I just returned to Konoha and found that my entire clan was gone.

Even some of his companions left him one after another, and the village elders would try to persuade him from time to time. Xiu was about to give up when the news of Kakuzu killing Moko's family came.

The flame in Xiu's heart, which was almost extinguished, was rekindled. Since the village couldn't help him, he would do it himself, which is why he launched this series of actions.

Naruto watched the two talking and felt his head spinning. He had no idea how to handle this complicated situation. All he could remember was the saying, "A ninja's life is not a life."

I wonder why the other person would say that. Becoming a ninja is something that every child in Konoha feels honored and longs for, so why does he describe it this way?

Looking at Jiraiya, he found that he was also speechless. This was a problem that all ninjas understood but dared not face.

"Xiu! You still dare to stay in Tangyin!"

At this moment, the ninja from the nearby Yugakure heard the commotion and rushed over. Upon arrival, they discovered Shu, who had been branded a rogue ninja.

"Farewell, Jiraiya-sama!"

Xiu bowed slightly to Jiraiya, a final show of respect to a powerful figure, then turned and took out a kunai, looking at his two companions who were still with him.

"Charge out!"

Chapter 105 An Eye for an Eye

Summoning techniques, Impure World Reincarnation

Ye Lan stared intently at the coffin emerging from the ground. Although there had been successful cases, it was inevitable that he would feel some tension as he tried to resurrect his own clansmen.

The old man who appeared in the coffin was the same one he knew from back then, unchanged from when he left the village.

Gradually, the old man opened his eyes. He looked at Ye Lan, frowned, and didn't say anything. He first looked around at the surrounding environment.

I found myself in a cave, which looked like a laboratory. I sensed my internal condition and found that I had some strength, but only about 70% of what I had before.

He looked at Ye Lan again and began to frown. This child's appearance was so familiar. Who was he?

Ye Lan remained silent, waiting for the old man to gradually adjust. Looking at the old man's face, Ye Lan's expression became unusually complicated.

"Ye... Ye Lan, is that you? It's you, isn't it!"

The old man finally recognized Ye Lan. From initial disbelief to later certainty and excitement, his eyes widened considerably. He couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes.

"It's me, Grandpa Medicine Scent..."

Ye Lan said with some bitterness, "This old man was the teacher who taught me and Zhi Shui. He never participated in the clan's gatherings and stayed outside the clan, but he taught Zhi Shui and Ye Lan everything he knew."

It is said that Yakumi was a close friend of their grandfather, Uchiha Kagami, and asked him to teach Yakumi and Shisui before their mother died.

Besides Shisui, this old man was the closest person to him in the Uchiha clan. He never expected that he would return in this state after a mission.

"Impure World Reincarnation? That's Tobirama Senju's technique. How did you learn it? And when did you return to Konoha?"

Having some knowledge of medicinal properties, he sensed it and his body recognized it as a technique of the Second Hokage. However, he hesitated and asked, looking at the Konoha headband on Ye Lan's waist.

"I've been back in Konoha for over a year now, and the Uchiha incident happened six years ago."

Ye Lan answered truthfully, not wanting to hide anything from the old man.

"Your mission lasted so long! Time flies, you've grown up so much..."

With a sigh, Yao Wei thought of a crucial question and asked, "How many Uchiha clan members survived?"

Upon hearing this question, Ye Lan let out a long sigh: "Back then, only one survivor remained, and the Uchiha clan was practically extinct."

"One! How could Itachi Uchiha have done this?!"

Yakumi never imagined that only one member of the entire clan remained. How could Itachi Uchiha have brought himself to kill him?

"So it really was Itachi who did it back then?"

Seeing the reaction to the medicine, Ye Lan was now certain of the matter.

"That's right, I was killed by Itachi. I was completely powerless against him..."

Yakumi had been hiding his three-tomoe power, thinking he could fight to the death, but he never expected that Itachi would actually possess the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Who is that survivor?

"As you know, he is the clan leader's other son, Uchiha Sasuke."

Upon hearing that the survivor was Sasuke, Yakumi began to mutter to himself in disbelief, "The survivor is Sasuke! Could it be that he had that kind of plan?"

Ye Lan was somewhat puzzled. Sasuke's survival made him feel that Itachi had some kind of intention, but he had never figured it out. Could it be that the medicine knew something?

"Ye Lan, can you still see clearly now?"

After talking to himself, Yaowei suddenly asked this question.

After hearing this, Ye Lan didn't say anything but closed her eyes. When she opened them again, they were now a kaleidoscope in the shape of a cross.

"The Mangekyou Sharingan, you really have awakened these eyes just like Shisui and Itachi!"

Yao Wei's face twitched slightly, his eyes fixed on Ye Lan's without moving. Then he turned and said with a serious expression.

“Uchiha Yelan, Itachi already possessed the Mangekyou Sharingan back then, but even so, he could never have slaughtered the entire Uchiha clan on his own.”

The smell of medicine did not faze Ye Lan's kaleidoscope of eyes, and she did not shift her gaze even slightly.

"If you knew the real truth, what would you choose?"

The kaleidoscope in Ye Lan's eyes began to emit an eerie red light, and he spoke slowly and deliberately.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!"

The taste of the medicine lingered in his mind as he savored Ye Lan's words, and he no longer looked directly into Ye Lan's eyes.

"You are still the same as before, the ferocity in your eyes has not diminished at all, only it is hidden even more deeply."

"Next, I'm going to tell you a secret. Let me finish what I'm about to say, and then I'll tell you the truth about the Uchiha clan's annihilation."

"Itachi left Sasuke behind. I don't know if he intended to do that. What I want to tell you is that you must get Shisui's eyes before he died."

"Shisui's eyes?" Ye Lan did indeed have this intention. He had always suspected that Shisui's eyes were in Itachi's hands. He knew very well that Shisui's eyes had terrifying abilities. He wanted to take them back simply because they were his brother's keepsake.

"That's right. The Mangekyou Sharingan isn't actually the end for the Uchiha clan. It can evolve again and eliminate the side effects of the Mangekyou Sharingan!"

As an elder of the Uchiha clan, Yakumi was well aware of these secrets.

"That is the Mangekyou Sharingan transplanted from a blood relative, becoming the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan that will never lose its light!"

The Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan! This was the first time Ye Lan had heard this term. He had been curious about how Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju unified the Land of Fire and established their village.

He has almost pushed the Kaleidoscope to its limit. If Madara's strength were similar to his, he definitely couldn't have achieved this level. Even the stone tablet at the Naka Shrine indicates that there is still room for evolution beyond the Kaleidoscope, but I never expected it to be in this way.

"Only when you possess the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan will you be qualified to challenge a village!"

Yakumi was older than Hiruzen Sarutobi, and he had personally witnessed Madara's reign of power. Thinking that Yelan could reach such a level, he had no regrets even after death.

"I'll retrieve the eyes; they should be with Itachi. What was the real reason for the Uchiha's annihilation?"

Ye Lan silently remembered this matter, and now he wanted to know the truth even more.

"Because I don't participate in rallies, I only have a vague understanding of many things, but I can roughly deduce them."

"Back then, the Uchiha suspected the Uchiha because of the Nine-Tails' rampage, so they moved the Uchiha clan's territory to the very edge of Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and others kept the Uchiha away from the center of power in the village."

Ye Lan already knew these things; when the Nine-Tails went berserk, its eyes were filled with the Sharingan.

"The clansmen grew increasingly dissatisfied with the village's actions, and Fugaku, unable to suppress the restless clansmen, finally decided to launch a coup, which happened to be discovered by the Konoha leadership..."

Seeing that Ye Lan's expression had changed slightly, Yao Wei continued.

"At the time, Itachi was Hiruzen Sarutobi's direct subordinate in the Anbu, and the clansmen did not hide the fact that they were planning a coup from him, so the only person who could have told the Konoha leadership was Itachi."

"So he was willing to be a knife in Konoha, slaughtering the entire Uchiha clan."

Ye Lan couldn't listen anymore. How could there be such an absurd person? Even if he had taken a compromise approach and executed the Uchiha who wanted to stage a coup, leaving the rest alive, he wouldn't be this angry.

He understands the principle of eliminating the root of the problem, but you, a child raised by the Uchiha clan, have gone to such lengths for Konoha. You truly deserve to be the Hokage.

“Although I don’t know that child well, Shisui talked to me about him. He was a somewhat stubborn child. After Shisui died, there was no one left to guide him, so it was indeed surprising that he made this choice.”

The medicine-smelling memories came back to him.

"Therefore, the demise of the Uchiha clan is inextricably linked to none of the Konoha high-ranking officials at the time!"

Ye Lan looked directly at the smell of medicine and said.

For the first time, Yao Wei dared not look Ye Lan in the eye. Even though he was already dead, he felt sweat starting to bead on his forehead and slowly nodded.

"Thank you, Grandpa Medicine Flavor, I know what to do now."

Ye Lan turned around to undo the Impure World Reincarnation, but Yao Wei quickly stopped him.

"There's one more thing! Shisui left you a letter after you left!"

Chapter 106 The Legacy of Zhishui

"You mean Shisui left me a letter?"

“That’s right. After you went out on a mission, Shisui felt uneasy and specifically told me about this, so that I could pass on the message to you if anything happened to him.”

Yakumi had this plan all along, but he never expected that someone who had never participated in a clan gathering and was a marginal figure in the Uchiha would be targeted for elimination.

"Even if it existed, it's probably lost somewhere. Sasuke was the only survivor of the Uchiha clan back then."

Shisui's death was too sudden for him. The truth about the Uchiha clan can still be revealed through the Impure World Reincarnation, but how Shisui died and what the cause was are still unclear.

"No, to preserve this letter, Shisui specifically went to Granny Cat and left it there. No one but you can get it..."

Ye Lan was shocked, not expecting Zhi Shui to have left such a contingency plan. What exactly happened back then?

The cat clan has always cooperated with the Uchiha clan, providing them with intelligence and customized weapons. Many members of the Uchiha clan also sign contracts with them to become summoning beasts.

With the help of the Swift Falcon clan, Ye Lan had never visited the Cat clan, nor had they brought up the matter, so Ye Lan naturally wouldn't have made the connection.

Shisui's preferred summoning animal was not a ninja cat, but a crow.

What was written in the letter?

"No one has seen that letter. The only way to find out the answer is to go to the cat clan yourself."

Yao Wei breathed a long sigh of relief. His mission was finally complete. Ye Lan, whom he had previously underestimated, had now become the last pillar of the Uchiha clan.

Having dispelled the Impure World Reincarnation, he had enough information about the medicine; he no longer intended to disturb the old man's spirit.

The medicine seemed to sense something and looked at Ye Lan with some emotion. He didn't know what Ye Lan would become in the end, but entrusting the Uchiha clan's affairs to him was the best outcome.