The Ultimate Genjutsu

Among the descendants of the Sage of Six Paths, whether Uchiha, Senju, or Uzumaki, the power of the Otsutsuki bloodline had grown extremely faint.

Many ancestral traits had vanished, including eyes born as the Eternal Eye and Wood Release.

Fugaku set down the scroll and picked up another, older one. It contained accounts of the lives of powerful Uchiha.

He read on, finding descriptions of battles fought by the earliest Uchiha ancestors. Among them were accounts of Susanoo.

In the Uchiha's early days, the Six Paths bloodline ran strong. Once someone awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, their Susanoo was almost always a Complete Body.

Nor was there any risk of blindness.

But as time passed and the bloodline weakened, achieving a Complete Body Susanoo became exceedingly difficult. A half-bodied Susanoo was the limit.

The scroll said nothing about the Eternal Eye. Perhaps the Uchiha who wrote it had not wanted his descendants to turn on one another.

Yet the family's Heritage Stone Tablet remained at Naka Shrine. Fugaku could not quite fathom what his predecessor had been thinking. Anyone who awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan could read the method for attaining the Eternal Eye on the tablet.

He put down the scroll. The Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in his eyes as he surveyed the entire Secret Chamber.

He walked to the left side of the chamber, crouched, and easily pried up a floorboard. Beneath it lay a scroll marked "Forbidden Techniques."

The scroll looked old. Fugaku picked it up and slowly opened it.

The first technique listed was Izanagi. Before its description stood a conspicuous warning.

Izanagi was the ultimate genjutsu: at the cost of permanently blinding one eye with at least a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, it turned every circumstance unfavorable to the user into a dream.

Izanagi lasted sixty seconds. During that time,