Looking at Danzo's old face outside the door, twisted out of shape by extreme fury yet forced to endure it, Uchiha Xuan felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction.
Three days ago, at the Hokage meeting, this old dog had clamored about tearing him to pieces. And now, wasn't he obediently coming to lift Xuan's restriction?
"Please wait a moment, Lord Danzo. I'll change clothes and come out. I'm going to see the Hokage, after all. I can't exactly go dressed like this, can I?"
Xuan gave Danzo no chance to speak again. With a loud bang, he slammed the wooden door shut right in front of Danzo's nearly flaming single eye.
Left standing outside the closed door, Danzo trembled with rage, his fingers clenched until they creaked. Yet he could only grit his teeth and wait where he stood.
Inside, Xuan leaned against the door, and the laziness on his face instantly vanished.
At the very moment he shut the door, the familiar and wonderful mechanical voice finally sounded in his mind as expected.
[Ding! The three-day deadline has arrived. The host's prophecy has been perfectly verified among Konoha's upper ranks and civilians!] [Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the hidden chain mission: "Word Becomes Law"!] [Mission Rating: SSS! With a mortal body, you stirred the gears of fate and made those lofty rulers feel reverence as if before a god!]
Hearing the system's evaluation, Xuan's lips curled wildly upward.
This haul was absolutely insane!
[Ding! Calculating mission rewards...] [Reward 1: Family Reputation Points +100,000!]
One hundred thousand points!
Seeing the number on the system panel surge so dramatically, Xuan's heart skipped a beat. This enormous sum would be enough for him to splurge in the system shop for quite some time. Whether exchanging for high-level ninjutsu or preparing future strategic supplies for the clan, he now had far more confidence.
But that was not what excited him the most.
[Reward 2: Special Item—Eye Technique Evolution Card (Unique)!] [Item Description: Ignores bloodline restrictions and eye-awakening conditions, forcibly evolving the host's current Sharingan ocular power into an unknown, higher-level form through an irreversible and perfect evolution!]
An Eye Technique Evolution Card!
And it was a "Unique"-grade item!
Xuan's breathing immediately quickened.
His Sharingan was still at the Two-Tomoe Sharingan stage. Though the immense chakra and physical prowess granted by the Basic Sage Body allowed him to push its perception and genjutsu to the limit, he was still far from the Mangekyō Sharingan, much less an even higher form.
According to the normal rules of the Naruto world, awakening the Three-Tomoe Sharingan or even the Mangekyō Sharingan required immense psychological trauma, usually accompanied by the death of someone close.
Xuan had always scoffed at such a twisted requirement.
But now, the system had given him a shortcut!
"System, use the [Eye Technique Evolution Card] immediately!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Xuan issued the command in his mind.
He did not choose to sit cross-legged as he had before. Time was tight, and an old dog was still waiting outside. He simply stood there quietly and closed his eyes.
[Ding! Eye Technique Evolution Card successfully used! Evolution commencing!]
As the system prompt fell silent, a strange, cool energy unlike Sage Body chakra appeared out of nowhere deep within his mind.
Like a gentle stream, it flowed through his neural pathways and surged precisely toward his eyes.
There was no tearing agony, nor were there any mind-breaking illusions.
There was only a warm, tingling sensation that seemed capable of cleansing his soul.
Xuan could feel the two black tomoe in his eyes spinning wildly at an unbelievable speed under the infusion of that strange energy!
Faster and faster!
Amid that frantic rotation, the two tomoe seemed to melt, intertwining and merging before suddenly splitting apart again.
When the rotation finally stopped.
Xuan slowly opened his eyes.
If anyone had stood before him at that moment, they would have been stunned by those eyes, perhaps even felt their soul tremble!
The scarlet backdrop of his eyes had become deeper, like congealed blood.
At the center of his pupils were no longer three ordinary black tomoe.
It was an entirely new form, one that had never appeared in the history of the Uchiha clan.
The three tomoe remained, but their edges were no longer smooth curves. Instead, they burned with a dazzling layer of golden flame-like patterns that seemed almost tangible!
As Xuan's gaze shifted, those golden flame patterns seemed alive, flickering faintly against the scarlet depths of his eyes and radiating an aura that was both sacred and demonic.
[Ding! Evolution complete!] [Congratulations, host! Your Sharingan has successfully undergone a mutated evolution into an exclusive form—Golden Flame Divine Eyes (Initial Stage)!] [Eye Technique Ability 1: Ultimate Insight. Your dynamic vision and chakra perception have surpassed the limits of an ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan, allowing you to see through all falsehoods and illusions.] [Eye Technique Ability 2: Golden Flame Illusion Realm. The genjutsu you cast will carry a spiritual "burning" effect, inflicting continuous true damage upon the enemy's mind and making it extremely difficult to dispel.] [Eye Technique Ability 3 (Special): Bloodline Plunder. When you use these eyes to observe an enemy employing a Bloodline Limit, there is a very small chance of copying the source power of that Bloodline Limit and integrating it into yourself! (Note: This ability consumes a tremendous amount of energy, and the chance decreases as the enemy's strength increases.)]
After reading the description of the [Golden Flame Divine Eyes] in his mind, Uchiha Xuan could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
This was not evolution. This was practically cheating!
Ultimate perception and genjutsu that dealt true damage were already absurd enough.
But [Bloodline Plunder] was downright heaven-defying!
In the Naruto world, although the Sharingan was said to be capable of copying all ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu, it alone could not copy Bloodline Limits.
That was because Bloodline Limits were genetic mutations rooted deep within one's bloodline.
But now, his eyes had shattered that ironclad rule!
The chance might only be "very small," but this was a qualitative breakthrough!
"Looks like future battles won't be boring."
Xuan looked at the bronze mirror in his room, admiring his eyes burning with golden flames. A curve full of ambition rose on his lips.
With these eyes, combined with the Basic Sage Body.
Even against jonin, or even some elite jonin, he now had the strength to fight—and perhaps even... crush them!
"Time to go. We can't keep Lord Danzo waiting too long."
With a thought, the golden flames in Xuan's eyes faded away, returning them to a deep black.
He casually grabbed a black robe bearing the Uchiha fan clan crest and draped it over himself before turning to open the door.
Outside.
Danzo's gloomy old face had darkened until it looked ready to drip ink.
Seeing Xuan finally emerge, he gritted his teeth and said, "Does changing clothes really take this long? Uchiha Xuan, are you deliberately testing my patience?"
"Oh, please calm down, Lord Danzo." Xuan adjusted his collar, looking utterly frivolous. "I'm going to see the Hokage, after all. I have to dress properly. Besides..."
He leaned close to Danzo and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:
"I had to make sure that during these three days, Lord Danzo, you hadn't left any 'dirty things' in my courtyard."
"You!" Danzo's pupil contracted, rage blazing in his heart.
"Let's go." Ignoring his fury, Xuan strode past him toward the Hokage Building without even sparing the Root ninjas a glance.
"I'm really looking forward to seeing what expression the Hokage will use to welcome me, his... meritorious servant, at today's high-level meeting."
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