The Vanishing Phantom, Forty-Three Three-Tomoe Sharingan!

Uchiha Yashiro gripped a kunai, his face filled with fervor.

As the captain of the Military Police Force, this Body Flicker thrust was a killing move honed through countless battles. No matter how strong Lu Ming was, if his heart was pierced at close range while he was unprepared, he would surely die!

"Lu Ming, this is the consequence of your treason!" Yashiro roared sternly.

However, the fervor on Yashiro's face froze and turned to horror.

The hand holding his kunai had stabbed into thin air.

Before the eyes of everyone present, ripples spread across the surface of Lu Ming's body, whose chest had been "pierced" by the kunai.

Splash—

Lu Ming's body turned into countless black crows and vanished into the air amid a chorus of caws!

"Genjutsu?!"

Yashiro's heart shook violently. He was an Elite Jonin who had awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, yet he had not noticed when Lu Ming had formed hand seals or cast the genjutsu at all!

"Yashiro, your Body Flicker Technique is too slow."

Lu Ming's voice sounded beside Yashiro's ear.

Every hair on Yashiro's body stood on end as he abruptly tried to turn his head.

But he no longer had the chance.

A palm emerged from thin air and pressed down on Yashiro's right shoulder.

Bang!!!

Terrifying power, accompanied by chakra, poured down through that palm!

Yashiro did not even have time to let out a muffled groan before his entire body was slammed down, his knees crashing heavily into the stone floor.

The bluestone tiles instantly shattered. Spiderweb cracks spread in every direction as shards of rock flew everywhere!

"Urgh—!"

Yashiro let out a pained, low roar and desperately tried to circulate the chakra within his body to stand.

But he discovered that the hand pressing on his shoulder had pinned him in place so thoroughly that he could not move even a single finger!

Cold sweat poured from Yashiro's forehead, soaking his back.

Lu Ming's true body appeared beside Yashiro. He looked down at the kneeling man with cold, indifferent eyes.

The entire venue fell silent.

Everyone was stunned by the sudden reversal.

One move!

Just one move. He had not even used ninjutsu. With a single hand pressing down, he had forced Uchiha Yashiro—the captain of the Military Police Force and a Three-Tomoe Elite Jonin—to kneel helplessly, even shattering the ground beneath him!

Such exquisite, seal-less genjutsu and such overbearing physical strength were terrifyingly powerful!

"Captain Yashiro!"

After a brief silence, Uchiha Inabi was the first to react.

Watching the leader of his faction be forced to kneel in public, Inabi's eyes nearly split apart as rage overwhelmed his reason.

"Release Captain Yashiro!"

Inabi roared and drew the ninja blade from his back.

At the same time, the dozen or so Military Police Force higher-ups behind him also drew their weapons. Brimming with killing intent, they rushed forward and surrounded Lu Ming.

More than a dozen ninja blades pointed at Lu Ming in unison. Pairs of scarlet Sharingan locked onto his every movement, as though they would chop him to pieces at the slightest disagreement.

Faced with the encirclement of over a dozen elites, Lu Ming remained calm. He did not even glance at the blades around him, a mocking expression on his face.

"You want to save your companion? With just you lot?"

Lu Ming's voice echoed through the vast underground chamber.

The instant his words fell, fierce winds stirred the air throughout the underground chamber of Naka Shrine.

Dozens of dull whooshes tore through the air in rapid succession, merging into a deafening roar.

Figures clad in dark combat uniforms burst forth from every direction and every blind spot of the venue!

These figures were unbelievably fast. In the blink of an eye, they had surrounded Inabi and the dozen or so Military Police Force higher-ups instead!

There were forty-three of them!

"Who are you people?!"

Inabi's face changed drastically. He tightened his grip on his ninja blade and looked around.

When he clearly saw the people who had suddenly appeared around him, Inabi's breathing stopped.

It was not just Inabi. Fugaku Uchiha, seated in the main seat, the seven elders on the raised platform, and every Uchiha clansman present all drew sharp breaths, their scalps tingling.

These forty-three people were all young juniors nurtured under Lu Ming's command!

Each of them radiated the iron-blooded killing intent of someone who had undergone real training and hardship.

What was most terrifying was the composition of their strength.

The thirty people on the outer perimeter possessed steady, condensed chakra fluctuations. Every one of them was a genuine elite Chunin!

As for the thirteen standing in the innermost ring, directly holding kunai to the vital points of Inabi and the others, their chakra was incomparably violent—they were true Elite Jonin!

"Sharingan... activate!"

Tekka Uchiha, standing at the front, gave a low shout.

Buzz—!!!

The next second, a horrifying scene that no one could ever forget appeared.

Within the dim underground chamber, forty-three pairs of scarlet eyes lit up at once.

Like forty-three blood-red lamps ignited in the darkness of night, they dyed the air throughout the venue crimson.

Within every pair of eyes, three black tomoe spun conspicuously, radiating a cold and sinister aura!

Forty-three pairs of Three-Tomoe Sharingan!

Moreover, all forty-three of them were members of the younger generation under twenty years old!

The immense ocular power gathered together, forming a tangible spiritual pressure that crushed down upon everyone's nerves.

The underground chamber of Naka Shrine fell silent.

Everyone's minds had completely gone blank.

One had to understand that the evolution of the Sharingan was incredibly difficult. It required intense emotional stimulation and tempering at the edge of life and death.

Before this, throughout the entire Uchiha Clan, including Clan Head Fugaku, the Elders Council, and the upper ranks of the Military Police Force, fewer than twenty people in total had awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan!

Fewer than twenty people—this was the foundation that allowed the Uchiha Clan to stand as Konoha's foremost clan!

But now, Lu Ming alone—

Merely among the young juniors he had nurtured, he had produced a full forty-three Three-Tomoe elites!

What kind of concept was that?

It meant that the power Lu Ming held had already completely surpassed the combined conventional combat strength of the entire Uchiha Family!

This suddenly revealed force was powerful enough to sweep aside any shinobi clan in all of Konoha!

"H-How could this be possible..."

The Great Elder's hand trembled as he leaned on his cane. His cloudy old eyes were filled with shock.

"Forty-three Three Tomoe... all youths under twenty... Even during the Warring States Era, when the family was at its peak, there was never such an outrageous ratio!"

After a brief silence, the clansmen in the venue erupted into an uproar.

"My god, Tekka and the others have all awakened the Three Tomoe."

"How did Lord Lu Ming do it? Even if he saved these people on the battlefield, he could not possibly make every one of them evolve to Three Tomoe!"

"Could it be... could Lord Lu Ming possess some top-secret method capable of forcibly accelerating the Sharingan's evolution?!"

The moment that speculation emerged—

Everyone's breathing became incredibly heavy, and their eyes toward Lu Ming filled with fervor and awe.

If Lu Ming truly possessed a secret method to mass-produce Three-Tomoe Sharingan, then the day the Uchiha Clan dominated the Shinobi World would not be far off!

Fugaku Uchiha sat in the main seat with a pale face, staring at those forty-three pairs of cold Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

At last, he understood why Lu Ming had convened this emergency clan meeting today, and why he had publicly called for Fugaku's impeachment.

This power was Lu Ming's overwhelming confidence.

Before such immense strength, the authority and prestige he possessed as clan head were nothing more than a joke that could be punctured with one poke.

"Lord Lu Ming, with one command from you, we will execute these traitors who have defied their superiors on the spot!"

The kunai in Tekka Uchiha's hand was already pressed against Inabi's neck. As long as Lu Ming nodded, he would slit the other man's throat without hesitation.

Inabi and the others, trapped in the encirclement, were drenched in sweat. The hands holding their blades trembled, and they did not dare make the slightest suspicious movement.

"Stand down."

Lu Ming's expression remained indifferent as he withdrew the hand from Yashiro's shoulder.

Whoosh!

The forty-three young elites did not utter a single unnecessary word. In perfect unison, they put away their weapons and stepped back half a pace, but those forty-three Three-Tomoe Sharingan remained fixed upon the Military Police Force members.

Lu Ming looked at Yashiro, who was drenched in cold sweat and slumped on the ground, then glanced at the uncertain Inabi and the others before speaking.

"Naka Shrine is a sacred place where our ancestors are honored. Resorting to violence during a clan meeting is improper."

"Yashiro, as captain of the Military Police Force, do you not even understand such basic decorum?"

This rebuke, carrying the authority of a superior, made Yashiro's face flush red, yet he could not offer a single word in rebuttal.

"Inabi, you all stand down as well!"

Upon hearing Fugaku's command, Inabi and the others felt as though they had been pardoned. They hurriedly sheathed their ninja blades and retreated dejectedly behind Fugaku.

Fugaku stepped down from the main seat and walked straight up to Lu Ming.

The two locked eyes.

On one side stood the current clan head, who had endured in silence for many years. On the other stood an unmatched genius who commanded terrifying power.

"Lu Ming, the strength you displayed today has exceeded everyone's expectations."

Fugaku stared into Lu Ming's eyes, suppressing anger and unwillingness in his voice.

"But the Uchiha Clan cannot be forcibly ruled by strength alone."

"You bypassed me to convene a clan meeting and even publicly declared that you would impeach me. Fine, I will give you that opportunity!"

Fugaku raised his voice, and it echoed through the underground chamber.

"If you wish to impeach me, then you must give every clansman present, and the Elders Council, a concrete reason that they can accept!"

"Otherwise, no matter how strong you are, it will be difficult for you to win everyone over!"

"A concrete reason?"

Lu Ming immediately let out a cold laugh upon hearing that.

Facing Fugaku directly, his gaze icy and sharp, he advanced step by step.

"Fugaku, I do not deny that you have worked diligently for the family all these years."

Lu Ming's voice rang out forcefully.

"But your personality is weak to the extreme!"

Fugaku had just opened his mouth when Lu Ming brutally cut him off.

"You lack courage! Your will is utterly indecisive!"

Pointing at Fugaku's nose, Lu Ming berated him sternly before the entire clan.

"After Nine-Tails Night, the Konoha Leadership suspected us without any evidence and forcibly made us relocate our clan grounds. You compromised."

"ANBU monitored our clan grounds around the clock every day, and you allowed it."

"The villagers complained bitterly about the Military Police Force, yet aside from telling us to endure it, you did nothing."

Lu Ming's questions came like a raging storm, forcing Fugaku back again and again.

"You thought your concessions could earn the leadership's trust? Wrong! Completely wrong!"

"Your weakness will only make Danzo and the Third Hokage think the Uchiha are soft persimmons they can squeeze however they please!"

Lu Ming turned around and spread his arms, facing every stunned clansman in the venue as he threw out a bombshell powerful enough to overturn everything.

"Are you still dreaming of peace? Open your eyes and look at the current situation."

"The leadership's patience with us has already run out. Their butcher's blade has long been placed against our throats."

"With Fugaku's weak character, he simply cannot lead the Uchiha through this unprecedented crisis of clan extermination."

A crisis of clan extermination!

The moment those four words were spoken, an icy wind seemed to sweep through the entire underground chamber. Everyone's eyes widened in terror.

"Utter nonsense!"

Several diehard supporters behind Fugaku could no longer restrain themselves. They stepped forward and loudly refuted him.

"What clan extermination crisis? That is pure alarmism! Why would Konoha ever move against us?"

Inabi pointed at Lu Ming and roared himself hoarse.

"Lu Ming, fabricating such a horrifying lie proves that you intend to seize power through armed force!"