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

Chapter 167 Recognizing Relatives? Ugly Rejection!

"Brother, look at the moon tonight, isn't it quite round?"

As night fell, outside the Uchiha clan's camp, Izuna Uchiha lay on the grass, pointing to the full moon hanging in the sky, his eyes filled with longing.

The moon cast a gentle light, bringing a moment of tranquility to this desolate land.

"Ha, what's so interesting about the moon?"

Madara Uchiha, standing to the side, sneered upon hearing his younger brother's childish words and continued polishing the gleaming scythe in his hand. Right now, he was only interested in Hasi Hot Mom and ignored everything else.

"Ugh, so unromantic."

Upon hearing her brother's words, Uchiha Izuna couldn't help but purse her lips, her dark eyes reflecting the bright moonlight.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he turned his head and said to Uchiha Madara beside him with a mysterious expression,

"Big brother, big brother, I'll tell you a secret."

"What?"

"I remember once, my older cousin, who was drunk, pointed at the moon and told me that we have relatives up there."

Izuna cautiously approached, looking around warily, and quietly shared her long-hidden secret with her older brother.

"Are you an idiot?"

Upon hearing this, Madara Uchiha paused in his actions, staring at his confident younger brother with a dark expression, and couldn't help but curse aloud.

"Huh? My cousin never lies to me."

All those New Year's money weren't given away for nothing; Uchiha Izuna truly trusted his kind and gentle older cousin from the bottom of his heart.

"So what do you think those relatives are doing on the moon?"

Looking at his childish younger brother, Madara Uchiha sighed inwardly. This kid is over twenty years old, how come he's still acting like a child?

"Hey, you've come to the right person. My older cousin specifically told me about this."

Upon hearing Madara Uchiha's cooperative question, Izuna Uchiha, who had been eagerly anticipating it, brightened up. He immediately gulped, flipped to his feet, pointed at the silvery-white moon, and said with a smile,

"Our relatives on the moon are guarding a tree, and our ancestors are hanging on that tree."

"Don't drink with your cousin too much in the future, it'll hurt your brain."

After a long silence, Madara Uchiha raised his gaze to the full moon in the sky for the first time.

At this moment, the moon resembled a fairy who had inadvertently descended to earth, exuding an indescribable beauty.

She does look quite attractive, but her cousin's story was poorly told; how could anyone possibly live on the moon?

"I gaze into the distance, above the moon, where countless dreams soar freely."

In the dense jungle, Uchiha Gin sat on the ground, leisurely humming a familiar tune. In front of him was a vast lake, its surface shimmering and the sky meeting the water.

A sun, radiating gentle warmth, hung not far overhead, bringing a comfortable temperature and adding vibrant life to this idyllic paradise. Enjoying a moment of tranquility, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but sigh.

"Putting everything else aside, this place really is a great place for a relaxing vacation."

"Discovery. Breakthrough."

Untimely noise shattered this rare moment of tranquility.

"Crack!"

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes, his newly formed good mood ruined again. He turned his head and flicked out a beam of lightning. With a crisp sound, the noise stopped abruptly.

"Sigh~ How am I supposed to get back?"

Uchiha Gin sighed, stood up, brushed the dust off his clothes, and a faint blue light appeared in his dark eyes. His vision instantly pierced through the layers of shadows, trying to find clues to return.

"Huh? There seems to be some people over there. Let's find a local guy to show us the way."

With the enhancement of his mutated Byakugan, Uchiha Gin quickly located a city in the distance that exuded an ancient aura. Without hesitation, he pushed off with his feet and sprinted towards that direction.

Shortly after he left, several figures dressed in long robes appeared where Uchiha Gin had been.

Looking at the scorched earth beneath her feet, the middle-aged woman at the head of the group felt a chill run down her spine, her white eyes filled with deep horror.

"So many years have passed, and there are still intruders from the local ninja."

Before him lay hundreds of Otsutsuki golems, used in battle, scattered in disarray.

Some were burned to charcoal, some were torn apart by brute force, and many more were blasted into pieces by lightning. Such methods were definitely not from their clan.

"How many people did the other side send to destroy so many puppets without leaving a single clue?"

In the woman's view, although these puppets were mass-produced, their strength was no weaker than that of ordinary tribesmen. She did not expect that so many of them had been destroyed. It seemed that the invaders had come prepared.

"You few stay here to continue the investigation, I'll go back and report to the clan chief."

A strong sense of crisis welled up in the woman's heart. She turned to her people behind her and gave instructions, while she boarded a small, hovering airship and sped into the sky.

"Tsk! It's a ghost town, not even a dog in sight."

Before long, Uchiha Gin arrived at his destination. He wandered around the lifeless city but found no trace of any living person.

"Sigh~ It seems no one has lived here for at least several hundred years. This is going to be difficult~"

He reached out and touched the faded plaster on the wall, discovering that these once incredibly hard rocks now crumbled at the slightest touch. He sighed, brushed the dust off his hands, and said disappointedly,

"Outsider"

A muffled sound suddenly rang in my ears.

"We'll have to look elsewhere."

Following the correct escape guidelines from horror movies, Uchiha Gin completely ignored the faint voice in his ears.

"Outsider"

The sounds around me grew clearer, and there was a hint of impatience in them.

"Byakugan, activate!"

Uchiha Gin selectively deafened in both ears, then channeled his chakra into his eyes, causing his Byakugan, glowing with a blue aura, to reappear.

"My dear friend from afar! You've finally arrived!"

The impatient voice in his ear instantly changed its tone to a flattering one as Uchiha activated his Silver White Eye, and began to chatter incessantly in his ear.

"Oh?"

Uchiha Gin tilted his head, raised his eyebrows slightly, and uttered a question that seemed to have a profound meaning.

"Ahem, ahem, I apologize for my abruptness. My dear friend from the earth, please move to the inner sanctum."

The voice, which had been extremely hostile just moments before, shifted to a cautious tone. Within the Uchiha's silver-white eye's vision, it used chakra to point out a path.

"hehe."

Sensing the change in the other party's attitude, Uchiha Gin stopped pretending to be deaf and dumb. Following the direction indicated by the chakra, he jogged along and passed through a hidden door to a dark hall.

"Ugh~ Why does this place feel so creepy?"

The dark hall was pitch black under normal vision; thankfully, with the help of the Byakugan, everything around was clearly visible.

Uchiha Gin looked at the rows of small mounds in front of him and instinctively got goosebumps. Was this a graveyard?

"Hey, is anyone alive?"

Sensing no life force in the surroundings, Uchiha Gin felt a growing chill in his heart, so he politely greeted him.

"I'm leaving now, since no one's here."

Seeing that the surroundings remained silent, Uchiha Gin decided to run away. Staying in such a place for too long would deplete his abundant yang energy.

"Wait, it's a relative from the local ninja."

Just as Uchiha Gin turned around, a cold voice rang out from the darkness.

Accompanied by the sound, a dazed figure slowly emerged. It was a long-haired man with his eyes closed; the voice had come from him.

"Um, hello, but you must have mistaken me for someone else. I don't have any relatives that ugly."

Uchiha Gin looked at the other person's unremarkable old face with disdain, and said in a slightly tactful tone,

Our Uchiha clan is known for its good looks; you're too good-looking to be related to us.

"Hmm"

Upon hearing Uchiha Gin's words, the long-haired man's carefully prepared speech vanished before he could finish.

Although he couldn't see the other person's face, he could already imagine the infuriating look on their face.

Forcibly suppressing his anger, the long-haired man organized his thoughts and continued,

"Dear one, although I do not know how you came to be with us, as a descendant of our ancestors, please listen to me."

"I won't listen."

"Listen to me."

"Like a turtle chanting scriptures~"

「＃」

The long-haired man's already lifeless face was now covered in black mist. He slowly opened his tightly closed eyes as he looked at Uchiha Gin, who was covering his ears and shaking his head.

"Where are your eyes?"

Uchiha Gin, who was covering his ears, stopped talking when he saw that the man in front of him had opened his eyes and was completely black. He frowned and asked,

"Can we listen now?"

"Fine, you're blind, so you're the boss. Just say it!"

Although he knew the general outline, Uchiha Gin still gave the NPC face, since that was the NPC's purpose in showing up.

"Relatives of the Earth Ninja, do you know who we are?"

"This part can be skipped. Just get to the point and don't use filler words from the original text."

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes again, making them even whiter, and said impatiently to the long-haired man with a bitter expression.

"ha?"

My draft, once again, died in its infancy, but it was my duty to explain it clearly to this guy.

"we are"

"Stop talking nonsense, just tell me who you want to fight!"

Thinking about speedrunning the map, Uchiha Gin waved his hand to interrupt the other party's long-winded introduction, hoping that the other party could get straight to the point, as he just wanted to finish the game and go home.

"Ugh, ugh, ugh~"

Uchiha Gin's words left the long-haired man speechless, nearly causing him to revive on the spot. He reached out, pulled a purple ball of light from his throat, and slammed it to the ground.

"I'm not saying anything more! Whoever wants to talk can say it!"

The long-haired man, looking utterly defeated, angrily lay down in a stone coffin beside him, and slowly tapped the lid shut with his hand, adding a final remark as he did so.

"No matter how innocent you are at rolling your eyes, it's all for nothing if you're not thinking straight!"

(End of this chapter)