Scarlet Eye Tower, Between the thrones.
That cry of a baby that seems to penetrate the soul, in the digitalized world, only appears as an unusually sharp crest.
Uchiha Xuan's eyes did not waver at all. His consciousness had already sunk into Scarlet Eye Tower's central data torrent, and the energy flow status of billions of rune substrates was clearly visible in his eyes.
"Alert: No. 37 Leyline Spell Baseboard, energy backflow occurred 0.3 seconds ago."
"Countercurrent strength: 1.7 standard chakra units."
"Analysis: It is not rejection caused by energy overload, but active extraction."
A cold system prompt sounded in Xuan's mind.
Learn?
Uchiha Xuan's fingertips tapped lightly on the armrest of the throne, making regular soft sounds.
He mobilized the huge computing power of the entire tower to instantly construct a holographic model of the scene just now.
The moment the pale finger bone drilled out of the ground came into contact with the tip of Chiyo Saori's shoe, the weak energy reaction inside it perfectly coincided with the energy counterflow of substrate No. 37 on the timeline.
It is not releasing the resentment of the dead souls, but imitating the characteristics of life, trying to establish the most primitive parasitic link with this material world.
That cry is not the soul of a baby crying, but the weird "door" trying to send out its own "heartbeat"!
"So that's it," Uchiha Xuan's lips raised a cold smile, "It's not the undead that's causing trouble, but the 'door' itself has the desire to eat. It's learning, imitating, and trying to extend its tentacles into reality in this way."
He saw through the disguise.
That finger bone is not the manifestation of a remnant soul at all, but the physical tentacles protruding from the "door". It is establishing some kind of connection with Chiyo Saori by imitating the reaction of life, and ultimately drags her into the abyss.
"Z0."
Uchiha Xuan's voice directly sounded in Chiyo Saori's mind through the spiritual link.
In the training ground, Chiyo Saori, who was about to crush the phalange with his foot, paused.
She felt the unquestionable will of her master.
"Pause class."
The instructions are concise and clear.
"But training continues."
Before Chiyo Saori could ask the question, the second instruction followed.
"Order all students to give up all active exercises and immediately enter a state of deep meditation. Use their own chakra as a guide to simulate a 'near-death experience'. Tell them that this is to completely crush the final counterattack of the souls of the dead at the spiritual level."
Chiyo Saori immediately understood the master's intention.
This is to transform passive defense into active fishing!
She retracted her feet, turned around calmly, faced the twelve students with increasingly hollow eyes, and gave new instructions.
The students sat down cross-legged without hesitation, hands Hand Seals, and their breathing gradually became weak, as if they were living corpses about to lose their vital signs.
Their chakra circulates in the body in an extremely dangerous way, simulating the last struggle of the soul before leaving the body.
And at the edge of consciousness that none of them could perceive, Uchiha Xuan's Myriad Phenomena Devouring System had quietly opened an invisible network.
This barrier is like a one-way mirror, quietly waiting for the invasion of any external spiritual power.
Once "something" tries to touch these dying souls, the system will immediately mark it and follow the path of the invasion to trace its source in reverse.
Time passes slowly in the silence of meditation.
On the first day, nothing happened.
The next day, it was still calm.
The third day, midnight.
In the training ground, the twelve sets of vital sign data on the monitoring light screen had strange synchronized jumps at the same moment!
As if under unified instructions, the pupils of the twelve students suddenly expanded to their limit, and the whites of their eyes completely disappeared, leaving only abyss-like darkness.
Immediately afterwards, traces of dark ink-like mucus slowly overflowed from the corners of their mouths.
These slimes seemed to have life, squirming and gathering on the ground, and finally outlined a miniature array composed of countless twisted runes in the center of the training ground!
The moment the array took shape, a cold, evil atmosphere that seemed to come from outside the world exploded!
"Coming."
On the throne, Uchiha Xuan's eyes flashed, and he activated his final trap.
"Boom--"
The ground of the entire training tower shook violently, and three huge gaps opened in the center of the indestructible alloy floor!
Amidst the flying dust, three forest-white skeletons shining with metallic luster slowly rose from the ground!
These are no ordinary bones. Their bone density is far higher than that of ordinary people, and their surfaces are even cast with complex Sealing Jutsu patterns.
These were the remains of three defeated Impure World Reincarnation warriors that Uchiha Xuan deliberately recovered from the battlefield when building Scarlet Eye Tower. They were smelted and buried in the foundation as the deepest "township".
At this moment, stimulated by the evil formation diagram, the Impure World Reincarnation mark remaining in the three skeletons was instantly activated!
They seemed to be sharks that smelled the smell of blood. Their empty eye sockets were pointed at the black array on the ground, their mandibles suddenly opened to an incredible angle, and then they dived down like lightning!
"Crack! Click!"
There was a tooth-piercing chewing sound, and the newly formed black formation exuding a terrifying aura was completely devoured by the three skeletons in two or two bites!
Chiyo Saori's face changed slightly. She could feel that the array contained an extremely terrifying power of cognitive pollution. Just as she was about to intervene, Uchiha Xuan's cold voice sounded again.
"Don't worry about it."
He stopped her.
"Let them eat. Only a very hungry dog will remember who its owner is."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mutation reappeared!
The three skeletons that had swallowed the formation diagram twitched violently, as if they were undergoing tremendous pain and transformation.
Deep in their eye sockets, two clusters of faint blue flames suddenly ignited, like will-o'-the-wisps.
Immediately afterwards, a hoarse, dry whisper, as if made up of countless overlapping voices, sounded from the mouths of the three skeletons at the same time:
"... Teacher... is back..."
Chiyo Saori's pupils suddenly shrank.
This voice, this title... is Teacher Ghost Cleaver!
No, that's not right! The teacher is already dead, and even his soul has been burned away by the master's flames!
Uchiha Xuan stood up slowly on the throne, walked down the steps step by step, and came to the center of the training ground.
He stepped forward slowly, ignoring the three skeletons that exuded an ominous aura, and casually pressed his right hand on the skull of one of them.
"Myriad Phenomena Devouring·Analysis!"
A faint blue light erupted from his palm, and countless data links wrapped around the skeleton like chains, drilling into it crazily.
The will-o'-the-wisp in the skeleton's eyes flickered violently, as if it was screaming silently.
After a while, the analysis is completed.
Uchiha Xuan's
The so-called "teacher is back" is nothing but a sophisticated scam.
The consciousness behind that "door" did not have the ability to resurrect Ghost Cleaver out of thin air, but it captured her most profound memory template when Chiyo Saori made that mourning gesture of "holding her forehead and lowering her head".
It extracted this memory, used the mental power of the twelve students as ink, and used the black mucus as the pen, to reconstruct a [pseudo·Ghost Cleaver consciousness] that only existed in concepts.
True inheritance and pollution never rely on language and writing.
Rather, it directly replicates fear and cognition itself through behavioral paradigms.
"A parody."
Uchiha Xuan snorted coldly and exerted force with his five fingers.
"Crack!"
The specially made skull, which was strong enough to withstand the bombardment of Tailed Beast Bomb, shattered in his hands like a fragile eggshell!
The broken bone powder floated in the air, but did not fall. Instead, under the pull of an invisible force, they gathered in mid-air to form a line of scarlet blood words, each word exuding biting malice:
"It's your turn to die next time."
The writing stayed for three seconds, then collapsed and turned into real ashes.
The whole place was dead silent.
The twelve students regained their consciousness and looked at everything in front of them blankly, with no memory of what had just happened.
The will-o'-the-wisps in the eyes of the other two skeletons were quietly extinguished and turned back into dead objects.
It was as if everything just now was just an illusion.
But Uchiha Xuan knows that this is just the first round of confrontation.
He won, but he also exposed the opponent's cunning and difficulty.
However, in this dead silence, no one noticed that the fingertips of Chiyo Saori, who was standing quietly aside, hidden in his sleeves, were trembling extremely slightly and uncontrollably.
Just last night, she had a dream.
In the dream, she was alone in the endless dark void, slowly raised her hand, and made the same action as during the day.
Hold your forehead and lower your head.