"Genesis" Plan: Tonight, Overturn This World!

Watching the thin slip of paper in his palm turn to ash, Uchiha Xuan knew.

The final condition had also been met.

Orochimaru, that godsend of a teammate, had delivered the perfect assist at the most crucial moment.

Konoha's airtight barrier network and its ubiquitous ANBU patrol system would be forcibly torn open tonight, leaving a gap that would last half an hour!

Half an hour was enough for the Uchiha clan, with its thousand-plus elite ninja, to sweep everything away like a gale and vanish beyond the Forest of Death.

Xuan stepped out of his room and gently closed the door behind him.

He raised his head and looked at the crescent moon, mostly obscured by dark clouds.

The moonlight was dim tonight, and the wind was cold.

Perfect weather for murder and robbery—no, for the entire clan to make a run for it.

He wasted no more time. Through the Uchiha clan's secret communication network—specially made wind chimes hidden on every street corner—he issued the final order to every squad leader.

"Jingle..."

The crisp, urgent ringing of wind chimes sounded through the silent Uchiha Clan Grounds in an eerie rhythm.

The ANBU ninja on the perimeter, already scared witless and only daring to monitor them from afar, could not possibly understand its meaning.

But to every member of the Uchiha clan, that sound was a battle horn!

"All personnel, attention."

Xuan's voice, carried through chakra resonance, entered directly into the minds of Uchiha Setsuna, Uchiha Kagami, and every squad captain.

Cold, composed, devoid of the slightest emotion.

"Proceed according to the plan. In fifteen minutes, we move."

"All supplies, including explosive tags, soldier pills, and medical equipment, are to be loaded into sealing scrolls. Do not leave Konoha even a single needle!"

"All combat personnel, enter maximum alert! Activate your Sharingan and poison your kunai!"

"Remember, we are not fleeing for our lives. We are going to carve out new territory!"

"Anyone who lets us down, anyone who goes soft-hearted at a time like this—Konoha will not need to do a thing. I'll kill them first!"

The instant the order was received.

The entire Uchiha Clan Grounds remained deathly silent on the surface. Not even a dog barked.

Yet inside those tightly shut houses, it was like a precision war machine that had suddenly been filled to the brim with fuel, beginning to operate at a frenzied speed!

"Quick! Seal all this food away! Keep it down, don't make any noise!"

"Mom, where are we going?" A five- or six-year-old girl rubbed her sleepy eyes as she watched her mother frantically pack their belongings.

"Shh! Don't speak. Just follow Mommy obediently. Lord Xuan is taking us to a... to a wonderful place where no one will bully us anymore." The mother tightly covered her daughter's mouth. Her eyes were slightly red, but her gaze was exceptionally resolute.

In another house.

Uchiha Yan was stuffing kunai coated in deadly poison into his ninja pouch.

He licked his dry lips, his Three-Tomoe Sharingan gleaming with bloodthirsty light in the darkness.

"After holding it in for so many years, I can finally have a proper slaughter! Senju Tobirama, you old dog Danzo, wash your necks and wait!"

Beneath Nanga Shrine.

Uchiha Setsuna and Uchiha Kagami were calmly directing the final loading of supplies onto the carts.

"Kagami, you'll lead the Third Squad and protect the elderly, the weak, the women, and the children in the middle of the formation. I'll lead the First Squad and clear the way ahead!" Setsuna arranged everything with a grave expression.

"Understood." Kagami nodded. "But who's handling the rear guard?"

In a large-scale retreat, those assigned to the rear guard often faced the most frenzied pursuit. Their chances of survival were slim.

"Lord Xuan said so." Setsuna drew a deep breath, a flash of fanatical reverence passing through his eyes. "He and that lord will personally cover the rear!"

That lord!

Uchiha Kagami's heart jolted. Of course he knew whom Setsuna meant.

With those two godlike beings guarding the rear, this was not a retreat at all. It was practically leaving Konoha with an insurmountable Wall of Sighs!

Fifteen minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

When Uchiha Xuan's upright figure appeared at the gates of the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

Behind him stood more than four thousand Uchiha clansmen, a vast sea of black.

Not a single person spoke.

Only pairs of Sharingan lit up in the darkness, filled with resolve and killing intent.

More than four thousand pairs of eyes, utterly disappointed in this rotten village and yearning for a new world!

Xuan looked at the army that belonged entirely to him, and an exceedingly arrogant curve rose on his lips.

He suddenly turned around, facing the Hokage Building.

At that moment, his [Golden Flame Divine Eyes], burning with golden fire, seemed ready to pierce through the heavy night!

He took a deep breath and poured every last bit of the vast, abyss-like Sage Jutsu chakra within him into his voice!

This time, he did not use a secret technique to transmit his voice.

Instead, he used the loudest, most domineering voice to issue his final declaration to the entire Uchiha clan—and to Konoha, which was about to descend into chaos!

"The plan's code name..."

Xuan's voice exploded like thunder from the Ninth Heaven!

"'Genesis'!"

"Tonight!"

He drew the short blade from his waist, its edge flashing with a chilling gleam beneath the moonlight.

"The old Uchiha will die alongside this rotten village!"

"And the new Uchiha!"

He slashed his short blade forward, pointing directly toward the Forest of Death!

"Will, in our hands, amid blood and fire..."

"Gain eternal life!"

As his words fell.

"Boom!"

Uchiha Setsuna charged out first, like a panther in the night!

"Fight our way out of Konoha!"

Immediately after.

"Fight our way out of Konoha!"

"Follow Lord Xuan!"

More than four thousand Uchiha clansmen became a surging black flood bursting through a broken dam, completely casting aside all pretense and restraint.

They carried the rage they had suppressed for decades, along with an endless yearning for the future.

With a savage momentum that would never turn back, they thundered toward the barrier's blind spot!

A great defection that would overturn the history of the entire Ninja World began, on this seemingly peaceful night.

Its curtain had officially risen!

Meanwhile.

Inside the Hokage Building.

Senju Tobirama, who had been reviewing documents, suddenly felt his heart seize violently.

The brush in his hand uncontrollably dragged a long streak of ink across the document.

"This feeling..."

Tobirama abruptly raised his head and looked toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

Those red eyes were filled with unprecedented horror.

"That massive chakra fluctuation, enough to suffocate someone... the Uchiha clan..."

He shot to his feet, not even bothering as his chair was knocked over.

"They... actually dared?!"