Not Bad, I Thought My Original Sharingan Had Been Destroyed

"If you're comfortable with it, I can use the Sharingan's ocular power to meet the Nine-Tails within your seal."

Although Uchiha Yansheng still called his eyes Sharingan, they actually had very little to do with the Sharingan anymore.

The thing formed by gathering the ocular power of countless Byakugan should have been called the Tenseigan.

But Uchiha Yansheng's eyes were not Byakugan, nor were they remotely pure.

As a result, they had transformed into some unknown form. Their abilities seemed stronger than the Sharingan's, but that was built upon an enormous amount of ocular power.

If one spoke purely of ocular evolution, his eyes had probably embarked upon an erroneous path of evolution.

Hmm... thinking about it carefully, the Sharingan itself seemed to be an erroneous evolutionary path too.

"Of course. I trust you."

Kushina Uzumaki's unhesitating words snapped Uchiha Yansheng out of his thoughts.

Without hesitating, Uchiha Yansheng followed that trace of ocular power into Kushina Uzumaki's sealing space.

It was different from the Nine-Tails' dark, damp prison in the original story, where water had pooled across the floor.

Kushina's sealing space was much sunnier. Though it was barren and filled with rocks, the bright light said it all.

It seemed that even though Minato had fallen asleep, he had not allowed Kushina's mental world to become gloomy.

"Yo, Kurama. That tied-up look of yours is pretty distinctive. It's got a bit of artistic flair."

After entering, the most eye-catching sight was naturally the Nine-Tails, bound to a massive ball of earth.

"Brat... who are you? How do you know that name?!"

The Nine-Tails seemed enraged by Uchiha Yansheng's words. Boundless hatred and malice rushed at him, as if it would drown him whole.

Yet compared to the malice within Minato Namikaze, the Nine-Tails' malice seemed far weaker.

"As for me, I'm merely someone who can see part of the past and future."

"Come to think of it, you were much cuter when you were little. Why did you get uglier as you grew up...?"

As he spoke, Uchiha Yansheng used some chakra to shape the Nine-Tails' younger form nearby.

Seeing what he had looked like as a child, the Nine-Tails fell into brief silence, as though he had returned to the days just after his birth.

But Kushina's laughter quickly jolted him awake.

"Oh my, so this was what Kurama looked like when he was little? He really was much cuter than he is now. Was it because he didn't eat well?"

Enraged by Kushina's laughter, the Nine-Tails began struggling, making the chains binding his limbs rattle in succession.

"Damn woman, tailed beasts do not need to eat."

At the moment, the Nine-Tails' words carried no intimidation whatsoever.

Perhaps because of Uchiha Yansheng's earlier introduction to the Nine-Tails, Kushina Uzumaki's fear of Kurama had gradually begun to fade after learning about his past...

"Brat, your eyes... contain too much power. They're about to lose control!"

For some unknown reason, Kurama suddenly spoke to Uchiha Yansheng.

"Mm, I know."

Uchiha Yansheng had known this long ago and showed no concern.

Kushina Uzumaki, on the other hand, looked at Uchiha Yansheng with concern.

"All right, what exactly did you want to say after meeting me? If you want to ask about the Sage of Six Paths, I can only tell you that he is in the Pure Land. As for whether that counts as death, I can't say."

"Right now, Otsutsuki Hagoromo is probably alive in the form of a chakra lifeform."

Uchiha Yansheng had never had much patience, so he directly told the Nine-Tails what he most wanted to know.

After a moment of silence, Kurama suddenly said, "The one who ambushed Minato before was an existence on the same level as the old man. I have sensed his presence before..."

"..."

After leaving the sealing space, Uchiha Yansheng sorted through the information he had obtained and began studying sealing techniques under Kushina Uzumaki.

As for what the Nine-Tails had said, it was not important for now.

Originally, Uchiha Yansheng had thought that since he had mastered so many sealing techniques through self-study with his own talent, learning from Kushina would be quick as well.

But once he truly began learning, he discovered just how vast the difference was between ordinary sealing techniques and those mastered by the Uzumaki Clan.

Though it might slow the progress of his research, Uchiha Yansheng still decided to properly study sealing techniques. At the same time, he was glad inwardly.

Fortunately, he had changed the Nine-Tails' Attack and saved Kushina Uzumaki. Otherwise, if he wanted to learn complete sealing techniques, he would first have needed to master Impure World Reincarnation.

More likely, if he had never met Kushina, he might never have realized how great the gap was between the sealing techniques circulated outside and those of the Uzumaki Clan.

Thus, Uchiha Yansheng's daily routine changed. Aside from the occasional experiment, he would come to Kushina Uzumaki's place to study sealing techniques.

On his first day there, Uchiha Yansheng did not see Naruto Uzumaki.

It was not until the next day that Uchiha Yansheng learned Naruto had already begun attending the ninja academy.

In the original plot, Naruto had enrolled early, so Uchiha Yansheng did not pay much attention to it.

Perhaps because Konoha Village lacked anything like a kindergarten, Naruto went to the ninja academy whenever Kushina Uzumaki was busy?

In any case, ANBU had always protected Naruto, so there were no concerns about his safety.

As time passed, Uchiha Yansheng became familiar with Naruto as well.

If the Naruto of the original story was someone who looked like an idiot but was actually a hidden genius...

Then the current Naruto was a genius inside and out. At such a young age, he had already mastered quite a few sealing techniques, and his various academy grades ranked among the best.

At the same time, as if guided by fate, Naruto and Sasuke began competing after they met. The two often worked hard to surpass each other in one ability or another.

Come to think of it, because Kushina had not died, Naruto and Sasuke had grown up bickering together since childhood. They could be considered brothers on another level.

Naruto at this stage was undoubtedly extremely proud.

However, after he and Uchiha Yansheng received Kushina Uzumaki's instruction together, all of Naruto's arrogance vanished.

Although Uchiha Yansheng was older, with the same sealing technique, he could basically reproduce it after looking at it twice.

Naruto, however, could not even get started. He could not understand some of them at all and could only practice the most basic sealing techniques.

Uchiha Yansheng believed that he learned sealing techniques slowly, but both Naruto and Kushina Uzumaki had long since been thoroughly humbled by his learning speed.

After some time, Uchiha Yansheng successfully mastered powerful sealing techniques such as the Four Symbols Seal.

After learning them, Uchiha Yansheng modified the hundred thousand Byakugan within his body once more and placed an Eight Trigrams Seal upon them.

This sealing technique had been modified by Uchiha Yansheng with reference to the seal on Naruto Uzumaki's body. Besides completely restricting the enormous Byakugan ocular power within him, it would slowly release some of it from the seal to alter his body.

Though such a seal would slightly reduce his chakra control, given his own chakra control, such a minor decline was insignificant.

More importantly, after he completed all this, the strange patterns in Uchiha Yansheng's eyes finally faded away, revealing his original Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Only, deep within the pupils of those Three-Tomoe Sharingan, faint traces of a rich blue glow still remained.

"Not bad. I thought my original Sharingan had already been destroyed."