In Throne of Heaven's command center, the piercing highest-level alarm tore through the dead silence.
Chiyo Saori's ice-blue electronic prosthetic eye instantly locked onto the pitch-black monitoring light screen representing Mariana Trench. A light spot that was so weak that it could almost be judged as an error by the system was flickering unyieldingly.
"Start 'Abyss Diver' Unit 7." Without any hesitation, Chiyo Saori's cold voice turned into a flow of instructions and was instantly transmitted to the secret base thousands of kilometers away.
A mechanical puppet whose entire body was made of chakra-conducting metal and whose appearance resembled a ferocious sea scorpion slid out from the shadow of the submarine platform and fell silently into the abyss from which even light could not escape.
Dive, dive, and dive again.
The terrifying water pressure, enough to instantly crush a battleship into a discus, stirred up energy ripples visible to the naked eye on its surface, but it was unable to distort its structure in the slightest.
Finally, after breaking through an invisible limit, the readings of all detection equipment carried by Submarine 7 instantly returned to zero.
This is the end of physical rules and the grave of energy perception.
Only high-intensity searchlights penetrated the eternal darkness and illuminated the scene in front of us.
It was a huge Taiseki monument that had long been broken, and most of it was buried in ten thousand years of mud. Its material was not rock, but a gray-white fossil with a strange wooden texture, which was the remnant of the Divine Tree root system!
Chiyo Saori's pupils suddenly contracted.
The robotic arm of Submarine Unit 7 carefully brushed away the mud on the monument, revealing a scene that would make any ninja's scalp feel numb.
Inside the stele, there are actually seven crystal clear, gem-like objects inlaid with the directions of the Big Dipper.
Those are not gems, they are seven eyeballs that are perfectly crystallized and sealed!
The pupils of each eyeball are not empty, but like a projector, reflecting blurry but real afterimages of history.
There are the warring states wars, the founding of Ninja Village, and the Nine-Tails rebellion... They seem to be faithful recorders of different eras in this world.
Chiyo Saori brings the screen to the center, the largest and brightest eyeball.
The light source of the mechanical arm is focused, and the reflection in the pupil is infinitely magnified and becomes clear - in the picture, a black-haired figure is standing underground under Naka River Shrine, erecting a brand new stone tablet with his own hands, with two words engraved on the tablet: Xuanlin.
That was the moment when Uchiha Xuan personally created the altar of loyalty a few months ago!
A peek across time and space!
"Master," Chiyo Saori's voice had a solemn vibrato for the first time, and he reported directly to the man on the throne through the spiritual link, "There is something... that has been watching you."
On the throne, Uchiha Xuan slowly opened his eyes. There was no surprise in those ancient eyes, only the light of cold calculation was flowing.
He did not look at the images of the deep sea, but called up all the data streams of Throne of Heaven in the past thirty days.
A huge waterfall of information flew past his eyes. In the end, two seemingly unrelated curves were forcibly extracted and overlapped together.
One is the energy fluctuation frequency of the soft white light emitted when he activated "Maternal Obsession Crystal" in the laboratory.
The other one is the frequency of every slight tremor of the cold breath at the bottom of Mariana Trench.
The two curves match perfectly!
"That's it." Uchiha Xuan whispered to himself, and the truth was pieced together in his mind instantly.
Back then, he devoured Kaguya Otsutsuki, destroying his will and body, but as "Rabbit Goddess", his most primitive and deep-rooted "mother goddess instinct" had not completely dissipated.
This fragment of instinct escaped along the earth's veins at the moment Kaguya fell, and it happened to resonate with the sacrifice ceremony held by Warring States Era, a certain Uchiha Clan high priest, at the expense of his own soul to seal a certain taboo.
Kaguya's maternal obsession and Uchiha Clan's bloodline curse were entangled and fused at the end of the earth's veins, in the Divine Tree fossil monument, forming an unprecedented "double taboo" - a twisted consciousness that both longs to embrace the "child" and is contaminated by the hatred of the Uchiha Clan.
It has been waiting, waiting for a container that can carry its power.
And my previous behavior of purifying "maternal obsession" was like lighting a torch in the darkness and completely activating it!
"Clear? No..." The corner of Uchiha Xuan's mouth raised a cruel arc, "Since you are looking for a 'child', then I will give you one."
He issued an order to Chiyo Saori that was unbelievable to them all, "Using the top of Mariana Trench as the base point, use the fragments of stone tablets recovered by Valley of the End as materials to build an altar hanging upside down under the sea. On the altar, all the 'Xuanlin' runes I created will be written in reverse and engraved on it."
The order was given, and the imperial machine was running at full speed.
A pitch-black altar exuding the fateful aura of the Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan, like an inverted fang, was forcibly nailed into the seabed in the deep sea storm.
On the night when the altar was built, Uchiha Xuan's figure teleported to the core of the altar.
He did not hesitate to put the "Maternal Obsession Crystal", which had already screened his subjects and exhausted its energy, into the groove in the center of the altar.
The next moment, he activated the forbidden technique created specifically for this moment.
"Everything returns to the ruins, the wrong sacrifice!"
This is not about sacrificing to anyone, but using oneself as bait to create a false "sacrifice" signal!
The reverse runes distorted the nature of the altar. Under the stimulation of the spell, the "Maternal Obsession Crystal" emitted the same origin as the undersea consciousness, but also carried the desire signal of "the container is ready".
Confusing the fake with the real thing, substituting the past and the past!
He wanted the conscious body that had been sleeping for thousands of years to misjudge him as the "new mother goddess container" that he had been waiting for for a long time, and then take the initiative to open his arms to him and offer everything to him!
Boom--!
As if in response to his call, the entire sea area boiled instantly!
Ten thousand meters below, on the Divine Tree fossil monument, seven crystallized eyeballs lit up one by one, bursting out into the sky with cold blue flames!
The cold flame did not burn the sea water, but strangely followed the invisible earth veins, turning into a torrent of energy connecting the abyss and the altar, and rolled up!
Uchiha Xuan sat cross-legged on the top of the hanging altar, expressionlessly welcoming the torrent of extreme maternal love and boundless desire for destruction.
The moment the energy washed over his body, his skin, which was stronger than divine iron, began to crack inch by inch, and streams of strange silver and black liquid seeped out from the cracks. That was because his body was being forcibly rewritten by the power of a higher dimension!
The system's crazy notification sounds rang in his mind:
[Warning! Otsutsuki Clan maternal Progenitor gene fragment detected!]
[Under analysis... Fusion plan generated... Can be fused to generate a new Kekkei Genkai--'Life Erosion'!]
The consciousness seems to be assimilated and dissolved by the huge maternal love, and returns to a baby waiting to be fed.
However, at the moment when he was on the verge of losing control, Uchiha Xuan suddenly opened his eyes!
In the right eye, Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan is spinning in the opposite direction, as if it is reversing time and space!
In the left eye, the unique gear-shaped Mangekyō Sharingan erupted with a metallic friction sound that was harsh enough to tear apart the soul!
"You all want to find a successor?"
He whispered, not loudly, but with an absolute domineering tone that despised all gods.
"It's a pity... I never inherited it."
The moment he finished speaking, he suddenly opened his mouth and made an extremely crazy movement.
Take a puff!
The torrent of energy connecting heaven and earth seemed to be captured by an invisible black hole. It was torn apart by him, turned into a beam of light, and was sucked into his body!
"I only devour those things that cannot be inherited!"
Divine Erosion Flame exploded from his body, wrapping up the violent primitive divine power in layers, burning, purifying, crushing, and reorganizing it!
In the end, all the brilliance converged and condensed into a drop of silver-black blood shining with the brilliance of stars in his body.
The drop of blood slowly dripped and merged into his heart.
In an instant, all citizens and soldiers in the empire wearing "Fire Seal" Forehead Protector, no matter where they were or what they were doing, felt a sudden heat in their chests, as if outside their own hearts, there was another more powerful and older heartbeat suddenly awakening in their bodies!
At the same time, in the deepest part of Naka River Shrine, the miniature heart condensed by Xuan's own hands and suspended in front of the blank stone tablet suddenly exploded!
It did not turn into nothingness, but turned into billions of light points, all of which were integrated into the stone tablet behind it.
The light dissipated, and a line of ancient Uchi-Ha seal script that no one could read finally appeared on the originally blank tablet.
Its meaning seems to penetrate directly to the soul:
"The beginning of our clan ends in Xuan."
As the energy of Mariana Trench under ten thousand meters was drained, the light of the seven crystallized eyeballs on the Divine Tree fossil monument dimmed.
But they did not extinguish. Instead, they all turned around, penetrated the endless darkness and rock formations, and looked far away... towards the east.
That gaze seemed to be worshiping the newly born gods, but also seemed to be waiting for a belated end.
And underground in Naka River Shrine, as the imprint of the final prophecy was completed, the entire stone tablet, and even the entire earth vein connected to it, began to emit a low and suppressed hum.
Deep in that ancient stone monument, an unprecedented pulse was gaining momentum and was about to shake the foundation of the entire world.