The moment the command was given, a dull thunderous roar came from the depths of the Naka River Underground Palace.
That is not ninjutsu, but a pure machine technique that has been forgotten by time.
The gears meshed, the stone walls gave way, and a tunnel that had been sealed in dust for centuries slowly opened its bloody mouth in the darkness.
The air is filled with a unique smell mixed with rock dust and decay, as if even time itself has solidified and decayed here.
The figure of Chiyo slipped out of the shadows like a ghost. She knelt on one knee and said in a calm voice, "Sir, 'Origin Stele Chamber' has been turned on."
Xuan stepped in, the stone slabs under his feet were cold and hard.
At the end, in the center of a heart-stoppingly empty stone room, stood a broken stone tablet.
It is older than any known Uchiha Clan relic. The body of the monument is full of cracks, like a giant dismembered by time.
The faintly visible carvings on it have long lost all identifiable details over thousands of years of weathering, and have become a ruthless mockery of history.
This is the real "origin" of the Uchiha Clan, a forbidden place that even the patriarch keeps secret.
Xuan Jing stared at this wordless monument quietly, and the looming Divine Seed between the eyebrows began to emit a faint light that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.
In the depths of his spiritual ocean, countless Uchiha Clan ancestor gene memory fragments that had been forcibly swallowed and fused were being forcibly activated, arranged, and reorganized by this force.
It was a torrent of information that was huge enough to burst the brain of any Kage Level strong person, but at this moment, he was controlling it like an arm and a finger.
A brand-new, logically perfect and self-consistent "ethnic creation epic" was rapidly being generated in his mind.
"Uchiha Clan was not born in this narrow land." His voice echoed in the empty stone chamber, as if he was announcing to the ancient tablet and to the dead souls of the entire Uchiha Clan, "Our ancestors once served Rabbit Goddess Kaguya Otsutsuki is the strongest personal guard under her command--'Scarlet Eye Guard'."
He paused, and the scarlet light Eternal Mangekyō flashed through his eyes, with a depth that traced back to eternity.
"But the rule of Kaguya is synonymous with tyranny and bloodshed. Our Progenitor, whose name is 'Xuan', could not bear the suffering of the people and led his guards to rebel. He used his own pair of Scarlet Eye as a sacrifice, activated the forbidden technique, and successfully sealed the After printing part of the overflowing divine power of Kaguya, we have Kekkei Genkai, which has been passed down by our family for thousands of years. Since then, the bloodline has made an oath - to wait for 'the day Scarlet Eye reappears', which is when our family regains its glory and settles old grudges!"
These words, grand and tragic, full of the spirit of resistance and sacrifice, are enough to make the blood of any exiled Uchiha Clan tribesman boil.
For the first time, some doubts appeared on Chiyo's expressionless face. "Sir, this move is extremely risky. The Uchiha Clan remnants are all over Shinobi World, and many of them are scholars who are proficient in ancient Chinese. Once they conduct research, they will find any contradiction with the secrets that have been circulated among the clan..."
"They can't verify it." Xuan Danran interrupted her, with absolute confidence and a hint of cold ridicule in her tone, "Because the real historical data, as early as Warring States Era, were burned to death by the hands of those short-sighted patriarchs who only wanted to live in a corner. They are afraid of the truth and afraid that the tribe will remember their true mission."
He turned around and ordered, "Use gold powder to re-engrave what I just said on the stone tablet in the oldest Uchiha Clan sacrificial style. Remember, in the ninth and thirty-third sections of the inscription, several unexplained 'unknown symbols' were deliberately left. Mystery is the best catalyst for faith."
A few days later, when the "revived" broken stone tablet was relocated, Xuan's order spread throughout the Shinobi World underground world, "Naka Shrine, Progenitor monument has reappeared! The secret of the inscription can only be interpreted by Scarlet Eye!"
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
This news was like a thunder, exploding in the hearts of all Uchiha Clan exiles.
They were like abandoned lone wolves, licking their wounds in the dark corners of Shinobi World, but now they suddenly heard the call from the ancient wolf king.
The first to react were several ninja teams who claimed to be the "legitimate descendants of the Uchiha Clan".
They are either branches of the Main Family or descendants of elders, and they still retain the arrogance of the past in their bones.
They roared "false gods" and "usurpers" and rushed towards Naka Shrine in an aggressive attempt to expose this "scam" with violence.
However, they didn't even get close to the shrine's gate.
What greeted them were hundreds of puppet troops.
These puppets move quickly and cooperate tacitly. Their attacks only target joints and vital points, accurately removing their combat power without harming their lives.
The intruders were easily subdued and "politely" sent to an open area outside the shrine.
Xuan neither killed them nor let them go.
He ordered that these people be allowed to set up observation camps outside.
What is even more puzzling is that every morning, a puppet will send a "Progenitor Monument Interpretation Progress Report" on time.
These briefings were written in a serious manner, containing half-truths and half-falsities, and were full of highly misleading hints.
"... The structure of the ninth rune is highly similar to the star arrangement in the 'Naka River Moon Festival' ceremony recorded in ancient books..."
"... the direction and arc of the third main crack on the stone tablet are surprisingly consistent with the legendary Eternal Mangekyō pupil pattern..."
"... the pronunciation of the seventeenth character seems to point to 'sealing' and 'sacrifice'..."
Baba stood behind Xuan, looking at the distant scene of the Uchiha Clan tribesmen in the camp arguing around a briefing, and finally couldn't help but say, "Master Xuan, why do you go to such trouble to induce them? With your current power, you can directly declare that you are Progenitor, and they will have no choice but to surrender."
Xuan's eyes did not leave the star path map projected on the dome of the underground palace, which was the universe model he deduced based on the system.
He calmly replied, "Baba, faith gained through coercion and violence is like a castle on the beach. It only takes one question to collapse. What I want is not a group of slaves who fear me, but a group of believers who fanatically believe that I am their hope."
He stretched out a finger and clicked on a certain node on the star path map. "I want them to 'discover' that I am their ancestor. When human beings face ambiguous information, they will subconsciously fill in the blanks with the beliefs they most desire in their hearts. And what do these exiled tribesmen lack most?"
Baba suddenly realized. "A sense of belonging... and a reason enough to make them proud again."
"That's right." Xuan's lips curved up, "What I gave them was not an order, but an answer. An answer they found themselves and believed in."
This psychological war lasted for half a month.
Finally, an old Uchiha Clan scholar who had served as a senior researcher in the Hidden Leaf Village archives risked being killed on the spot and used the stealth skills he had learned throughout his life to successfully sneak into the outskirts of the underground palace and secretly photographed the complete rubbings of the stone tablet with a special micro-scroll camera.
When he fled back to the camp with this extremely precious information, the entire camp was in a state of excitement.
Dozens of heads gathered together to compare the rubbings one by one with the scattered and incomplete formulas passed down by their respective families.
At first it was confusion, then shock, and finally it turned into incredible ecstasy.
"That's right! It's this symbol! My grandfather drew it for me before he died. This is the long-lost 'Eye Oath Curse' starting move!"
"And here! This shape is exactly the same as the last mark of 'Blood Contract' recorded in our family!"
"Oh my god... the legends are all true... the prophecy of Progenitor, the reappearance of Scarlet Eye..."
That night, a blazing bonfire was lit in the camp.
Those Uchi. Bo tribesmen, with solemn and fanatical expressions, threw the old things they carried with them, printed with the Uchiha Gunbai tribe emblem, into the fire one by one.
Gunbai, represents the past, represents the destroyed Hidden Leaf Village Uchiha Clan.
After the flames were extinguished, they mixed ashes with blood and drew a brand new pattern on the new flag - a scarlet Scarlet Eye flowing with sacred light.
Early the next morning, a copy of <Return-to-Ancestor Petition> signed by all the Uchiha Clan clan members in the camp was respectfully placed in front of Naka Shrine's door.
They call themselves "lost lambs", ask for forgiveness from "Progenitor Xuan", and hope to be included in the New Hall's system and dedicate everything to "the glory of Scarlet Eye".
However, after Xuan received the blood letter, he threw it aside without even looking at it.
He didn't give any response, as if the fanaticism of the group had nothing to do with him.
He just calmly issued a new order to Chiyo beside him.
That night, Chiyo personally took action and quietly moved the piece of Origin Stele that was engraved with the "new epic" from the underground palace.
What replaced it was a completely fake one - a replica carved from high-density Tailed Beast Bomb energy crystals. It exuded more powerful chakra fluctuations than the real thing, enough to look like the real one.
And the real broken stone slab that carried the big lie was embedded in the foundation of another huge project.
That is the soon-to-be-completed "Scarlet Eye Cathedral", a majestic building large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of believers for worship.
The real stone tablet, together with the other 300 crystals that seal the memories of the defeated, will be buried forever under the temple and become a place where thousands of people can step.
"What they worship is not stones," Xuan stood in the secret room, looking at the busy believers on the temple construction site through the one-way crystal, and whispered to himself, "What they worship is the illusion that they want to believe."
The moment the voice fell, the world changed.
In the night sky above Naka Shrine, the originally rolling dark clouds began to rotate and gather at high speed. Finally, thousands of feet high in the sky, they suddenly condensed into a huge Eternal Mangekyō pattern!
In the center of the pattern, an ancient rune that looked like eyes dripping with blood flashed past, and lasted for three breaths before slowly dissipating.
The terrifying coercion coming from heaven and earth, which seemed to recognize the legitimacy of this scam, made all the powerful people in Fire Country look at it with suspicion.
Xuan slowly raised his head and looked at the sky where the vision had disappeared, his eyes unwavering.
Everything is calculated.
At this moment, a Anbu member in charge of intelligence suddenly appeared behind him, kneeling on one knee, his voice was urgent, with a trace of shock and confusion that could not be concealed.
"Master Xuan!" He almost rushed to speak, as if he was afraid of being delayed for a second, "Fire Country The southern border... there was an urgent information that passed through all conventional channels, about a place..."
Anbu member paused, seeming to be looking for the right words to describe the information he saw.
"... an ancient relic of... the Uchiha Clan clan that has never been recorded on any known scroll."