System Upgrade LV2!

Watching the fervent clansmen below, Lu Ming maintained a dignified posture as his consciousness sank into his mind.

The Mangekyō Sharingan was his source of confidence, while the Super Family System was his greatest trump card.

Lu Ming had bound the system when he became the Uchiha Clan Head. By increasing the family's fortune value, he could raise the family level, and every upgrade would bring rewards.

The system panel showed that raising the family level from LV1 to LV2 required 1,000 fortune points.

Looking at the clansmen cheering in the inner hall and feeling the awe of the great clans and leadership outside,

Lu Ming knew the time was ripe.

The instant his consciousness locked onto the system panel, a mechanical prompt sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Detected that the host successfully held the clan head inauguration ceremony, shocking and inspiring awe in the Konoha Leadership and all major clans. The family's reputation has reached its peak in the outside world!]

[Ding! Detected that the host publicly revealed the bloodline of the Sage of Six Paths' descendants and established the ultimate goal of dominating the Shinobi World. The morale of the entire Uchiha Clan is soaring, while the family's cohesion and ambition have reached their peak!]

[Family fortune value is beginning to surge!]

[Fortune value +100!]

[Fortune value +300!]

[Fortune value +500!]

Lu Ming watched the rising numbers on the system panel.

The fortune-value progress bar broke through the threshold!

[Current family fortune value has exceeded 1,000 points!]

[Upgrade requirements met!]

[Congratulations, host. The Uchiha Family level has successfully upgraded to: LV2!]

With that prompt, a golden light flared in Lu Ming's mind.

The system's reward notification immediately followed!

[LV2-exclusive generous rewards unlocked: Basic Alchemy, Basic Bloodline Tempering Elixir Recipe!]

Lu Ming impatiently checked the detailed descriptions of the rewards.

[Basic Bloodline Tempering Elixir Recipe: By using Basic Alchemy to prepare specific medicinal herbs, one can refine Bloodline Tempering Elixir. After consumption, it can forcibly remove impurities from the body and purify the bloodline concentration of the Uchiha Clan!]

[Effect: Enhances the consumer's chakra quality and physical strength, breaks through ocular-power bottlenecks, and promotes the evolution of the Sharingan! It can help experts at the peak of Three Tomoe touch the threshold of the Mangekyō Sharingan!]

Lu Ming looked at the words on the panel and clenched his fists.

"Bloodline Tempering Elixir... It's actually a divine item capable of directly purifying bloodlines!"

The Uchiha Clan was extraordinarily gifted,

but the awakening and evolution of the Sharingan required harsh conditions, accompanied by mental stimulation.

This also meant that although the clan had many members, very few true elites could awaken the Three Tomoe, while the Mangekyō was a once-in-a-century rarity.

But now, with this Bloodline Tempering Elixir!

"As long as I can mass-produce this elixir, I can force clan members stuck at one tomoe and two tomoe to break through!"

Lu Ming tightened his grip on the elixir recipe.

"Furthermore, it can raise the bloodline concentration of the forty-three Three Tomoe elites in the Temple to a higher level, laying the foundation for the family to mass-produce Mangekyō Sharingan!"

This was a trump card capable of overturning the balance of power in the Shinobi World.

With this Bloodline Tempering Elixir,

nothing would be able to stop the Uchiha Clan's rise. It would become his ace in ruling the Shinobi World!

Meanwhile, far away in Kirigakure of the Land of Water.

The sky was gloomy, thick mist shrouded the village, and the air reeked of blood.

Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage, had just launched another round of slaughter within the village.

Kirigakure's waterways had been dyed dark red with blood, while severed limbs and the corpses of Kirigakure shinobi floated on the surface.

The Kekkei Genkai clans that had tried to resist the Blood Mist Village's policies were slaughtered overnight.

Inside a secret chamber deep within Kirigakure.

A man wearing a tiger-patterned mask and a black robe stood in the shadows.

He was Obito Uchiha, secretly controlled by Madara Uchiha's will and Black Zetsu.

Obito looked out at Kirigakure beyond the window.

The ground beside Obito rippled like water.

A half-black, half-white figure resembling a Venus flytrap emerged from underground.

It was the combined form of White Zetsu and Black Zetsu.

"Obito, something has changed in Konoha." White Zetsu grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth.

Obito did not turn around.

"A drastic change? It's nothing more than those two old relics, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo, playing their boring political games."

Obito snorted.

"As long as the Nine-Tails remains under our plan's control, even if Konoha turns upside down, it'll only be a slightly larger nest of ants."

White Zetsu shook his head.

"No, no, no. This time, it isn't the Konoha Leadership. It's your Uchiha Clan."

"That coward Fugaku Uchiha has officially stepped down as clan head. The new clan head is a sixteen-year-old brat named Uchiha Lu Ming."

Hearing this, Obito turned around.

"A sixteen-year-old brat became clan head?"

"Looks like the Uchiha Clan has truly declined. They've actually fallen so low that they need a brat to hold up their image. A clan like that should have been erased from the Shinobi World long ago."

In Obito's eyes, the current Uchiha were merely a flock of sheep raised by the Konoha Leadership. They could not stir up any real trouble.

White Zetsu's next words caught Obito off guard.

"You shouldn't underestimate that sixteen-year-old brat."

"Just last night, this Uchiha Lu Ming, Uchiha Shisui, and that Fugaku Uchiha you judged to be completely useless..."

White Zetsu paused before dropping a bombshell.

"The three of them awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan."

Obito froze where he stood.

"What did you say?!"

The Sharingan beneath Obito's mask widened.

He took half a step back. "Three pairs of Mangekyō?! How is that possible?!"

Obito's mind fell into chaos.

What did the Mangekyō Sharingan represent?

It was the legendary Eye of God of the Uchiha Clan, a power that could only be awakened through pain and despair.

In his original understanding,

aside from himself, no one in the Uchiha Clan could ever touch such power.

Especially Fugaku Uchiha, that clan head who only knew how to compromise and retreat.

In Obito's eyes, he was a useless man forgotten by everyone. What right did he have to awaken the Mangekyō?

Not to mention that obscure sixteen-year-old brat, Lu Ming!

The Uchiha had suddenly produced three whole pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan!

Such terrifying reserves completely overturned Obito's understanding of the current Uchiha Clan.

"And that's not all."

White Zetsu looked at Obito's utterly stunned expression and continued to fan the flames.

"This newly appointed Lu Ming is arrogant to the extreme."

"In front of all the Konoha Leadership and the major clans, he directly declared that the Uchiha and Senju were both descendants of the legendary Sage of Six Paths!"

At the words "descendants of the Sage of Six Paths," Obito snorted.

"An ignorant brat."

Obito forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart, though his words remained disdainful.

"To intimidate the Konoha Leadership, he actually dares to use a myth like the Sage of Six Paths to glorify himself."

"Does he think fabricating such a lie can frighten everyone away?"