Deathly silence is the eternal theme in the deepest part of this underground ruins.
However, at this moment, this dead silence was broken by a silent rhythm.
Uchiha Xuan sat on the throne of the high tower, his eyes closed, but his perception had already penetrated the layers of rock walls and accurately locked on the skull of the newborn baby.
Those two lines of solidified blood and tears are not physical.
[Warning: It is detected that the target "Gate Consciousness" derivative (Newborn Skull) produces a high concentration of memory information aggregates, and the shape is simulated as "blood and tears".]
[Parsing... The information content is a highly condensed causal projection...]
The system prompts flashed through his mind, but Uchiha Xuan ignored it.
His Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan has already understood the essence of the "blood and tears".
They are not liquids, but two "future" images that have been forcibly compressed, distorted, and attempted to be anchored in the real dimension.
In the first tear, there is a burning ruins, the broken Konoha lingering in the afterglow of the doomsday.
Chiyo Saori sat alone on his knees at the highest point of Hokage Rock, holding a head in his arms.
The head's eyes were closed and its face was calm. It was Uchiha Xuan.
She gently stroked his cheek with her pale fingertips, and whispered in an almost whispering tone, mixed with endless exhaustion and relief. "I'm sorry, Xuan. In the new order, there can't be two gods."
With the second tear, the picture became even blurrier, but there was a chill that went deep into the bone marrow.
It was an endless void, and Uchiha Xuan's body was disintegrating inch by inch, turning into particles of light.
Opposite him, an invisible silhouette was slowly taking shape. The silhouette stretched out a hand, seeming to want to take over the authority he left after his collapse.
"Prophecy?"
Uchiha Xuan felt a hint of cold ridicule in his consciousness.
No, this is not a prophecy.
Prophecy is to peer into the established future, and this is to create the future!
The consciousness he named "Gate", after experiencing the heavy blow of "betrayal", not only did not die, but it evolved a more advanced attack method - cognitive intrusion.
It is trying to implant a "future rationality".
It is telling Uchiha Xuan that your end is death; it is telling Chiyo Saori that your destiny is betrayal.
When this "rationality" is accepted by the subconscious mind, it will be like a seed, taking root and sprouting in the soil of reality, eventually guiding events to develop towards the script it has set.
How insidious, and how... interesting.
"You want me to believe that I will die by a knife sharpened by my own hands?" Uchiha Xuan slowly opened his eyes. There was no wave in the deep pupils, only the hunter's excitement after discovering the cunning prey. "The idea is good, but you have chosen the wrong audience."
The next second, his will came like a landslide and a tsunami.
Flame Master Ruins On the lowest floor, around the stone platform with the baby's skull sealed, the space suddenly shook!
Countless dark crystals instantly grew on the rock walls in all directions. They spread crazily at a speed that violated the laws of physics. In the blink of an eye, they formed an airtight crystal cage, completely sealing the entire stone platform in the center.
This is no ordinary crystal. There are heart-stopping purple-black lines flowing on its surface - that is the purified Ten-Tails Chakra!
"Give me the order." Uchiha Xuan's cold voice sounded directly in Chiyo Saori's mind through the spiritual link.
"My subordinate is here." Under the tower, Chiyo Saori, who was sorting out the remains of the ceremony, paused and immediately knelt down on one knee.
"From now on, no one, including you, is allowed to approach the lowest level of the ruins without my permission. Violators will die."
The order was concise and decisive, without any explanation.
"... Yes." A trace of doubt flashed through Chiyo Saori's mind, but she didn't ask.
She has long understood that questioning the master's intentions is in itself a kind of transgression.
Uchiha Xuan did not destroy that weird skull.
Simple and crude destruction will only make "Gate"'s consciousness enter a deeper latent state.
What he wants to do is to play a bigger game.
After the crystal cage was built, he accurately controlled the Ten-Tails chakra and continued to release an extremely weak but steady stream of negative energy fluctuations into it - the purest "fear" collected from the Flame Master students.
He is feeding it.
He wanted to create an illusion in the consciousness of the "Gate": its cognitive invasion was successful, and it had planted the seeds of doubt and fear in the heart of the new master. This cage was the best proof.
It will think that it is slowly corroding reality, thus exposing more behavioral patterns and weaknesses in its self-righteous victory.
Time flows in oppressive silence.
One day.
Two days.
Three days.
The baby's skull in the crystal cage remained silent, and the two lines of blood and tears had long since dissipated, as if everything before was just an illusion.
However, at midnight on the third day.
[Tip: Cross-timeline high-dimensional links try to activate again!]
[Link strength: weak.]
[Purpose: Information reception.]
Coming.
On the throne, Uchiha Xuan's mouth curved into a cruel arc.
This was the moment he had been waiting for.
This cunning consciousness finally couldn't hold back anymore and wanted to "check and accept" the fruits it had planted. It wanted to "see" itself tortured by fear and suspicion.
With a thought, a "memory" that had been prepared in the Myriad Phenomena Devouring System buffer was instantly activated.
It was a perfectly fake "dying" video--
In the picture, Uchiha Xuan was covered in blood, his chest was pierced by an unknown light spear, and he was half-kneeling in front of the collapsed throne, his breath weak to the extreme.
His Eternal Mangekyō light was dim, as if it would go out at any moment.
And Chiyo Saori was holding a short chakra blade that shone with cold light, approaching him step by step.
There were tears in her eyes, and her face was full of pain and struggle, but the hand holding the knife was as steady as a rock.
This is the script that "The Gate" is most looking forward to seeing, a perfect closed loop of betrayal and death.
This is also the moment when it is most relaxed and least defensive!
In the crystal cage, a dark light emerged again from the empty eye sockets of the baby's skull, preparing to receive and "confirm" this "dying inheritance" that it had dreamed of -
Uchiha Xuan suddenly opened his eyes!
At that moment, what was spinning in his eyes was no longer Eternal Mangekyō, but purple ripples filled with nine Tomoe - Rinne Sharingan!
"Time and space anchored!"
The invisible pupil power instantly penetrated the dimension, like billions of invisible steel nails, nailing the newly established and extremely fragile "cross-time axis link" to the reality level!
Does it want to run? It's too late!
"Swallowing system, reverse tracking!"
[Instruction confirmed! Energy reserve is 100% injected, start Reverse Contamination Protocol!]
Uchiha Xuan did not choose to cut off the link, nor did he try to swallow the other party's consciousness.
His approach was ten thousand times more brutal, barbaric, and unreasonable than that!
Following the anchored thread of consciousness, he frantically injected the "gift" he had prepared into the so-called "future observation point"!
It's not energy, it's not spiritual power, it's not anything ethereal.
That's one hundred kilograms of highly purified, liquid...Impure World Reincarnation cells!
Use the most filthy, heaviest, and most incompatible real matter that is incompatible with the laws of life and death to pollute a superior high-dimensional perception!
"Ahhhhh--!!!"
A scream that was extremely shrill and completely unlike any human being could utter suddenly erupted from the skull of the baby in the crystal cage!
Click... click click...
The surface of the extremely hard skull was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, as if it had endured unimaginable pressure from another dimension!
At the same time, in Uchiha Xuan's vision of Rinne Sharingan, he clearly saw that at the end of the anchored space-time link, in the darkness of nothingness, half of a charred arm emerged out of thin air!
The arm was twisted and withered, and it was frantically trying to grasp the real world, as if it was dragging Uchiha Xuan into the abyss!
However, the next second, the movement of the arm suddenly stopped.
It seemed to be violently grabbed by a sudden and extremely heavy "physical weight", and with a scream full of surprise and pain, it was violently dragged back into the endless depths of darkness!
Pollution, successful.
Uchiha Xuan slowly withdrew his pupil power, and the screams in the cage stopped abruptly.
The baby's skull had been shattered into more than a dozen pieces, completely losing all activity.
He stood up and looked down at the ruins of surrender at his feet. His cold voice echoed in the empty hall, as if he was declaring the disappearing consciousness, and also as if he was reaffirming to himself:
"You want to see me die? Then I'll show you as much as I can - but I'm still alive, so everything you see doesn't count."
After a while, he summoned Chiyo Saori.
When Chiyo saw the crystal cage and the broken skull inside, his pupils shrank imperceptibly.
Uchiha Xuan didn't explain. He just grabbed the broken skull fragments from the air and took them out of the cage. In front of Chiyo Saori, he used Power of All Creation to smelt and compress them, and finally sealed them into a brand new, walnut-sized black puppet core.
He placed the still warm core in Chiyo Saori's hand.
"Take it."
Chiyo Saori felt the faint throbbing in the palm of his hand, as if coming from the depths of his soul, and his fingertips trembled uncontrollably.
"Next time it wants to cry," Uchiha Xuan's gaze fell on her face, calm and profound, "Let it cry to our enemies."
Chiyo Saori He clenched his core suddenly, and the throbbing seemed to have found its home and calmed down instantly.
She lowered her head deeply and replied in an unprecedented firm tone, "Yes, I will follow your will."
After speaking, she stepped back respectfully, turned and left.
And the moment she turned around, no one noticed that deep in the sleeves of her wide sacrificial robe, there was a trace of the almost negligible taboo puppet residue stained in the last "Rite of Rekindling", which was slightly hot, as if responding to some kind of call from the other side, from the same source.
The main hall is heavy Return to Silence quiet.
Uchiha Xuan sat back on the throne and called up Myriad Phenomena Devouring System's final report.
[The "Reverse Contamination" protocol has been implemented.]
[Target: One hundred kilograms of liquid Impure World Reincarnation cells.]
[Status: Injection successful.]
However, at the bottom of the report, there was a line of small words, which made Uchiha Xuan frown slightly for the first time.
[Tracking feedback: The target substance was not completely absorbed by "Gate Consciousness", nor was it rejected by high-dimensional space and time, but... disappeared.]