The vision of Naka River Shrine did not dissipate with the night.
That line of blood words was like a scar imprinted on time and space. It never dried up or faded for seven days.
Seven days later, when the first ray of morning light penetrated the ancient window lattice of the shrine and fell on the cold stone tablet, the bright red strokes suddenly restrained and shrank, and finally formed a miniature formation on the surface of the stone slab that was almost indistinguishable to the naked eye. Its lines were complex and mysterious, as if it contained some kind of fundamental law.
The next second, this bloody formation flashed with light, and then merged into the sea like water droplets, quietly embedded in the invisible earth vein network under the feet, and disappeared.
At the same moment, inside the sky fortress "Throne of Heaven" suspended above the sea of clouds.
Chiyo Saori stood under the throne, her face, which was made of bionic materials and always calm, had an imperceptible frown at the moment.
In front of her, a huge data screen was refreshing rapidly.
"Master," her voice was still straight, but with a hint of gravity that was difficult to suppress, "According to continuous monitoring over the past 168 hours, the dream synchronization rate of 327 'Sacred Scions' throughout the empire has steadily increased from the initial discrete fluctuation to 91%. This has gone beyond the scope of coincidence and resonance, and is a collective spiritual phenomenon that is forcibly guided."
She waved her hand to switch the screen. Above the light screen, the sleep brain waves of countless babies converged into a torrent, and at the end of this torrent, a vague but extremely impactful illusion was analyzed.
It was the back of a giant standing tall, with the flames of creation burning all over his body.
The giant's blurred face seemed to be overlooking the entire world, and in his palm was an ancient stone tablet that was also burning.
"In their dreams, they are collectively and unconsciously participating in a grand 'coronation ceremony.'" Chiyo Saori's electronic eyes flashed with blue light and accurately analyzed, "Through reverse tracking of the energy flow, Heavenly Net finally locked the source... Master, the core of this ceremony points to the genetic embryo in your body."
Uchiha Xuan is sitting quietly in the innermost core chamber of the Sky Fortress.
There is no throne here, just absolute nothingness.
He was naked to the waist, suspended in mid-air, with a faint silver-black mist lingering around him.
In the center of his smooth and jade-like chest, the two-character birthmark "Xuanlin" representing his supreme authority was like a second heart, beating slowly with a deep and powerful rhythm.
With every pulse, an extremely pure energy flows along the meridians in his body.
It was a strange silver-black blood, rushing through his veins, exuding an aura that was both ancient and full of activity - it was the remnants of Kaguya Otsutsuki that had been forcibly torn, crushed, and rewoven by "Myriad Phenomena Devouring System". Now, it has been coldly marked by the system as "the host's exclusive spiritual fuel".
He did not open his eyes, but his consciousness had already penetrated the boundaries of matter and clearly perceived Chiyo Saori's report.
"She thought she was looking for a successor to continue her existence?"
Uchiha Xuan's whispers echoed in the secret room, with a hint of indifference and ridicule like an ant overlooking.
"It's ridiculous... I just used her immortal obsession to consecrate my blood..."
His thoughts moved slightly, and he ordered in a deep voice, "System, activate 'All Things Return to Ruins·Echo'."
[Command confirmation.]
["All Things Return to Ruins·Echo" has been activated, using host DNA as the core template, Imaginary Divine Palace is being constructed...]
In an instant, in the depths of Uchiha Xuan's sea of consciousness, an illusory "womb" constructed of pure spiritual power and laws quietly took shape.
The structure of this womb perfectly replicates his own genetic sequence and is his unique creation hotbed.
At this moment, every "Sacred Scions" child in "Sacred Embryo Observatory" spread across the empire who was dreaming of the flame giant, the mental fluctuations in their minds caused by worship and awe seemed to be captured by an invisible big hand.
These pure consciousness energies without any impurities were quietly extracted along the ground network that had already been laid out, across space, and merged into the illusory womb in the Uchiha Xuan sea of consciousness.
These mental fluctuations are systematically defined as "belief plasma".
Every injection of faith essence nourishes the genetic embryo grafted with Kaguya residual thoughts.
[Ding!]
[Cross-dimensional spiritual resonance detected, target "divine weight" is being analyzed...]
[Analysis completed, divine weight +0.7%.]
[Current divine embryo pregnancy progress: 14.3%.]
The system's prompt sounded quietly in Uchiha Xuan's mind, cold and precise.
Within Throne of Heaven, the logical core of Chiyo Saori captured this abnormal energy cycle. She immediately asked, "Master, it has been detected that large-scale, high-purity spiritual energy is flowing into your body through unknown channels. Inside. This energy flow is completely synchronized with the dreams of 'Sacred Scions'. Is it necessary to activate the 'Skyfire Protocol' protocol to forcibly terminate the data access of all external observatories and cut off this energy path?"
"No need." Uchiha Xuan's voice penetrated the secret room and sounded directly in Chiyo Saori's mind, "Let them continue to dream - the deeper they dream, the fuller they will be fed."
He seemed to be aware of Chiyo Saori's doubts and gave a rare explanation.
"Although Kaguya's remnants have been torn apart by me, her chaotic emotions and crazy will as the creator god still remain in them. These things are useless to me, and are even pollution. And these 'Sacred Scions' children, their pure and innocent consciousness is The best natural filter. Their 'worship' of the flame giant will spontaneously strip away all the negative emotions in Kaguya's residual thoughts, leaving only the purest and most primitive creative instinct. And this instinct is the 'soul core fuse' I need to ignite those eyes in the future."
Chiyo Saori's electronic eye flashed with blue light, and he instantly understood the chilling layout behind it.
The master is actually using the dreams of more than three hundred babies to refine the qualifications for becoming a god for himself!
At this moment, the mutation reappears!
Located on the altar of "Secret Room No. 1" underground at the Naka River, the body of the baby boy No. 07 trembled suddenly and fell into a deep coma again.
In his eyes, the Sharingan that originally only had a single Tomoe, now appeared circles of dense and strange lines like precision gears!
"Mother... returns..."
A sleepy murmur came out of his mouth.
Boom--!
As if receiving the strongest call, thousands of miles away, in the deepest part of Mariana Trench, the seven silent crystal eyeballs instantly burst into unprecedented light!
A torrent of consciousness that was more than ten times larger than the last time, wrapped in overwhelming resentment and ecstasy, brazenly flowed upstream along the blood link, trying to regain its "legacy" in one fell swoop!
Uchiha Xuan was already prepared, and the corner of his mouth even evoked a long-awaited sneer.
"Coming."
With a thought, he instantly activated twelve Fire Altars all over Shinobi World.
"Reversal!"
The leyline network that originally transported energy slowly, at this moment, its function was forcibly reversed!
The twelve altars turned into twelve terrifying abyss mouths, generating a huge suction force that could tear apart the soul!
The torrent of consciousness that had just rushed into the baby boy's body, before he had time to rejoice, he was horrified to find that he was being introduced into the genetic embryo in Uchiha Xuan's body by an irresistible force!
At the same time, Uchiha Xuan launched the final back-up plan that he had already set up.
"Gene Lock chain--anchored!"
He forcibly distorted the laws of the genetic embryo in his body, causing it to exude the same aura as when her "body" returned in Kaguya Cannian's perception!
In an instant, the huge consciousness let out a silent scream that penetrated the soul dimension. Then, all the struggle and madness turned into a dead silence and sleep as if it had found its "home".
It was completely deceived into thinking that this embryo was its true body for rebirth.
Early the next morning, in the core secret room, Uchiha Xuan slowly opened his eyes.
He looked down and saw that under the skin of his right arm, ancient runes as fine as hair had appeared at some point. These runes were shaped like the roots of plants, and were spreading slowly but firmly towards the "Xuanlin" birthmark on his chest.
He stretched out his left hand, caressed the pulsating birthmark, and raised a cold arc at the corner of his mouth.
"Now, she doesn't want to take me away..."
He whispered to himself softly, with an absolute sense of dominance in his voice.
"She is afraid that I will die. Because if I die, she will never have a home again."
The moment he finished speaking, on the ancient stone tablet of Naka River Shrine far away on the border of old Fire Country, deep red blood slowly oozed out from the center of the palm print again.
This time, the blood traces meandered and flowed, converging into two older and more twisted words on the cold stone slab, exuding a heart-stopping aura of fate.
Father... sacrifice...
Uchiha Xuan's gaze seemed to penetrate thousands of miles of space and landed on those two words in blood.
The smile on his face slowly faded, and his brows wrinkled slightly for the first time.