side proclaimed terror. He was utterly shaken.
When his body was completely immobilized, unable to move, with fate gripping him by the throat and the suffocating terror of death closing in, his fear level soared to terrifying heights.
His Sharingan activated automatically, its Three Tomoe spinning relentlessly as cold sweat poured down his face uncontrollably.
Even his body in the real world trembled without stop because his consciousness had entered the Genjutsu Game. The Uchiha Clan members unable to enter Spectator Mode stared in shock, unable to understand what was wrong with Uchiha Myoji, while those familiar with him were even more astonished.
After all, they had never seen Uchiha Myoji display such an intense reaction of fear.
Incidentally, Uchiha Qi had "thoughtfully" blocked the player's perception of the outside world, so Uchiha Myoji could not hear anyone else's conversations or words at all.
Thus, when the watching Uchiha Clan members saw Uchiha Myoji collapse limply to his knees after the Female Evil Spirit left, each had their own thoughts. They felt that Uchiha Myoji's mental fortitude was somewhat lacking.
It could not be helped. Watching from a god's-eye view, these Uchiha Clan members did not experience things as directly as Uchiha Myoji.
Although the appearance of the evil spirit had indeed given them all a fright, they were only spectators, so they did not feel too much fear.
Several people were even muttering that if they had been the ones playing, they definitely would not have embarrassed themselves like that.
Uchiha Qi saw it all and merely smiled without saying a word.
After all, some things were completely different when personally experienced rather than observed.
Besides...
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After resting for a while, Uchiha Myoji gritted his teeth and continued onward. He did not want to go on at all, but when he thought of the several people watching him directly and the many others waiting in the real world, he could not bring himself to quit halfway through.
Otherwise, if he lost even this courage, his life as an Uchiha Clan member would probably be over.
So Uchiha Myoji could only grit his teeth and keep moving forward.
Even as cold sweat kept streaming down, even though he could not deactivate his Sharingan, even though he could not suppress the fear on his face, Uchiha Myoji could only force himself onward.
Before long, he reached the place where the path split into three choices.
However, this place had changed this time. The three passages had become a single one, clearly a special adjustment for the trial version.
Turning three paths into one fixed but randomly selected path could greatly reduce the Chakra and ocular power consumed while packaging the game.
The path Uchiha Myoji encountered was red, representing slaughter and battle.
When Uchiha Myoji entered the red area, he encountered the same enemy ambush Uchiha Fugaku had faced.
Having lost his nerve due to his earlier experience, Uchiha Myoji responded clumsily to the sudden Blood Human attack. The frail body of the game character also made him deeply uncomfortable.
Thus, Uchiha Myoji experienced his first death in the game, and also the first death of his life. The incomparably realistic experience of dying nearly left him unable to recover, his mind falling into a completely blank state.
During the process, the tomoe in his Sharingan spun madly, as if undergoing some sort of change.
However, perhaps because his bloodline power was insufficient, this change differed from Uchiha Fugaku's transformation toward the Mangekyo Sharingan yesterday. It was merely an improvement built upon the Three Tomoe.
By the time Uchiha Myoji came back to his senses, quite some time had passed. He was lying facedown on the ground, drenched in cold sweat and gasping for air, in a truly terrible state.
The few Uchiha Clan members who had watched everything did not know what to say. Those who had entered the red area alongside Uchiha Myoji had seen everything within it and also witnessed the Blood Humans' brutality and Uchiha Myoji's death.
Still, as spectators, they could not truly empathize with Uchiha Myoji. They only felt that his reaction was excessively intense, and wondered just how large the gap was between the player's experience and their own viewing experience. Why did Uchiha Myoji seem as though he was about to collapse completely after dying once in the genjutsu world?
Could it be that even the experience of death was incomparably real?
That was right. Uchiha Fugaku had also said that dying in the Genjutsu Game felt very real.
However, without firsthand experience or anything to compare it to, Uchiha Fugaku's words had not given the Uchiha Clan members any real sense of it.
In the end, after reviving and recovering, Uchiha Myoji shakily rose to his feet. Looking at the red passage, a flicker of fear inevitably appeared in his eyes.
Yet after personally experiencing death once without truly dying, Uchiha Myoji also made a breakthrough in courage. He was no longer filled with fear and the evasive thoughts he himself had failed to notice. Instead, he chose to face this crisis head-on.
Thus, Uchiha Myoji charged into the red area again and began fighting the Blood Humans within it.
Because he had found his courage, Uchiha Myoji did not die immediately this time. Instead, he used the game character's body to maneuver against the Blood Humans, fully displaying the combat experience and intelligence forged through years of battle. For a time, he even killed several Blood Humans, showing the combat strength expected of an Uchiha Clan elite.
However, such things alone could not eliminate all the Blood Humans. They also found an opportunity to wound him, after which they swarmed him and killed Uchiha Myoji once again.
At that moment, Uchiha Myoji's face turned black as the bottom of a pot after reviving.
After all, death did not feel good, especially for an Uchiha Clan member like him. After fighting with everything he had, the feeling of still being unable to defeat a group of mere fodder was even worse.
Even though the body he was using now belonged to the game character rather than himself, the sensation was still utterly awful.
The Uchiha Clan members watching all had their own thoughts. Some felt it was not Uchiha Myoji's fault and that the game character's body was simply too weak. Some felt there were too many enemies, while others believed Uchiha Myoji's combat skills were lacking, which was why he could not break through the enemy lines.
However, Uchiha Masanobu, the Clan Head and leader, and Uchiha Setsuna, the Grand Elder, saw far more.
Uchiha Masanobu saw how realistic the Genjutsu Game was. Even though Uchiha Myoji knew it was fake, and even though he had already gone through so much during the Genjutsu Game, his state of mind was still inevitably affected severely.
With such a powerful impact on one's mentality combined with an incomparably real experience, it was no wonder his son Uchiha Fugaku had said that the Genjutsu Game would be highly beneficial to the Uchiha Clan.
Now, Uchiha Masanobu could fully confirm that his son's judgment had been correct.
As for Uchiha Setsuna, an Uchiha Clan member who had lived through the Warring States Period, beyond confirming that the Genjutsu Game would indeed be enormously useful to the Uchiha Clan, he also realized that it was an excellent place for training soldiers.
The experience was incredibly real, and the enemies one fought were each cunning and vicious.
Such an extreme illusion was unquestionably a holy ground for training troops, whether for the Uchiha Clan or for all shinobi.
Moreover, this Genjutsu Game was highly adaptable. From ordinary shinobi to top-tier shinobi, anyone wishing to hone their combat techniques, awareness, and experience could enter the Genjutsu Game and battle false enemies.
Merely by witnessing Uchiha Myoji's "performance," Uchiha Setsuna could already slam the table and declare that Uchiha Fugaku's words and judgment yesterday had been utterly true, without a trace of falsehood. If anything, they had been conservative.
This secret technique created by Uchiha Qi was absolutely a Clan-Protecting Secret Technique that could ensure the Uchiha Clan's prosperity for the next thousand years!
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