The Uchiha Clan's Foundation

Little did he know.

The humiliation he endured for the sake of peace and the hatred he set aside were, in reality, the very things that made the clan despise him most.

The Uchiha clan would never submit to the Senju clan.

If you, Madara Uchiha, were determined to engage in a life-or-death battle with your rival, you should have trusted in the strength of your clan. At worst, the clan would have exposed the secret of Izanagi to restore your power; if one person wasn't enough, ten would do, and if ten weren't enough, then more.

Using the Three-Tomoe Sharingan of the Uchiha clan to alter reality would have been enough to exhaust any enemy to death.

Yet, Madara Uchiha chose to run off to some remote location to fight Hashirama Senju all by himself.

You lost the fight, then simply threw up your hands and surrendered.

In doing so, you left everyone else to bear the consequences of your failure.

The reason Uchiha Raimon did not consider using Izanagi on the clan members after Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha departed was that the top combatants of both clans had already left the main battlefield. At that point, even if they had used Izanagi to save every single clan member, it would not have changed the overall situation in the slightest.

If Hashirama Senju won.

Given his overwhelming strength, even if the Uchiha clan had already wiped out the Senju clan, he could have single-handedly decimated the entire Uchiha clan by himself.

And if Madara Uchiha won.

Then, the Uchiha clan would have had no need to use Izanagi at all.

They could have simply exterminated the Senju clan directly.

After all, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had already reached a level of power that transcended the standard definition of a shinobi.

Even those at the level of clan heads could not exchange blows with them; they would be easily slaughtered with a casual strike.

Therefore, Uchiha Raimon naturally did not resort to this final trump card, choosing instead to keep it hidden.

Even if the entire Uchiha clan were to be wiped out, Izanagi could still be used to reverse the result of the clan's destruction.

Once the Senju clan believed they had won.

The members of the Uchiha clan would use the reality altered by Izanagi to take the clan into hiding and wait for the storm to pass.

No matter what.

The Uchiha clan would not perish.

It was a pity that, despite such a favorable situation and tactical strategy, Madara Uchiha acted as if he couldn't understand human speech. He had eyes only for Hashirama Senju, always charging forward alone.

He never cared about the lives of the others in his clan.

It was no wonder he was driven out of the Uchiha clan!

"After all, a Madara Uchiha who doesn't understand the human heart truly believed that without him, the Uchiha clan would perish. Relying on the thousand-year heritage of the Uchiha clan, if Hashirama Senju is indeed about to pass away, then the position of the Second Hokage is something our Uchiha clan might well be able to take for ourselves."

Uchiha Mine said with conviction.

"Hmm, not bad. For now, we just need to wait for the outcome of events. If nothing unexpected happens."

"Once this winter passes, we shall bear witness!"

Uchiha Raimon nodded, not doubting for a moment Uchiha Mine's claim about seizing the position of Hokage.

There was no other reason; once you set aside the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju, the Senju clan—even with a few experts remaining, led by Tobirama Senju—was not considered a threat by the Uchiha clan. Although Tobirama Senju had a sharp mind, in terms of true, raw power—the level of the Uchiha clan's top elders—there was no significant gap between the two sides.

Otherwise, Uchiha Raimon and the others would not have been planning to slowly exact their revenge on the Senju clan.

Speaking of these staunch allies standing by his side.

Uchiha Raimon often speculated about the trump cards they held.

Among them.

One must mention the current state of the Uchiha clan since the departure of their clan head, Madara Uchiha.

Now, the entire Uchiha clan was governed by the nine remaining main lineages, and the origins of these nine lineages were tied to an important cultural heritage of the Uchiha clan.

That was the awakening of the Sharingan.

As the Kekkei Genkai of the Uchiha clan, the Sharingan was regarded as the glory of the clan; only those family members who awakened the Sharingan were considered true members of the Uchiha.

The Sharingan possessed different levels: one-tomoe, two-tomoe, and three-tomoe. The one-tomoe Insight Eye could perceive an opponent's movements in advance during battle; the two-tomoe Copy Eye could peer into an enemy's Chakra flow and directly replicate all of their standard Ninjutsu; the three-tomoe Hypnotic Eye could directly cast and enhance Genjutsu.

Furthermore, each level increase of the Sharingan improved the user's vision, even reaching cellular-level precision, and was guaranteed to greatly enhance a Uchiha's overall talent, including their Chakra, strength, speed, and mental willpower.

Thus, with the added bonuses of the Sharingan, it was rumored that a Uchiha would always be able to escape a one-on-one encounter with an opponent of the same rank.

Moreover, the Sharingan was different from other Kekkei Genkai.

Compared to other Kekkei Genkai that also consumed Chakra, the Sharingan allowed the Uchiha clan's spirit to undergo a substantial elevation, giving rise to a new form of power.

That was Dojutsu Power.

Even without using Chakra, one could purely utilize Dojutsu Power to hypnotize an enemy or even inflict mental damage.

At the same time.

Dojutsu Power, as a variation of mental energy.

It is a product of the Yin Release within the Yin-Yang Release.

This incredible power.

Under a peculiar transformation, it allows the Kekkei Genkai of the Uchiha clan to advance further, awakening the power known as the Mangekyou Sharingan. This desire, stemming from the deepest reaches of the human heart, causes every individual who reaches the level of the Mangekyou Sharingan to derive their own unique Mangekyou ocular technique.

Furthermore.

Any member of the Uchiha clan.

Upon awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan, they would rapidly elevate their strength to the level of a clan head within a short period—or, in the current era of ninja villages, what is known as the Kage Level.

For those with particularly powerful Mangekyou abilities, they could even instantly kill opponents of the same rank.

Thus, every individual who awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan stood as a pinnacle figure of the Uchiha clan.

However, awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan was not easily accomplished, as it involved the issue of individual aptitude.

But the people of the Uchiha clan were very adept at drawing conclusions.

They managed to deduce a certain truth: the stronger the inherited bloodline, the higher the aptitude for awakening it. The descendants of those strong individuals who had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan possessed a higher probability of awakening the Sharingan themselves.

To ensure the Uchiha avoided inbreeding while preserving this Mangekyou bloodline, the clan devised a brilliant strategy: every powerhouse who awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan was encouraged to marry extensively, have children, and establish their own branch family, then arrange marriages between these different branches.

In this way, they achieved two goals at once.

These branch families were like brilliant pearls within the clan, never to be cast aside. Each branch represented a trickling stream of Mangekyou blood, flowing far and wide within the Uchiha clan as an indelible and powerful legacy.

Take Uchiha Raimon's own lineage, for example; it was a Mangekyou bloodline passed down for hundreds of years. It possessed not only an innate, superior bloodline inheritance but also an exceptional aptitude for awakening the Sharingan that surpassed others.

It also possessed the forbidden technique known as Izanagi.

This forbidden technique was originally a unique skill that could be used even with an ordinary Sharingan after the ancestor's Mangekyou Sharingan technique had been deciphered. Its power was self-evident; even though it required the sacrifice of a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, it was sufficiently heaven-defying.

Against this backdrop, the number of Uchiha clan members grew like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. With each Mangekyou Sharingan user establishing a branch to expand their numbers, it was like adding wings to a tiger, allowing them to break the long-standing numerical superiority of the Senju Clan and seize the upper hand.

This allowed the Uchiha clan to experience the thrill of winning with numbers for once, leading them to hold this policy in even higher regard.

Regrettably, in the thousand years of war, time passed like a white horse galloping past a crevice. The Uchiha clan should have had more than nine Mangekyou awakeners, yet in the end, only these nine bloodlines survived like rare phoenix feathers, with most perishing in the wars.

The remaining Mangekyou Sharingan holders mostly belonged to these original nine main branches, and naturally, no new main branches were established.

As for the original main branch of the Uchiha, it naturally possessed the Mangekyou bloodline, but unfortunately, most of its members disliked marriage and child-rearing. They preferred to cross blades with the Senju Clan, and over the course of a thousand years, their numbers became incredibly scarce.

After the death of Izuna Uchiha and the departure of Madara Uchiha, that line was considered completely finished.

"What a pity, truly a pity! If only the bloodline of the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan could have been passed down!"

Uchiha Raimon felt a sense of frustration. Even though he had suffered many headaches because of that unreasonable clan head, even now, he still could not understand what the man was thinking.

But even with the loss of Madara Uchiha's lineage, the other main branches still retained many of their own trump cards.

Regarding this, Uchiha Raimon never believed that his own family's Izanagi was the only one to have been deciphered; there must be other forbidden Sharingan techniques in existence.

Because in Uchiha Raimon's memory, an ancestor from the First Elder's lineage had once preserved their own pair of Mangekyou Sharingan and crafted them into special weapons.

They were special spiritual tools that could only be empowered by the Sharingan. Not only could they automatically identify the bloodline of the Uchiha clan, preventing other ninjas from laying hands on them, but they also possessed incredibly heaven-defying power. Even an ordinary ninja wielding these weapons could easily kill a Kage Level clan head.

These two weapons were the Totsuka Blade and the Yata Mirror.

The Totsuka Blade possessed incomparable destructive power and an indefensible sealing ability; once struck by it, the victim would be absorbed into an ultimate genjutsu composed entirely of dreams.

The Yata Mirror not only possessed an incredibly powerful defensive capability but could also reflect all ninjutsu and physical damage. With the Yata Mirror in hand, basically no ninja could break through its defense from the front.

Most importantly.

These two weapons could also be imbued into the eyes of the Mangekyou Sharingan, thereby allowing the Uchiha clan's ultimate power, Susanoo, to be further enhanced by two divine artifacts.

"If Madara Uchiha had possessed the Totsuka Blade and the Yata Mirror back then, perhaps the outcome would have been changed! It is just a pity that those two weapons disappeared in a battle a hundred years ago. Who knows where they went, otherwise..."

Uchiha Raimon suddenly spoke, testing the waters.

"Indeed! Who could say otherwise!"

Uchiha Mine also wore a look of helplessness, as if they were truly lost, his words devoid of the slightest hesitation.