Defeating Shisui into Submission

The two stood facing each other, each forming an opposing hand seal.

Then Shisui looked at Hane. "Since that's the case, Hane, it seems I have no choice but to use my full strength!"

As he spoke, Shisui's eyes instantly turned red. First came the Three-Tomoe, then they spun rapidly, forming the shape of a windmill.

Watching Shisui's movements, Hane was slightly taken aback. "Could Shisui be planning to use Kotoamatsukami on himself? That would just be asking for trouble."

Of course, Hane was only joking to himself. Setting aside the fact that Shisui was not that kind of person, if he really did it, Shisui would be the first to suffer. The Eye of Truth between Hane's brows was not just for show. A mental backlash alone could turn Shisui into an idiot.

"It seems Big Brother Shisui has quite a few secrets hidden away as well," Hane said calmly.

"I never expected that, at such a young age, you already knew what these eyes represented!" Shisui regarded Hane even more seriously.

"Tch! It's just the Mangekyō. What's there to act so smug about?" Uchiha Retsuyō muttered disdainfully from the side.

"Are you proud just because you have the Mangekyō? Weren't you still beaten so badly by your own young clan head that you couldn't fight back?"

Shisui naturally heard Uchiha Retsuyō's muttering. He turned and looked at him in surprise. He had not expected Uchiha Retsuyō, one of the radicals who had always loyally followed Hane, to be a clansman who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan as well.

At that moment, every last trace of luck vanished from his heart. He gripped the twin swords at his waist tightly and narrowed his eyes at Hane, who stood there casually.

Yet with that single glance, he suddenly felt an immense pressure bearing down on him. Hane, standing so casually, seemed like a towering mountain, radiating an impenetrable and heavy pressure from head to toe.

Hane let his powerful spiritual energy spill forth and simply watched Shisui silently as he gripped his twin swords but remained unable to draw them.

"Big Brother Shisui, begin your performance," Hane said, his eyes calm like a pool of utterly still dead water.

For any Uchiha who dared challenge him, Hane had to crush their pride first. Only then would they truly submit to him, in both body and heart.

As time dragged on, beads of sweat gradually appeared on Shisui's forehead. Accompanied by heavy breathing, his hands began to tremble slightly.

He wanted to draw the twin swords at his waist, but for some reason, whenever the thought of drawing them arose, a great terror would emerge in his heart, as though the Death God itself were watching him.

Shisui's Adam's apple moved slightly. The Mangekyō in his eyes spun madly as he tried to break free from Hane's powerful spiritual suppression.

His pride absolutely would not allow him to face Hane and be unable even to draw the blade in his hand.

In an instant, a powerful conviction filled his heart. The swords at his waist were drawn at once. A cold flash streaked through the air, and Shisui's figure vanished instantly.

A flicker of surprise passed through Hane's eyes. "As expected of Shisui. Trying to suppress him with spiritual pressure alone was clearly still underestimating him."

A sharp blade wind appeared behind Hane. He took a small step forward and instantly appeared fifty meters away.

Shisui's fierce slash struck nothing but empty air. "So fast! What technique was that?" Shisui's pupils contracted slightly.

Under the powerful vision of his Mangekyō, Hane's step forward had seemed as if the surrounding ground had suddenly contracted. By the time Hane reappeared, he was already outside Shisui's attack range.

"As expected of Body Flicker Shisui! Your speed truly is fast!" Hane turned slightly, praising him with a smile.

"Hane! Compared to you, what am I worth? I never thought there would be someone in the Uchiha who could use Earth Release to such a masterful degree. Hane, I have to admit that you are the strongest genius the Uchiha have seen in centuries!" A bitter smile appeared on Shisui's face.

Instantly compressing the surrounding earth to achieve the effect of teleportation—such mastery of Earth Release was probably beyond even the Kage of Iwagakure.

"Big Brother Shisui, this is only the beginning. Oh, and a friendly reminder: don't use Genjutsu on me. I'm afraid I might accidentally hurt you," Hane reminded him kindly.

The Eye of Truth's power was far too great, far beyond what Hane's current strength could control. Once he opened that vertical eye, his spiritual power would be drained dry in an instant.

That was why, despite possessing this eye, Hane had not dared use it carelessly. One second—that had been the limit of his initial experiment.

Yet even if Hane did not actively open the eye, the Eye of Truth's passive counterattack would still activate automatically. Once someone launched a mental attack against Hane, the backlash would no longer be within his control.

Shisui was stunned. He did not understand why Hane knew what he had been planning to do next, but he still stopped himself from using Genjutsu. Looking at Hane helplessly, he asked, "Can you tell me why?"

"Because some techniques are beyond my current ability to control. Once you use a mental Genjutsu against me, my mental counterattack will instantly strike straight at your soul. Big Brother Shisui, I don't want to hurt you." Hane smiled bitterly as well. Some things were not necessarily good just because they were too powerful.

In the end, strength had to remain within one's control. Bloodlines were different from Dao Arts. Even though Hane's control over his body had reached a minute level, he could not fully rely on the system to improve his control over the Eye of Truth. He needed to slowly familiarize himself with the newly emerged bloodline power bit by bit.

Yet that created a vicious cycle. He could only use the Eye of Truth for three seconds, and that was already the result of training until his spiritual power was exhausted during this period. If he wanted to quickly improve his bloodline power, the recovery rate of his current spiritual power was still far from enough.

Shisui nodded silently. He believed Hane would not deceive him about this, but even if he could not use Genjutsu, Shisui still did not want to admit defeat just like that.

Besides Genjutsu, he still had swordsmanship, the Body Flicker Technique, and Ninjutsu. It could be said that Shisui was a perfectly well-rounded ninja.

In an instant, Shisui launched another fierce attack at Hane.

The two figures darted rapidly around the entire training ground. Every time Shisui launched a fierce attack, Hane seemed to see it in advance and narrowly evaded it.

Each time, Hane moved like a sheet of paper drifting in the wind, brushing past Shisui's blade. This situation, where he could not harm Hane in the slightest, made Shisui increasingly alarmed as the fight continued.

His speed was something only the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, could rival in the Ninja World, while his swordsmanship had been inherited from the Second Hokage's sword techniques left behind by his grandfather.

With those two combined, even against a Kage Level expert, Shisui was confident he could fight for a while without losing. Yet against Hane, he felt nothing but deep helplessness.

With that technique that could compress the ground, the direction Hane moved with every step could change drastically. Combined with how Hane seemed able to predict his sword swings in advance, Hane was as slippery as an eel. Every slash struck empty air, powerless as striking cotton.

Shisui no longer knew how many times he had swung his blade. It seemed he had suffered a complete defeat in taijutsu. A wave of disappointment rose in his heart. Being surpassed by a clansman six years younger than himself did not feel good at all.

Shisui hurriedly pulled away from Hane and rapidly formed hand seals.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

"Water Release: Twin Water Dragon Technique!"

"Combination Ninjutsu: Twin Flood Dragons Playing with the Pearl!"

In an instant, an enormous fireball rushed head-on toward Hane, followed by two water dragons twisting around each other.

The scorching heat, along with the rapidly spreading mist, effectively obscured Hane's vision.

Seeing this, Hane smiled faintly, took a deep breath, and gently blew toward the massive fireball before him.

"Samadhi Divine Wind!"

A fierce gale instantly erupted, like countless Kamaitachi, blowing toward the fireball. The condensed fireball was immediately extinguished and scattered, yet the raging wind remained unaffected. Only after it blew the two ferocious water dragons high into the sky did it finally dissipate.

The entire battlefield fell silent. The trees in the forest had been blown crooked, and a light drizzle began to fall from the sky.

Shisui stared blankly at the longsword pressed against his throat. For a moment, he did not know what to do, and terror filled his eyes.

"When..." Shisui looked at Hane in disbelief.

He had clearly used a Shadow Clone to replace his true body while the mist spread. Why had Hane known at a glance that his real body was hiding here?

"Big Brother Shisui, do you still want to continue?" Hane asked with a faint smile.

Shisui deflated, lowering his head slightly. "Hane, it seems you have already surpassed me."

"Then what is Big Brother Shisui's decision?" Hane continued.

Shisui raised his head and looked at Hane, his expression becoming incomparably solemn. "Hane, I hope you can lead me to see the light!"

Hane tilted his head with a slight smile and withdrew the longsword from Shisui's throat. "Welcome aboard, Big Brother Shisui!" Hane extended a small hand toward him.

Shisui hesitated for a moment, then tightly clasped Hane's hand.