Chapter 167: Recognizing relatives? Ugly, rejected!

"Big Brother, look at the moon tonight, isn't it quite round?"

Night fell. Outside the Uchiha clan's camp, Uchiha Izuna, lying on the grass, pointed at the full moon hanging in the sky, his eyes full of longing.

The moon emitted a gentle light, writing a moment of tranquility on this murderous land.

"Heh, what's so good about the moon?"

Uchiha Madara, on the side, heard his younger brother's childish words and sneered, continuing to wipe the flying sickle that was emitting cold light. Now, he was only interested in Hashirama; he ignored everything else.

"Sigh~ Truly lacking in sentiment."

Uchiha Izuna heard his brother's words and couldn't help but curl his lip. The bright moonlight was reflected in his black eyes.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he turned his head and said to Uchiha Madara beside him with a mysterious look,

"Big Brother, Big Brother, let me tell you a secret."

"What?"

"I remember one time, Big Cousin was drunk and pointed at the moon, telling me that we have relatives up there."

Izuna leaned in cautiously, looking around vigilantly, and quietly shared the secret he had hidden for many years with his own brother.

"Are you an idiot?"

Uchiha Madara's movements paused upon hearing this. He looked at his own brother, who had a determined expression, with black lines on his face, and couldn't help but curse out loud.

"Huh? Big Cousin has never lied to me."

He hadn't given away his New Year's money for so many years for nothing. Uchiha Izuna trusted the kind and approachable Big Cousin from the bottom of his heart.

"Then what do you say those relatives are doing on the moon?"

Looking at his childish younger brother, Uchiha Madara sighed slightly in his heart. This kid was already over twenty, why was he still like a child?

"Hi, you asked the right person. Big Cousin told me specifically."

Hearing Uchiha Madara's cooperative question, Uchiha Izuna, who had been waiting for a long time, had his eyes light up. He immediately rolled over and stood up, pointed at the silvery-white moon, and said with a smile,

"The relatives on the moon are guarding a tree, and our ancestor is hanging on the tree."

"Drink less with Cousin in the future, it hurts the brain."

After a long silence, Uchiha Madara looked up at the full moon in the sky for the first time.

The moon at this time looked exactly like a fairy who had inadvertently walked into the world, permeated with an indescribable beauty.

It did look quite attractive, it was just that Cousin's story was told too poorly. How could anyone live on the moon?

"I am gazing, above the moon, how many dreams are flying freely~"

In the dense jungle, humming the familiar divine song leisurely, Uchiha Gin sat on the ground. In front of him was an endless lake, sparkling, with water and sky meeting.

A sun emitting slow heat waves hung in the air not far above his head, bringing a suitable temperature while adding vigorous vitality to this paradise. Enjoying the moment of tranquility, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but sigh,

"If we don't talk about anything else, this place is really a good place for a leisurely vacation."

"Intruder detected..."

The untimely noise broke this hard-won leisure.

"Snap!"

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes. His good mood that had just risen was ruined again. Without even turning his head, he threw out a beam of electric light. With a crisp sound, the noise stopped abruptly.

"Sigh~ How exactly am I supposed to go back?"

Uchiha Gin sighed, stood up, and patted the dust off his body. Faint blue light appeared in his pitch-black eyes, and his vision instantly penetrated the layers of tree shadows, trying to find clues to go back.

"Eh? There seems to be human smoke there. Let's go find a local brother to lead the way~"

With the blessing of the mutated Byakugan, Uchiha Gin quickly searched for a city emitting an ancient aura in the distance. He didn't hesitate anymore, exerted force with his feet, and ran toward that direction.

Not long after he left, several figures in robes appeared where Uchiha Gin had stayed.

Looking at the scorched black land under their feet, the middle-aged woman in the lead felt her heart skip a beat, and her white eyes were filled with thick horror.

"So many years have passed, and there are still intruders from the Earth Ninja."

In front of her lay hundreds of Otsutsuki puppets used for battle, scattered all over the place.

Some were charred by fire, some were torn apart by brute force, and more were blasted by lightning until their parts were scattered. This kind of method definitely didn't come from their clan.

"How many people did the other side send to be able to destroy so many puppets and leave no clues behind?"

In the woman's view, although these puppets were mass-produced, their strength was not weaker than ordinary clansmen. She didn't expect that so many would be destroyed. It seemed that the invaders were definitely prepared.

"You guys stay and continue to investigate. I'll go back and report to the Clan Leader."

The sense of crisis in her heart grew stronger. The woman turned her head and arranged for the clansmen behind her, while she herself took a small suspended airship and sped toward the sky.

"Tsk! Why is it an empty city? Not even a dog."

Before long, Uchiha Gin, who had arrived at his destination, strolled around this dead city and found no traces of any living people.

"Sigh~ Looks like it hasn't been inhabited for at least a few hundred years. This is going to be difficult~"

He reached out and touched the faded wall skin, finding that these once hard rocks were now crumbling at a touch. He sighed, patted the dust off his hands, and said disappointedly.

"Outsider..."

A blurred voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Can only go elsewhere to find it~"

Uchiha Gin, upholding the correct horror movie escape guide, directly ignored the hazy voice in his ears.

"Outsider..."

The voice in his ears became clearer and clearer, and there was a hint of impatience.

"Byakugan, activate!"

Uchiha Gin chose to be selectively deaf, refined chakra to his eyes, and the Byakugan with blue light appeared again.

"Outsider... Relative! You've finally come!"

The impatient voice in his ears, with the activation of Uchiha Gin's Byakugan, instantly changed its tone, becoming a flattering tone, and kept chattering in his ears.

"Oh?"

Uchiha Gin tilted his head, raised his brows awkwardly, and asked a soul-searching question.

"Cough, cough, cough... It was my rudeness. Relative from the ground, please move to the inner hall."

The voice, which had been very bad just now, changed to a cautious tone. In Uchiha Gin's Byakugan vision, it pointed out a path with chakra.

"Heh."

Uchiha Gin, who sensed the change in the other party's attitude, stopped playing deaf and dumb. Following the direction pointed out by the chakra, he ran all the way, passed through an underground secret door, and arrived in a dim hall.

"Phew~ Why is it so gloomy here?"

The dark hall was pitch black under normal vision. Fortunately, with the help of the Byakugan, everything around was clear at a glance.

Uchiha Gin looked at the small mounds rising in front of him and subconsciously got goosebumps. This is a graveyard, right?

"Hey, hey, hey, is there anyone alive?"

Uchiha Gin sensed that there was no life aura around, and the chill in his heart became heavier, so he greeted politely.

"If there's no one, I'm leaving~"

Seeing that the surroundings remained silent, Uchiha Gin chose to run away directly. If he stayed in this kind of place for too long, his vigorous Yang energy would be exhausted.

"Wait, relative from the Earth Ninja."

Just as Uchiha Gin turned to leave, a cold voice sounded in the darkness.

Along with the voice, a trance-like figure walked out slowly. It was a long-haired man with his eyes closed. The voice just now came from his mouth.

"Eh... Hello, but did you recognize the wrong person? I don't have such an ugly relative."

Uchiha Gin looked at the old face of the other party, which was not outstanding, with disdain, and said with a hint of tact in his tone.

The appearance of our Uchiha clan is still quite durable. I'm really sorry for climbing relatives when you look like this.

"Ugh..."

The long-haired man heard Uchiha Gin's words, and the draft he had just prepared died in the cradle.

Although he couldn't see the other party's appearance now, he could already imagine the annoying face of the person in front of him.

Forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, the long-haired man organized his language and continued to speak.

"Relative, although I don't know how you came to us, as a descendant with the same bloodline as the ancestor, please listen to me..."

"Don't listen, don't listen."

"Listen to me..."

"A turtle chanting scriptures~"

"#"

The long-haired man's face, which had no vitality to begin with, was now covered in black energy. Looking at Uchiha Gin, who was covering his ears and shaking his head, he slowly opened his tightly closed eyes.

"Eh... where are your eyes?"

Uchiha Gin, who was covering his ears, saw that the eyes of the man in front of him were pitch black when he opened them, so he stopped the sound in his mouth and asked with a frown.

"Can you listen now?"

"Fine, you're blind, you're the biggest, you just say it~"

Although he knew the general idea, Uchiha Gin still gave the NPC face. After all, the purpose of the other party's appearance was just this.

"Relative of the Earth Ninja, do you know who we are?"

"Eh... this part can be skipped. If you have something to say, say it. Don't use the original work to pad the word count."

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes again with his Byakugan, directly white on top of white, and said impatiently to the long-haired man who looked bitter.

"Huh?"

The full draft died in the cradle again, but it was his duty, and he had to explain it clearly to this guy.

"We are..."

"Stop yapping, just tell me who to fight and that's it!"

Uchiha Gin, thinking of speed-running the map, waved his hand to interrupt the long-winded introduction the other party was about to say, and hoped that the other party could get straight to the point. He just wanted to finish fighting and go home.

"Ugh, ugh, ugh~"

Uchiha Gin's words choked the long-haired man's breath, almost making him angry enough to revive on the spot. He saw him reach out, dig a purple light ball from his throat, and smash it hard on the ground.

"I won't say it! Whoever wants to say it, say it!"

The long-haired man looked like he was giving up, lay down in a stone coffin beside him, and took the initiative to slowly close the coffin lid with his hand. Before finishing, he didn't forget to add a sentence,

"Even if the Byakugan is pure, if the brain is not right, it's useless!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 168 =====