Chapter 159: The Mangekyo Obtained

The Susanoo covering his body gradually dissipated, and Uchiha Fugaku gritted his teeth, directly gouging the two Mangekyo out from his eyes!

The blood-stained Mangekyo were handed over by Uchiha Fugaku; Uchiha Feiyu wore a faint smile, took the Mangekyo directly, and then disappeared without a trace after a ripple in space.

"Husband!!"

"Dad!!"

"Father, are you alright!"

Once Uchiha Feiyu left, the Genjutsu on Uchiha Mikoto and the others naturally broke.

Uchiha Feiyu had not used a Genjutsu like the God-Controlling Technique, which required time to execute; he had merely forcibly hypnotized and manipulated the three people's bodies, so they still retained their recent memories and knew that Uchiha Fugaku had handed his own Mangekyo Sharingan to the enemy for their sake.

And so, under the immense emotional shock, a tomoe appeared in Sasuke Uchiha's eyes, and he directly awakened the Sharingan!

It was only because Itachi Uchiha and Uchiha Mikoto already possessed the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and advancing from Three-Tomoe to Mangekyo was relatively difficult, otherwise both would have certainly leveled up their Sharingan.

Of course, the most important thing was that Uchiha Fugaku had only lost his eyes, not his life; if Uchiha Fugaku had been forced by the enemy to commit suicide in front of them, perhaps the two of them really could have awakened the Mangekyo.

"Rest assured, I am fine... The clan still has some Three-Tomoe Sharingan in storage, I can just replace them later."

One must know that the Infinite Tsukuyomi not only expanded its range to the entire Ninja World, but without Six Paths level power, no one could be immune to the power of the Genjutsu!

There was another point: although Uchiha Feiyu's chakra was powerful, without the God Tree as an energy source, it was impossible to permanently control such a large area with Genjutsu; at most, he could control it for two or three days before exhausting all his chakra.

"Two or three days is enough to complete a grand sacrifice!"

The power of the Mangekyo Sharingan was naturally incomparable to an ordinary Three-Tomoe; the newly refined Array Eye Crystal Mangekyo could fully withstand all of Uchiha Feiyu's ocular power, and the projection range of the Genjutsu was incredibly vast, almost capable of shrouding a small country.

With Uchiha Feiyu's strength, killing thousands of ninja, or even all of them, was not difficult, but to ensure he was not discovered by other Ninja Villages, he could only rely on Genjutsu.

"So that's how it is. In that case, even if Konoha takes action, they will definitely strike those Cloud Ninja fellows first! It seems that although we failed, we didn't end up drawing too much hatred!"

"There are many drawbacks... but it is enough. I don't need to recover any chakra using the Infinite Tsukuyomi; on the contrary, I even need to suppress the growth of my own chakra now, to avoid my body turning from flesh and blood into an energy form."

"Tsk, the Uchiha Clan really has many geniuses. That Itachi Uchiha is not even ten years old yet, and Shisui Uchiha is only fourteen or fifteen. My Iwagakure's carefully selected eight Jonin couldn't even handle these two Uchiha!"

In Iwagakure, the short-statured Onoki looked at the intelligence in his hand, and a moment later, threw it onto the table:

"Our delegation didn't have a single person return... Konoha is much tougher now than it used to be!"

Back when Onoki followed his teacher Mu to Konoha for negotiations, Madara Uchiha was wandering around in a sulk due to political disagreements with Senju Hashirama; he happened to see the two of them coming to Konoha to negotiate, so he gave them a thorough beating. If it hadn't been for the sake of Senju Hashirama, he almost would have beaten them to death!

Onoki had peculiar feelings toward the Uchiha Clan; just as the Second Hokage had fought the Uchiha Clan his whole life and felt that even not having paper in the bathroom was a conspiracy of the evil Uchiha Clan, Onoki was extremely awestruck by the power of the Uchiha Clan's Mangekyo Sharingan, almost developing a Uchiha phobia.

After obtaining a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, Uchiha Feiyu immediately began to re-manufacture various Array Disks, while simultaneously smelting this pair of Mangekyo Sharingan into a crystal.

From then on, Onoki suffered from Madara Uchiha phobia, and it wasn't until he heard the news of the battle at the Valley of the End that this illness improved slightly, but he still held an unimaginably vigilant attitude toward the Uchiha and the Mangekyo.

Uchiha Fugaku waved his hand and said this, while his heart also eased; he was truly afraid that the ninja suspected to be Madara Uchiha would not keep his word and would kill his whole family after obtaining his Mangekyo.

"It doesn't matter. This time, don't we have the Cloud Ninja to act as our scapegoats? They dug out two pairs of Byakugan from the Hyuga Clan and even killed the Hyuga Clan head; the hatred those Cloud Ninja drew is far more than ours!"

Compared to a super-standard Ninjutsu like the Infinite Tsukuyomi, it was naturally far inferior; as long as an Uchiha had awakened the Mangekyo, or possessed this level of Yin Release and Yang Release, they could basically withstand this large-scale Genjutsu.

Ninjas who keep their word are very rare in this world. At the time, Uchiha Fugaku had been at his wit's end and could only gamble; in reality, he had no certainty in his heart. Fortunately, he ended up winning the bet... although this was not a happy thing either.

Onoki said with a stiff face, and Huangtu's face immediately showed joy:

"Dad, then what should we do? Konoha won't come looking for trouble with us just because of this reason, right!"

The one speaking was Onoki's son, Huangtu. Compared to the small Onoki, Huangtu was over two meters tall, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with a wide build; one look and you could tell he was that type of tough-guy character.

It was not that he had some strange hobby of wanting to be a mastermind behind the scenes, but the Naruto World was full of shadows, and if Uchiha Feiyu were exposed, it would have a great impact on the cultivation of these "leeks," so he had always kept a low profile.

"What are you happy about! A bunch of disgraceful things!"

Onoki cursed angrily and pushed open the window to fly out of the office, leaving Huangtu feeling baffled.

He turned his head and happened to see Deidara playing with a clay figure nearby, so he asked:

"Why is Dad so angry again? Didn't I say it right?"

Deidara had just molded a rabbit; after hearing Huangtu's question, he rolled his eyes while inputting chakra to make the rabbit hop around, and said:

"Our Iwagakure and the Cloud Ninja both sent people into Konoha, and the basic conditions and execution of the missions were about the same. One infiltrated the Uchiha Clan, the other infiltrated the Hyuga Clan, and both were dealing with the children of the clan heads."

"Although these were all coincidences, the conditions were indeed very similar—but what was the final result?"

"Our group of Iwagakure ninja were disgraceful; they didn't even meet the face of the clan head before being taken down by a passing fourteen or fifteen-year-old Uchiha who was acting out of righteousness. Meanwhile, the Cloud Ninja Village not only snatched the Byakugan of the clan head's daughter and completed the mission, but also conveniently wiped out the Hyuga Clan head..."

"You tell me, with this kind of comparison, can the old man not be angry? It would be strange if he weren't!!"

"So that's how it is, Dad is angry because of this kind of thing!"

Huangtu scratched his head and revealed an honest smile, while Onoki, who was standing outside the window catching the breeze, rolled his eyes.

His son's strength was not bad, especially after being captured once during the Third Shinobi World War; he knew shame and then became brave, working even harder during this period, and his strength was already not weak among the Shadow-level.

It was a pity that he had no brains, not at all like his own offspring. Could it be that he had converted all those brain cells into muscle?

Huangtu's height and personality were indeed unlike Onoki's, but Onoki did not suspect his wife of cheating on him. Just like how people from the Land of Lightning were either white-skinned or black-skinned, some races in the Land of Earth were also quite special—either short and stout or tall and strong—which was a type of special racial characteristic.

"On the contrary, that brat Deidara, whether it's his cultivation talent or his brains, is much stronger than this son of mine... If only he would give up that hobby of liking to play with explosives, he would be the best candidate for the Fourth Tsuchikage..."

Before Onoki could finish his thought, a "Boom—" explosion sounded. Half of the original Tsuchikage office was directly collapsed by the shock, terrifying flames erupted from the window, and Onoki, who was floating outside the Tsuchikage office, was directly hit by a pile of collapsing rubble, screaming as he was buried in the stones.

"Cough, cough, cough! Deidara!! What on earth have you done again?!"

Huangtu coughed while pushing away the roof that had fallen on him, looking at Deidara with an angry face.

"Cough, cough, cough... It seems this experiment failed. There was no way to control the direction of the explosion, and even I was caught in it... It's just too unartistic!"

Deidara also crawled out of the ruins, looking somewhat disheveled, but he didn't care about Huangtu's roar at all, single-mindedly wanting to find the flaws in his Ninjutsu.

Just then, the ruins and stones on the ground suddenly began to float slowly. A moment later, a little old man covered in blood, with one arm clearly bent at an acute angle, slowly floated up:

"De~i~da~ra~!!!"

"Uh... crap, why is the old man outside too! Run, run!"

Deidara casually molded a clay bird and, after inputting chakra, it grew larger as he prepared to escape. Unfortunately, even if the Third Tsuchikage had suffered serious injuries due to being caught off guard, he was not someone the current Deidara, who was not even ten years old, could handle.

Onoki opened his mouth and spat out a lump of earth; the earth grew in the wind and instantly turned into a huge giant, grabbing Deidara and the bird under his feet:

"You wait, today I must break you of this bad habit of using Ninjutsu indiscriminately and throwing explosives around the village!"

"Stinky old man, that is clearly art... Ahhhhh! Help, help! The Tsuchikage is going to kill someone!"

……

In the Cloud Ninja Village, the current Fourth Raikage is none other than Killer Bee, who was once part of the AB Combination.

During the Third Shinobi World War, Uchiha Feiyu relied on his Evil-Breaking Qi and used the Kusanagi Sword to directly finish off the Third Raikage, while Killer Bee's older brother, the Raikage successor Ai, also died in that same battle.

With their elite forces lost and their strength sharply diminished, the Cloud Ninja Village could not even select a qualified Shadow-level powerhouse at the time, and ultimately, only Killer Bee, the Eight-Tails jinchuriki, could take the position of Raikage.

Although Killer Bee's outward behavior seems unreliable, in reality, being able to become a Perfect Jinchuriki and the sworn brother of the original Fourth Raikage, his personal charisma and strength are beyond doubt.

After becoming the Fourth Raikage, a massive sense of responsibility, combined with the sacrifices of the Third Raikage—who was like a father—and Ai—who was like an older brother—caused him to restrain his previous impulses and petulance, and he began to seriously perform his duties.

Overall, this Raikage is considered quite competent; after all, everyone knows what the brutes of the Cloud Ninja Village are like—they only need sufficient brotherly loyalty and personal charisma. When it truly comes time to use their brains, they rely on an external brain.

In this regard, Killer Bee is not necessarily any worse than the Fourth Raikage from the original work; in fact, if the Fourth Raikage from the original work did not have the status bonus and had to compete fairly with Killer Bee for the position of Raikage, he might not have necessarily won.

Therefore, the current Cloud Ninja Village is developing quite well and has gradually walked out of the pain of the Third Shinobi World War.

If not for the variable that is Uchiha Feiyu and the so-called Universal Chakra Plan, the current Cloud Ninja Village would likely have already surpassed the Rock Ninja again, becoming the Great Ninja Village that once vied for the top spot.

It is a pity that there are no "ifs" in this world; because of the variables brought by Uchiha Feiyu, the current Cloud Ninja have fallen into an awkward position, which is why they had the plan to frame the Rock Ninja.

"Lord Raikage, this is all the intelligence... The delegation we sent to the Leaf has now... has all been killed."

Looking at the intelligence in his hand, Killer Bee clenched his fists. Fortunately, he is not like his older brother; his personality is not that irritable, and he does not need to frequently replace the desks in the Raikage's office, so in the end, he only threw the intelligence onto the table with a *bang*.

"Damn Rock Ninja, they actually dared to frame us! And they didn't even do a good job of framing us; eight Jonin couldn't even capture a nine-year-old Uchiha kid!"

Killer Bee first let out a string of angry curses, and only after a moment did he catch his breath. Compared to the Rock Ninja's own incompetence, the Cloud Ninja's failure could only be attributed to bad luck.

"Lord Raikage, please calm down. Now that the matter is settled, we should consider the thoughts of the Leaf..."

The ninja who spoke was named Tutai, who was once the strategist for the Third Raikage and is now also the external brain for the Fourth Raikage, Killer Bee.

The successive Raikages are not stupid people, but they definitely cannot be considered clever either. Their impulsive and reckless personalities alone destined them to easily fall for traps.

Just as Zhang Fei was evaluated by the world as having fine details within his roughness and was definitely no fool, when facing true military strategists, the result was still being played around in circles. Therefore, this external brain is absolutely necessary.

Hearing Tutai's words, Killer Bee nodded. To put it bluntly, when the plan was originally formulated, Killer Bee and Tutai were already prepared to anger the Leaf, and now it is just a matter of dealing with the failure of the plan.

(End of this chapter)