Uchiha Chen Splits the Mountain to Save Hikari (Seeking Follows and Recommendations)

[Eye Power 146/1000]

'Perfect Susanoo, the God's Power that symbolizes destruction. Eye Power consumption: 1~100 per minute.'

What can you do in one minute?

You can eat a quarter of an apple, drink a glass of water, or refine some Chakra.

But for a Perfect Susanoo, cutting a mountain into pieces like tofu in one minute is absolutely no problem at all.

"Prosthetic Eye, let me see just how far your capacity can truly go!"

Uchiha Chen formed a sword-finger seal and tapped his own forehead, drawing upon the Eye Power within the Prosthetic Eye to its absolute limit.

A complete skeletal frame suddenly rose from within the flame-like radiance. Meridians, flesh, and garments clung to the bones, growing wildly. The moment the growth finished, the Tengu Armor covered the Susanoo, making it appear even more imposing.

Up to this point, It was only the beginning.

Powerful, materialized Yin Release Chakra swept out like a raging sea, transforming into crimson pentagonal crystals that encased Uchiha Chen's body. The massive Susanoo continued to grow at high speed, finally becoming a titan-like existence about two hundred meters tall, as if it were holding up the sky and supporting the earth from mythology.

"Steady!"

Wings that blotted out the sky grew from the back of the Tengu Armor. The massive amount of Eye Power Chakra in the Susanoo stabilized in an instant, and human-like facial features appeared, resembling a war god clad in armor.

Perfect Susanoo!

Amidst the surging changes in Eye Power, Uchiha Chen's emotions were completely stirred up. He stood at the center of the Susanoo's brow, arms crossed over his chest, his smile growing increasingly twisted.

This was the time to say something cool.

However.

Looking down from his vantage point over Dayu Mountain, all Uchiha Chen saw were countless panicked little animals fleeing in every direction; the strongest among them were merely a few bears that had just woken from hibernation.

A breath caught in Uchiha Chen's chest, forcing him to swallow the words he was about to blurt out.

"Next time, definitely next time. Time is limited; let's cut the cake in front of me first."

Uchiha Chen's gaze sharpened. The deep crimson Susanoo drew a long blade from its waist, raised its arms, and swung the unsheathed sword horizontally.

Clang!

The incomparably massive red sword light slashed across the mountain peaks again and again. Each strike shaved off a section of Dayu Mountain, and the shockwaves from every swing shook the heavens and moved the earth, causing the dense clouds in the sky to dance along with them.

This was only the result of him desperately controlling the power of his strikes to avoid destroying the seal and Uchiha Hikari within it.

After several strikes, amidst the sky-filling dust and smoke, Uchiha Chen suddenly discovered a trace of a Sealing Technique, relying on the microscopic-level insight of his Sharingan. He immediately dispelled the Susanoo.

Boom, boom, boom!

The tremors caused by the Susanoo were still continuing.

"Buried so deep. This must be sixty or seventy meters below the surface of the mountain, right?"

Uchiha Chen landed on a smooth platform that the Susanoo had just carved out, looking down at the traces of the Sealing Technique beneath him.

This strange, twisted Chakra aura. Is it a space-time technique?

Uchiha Chen's heart was full of questions as he followed the traces of the Sealing Technique to find the seal itself.

'Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!'

After finding the spot where the Chakra reaction of the Sealing Technique was most obvious, Uchiha Chen performed the hand seals and used Wind Release to blow away the surrounding debris and soil.

And so, he finally saw the 'Yellow Springs Corridor Reincarnation Technique' recorded in the History of Warring States Sealing.

A pale yellow square crystal, two meters wide, was crystal clear. Inside, like an insect trapped in amber, a beautiful young girl wearing traditional Uchiha attire was sealed.

The girl's long, jet-black hair was lifted as if still fluttering in the wind. Her eyes were cold, proud, and spirited, displaying three-tomoe, yet her face held a chilling, murderous aura, and the blade of the Kunai in her hand was still stained with blood.

She seemed to still be in the midst of some fierce battle from over a hundred years ago.

Uchiha Chen gently stroked the surface of the pale yellow crystal with his hand, sensing this rare, space-time Sealing Technique.

He could feel that the power of this seal had weakened significantly. If he hadn't come to break it, it would likely have exhausted its power in another thirty or forty years.

He could almost imagine the scene from a hundred years ago.

The girl had slaughtered her way through, and the heavily depleted Senju Clan and Uzumaki Clan ninjas finally couldn't take it anymore, using this strange Sealing Technique to 'freeze' the girl's time.

They couldn't kill the girl.

Because to kill her, they would have to break the seal, and if they broke the seal, they still wouldn't be the girl's match. Thus, they could only use Earth Style on the spot, burying the crystal containing the girl deep within the mountain.

Uchiha Chen scanned the traces of the Sealing Technique, committing the entire design of the seal to memory, and then extended a finger, lightly tapping a weak point in the seal.

Azure Chakra surged from his fingertip, instantly destroying the stability of the seal.

The crystal dissolved instantly, turning into wisps of light that vanished into the world in the blink of an eye.

Uchiha Chen nodded slightly and stepped toward the girl.

Just then, the girl's long upper eyelashes suddenly moved. The Kunai in her hand was suddenly held horizontally in front of her chest, and the tomoe in her eyes spun rapidly, outlining the pattern of a Mangekyō.

"Susanoo!"

The girl let out a clear shout, and a crimson skeletal arm appeared out of thin air, wrapping around her entire body.

"Hmm?"

The young girl's scarlet eyes met Uchiha Chen's, clearly catching sight of the Sharingan within his pupils.

Her memory was still stuck at the moment over a century ago when the Uzumaki Clan ninja unleashed their Sealing Technique; she could not comprehend how, all of a sudden, the surrounding enemies had vanished, leaving only a member of the Uchiha Clan dressed in 'strange attire.'

After scanning her surroundings repeatedly, the girl retracted the Susanoo that had been shielding her body and walked slowly toward Uchiha Chen.

With every step she took, the liveliness in her eyes dimmed, and by the time she reached Uchiha Chen—who was at a loss for words—she had become as numb and indifferent as a doll.

"You..."

Before Uchiha Chen could finish his sentence, the girl had already 'obediently' clenched her fists together and extended her hands toward him.

Completely bewildered, Uchiha Chen watched Uchiha Hikari maintain this posture without moving, and asked in confusion:

"What is the meaning of this?"

"Do you not need to wear shackles? Are there still enemies somewhere that haven't been cleared?"

The girl's voice was as pleasant as a clear spring, yet her tone was devoid of any inflection.

Uchiha Chen looked down at the girl's wrists, where there were indeed red marks left behind by long-term confinement in shackles.

This was the only injury on Uchiha Hikari's body.

Even though he had known about her plight beforehand, facing those eyes as cold and distant as Ice, Uchiha Chen couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.

"It's already over!" Uchiha Chen said with a complex expression.

"The mission is over?"

Uchiha Hikari nodded coldly and raised her hands toward Uchiha Chen once more.

"No, everything is over!"

Uchiha Chen looked up at the sky.

Today was a rare warm day in winter, and even the surrounding clouds had been scattered by his earlier use of Susanoo, allowing the gentle sunlight to bathe every corner of the earth.

"The great war between you and the Senju and Uzumaki clans happened over one hundred and thirty years ago! You have been sealed here for more than a century."

"Over a hundred years?"

Doubt and helplessness flickered in the girl's cold eyes, and for the first time, there was a shift in her tone.

"Yes!" Uchiha Chen looked at the girl who had spanned a century of time with pity and said:

"Everything is in the past!"