Giant Sharingan
The fact that the Iwa ninja didn't immediately take over the territory surprised even the Iwa ninja Konoha.
Little did they know, Yichen and the Sunagakure had a private agreement: the Iwa ninja's support for the Sunagakure was not selfless; the Sunagakure needed to pay them a reward.
The Sunagakure paid them a portion of the One-Tail Chakra as payment.
The Sunagakure Village had a heated debate over whether to give Iwa ninja One-Tail Beast Chakra to the Iwa ninja.
After all, the Seven-Tails' rampage in Konoha was just around the corner. This made the Sunagakure's higher-ups worry about Yichen's intentions.
They feared that if Yichen obtained the One-Tail- Chakra, he could also control the One-Tail Jinchuriki to go berserk.
The Sunagakure had no choice; even knowing it was poison, Sunagakure agreed in order to grow stronger.
Most importantly, even if Yichen doesn't control the One-Tail's Yichen, he can easily wipe out the Sunagakure.
After receiving official recognition from the Iwa ninja, Sunagakure leader Baki announced that he would temporarily Kazekage.
That's right, Baki stated that he was only acting as the Kazekage, not the official Kazekage.
Baki had thought it through clearly. It was better for the Sunagakure to keep a low profile for now. By deliberately announcing that they wouldn't be electing a formal Kazekage, they could lower other people's guard.
Before participating in the Joint Chunin Exams, the Sunagakure were afraid of being forgotten and thus not being able to receive missions, so they acted very proactively.
However, the sudden recapture of a large area of lost territory has brought the Sunagakure back into the spotlight, and now the Sunagakure needs a quiet environment to recover its strength.
A month after the Konoha Collapse Plan ended, Yichen gained Little Shukaku's approval again.
Of course, Yichen used up four-tenths of the First Hokage's Cells again.
The remaining First Hokage's Cells were not enough for Yichen to create another small Tailed Beast.
After obtaining the Little Shukaku, Yichen shamelessly went to Han and obtained a Five-Tails from Kokuō inside Han's body.
This Little Mu King was very decisive; as soon as he separated his Chakra, he handed it over to Yichen without saying a word.
Yichen was very happy, not only because of the addition of Little Shukaku and Little Mu King, but also because Izumi Uchiha had finally begun to fuse with the Sharingan.
The method by which the Otsutsuki Branch Family on the moon fused with the Giant Tenseigan was not complicated.
The reason why Izumi Uchiha has only started to integrate now is because she spent a lot of time organizing documents and collecting Otsutsuki Miune's memories.
Furthermore, there are significant differences between the Sharingan and the Byakugan.
In particular, the Sharingan seems to contain the intense emotional stimulation of its original owner, which undoubtedly makes the fusion of the Sharingan many times more difficult than the fusion of the Byakugan.
Therefore, Izumi Uchiha's solution was to first transplant a Three-Tomoe Sharingan into Sokai's eye.
Izumi Uchiha used her special Dōjutsu to absorb the Sharingan's power.
He then transplanted the Sharingan without its power into Izumi Uchiha's own eye socket.
Then, using his special ability to absorb eye power, he replenished the empty Sharingan in his eye sockets with eye power.
In other words, Izumi Uchiha treated himself as a purifier, cleaning each of those Sharingan one by one.
The most crucial purification device is her Mangekyō Sharingan's special Dōjutsu, which can absorb eye power.
Izumi Uchiha and Sokai have been undergoing continuous eye transplant surgeries recently.
It took the two of them a whole month to finally cleanse all of their Sharingan.
Outside Iwagakure), in a newly built secret laboratory.
When Yichen saw the Sharingan in the bottles again, he was surprised to find that the feeling he Sharingan from them had changed.
The eerie feeling had faded considerably; on the contrary, these Sharingan now gave Yichen a sense of hope.
Holding a single eye in your hand doesn't feel like much, but when you put countless eyes together, the feeling becomes very obvious.
Perhaps this is because when Izumi Uchiha granted them new eye powers, she infused them with her own hopes.
Having sensed this, Yichen felt more confident about Izumi Uchiha's upcoming fusion experiment.
Yichen turned to look at Izumi Uchiha and Sokai, and saw that both of them were very tired, and their eye power was greatly depleted.
Needless to say, Sokai; having served as a tool countless times, he's now constantly dizzy.
He looks like he's indulging in excessive sexual activity!
Izumi Uchiha was in no better shape; the countless uses of the Mangekyō Sharingan's Dōjutsu had taken a heavy toll on her.
Yichen said, "You two aren't in good shape right now. Why don't you go to the Land of Snow to recover properly?"
"There's no rush to Sharingan!"
However, both of them shook their heads. Izumi Uchiha said, "Lord Tsuchikage, the resurgence of the Uchiha Clan depends on whether this fusion can succeed."
"We simply can't focus on restoring our eye power right now."
"Moreover, I have a feeling that the success rate of the fusion is highest now."
Yichen was taken aback, recalling the feeling of hope he had just sensed from those Sharingan.
Perhaps Izumi Uchiha was right. So Yichen nodded.
After obtaining Yichen's consent, Izumi Uchiha and Sokai immediately began the fusion process.
Izumi Uchiha placed the pre-prepared medicinal solution into a large pool that had been prepared in advance in the center of the laboratory.
The area around the pool was already covered with countless secret runes.
The two carefully removed the Sharingan one by one from the bottle and placed them into the pool.
After unleashing all their Sharingan, Izumi Uchiha and Sokai sat side by side by the pool and began Hand Seals.
As the two Hand Seals, the runes around the pool began to flicker. Then, the entire pool began to emit a faint red glow.
Although their eyes were closed, Yichen knew from his Mind's Eye that both of them had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
A moment later, a miraculous scene unfolded.
Those Sharingan actually started to fuse!
Under the influence of a special medicinal solution, they first became soft and then stuck together.
To be honest, this change in the number of eyeballs should have been disgusting, but Yichen felt a very positive emotion in addition to the chilling feeling.
Yichen sat down next to the two of them, closed his eyes, using Mind's Eye to carefully sense the emotions conveyed by the Sharingan in the pool.
The next moment, Yichen suddenly understood that the reason why the Otsutsuki Branch Family on the moon was able to fuse into Giant Tenseigan was inseparable from their shared wish.
Everyone who split up the family was extremely eager to break free from the control of the Main Family.
Their hopes were all emboldened by their Byakugan.
It was this shared desire that drew those Byakugan to merge.
Now, because Izumi Uchiha imbued these Sharingan with the same emotion: hope.
Therefore, these Sharingan also met the conditions for fusion.
This process wasn't fast; once all the Sharingan were glued together, the quantitative change seemed to truly lead to a qualitative change.
The Sharingan's power intertwined, seemingly about to merge into one.
However, Yichen waited for a long time, but the qualitative change he had been looking forward to still hadn't arrived.
Yichen's Mind's Eye had been constantly sensing the changes, and he quickly came to a guess.
So Yichen got up and went to the place where the Sharingan.
The numerous Sharingan that were originally there are gone; they've all been put into the pool.
However, there were a dozen or so Sharingan that were the exceptions, quietly residing in their respective nutrient bottles.
These dozen or so Sharingan are Mangekyō Sharingan that have been confirmed after Sokai.
These dozen or so Mangekyō Sharingan were also cleansed by Izumi Uchiha.
However, Izumi Uchiha and Sokai did not put those dozen or so eyes into the pool.
Because Izumi Uchiha Mangekyō Sharingan a treasure to the Uchiha Clan.
Yichen looked at the Mangekyō Sharingan Dōjutsu recorded on these bottles.
Then, he picked up a pair of eyes with less potent Dōjutsu, removed the eyes from one of them, and carefully placed them into the pool.
These Mangekyō Sharingan were quickly integrated into many other Sharingan.
Furthermore, after attaching itself to those ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan, this pair of Mangekyō Sharingan seemed to know the way and quickly slid into the very center.
Yichen waited for a while and sensed that the Sharingan's ocular power fluctuations in the pool were becoming more intense, but he felt that one pair of Mangekyō Sharingan was not enough.
So Yichen added a second pair, then a third pair, until he only had two pairs of Yichen Mangekyō Sharingan, the giant sphere in the pool finally underwent a change.
Originally, each eye could clearly distinguish the three Tomoe inside.
However, once the fluctuations in pupil power crossed a certain critical point, these Tomoe began to blur and disperse.
After a long time, all the Tomoe on the Sharingan dispersed, and these black Tomoe, like ink, crossed the limitations of their respective eyeballs.
They began to move between different eyeballs, and started to converge and recombine.
A moment later, the Red Eye, now devoid of black Tomoe, formed a perfectly round red sphere.
The ink formed from all the Tomoe then transformed into a giant Mangekyō Sharingan pattern.
Yichen was trying to recall which pattern he had previously placed among them.
The pattern changed again, slowly dispersing and slowly reforming into a new pattern.
The new pattern lasted for a while, then changed again.
And so, the pattern on this giant eye changed again and again.
Yichen discovered that some of these patterns had appeared in the Mangekyō Sharingan before, but many more were not.
Yichen even saw the patterns on the eyes of Itachi Uchiha, Izumi Uchiha, Sokai, Shisui Uchiha, Fugaku Uchiha.
Throughout the transformation, Izumi Uchiha and Sokai never opened their eyes, while Yichen witnessed the entire process alone.
Finally, after undergoing countless changes, this giant eye suddenly jolted.
Immediately afterwards, a blinding red light shot out from the eye.
Yichen quickly closed his eyes.
The light lasted for a long time before gradually fading away.
When Yichen opened his eyes again, he discovered that the patterns on the giant eye had transformed into the Rinne Sharingan with Tomoe.
Yichen counted them: Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan!
A giant, blood-red, Nine magatama Giant Rinne Sharingan, approximately half a meter in diameter.
At this moment, Izumi Uchiha and Sokai, who had been in Hand Seals state, both woke up.
Both of them were exhausted, but upon waking up, the first thing they looked at was the pool in front of them.
By this time, the special medicinal liquid in the pool had been almost completely consumed during the fusion process.
The runes around the pool had all vanished.
However, neither of them paid attention to these things. What first caught their eyes was a magnificent, Giant Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan floating in the air.
Looking at the enormous eye, Izumi Uchiha and Sokai embraced each other, weeping with joy.
Both of them were babbling incoherently, and it was unclear whether they could understand each other.
Yichen stood to the side, silently eating his dog food.
It took them a long time to calm down.
Yichen did not immediately discuss the matter of the Giant Sharingan with the two of them, but instead directly ordered them to rest for a few days.
Both of them are too exhausted right now; neither their emotions nor their physical condition are suited to discussing this kind of issue.
Unbeknownst to Yichen, the moment the Giant Sharingan emitted its blinding light, the Sage of Six Paths, who was hiding in a corner of the Ninja World, suddenly opened his eyes.
The Sage of Six Paths' eyes pierced through all obstacles, ignoring the distance, and saw that eye that was exactly the same as the one on his mother's forehead.
After a long while, the Sage of Six Paths closed his eyes again and sighed heavily.
He doesn't know whether Yichen and the others fusing the Giant Sharingan is a good thing for the Ninja World.
A few days later, Yichen led a group of high-ranking members of Iwagakure to the laboratory where the Giant Sharingan was located.
Even people from Kawakita who haven't fully recovered from their injuries came this time.
The high-ranking members of Iwagakure have all taken turns going to the moon and seeing the Giant Tenseigan.
When they saw that Izumi Uchiha had actually created a Giant Sharingan in the same way, they were all extremely excited.
Yichen and the others came to their senses and said, "This thing should be called the Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan, but let's call it the Giant Sharingan for now."
"We still need to explore the abilities of the Giant Sharingan."
"Quan Luo, Sokai, you two go to the Land of Snow to restore your eye power."
"Then we'll come back and study this Giant Sharingan properly."
"Remember, your primary task is to awaken your own Rinne Sharingan, just like Neji."
As he spoke, Yichen took out a scroll and said, "This is the method my teacher, Hamura Otsutsuki, taught Neji to Tenseigan."
"Try this method. You two possess the Mangekyō Sharingan, and you were the ones who created it, so there's a good chance you'll awaken the Rinne Sharingan."
"Yes," Sokai and Izumi Uchiha in unison.
After a pause, Yichen continued, "This Giant Sharingan seems to be much weaker than the Giant Tenseigan on the moon."
"This is probably related to the number of eyes fused within them. The Sharingan you fused within them doesn't have as many Byakugan Giant Tenseigan."
"Furthermore, I suspect it's also because this Giant Tenseigan doesn't have enough Chakra."
"So your second task is to figure out the ability of this Giant Sharingan to absorb Chakra."
"Tenseigan and Rinnegan have this ability, so I believe the Giant Sharingan is no exception."
"Once you've figured it out, I'll arrange for ninjas to provide Chakra to the Giant Sharingan."
"If you want to truly awaken your Rinne Sharingan, the amount of Chakra required will definitely be substantial."
"Every time Neji's baby moves, I can feel the Giant Tenseigan transferring a lot of Chakra to him."
"All that Chakra was used up when I was altering Neji's body."
"With two of you, the workload will only be greater."
"Yes," Izumi Uchiha and Sokai replied again.
Seeing their excited expressions, Yichen was also very excited.
Because if the two of them could successfully awaken the Rinne Sharingan, Yichen would be able to hitch a ride many more times.
At this moment, Ōnoki said, "Yichen, should we move this Giant Sharingan to a different location?"
"I'm always uneasy leaving such a treasure outside the village. How about we put it at the headquarters of the Anbu? It's heavily guarded there!"
Yichen thought for a moment and said, "Placing it in the Anbu is unnecessary, but moving it to the village is still very necessary."
"How about this, we'll build a secret laboratory inside the village and move the Giant Sharingan inside."
"From now on Quan Luo and Sokai will live in the lab."
After everything was arranged, Sokai and Izumi Uchiha quickly traveled to the Land of Snow via the Teleportation Array.
Yichen temporarily entrusted the task of protecting the Giant Sharingan Ōnoki, while he and Neji went to the moon again.
Neji felt his third fetal movement was about to begin.
On the moon, Yichen sat opposite Neji once again and used the Spirit Transformation Jutsu to enter Neji's body.
Neji's every fetal movement was changing his body, Yichen's soul was also observing the changes in Neji's body time and time again.
This time was no different. Yichen sensed the changes in his own soul while observing the rapid changes in Neji's body.
This time, however, Yichen noticed that Neji's changes were mainly concentrated in his eyes.
A large amount of Tenseigan Chakra was absorbed by Neji's eyes, which seemed to be bottomless pits.
In Yichen's soul perception, Neji's eyes seemed to be awakening from a deep sleep.
The eyes, which were originally just for show, gradually began to burn, and a faint pressure emanated from them.
Yichen clearly sensed that Neji's eyes were gradually acquiring a level beyond that of ordinary people, and the pressure they exerted was like the pressure that a superior would exert on their subordinates.
However, this pressure wasn't heavy, indicating that Neji's Tenseigan hadn't fully matured yet.
A moment later, Yichen's soul left Neji's body and returned to his own.
At this moment, Yichen had a peculiar feeling and some strange thoughts.
Recently, Yichen has experienced some unusual events. First, he fused with Giant Sharingan, and then Neji awakened the true Tenseigan.
Both of these events represent crucial transformations from mortals to Sage.
Yichen was an important observer of both events.
Although Yichen was not the main character in either of these events, he had been using the Super S-rank Sensory Ninjutsu, Mind's Eye, to observe and experience them up close.
After two visits, Yichen felt that his understanding of immortals and mortals had become much deeper.
After Neji woke up, Yichen didn't spar with him like last time, but hurriedly took Neji back to Iwagakure.
After returning to Iwagakure, Yichen took Neji to Katsuya's laboratory.
Katsuya and Natsuki are practicing the Impure World Reincarnation with a large group of people.
They found it strange to see Yichen arrive.
However, Yichen didn't come to see them; Yichen just wanted to use some of the equipment and barriers in the lab.
Yichen waved to Katsuya and the others, then entered a room in the laboratory with Neji.
Yichen first activated the barrier around the room, and then, under Neji's puzzled gaze, took out a Shinigami Mask.
Yichen said to Neji, "Neji, there is a soul within this mask; I call it the Death God."
"These Death God have a pact with the Uzumaki Clan from back then."
"They are supported by the Uzumaki Clan and fight alongside Uzumaki Clan."
"Both the Fourth Hokage and the Third Hokage of Konoha used this type of Shinigami Mask to perform a Forbidden Technique called the Reaper Death Seal."
Yichen gave Neji a detailed explanation of the Shinigami Mask.
Finally Yichen said, "I want to absorb the Yin Release energy of the Death God. Do you have a way to do that with your Tenseigan?"
Neji Tenseigan at the Shinigami Mask with his newly awakened Tenseigan. His Tenseigan had only just begun to fully awaken, and for a moment he couldn't see through the Shinigami Mask.
Neji then activated the Giant Tenseigan, and with Giant Tenseigan help, Neji finally saw the Death God soul within the Shinigami Mask.
As instructed by Yichen, Neji reached out his hand towards the Shinigami Mask and then used the Wheel Rotation Like Intent to extract the Death God from within.
After Neji used his Tenseigan Chakra to examine the bewildered Death God, he shook his head at Yichen and said, "Teacher Yichen, I can't dissect Death God."
"Perhaps I'll have a way once my Tenseigan is fully awakened, but I can't do it now."
"Is that so?" Yichen was somewhat disappointed.
Yichen started working on the sixth level of the Five Elements Fusion a few days ago.
However, he barely managed to complete the fifth level last time, and the sixth level was clearly beyond Yichen's capabilities.
By simply practicing and gradually improving his Chakra control and proficiency in Five Elements Fusion, Yichen might have a chance to succeed.
However, Yichen cannot calculate the time required for this process; it is estimated that it will take several decades or even a hundred years to succeed.
Even though he had hitched a ride with Neji again this time, and his soul had definitely improved somewhat, Yichen still felt it was unlikely to be enough.
Yichen felt that there were two main factors restricting the Five Elements Fusion.
One is the soul level. Yichen's soul level is actually not low. In the third stage, it is almost at its limit.
However, the difference between immortals and mortals is undeniable, and the difference between the third and fourth realms is like heaven and earth.
The Five Elements Fusion can only be achieved in the fourth stage. It is too much of a stretch for Yichen to forcefully challenge it with his third-stage soul.
Fortunately, Yichen wasn't worried about this problem in the short term, because Yichen knew he would have several more rides to take.
What truly hinders Yichen from completing the Five Elements Fusion is the total amount of his soul.
There's no way to improve that! It's determined by talent.
In fact, Yichen was already exceptionally talented in this area; his total soul volume had always surpassed that of others at the same level.
Of course, monsters like Purple Lightning and Yakumo Kurama are an exception.
However, Yichen felt that his total soul volume was still insufficient to complete the Five Elements Fusion.
Taking into account the special circumstances of Shion and Yakumo Kurama, Yichen felt that the easiest way to strengthen his own soul was to devour other souls.
And coincidentally, Yichen possessed many powerful souls, namely, the Death God.