Supervision

Although the remaining five people had not opened their eyes, the Tomoe in their eyes moved more smoothly than five days ago, and their auras were more concentrated.

They didn't come out feeling dejected; instead, they exuded an inexplicable composure—perhaps they knew where the gap lay and how to catch up.

Natsu received the report, she leaned back in her rocking chair and scanned the data.

Of the ten people, five Awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, three of whom were already just one step away from Elder, and two of the remaining seven Awakening.

This ratio is indeed high, but not outrageous—the first batch of Night Owl Guard were almost all veterans who participated in the Summit War. Their eye power had already been tempered to the critical point by that great war, and the Phantom Night Prison was just the last straw that broke the camel's back.

After this batch of top-tier Kage Level fighters finishes their turn, subsequent members of the clan will probably need to go through the process two or three more times before they can even touch the threshold of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

He has rarely appeared outside of the Naka Shrine these days.

Aside from occasionally instructing Setsuna to adjust the rotation order of the Heavenly Awakening Hall and having Fugaku keep a close eye on the research and development progress of the Gene Serum, he delegated most of the clan affairs to the Elder Council.

The Uchiha is not lacking in average combat strength— Jonin Earth Flow, and there are nearly a hundred Kage Level. Any small team they take out can roam freely Four Blues.

But besides himself, only Fugaku was truly capable of leading the team to attack and directly confronting the Admiral-Emperor Level opponents.

The combination of Yaoyu and Yakumi can barely reach the threshold of the Admiral-Emperor Level. Individually, they are about the same as Marco, perhaps slightly stronger, but there is no qualitative difference.

Kei and the Yashiro are on the same level.

They had just been injected with the Origin Drug, and it would take them Setsuna time to catch up with Kei and Yashiro.

Looking across the entire ocean, such a high-end combat configuration is enough to crush any of the Four Emperors' crews—as long as the opponent is not an anomaly like the Red-Haired Pirates, which have two Emperors in command.

But Natsu's expectations for the Uchiha were never just about "crushing" them.

What he wanted was for the Uchiha Clan to have the ability to conquer an entire world on their own, regardless of whether he was present or not.

Therefore, he planned to consciously slow down the Uchiha's expansion, no longer personally dealing with every enemy in his way, but instead turning this sea into a giant whetstone.

Let the Elder Council make the decisions, let the Night Owl Guard tackle the challenges, and let the Heavenly Star Guard and Earthly Chief Guard maintain order.

He wanted every member of his clan to learn to Sharingan, even without his protection.

The day when the Uchiha can conquer everything without him will be the day they become true God Race.

Time seems to flow exceptionally fast on Origin Island.

The duty roster at the Heavenly Awakening Hall changed three times, three more pairs of newly awakened Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in the Phantom Night Prison, the girl with the ponytail on the Training Ground could finally complete six hand seals in one go, and Uchiha Natsu's daily life was neatly divided in two.

Half was left for Sasuke, and the other half was given to the clansmen who had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan but were still repeatedly stumbling at the threshold of Sage Mode.

Sasuke's progress was even faster than he had anticipated.

A nine-year-old child has limited physical strength, so Natsu never lets him overexert himself in physical training. Instead, she trains him in actual combat more often.

The Shadow Clone ' attacks became increasingly cunning, and Sasuke's body was covered in bruises one after another, but the kid stubbornly refused to cry out in pain.

Every time he gets beaten down, the first thing he says when he gets up is always "Again!"

As for Sage Mode, the situation is not so worry-free.

Natsu's cultivation was almost instantaneous— Kunwu's inherited memories directly instilled the most crucial key points into his mind. Indra's Eye itself contained the Six Paths Power of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and with the complete Sage Body rewarded by the system as a foundation, absorbing Natural Energy was as natural as breathing for him.

He even wondered if Hashirama Senju had found Sage Mode training so easy back then.

However, this ease does not apply to other members of the tribe.

The threshold for Sage Mode is not the Mangekyo Sharingan, nor the amount of Chakra, but Susanoo.

The Guardian Spirit lurking deep within the soul of every Uchiha is essentially a sleeping beast—it can shield you from harm and split mountains for you, but it has almost no "active consciousness."

You have to let it absorb the power of nature on an instinctive level, and then feed back to the host through the soul link. The difficulty of this is roughly equivalent to teaching a stone to read.

Natsu was able to take a shortcut because he had Kunwu to communicate with Susanoo for him, but the other members of his tribe had nothing and could only rely on themselves to grind things out using the most rudimentary methods.

Uchiha Fugaku was the first to wear down the threshold.

He spent a full six months on and off, spending every day either handling the Nightingale Guard's official duties or immersing himself in the underground training room. Even Mikoto said he was more patient than when he was pursuing her back then.

Uchiha Kei followed closely behind, and the two of them almost touched the edge of the natural power one after the other, beginning to enter the most basic absorption stage.

Another month passed, and the Yaoyu and the Yakumi finally crossed the threshold simultaneously.

These twin brothers are unmatched in their Lightning Release: Twin Duet Dance, but Sage Mode doesn't recognize their tacit understanding— the Susanoo independently, and their Natural Energy fight separately, causing the two forces that should complement each other to instead hinder each other.

Just as I was getting the hang of the Yaoyu, the Yakumi started fluctuating.

Just when the Yakumi had been calmed down, the Yaoyu exploded again.

The two of them went through this back-and-forth for seven months, one attacking and the other defending, before finally managing to train their respective Susanoo to obey them.

As for Yashiro, Setsuna, Tekka, Taoho, and the later batches of Night Owl Guard members who newly Awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan in the Phantom Night Prison, they are all still stuck at the stage of communicating with Susanoo.

The Yashiro's Mangekyo Sharingan "Year-Punishing Deity" leans towards contracts and constraints, and his perception of the soul level is more acute than others. However, the more acute he is, the easier it is for Susanoo the chaotic instincts of Susanoo—he has tried hundreds of times, and each time he has failed.

In Setsuna, she had a good mindset. Her face, which looked decades younger, never showed any impatience. After finishing her cultivation every day, she could leisurely go and review the official documents of the Earthly Chief Guard.

Tekka and Taoho weren't so calm. The two were secretly competing, each trying to outdo the other by cultivating for an extra hour. Unfortunately Susanoo n't buying it.

Quan's progress was the most unexpected for Natsu.

Her Mangekyo Sharingan was activated for him. In terms of combat experience, she was far inferior to the veterans of the Night Owl Guard, and in terms of Chakra reserves, she couldn't compare to Fugaku, a veteran Kage Level who had received Hashirama Cells.

But her perception of Susanoo was more refined than anyone else's—she could precisely control that semi-activated state, which was between reality and illusion, in a very short time.