"Arrogant brat! At death's door and still talking tough! Seize him!"
Utatane Koharu was thoroughly enraged by Uchiha Gen'yō's attitude and let out a shrill roar!
The four Anbu ninja behind her hesitated no longer. Chakra surged from their bodies as they instantly formed hand seals!
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
The wind fanned the flames. A massive fireball over five meters in diameter, mingled with fierce winds that could slice through anything, hurtled viciously toward Uchiha Gen'yō like a miniature sun, roaring deafeningly!
This combination ninjutsu was powerful enough to raze a house in an instant!
"Gen'yō! Watch out!"
Uchiha Fugaku's expression changed drastically. His Mangekyō Sharingan activated instantly as he prepared to unleash Susanoo to block it.
The other Uchiha clansmen also paled in horror. Quite a few even closed their eyes, unable to bear the sight of Gen'yō being swallowed by flames.
Yet faced with this world-destroying strike, Uchiha Gen'yō could not even be bothered to move.
He simply stood there with his hands in his pockets, his eyes full of contempt, as though what was rushing toward him were not lethal ninjutsu but an insignificant warm breeze.
At the very instant that enormous fireball was about to touch his body!
Something bizarre happened!
Less than half a meter from his body, the raging flames seemed to strike an invisible wall. A mysterious force instantly distorted and tore them apart before they vanished into thin air!
Not even a spark or a wisp of smoke remained!
It was as though... another dimension had swallowed them!
"What?!"
The four Anbu ninja's pupils abruptly contracted, their faces filled with horror!
Their combination ninjutsu... had actually been neutralized without a sound?
How was that possible?!
"Th-this... what dōjutsu is this?" Uchiha Fugaku was stunned as well. His proud Mangekyō Sharingan were now filled with confusion and shock.
He could sense that Gen'yō had not used any ninjutsu. This was pure dōjutsu power from a higher dimension!
Dead silence fell over the scene!
Everyone was stunned by this inconceivable sight!
The smugness and ferocity on Utatane Koharu's aged face instantly froze, replaced by deep suspicion and alarm.
"Nothing but tricks!"
An Anbu leader refused to believe it. With a low shout, he activated the Body Flicker Technique and vanished instantly!
The next second, he appeared behind Uchiha Gen'yō like a phantom. The kunai in his hand gleamed coldly as he thrust it viciously toward Gen'yō's back at a cunning, ruthless angle, aiming for his heart!
"Die!"
"Too slow."
Without even turning his head, Uchiha Gen'yō uttered those words indifferently.
Shhk!
The kunai passed through his body without any resistance!
"Did it work?!" The Anbu lead-
-er froze.
No!
It felt wrong!
There was no sensation of piercing flesh. It was as though... he had stabbed a mass of air!
He looked up in horror and saw that Uchiha Gen'yō's body had actually become somewhat illusory and transparent where his kunai passed through it!
"In-intangibility?!"
A thought that terrified him out of his wits flashed through the Anbu leader's mind!
Before he could react, an icy palm had already settled gently on his shoulder.
"The game is over."
Uchiha Gen'yō slowly turned around, bringing those unusually shaped Mangekyō Sharingan right before his face!
A bizarre vortex spun rapidly within his right eye!
"Kamui!"
Bzzzt-!
A suffocatingly powerful suction force erupted from his right eye!
"Aaaah-!"
The Anbu leader barely had time to let out a piercing scream before his right arm was forcibly twisted and stretched in defiance of the laws of physics. Then, with a pop, it was sucked into an invisible alternate dimension!
Blood sprayed wildly!
The severed surface was as smooth as a mirror, as though the power of space had sliced it off in an instant!
"No!!!"
The remaining three Anbu ninja stared in anguish and fury, barely able to believe their eyes!
Their captain, an experienced jonin, had actually lost the use of an arm in a single exchange?!
What terrifying dōjutsu!
"Your turn."
Uchiha Gen'yō swept his gaze across the remaining three like the god of death.
Scared out of their wits, the three had no will to fight left. They retreated repeatedly, staring at him in terror as though he were a demon that had crawled out of hell!
"Monster! He's a monster!"
"Run!"
But running in the face of Kamui?
Where could they run?
The pinwheel-shaped Mangekyō in Uchiha Gen'yō's left eye focused slightly.
"Kamui!"
Without any warning, the space beneath one of the Anbu ninja's feet suddenly twisted into a vortex!
Crack!
With a teeth-grating sound of splintering bone, the power of space instantly twisted that Anbu's legs into a pretzel!
Another Anbu ninja suffered an even worse fate. He felt an invisible hand viciously wrench his neck!
"Kamui: Distortion!"
"Urgh..."
Before he could even scream, his head rotated 180 degrees at a grotesque angle. His body slumped to the ground, and he died on the spot!
In the blink of an eye!
Of the four elite Anbu, one was dead and three were severely wounded!
Throughout the entire process, Uchiha Gen'yō had not even moved his feet!
He had simply stood there, passing a death sentence on his enemies with those indifferent eyes like a god!
Silence!
Deathly silence!
In the entire Uchiha meeting hall, one could have heard a pin drop!
Every Uchiha clansman, including Clan Head Fugaku, stood petrified, gazing at that tall, straight figure with reverence and fervor, as though looking at a deity!
Invincible!
This was true invincibility!
He cut through Konoha's elite Anbu like vegetables!
What magnificent power!
There was hope for the Uchiha's future!
Meanwhile, Utatane Koharu was utterly stupefied with fear.
She sat collapsed on the floor, a foul stench rising from her crotch. She had actually wet herself in terror!
She looked at the carnage strewn across the floor, then at Uchiha Gen'yō slowly approaching her, trembling like a leaf.
"D-don't come any closer... stay away!"
"I'm Konoha's advisory elder... if you dare kill me, Lord Third Hokage won't let you get away with it!"
Even now, she was still using the Hokage's name to threaten him.
"Oh? Is that so?"
Uchiha Gen'yō walked up to her and looked down at her, his eyes devoid of any emotion.
"I believe I just said I would make you consider how to survive today."
He slowly extended his hand, spreading his fingers and aiming at Utatane Koharu's head.
"Do you think I'd dare twist your head off and kick it around like a ball?"
Those icy words were like a judgment from the deepest depths of hell, shrinking Utatane Koharu's pupils to pinpoints!
She had no doubt that the madman before her really would dare!
"No! Don't kill me! I was wrong! I'll never do it again!"
The fear of death finally made her abandon all dignity. Like a dog, she knelt on the floor and kowtowed for mercy, tears and snot streaming down her face.
"Spare me... Lord Gen'yō, please spare me!"
Seeing the Konoha elder who had been so overbearing just moments ago now reduced to something as lowly as an ant, every Uchiha clansman felt an unprecedented surge of satisfaction!
Satisfying!
So fucking satisfying!
How many years had it been? How many years had their Uchiha endured such humiliation?
Today, they could finally hold their heads high!
And all of this was because of Uchiha Gen'yō!
In an instant, every clansman's gaze toward Gen'yō filled with fervent adoration!
Uchiha Gen'yō looked at Utatane Koharu's disgraceful display at his feet. Disgust flashed through his eyes, but in the end, he did not kill her.
Killing her would only dirty his hands, and now was not the time to break with Konoha completely.
What he wanted was to lead the entire Uchiha out, intact and in glory!
Not become mired in endless civil war here.
"Get out."
Gen'yō spat the words coldly.
"Take this trash of yours and get out of Uchiha territory."
"Then go back and tell Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō."
His voice abruptly rose, rolling like thunder throughout the entire Uchiha Clan Compound!
"Three days!"
"I'm giving Konoha just three days!"
"Within three days, return ten times the funds and supplies you've embezzled from us Uchiha over the years! Otherwise, I won't mind going to the Hokage Building myself to have a proper 'talk' with them!"
"Also, from today onward, the Uchiha Clan is officially sealing off its compound! Any Konoha ninja who dares set even one foot inside our territory..."
Killing intent flashed in his eyes!
"Will be killed without mercy!"
As though granted a pardon, Utatane Koharu scrambled away with the half-dead Anbu, not daring to leave behind so much as a threatening word.
For the moment, the crisis was over.
But everyone knew that an even greater storm was about to arrive!
Uchiha Fugaku took a deep breath and walked over to Gen'yō, his gaze complicated to the extreme.
There was shock and relief, but more than anything, there was gravity.
"Gen'yō, your power..."
"Clan Head," Gen'yō interrupted him, "now isn't the time to discuss that."
He surveyed the room, looking at faces filled with excitement, adoration, and a trace of bewilderment, and said solemnly:
"I demand that we convene a clan meeting of the highest level immediately!"
"All core clansmen ranked jonin or above must attend!"
"I have something important to announce!"
Fugaku looked into Gen'yō's unquestionable eyes. After a moment of silence, he finally nodded firmly.
"All right!"
He knew that from this day onward, the Uchiha's world was about to change!
And the one ruling over that world would no longer be him, Uchiha Fugaku, but the man before him who possessed the power of a god-
Uchiha Gen'yō!
A meeting that would decide the Uchiha Clan's fate was about to convene! And at this meeting, Gen'yō's earth-shattering plan would finally begin to unfold!