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Meanwhile.
Uchiha Megumi was rushing towards the deepest part of the Sealing Technique tunnel.
As soon as Sawara Kiri charged into the Sunagakure crowd, his figure completely enveloped by Ninjutsu, and everyone else's attention fully focused on Kiri, she slipped out of the battle.
Megumi had personally witnessed the power of that 'mode' when Kiri was practicing, and she clearly knew what capabilities he would unleash in that state.
To put it bluntly, even if she and Minato got slightly closer to Kiri, they might only drag him down.
Under such circumstances, Miss Megumi naturally had no intention of standing there idly watching the show; rushing into the tunnel to find the Sand Ninja's unsealing target was the proper course of action.
—Heaven knows what absurd monster they might unleash if they weren't careful.
However, the underground tunnels were a maze, with thirteen or fourteen branching paths, and even using Shadow Clones to search separately, the numbers were completely insufficient.
The Sand Ninja also seemed to have retreated to the innermost layer, showing no signs of appearing.
Therefore, Uchiha Megumi encountered no obstacles when she began her search, practically running unimpeded all the way down.
It wasn't until she had just entered the branching path before her that a strange intuition suddenly arose in her heart.
Something inside was attracting her.
"Die—!"
Hearing the sound coming from ahead, Uchiha Megumi instinctively raised her Kunai, her heart vigilant.
But when she looked in the direction of the sound, she saw a Sand Ninja dressed in a Sealing Squad uniform, vigorously hacking at a wall.
The tunnel was covered in scratches left by the hacking.
"This is… hypnosis?"
Uchiha Megumi looked at the man's eyes, and her gaze involuntarily froze.
Three crimson tomoe were slowly swirling on the surface of his pupils, rotating like a windmill.
Sharingan?!
Wait.
The girl suddenly turned her head, looking towards the deepest part of this tunnel.
That feeling that had been drawing her deeper since earlier, could it be Sharingan ocular power?
Then wouldn't that mean—
"Could it be that someone from the Uchiha Clan's history is sealed here?"
A somewhat unsettling thought suddenly popped into Uchiha Megumi's mind.
Although it might sound bad coming from her, an Uchiha herself, in the distant Sengoku era, their clan had offended quite a few people.
It wasn't impossible for one or two to have been sealed away.
"But why would Sunagakure unseal him?"
"And how did they get this information?"
"Why does our clan have no information about this?"
This series of contradictions piled together made her heart grow a few shades more cautious, and even her two-tomoe Sharingan opened, trying to resist that chilling ocular power.
However, after she tore open the Sand Ninja's neck and continued deeper, seeing the scene inside, her heart sank abruptly.
Corpses.
There were corpses everywhere.
All the Sand Ninja had lingering wounds from fighting their comrades, and before death, they all bore strange expressions of ferocity, confusion, or pain.
Evidently, a small portion of them must have briefly regained consciousness at the last moment, but due to their own weakness, they were completely unable to stop their comrades' collective frenzy after being hypnotized.
Ultimately, they could only die in this profound despair.
However—
Uchiha Megumi looked at the ground littered with corpses, her heart chilling, and she couldn't help but doubt herself: "Does the Sharingan really have such power?"
In this era, the existence of the Mangekyo Sharingan is certainly no secret.
With Uchiha Kagami from the Hokage lineage before, and the current clan head now, the legacy related to the Mangekyo has not been cut off, and the Uchiha thus maintain their transcendent status as the village's top Ninja clan, firmly suppressing the Hyuga.
However, hearing about it and seeing it with one's own eyes are two different concepts.
Before personally experiencing that level of power, everyone could only rely on their practical experience to deduce where the 'pinnacle' lay.
Therefore, this unknown phenomenon made her even more wary, her entire body tensed, as she silently walked step by step to the deepest part of the tunnel, slowly peeking her head around the innermost corner.
Under the Sharingan's vision, everything in this dark environment was perfectly clear.
The next moment.
A tall figure appeared in her vision.
The figure wore a standard Sunagakure Sealing Squad uniform, hands still in the posture of releasing a seal, legs seemingly welded to the spot, unmoving.
Of the entire Sunagakure Sealing Squad, only he had made it this far.
Judging by his armband, he must be the captain of this Sealing Squad, right?
Something seemed to be vaguely blocking his front.
'Did he die mid-unsealing?'
Uchiha Megumi thought, secretly letting out a sigh of relief.
It's good that it wasn't released.
However, just as she was about to step forward and reveal herself, the figure seemed to suddenly sense something, and his rigid body trembled slightly.
"Creak, creak."
The man's neck bone suddenly distorted slowly towards her in a distorted posture.
On one side of the man's face, a thin layer of black skin had inexplicably covered it, and his pupils were dull yellow.
A smile slowly split across his ugly face.
Uchiha Megumi's pupils constricted.
Cold, trembling.
The concept of time, which had been locked away for so long, seemed to suddenly return to her at a certain moment, and she seemed to faintly regain the ability to experience various sensations from this body.
A subtle bewilderment suddenly emerged from the depths of the girl's mind, which had been immersed in darkness.
'I am…'
'Uchiha Hikari?'
The moment she recalled that name, a profound negative emotion, deep to her bones, abruptly flooded her mind, and countless scenes of blood and fire that caused her pain suddenly came into view.
Her memory as a 'person' disappeared at the age of ten; after that, all she remembered were endless battles and massacres, the curses and shouts of dying enemies, and her clansmen who surrounded her as if they had found some treasure.
"Yachihoko?"
"This ability is too outstanding!"
"If we transplant other ocular Ninjutsu onto her, it will surely unleash several times the effect!"
"Your name is no longer needed! From now on, you shall live as a weapon!"
"Uchiha Hikari."
From that day on, she began her destiny as a 'weapon' of the Uchiha.
To maximize the power of her eyes on the battlefield, many excellent clansmen even transplanted all of their Chakra and ocular Ninjutsu into her.
The Mangekyo Sharingan is the eye that reflects the heart.
Behind the awakening of every Mangekyo lies negative emotions as dark as an abyss.
The simultaneous overlay of these several Mangekyo ocular powers on her naturally formed a power unimaginable to ordinary people, and… negative effects unimaginable to normal people.
At the end of her memory was the scene where many strangers surrounded her and buried her completely in a deep, dark valley with Sealing Technique formulas.
Hated, hunted, cornered.
Everyone she could see before her pointed their weapons at her, life hanging by a thread.
"Who will… save me…?"
In this endless pain, the girl struggled to let out a fawn-like whimper in her heart.
The string deep within her heart had long since been stretched to its limit.
The moment her gradually recovering consciousness reached this point, the seal that had suppressed her for over a hundred years was 'just' completely released.
The next moment, what appeared before 'Uchiha Hikari' was an ugly face, half deathly pale and half completely covered in black, revealing a malicious smile.
As if everything had been calculated from the very beginning.
'Uchiha Hikari' froze.
Then, the monster suddenly distorted its head back one hundred eighty degrees, emitting a crisp snap of breaking neck bone, and looked behind it.
"Pfft!"
Immediately after, a Kunai pierced his heart.
A tall woman, who had suddenly appeared, gazed down at her with a pair of Sharingan as cold and indifferent as those of her clansmen, seemingly with a hint of confusion.
Still-warm blood suddenly splattered on 'Uchiha Hikari's' face, staining her vision red.
The girl paused slightly.
It was as if her own heart had been pierced.
Blood, death, Sharingan.
Countless memories of past massacres constantly overlapped in her mind, and the immense pressure brought by negative emotions caused this newly awakened girl to instantly lose her ability to cope, her fragile consciousness abruptly swallowed by the negative Chakra brought by the overlay of numerous Mangekyo Sharingan.
Unleashing unimaginable power.
Her barely maintained sanity abruptly snapped.
And so, her originally dark eyes suddenly turned deep crimson in an instant, then immediately rotated into a pinwheel, and her mouth almost instinctively let out utterly incoherent sounds:
"Ahhhhhh ah…"
"Ahhhhhh ah…"
"Ahhhhhh Ahhhhhh—!!!!"
Terrifying negative emotions, under the effect of these eyes, suddenly transformed into tangible Chakra, which then condensed into a true dark red Chakra skeleton.
The skeleton's form continuously grew taller and taller.
Under this completely irrational wail, the crazed crimson giant raised the sword in its hand towards this dark abyss.
At that moment…
The string.
It completely snapped.
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