In the cellar, the air is distorted by the high temperature.
The flames are greedily devouring the pile of books that were once regarded as the cornerstone of the empire.
The paper curled and blackened in the flames, turning into ashes flying all over the sky, like a black funeral for a magnificent epic.
Chiyo Saori, Baba Tesshin, and all the senior officials of the empire were all staring at the back of the man on the throne as if they had been cast a restraining spell.
Their thoughts were shocked by the words just now, leaving only instinctive awe and trembling.
An empire that needs no tears.
How cold, yet so... desirable and domineering.
Only absolute power would dare to say such words that despise emotions.
Uchiha Xuan stood still, the silver Rinnegan reflected the blazing Kakkō, and his eyes were colder than the ice deep in the cellar.
He seemed to be admiring the destruction directed by himself, and seemed to be waiting for something.
That subtle feeling of unbalanced heartbeat was like an invisible thorn piercing into the soul realm that he had perfect control over.
He knew that what Ling heard was more than just "Future Lament" caused by a logical loophole in the code.
It was a kind of older, deeper... "noise" that was even parasitic in his body and even the source of the entire Uchiha Clan bloodline.
The "absolute rationality" of the first edition of <Scarlet Eye Canon> has unintentionally become the perfect breeding ground and amplifier for this "noise".
Burning it is to force out the ghost hidden in the notes.
Suddenly, a sudden change occurred!
"No! Master Xuan, look at those ashes!" Baba Tesshin was the first to exclaim. His burly body tensed subconsciously, and his muscles were taut, like a beast ready to kill at any time.
I saw that the ashes that should have risen with the heat wave and scattered in all directions seemed to be grabbed by an invisible big hand, stagnating, rotating, and converging strangely in mid-air!
They are no longer meaningless dust, but are rearranged and combined in a way that violates the laws of physics.
"Buzz--"
A sharp buzzing sounded in the air, like countless invisible cicadas chirping in my ears.
On top of the pieces of ashes, a little scarlet light appeared!
The light was extremely thin, but it revealed an ominous evil nature, like a bloody thread seeping out from the depths of hell.
Under the outline of the light, twisted, archaic, and weird wedge-shaped characters "crawled" out of the ashes!
These characters are not any known writing, and their strokes are full of sharp edges and disturbing spirals, making people dizzy and disgusted just by looking at them.
Chiyo Saori's face turned pale instantly, and she exclaimed, "This... this is the inscription on the 'Forbidden Stone Wall' at the deepest part of Naka River Shrine!"
As Uchiha Xuan's top think tank, she was ordered to study all ancient ruins related to the Uchiha Clan within the empire.
The inscriptions on that stone wall, which was classified as top secret, contained some powerful spiritual pollution, and no one was allowed to try to decipher it.
She never dreamed that these "curses" sealed deep in the oldest ruins would actually come back to life at this moment through the ashes of <Scarlet Eye Canon>!
"Everyone, turn off your mental perception! Back away!" Chiyo Saori shouted sharply, and at the same time Hand Seals used both hands, a layer of lavender chakra shield instantly enveloped her and Xuan.
However, it's too late.
The person closest to the fire, "Executors," his eyes instantly became dull.
He suddenly reached out and grabbed his own throat, with an expression of extreme fear and pain on his face, and a strange "gurgling" sound came from his throat.
"Save... save me... my... my face... it's lying..."
His words were fragmented, and his other hand uncontrollably pulled out the short knife from his waist, and slashed hard towards his face!
Blood spurts!
This weird scene made everyone's hair stand on end.
Those bloody characters crawling out of the ashes seemed to come to life.
They were like a group of bloodthirsty gnats, screaming and swooping towards the eyebrows of everyone present!
They are not physical attacks, but "information infection" that directly targets the soul and memory!
"They're biting!" Baba Tesshin roared, waving his arms to try to scatter the characters, but his palms penetrated directly and had no effect.
He only felt a cold malice penetrate into his mind along his gaze, and countless chaotic and contradictory thoughts began to breed crazily.
"Loyalty is betrayal!"
"Order is destruction!"
"To live is to die!"
These logic bombs that confuse right and wrong are detonating crazily in his rock-solid will.
This is the backlash of the "stone wall inscription"!
It itself is a kind of "Thought Imprint" with strict logic but completely contrary to reality.
When Uchiha Xuan wrote the code with "absolute rationality", he inadvertently touched this ancient resonance.
Burning the code completely activates this sleeping "memory pollution source"!
In the cellar, it fell into a chaotic hell on a spiritual level.
At this moment, Uchiha Xuan, who had been silent, finally moved.
He did not retreat, but took a step forward, directly facing the "word storm" composed of bloody characters.
"A group of miserable bugs living in failed logic dare to make noise in front of me?"
His voice was not high, but it carried an absolute majesty that could freeze the soul.
The silver Rinnegan shines brightly, and within the field of vision, the entire world is instantly deconstructed.
Those bloody characters are no longer symbols, but pieces of "soul coding" containing malicious and twisted logic.
Like viruses, they try to find mental loopholes in intelligent life forms to overwrite and destroy them.
"I see, this is the true face of the first dissonant sound that Ling heard."
Uchiha Xuan The corner of his mouth raised a cold arc.
He finally understood it completely.
What Ling predicted was not his behavior of "burning books", but what the behavior of "burning books" would inevitably trigger - the "inscription backlash".
What she heard was the scream of these "biting words" as they woke up!
And the imbalance of his heartbeat that he noticed was exactly the initial reaction when the power originating from the bloodline of this body and those inscriptions were aroused.
The person in the mirror is not another "him", but the "curse" itself hidden in this body and belonging to the ancient Uchiha Clan!
"Garbage should stay in the trash can."
Uchiha Xuan slowly raised his right hand, aiming his palm at the storm of words sweeping over him.
"Myriad Phenomena Devouring."
There was no earth-shattering noise, only a small black singularity that seemed to be able to absorb even light appeared out of thin air in his palm.
The moment the singularity appeared, the air in the entire cellar seemed to be sucked out.
An irresistible and incomprehensible terrifying suction force burst out!
Those bloody characters that were roaring ferociously and trying to pollute everything seemed to have seen their natural enemies, and they let out silent screams.
They twisted wildly, trying to escape, but were locked tightly by that force. They were pulled and deformed involuntarily, turning into streams of scarlet data, pouring crazily into the palm of Uchiha Xuan!
[Ding! A high concentration of "spiritual pollution source" - "Logical Paradox Mark" - has been detected!]
[The system is parsing... parsing completed!]
[The target is a "memory parasite", which contains a weak prototype of the power of "rules".]
[Devouring begins...10%...50%...100%!]
[Swallowing completed!
Gain 50,000 energy reserve points.
Stripping the special genetic template: "Logic Rewrite" (incomplete)]
The system's beep flashed through my mind.
In just three seconds, the strange text storm that ravaged the entire cellar and left the strong Kage Level helpless was swallowed up completely by Uchiha Xuan, leaving not even a trace of ashes left.
He took back his hand, and deathly silence returned to the cellar.
There was only the self-inflicted Executors lying in a pool of blood, and the sound of everyone's heavy and rapid breathing.
Chiyo Saori looked at Uchiha Xuan's hand that had just swallowed the "curse". In addition to shock, there was a layer of bottomless fear in his eyes.
That is not ninjutsu or blood inheritance, but a more essential and unreasonable power of God - plunder!
"It seems that the ideological 'virus' cannot be eradicated by relying solely on legal codes and violence."
Uchiha Xuan turned around and glanced at every frightened subordinate present with his cold gaze.
His voice is like the final judgment.
"Since words will be polluted and thoughts will be penetrated, then let's simply rewrite a set of 'underlying codes' for everyone's souls that will not be infected."
He looked at Chiyo Saori and issued the most terrifying order today.
"If you pass the order, the highest scientific research project 'Scarlet Eye Academy' will be launched immediately."
"Project code--"
Uchiha Xuan paused and said word for word, his voice clearly echoing deep in everyone's soul.
"Soul Coding Project."
"What I want is an empire that is absolutely loyal from its roots and will never cry."