Chapter 139: The Old Geezer's Ocular Technique is Truly Mouth-Watering (Two-in-One)

The aged, hunched body of Uchiha Yao now stood ramrod straight, and the tattered old jailer's body guarding him began to decompose rapidly, shattering into grayish-white sand that swirled toward the old man.

In no time at all, it wrapped him into a white mummy, and a giant mouth opened in the void behind him, swallowing him in one gulp until he vanished without a trace.

"Clack, clack, clack."

As a black light flared, a tall, upright figure stepped out from the shadows, shrouded in a dark and obscure sense of oppression.

"I've kept you waiting."

A young voice emanated from the shadows, and when the black light dissipated, a strange figure appeared before Uchiha Gin.

His entire body was encased in a grayish-white, form-fitting bone light armor, dotted with primitive and mysterious curse seals, with bone spurs emitting a chilling, icy light protruding from his arm and knee joints.

The fully enclosed headgear had air vents at the mouth and nose, through which one could see the white mist Uchiha Yao exhaled as he breathed; he wore a flame-patterned scarf fluttering in the wind around his neck, his eyes were a pair of massive black insect compound eyes, and his forehead was adorned with a V-shaped antenna decoration.

Most eye-catching of all was his waist, where he wore a belt branded with a Mangekyo pattern, with a black, shimmering light flickering in and out of existence upon it.

Uchiha Gin was so envious he could die, his fists clenched tight, his reddened eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

What a damn cool transformation; Grandpa, I want to learn how to transform!

Seeing this kind of operation for the first time, Uchiha Gin felt his worldview shattered; to say he wasn't jealous would be a lie.

Why does this old geezer get such cool transformation effects when he is clearly the protagonist?

"This is the ultimate fusion technique between me and the Shadow."

The young, low voice came from beneath the mask, and Uchiha Yao, having regained his youthful vitality, lifted a hand with a ghostly air, pointed at Uchiha Gin not far away, and spoke coldly,

"Now, come and count your sins!"

"Hold on with the counting, Grandpa? Grandpa! Open your eyes and look, it's me, your dear grandson!"

At this moment, Uchiha Gin no longer cared about dignity; he slid to his knees instantly, nearly kowtowing to the transformed Uchiha Yao.

"Grandpa, if you had told me you could do this earlier, I would have rebelled with you."

Uchiha Gin, envious to the point of desperation, made a decision that directly betrayed his ancestors.

"Nonsense. You want to use these words to paralyze me again; I won't fall for it this time."

Facing Uchiha Gin's 180-degree change in attitude, Uchiha Yao, after fusing with the Shadow, scoffed; he had seen this trick of Uchiha Gin's too many times—don't even think about trying to trick or ambush this seventy-nine-year-old comrade again.

The rejected Uchiha Gin was filled with regret; if only he had brought some things to visit the dungeon more often over the years, if for no other reason than to simply show filial piety to the old man.

Let's not even talk about whether this ocular technique is strong or not; after all, strength is only temporary, but being cool is a lifetime thing.

"This is the second stage of my fusion with the Shadow. It allows me to perfectly utilize all of the Shadow's abilities while adjusting my physical condition to its peak, and I have awakened new powers."

Clenching his fists and feeling his body restored to its peak state, Uchiha Yao said proudly; he was now in a perfect thirty-year-old state, and at this moment, he was basically invincible within the Uchiha clan.

"Take this, Uchiha Gin."

Uchiha Yao assumed a strange starting stance, and the next moment, he vanished from Uchiha Gin's field of vision.

"Where did he go?"

Uchiha Gin, who had long since secretly activated his mutated Byakugan, was now at a loss; there was no sign of Uchiha Yao in his 360-degree, blind-spot-free field of vision.

This was the first time his mutated Byakugan had failed; an eye that could even peer into the power of space could not find a living person.

"Where are you looking?"

A voice suddenly came to the ear of Uchiha Gin, who was frowning and thinking of a countermeasure, startling him so much he jumped; turning his head, he found Uchiha Yao standing beside him, arms crossed, looking at him coldly through his compound eyes.

"Are you confused about how I disappeared?"

Seeing Uchiha Yao's strong desire to show off, Uchiha Gin cooperated and nodded; an ability that even the Byakugan couldn't peer into truly made him very curious.

"One word: fast! As long as you cross the time point of this second and jump to the time point of the next second, you will never be able to find me."

Uchiha Yao flicked his gauntlet, his tone filled with pride; he was relying on a movement speed that surpassed the flow of time to achieve the goal of temporary disappearance.

Why are you flicking your hand? Be careful, or I'll sue you for copyright infringement.

Uchiha Gin suddenly realized that this time, Uchiha Yao hadn't used the old jailer's usual space-based power, but rather the power of time, which he had never seen before.

As long as his speed was faster than time, he could naturally disappear within that second.

No wonder the Byakugan couldn't see him; it wasn't the Byakugan's fault, it was just that the enemy was too cunning.

"Alright, since you already know the secret of my ability, you can go on your way in peace."

Uchiha Yao's voice sounded again, but his figure had once again vanished from this point in time.

Tsk, what a buggy ability; if you had used it earlier, you wouldn't have been pinned to the ground and rubbed by my uncle. Everyone likes to keep trump cards, huh?

Uchiha Gin frowned in distress; he was very unfamiliar with the concept of time power. Descriptions of this ability in the original work were few and far between, and his own skill bar was filled with conventional skills, which were completely unable to deal with such methods.

"Bang!!!"

Keeping his Byakugan open and searching constantly, Uchiha Gin, who had been on high alert, was still sent flying by a sudden strike; he forcibly stabilized his body in mid-air, preventing his landing from looking too unsightly.

It was fortunate that he possessed the bloodlines of multiple clans, having a stronger constitution like that of the Senju and Uzumaki, which boosted Uchiha Gin's physical fitness several times over; ordinary external injuries would heal in no time, to the point where they would be scabbing over if not bandaged.

Just as the wound healed, Uchiha Yao appeared like a ghost again, and other parts of his body were wounded once more.

After repeating this for several rounds, a panting Uchiha Yao appeared on the shadows not far away; even through the compound eyes, one could feel his frustrated expression at this moment.

"You guy, what exactly is going on with your body?"

Seeing Uchiha Gin clap his hands together, conjuring a wooden lounge chair on the ground, and then lying on it with an expression of enjoyment, Uchiha Yao, whose hands were numb from striking, gritted his teeth and questioned him.

He had attacked over a hundred times just now, yet this kid, apart from some damage to his clothes, was completely unscathed, not even a patch of skin broken.

The physical sensation of flesh on his hands didn't feel like he had missed; there was definitely something wrong with this kid.

"Huh? That's it?"

After a few waves of attacks, the curly-haired one, having deduced Uchiha Yao's attack mechanism, started his daily sarcasm; Uchiha Yao's time power was indeed powerful, but it was a double-edged sword.

The attacks that appeared from the void from time to time were like tickles; the damage caused to Uchiha Gin wasn't as fast as his recovery.

At this moment, Uchiha Yao was an assassin with high agility but low attack and defense.

Lying on the wooden lounge chair, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but yawn; the opponent had been grinding for a long time and couldn't even break his defense—what a waste of such a cool ocular technique.

"Don't underestimate me!"

Driven to the brink of madness, Uchiha Yao desperately channeled the chakra in his body, adding it all to his ocular technique.

At this point, he didn't care about sparing energy to suppress the other will; he leaped high into the air, did a somersault to increase the gravity of his descent, and aimed a vertical flying kick at Uchiha Gin, who was lying there.

"Swish~~~"

The kick, imbued with the power of time, superimposed the power of countless time points; during the descent, Uchiha Yao's power from every second was combined and concentrated together.

Uchiha Gin raised his head; under the tempering of Uchiha Yao's hundreds of attacks just now, the mutated Byakugan in his eyes could vaguely see the timeline of the future.

Now, in his eyes, it wasn't just one Uchiha Yao kicking toward him, but Uchiha Yaos from countless time points attacking him all at once.

Finally, the Uchiha Yaos from countless time points concentrated their power onto the final flying kick, kicking toward him with the force of a million tons.

Uchiha Gin, his aura locked, sensed a hint of crisis; if he really took this kick head-on, he feared he wouldn't have a good time.

Just as he was about to escape, several eerie tentacles stretched out from the shadows lurking on the ground, tightly adhering to Uchiha Gin's legs.

In a panic, he brandished the Sword of Ninja Love to sever the black tentacles, but the endless shadows came one after another, binding him tight.

"This is my ultimate technique!"

Uchiha Yao, his internal aura in chaos, gritted his teeth to announce his ultimate skill; the dignity of the Uchiha clan told him that one could die, but one could not lose face.

【Forbidden Technique! Instant Shadow Killing Array】

Having no time to complain about the name of the technique, Uchiha Gin, bound in place by the shadows, thought rapidly about a countermeasure.

"Don't think about struggling; only a Mangekyo can contend with a Mangekyo. You, who lack the capacity, can only be defeated by my hand."

Even now, Uchiha Yao didn't forget to answer Uchiha Gin's questions and doubts; he was truly a model grandfather.

"Mangekyo, huh..."

It was all his own fault for being useless; having transmigrated for so many years, other protagonists would have opened their Mangekyo with their eyes closed and their Nine-Tomoe with their eyes shut, while he had been tortured by NPCs with Tsukuyomi multiple times and was still stuck at the Three-Tomoe level.

Uh, wait!

Memories sealed for many years flooded his mind; he seemed to have an item gathering dust.

As his thoughts turned, a dark red card appeared in Uchiha Gin's mind; he had never encountered a well-matched opponent, so he had completely forgotten about this thing.

【Tsukuyomi Experience Card: After use, you can release one Tsukuyomi without cost; the effect does not change based on the enemy's strength.】

If not now, when? Uchiha Gin clapped his hands, and the Tsukuyomi Experience Card transformed into a dark and obscure power that surged into his mind; a vaguely familiar feeling returned.

The mutated Byakugan closed voluntarily, his eyes instantly dyed scarlet, and the three tomoe within his left eye were stimulated to spin rapidly by the influx of this external power.

Hearing a "ding" in his mind, the vision in his left eye suddenly became very clear and bright, and at the same time, unfamiliar knowledge emerged in his mind.

"Uh, you kid, actually..."

Just as Uchiha Yao's kick was about to hit Uchiha Gin's chest, he felt a resonance in the Mangekyo in his eyes; looking at the strange pattern in the opponent's left eye in disbelief, he cried out in shock.

"Hehe, take this Great Tsukuyomi!"

Feeling the surging ocular power in his left eye, Uchiha Gin curled his lips into a wide arc; having transformed into a "crooked-mouth god of war," he manipulated the shuriken in his eyes to rotate slightly, forcibly controlling Uchiha Yao, who was still in mid-air.

The scene before his eyes shifted, and Uchiha Gin arrived at his long-unvisited second hometown; stepping on the mirror-like lake water, he looked up at the rising red moon, feeling a bit sentimental in his heart.

The bleak autumn wind is here again, and the world has changed.

Sighing, he hadn't expected that upon returning to the Tsukuyomi space, the master had become himself.

Uchiha Yao had already removed his mask, restored to the appearance of a hunched old man, and was nailed to a high cross, saying nothing.

"Nothing to say?"

As the victor, Uchiha Gin asked with some curiosity; he knew that whenever he was pulled in, his will was always clear, which made it convenient for the executioner to have a better experience.

"Hmm..."

Uchiha Yao on the cross only just woke up, looking at Uchiha Gin with a pair of confused eyes, his clear gaze filled with doubt.

"Gin? Where is this?"

The old geezer's tone was sincere, completely devoid of the arrogance from just a moment ago.

"???"

Sensing something was wrong, Uchiha Gin frowned. Was this old man faking it? Why did he look like an innocent bystander?

"Where is that Wangliang who betrayed me?"

Ignoring his bound body, the old man's expression turned frantic as he struggled and asked through gritted teeth; it turned out this Uchiha Yao was the one who had been backstabbed by Zuezuezi earlier.

"He actually left that thing inside my body too. After it detonated, I was suppressed by the will of my dark side and couldn't control my own body."

Uchiha Yao explained sincerely to Uchiha Gin.

"What exactly is this so-called dark side of yours?"

Having never come into contact with knowledge of this kind, Uchiha Gin was very curious about the frequently appearing dark side.

"When it comes down to it, this is also an ability of my Mangekyo Sharingan."

The old man sighed and began to clear up Uchiha Gin's confusion.

After awakening his Mangekyo, the ability of the eye Uchiha Yao currently possessed was the "Wangliang" he was familiar with, while the other, blinded Mangekyo was a dojutsu named "Amanozako."

"Amanozako?"

Uchiha Gin, who had never heard of this dojutsu, voiced his question.

"Amanozako can materialize the rebellious dark side within a target's heart, waiting for the right moment to detonate it, allowing the second personality embodied by the dark side to take over the target's body."

This dojutsu sounded like it had some real potential!

Uchiha Gin stroked his chin in thought; that would explain the changes in Xiaoguang just now.

"The consumption for Amanozako is immense. Under my control, I had only ever used it on Wuming. I didn't expect Wangliang to have planted Amanozako inside both me and Tian Dao as well."

"How do you dispel it?"

Compared to the question of when Zuezuezi had planted Amanozako in the old man, Uchiha Gin was more interested in how to dispel this dojutsu.

"There is no way to dispel it; that Mangekyo of mine has already gone blind."

Uchiha Yao shook his head, his sincere tone not seeming fake.

"Unless there is something that can suppress the negative energy, then Amanozako will continue to lie dormant."

Although there was no solution, the old man still proposed a plan for temporary relief.

"Suppress negative energy, huh..."

Frowning, Uchiha Gin recalled the dark green cloak the young girl was wearing, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

"How did you manage to shake off the suppression of Amanozako?"

He turned to ask the now-recovered Uchiha Yao; since this old man didn't have any method of suppression, how did he recover?

"Hoo~ Although the dark personality created by Amanozako can occupy the body, the spirit will develop significant flaws. Using a Mangekyo-level genjutsu can temporarily suppress it."

So that was it. No wonder the blackened old man wilted the moment he was stared at by his Tsukuyomi.

"Then what about my uncle? His Mangekyo ability should be enough to suppress Amanozako, right?"

Thinking of the easily controlled Uchiha Tajima and Xiaoguang, both of whom possessed Mangekyo that housed genjutsu, he wondered why they were so easily controlled.

"There are two prerequisites for detonating Amanozako: first, the ocular power is insufficient to support the release of Mangekyo genjutsu; second, the target's heart develops a major flaw. Amanozako can be released under either of these conditions."

It was all his uncle's fault for insisting on showing off by using Kotoamatsukami: Light, which caused his own Mangekyo to enter a temporary cooldown.

As for Xiaoguang, perhaps she was too relaxed after regaining her freedom, which gave Zuezuezi the opportunity to release the Amanozako inside her.

"Has your dark side gone back to lying dormant inside you?"

Uchiha Gin curiously asked Uchiha Yao, who was nailed to the cross. The other party revealed a look of confusion, glanced behind Uchiha Gin, and said hesitantly,

"So you didn't know? That guy is over there."

Confused, Uchiha Gin followed the direction indicated by the old man's gaze and saw another Uchiha Yao in the distance, surrounded by hundreds of himself.

"Hehehe, move aside, move aside! It's finally my turn. Taste my Noble Phantasm sword!"

(End of chapter)