"Every five years, the Blood Pool changes. If the names inside change, it proves that the previous Blood Pact user has died. Your previous Blood Pact user was your father..." Uchiha Ijichi looked at the Blood Pool, his eyes filled with nostalgia.
"Although I don't know where you obtained the Blood Pact, your father was the same back then. He returned home from somewhere and suddenly awakened this ability, then entered the Blood Pool to cultivate... Those days really were nostalgic." Uchiha Ijichi glanced at Uchiha Chiba and Minazuki Kokona behind him.
The previous Blood Pact user was the original owner's father?
That meant...
Was the skeleton in the cave the original owner's father?
Now, Chiba was even more interested in how Shimura Danzō had learned of the Blood Pact map.
"So why did you bring me here behind the other elders' backs? Is there some restriction?" Uchiha Chiba asked. So far, there seemed to be nothing unusual about this bargain-bin uncle of his. He didn't look like someone who would harm him. Perhaps this was the bloodline affinity within the original body.
Uchiha Ijichi crouched down and tapped the Blood Pool with his finger.
"This contains the mixed blood left behind by generations of Uchiha Clan experts who reached Kage Level or beyond. Heh, there's even a vial of my blood in here." Scarlet gradually crept up Ijichi's fingertips. He pulled his hand out, shook it, and continued, "If the other elders were here, they would never let you fully absorb the Blood Pool. Your father was the same back then. He could only absorb the blood aura from the side and had no way of going deep into the pool..."
Uchiha Ijichi glanced at the unruffled Uchiha Chiba and raised a brow. "Nothing you want to ask?"
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