On the central throne of Throne of Heaven, in the field of vision of Uchiha Xuan, the surveillance light screen representing Naka River Shrine was suddenly covered by a dazzling scarlet, and then turned into snowflakes with no signal.
"Warning, Naka River Shrine A-01 to A-12 'Phantom' guard units, life signals disappeared simultaneously."
"Warning, the energy reading of the seal barrier in Area A is stable, and no signs of external intrusion have been detected."
"Warning, the internal space fluctuates abnormally and has exceeded the safety threshold..."
A series of alarms echoed in the silent throne hall, but Uchiha Xuan's expression did not change at all. The depths of his star-like Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan reflected the real-time image of the blank stone tablet under the shrine.
That ancient palm print is "crying".
No, that's not tears, it's blood.
It is fresh and warm, as if it has just been extracted from the blood vessels of a living person, and is oozing out drop by drop along the lines of the palm prints, more than a minute faster than before, it is simply gushing out!
"Master." Chiyo Saori's cold voice sounded through quantum communication. She had received the alarm immediately, "Burial Shadow-class's first team is on the way and is expected to arrive in thirty seconds. I will personally take over the on-site command."
"Accurate." Uchiha Xuan only spit out one word.
Thirty seconds later, Fire Country, Uchiha New Capital are at the deepest point underground.
The former site of Naka River Shrine has long been transformed into a heavily guarded underground fortress.
The space was distorted, and twelve figures wearing obsidian-like special armor and carrying ferocious weapon boxes on their backs quietly appeared. They landed silently, as if the twelve judges from hell were the most elite "Burial Shadow-class" troops under Xuan's command.
The leader, Chiyo Saori, was not wearing any armor, and his plain white research uniform stood out in the dark environment.
She stepped through the cold metal passage and walked straight to the secret room sealed by the highest level runes.
The sealing formation was intact, the energy flow was as steady as before, and there were no signs of any forced breakthrough.
"Turn on."
Following her instructions, twelve Burial Shadow guards simultaneously Hand Seals, and the complex sealed door slowly opened amidst a low machine sound.
The scene behind the door made even the Burial Shadow guards who were accustomed to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood shrink their pupils.
In the center of the secret room, the huge black stone tablet that should have been empty now looked like a bleeding heart.
That weird palm print became the only wound, and a steady stream of blood overflowed from it and dripped on the ground.
The strange thing is that the blood did not gather into a pool. Every drop of blood fell to the ground, and there was a "pop" sound, igniting a cluster of miniature black flames that exuded the breath of death.
Countless flames jumped and gathered on the ground, automatically arranging and combining to form two shocking large characters -
Unify!
Chiyo Saori quickly stepped forward, popped out a nano-probe from his fingertips, and carefully took a drop of fresh blood from the stone tablet.
"Start gene sequence comparison."
In the tactical eyepiece, the data stream scrolled wildly.
[DNA sequence comparison completed... The degree of agreement is 99.999%... Target: Uchiha Xuan.]
This result was already expected.
But the analysis report that popped up on the next line made Chiyo Saori's iceberg face, which had remained unchanged for thousands of years, show a look of surprise and suspicion for the first time.
[Warning: Unknown telomere structure detected!
There is no match for this sequence in the known gene library... Preliminary analysis shows that it is suspected to be derived from the aggregation of the 'common gene chain of all Uchiha Clan ancestors'!]
"Master," she reported immediately, "The situation is beyond expectation. This blood is yours, but it is not entirely yours. It... seems like all the dead Uchiha Clan are announcing something to the world through your blood."
On Throne of Heaven, Uchiha Xuan slowly closed his eyes, his huge consciousness sank into the depths of the sea of consciousness, and began to deduce crazily.
Countless information fragments, historical dust, and bloodline memories were forcibly picked up and reorganized by him from the torrent of time.
Warring States Era, that dark history that was deliberately erased by the Uchiha Clan was clearly visible in his eyes.
The truth is revealed in an instant.
"I see..." He whispered to himself, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth, "A forgotten insurance agreement."
Warring States Era, First Uchiha Clan In order to fight against the threats from outside the world - those Ōtsutsuki Clan that have not yet arrived but have already chilled the ancestors to the bone, they have established a supreme blood contract.
Using the blood of the First patriarch as a guide, and the lives of the entire clan as a sacrifice, we made an oath: When a "God" appears in the future who can unify the entire clan and surpass the ancestors of all generations, the souls and powers of all the deceased ancestors will be, whether they are in Pure Land or hell, they will break free from the shackles, cross time and space, and gather together to help them unlock the true ultimate form of the Uchiha Clan to cope with the catastrophe of the end of the world.
However, this agreement has never been successfully triggered.
Because since Indra, the genius patriarchs of the Uchiha Clan generations have been regarded as the "reincarnation of Indra", living in his shadow, and no one can truly surpass him.
What they inherited was the "power" of Indra, rather than creating their own "Tao".
Until the appearance of Uchiha Xuan.
He is not the reincarnation of Indra, his soul comes from another world, and his identity is the "forbidden ancestor" who has been removed from history.
In a completely unorthodox and even usurperous way, he reached the pinnacle of the Uchiha Clan's power. His power and authority already surpassed all his ancestors, including Indra.
As a result, this ancient agreement was activated.
Its "error correction mechanism" that had been dormant for thousands of years began to operate and judged Xuan as the only and qualified "God".
"Reunification" is a sign that all the power of the ancestors has returned to him!
"Lord, the resonance frequency of the earth's energy is rising sharply, and the stone tablet is extracting some conceptual power from the underground of the entire Shinobi World. I suggest that 'Zeroing Plan' be executed immediately to physically cut off all earth connection between this place and the outside world and completely isolate it." Chiyo Saori calmly gave the most secure plan.
"Cut off?" Uchiha Xuan's laughter sounded in the communication, with an absolute confidence overlooking the chess game, "No, Saori. The guest has already knocked on the door, how can you close the door?"
His voice suddenly turned cold, full of unquestionable dominance.
"Not only continuous, but also pressurized! Turn the water pump to the maximum!"
Chiyo Saori was slightly startled.
"Give me an order," Uchiha Xuan's voice sounded like the sound of gold and iron. "Immediately bring the three hundred newly selected 'Tearsworn' to the outside of Naka River Shrine. Each person cuts his palm open and drips his own blood into my preset channel channel!"
"Understood." Chiyo Saori immediately turned around and executed without any hesitation.
After a while, three hundred specially selected "Tearsworn" who had the most fanatical belief in Uchiha Xuan were taken to the designated location.
With solemn expressions, they opened their palms without hesitation and let the blood flow into the grooves on the ground that were as dense as capillaries.
Three hundred lines of blood followed the ditch, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, and poured into the base of the black stone tablet in the underground chamber!
It's like forcibly injecting strong stimulants into a sleeping ancient beast!
Boom--!
The entire underground fortress shook violently!
The palm prints on the stone tablet no longer ooze blood, but erupt like a volcano!
Endless blood rose into the sky, and on the dome of the secret room, it suddenly condensed into an illusory giant hand that covered the sky and the sun!
The five fingers of that giant hand spread out, and it fiercely grabbed the void, as if it wanted to tear open the dimensional barrier between reality and the other side, and forcefully drag the existence of another world over!
[Warning!
Warning!
Super-standard energy traction across time and space detected!
The target is the 'collective consciousness of the dead souls of the Uchiha Clan throughout the ages'!
The system determines that the host is about to passively receive a huge energy initiation, and there is a risk of consciousness being assimilated!]
In the sea of consciousness, the alarm sound of Myriad Phenomena Devouring System almost exploded.
Uchiha Xuan turned a deaf ear to this. He looked at the giant hand that was trying to "Grace" him, with an extremely mocking sneer on his face.
"Want to give me power? Do you want me to inherit your will?"
"It's a pity... Times have changed."
"What I eat now is 'concept'!"
"Everything returns to ruins and swallows the contract!"
As he shouted, a devouring law that was far more domineering and unreasonable than the power of the ancestors was suddenly activated!
He did not choose to accept it, but instead used himself as the Uzumaki Clan center to forcefully reverse the direction of the coming torrent of ancestor souls as majestic as the sea and roughly introduce it into the twelve "Fire Altar" psychic networks spread across the country!
Immediately, his "Divine Erosion Flame" originated from Kaguya Otsutsuki and passed through countless Devouring Evolution Systems surged out, forming purgatory-like calcining matrices in the psychic network!
The soul energy that was supposed to be a "gift" was ruthlessly calcined, purified, and stripped away by Divine Erosion Flame the moment it entered his body!
All the mixed wills, old memories, and stubborn obsessions were burned to ashes!
Only the purest and most original one remains - "Leader Identity Gene Template"!
"Buzz!"
At the moment when the first wave of "processed" soul energy poured in, the black stone tablet was finally overwhelmed, and a line of ancient words composed of blood appeared on the surface:
[The Lord of the Uchiha Clan should open the door with blood.]
Seeing these words, Uchiha Xuan slowly stood up from the throne, took one step forward, and his figure crossed the space and landed in the secret room of Naka River Shrine.
Ignoring the giant bloody hand that covered the sky and the violent energy storm around him, he walked straight to the stone monument and slowly pressed his right hand against the palm print that was still spewing blood.
The moment his palms came together, he raised his head and made his declaration to the countless souls of ancestors who were being forcibly dragged in the void and were about to arrive.
The sound was not loud, but it clearly overwhelmed all the roars and roars.
"Door, I won't open it--"
"I just ate the world behind the door."
In an instant, endless black flames, with his palm as the center, roared back into the sky!
Rumble, rumble--!!
Twelve Fire Altar simultaneously erupted into bright pillars of light across the country, resonating to form a huge, irresistible suction field covering the entire territory!
The ancestral souls who were supposed to "give" him strength had horror and confusion written all over their faces at this moment.
They were like moths stuck in a spider web, tightly grabbed by the black suction force, involuntarily and in groups, dragged towards the slowly rotating Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan in Uchiha Xuan's right eye, which looked like an abyss star!
Devour! Annihilate! Transform!
There is no inheritance, only plunder!
Three days later.
Within the empire, all ninjas, officials, and even civilians who wore "Fire Seal" and "Forehead Protector" on their foreheads all had the same dream on the same night.
In the dream, they were in an endless void, with a black stone monument standing in front of them.
A hand burning with black flames slowly stretched out from the stone tablet and gently held their foreheads.
The touch was cold and majestic.
When they woke up from their dreams, they felt that their spirits were clearer than ever before, but a kind of awe and surrender that came from the depths of their souls was already deeply imprinted.
Many ninjas were shocked to discover during their daily practice that the nature of their chakra had undergone some subtle changes.
No matter any ninjutsu is released, even the most basic three-body jutsu, there will be a faint embers of black flame lingering around the edge of the technique, with a hint of finality that cannot be blasphemed.
On Throne of Heaven, Chiyo Saori looked at the latest summary report and reported in a low voice:
"Master, the blood contract has been completely reconstructed. The agreement from the ancestors has been completely swallowed up and rewritten by your power. According to the data model..."
She paused and summed it up in the most precise terms:
"Now, they are not choosing the king... it is your fire that is choosing the slaves."
Uchiha Xuan did not respond.
His gaze was directed towards the profound and boundless projection map of the universe. At the coordinate point representing the deepest point of Mariana Trench, a faint red dot was flashing rhythmically.
At this moment, the monotonous "tick-tock" sound that had lasted for several days at the bottom of the trench crack that he had tightly sealed sounded again.
Tick tock.
This time, behind the sound, there was a trace of something vague...
It was a very soft, very faint sound, as if it spanned eternity, a woman's sigh.