Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

Chapter 101: Even beating Old Deng is a struggle; this protagonist might as well not be one.

"Whoosh~~ Whoosh~~ Whoosh~~"

The strangely shaped kunai drew a beautiful arc in the air, and Uchiha Gin, with a leisurely gait, lazily caught the falling Ninja Love Sword.

He reached up and scratched his curly hair, finding the naturally falling curls in his hand. He rolled his lifeless, expressionless eyes and muttered to himself.

"They're all such a worry, causing me to start losing hair at such a young age."

Having assigned the girl her tasks, Uchiha Gin, feeling a heavy responsibility, sighed and approached the deranged Uchiha Yao. Seeing the old man's distorted face and conflicted eyes, he was immediately filled with rage.

"That's right, I'm talking about you, old Deng."

"Uh uh uh"

Uchiha Yao, clutching his head, had black energy overflowing from his single eye, and was groaning and howling. The old jailer, a creation of his eye technique, stood beside him, his gray body shimmering with an unstable aura, likely influenced by Uchiha Yao's emotions.

Seeing that Old Deng didn't react to his provocation, Uchiha Gin, who wanted to leave work early, said somewhat helplessly,

"Hey, hey, hey, say something!"

"Don't try to control me!"

As Uchiha Gin continued his rambling, Uchiha Yao, who had been struggling with this for a while, shouted. The black aura in his eyes completely filled his pupils. He raised his head, and one could see that the bewitching Mangekyou Sharingan pattern on the black conjunctiva of his eyeball had completely collapsed. His single black eye flashed with an eerie light, and the pent-up frustration in his eyes was gone, replaced by a deep indifference.

"Ah Yin, since you are unwilling to come with me, then go to the Yellow Springs to join your father."

At this moment, Uchiha Yao, whose heart was completely consumed by darkness, spoke in an extremely cold tone, and looked at Uchiha Gin as if he were looking at an unrelated stranger.

Are all those "darkening" characters this arrogant these days? All they talk about is sending you to your death. Old Deng, show some real power, okay?

"Wang Liang, Shang."

Noticing the disdain in Uchiha Gin's dead fish eyes, the blackened Uchiha Yao didn't say anything more. He waved his hand and gave an order to the old jailer beside him. He wanted to let this kid know why the flowers are so red.

The normal version of the Wraith lost its ability to speak. Upon receiving the order, it instantly merged into the shadow beneath its feet. With its special senses, Uchiha Gin was able to vaguely detect the old jailer's movements in the shadows.

"I feel underestimated!"

Upon discovering that Wang Liang was merely jumping around him without any intention of attacking, Uchiha Yao deduced that he was simply playing a cat-and-mouse game. Uchiha Gin glanced down and muttered to himself, somewhat speechless.

Having said that, he channeled chakra into his right palm. Accompanied by a series of rapid bird calls, a dazzling bolt of lightning appeared, its eerie blue light illuminating half of Uchiha Gin's face. Feeling the lightning was a bit too bright, Uchiha Gin immediately put on his sunglasses, sensed the power of the lightning release in his hand, squinted, and increased the volts. Seeing the electricity in his palm solidify, the seasoned electrician nodded in satisfaction.

"Old Deng, take this kiss from Professor Yang!"

Since the two demons weren't attacking him, he had no choice but to make the first move. With a flick of his right hand, the lightning ball he had conjured flew rapidly toward Uchiha Yao.

???

Unexpectedly, his eldest grandson did not play by the rules and instead attacked him directly, instead of focusing on finding the flaws in Wang Liang's strategy.

This decisiveness is truly worthy of his descendants; they are indeed teachable.

With a thought, a dark curtain woven from shadows suddenly rose from the gloomy ground, absorbing all the roaring lightning without leaving a trace.

"Is this even possible?"

After testing the waters, Uchiha Gin frowned as he looked at the shadow being manipulated by Old Deng. It seemed that no pair of Mangekyou Sharingan eye techniques were trash; each one was more bizarre than the last. In comparison, his Mangekyou Sharingan abilities seemed rather plain and unremarkable.

"Your guesses were all correct, but you missed one thing."

Even after his transformation, Old Deng remained remarkably calm. Sensing Uchiha Gin's astonishment at his methods, he surprisingly began to patiently explain them to him.

"It's not just the Mirage that manipulates the shadows; I, as the host, can also manipulate them. And that possession is just a means to compensate for my poor mobility."

"Did you pay the Nara clan any royalties for using your skills?"

Unexpectedly, Uchiha Gin didn't pay attention to the new abilities that Uchiha Yaoxin had shown. Instead, he asked him questions with a curious expression.

This is pure plagiarism, without any changes whatsoever.

"Phew, don't compare my eye technique to that third-rate secret technique."

Old Deng, who was expecting to see Uchiha Gin's shocked face, almost choked on his breath when he heard the other party's explosive statement. Forcibly suppressing the negative energy rising in his heart, Uchiha Yao gritted his teeth and explained.

"They really are exactly the same!"

Uchiha Gin spread his hands and leaned back, his clear and serious expression making Uchiha Yao's blood pressure soar.

"Wang Liang, stop playing around and cut his tongue off!"

Unable to bear it any longer, Uchiha Yao, with veins bulging on his forehead, gave a hateful order to the old jailer.

The next moment, from the shadows behind Uchiha Gin who was shrugging, the old jailer who had been lying in wait for a long time quietly poked his head out, the shadow in his hand turning into a dark dagger, which he aimed at the unsuspecting back.

"Clang!~~~"

Without even turning his head, Uchiha Gin precisely blocked the sneak attack with his Ninja Love Sword. A sliver of blue light peeked through the gap in his sunglasses as he channeled chakra into the kunai in his hand.

"Snap!"

Before Uchiha Yao's incredulous eyes, the dagger forged from shadow was shattered by the ridiculously shaped kunai in Uchiha Gin's hand. The old jailer, unable to dodge in time, had a long gash cut into his chest. Seeing the situation was bad, he immediately used his ability to disappear into the shadows.

Raising an eyebrow, Uchiha Gin toyed with the kunai in his hand. He clearly sensed that he had hit the old jailer with his attack and left the special chakra from his eye technique on the wound.

"Is that the kunai? How could it possibly injure the Mitsuki?"

Through the feedback from his Mangekyou Sharingan, Uchiha Yao learned that the old jailer had been injured. He then stared wide-eyed at the bizarrely shaped kunai in Uchiha Gin's hand, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

His main strength lies in his elusive and unpredictable abilities. He once tested that the old jailer, as a creation of eye magic, is immune to any physical and illusionary attacks.

"It's not a novel, you don't expect the enemy to explain things to you."

Speaking incomprehensibly, Uchiha Gin Shun stepped forward, his kunai stabbing towards Uchiha Yao with lightning speed. The old man's only remaining eye flashed again, and the eerie old jailer reappeared, conjuring two daggers in his hands to attack Uchiha Gin's lower body.

"Despicable! Absolutely despicable! You don't want to hold your great-grandchild anymore, do you?"

Uchiha Gin couldn't help but curse. Not wanting to be abandoned, he had no choice but to give up attacking Uchiha Yao. He swung the Sword of Love and shattered the dagger coming from below, and then slashed across the old jailer's arm. The entire gray arm fell to the ground and turned to ashes.

It seems we must deal with this old jailer first before we can have a proper conversation with Old Deng.

Uchiha Yao was also in bad shape. As a creation of his eye technique, the damage suffered by Wanliang would also be reflected back to him. At this moment, he felt a piercing pain in his chest, and one of his arms had lost sensation and could not be moved.

The pain caused by Uchiha Gin caused a flaw in his mind. A struggle flashed in his black eyes. His will, suppressed by the dark side, began to resist. The black part in his pupils was slowly eroded by the normal color.

Just as Uchiha Gin was about to make a move, his body's sensory radar suddenly started alarming.

To his surprise, he found that goodwill and malice frequently alternated on the old man opposite him, as if the spirit was vying for control, which confused him for a moment.

"Don't even think about getting out! Everything I did was to avenge Jin!"

The corrupted Uchiha Yao roared, forcefully suppressing the other will within him. Panting, he raised his head, his gaze piercing as he looked at the pensive Uchiha Gin. A resolute glint appeared in his eyes as he slowly spoke…

"Wang Liang, unite!"

(End of this chapter)