Meeting Change with Constancy—If You Dare, Come Find Me at the Uchiha Clan

Naruto Uzumaki's words revealed a great deal of useful information.

With only a little thought, Uchiha Yansheng had already pieced together most of the situation.

They had probably sent Kushina Uzumaki because of her exceptional sealing techniques.

Returning from the dead...

There were very few ninjutsu in the Ninja World that could truly bring back the dead, and none of them were possessed by Konoha Village at the moment.

Putting it all together, Impure World Reincarnation was the only explanation.

Danzo had the Reverse Four Symbols Seal on his body. Logically speaking, he should not have left behind a corpse, so this could only have been a preparation Danzo had made while he was alive.

Of course, it was also possible that Danzo had not died at all.

After all, Uchiha Yansheng had never personally seen Danzo's corpse. Fake information was perfectly normal.

But news of Danzo being revived through Impure World Reincarnation appearing at this time...

It had no meaning at all!

Forget it. There was no need to bother with all that mess. He just needed to be careful himself.

As Uchiha Yansheng pondered, he turned and returned home. He gave instructions to Zero-Two, the Nohara Rin Unit responsible for keeping watch, raising the alert level to its highest setting and expanding its range to cover the entire Konoha Village.

Within all of Konoha Village, anyone who developed hostile intentions toward him would be detected by Zero-Two.

For those with particularly intense hostility, Zero-Two would notify Uchiha Yansheng and mark their location.

Soon afterward, Uchiha Yansheng spotted a blinking little red dot on the map of Konoha Village hanging in his room.

"Uh... was it really that simple? I'm starting to suspect this is a trap."

After thinking it over, Uchiha Yansheng still decided not to involve himself in this excitement for the time being.

If it had been the original Danzo Shimura, who controlled Root and had always coveted the Uchiha Clan, he would have been a major threat.

But now, he was a commander without troops, and still in the state of Impure World Reincarnation.

He was certainly a threat, but apparently not much of one. He was the kind that could be completely ignored.

Moreover, Uchiha Yansheng suspected that some sort of trap might be waiting beside Danzo Shimura, one specifically aimed at him.

He did not think he was invincible or that he had nothing to fear.

Therefore, Uchiha Yansheng not only had no intention of going himself, but also did not plan to send Shadow Clones or any artificial humans he had created. He would simply pretend he knew nothing about it.

Meet change with constancy. If you had the ability, then come find me at the Uchiha Clan.

That night, a former Root member secretly infiltrated the Uchiha Clan and received round after round of genjutsu from several pairs of Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Only when day broke was he tightly bound and openly escorted to the Hokage's office in full view of all Konoha Village residents.

In this ninja world, intelligence was valued to an excessive degree, to the point that civilians and ninjas often lived in two entirely different worlds.

Thus, when Uchiha Yansheng ordered that the criminal be publicly escorted before all the villagers, he met opposition from nearly everyone.

But clearly, opposition had no effect on Uchiha Yansheng. At present, no one in the entire Uchiha Clan could challenge his authority.

After all, even the clan head had taken the lead in surrendering.

All of this created today's exceptionally lively scene. Villagers, merchants, and nobles watched the Uchiha Clan escort the criminal as though they were watching a performance.

Hiruzen Sarutobi found the situation quite troubling as well.

He could only keep comforting himself inwardly: as long as they did not betray the village, he would let them do as they pleased...

It looked as though this Hokage was being rather spineless, but in truth, this was also a kind of wisdom.

That night, the Uchiha Clan once again held its regular clan meeting.

Uchiha Yansheng had not originally intended to attend, but because of what had happened during the day, he needed to keep things under control. He could not let those Uchiha Clan members act however they pleased.

And sure enough, the result was exactly as Uchiha Yansheng had expected.

At the clan meeting, certain signs had already appeared. There were always people who treated power that did not belong to them as their own.

Since this had happened, Uchiha Yansheng naturally needed to let those fools blinded by vanity understand what true power was, lest they cause trouble.

The will of the strong was not something they could fathom.

Next, Uchiha Yansheng laid down several rules to keep various troublesome people from causing him problems.

Hokage? He was merely the leader of a small village. What was there to covet about the position?

After the clan meeting ended, Uchiha Yansheng noticed that two or three members of the Uchiha Clan had released some summoning beasts.

Well, they were probably reporting to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

It was truly laughable. The people who had been shouting about rebellion and nominating Uchiha Yansheng as Hokage one moment were informing Hiruzen Sarutobi the next.

However, Uchiha Yansheng had no intention of punishing them. None of it mattered to him.

He briefly checked Danzo Shimura's location and found that it seemed not to have changed at all. Had no one found him yet?

Afterward, Uchiha Yansheng ignored them and instead reviewed some of the Uchiha Clan's records concerning the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Setting aside the Uchiha Clan's worship of the Mangekyo Sharingan, the records themselves were somewhat useful.

Furthermore, in order to recreate the glory of the Mangekyo Sharingan, the Uchiha Clan's ancestors had truly made quite a few attempts.

Naturally, this included casting genjutsu, human dissection, and deliberately or passively creating love, tragedies, and similar events.

As for the results, Obito Uchiha could serve as an example.

Izanagi and Izanami had emerged during this process, and the Uchiha Clan had nearly been wiped out because of it.

So the later Uchiha Clan members simply gave up.

It would be best if a Mangekyo Sharingan appeared, but it did not matter if one did not.

As for why the Uchiha Clan only had some Three-Tomoe Sharingan preserved and no Mangekyo Sharingan...

That was naturally because nearly every generation of the Uchiha Clan exhausted the ocular power of their Mangekyo Sharingan, leaving nothing behind.

"It seemed that exchanging eyes between brothers to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was a phenomenon discovered only during Madara Uchiha's era."

"That made sense. Mangekyo Sharingan were already rare enough. It was even rarer for biological brothers to both awaken them. For both to awaken Mangekyo Sharingan and then exchange eyes was rarer still."

"However, Izuna Uchiha was already dead when Madara Uchiha exchanged eyes. If he had still been alive, could they have awakened two pairs of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan by exchanging their eyes?"

This question arose in Uchiha Yansheng's mind. After all, the process of awakening the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was not the fusion of the ocular power of two Mangekyo Sharingan, but the replacement of one pair of eyes.

After all, in Madara Uchiha's era, Madara Uchiha's original Mangekyo Sharingan had already exhausted their ocular power and completely lost their sight, which was why he inherited Izuna Uchiha's eyes.

Originally, Madara Uchiha had intended to inherit his younger brother's eyes and continue fighting. He had never expected to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan...

After thinking for a long while, Uchiha Yansheng decided he would conduct an experiment in the future. For now, he should first find a way to clone Mangekyo Sharingan.

Mangekyo Sharingan could definitely be cloned. There had already been successful examples in the original story. All he needed to do now was find the specific method.

At worst, he would use brute force and spend more money and time.

The existence of the Mangekyo Sharingan was not merely a Kekkei Genkai. It was connected to things such as the soul, or perhaps emotions.

As for the soul, Uchiha Yansheng had no solution for it yet.

But when it came to emotions...

Uchiha Yansheng remembered that in his previous life, there seemed to be something called endocrine hormones that could influence the body's joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.