His cold gaze penetrated the darkness of the Naka River Underground Palace, as if he had seen the panicked appearance of the chess pieces on the chessboard.
Exterminate?
No, that's too rough and too cheap for them.
The real destruction is for them to kill their faith with their own hands and commit suicide in despair.
"Chiyo." Xuan's voice echoed in the underground palace, with a metallic texture.
"Here." The white-haired puppet master walked out of the shadows, his posture still upright.
"Calling up the system database, soul reverberation data No. 073 to 124." Xuan's command was concise and cold. "Those 'souvenirs' that I stripped off when I devoured Impure World Reincarnation in the early years should be put to use."
These data are exactly the soul memory fragments of the dozens of core elders in "Council of the Former Sages", and even their great-grandfathers.
They were all powerful in life, but after their death they were used as tools and desecrated by Orochimaru and his like. In the end, even the miserable remaining souls were drained of the last trace of value by Xuan's [Myriad Phenomena Devouring System].
Chiyo's weather-beaten eyes flashed with doubt, and she instantly understood Xuan's intention.
"Using the words of the dead to condemn the living? Sir, this is too cunning. There are many wise men in the council. Once it is discovered that it is a forgery..."
"Fake?" Xuan sneered and interrupted her.
He turned around slowly, and the scarlet Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was like a burning blood diamond in the darkness, breathtaking.
"No, this is not forgery, it is 'reduction'. I just 'restore' the will of their ancestors to them in a way that is most acceptable to them. Don't they believe in the laws of their ancestors the most and respect the reincarnation of blood the most? Then I will let them recognize their ancestors in the reincarnation hell they have built!"
Chiyo said nothing and just bowed deeply.
She understood that what Xuan wanted was not a simple intimidation, but a thorough psychological annihilation war launched from the foundation of belief.
Three days later, in the most remote and rugged mountains of Land of Lightning, the ancient shrine that was the secret base of "Council of the Former Sages" began to have unexplainable phenomena one after another.
At midnight, the ancient bronze bell that no one knocks will emit a dull and long Bell Resonance without warning. The sound waves seem to penetrate the bone marrow and hit the depths of the soul.
Immediately afterwards, on the thousand stone steps leading to the main hall of the shrine, a dark red liquid like blood will seep out of thin air, meandering under the moonlight, exuding a faint smell of rust.
Hidden Cloud Village, the rebellious ninja responsible for peripheral security, reported in panic, claiming that he had seen Third Raikage who was supposed to be sleeping underground more than once. The majestic mountain figure stood like a ghost on the top of the cliff opposite the shrine, staring silently across the deep valley.
This is not a true manifestation of the undead, but a masterpiece of Xuan.
He used [Myriad Phenomena Devouring System] to thoroughly analyze the wave templates of those soul reverberations, and then used Chiyo to order Baba and others to secretly bury the crystal core resonance array under the earth's veins in advance, and accurately and remotely projected these highly realistic "whispers of the undead" within a mile of the shrine in the form of spiritual shock waves.
Every night, there is only one motto, accompanied by a vision that rings in everyone's mind.
"We mistakenly believed in balance, which eventually led to the resumption of chaos..."
"How can we allow Xiaoxiao to tarnish the glory of Blood Succession..."
"Only Scarlet Eye can stop the killing today. Those who go against the flow will be punished by God..."
The voice was old, sad, full of endless regret and pain, and extremely contagious.
It seems that it does not come from the outside world, but awakens directly from the deepest blood memory in everyone's heart.
Within the parliament, the first crack finally appeared in the impregnable alliance.
A former high-level consultant from Hidden Leaf Village Root firmly believed that this was Uchiha Xuan's sorcery and a devious trick to shake the morale of the military. He sternly advocated giving up the stronghold immediately and moving all personnel.
However, the two Hidden Cloud Village elders who had lost all their children in Fourth Shinobi World War fell to their knees on the spot and burst into tears in the direction of the Third Raikage phantom.
They firmly believe that these are the souls of their relatives and ancestors who died in the war and cannot rest in peace. They are using their last strength to send a bloody warning to them!
In the parliament hall, there was a mixture of quarreling and crying.
Baba sent back real-time intelligence through the micro-puppet, with suggestions. "Sir, the enemy camp is in chaos and people are panicked. This is the best time to send puppet assassins to sneak in and assassinate the core members!"
"No." Xuan's reply only had two words, but it carried an undeniable dignity.
"I don't kill the peacemakers, I only kill the 'old era'."
What he wants is not just a few corpses, what he wants is the complete collapse of a corrupt idea.
He wants these people to act ugly and kill each other in front of the "wisdom of the sages" that he is most proud of.
He wanted the entire Shinobi World to see how the guardians of the "old era" were swallowed up by their own history.
On the seventh night, there was a rumbling wind, and the atmosphere in the shrine was extremely tense.
Xuan personally sits at the control core of the Naka River Underground Palace, and directly imprints a carefully synthesized memory image into the mind of every council member through the power amplification of the resonance array!
In the picture, First Hokage Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha stand side by side on the cliff of Valley of the End. Their backs are as majestic as gods.
In front of them, stood a group of vague elders dressed in ancient clothes.
Just listen to Hashirama Senju's voice as rich as a bell. "We have long-cherished aspiration to end the troubled times, but people's hearts are unpredictable and their greed is endless."
Immediately afterwards, Madara Uchiha's stern voice sounded, with the arrogance of looking down on the world. "If there are young people in the future who try to use our name to restore the disintegrated old system and shake the hard-won unity, someone with real destiny will come with Scarlet Eye to clean up the countercurrent on my behalf..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Madara Uchiha and Sharingan suddenly lit up on the screen, as if they were going to burn the whole world!
This video is a complete forgery and completely contradicts any historical record.
However, the images of First Hokage and Madara Uchiha are so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that their domineering spirit cannot be imitated at all.
Coupled with the terrifying foreshadowing of six consecutive nights of "Apparitions of the Dead", this forged "oracle" instantly became the straw that broke the camel's back.
At dawn, hundreds of mechanical crows built by Chakra Metal, with red light in their eyes, soared into the sky from the border of Land of Lightning and flew to the villages of Five Great Nations.
They looped and played this recorded image over and over again.
For a moment, Shinobi World was in an uproar.
Although the officials of major ninja villages immediately refuted the rumors, more than 30% of the lower class people and wandering ninjas began to talk about it in private, gradually believing that "Scarlet Eye is the orthodox continuation of First's will."
Inside the shrine, the dam of faith completely collapsed.
After witnessing this "oracle", the former consultant of Hidden Leaf Village acted like a madman. He angrily accused all his colleagues of being bewitched by sorcery and actually wanted to draw a knife and chop at the incense burner in the shrine that worships ancestors of all generations.
"A bunch of idiots! Are you going to be dragged into hell by false ghosts?!"
"Stop!" An elder from Sunagakure roared and stopped him, his eyes red, "How dare you cut off our connection with our ancestors?! You traitor who disrespects our ancestors!"
In the chaos, no one noticed that from the eyes of an inconspicuous stone Buddha in the corner of the hall, a poisonous needle thinner than a hair quietly shot out and pierced the back of the Hidden Sand Village elder's neck.
This is the final killing move of the puppet listening device that Chiyo had ordered Baba to disguise as a wandering monk and planted here a few months ago.
The venom is not fatal, but it can instantly induce strong, fear-based hallucinations in the human brain.
"Ah--!" The Hidden Sand Village veteran suddenly let out a shrill scream. He pointed at the Hidden Leaf Village consultant in front of him, with unprecedented horror on his face, "Your eyes! There is Scarlet Eye in your eyes! You are a spy sent by Uchiha Xuan!"
This scream was like a spark dropped in a powder keg.
Everyone looked in shock. Although there was no change in the Hidden Leaf Village consultant's eyes, they were unable to think normally due to extreme fear and suspicion.
The so-called "spy" accusation perfectly explains why the other party keeps trying to destroy everyone's "faith."
"It turns out to be you!"
"Kill him!"
"No! I think you look like a spy!"
Once the chain of suspicion is formed, it can never be stopped.
An Iwagakure elder subconsciously Hand Seals to protect himself, but his Hidden Mist Village companion mistakenly thought he was going to attack him, so he backhanded him with a Water Release.
In an instant, the shrine hall, which symbolized the last bastion of the "old order," turned into a living hell of flesh and blood.
The light of ninjutsu flashed crazily, and the former allies were now using the most vicious moves to attack each other mercilessly.
Two days later, when Scarlet Eye Guard's advance troops arrived, the entire shrine was in ruins.
Twelve corpses lay across it, their deaths were miserable, and most of them died under each other's ninjutsu.
The only survivor is an elder Hidden Sound Village who is blind and has long since retired.
When he was found, he was huddled under the collapsed beams, shaking all over and having a complete mental breakdown.
After being captured and brought back to the Naka River Underground Palace, facing Xuan's interrogation, he just kept mumbling to himself. "It wasn't us... it wasn't us who fought... it was the past... it was the past... it came back..."
Xuan Jing listened quietly, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth.
He waved his hand and ordered, "Clean him up and send him to 'Scarlet Eye Academy' as a living teaching material specimen. Let him publicly tell the young people of the new era how the 'old order' devoured itself in its own ignorance and suspicion."
Immediately, he looked at the genjutsu ninja aside and added, "In addition, implant a new memory in his mind: tell him that it was him who ended all this with his own hands after seeing clearly the corruption of the parliament."
That night, in the deepest part of the Naka River Underground Palace, a red crystal fire burned blazingly.
Xuan threw all the original data chips that stored "Whispers of the Dead" into the flames one by one, letting them turn into ashes.
"History doesn't need evidence," he whispered to the dancing flames, "It just needs a widely believed version."
The light of the flames reflected in his scarlet left eye.
Deep in that eye, a incomplete reincarnation pattern composed of six Tomoe was slowly rotating under the burning flames, as if it was going to burn out time itself.
This carefully planned drama came to an end, and it perfectly verified Xuan's idea: It is much easier to control the minds of a group of living people than the souls of a group of dead people.
The flame gradually extinguished, swallowing up the last data chip.
Dead silence returned to the depths of the underground palace, leaving only his lonely figure.
This psychological war against "Council of the Former Sages", this little game that rewrote the memories of nearly a hundred ninjas, from beginning to end, was just a rehearsal to verify his power.
Xuan's eyes moved away from the gradually cooling ashes and slowly lowered their eyes, as if they could penetrate the thick rock formations under their feet and look at the deeper and older darkness beneath this Uchiha Clan Compound.
Tampering with the memories of dozens of people and erasing the voices of an era is ultimately just a technique.
And if you want to truly dominate this world, you must get in touch with the "reason" at the bottom of the world that is covered up by First Hokage and dusted by Sage of Six Paths.
His breath did not fluctuate at all, but the air in the entire underground palace seemed to be frozen.
"Chiyo," he said calmly into the empty darkness, "Open the door at the bottom."