That dazzling red light is not the awakening of power, but the most primitive rejection and collapse!
Uchiha Xuan's Rinne Sharingan can clearly see that the brand of will that was forcibly implanted in the baby girl's body, representing "Xuan", is in violent conflict with the ancient curse originating from the deepest part of her soul, originating from blood instinct!
"A person with the surname Xuan will eventually kill his father" - this is not just a prophecy, but more like a spiritual virus rooted in the blood of the Uchiha Clan!
Three days later, dawn.
The cold morning light coats Xuan Tower with an iron-gray edge.
In the square in front of Naka River Shrine, thousands of core members of the New Empire - administrative deacons, red whisperers, and Puppet Legion commanders, dressed in uniform black uniforms, stood silently in a solemn square formation.
On the high platform, Uchiha Xuan looked down at the network built of absolute obedience with an indifferent expression.
Just last night, Chiyo Saori raised his final doubts in front of him in a trembling but clear voice. "Your Majesty, depriving the right of reproduction is tantamount to severing the bloodline of all old humans. This... This is tantamount to a bloodless genocide. If this continues, the empire will face a serious population crisis!"
Uchiha Xuan just glanced at her indifferently and ended the discussion with a rhetorical question, "Since the old genes contain viruses, why not eliminate them all? I will personally 'create' the population."
At this moment, his voice, amplified hundreds of times by chakra, echoed over the square like an oracle, striking everyone's eardrums and souls.
"Today, <True Blood Edict> is promulgated."
"Article 1: From now on, 'Xuan' is no longer just a surname, but the only legal identity indicator in the empire. Anyone who does not bear this surname shall not enjoy civil rights, speech rights, reproductive rights, and shall not enjoy funeral rights after death."
The moment the words fell, the entire square fell into a silence more complete than death.
Thousands of people seemed to have their souls taken away at the same time.
They are no longer Zhang San and Li Si, no longer Hyūga Clan, Sarutobi Clan. Everything about them, from their names to their bloodlines, from birth to death, has been completely deprived and erased by this law.
This fundamental silence cannot cover up the embers of the past deep in the soul.
The so-called "spark" was faster than Uchiha Xuan expected.
On the third day after the promulgation of <True Blood Edict>, the early morning mist had not yet cleared, and a dark crowd gathered outside the forbidden door of Naka River Shrine.
There were more than 300 civilians from various families in the old times, including men, women and children. They did not carry any weapons and just knelt on the ground silently. At the front of each family was a swaddling clothes, inside which was a baby who had not yet been "given a name".
"The right to name is the right to survive!"
I don't know who was the first to shout this slogan, and the suppressed shouts immediately joined together, like waves of powerless waves, lapping on the cold boundary of the shrine.
Xuan Tower On the top floor, this scene was clearly displayed on the huge surveillance screen.
Chiyo Saori stood behind Uchiha Xuan and called up the data with a solemn expression, "Your Majesty, there are 312 petitioners in total, 70% of whom are adult males who participated in the war as Allied Shinobi Forces during the Fourth Shinobi World War period. The system scanned the bodies of nineteen of them, and there are still thin but identifiable traces of the Sharingan bloodline."
She bowed slightly and made a suggestion. "Scarlet Eye Legion is on standby. It is recommended to activate 'Silent Eviction Protocol' to use high-pressure water cannons and infrasound waves to physically clear the area. It is expected that order can be restored within ten minutes without causing direct deaths."
This is the most standard and effective suppression plan.
However, Uchiha Xuan's eyes did not even leave the crystal screen. He just raised his hand, and a cold command overflowed from his lips, "Turn on the amplifying crystal monument outside the shrine."
Chiyo Saori was startled, but executed it immediately.
"Let them cry." Uchiha Xuan's voice contained no emotion or anger, "Give them five minutes."
The order was passed on.
The Scarlet Eye Legion guards, who were tense one second, stood as still as statues the next second.
After the loudspeaker crystal tablet was turned on, it did not issue a warning. Instead, it amplified the cries and pleas of the crowd, as well as the cries of babies due to cold and hunger, dozens of times, echoing throughout the sky above Naka River.
For a moment, there was a flood of sorrow, and the breath of despair seemed to dye the sky gray.
Uchiha Xuan stood in front of the crystal screen and slowly closed his eyes, as if listening to a grand symphony.
Deep in his consciousness, the interface of Myriad Phenomena Devouring System quietly emerged, with rows of data scrolling rapidly.
[Analysis of global sentiment entropy value...]
[Peak sadness: 78%]
[Peak fear: 12%]
[Anger proportion: 4.9%]
[Despair proportion: 1.1%]
[... Analysis completed.]
"It's not despair, it's performance."
As soon as five minutes passed, Uchiha Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, and Rinne Sharingan's purple light flashed away.
He spoke coldly, as if he was pronouncing a verdict on a trivial matter. "Anyone who has blood other than 'Xuan' flowing in his body, his screams are also illegal noise. Activate 'Grief Filtering Array'."
"Yes!"
As the command was given, the twelve giant chakra crystal pillars buried under Naka River Shrine were activated simultaneously, emitting a low hum.
An invisible, low-frequency mental fluctuation instantly covered the entire petition area like mercury pouring down the ground.
The next second, a terrifying scene happened.
The deafening cry stopped abruptly!
It was as if there was an invisible big hand strangling everyone's throats.
The expressions of grief on the faces of the people kneeling on the ground instantly solidified, and their throat muscles spasmed violently, but they could not make a sound.
A mother who was holding her child and wailing had just opened her mouth when she felt a huge force pouring out of her skull. Her tears were forcefully forced back into her tear ducts. Her eyes rolled and she fainted on the spot due to the sudden increase in intracranial pressure.
The whole world fell into an even deadlier silence than before.
There was only the sound of the wind and the cries of the babies who had survived due to the formation's precise attack on the adult spirit, but were even more miserable.
The figure of Uchiha Xuan slowly walked down the high platform, and his voice was clearly transmitted to the ears of every conscious person through the amplified crystal monument. Every word was filled with unquestionable majesty and coldness.
"From today on, emotions must also be included in the order of the empire."
"Crying, as a strong emotional catharsis, must submit a written application in advance to the administrative deacon in the area. The application content must indicate: the purpose of crying, the estimated duration, and the emotional level - divided into 'first-level mourning', 'second-level repentance' and 'third-level joy'."
"Any unreported crying will be regarded as noise pollution that disrupts the spiritual order of the empire. Violators will be punished with the crime of 'emotional riot'."
That night, Chiyo Saori presented a brand new report to Uchiha Xuan.
The title of the report is--<First-Day Emotional Anomaly Observation List>.
"Your Majesty, within twelve hours since the promulgation of 'Emotional Declaration System', the system has detected a total of 736 cases of 'hidden mourning behavior'." Chiyo Saori's voice was calm, as if he was reading a list of goods, "Including but not limited to On: Sighing silently more than five times when alone at night, muttering old-time epithets such as 'father' and 'mother' in sleep, staring at the food for more than three minutes in a state of absence during meals, and... touching the forcibly confiscated rubbings of the old family emblem in an uninhabited corner."
Scarlet Eye Legion Deputy Commander Baba Tesshin, who was standing aside, heard this, took a step forward, and said angrily, "Your Majesty, these are potential unstable factors, and memory is a stubborn disease. I believe that all the people on the list should be 'formatted' to avoid future troubles!"
"Killing cannot cure memory." Uchiha Xuan looked at the list, with a sarcastic arc on his lips, "We want memory to betray its owner."
He threw the report back on the table and issued a second, more cruel order.
"Initiate 'Reverse Emotional Registration System'. Announcement to all citizens: Encourage relatives and neighbors to report 'emotional violations' to each other. Once the report is verified, the reporter can obtain a 'half-day free activity permission', or seek a candidate for entry into the 'naming sequence' for a newborn in his or her immediate family."
This order is like a drop of poison, quietly dripping into the clear pool called "human nature".
Five days later, the first case of family separation caused by this system was recorded and filed in the empire's archives.
A fifteen-year-old boy reported his biological mother to the administrative deacon in order for his newly born sister, who was judged to be a "surnameless person", to have a "Xuan" surname.
The crime is: secretly burning incense in the room every night to worship the ancestors' tablets from the old era.
When the law enforcement puppet broke into the door, the old woman with gray hair was kneeling on the ground, whispering to an empty wooden frame, "Blessings from our ancestors..."
Before she finished speaking, a cold metal arm clamped her jaw, and the other injected a tube of quick-setting biogel directly into her mouth.
The sealing agent solidified instantly, sealing all her unfinished words and future sounds in her throat forever.
Outside the door, the young man knelt on the ground, watching his mother being dragged away by the puppet, and finally broke down and cried bitterly.
However, the red light of the micro-monitoring probe above his head flashed, and a line of cold judgment text appeared on the distant steward's terminal: [Target emotion analysis: 92% sadness, but the behavioral motivation includes 34% performance and 61% self-exculpation after guilt.
Comprehensive judgment: false sadness and potential order deception.]
The next moment, two puppets stepped forward, picked up the crying boy, and forced him into "Silent Chamber" for ideological re-education.
Uchiha Xuan watched the entire video of this law enforcement operation on the top of his tower.
He turned off the crystal screen and said calmly to Chiyo Saori beside him, "Look, tears are far more likely to corrode order than swords."
Late at night, Uchiha Xuan took the elevator alone and entered the underground archives at the bottom of Xuan Tower.
Here are stored all the "stranded persons" who refused to change their surnames but were not directly eliminated because of their research value.
Like specimens, they slept in rows of crystal coffins that exuded cold air. Each person's brain was implanted with a miniature spiritual encoder, receiving the same message day after day and never stopping. "Xuan is the Father God; Xuan is everything."
He walked slowly on the cold metal passage. The faces in the crystal coffins on both sides were either peaceful or ferocious, but they all lost their meaning.
Suddenly, he stopped.
In a crystal coffin in front of him, there lay a girl who looked to be only seven or eight years old.
There was an extremely inconsistent trace on the surface of her coffin.
It was a line of small and twisted handwriting carved with fingernails on the inner wall of crystal as hard as iron with all the strength.
"Dad... save me."
Uchiha Xuan paused for a long time, the purple Rinne Sharingan reflected those four words, and there was no ripple in the depths of his pupils.
After a long while, he let out a very light laugh, as if talking to himself.
"What you fear most is not death."
"But I forgot... how to hate me."
He turned around and walked deeper into the passage without looking back. An indifferent voice echoed in the empty underground space, "Sample A-37 has a residual consciousness, and the highest level cleaning process has been initiated."
Behind him, the dull grinding sound of the automatic cleaning puppet was slowly cut off by the thick alloy door.
Returning to the top floor, Chiyo Saori had been waiting for a long time, and she handed over an encrypted scroll.
"Your Majesty, the 'Divine Corpse' arsenal on the Eastern Front has completed the first phase of transformation, and the new model of puppet weapons has been rolled off the production line, waiting for your personal review."
Uchiha Xuan took the scroll and glanced at the waning moon wrapped in dark clouds outside the window.
"Pass my order." He said solemnly, "From now on, the entire empire will enter the 'Silent Watch' state. All those with A-level authority and above are not allowed to leave their respective jurisdictions without my warrant."