The pulse that shook the foundation of the world did not pass away like a turbulent wave, but turned into a low and long requiem, which continued to tremble deep in the ground of Naka River Shrine for three days and three nights.
Three days later, the tremors subsided.
The blank stone tablet that was once erected by Uchiha Xuan himself and completed its ultimate transformation by devouring the ancient will has been completely solidified.
Its texture is neither gold nor stone, showing a deep obsidian luster. It is as warm as jade when touched, as if there is a still beating heart sealed inside.
On the surface of the stele, the line "The beginning of our clan ends in Xuan" written in ancient Uchiha Clan seal script seems to have come to life.
Every time when the moon comes to its peak, the seal characters will glow with a faint blood-colored shimmer. The light is not dazzling, but carries a kind of majesty and inspiration that reaches deep into the soul.
The people of the empire, the soldiers and civilians who wore "Fire Seal" and "Forehead Protector" on their foreheads, became the first witnesses of this miracle.
At first, only a few residents close to the Fire Country capital would wake up for no reason at midnight and look uneasily in the direction of Naka River Shrine.
Gradually, this feeling spread across mountains, rivers and oceans, radiating to the entire empire.
No matter where you are, as long as you are the holder of "Fire Seal", you will feel a throbbing from the depths of your blood at midnight, as if you are worshiping, and as if you are being summoned.
Throne of Heaven, command center.
Chiyo Saori's ice-blue electronic prosthetic eye is rapidly refreshing with "Fire Seal" network feedback data from all over the empire.
She integrated and analyzed massive information flows, and finally condensed it into a concise but shocking report.
"Master." She turned around and faced Uchiha Xuan, who was sitting on the throne with his eyes closed, her voice as steady as ever, but with an unprecedented solemnity, "The belief in you has begun to escape the control. According to the analysis of mental fluctuations and subconscious data collected by the 'Fire Seal' network in the past seventy-two hours, more than 60% of the citizens have unconsciously called you 'First Blood' or 'Progenitor' while in a deep sleep state."
She paused and called up a real-time surveillance screen.
In the picture, there is a small remote village on the border of Land of Wind. The villagers spontaneously built a rough human statue with mud and charcoal. The face of the human statue is blurry, but the flame mark on the forehead is extremely eye-catching.
Dozens of villagers are kneeling in front of the statue, lighting dried scorpion grass on fire, and the green smoke is curling up, just like the most primitive incense burning ceremony.
"This phenomenon is spreading. Belief is evolving from political obedience based on strength to primitive worship that cannot be explained by logic."
On the throne, Uchiha Xuan slowly opened his eyes.
In his sea of consciousness, he had just completed a silent tour.
The huge spiritual network constructed by twelve Fire Altars is currently surging with an unprecedented torrent of collective consciousness.
He could clearly sense that those ancient spiritual imprints that were once deeply imprinted in the blood of the Uchiha Clan, belonging to Indra, Madara Uchiha, and even Sage of Six Paths Hagoromo Otsutsuki, were now being covered, eroded, and completely replaced by two more domineering and arrogant words.
--Xuanlin.
Upon hearing Chiyo Saori's report, the corner of his mouth curled up into a sarcastic sneer.
"They think they are worshiping their ancestors?"
He whispered to himself in a low voice, his voice full of condescending contempt and disdain.
"It's ridiculous... their so-called ancestors, along with the origin story that has been tampered with for thousands of years, died in the first fire I burned. What they worship now is just the ashes I burned."
Primitive worship?
Just right.
What he wants is not understanding, but absolute obedience, the instinctive awe engraved in his genes and integrated into his soul.
"Saori." He spoke indifferently and gave an order that even the puppet queen found incredible, "Go to the 'Divine Corpse' showroom and take out the sealed object numbered Zero."
Chiyo Saori's electronic eye flashed.
The Zero sealed object is one of the highest-level secrets of the empire - after Kaguya Otsutsuki was devoured, it was analyzed and peeled off by Myriad Phenomena Devouring System. It is the only bone powder remains that cannot be completely absorbed and can only be sealed.
It was a pale white sphere the size of a fist, containing the purest physical information of Progenitor of Chakra.
"Crush it, mix it with supercritical chakra fluid, and inject it into the cores of the twelve 'Fire Altar' ley lines through the ley line booster pump."
Chiyo Saori did not ask further questions, but just bowed and accepted the order, "Yes, Lord."
She understands that the Lord never does useless work.
Behind this seemingly blasphemous act of desecrating the remains of a god, there must be a deeper conspiracy hidden.
That night, as the energy flow containing the bone powder of Kaguya was forcibly injected into the leyline network all over the world, a more violent mutation broke out in Naka River Shrine.
Boom!
The obsidian tablet inscribed with "The beginning of our clan ends in Xuan" suddenly moved forward half an inch without any external force!
Immediately afterwards, the palm print groove on the front of the stone tablet that had been pressed by Xuan made a crisp sound, and a slight crack spread from the palm.
A drop of silver and black viscous liquid slowly seeped out from the crack.
The liquid exuded an extremely strange smell, which was both like the fragrance of thousands of flowers that decayed instantly after they bloomed to their fullest, and also like the deathly silence that rose from the scorched earth when it was soaked by the first rain.
It is "Primordial Blood" that combines Divine Tree's origin and Kaguya's maternal obsession, and is forcibly distorted and reshaped by Uchiha Xuan's own will!
"Alert! A high-concentration unknown energy leakage has been detected! The blockade procedure has been initiated!" The defense puppet underground of the shrine was instantly activated, and several chakra light walls rose from the ground, trying to isolate the stone tablet from the strange drop of blood.
"Stop."
Uchiha Xuan's cold voice directly stopped all mechanical units through the spiritual link.
He didn't know when he had appeared in the secret room, quietly staring at the drop of silver-black liquid that seemed to have life.
"Let it flow." There was a hint of playful cruelty in his voice, "I want the entire Shinobi World to have a taste of this 'new ancestor'."
Before he finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand and scratched his wrist with his sharp nails. A wound opened, and the red divine blood with a little golden light dripped out.
His blood did not fall to the ground, but was pulled by an invisible force in mid-air and accurately integrated into the silver-black drop of "Primordial Blood".
Two streams of blood originating from different divinities but controlled by the same will merged perfectly in an instant.
"Everything returns to the ruins and the source of origin!"
Uchiha Xuan activated the forbidden technique that once polluted the deep sea altar, but this time, the goal was even more ambitious.
He is no longer deceiving, but forcing sowing!
Using his god-level, all-devouring genetic template as the absolute "source code", all the ancient information belonging to Kaguya and Indra in "Primordial Blood" will be ultimately overwritten and rewritten!
This drop of contaminated, tampered, and redefined "Primordial Blood" will become a seed, flowing to the entire world along the earth vein network "fertilized" by Kaguya bone powder.
Seven days later.
At the junction of Land of Wind and Land of Rivers, in a mountain village that makes a living by smelting Chakra Metal, an ordinary pregnant woman gave birth to a baby boy after experiencing a painless natural delivery.
The baby's first cry was not an ordinary hoarse cry, but as clear as metal.
What's even more shocking is that in his opened eyes, there are no pupils, but a pair of slowly rotating blood-colored lines like precision gears!
The cry was like an invisible command. Within a radius of ten miles, all the villagers wearing "Fire Seal" and "Forehead Protector" had the marks on their foreheads burning hot at the same time, resonating with it!
The news spread like wildfire throughout the empire.
Immediately afterwards, similar cases appeared one after another in Land of Water, Land of Lightning, Land of Earth... each Chiriku.
Some newborns are born with light fire marks on their foreheads, and some have the faint outline of a single Tomoe appearing in their pupils. What's more, less than an hour after birth, they can unconsciously spit out a small cluster of weak flames from their mouths in their sleep.
The empire's top medical team is helpless, and no instrument can analyze this incredible "collective bloodline atavism."
Among the people, the fanatical rumors became more and more intense.
"Allah comes to the world and the bloodline awakens!"
"It's Progenitor Xuan, blessing his people!"
Faced with this wave of craze sweeping the country, Uchiha Xuan issued an edict: 108 "Sacred Embryo Observatory" were established nationwide. Any home that gave birth to a baby with a vision could receive a higher-level "Fire Seal" Forehead Protector and massive spiritual resources based on the baby's "miracle" level.
For a time, all the people were grateful and regarded their children as a glory given by God, and rushed to the observatory for "blessing registration."
What they don't know is that the underground of each observatory is connected to the most advanced genetic collection and analysis laboratories.
When each "holy fetus" receives the "blessing", a trace amount of newborn blood will be quietly collected and transmitted back to Throne of Heaven as quickly as possible.
Uchiha Xuan is using the entire world to conduct an unprecedented genetic screening experiment.
He looked at the analysis report and found that there was an undetectable trace of silver-black blood lurking in the bodies of all abnormal babies.
It is "Primordial Blood" that reversely infiltrates the mother's body through the earth's veins, completing the result of cross-generational genetic contamination.
[System prompt: Large-scale cross-generational genetic resonance has been detected.
The existence mode of the host is undergoing a transition. You are evolving from an individual life to a living totem and a walking source of blood.]
Late at night, Uchiha Xuan was the only one left in Naka River Shrine's secret room.
He stared at the stone tablet that had stopped bleeding but was even more profound, and whispered to himself, as if declaring to the illusory "Uchiha Clan Ancestors":
"I am not your descendant... I am your end."
The moment the words fell, the seal characters on the stone tablet began to squirm like living creatures!
The strokes were twisted and reorganized, and in the flash of blood-colored light, the original "The beginning of our race will end in Xuan" quietly turned into a more domineering and decisive prophecy:
"This fire begins, and all that remains is ashes."
--This flame is the beginning of everything, everything else is dust.
At this moment, thousands of miles away, in the deepest part of Mariana Trench.
The seven crystallized eyeballs that once looked into the east seemed to have completed their final mission and closed together.
A second later, they suddenly opened again.
Only this time, what is reflected in their pupils is no longer the afterimage of past history, nor the blurry halo of time and space, but the same clear scene - the figure standing alone in black robes in the secret room of Naka River Shrine.
It seems that from this moment on, the past and the future are no longer important.
He is the only answer.
Throne of Heaven, Chiyo Saori Looking at the comparison report of the first batch of "Holy Fetus" gene sequencing data that had just been compiled, the ice-blue electronic prosthetic eye flashed for an unprecedented three seconds.
The first line of the conclusion of the report was only a short sentence, but it made Executors, an absolutely rational person, feel a long-lost emotion called "shock".