Orochimaru turned around and strode towards the battlefield. The moonlight cast a long shadow of him, like a giant python poised to strike.

"After all, besides the Byakugan, the Sharingan is the most suitable for discerning a puppeteer's chakra threads..."

Chapter 5, Invading the Grass Ninja Village

On the battlefield, thanks to the protection of Commander Orochimaru, no one could uncover the true nature of "Uchiha Eboshi".

Meanwhile, the real Uchiha Sō had already led several subordinates on a journey to Kusagakure, their destination.

……

Deep beneath the Grass Ninja Village, the trap shattered suddenly amidst a crimson glow, and Uchiha Eiji stepped in with steady strides.

In his scarlet eyes, six tomoe swirled endlessly, reflecting the mother and daughter huddled in the corner.

"Medical team, treat the wound."

He flicked his fingers, and three kunai shot out like meteors, accurately piercing the throats of three grass ninja who were about to form hand seals.

"The rest of you, clean up this garbage."

Karin's mother held her daughter tightly behind her, but suddenly a sharp pain shot through her damaged chakra meridians.

In the shadows behind the boy, five ninjas wearing Konoha headbands were piling up the corpses of the Kusanagi Anbu into a mound.

The silver-haired female ninja at the front formed hand seals, and the chakra contained in her Gentle Fist transformed into a pale green halo, surging forward like a tidal wave.

“The survivors of the whirlpool should not live like livestock.”

Uchiha Sō's voice was cold and ruthless.

He gently lifted the girl's chin with the Kusanagi sword in his hand, the blade gleaming coldly, reflecting the layers of teeth marks on her neck.

"Come with me, or..."

His tone was full of undeniable threat.

"My mother said she would repay her kindness!"

Six-year-old Karin suddenly broke free from her mother's embrace, her swollen eyes wide open.

"But isn't your Uchiha Sharingan also inherited through bloodline?"

Before he could finish speaking, a whooshing sound suddenly rang out. Three shuriken wrapped with explosive tags shot into the ventilation shaft, and Uchiha Sō's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly contracted.

In Karin's eyes, time and space seemed to be strangely distorted at this moment. The flames of the explosion actually shrank back to their original point as if the tide were receding, while the grass ninjas who launched the attack with weapons were frozen in mid-air.

“Da Luo Shi Su”.

Uchiha Eiji murmured softly, and as his words fell, the flesh and blood of those ninjas crumbled and dissipated like sand art.

He gently flicked his sleeve, shaking off the bloodstains on it. As his fingertips brushed against Karin's hair, a soft light of medical chakra emanated from it: "You're right, but power never asks where it comes from."

As he turned around, his black robe billowed, as deep as the night. "In ten seconds, this building will collapse."

"presumptuous!"

A furious shout suddenly rang out, and the roof of the laboratory exploded open. Amidst the falling ice crystals, a middle-aged man stood floating in the air.

He wore a dark green shadow robe, the "grass" emblem on his chest gleaming with a cold, bluish light under the moonlight. More than thirty ANBU ninjas wearing breathing masks slowly rose from the ruins, the chakra threads in their hands weaving into a giant spider web in the night sky.

Cao Ying stroked the amber prosthetic eye embedded in her left eye, her fingertips tracing the three twisted scars on her cheek.

"Back when I used this Byakugan, which I obtained from the black market, to wipe out the Land of Whirlpools, you, a brat from the Uchiha clan, were still breastfeeding!"

The ruins of the laboratory suddenly trembled, and countless thorny vines burst forth from the ground.

Karin's mother groaned, clutching her bleeding old abdominal wound, only to see that Uchiha Eboshi's Kusanagi sword was already drawn.

The crimson moonlight swept across the sword's edge, and the severed vines instantly froze into ice.

"Six Jonin used Yang Release to cultivate poisonous thorns?"

Uchiha Eboshi's Mangekyou Sharingan swirled endlessly in the shadows, the tip of his sword casually pointing towards the southeast corner.

"Your chakra flow is even more murky than the drainage pipes of Amegakure."

Before the grass ninjas, whose location had been revealed, could even form hand seals, the silver-haired female ninja had already vanished into a blur.

The Gentle Fist of the Hyuga branch family precisely pierced the six people's Tanzhong acupoint, and the palm wind wrapped with Ice Release chakra froze all their meridians.

"The person I'm taking away..."

Uchiha Elephant slowly ascended into the air, stepping on the gradually freezing thorns, his black robe fluttering in the night wind.

"You think you're qualified to stop me?"

Veins bulged on Cao Ying's forehead, and his prosthetic eye suddenly emitted an eerie purple light.

Twelve giant, emerald-green pythons sprang from his sleeves, their venomous fangs spewing acid that corroded the ice crystals along their path, causing them to sizzle.

Taking advantage of the situation, the secret agents threw out poisoned needles, and a rain of hidden weapons intertwined in the air to form a poisoned cage.

"Arrogant Uchiha brat, you should just obediently die!"

Grass Shadow laughed wildly as he formed hand seals.

"Secret Technique: Kusanagi's Serpent Burial!"

The venomous ball formed by the giant python suddenly contracted, but stopped the moment it touched the hem of Uchiha Eboshi's clothes.

In his crimson pupils, six tomoe rotated counterclockwise, and the countless hidden weapons suddenly changed direction, shooting towards the caster with even more fierce chakra.

"Great Luo Mirror Reflection".

Uchiha Sho whispered, accompanied by a shrill scream, as three ANBU were riddled with pincushions by their own senbon needles.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Ei's figure had appeared behind Kusanagi without anyone noticing. The moment the Kusanagi sword pierced his heart, it turned into ice crystals and dissipated—it turned out to be just a shadow clone!

"I've been on guard against your Sharingan for a long time!"

The true form of the grass shadow leaped down from the treetop a hundred meters away, slapping the ground with both hands.

Forbidden Technique: Hundred Herbs Poison Tomb!

The earth suddenly cracked open, spewing out a dark green poisonous mist that instantly melted any ice crystals it touched into a foul-smelling sludge.

Twelve stone coffins, inscribed with incantations, emerged from the ground. From each coffin crawled three puppets, their bodies entwined with poisonous vines, and ghostly blue flames flickered in their empty eye sockets.

Karin's mother suddenly pointed at a puppet and exclaimed in surprise.

"That belongs to the elder of the Land of Whirlpools..."

However, the girl's cries were muffled by her mother's trembling hand. In the blood-red moonlight, black blood seeped from the swirling clan markings on the puppets' necks.

"Those old bastards from the Land of Whirlpools who refused to surrender even at the cost of their lives are now my most obedient dogs."

Grass Shadow licked her chapped lips, and the joints of the puppets made a teeth-grinding grinding sound.

"I'll let you and your daughter have your turn later..."

A flash of cold light!

The moment the Kusanagi sword pierced through the three puppets, a tear of blood streamed from Uchiha Sō's left eye.

The severed poison vine froze into an ice sculpture before it even hit the ground. The lightning chakra wrapped in the sword flowed upstream along the puppet's meridians, turning the six ANBU members who were controlling it from a hundred meters away into charred remains.

"It's just injecting Yin Release chakra into a corpse."

Uchiha Ei stepped over the remains of the puppet and walked toward the stone coffin. His Mangekyou Sharingan reflected the dense sealing techniques on the coffin.

"This level of Impure World Reincarnation..."

The sword tip lightly touched the coffin lid, and frost spread rapidly along the sealing runes.

When Cao Ying realized something was wrong, the twelve stone coffins had already turned into ice crystal dust, which drifted away in the blood-red moonlight.

"impossible!"

Grass Shadow staggered backward, the fragments of the puppet cracking beneath his feet.

"This is a secret technique I bought from Orochimaru!"

A cold glint flashed again, and Cao Ying's shadow robe suddenly tore open with seven bloody gashes.

Only when the fragments of clothing slowly drifted down did everyone realize that Uchiha Zō had returned to his original position at some point, and there wasn't even a trace of blood on his Kusanagi sword.

"Three seconds."

Uchiha Ei raised three fingers, his voice cold and ruthless.

"You have three breaths to repent."

"idiot!"

Grass Shadow roared as it tore open its tattered shadow robe, revealing a withered body covered in curse marks.

The incomplete curse marks seemed to come alive in his furious roar, writhing and twisting, exuding a chillingly evil aura.

Uchiha Ei stood there quietly, his gaze as deep as an abyss, as if he could see through all the illusions of the world.

Kusakage launched another frenzied attack, waving his hands and unleashing a series of chilling ninjutsu.

However, thanks to Uchiha Sō's precise evasion and fierce counterattacks, his attacks missed time and time again, putting him in an even more dangerous situation.

Uchiha Eiji's figure was as elusive as a ghost, and every move he made struck Kusakage's vital points precisely.

The curse mark on Kusakage's body gradually dimmed under the attack of Uchiha Elephant, and his power was constantly being lost.

Finally, after a fierce exchange, Grass Shadow staggered back a few steps, a look of despair on his face.

He knew perfectly well that he had reached a dead end.

"Who...who are you?"

Cao Ying asked with difficulty, his voice filled with fear and resentment.

Uchiha Xiang smiled slightly, his voice calm yet firm:

"I am Uchiha Sō, the one who will end the wars in the world and the Heavenly Emperor who will usher in a new era."

As soon as he finished speaking, Uchiha Sho swung the Kusanagi sword in his hand once again.

This time, the sword light, like a dragon, slashed unstoppably at the grass shadows.

"Baka!"

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