In the cellar, it was so quiet that you could hear your heart beating in your chest.
The Executors who committed self-mutilation had been quickly dragged away, and the bright red blood stains on the ground were cleaned up by another Executors with meticulous Water Release Ninjutsu, as if nothing had happened.
But the chill that filled the air from the depths of his soul was a thousand times stronger than the smell of blood just now.
"Soul Coding Project..."
Chiyo Saori repeated the noun in a low voice, and every word was like a huge stone hitting her heart.
Her wisdom was enough for her to instantly understand what a crazy and subversive grand idea behind these six words was.
That is not brainwashing or illusion, but a fundamental rewrite of the "operating system" of intelligent life!
A race that is absolutely loyal, never betrays, and even the emotion of "sadness" is considered illegal to be eliminated by code... This is no longer an empire, but a "hive" with Uchiha Xuan as the only true god!
Baba Tesshin looked confused and enthusiastic.
He couldn't understand those complicated words, but he understood the last sentence - "absolute loyalty."
For a warrior like him who has obedience engraved into his bones, this is not just a command, but also gospel.
All distracting thoughts that can shake loyalty will be eliminated. What a pure state it will be!
Uchiha Xuan looked away calmly from their faces, and the silver Rinnegan remained calm, as if what he had just swallowed was not the curse that had entangled Uchiha Clan for thousands of years, but just an insignificant mouthful of dust.
He spoke calmly, his voice echoing in the cellar, and every word carried an undoubted sense of finality.
"It's not enough to just rewrite the soul of a living person."
As soon as these words came out, Chiyo Saori's heart, which had just calmed down, was once again tightly grasped by an invisible big hand!
Not enough? More thorough than "Soul Coding Project"... what else could it be?!
Uchiha Xuan walked slowly and walked to the pile of ashes that had been burned by his flames and devoured by his power and cursed.
He stretched out his finger and lightly traced it on the empty ground.
"Why is a civilization resilient? Because it has roots. Where are the roots? Rooted in history, in the inheritance of the glory and blood of the ancestors."
His voice was very soft, but like a sharp scalpel, it accurately cut open the foundation of Shinobi World for thousands of years.
"Will of Fire is the root of First Hokage Hashirama Senju; the arrogance of Byakugan is the root of the Hyuga Main Family; the bond of Ino–Shika–Chō is the root of the covenant between the ancestors of their three clans."
"As long as these roots are still there, even if I raze everything on the ground to the ground and format all living people with 'soul coding', new 'viruses' will sooner or later regenerate from these old soils buried deep in history and blood."
He turned around and looked at Chiyo Saori, whose face was pale.
"Burning a few books only burns the 'records' of history. What I want to do is to burn the 'history' itself."
"I'm going to... dig up their roots."
Chiyo Saori trembled all over. An idea that made her unbelievable and even felt blasphemous struck into her mind like lightning.
Uchiha Xuan seemed to have seen through her thoughts, and the corner of her mouth evoked a touch of extreme coldness.
"Give me my order."
"First, 'Civilization Cleansing Department' will be established immediately, with you, Chiyo Saori, concurrently serving as the minister. The first and only task of the department is to collect the genealogy of all clans in the empire, the ancestral tablets of all families, and all the scrolls and stone tablets recording the bloodline inheritance. From the famous families to the common people, not a piece of paper or a tree will be preserved."
"Second, in my name, promulgate <Surname Abolition and Clan Renaming Edict> to the entire empire. From now on, all surnames other than 'Uchiha Clan' will be abolished. Everyone, regardless of high or low, will have only one unified surname - 'Xuan'."
"They will no longer be 'Hyuga Clan's XXX', nor 'Sarutobi Clan's XXX', they will only be 'Xuan Clan's XXX'. Their only ancestor is me. The only honor of their surname comes from me."
When Baba Tesshin heard this, his eyes burst out with an unprecedented fanatical light. He knelt down on one knee with a "boom" sound and roared with all his strength, "I will obey the order of the mysterious master! We are all Xuan Clan!"
Chiyo Saori's delicate body shook violently, and her lips turned slightly white.
Abolish all surnames! Let everyone change their surname to "Xuan"!
This is not just cultural unification, this is bloodline usurpation!
He wants to forcibly cut off everyone's connection with their ancestors and turn his own existence into the only "source" in the world!
However, this is not the end.
Uchiha Xuan looked past them, as if penetrating the vault of the cellar, looking towards the distant Hidden Leaf Village, Hidden Cloud Village, Iwagakure... the former hometown of Five Great Nations.
His voice became deeper, but it carried a terrifying calmness that was about to set off a huge wave.
"These are for living people. But what really determines the foundation of a civilization is the dead."
"Saori, lead the team yourself to Hidden Leaf Village. Burn Naka River Shrine, Sarutobi Clan's cemetery, Hyuga Clan's ancestral hall... of the Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan. Then, bring back their ancestral tablets."
Chiyo Saori raised his head suddenly, his pupils contracted to the extreme!
"Xuan... Master Xuan, what do you mean..."
"That's right." Uchiha Xuan interrupted her, and the silver Rinnegan reflected a cold, crazy, yet extremely natural world.
"Changing the surnames of living people is just the beginning. I want those 'ancestors' who have been dead for hundreds or thousands of years to also change their surnames."
"Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, Hyūga Tennin... these names that once supported the spiritual backbone of the old era will be wiped out by their descendants in front of me."
He stretched out a finger and pointed at his feet.
"I will build a 'Hall of Ten Thousand Ancestors'. All the confiscated ancestral tablets, no matter how prominent they were, will be remodeled here. Their old names will be destroyed, and then the craftsmen will use melted gold to carve new names on them."
Uchiha Xuan's voice suddenly rose, carrying the supreme majesty of ruling over the world and judging the past and present, resounding throughout the cellar, and also resounding in the deepest souls of Chiyo Saori and Baba Tesshin!
"--[Xuan·Hashirama]."
"--[Xuan·Tobirama]."
"--[Xuan Ban]."
"From now on, the ancestors of everyone in this world, going back to the top, have only one source, and that is me, Uchiha Xuan!"
"Now, it's their ancestor's turn to change their surname to 'Xuan'!"
"Boom--!"
Chiyo Saori felt as if billions of thunders were exploding at the same time in her mind. She could no longer maintain her standing posture, her legs weakened and she fell to her knees.
She looked up at that man, and what she saw was no longer a powerful human being, but a god and demon who was devouring history, tampering with civilization, and turning himself into the only truth!
Shinobi World The cornerstone of thousand-year-old bloodline ethics was completely crushed by him at this moment in the most violent and arrogant way!
From then on, the objects of "filial piety" and "inheritance" were no longer the parents and ancestors who gave birth to oneself, but the sole master of the empire - Uchiha Xuan.
This is an irreversible ceremony, a grand funeral that buries all the glory and memories of the old world.
A new era will begin in a bloody manner with the unprecedented blasphemy of "ancestors changing their surnames."
"The first year of Xuan Era should start from this."
Uchiha Xuan stood with his hands behind his hands and announced in a low voice.
Behind him, there seemed to be countless dead souls of ancestors wailing, but they were crushed to pieces by the silver light in his eyes that swallowed everything.