The End of the Hyuga Main Family (Part One)

"My lord..." Xue Tahai could not help speaking up. "Those women and children..."

Qin Mo's gaze swept over her like an icy blade. "Women and children? Spare one infant in swaddling clothes today, and tomorrow he'll be the seed of hatred carved into the bone.

The Hyuga Main Family must be completely severed at the bloodline.

Carry out the order, or do you want to take their place?"

An invisible, terrifying pressure born from the Mangekyo Sharingan descended in an instant.

It shook Xue Tahai and Hozuki Dark Moon to the core, and cold sweat instantly soaked their backs.

"As you command!" The two no longer hesitated in the slightest and immediately barked harsh orders to their respective clansmen. "Move! Kill every member of the Hyuga Main Family without exception!"

In an instant, the ninjas of the Hozuki Clan slipped silently into the shadows of the buildings on the left side of the clan grounds.

The Snow Clan swept toward the residential district on the right like a white ice storm.

Shrill, brief screams began to ring out here and there, then quickly grew dense, like chickens and ducks having their necks wrung.

The once peaceful and harmonious clan grounds were instantly drowned in the pungent stench of blood and the terrified sounds of weeping and wailing.

As if nothing had happened, Qin Mo said calmly to Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Yan behind him, who stood like two guardian deities, "Let's go. Time to meet the ones in charge."

Qin Mo, Jin, and Yan set foot on the main road leading to the core area of the Hyuga Main Family as if taking a leisurely stroll through a courtyard.

Beneath their feet was a carefully laid flagstone path. On both sides had once stood courtyards and towers that symbolized the prosperity and nobility of the main family.

Now, however, the air was thick with a heavy reek of blood that would not disperse.

Shrill screams and brief clashes of weapons continued to come from the distance.

The three of them seemed utterly detached, their eyes cold as they swept over the scenes along the way.

Soon, the vermilion gate symbolizing the supreme authority of the Hyuga Main Family appeared at the end of their vision.

The gate was heavy, made from precious timber, carved with an elegant white crane totem spreading its wings as if about to take flight. It was the symbol of the purity and nobility of the main family bloodline.

Qin Mo stopped before the gate. Jin and Yan stood to either side like two silent gods of slaughter.

Qin Mo did not even spare those exquisite carvings another glance. Facing the tightly shut gate, he infused his voice with chakra, loud enough to pierce through layer upon layer of courtyards, and roared clearly and coldly:

"Useless trash of the Hyuga Main Family, get out here and die!"

His voice was like a thunderclap, instantly shattering the last trace of false tranquility in the core area of the Hyuga Main Family!

"Woo—woo—woo—!!!"

Only then did the shrill, ear-piercing alarm whistles awaken, howling mournfully across the entire clan grounds.

"Enemy attack—!!!"

"Uchiha! The Uchiha lunatics have broken in!!!"

"Everyone! Gather at the clan gate! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!!!"

Panicked shouts and chaotic footsteps surged from every corner of the core area like a tide.

The core members of the Hyuga Main Family, who had just been startled awake from drunken stupor or warm dreams, still had blankness, shock, and disbelief on their faces.

"What's going on? Where did these enemies come from?"

"Damn it! Where are those slave bastards from the branch family? What are they even for? They actually let the enemy reach the core area!"

"Once we beat back these Uchiha scum, we'll make those branch family failures taste the most painful side of the Caged Bird! We'll let them understand what it means to wish they were dead!"

"What? Only three people? Have the Uchiha lost their minds?"

When these pampered main family members saw the three lone figures before the gate, aside from fear and shock, what they felt even more was an absurd fury at being offended.

Especially the black-haired youth in the lead, whose face was far too young.

"Uchiha brat!" A burly main family elder in a luxurious silk sleeping robe pushed through the crowd and rushed to the front.

He was clearly of no low status. Pointing at Qin Mo, he burst into furious curses. "Have you eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's gall?

How dare you come to our Hyuga Clan's territory to run wild?

You things that don't know life from death, today you'll never leave here alive!

Where did those branch family whelps go? Why haven't they crawled out to protect—ugh..."

"Noisy." Uchiha Yan's scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan had, at some point, quietly transformed into a bewitching Mangekyo Sharingan with three sickle-shaped marks, locking coldly onto him.

Immediately after, chakra like tangible flame rapidly condensed and stretched before him, forming a giant, ferocious chakra bow that radiated an aura of destruction!

An arrow formed from highly condensed chakra, its surface blazing with roaring flames, took shape in an instant. The bow was drawn like a full moon!

"Whoosh—!!!"

An ear-piercing scream tore through the air! The flaming arrow turned into a streak of deathly light, so fast that even the Byakugan could barely catch its full trajectory!

"Pfft—!"

A dull sound of penetration rang out.

The burly elder's life was utterly severed.

The arrow's terrifying kinetic force did not stop. Carrying his broken, still-burning massive body, it sent him flying backward like a rag doll smashed by a giant hammer!

"Boom!!!"

The elder's body was nailed hard to the ancient stone monument at the back of the square, the one that symbolized the supreme glory of the Hyuga Main Family!

The immense impact left cracks across the stone monument!

A suffocating dead silence instantly blanketed the entire square!

"Gulp..." Someone swallowed with difficulty, the sound exceptionally clear in the dead silence.

"This is... too terrifying..." A young main family disciple collapsed to the ground, his crotch instantly soaked.

Qin Mo took one step forward. His voice was not loud, yet it clearly entered the ears of every main family member trembling in fear. "Who else!!!"

After the brief dead silence came utter madness!

"Fight them!!"

"For the glory of the Hyuga Clan!"

"Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms!"

"Gentle Fist: Air Palm Barrage!"

Extreme fear gave birth to extreme madness!

The remaining twenty-odd elite jonin of the Hyuga Main Family were like beasts forced into a desperate corner, erupting with the full strength of their lives!

They no longer held anything back, unleashing the essence of the Gentle Fist to its limit. Pale-blue chakra palm shadows rained down like a violent storm, bombarding the three standing before the gate from every direction!

The dense sounds of air being torn apart were shrill and piercing, and the fierce palm winds even sent the flagstones on the ground flying!

Dozens of chakra shock waves powerful enough to split stone monuments and shatter rock instantly engulfed the spot where Qin Mo, Jin, and Yan stood!

Dust and shattered stone shot into the sky, blocking all sight.

"They hit!"

"They got them!"

Several young main family disciples saw this scene, and a sickly glimmer of hope lit in their eyes, as if they had grasped the final straw.

However, the dust had yet to disperse.

"Bzz—"

Two chakra pillars, utterly different yet equally soul-shuddering, erupted with a boom!

On the left was an emerald green as deep as a forest!

Uchiha Jin's Susanoo instantly rose from the ground, transforming into a half-bodied giant in skeletal form!