The ferocious words were like a poisonous thorn, instantly piercing Baba Tesshin's dusty memory.
The red light in his mechanical eye flashed violently, and the data stream scrolled wildly, finally locking on a name that had been deliberately erased by Konoha High Command - Shimura Danzō.
"It's the 'root'..." Baba Tesshin's voice was dry, with a tremor that even he himself had not noticed. "It is the deepest and dirtiest shadow hidden under the light of Hidden Leaf Village. These contracts Executors are indeed the dead soldiers he trained."
Saori's face also became extremely solemn.
She knows better than anyone else what "root" means - ruthless, selfless, without any moral bottom line, and can sacrifice all tools to achieve her goals.
And now, the root power of this organization, in the form of memory threads, is being swallowed up entirely by Xuan.
Xuan turned a deaf ear to this, as if nothing in the outside world could shake him in the slightest.
His consciousness has long since sunk into the spiritual purgatory formed by dozens of intertwined souls.
Every thread of memory is filled with twisted beliefs that have been imprinted on "Root" members since childhood, bloody training scenes, and an almost pathological loyalty to Danzo.
These mental imprints are like poison, enough to contaminate the soul of any person who tries to pry into it.
However, in front of Xuan's [Void Devour·Guixu], these mental poisons are nothing but nourishment.
He is like a cold king, patrolling his spoils.
He saw how these Executors were deprived of their names, how they killed their companions with their own hands, how they were planted with Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal, and eventually became walking zombies who could only execute orders.
"So that's it," Xuan's consciousness whispered at the spiritual level, "Your strength comes from 'abandonment', abandoning emotions, abandoning bonds, abandoning yourself... Then, I will take away everything you abandon, along with the last value of your existence."
With a thought, the dozens of memory threads suddenly tightened, and inside the threads, a little bit of silver brilliance was forcibly squeezed and peeled out.
That is the product of the combination of "Kagura Blood Pattern" and "Root" Cursed Seal, and is the final contract used by Watcher System to control these tools.
These silver brilliance gathered together, and the light ball formed became brighter and brighter, and its rotation speed became faster and faster. The energy fluctuations it emitted made the surrounding air begin to distort.
Saori watched this scene with bated breath, his heart almost beating out of his chest. "He is using his body as a container to refine the entire Watcher System root contract." This is no longer a simple devouring, but a reverse analysis, and even an attempt to control the core laws of the system!
At this moment, a sudden change occurred.
Xuan Pan's body shook suddenly, and a string of ancient and obscure syllables came out from his throat. The sound did not sound like human language, but more like the embodiment of a certain rule. "Kusaen·Raduo!"
The sound waves spread out in all directions like substantial ripples, and the yellow sand on the ground was shaken into the sky by this invisible force, forming circles of perfect annular ripples that lingered for a long time.
The specially trained Silver Crow in the camp made an uneasy commotion, as if they heard the roar from a natural enemy.
Almost at the same time, a cold system prompt sounded loudly in Xuan's mind:
"Warning: Unknown rule-level syllable intervention detected!"
"[Sound Wave Frequency Devouring] An unknown mutation occurred in the protocol... Upgrade successful!"
"Unlock new abilities: [Basic Word-Spirit Suppression]--Can cause temporary mental paralysis to S-level and below willed bodies, and can cause limited interference to Tailed Beast-level willed bodies."
The impact of the upgrade has not yet subsided, and under his tightly closed right eyelid, the [Void Devouring and Returning to Ruins] pupil began to tremble violently.
The eyeballs seemed to be detached from their sockets, and the lines of reincarnation circles that originally showed only vague prototypes expanded outward by nearly half at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Those once illusory lines now become extremely clear and profound, like a real wheel under the seat of an ancient Buddha, exuding an eternal and desolate atmosphere.
"Not good!" Baba Tesshin suddenly raised his head, and his mechanical prosthetic eye captured the abnormal chakra flow in the distant skyline, "To the northwest, there are two powerful chakra storms approaching at high speed! This sense of oppression... at least two Kage Level strong men!"
Saori felt nervous and immediately activated the defensive traps that had been arranged around the camp.
Kage Level is a strong person who stands at the top of the ninja world. Any one of them can easily destroy their team.
And now, there are two at once!
However, Xuan, who was at the center of the storm, did not even raise his eyelids.
He still maintained his posture of sitting cross-legged, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth, and his voice was plain but with unquestionable majesty. "Let them come."
"I want them to witness with their own eyes," he paused, and every word was like a heavy hammer hitting everyone's hearts, "What is meant by 'before your eyes are opened, your destiny has been rewritten'."
The moment he finished speaking, Xuan suddenly raised his right hand, and in a decisive gesture, he pressed the silver ball of light, which was refined through lifelong contracts of dozens of "Root" members, toward his right eye!
"Xuan! No!" Saori exclaimed.
It is a collection of system root contracts, and it is pure regular energy. Direct contact with the body is tantamount to a mortal embracing the sun!
However, it was too late.
The moment the silver ball of light touched the eyelids, it did not explode as expected, but blended in silently like mercury pouring down the ground.
The next moment, a dazzling golden light that could not be described in words burst out from the depths of the pupil of Xuan's right eye!
That golden light seemed not to belong to this world, sweeping across the entire place with supreme pressure and a sacred and vast aura.
In the face of this pressure, chakra seemed to be frozen and the air solidified.
Baba Tesshin's mechanical prosthetic eye alarmed frantically, and eventually the screen went black due to data overload.
Saori The barely maintained barrier was instantly filled with cracks.
Even the unruly Silver Crow all wailed and crawled to the ground in unison, their huge bodies trembling, and they didn't even have the courage to look up at the light source.
This scene was like the birth of Divine Punishment, which only lasted three breaths.
After three breaths, the golden light receded like a tide and converged back into Xuan's right eye.
He slowly opened his eyes.
The left eye is still that cold Mangekyō Sharingan.
But the right eye took on a strange and sacred posture.
It is no longer a pure Mangekyō Sharingan, nor a complete Rinnegan, but a forced fusion of the two at a higher level - in the center of the dark pupil, a half-moon-shaped reincarnation pattern is quietly suspended, just like the core of the Uzumaki Clan; and at the edge of the pupil, circles of fine golden lines emerge, complex and mysterious, as if the most profound scriptures in the Buddhist scriptures have been imprinted directly on it.
Divinity and magic, creation and destruction, at this moment, reached a perfect balance in one eye.
"Warning! Six Paths level energy resonance detected!"
"The main body's life form has undergone an irreversible transformation..."
"The right eye pupil technique [Void Devour·Return to Ruins] has evolved...[Half-Pupil Rinnegan] has been activated!"
"Temporarily obtain high-level permission module: [Planetary Devastation]Gravity Field Perception (elementary)!"
"Highest warning: The current body cannot fully bear the power of Half-Pupil Rinnegan. Continued use will cause systemic collapse of the meridians throughout the body. The estimated collapse time limit is: fifteen minutes."
A series of system prompts flashed across Xuan's mind, but he just calmly felt the new perspective on the world coming from his right eye.
In his perception, the entire world is no longer made of matter, but is composed of countless large and small "gravitational cores".
He could even clearly "see" the chakra flowing in the bodies of the two Kage Level strong men in the distance, as well as the unique gravitational field of each of them.
Saori quickly recovered from the shock, suppressed the trembling of his soul, and activated all the preset defense and camouflage traps with his hands Hand Seals: "The enemy will arrive in five minutes at most! With our current arrangement, we can only withstand the full attack of a strong Kage Level for three minutes at most!"
"No need to hold on."
Xuan stood up, and the minor wounds on his body caused by the forced fusion healed instantly under the flow of golden energy.
He looked far away in the direction of Kumogakure, his gaze seemed to penetrate thousands of mountains and rivers, "I want to see someone."
His voice was very soft, but it carried a firm determination.
"The 'Fake Madara' who planned all of this but is still living a lie."
Before he finished speaking, he slowly raised his right hand, palm upward.
With the flicker of [Half-Pupil Rinnegan], the air above his palm began to twist and collapse sharply, and finally condensed into a miniature gravitational core that was only the size of a marble but exuded terrifying attraction.
Around the core, the space appeared pitch black like a black hole Uzumaki Clan.
Xuan gently grasped it, and the gravity core and space Uzumaki Clan were instantly annihilated.
"Since you have lived for so long in the name of a dead man and a fictitious lie," he turned his head, and the shocked faces of Saori and Baba Tesshin were reflected in Half-Pupil Rinnegan, "Then let me personally crush the statue of the god you worship... into ashes."
As he set off on his journey, a familiar thought spanned a long distance and sounded in Xuan's mind.
It was the voice of Jueyue, with an unprecedented solemnity. "The prophecy of Nine Crow Calls will eventually sound, but this time, the person who blew the whistle has changed his face."
Xuan's footsteps didn't pause at all. He took one step and was already ten meters away.
Behind him, the yellow sand in the sky was rolled up by the invisible aura, converging into a gray-yellow torrent, following him closely like a hundred ghosts walking in the night, to see him off.
And in the deepest part of the distant Moonshadow Forest, there is a darkness that even the moonlight cannot penetrate.
"Click."
The last branch, symbolizing the exhaustion of life, snapped.
On the branch, a black crow, which seemed to be one with the darkness, slowly opened its eyes that had been closed.
It has never chirped or flown, as if it has been a silent observer since the day it was born.
At this moment, in its open right eye, the exact same, incomplete half-reincarnation pattern is reflecting a world that is about to be completely overturned.