In the deepest part of the earth, the aura that almost dragged the entire world into the abyss of silence suddenly solidified.
Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's tightly closed one eye opened a gap so subtle that it was almost imperceptible.
The next moment, a ray of pale golden pupil light, sharper than the sharpest blade in the world, shot out like a Divine Punishment needle.
This is not light at the physical level, but a pure manifestation of higher-dimensional will.
It ignored distance and obstacles, and swept across the entire Allied Shinobi Forces battlefield in an instant.
"Uh-huh--!"
"My head! Something... got in!"
On the battlefield, hundreds of sentient ninjas, regardless of faction, strong or weak, were holding their heads and howling in agony at the same moment.
Their spiritual world seemed to be pierced by a red-hot iron rod. Countless chaotic, ancient images full of death and end came in crazily, destroying their mental defenses in an instant.
What's more, his orifices were bleeding and he fainted on the spot.
Inside the coalition command headquarters, the sirens sounded shrill and shrill.
"Enemy attack! It's a mental attack! The scope covers the entire army!" A Yamanaka Clan Jonin in charge of intelligence gathering shouted at the top of his lungs with his face as pale as paper.
"Immediately activate Four Red Yang Formation's backup plan and transfer all non-combatants and sentient troops to the core of the barrier!" Shikaku Nara gave the order almost in a roar with veins popping out on his forehead.
He never thought that the enemy didn't even need to show up, just a look could cause such a devastating blow.
However, they were all wrong.
The target of this gaze has never been these ant-like ninjas.
Its essence is tracing back to the level of the law of cause and effect, like a hound that smells blood, following the most abrupt and uncoordinated ripples in the long river of destiny, madly swimming upstream, trying to locate the source that dares to tamper with the established destiny.
Just when the golden light was about to touch the end of the causal chain, Xuan, who was standing next to Grey Valley's body, suddenly trembled in his right eye.
A cold mechanical sound suddenly sounded in his mind:
[Warning: High-dimensional line of sight lock detected... Causal law weapon is coordinate positioning...]
[Passive skill [Fate-Track Lock] automatically activates... reverse anchoring program starts...]
The corner of Xuan's mouth curled up in a cold arc, as if he was mocking God's ignorance.
"You want to see through my roots with just one glance? You are so ridiculously arrogant." He whispered to himself, with a hint of playfulness and disdain in his voice, "You are not even qualified to touch my shadow."
Before he finished speaking, deep in his calm right eye, the six-pointed star pattern of Eternal Mangekyō suddenly lit up, releasing a will that was deeper and more unquestionable than that golden light.
The reverse anchor was completed, and he no longer paid attention to the futile sight, but refocused his attention on the thing in his hand.
In his palm, at some point, he was holding a black talisman brick the size of a palm.
This object is completely black but does not reflect light, as if it can swallow up all light.
It is formed by the "pseudo Yin Release power" extracted from the remaining will of Kaguya by Xuan, and fused with a small piece of Divine Tree's core cortex. Its essence has gone beyond the material category that mortals can understand.
Xuan stretched out his index finger, and a thin layer of chakra lingered on his fingertip, almost condensing into substance.
He used his finger as a pen and slowly carved on the surface of the black talisman brick.
One stroke after another, the movement seems slow, but it contains some indescribable rhythm.
Soon, a complicated and strange pattern emerged - an ouroboros with its head and tail connected, surrounding a six-pointed star.
This pattern is the concrete imprint of his Eternal Mangekyō Eye Technique.
He knows better than anyone else that to deal with an existence of the Otsutsuki Clan's level, any physical Sealing Jutsu or energy Barrier Ninjutsu is just a child's joke.
They may trap you for a while, but they cannot trap you forever.
The only way to truly imprison a "god" is to use "fate" itself to build a cage.
Only by using a destiny that has been completely "defined" as the sealing material can an eternal prison be constructed.
"I'm not afraid that you'll wake up..." Xuan's eyes were deep, as if penetrating through the thick rock formations, looking directly at the sleeping demon statue underground. He whispered softly, as if talking to an old friend, "I'm just afraid that you wake up too late and miss the... script I carefully prepared for you."
At the same time, under Xuan's instruction, another secret arrangement was quietly carried out.
Chiyo Saori stood in a clearing with a stern expression, and ordered Baba beside him in a deep voice, "Let's begin."
Baba nodded and waved his hand.
Twelve puppet masters immediately stepped forward and buried each of the twelve strangely shaped puppets into the ground. The distance, depth, and orientation between each other were all carefully calculated, eventually forming a perfect circular formation, completely covering the area where Demonic Statue of the Outer Path might wake up.
These puppets are completely different from traditional battle puppets. They do not have sharp weapons or strong armor, and instead appear a bit fragile.
Their only core component is a silver chip embedded in the spine of each puppet.
"These chips are 'fear memory fragments' extracted from Silver Crow's brain tissue." Chiyo Saori explained in a low voice, her voice without any emotion. "Silver Crow's fear stems from the recognition of Lord Xuan's absolute power. This fear is pure and extreme, and even distorts its perception of the real world."
Baba frowned and asked in confusion, "Aren't we going to seal that thing? What's the use of these 'baits'? Once it really wakes up, this level of interference is not worth mentioning at all."
"Who said they are used for fighting?" Chiyo Saori glanced at him coldly, "These are not combat units, they are 'cognitive pollution sources'. Once that thing's will tries to read information from the real world and orient itself, it will come into contact with these twelve coordinate points for the first time. These memory fragments distorted by extreme fear will contaminate its thinking like a virus, causing it to fatally misjudge the current situation."
She paused and her tone became colder. "It will think that it is facing a supreme being who has completely controlled the world and can even play with its fate. Therefore, it will fall into the abyss of self-doubt the first moment it wakes up."
Baba took a deep breath and finally understood the viciousness of this move.
"But... but what if it doesn't care and wakes up completely?"
Chiyo Saori turned his head and looked in the direction of Xuan from a distance,
"Then the first moment it opens its eyes, what it sees is the 'fact' that it has been completely sealed!"
In the center of the battlefield, Xuan slowly sat down cross-legged. Under him was the black talisman brick with the six-pointed star of Ouroboros engraved on it.
He closed his left eye, and all his mind was immersed in the Eternal Mangekyō in his right eye.
[Fate-Track Lock·Advanced form--False Victory Cage, start knitting.]
His previous [Fate-Track Lock] was more about interfering with the enemy's decision-making, causing them to make wrong judgments at critical moments.
But now, what he wants to do is no longer "interference", but "weaving"!
Forcibly weaving a "false victory ending"!
He quickly searched through the system's huge database, recalling memories that had long been devoured by him and turned into nourishment.
Madara Uchiha's extremely paranoid ambition blueprint for Eye of the Moon Plan.
Nagato, Konan and others' distorted understanding of "peace" and the path to its realization.
Obito Uchiha The endless obsession to create a world in which she exists that was born out of Lin's death.
Countless memories of Rinnegan holders, countless ideas and fragments about Infinite Tsukuyomi...
All these materials were quickly edited, spliced, and integrated under his will, and finally formed a false illusion of perfect logic, rich details, and flawless "Eye of the Moon Plan has been successfully realized."
"Go ahead."
Xuan's right eye pupil power poured out without reservation, and through the talisman bricks under his body, this huge and sophisticated "false fate" information flow was accurately injected into the chakra veins that ran through the entire earth and connected to the root system of Divine Tree.
This is like a low-level code tampering targeting the world server.
As long as Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's consciousness begins to recover, the first information it perceives through the earth's veins will no longer be this real world that is still resisting, but the ending it longs to see most. "The plan has been completed, the host has won, and the world has returned to the dream of peace."
When the ultimate goal of an existence has been "accomplished" the moment it wakes up, what will it do next?
The answer is - falling into eternal logical stagnation.
At the moment when this false illusion of destiny was laid.
"Boom--"
Deep underground, there was an extremely dull "heartbeat", as if a heart that had been silent for thousands of years finally resumed beating.
Immediately afterwards, the vines wrapped around Demonic Statue of the Outer Path suddenly twitched violently, and the pupil of the one eye that had just opened a crack shrank suddenly, as if in the blink of an eye, he saw countless contradictory and incomprehensible future scenes.
The pale golden pupils flickered violently, full of confusion and chaos.
Just one second later, the heartbeat stopped suddenly.
The entire Demonic Statue of the Outer Path fell into an even more complete dead silence than before, as if it had never woken up.
The eyelid of that eyeball closed slowly and irreversibly, and the last trace of golden light also dissipated.
[System prompt: High-dimensional consciousness has actively retreated.]
[[Fate-Track Lock·False Victory Cage] has taken effect... the seal has been established... Duration: unknown.]
Xuan slowly opened his eyes, exhaled a long breath, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"I didn't seal you..." He stood up, looked at the ground under his feet, and said softly, "It was you who chose to believe in that false fate."
He bent down, picked up the black talisman brick that had completed its mission, and then violently drove it into the depths of the earth beneath his feet.
"This brick, holding it down, is your future."
And a hundred miles away, in a hidden cave.
Madara Uchiha, who was meditating cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes, and a heart-piercing burning pain came from the palm of his right palm.
He looked down and saw that the red mark left by You Xuan as a tracking beacon was squirming like a living creature.
In the severe pain, the shape of the brand was slowly deforming and reorganizing.
In the end, it completely turned into a brand new pattern - a tightly closed eye-like pattern. Its style formed a perfect mirror image and opposition to the pattern of Xuan's Eternal Mangekyō.
Madara stared at this strange mark, his whole body turned cold, and a thought that made him shudder came to his mind.
He muttered to himself, his voice dry and hoarse. "... this... this is not a tracking code... this is a fucking reverse contract?!"
On the other side, Xuan did not relax his vigilance at all because of the success of the seal.
He knew very well that what he had just suppressed was just the most conspicuous puppet on the stage.
What's really tricky is the existence hiding behind the scenes, trying to pull all the threads of fate.
And that "being" may have noticed this variable in him that shouldn't appear.