Definitely Fake News

Land of Fire.

After attending Itachi's wedding,

Uchiha Kei, Uchiha Kaito, and Uchiha Yuta took on another mission and headed out.

The three of them were friends with Shisui. Uchiha Kei had already awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan ten years ago.

He excelled in swordsmanship, Fire Release, and tracking techniques.

Back then, he had also been considered a genius youth.

But after all, those who could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan were few.

After his strength reached Elite Jonin level several years ago, he had basically found it difficult to improve any further.

His situation was very common among the Uchiha.

Any Uchiha who awakened their eyes could reach Jonin-level strength before the age of thirty.

A small number could reach Elite Jonin level.

But once they reached that point, most Uchiha clansmen had essentially hit their bottleneck.

Although an Uchiha could easily fight several ninjas of the same rank at once,

there was still some gap between them and the Kage.

There were many Uchiha clansmen stuck at this bottleneck.

If this had been ten or twenty years ago, once clansmen reached this stage, they would not have worked hard to improve their strength.

After all, the cost-effectiveness was too low. At most, they could maintain their peak for twenty years.

After that, their strength would begin to decline due to physical reasons.

After all, something like the Mangekyō Sharingan had always been legendary. No clansman had ever thought they could awaken one themselves.

But after Shamu revealed his Mangekyō several years ago, Fugaku and Itachi successively revealed themselves as Mangekyō Sharingan users.

Although Shisui had never used his Mangekyō in public, many clansmen assumed that he had one as well.

Even Obito, the traitor of the Uchiha Clan, was a powerful Mangekyō Sharingan user.

Over the past few years, as the Uchiha Mangekyō Sharingan's prestige spread far and wide,

the younger generation of the Uchiha Clan had become exceptionally eager and inspired.

And after Shamu became clan head,

he often encouraged this group of young people.

Even after awakening the Three-Tomoe, everyone still had to use their Sharingan more often and work hard to develop them.

A rumor circulated among the higher-ups that the clan head had already mastered a shortcut to awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Otherwise, why had several Mangekyō appeared in the clan one after another, starting with him?

Uchiha of this age used to focus on completing missions, mainly to save money.

Then, when they grew old and could no longer fight at all, they would still have money to spend.

After Shamu arrived and introduced policies encouraging childbirth, everyone here was married with children, with at least two children each.

They had received a great deal in subsidies.

They no longer needed to work hard on missions just to support themselves.

The Uchiha now mainly focused on training themselves.

Kaito and Yuta had also awakened the Three-Tomoe, but they were younger than Kei.

Their strength was also somewhat inferior to Kei's.

The reason three clansmen with Three-Tomoe Sharingan had gathered together was because they had accepted an exploration mission.

As the name implied, exploration missions involved investigating unknown or unusual places.

Such places might hold secrets.

After all, the ninja world was vast. Many countries did not even know the many secrets hidden within their own borders.

The countries were large, but their populations were sparse. Many places remained uninhabited, so there were still plenty of such locations.

Exploration missions were famously dangerous, dull, tedious, and poorly paid.

Because the places they went were all strange, there was a high chance of encountering all sorts of unimaginable dangers.

The chance of finding ruins or treasure was basically about the same as winning the lottery.

Only the Uchiha, who were all versatile, wealthy, and had spare time while seeking to improve themselves, would accept such missions.

This time, their destination was at the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Iron.

Early in the morning, the three were camping in the forest.

All three were checking the messages tied to their Ninja Crows' legs.

After Hidden Radiance Village was established, Shamu set standards for all missions undertaken outside the village.

The Summoning Courtyard also regularly sent important intelligence to clansmen who were away on missions.

Therefore, Shamu had stipulated that whenever they had time, they had to check whether the Ninja Crows had delivered any important messages.

"...Yoya has awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan!?"

After seeing the message, the three were shocked, but then felt it was only natural.

Yoya had always been passionate about missions over the years. Lightning Flash Yoya had not earned the title of mission fanatic for nothing.

The clan had gained another Mangekyō, leaving the three both delighted and fired up.

Yoya was a little older than them. If Yoya could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, then they could do it too!

Yuta nudged Kei with his elbow.

"Kei, Yoya already has the Mangekyō Sharingan. You need to work harder."

Kei's eyes were filled with fighting spirit.

"I'll definitely catch up to Yoya and fight him again!"

Since Yoya was a battle maniac, he naturally could not avoid sparring with his clansmen.

But people were certainly different. Kei had only been ahead of Yoya fifteen years ago, when they were still in school.

After graduating, Yoya began taking missions and fighting, and his personal strength began to grow explosively.

He directly left Kei behind.

Kei had always chased after him desperately, but he was always one step behind.

Now, Yoya had become a Mangekyō Sharingan user.

It would be even harder for Kei to catch up.

But Kei had a good mindset and had never been affected by it.

His desire to become stronger had never changed.

"The clan head wants us to watch out for attacks from Hiruko and Obito. They're targeting our Sharingan now."

"The moment we see Obito, reverse summon Itachi."

"Itachi isn't an eye..."

"Idiot, this is definitely fake news. Are we supposed to summon Itachi over here to die?"

"Then does that mean First Elder Fugaku is also...?"

"That's unclear. First Elder Fugaku has been keeping a low profile lately."

"This information should only have been sent to us. We still need to keep it confidential."

"Of course. No one here is stupid."

The ninja world was vast. Finding a few Uchiha clansmen with Three-Tomoe Sharingan in such an enormous world was no different from looking for a needle in the sea.

Obito also did not know whether he could find any Uchiha clansmen with Three-Tomoe Sharingan before the final day.

Although he had plenty of White Zetsu,

he could only rely on luck.

Obito brought Hiruko back to Mount Meru in the Golden Wheel Mountain Range, where he planned to conduct his experiments.

Hiruko had now pinned his hopes on Obito, so he obediently introduced the Chimera Technique to him.

"The five patterns above this dome correspond to the five Release types I have chosen."

"When the moon blocks out the sunlight and forms a golden ring, the sunlight will possess special power."

"When I bathe in that sunlight and these five Kekkei Genkai reach equilibrium, I will become a perfect immortal ninja."

Although Obito already knew all of this from his memories, seeing the arrangement here

still made him feel that Hiruko was quite talented.