Chiyo Saori felt a shiver in his heart, but did not say a word, but bowed deeply to accept the order.
She understood that this highest level of martial law meant that a storm of change that far exceeded the one promulgated by <True Blood Edict> was about to brew at the core of the empire.
The moment the order was given, Uchiha Xuan's consciousness had sunk into Myriad Phenomena Devouring System.
In front of him, an unprecedented grand blueprint is slowly unfolding. Its complex structure and crazy ideas are enough to make any Sealing Jutsu master of any era stunned.
This is the ultimate prison he prepared for the curse hidden deep in his bloodline - "Those with the surname Xuan will eventually kill their fathers".
[Project name: Voiceprint Prison]
[Core goal: Targeted suppression, capture and reconstruction of precognitive mental fluctuations from designated sources]
[Base material: high-density sound-absorbing stone, fused with First Hokage cell active alloy]
[Energy frequency source: compound whine spectrum]
[Spectrum composition analysis:]
[--Basic frequency: Scarlet Eye Academy S-level experimental subject 'Bell', original crying waveform.]
[--First Resonance Layer: Seventeen 'Burn Neuron' experimental subjects, deathbed cry data.]
[--Second Resonance Level: The brain wave reactions of the first three hundred children who completed soul coding when they first experienced the emotion of 'awe'.]
[--Interference Spectrum Layer: Stolen from Five Great Nations senior executives in the old era, snippets of sleep talk in deep sleep...]
The real core of this cage is not those twisted wails, but a crystal core placed in the center of the formation.
It is completely transparent, with a faint glow flowing inside. It is made from the tears of the experimental subject "Bell" that contain the power of the ancient curse, and has been compressed to the limit of tens of thousands of times of chakra pressure.
[System deduction: After the cage is completed, it is expected to suppress more than 99.8% of spontaneous predictable fluctuations and force the overflow into meaningless white noise.]
"Not enough." Uchiha Xuan looked at the 0.2% error rate and frowned slightly, "What I want is not suppression, but domestication."
The construction project was carried out secretly on the ninth floor underground of Xuan Tower, in the huge cavity that was used to seal Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Thousands of puppet engineers worked day and night, staggering and stacking pieces of alloys that shone with an ominous sheen and sound-absorbing stones as black as ink, as if they were building a majestic altar dedicated to the God of Death.
On the seventh day of the project, visions began to occur frequently.
Every time at midnight, when the moonlight is completely cut off by the thick ground, a jet-black mist will pour out from the bottomless crack in the center of the altar.
The mist rolled and condensed in the air, and finally turned into vague baby forms.
They crawl silently and clumsily in mid-air, their limbs twisted, as if they are looking for something. After a moment, they will hit the cold wall and disappear suddenly.
Chiyo Saori personally led the inspection team. She was wearing a silver-white tight-fitting combat uniform, and her gray pupils shone like data streams in the darkness.
When she reached the edge of the altar, a newly formed mist baby suddenly stopped crawling.
It slowly turned its head. The face made of mist had no facial features, but Chiyo Saori felt a "gazing" that pierced its soul.
The corners of Wuying's mouth opened in an exaggerated arc, opening and closing silently, as if he was telling something.
Chiyo Saori's heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously activated the "Gray Eye" depth scanning function on her right eye.
In an instant, a massive amount of data flooded into her retina.
[Target form: High concentration Yin Release Chakra polymer.]
[Energy wavelength analysis... matching...]
[Successful match: database number C-S-001, 'Chiyo Saori', first recording file voiceprint wavelength at the age of three.]
It's herself!
It was the recorded cry she made when she was deprived of toys for the first time when she was trained as a puppet master genius by Sunagakure in her childhood!
This realization exploded in her mind like a thunder.
She didn't hesitate at all, and she had no intention of reporting it to anyone.
She just raised her hand and tapped her slender fingertips on the controller of the gauntlet.
"Buzz--"
An invisible repulsive field erupted instantly, covering the mist baby accurately.
The black mist rolled violently, as if it was suffering great pain, and finally let out an inaudible scream, completely collapsed, and was sucked back in by the crack under the altar.
Chiyo Saori turned off the scan expressionlessly, turned around and said to the guard behind him, "It is a normal phenomenon caused by energy overflow. Strengthen the purification frequency of this area."
No one noticed that her retracted hand was trembling slightly in her sleeve.
On the tenth day, the prison cage was completed.
Uchiha Xuan personally descended to the ninth floor underground.
He was suspended above the huge cage, and god-like purple light erupted from his hands Hand Seals and Rinne Sharingan.
The majestic chakra pours down like a river from the sky, accurately injecting into every node of the cage.
"Buzz buzz--!"
When he directed the last energy to the tear crystal core at the core, a terrifying resonance occurred!
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The whole earth trembled violently, as if a giant beast that had been sleeping for thousands of years turned over deep in the earth's core.
At the same time, above the ground, all citizens in the empire who had completed their soul coding stopped everything they were doing at the same moment, no matter what they were doing.
They knelt down on the ground with empty expressions and stiff movements, facing the direction of Xuan Tower, and involuntarily chanted a prayer that they had never heard before, but seemed to be engraved in the deepest part of their souls:
"My voice returns to the king, my dream ends in the tower..."
The voices of tens of millions of people converged into an invisible torrent, penetrating the material barrier and pouring into the ground.
What's even more weird is that thousands of miles away, in areas that have not yet been covered by the empire's iron hoofs, countless crying newborns seem to have been choked by an invisible hand at this moment, and their crying suddenly stopped!
The whole world fell into an eerie silence.
Uchiha Xuan felt the "power of obedience" sweeping across the continent being absorbed and transformed by the cage, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He knew that the conditions were ripe for reverse domestication.
His cold voice reached every corner through the amplification crystal tablets throughout the empire:
"Starting today, 'First Cry Reclamation Plan' will be implemented across the country. The first cry of all newborns after birth must be recorded by a mobile voiceprint collector equipped by the administrative deacon in the jurisdiction, and the data will be uploaded to Voiceprint Prison within one hour. This sound is the only certificate for the newborn to obtain the qualification for 'naming sequence'."
Chiyo Saori was once again entrusted with an important task.
She leads a Scarlet Eye Legion team through the newly built, standardized residential area like a honeycomb.
In a small delivery room, she saw a mother who had just given birth and had tears on her face.
The mother held the baby in her arms, her body shaking with suppressed sobs, not from joy, but from despair.
Her child has not made any sound since birth.
He is mute.
According to the regulations of <First Cry Reclamation Plan>, this means that this child will forever lose the qualifications to obtain a surname and citizenship, and become the lowest "voiceless person".
Chiyo Saori and Gray Eye scanned the baby, showing normal vital signs and intact vocal cord structure.
She wanted to turn around and leave, recording "recycling failed".
However, the moment she turned around, her ears caught an extremely subtle and strange beat.
Not breathing, not heartbeat.
It's a deeper, older rhythm.
She started the deep scan again, this time, targeting the baby's heart.
On the screen, a series of strange rhythmic waveforms slowly emerged. Its rhythm, rhyme, and even every tiny beat were exactly the same as the beat of a piece of music she saw in the empire's top secret archives - <Eternal Night Overture>!
That was a taboo piece composed by Uchiha Xuan himself to suppress the soul of Tailed Beast!
Chiyo Saori's body froze.
She was silent for a long time, and finally wrote a line of comments in encrypted text on the record scroll in her hand:
"The talent is abnormal and he is suspected of being a 'rhythm synchronizer'. It is recommended to transfer to the S-level observation sequence."
That night, on the bottom floor of Xuan Tower, the ancient altar where the "Bell" was imprisoned suddenly changed.
The girl who had been sleeping like a doll sat up without warning.
Under the skin of her whole body, blood vessels suddenly lit up, and complex and ancient golden lines emerged. It was a legendary sign of awakening that only existed in the bloodline of the ancient Uchiha Clan clan mother!
A primitive, vast, and even superior aura began to spread outward.
"It's finally here."
Uchiha Xuan in the monitoring room, instead of having surprise in his eyes, was filled with cold anticipation.
This was the moment he had been waiting for.
"Start, reverse resonance."
When the command is given, the newly built Voiceprint Prison instantly switches from absorption mode to release mode!
It condenses the millions of "voices of obedience" collected throughout the day and night, mixed with the whines of children and the murmurs of strong men into a spiritual torrent, and pours it into the altar in reverse!
In an instant, Ling's body trembled violently. She raised her head, opened her mouth, and let out a scream that penetrated her soul but had no physical sound!
Click! Click!
The sacred golden lines on her body were like glass shattered by huge force, cracking and shattering inch by inch!
Instead, chain-like patterns as dark as ink spread from her heart, entangled tightly around her limbs, and finally converged on her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, those pure black pupils had disappeared.
Instead, there are two slowly rotating miniature black suns that seem to be able to swallow up all light!
[WARNING! Target entity is undergoing passive formatting...]
[Formatting completed.]
[Precognition capability has been retained, and the output port has been linked to the 'Voiceprint Prison' command set.
The target's will has been reconstructed as an extension of the Cage.]
Uchiha Xuan looked at the system prompts indifferently, turned around and walked towards the exit of the altar.
Absolute control is finally complete.
"Here's the order," he ordered in a low voice as he walked, "Starting from tomorrow, a new rule of the empire will be issued: All citizens, regardless of rank, must listen to <Soul-Calming Variation> transcribed by Voiceprint Prison once every morning. Violators will be punished as 'potential awakeners'."
The wind passed through the countless fine gaps in the nine-story underground prison, emitting a low and continuous hum, as if millions of people were repenting in unison, and as if the entire earth was moaning helplessly.
And at the deepest point of the altar, at the edge of the crack that was ignored by Uchiha Xuan and absorbed Chiyo Saori's childhood cries, a drop of black liquid that was richer than darkness slowly seeped out from the stone wall and dripped to the ground.
The moment it hit the ground, the drop of liquid did not splash away, but instead began to squirm like a living creature.
A small, twisted vine, like a blood vessel, grew with difficulty from the center of the liquid.
At the top of the vine, a small, bloodshot eyeball slowly opened.
It turned restlessly, as if listening to the screams and obedience of the entire world.