"You're kidding. There's no comparison between us. Let me put it this way: the moment I see him, I can kill him instantly. That applies to everyone in the Ninja World! Under a Tsukuyomi with tens of millions of units of power, everyone is equal!" Uchiha Gen said arrogantly. He wasn't bragging. The ocular power in his eyes now was practically world-shattering!
Ever since his ocular power had surpassed ten million, Uchiha Gen hadn't dared use Susanoo at full strength. It wasn't because his body couldn't take it, nor was he worried about the cost. The main issue was that it made too much of a commotion!
A Susanoo taller than Mount Everest couldn't possibly go unnoticed unless you were blind! There'd be nowhere to hide!
As for why he didn't simply sweep across the Ninja World and unite it, despite having such power?
He'd considered that question himself. But strength was relative. Though he was very powerful now, it was only superficial strength. Once he ran out of ocular power, he'd be an ordinary Kage Level Uchiha who could go blind at any moment!
If he went to war in the Ninja World under those circumstances, his ocular power would be depleted before the fighting was even halfway over. By then, with the entire Ninja World aware of the threat posed by the Uchiha Clan, the clan would be attacked by everyone.
And that was assuming neither the Sage of Six Paths nor Otsutsuki Genji intervened! Truth-Seeking Orbs absolutely suppressed lower-level energy, after all. Uchiha Gen was strong, but his foundation was weak. He was all show and no substance!
Against weaker opponents, equals, or even those a little stronger than himself, Uchiha Gen could draw on the ocular power of the entire Uchiha Clan and combine it with a super-genjutsu like Tsukuyomi to kill his enemies instantly!
But if he encountered a Six Paths Level powerhouse who'd undergone a qualitative transformation, that was hard to say. All he could say was that with Izanagi, Uchiha Gen could remain undefeated.
There was a long road ahead, so he'd keep building his strength bit by bit! The question now was how to reach Six Paths Level. There were only a few ways in the original story: a Sage Body, a Sage Eye, descendants of Hamura or Raincoat, or becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. Of course, becoming Genji's vessel was an option too...
If he relied only on quantity, his own Mangekyo should've advanced to the Rinnegan long ago! The problem was that quantitative change wasn't leading to qualitative change. He was strong, but he really was all show and no substance!
The path to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was completely blocked because he had no siblings! Was he supposed to revive the original host's biological parents, have them produce another child, and then get that child to awaken the Mangekyo?
Just thinking about it made his scalp tingle. Rather than count on such an unlikely chain of events, he might as well hope the Sage of Six Paths would hand him a cheat!
Hmm???
At that thought, a sudden idea struck Uchiha Gen. Reviving the original host's parents and having them produce another child to awaken the Mangekyo was far too impractical. But reviving the original host himself? That might actually work!
He and the original host weren't the same person, nor did they share a soul. Though he'd read the original host's memories, his soul was still his own. The original host's soul should've returned to the Pure Land when he crossed over!
In other words, he could use his own hair to perform Impure World Reincarnation and summon the original host back! Good grief...
Under those conditions, if he then used Divine Grace Dojutsu to absorb the original host's ocular power, the two combined might allow him to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!
This wasn't wishful thinking on Uchiha Gen's part! The original story had made it clear that the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan required the Mangekyo of a blood relative to replenish it. Using his own eyes to replenish his own was obviously circular reasoning, and couldn't possibly work!
But he and the original Uchiha Gen weren't the same person! Everyone knew that chakra and the Mangekyo were inseparable from a person's constitution and spirit. Different people had different chakra and Mangekyo!
Though Chen Xuyuan and Uchiha Gen shared the same body, they had entirely different souls and minds. So the chakra produced by combining their mental energy with their cells, and the Mangekyo they awakened, were completely different!
In a sense, Chen Xuyuan and Uchiha Gen could even be considered a peculiar kind of twin brothers!
So this seemingly unreasonable self-stacking had a good chance of working!
As for whether the original host had awakened the Mangekyo before he died, Uchiha Gen was quite confident he had. Back then, the two souls had enhanced and advanced together. Since he'd awakened his, the original host must have awakened his too!
"Gen, what are you thinking about?" Pakura asked, catching up to Uchiha Gen as he walked along lost in thought and taking his arm.
Heh, older women really did have their advantages! Kurenai Yuhi couldn't compare in that regard!
"Nothing. I was just planning for our future. By the way, Pakura, would you like to get a Sharingan transplant to improve your strength?" She was his woman, after all. If she was too weak, others could exploit her as a weakness!
"Huh? A Sharingan transplant? Like Kakashi? No way!" Pakura was very opposed to transplants. She'd much rather develop her Scorch Release through steady effort!
Well, forget it. It was up to her. Pakura was considered strong in the early days of the Ninja World, but she wouldn't measure up later on. If she really couldn't accept a transplant, he'd just have to find her some other way to get stronger!
Spirit Transformation Technique seemed well suited to the people around him. Once he learned One's Own Life Reincarnation, even if they had an accident while training in Spirit Transformation Technique, he could bring them back to life immediately. That was what was great about the technique: it could be learned through this rather crude method! It had a high barrier to entry, but that made it perfect for people like him!
It looked like it was time to talk to Lord Snake!
Uchiha Clan Compound~
"This is where we'll live from now on? You really are loaded! No wonder the Uchiha Clan is the richest clan in the Ninja World!" Pakura exclaimed, gazing at the residence before them, which was even more luxurious than the Kazekage Mansion!
Everyone knew that Konoha was unquestionably the foremost shinobi village among the Five Great Nations. With the Land of Fire's prime location supporting it, Konohagakure was the most prosperous place in the Ninja World!
For the Uchiha Clan to own such a vast compound in an area this prosperous was something unimaginable in any other shinobi village!
Perhaps the reason Konoha wiped out the Uchiha Clan in the original story was for this very reason! As the two great clans present at Konoha's founding, the Senju and Uchiha had, without a doubt, occupied the village's most prosperous areas!
But as history progressed, Konoha went from a shabby little village to the brightest jewel in the Ninja World! It was fair to say that even the Land of Fire's capital at the time couldn't necessarily compare to Konoha!
The prosperous districts occupied by the Senju and Uchiha Clans had naturally become more valuable too. But because of First Senju Hashirama's policies, the Senju Clan's members had scattered, and the clan's compound and assets had all been distributed!
The only assets retained by the Senju main branch, combined with the Senju Clan's reputation, weren't enough to make people particularly envious! Much of Tsunade's gambling money came from them too! Without the Senju Clan's assets to support her, even taking missions every day wouldn't have been enough to cover Tsunade's gambling with luck like hers!
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