The establishment of the New Hall does not declare peace, but indicates the forced opening of a new era.
That night, a decree, known by later generations as <Newborn Edict>, was issued from the New Hall, like an invisible cold wind, instantly sweeping across the vast tax area with the Naka River as its core.
The content of the decree is shockingly simple: From now on, all families belonging to the Scarlet Eye Country tax area must have their newborns brought to Naka River Cathedral by their parents in person on the day of the full moon to receive the "naming ceremony" from the supreme lord Uchiha Xuan.
The most critical and the most uproar is that the first character of all given names must be "Xuan".
Xuan Ming, Xuan Ye, Xuan Ying... Regardless of male or female, regardless of origin, their first identity mark will no longer come from the surname passed down by blood, but from the absolute ruler sitting in the temple.
Corresponding to this is severe punishment.
Those who refuse to accept the name conferment will have their family listed as an "abandoned family". Not only will they be deprived of all benefits and shelter in Scarlet Eye Country, their parents will be branded with shame and will not be allowed to step into the church area for life.
"Sir, is this move too radical?" In the New Hall's chamber, Chiyo Saori frowned as he looked at the final draft of the edict.
She was not questioning Xuan's authority, but from a manager's perspective, she sensed the huge risk of backlash.
"A surname is the last spiritual bastion of a family or an ethnic group. Forced deprivation is tantamount to challenging the most stubborn traditions deep in everyone's heart. This has a wider impact and is more direct than the secret purge of those wealthy old clans by 'Severed Roots Plan'."
Xuan's back was turned to her, standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the steel city below that had risen from the ground under his will.
The lights of the city were like crawling stars, reflected in his pair of ancient and unwavering Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
"You're right." He suddenly spoke, his voice so calm and without a trace of ripples, "The surname is their last fortress of resistance."
He slowly turned around, his eyes fell on Chiyo Saori's slightly worried face, and the corners of his mouth raised a cold arc.
"So, I want to turn this into the first lesson of loyalty. I want every child born on this land to know who is their true 'origin' from the moment they hear their name. I want the word 'Xuan' to become a deeper instinctive imprint than the call of parents or the bond of blood."
Chiyo Saori's heart trembled as she read the unquestionable determination in Xuan's eyes.
This is no longer a political maneuver, but an almost divine reshaping of the definition of civilization.
The first naming ceremony was held as scheduled one month later.
God was not kind to us, and the rain poured down in torrents.
Under the gloomy sky, the high platform of Naka River Cathedral looks more solemn and solemn.
Thirty-six babies wrapped in thick swaddling clothes, held by their complicated-looking parents, lined up in a long line in the pouring rain.
On the high platform, Uchiha Xuan sat on a throne made of obsidian, with an indifferent expression.
Above his head, the Bipolar Crystal Core, which combines the core of Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the fragments of Divine Tree, is slowly floating. The silver ring halos flicker like breathing, which is a sign that his unique "Silver-Ring Eye" is ready to go.
Thousands of people were watching, holding simple oil-paper umbrellas or wearing raincoats, watching the scene in silence.
The air was filled with the dampness and coldness of rain and an indescribable depression.
"The ceremony begins."
As the attendants sang loudly, the first parents held their children in their arms and tremblingly Earth Flow climbed up to the high platform and knelt down ten steps away from the throne.
Xuan didn't get up or even touch the baby.
He just opened his pair of Silver-Ring Eye slightly.
Buzz--
A spiritual ripple invisible to the naked eye, centered on him, spread out as gently as water waves, accurately sweeping over the thirty-six babies on the high platform.
The next moment, a miracle happened.
All the crying, sleeping, and restless babies fell silent at the same moment.
They opened their eyes in unison, and in the depths of their clear and ignorant pupils, a very faint red streak briefly appeared, and then quickly disappeared, returning to the original state.
"Look! The child's eyes!"
"It's the power of Master Scarlet Eye! This is... the bloodline Grace!"
The crowd in the audience burst into suppressed exclamations.
They cannot understand the profound principles and can only attribute it to miracles.
In their eyes, it was as if their children were accepted and integrated into the bloodline of that supreme being.
Xuan's eyes swept over the babies one by one, and he spoke indifferently. His voice was not loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.
"Your name is Xuan Shuo."
"Your name is Xuan Lan."
"Your name is Xuan Jing."
The ceremony seems to go smoothly, but the real challenges always come at the most unexpected moments.
When it was the turn of the twenty-seventh family, an old woman with gray hair supported her son and daughter-in-law, but held them tightly before kneeling down to worship.
She was holding a pink and jade-carved baby boy in her arms. At this moment, she screamed with all her strength, and her voice sounded particularly sad in the rain:
"We Kazama Family, our ancestors have been named Feng for eighteen generations! Why should we change our surname? This is an act of digging up the ancestral graves to remove the roots, and we won't follow it!"
The atmosphere instantly solidified.
The guard captain Baba Tesshin's face darkened, and he was about to step forward and take this "stubborn" old woman away by force, but Xuan raised his hand and stopped him.
Everyone's eyes are focused on the throne.
They wanted to see how this iron-blooded lord would deal with this first blatant disobedient.
Xuan slowly stood up from the throne and walked down the high platform step by step.
The cold raindrops hit his black robe, but it seemed to be separated by an invisible barrier and could not get even the slightest bit wet.
He walked up to the old woman, not looking at her, but staring down at the baby in her arms.
The baby seemed to feel something and stopped crying. He opened his big dark eyes and looked at Xuan curiously.
The old woman was shocked by the physical oppression on Xuan's body. Her body was shaking constantly, but she still hugged her grandson tightly, her eyes full of determination.
Xuan was silent for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his finger and lightly touched the baby's smooth forehead.
"You're fine." He said, without a hint of joy or anger in his tone, "From now on, your name is Xuan Mo."
The moment he finished speaking, the baby named Xuan Mo opened his toothless mouth and showed a pure and innocent smile to Xuan. He let out a gurgling laugh in his throat, as if he understood the name and felt extremely happy about it.
This smile was like a heavy hammer, hitting the old woman's heart hard.
Her whole body was shaken violently, and the determination and anger on her face instantly collapsed.
Tears mixed with rain rolled down her wrinkled cheeks.
She remembered, she remembered too well... this smile, this unguarded and heartfelt smile in front of strangers, was exactly the same as her son who died in the war and who also loved to smile in his infancy.
The crowd around him was also stunned, and the whispers sounded again, this time, full of awe and fear.
"A miracle... this is definitely a miracle!"
"The kid... the kid approved of the name!"
The old woman's legs gave way and she completely fell to her knees in the muddy water. The baby in her arms was still smiling at Xuan.
Her resistance, at this moment, was completely defeated by an emotion that she could not understand but was extremely familiar with.
That night, Chiyo Saori received a detailed report submitted by Baba Tesshin, which focused on the "Xuan Mo" incident.
Her face became more solemn than ever.
After a night of analysis and exploration of the energy residue at the scene, she came to a conclusion that made her shudder.
At the moment when Xuan gave the name, he did not simply announce a name.
With the unpredictable Divine Seed fluctuations, he simultaneously implanted a very shallow emotional anchor point in the deepest part of each baby's subconscious - allowing these newborn souls to have an instinctive and absolute sense of closeness and security to the pronunciation of the word "Xuan".
What's even more frightening is that this impact is not one-way.
It can be passed back through the mysterious bond between mother and baby.
When the mother calls her child's new name over and over again, the child's pleasure will be weakly fed back to the mother, allowing the mother to subconsciously receive a slight, positive emotional stimulus, thus unknowingly accelerating her acceptance and identification with this new reality.
This is a silent domestication that starts from the very source of life.
In the next three months, more than 800 newborns were given names.
Folk rumors about "calling the word 'Xuan' can avoid disasters" and "those who are given the name are all of Scarlet Eye bloodline" are becoming more and more popular.
There are even many villages that have not yet officially surrendered, secretly sending people to pretend to be residents of the tax area, just so that their children can get a name starting with the character "Xuan".
Chiyo After learning about it, she wanted to order a strict investigation, but Xuan stopped her.
"No need." There was a hint of playfulness in his voice, "Since they want to come, let them come. Mix in my special talisman paper in the register."
That kind of talisman contains microscopic Divine Tree spores.
Wearing or contacting it for a long time will cause the brain to produce a dependent pleasure when people perform "submissive behavior".
"The cage has been built and the door is open." Xuan said to Baba Tesshin, "It is much more interesting to let them rush in Earth Flow by themselves than for us to catch them one by one."
Late at night, Uchiha Sacred Land's deepest underground palace.
Xuan sat alone in nothingness.
In front of him, there was a huge dynamic population map composed of chakra suspended.
On the map, the red dots of new babies are constantly lighting up, representing those children who have been given names.
Countless thin blue lines extend from the red dots, connecting their home networks.
At the edge of the map, a few stubborn gray spots are the "stubborn areas of surnames" that have not yet been covered.
His fingertips lightly passed over and clicked on one of the nodes specially marked by the system as "Uchiha Clan Remnant Party Village".
He whispered to himself, his voice echoing in the underground palace, with a hint of a cold smile, "Your children will no longer call you father or mother..."
"They will only remember who gave them the name."
The moment the voice fell, the entire huge dynamic map suddenly glowed with a strange red light, as if hundreds of new souls were awakened in the darkness at the same time, crossing the distant space, shouting in unison -
"Xuan..."
The whispers became louder and louder, gathering into an invisible torrent that seemed to drown the entire world.
However, at the moment when this red light reached its peak, the light points represented by the thirty-seven annexed villages in the Naka River river basin that were the first to complete the naming ceremony began to shine with an extremely abnormal and deep blue light, which was incompatible with the surrounding red.