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Chapter 376 The Pure Land of the Underworld! (Please Subscribe)

In the sweltering summer, even the wind feels hot and dry.

At the main gate of Konoha Village, Genma Shiranui moved the table in front of him closer to the wall.

It seems that this way, one can draw more shade.

"The atmosphere in the village lately has been getting increasingly strange."

Genma Shiranui lay listlessly on the table, gazing at the scenery outside Konoha Village, muttering to himself.

First, the Hyuga clan experienced internal strife, and the main family, which possessed the Caged Bird Seal, was actually ousted by a group of branch families.

The Uchiha clan, one of the two great dojutsu clans of Konoha, was not to be outdone, and a clan coup followed.

Even the clan leader, Fugaku Uchiha, died tragically in this clan upheaval.

This caused quite a stir among the ninja clans throughout Konoha.

The main branch, which controls the clan's secret techniques and resources, began to worry that members of the branch branches might also harbor rebellious thoughts, like the Hyuga and Uchiha clansmen.

As for the branches, they might indeed have some thoughts, but they wouldn't actually put them into action.

First, they lacked the necessary power; second, they didn't have a mastermind behind them.

Mu Sheng: Huh? I didn't, don't talk nonsense, it wasn't me!

On the contrary, the members of these branches are somewhat worried that the more powerful main branch will take action against them because of this.

Therefore, one inevitably becomes more cautious in daily life.

However, these precautions only heightened the main line's vigilance and defensiveness.

As a result, the atmosphere in Konoha Village became strange.

On the surface, nothing seems to have changed, and there is even less friction between people.

However, this peacefulness inexplicably made people feel depressed.

"Fortunately, there aren't many people in our Shiranui family." Shiranui Genma thought with a hint of schadenfreude.

However, they quickly realized that their family didn't have this kind of trouble, mainly because they didn't have any resources worth fighting for.

'So, it was poverty that spared our family from this trouble?'

Thinking about it this way, Genma Shiranui stopped laughing!

Hoooo ...

A gust of hot wind blew by, adding a few beads of sweat to Genma Shiranui's forehead.

A figure appeared in Genma Shiranui's line of sight, wearing a stand-up collar short-sleeved shirt, a Konoha headband, and a red and white clan emblem that looked like a ping-pong paddle.

The person who arrived was none other than Uchiha Shisui, who had rushed back from the front lines!

Uchiha Shisui was incredibly fast; he appeared in Genma Shiranui's sight one second and was standing right in front of him the next.

"Ah! It's Shisui!"

Suddenly someone arrived, and Genma Shiranui quickly sat up straight.

While registering his identity information, she tentatively asked, "You came back because of that matter, right?"

"that matter?"

Uchiha Shisui was taken aback. He had rushed back to the village on orders from the Hokage.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's orders did not explicitly state this, so Shisui Uchiha was unaware of the changes that had occurred within the clan.

"Huh? You don't know?"

Genma Shiranui paused for a moment, then looked up at Shisui Uchiha: "So, why did you come back?"

Halfway through his sentence, Genma Shiranui realized what was happening and immediately shut up.

The other party was unaware of the changes in the Uchiha clan and rushed back to the village in such a hurry, which clearly meant they had received a mission.

Ninja mission information is classified and cannot be inquired about casually. Especially since it's a mission that could very well be related to the Uchiha civil war.

Genma Shiranui immediately lowered his head again and continued registering information.

'Has something major happened in the clan?' Uchiha Shisui had already sensed something from Genma Shiranui's reaction.

Could it be that the Uchiha clan staged a coup while he was away?
A sense of unease rose in Uchiha Shisui's heart!
However, he immediately dismissed this unreliable guess.

'No! It can't be a coup!'

'If it were a coup, Genma Shiranui wouldn't look so calm.'

"Alright, registration complete, you can go in now!"

The moment Genma Shiranui completed the registration, Shisui Uchiha vanished in a flash, transforming into an arrow that shot towards the Hokage Building.

He was eager to know what had happened to the Uchiha clan, but before that, he needed to report to the Hokage's office.

Soon, Uchiha Shisui, who had just arrived at the Hokage's office, learned about the changes that had occurred in the Uchiha clan from Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"What? The Uchiha clan has undergone a coup, Chief Fugaku is dead, and Rin Uchiha has become the new chief?"

Uchiha Shisui was shocked; his head was buzzing, as if he had been hit on the head with a club.

"That's the situation. The Uchiha clan has now fallen into the hands of the radicals."

You know these people's ideologies, Shizuku; the village is in great danger right now!

Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe, slowly exhaling a puff of pale white smoke that obscured his sorrowful face.

Hiruzen Sarutobi has been under a lot of pressure lately. Every morning when he goes to the toilet, his urine is more yellow than Naruto's hair.

Currently, the Hidden Cloud Village is invading our territory. Although there have been no large-scale conflicts in the past year, it has been tying down a portion of Konoha's military forces.

Moreover, judging from recent intelligence, those stinking rocks in the outhouse of Iwagakure seem to be getting restless after seeing the stalemate between Konoha and Kumogakure.

They wanted to bite off a piece of fat meat from the exhausted Konoha!
This was already a major headache for Hiruzen Sarutobi, but then the two major dojutsu clans in the village, which were also the two largest ninja clans in Konoha, came along.

Surprisingly, one after another, clan uprisings occurred, in which the lower-ranking members overthrew the higher-ranking members, and both succeeded.

More importantly, Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered an even bigger problem behind these events.

Thinking about how he had been toyed with like a monkey for so long, a cold glint flashed in Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes!
This chilling aura, however, was interpreted by Uchiha Shisui as an indication that he intended to attack the Uchiha clan.

"Hokage-sama!" Uchiha Shisui hurriedly declared, "Please believe me, I will not allow the Uchiha clan to do anything that harms Konoha!"

Seeing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi did not correct Shisui Uchiha's misunderstanding: "Shisui, you are a good boy, of course I believe you!"
The reason I brought you back this time is to give you a task that concerns the safety of Konoha Village and is extremely dangerous.

But after much thought, I realize you're the most suitable person for this task. Are you willing?

"I do, Hokage-sama!" Before Hiruzen Sarutobi could finish speaking, Shisui Uchiha blurted out.

His eagerness was like that of a groom at a wedding, answering the priest's question about whether he would marry his bride.

"Alright." Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded with satisfaction and began to explain the details of the mission.

After a long while, Uchiha Shisui walked out of the Hokage Building, but the deep voice of Sarutobi Hiruzen was already echoing in his mind.

"During your investigation of the Uchiha clan, you must pay special attention to one person: Katsumi Kanbara."

"This person likely possesses a bewitching illusion technique that can lower the victim's guard and induce them to trust the person inexplicably."

Uchiha Shisui understood that the Third Hokage's wariness of that boy even surpassed his wariness of the Uchiha clan. "Sheng, what exactly did you do?"

"What? How did you do that? I didn't do anything!" Mu Sheng spread his hands innocently. "That's Rin's own Sharingan ability!"

The old man clearly didn't believe Mu Sheng's explanation: "Don't think that just because I'm old I'm senile. Rin hasn't even awakened her Mangekyou Sharingan yet, how could she possibly use Susanoo?"

"Is this your ability? Tell me honestly, have you awakened the Kaleidoscope?"

In an instant, the old man's face loomed close to Mu Sheng's, eager to know the answer.

Mu Sheng shoved the old man's face away impatiently and said, "Are you out of your mind? How could I possibly awaken the Kaleidoscope?"
Hurry up, hurry up, don't disturb my afternoon nap!

With that, Mu Sheng got up and dragged the old man outside.

"No, please tell me!"

"I definitely won't tell anyone."

"what!!!"

boom!
Mu Sheng locked the old man outside the door, and before closing it, he also gave him a 'Uchiha Pain'.

Outside the door, the old man covered his eyes for a moment before he recovered.

Ouch! That hurts!

"That kid, Kambara, doesn't know how to care for the elderly at all!"

The old man tried to blink, but found that the scene in front of him was blurry. It turned out that his swollen eyelids were obstructing his vision.

"You little brat, you really went all out!"

Although he wanted to press for more information, the old man eventually left dejectedly.

Inside the room, Mu Sheng went to the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror.

Suddenly, his pupils turned from black to red, and three evenly distributed tomoe slowly appeared in his pupils.

"Pretty cool!" Mu Sheng turned his head and looked at his Sharingan from left to right.

The old man guessed correctly; he had awakened the Kaleidoscope.

Just a week ago, on the night before the Uchiha clan uprising, Mu Sheng completed the refinement and analysis of the Sharingan.

And in the following few seconds, he successfully awakened the Sharingan, and continued to develop it from one tomoe to three tomoe.

Then, without much effort, he awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

As it turns out, no amount of extreme emotional stimulation is worthless compared to proving the truth through force!
Mu Sheng directly used his powerful mental strength to break through the bloodline shackles of the Uchiha clan.

"My eye technique is finally nearing completion."

With a thought, Mu Sheng caused the three magatama to spin rapidly and connect into one.

Like a black ring, it appeared in Mu Sheng's eyes and continued to spread to other areas.

With a blink, Mu Sheng's eyes were filled with black; his pupils and the whites of his eyes all turned black.

It looks extremely creepy!

"Why is my kaleidoscope art style so terrifying?"

Mu Sheng felt a little melancholy. He was just a sunny and cheerful young man, and he really didn't match those eyes from the underworld.

"But it's quite imposing!"

Mu Sheng struck a few poses in front of the mirror, giving off the impression that this skin alone could scare away enemies.

After showing off for a while, a feeling of fulfillment suddenly welled up in my mind.

Mu Sheng knew that his Kaleidoscope Eye Technique had been successfully developed!
"Yellow Springs. Pure Land!"

In the mirror, Mu Sheng's jet-black eyes appeared even darker.

A strange attraction emanated from his deep, dark eyes, and Mu Sheng's consciousness instantly entered a dark space.

In the vast, dark ocean, a pitch-black island gradually emerges from the shadows.

Mu Sheng stood on the island, looking around. Everywhere he looked, there were buildings and patterns filled with killing and death.

At the same time, information about this eye technique also surfaced in his mind.

【Yellow Springs Pure Land】: A pure land space exclusively belonging to the owner of the pupil technique.

The souls of the deceased can be drawn into this space; the more souls in the space, the more powerful this sacred land becomes.

[Lord of the Underworld]: The Lord of the Underworld can plant a mark on the soul of a living being, and when that being dies, the soul will be guided to the Pure Land of the Underworld.

The more powerful the Pure Land space is, the stronger its guiding force will be.

"Hiss! Isn't this just fighting the Sage of Six Paths for a soul?" Mu Sheng instantly realized the trouble he would face in the future.

After a ninja dies, his soul enters the Pure Land, which is the territory of the Sixth Sage of the Ninja World.

Mu Sheng didn't know why the Sage of Six Paths created the Pure Land or why he absorbed the souls of ninjas, but he was sure it wasn't because he was bored.

His own eye technique was clearly designed to undermine the Sage of Six Paths.

If this were discovered, given my current strength...
Mu Sheng mentally rehearsed the situation and confirmed that he was still no match for the Sage of Six Paths.

If he can come out of the Pure Land.

That’s okay!

Black Zetsu wreaked havoc in the ninja world for a thousand years, yet the Sage of Six Paths never came out to deal with him.

Besides, if you can't beat him, can't you just run away?
"Pure land, pure land, but this doesn't look clean at all!"

Mu Sheng snapped his fingers: "God said, 'Let there be light!'"

In an instant, endless holy light bloomed in the sky above the Yellow Springs space, illuminating the entire space.

Where the holy light shines, the dark sea turns azure, and the eerie and sinister buildings and reliefs become majestic and sacred.

Soon, the underworld-style Pure Land of the Dead transformed into a paradise island filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

"That's pretty much it."

Mu Sheng nodded in satisfaction, and his consciousness disappeared into the Pure Land of the Underworld.

Upon returning to the real world, Mu Sheng left home and headed straight for the Konoha Police Department's dungeon where prisoners were held.

He wanted to test the effects of the Yellow Springs Pure Land, but such an experiment was clearly not suitable for using his own people as test subjects.

Fortunately, the police department's dungeon held many ninjas who had committed serious crimes, so they could be put to good use.

Upon arriving at the police department, Mu Sheng entered the dungeon without any hindrance.

Before the Uchiha clan upheaval, someone would have tried to stop him from coming here, but now, even if he went to visit Fugaku Uchiha's widow late at night, no one would dare to say a word.

“Oh, speaking of which, Fugaku has been dead for several days now. Since we’ve known each other for so long, we should go and visit his wife.”

"When is Fugaku's funeral? Oh, I remember now, it's the day after tomorrow."

Don't misunderstand, Mu Sheng didn't mean anything by it, please believe him!

(End of this chapter)