Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 162 War in Illusion

Splattered blood fell on Uchiha Shisui's face, leaving him stunned. He was on his last breath. Ryoko turned her head and gave a bitter smile.

"Sorry... it seems... neither of us can escape..."

After he finished speaking, he stopped breathing and fell to the ground, blood slowly seeping from beneath him.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

Seeing his comrade sacrificed, Uchiha Shisui felt the string in his mind snap completely. He roared wildly to the sky, and in that instant, the three tomoe in his eyes finally changed completely, transforming into the shape of four-pointed darts.

At the same time, a massive amount of chakra surged from his body, and the Iwa ninja surrounding him were immediately terrified:

"What's going on? Such strong chakra..."

"Never mind him, just take him down! Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!"

"Earth Release: Earth Mound Dumpling!"

A barrage of Earth Release ninjutsu, kunai, shuriken, and explosive tags flew toward Uchiha Shisui. However, at that very moment, the upper body of a green giant of light appeared around Uchiha Shisui!

"Die, all of you! Yasakani no Magatama!!"

A dazzling light burst forth from the chest of the giant of light. With a violent roar, the Iwa ninja surrounding Uchiha Shisui were completely melted by the endless light, their faces filled with horror.

A moment later, the giant of light, now only half-body, vanished completely after a flash of light. Uchiha Shisui staggered a couple of steps, picked up his comrade's body, took a few steps, then collapsed to the ground in a daze, unconscious.

Uchiha Shisui was already badly injured, and he lost a lot of blood along the way, almost completely depleting his chakra.

Under these circumstances, he suddenly awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan after experiencing tremendous mental stimulation. Using Susanoo consumed a large amount of chakra and ocular power, and now he is almost completely exhausted.

A moment later, a spatial vortex appeared on the battlefield. Uchiha Hiyu glanced at Uchiha Shisui, reached out and used a sealing technique to make him even more unconscious, then gouged out his eyes and took out a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan and stuffed them back into Uchiha Shisui's eye sockets.

"Tsk... See how thoughtful I am? To prevent you from going blind, I even gave you a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan. That's much better than those guys who only care about gouging out their own eyes!"

Uchiha Touyu said jokingly, but in reality, Uchiha Touyu would naturally prefer to develop a potential stock like Uchiha Shisui to its limit before reaping the rewards.

Uchiha Shisui is currently only about fourteen or fifteen years old, and he still has at least ten years to go before reaching his peak. If possible, it would be better to let him rest and develop further.

Just after Uchiha Hiyu finished his eye surgery, he also treated Uchiha Shisui's injuries and then released his seal. Before Uchiha Shisui could regain consciousness, he disappeared into the void.

Leaving aside how Uchiha Shisui, upon regaining consciousness, discovered that his Mangekyou Sharingan had reverted to the three-tomoe form and was filled with existential doubt, Uchiha Touya, after obtaining Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan, returned to the small hillside where he had been and began absorbing Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan power.

Several hours later, Uchiha Hiyu finally absorbed Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan power completely. He casually threw away the two withered and shrunken eyeballs, which had shrunk to the size of soybeans. At the same time, the three tomoe in his eyes continued to rotate, transforming into the shape of a four-cornered throwing star once again.

"The God of Separation... seems to be of little use, since I already have the God-Transfer Technique."

Using the power of Kotoamatsukami to perform the Transcendental Technique illusion does increase its power to some extent, but it still has little effect on opponents who have awakened the Rinnegan.

As for opponents who haven't awakened the Rinnegan and whose power is nowhere near the Six Paths level, using the Kotoamatsukami Sharingan or not makes little difference, since they can't withstand the power of the God-Slaying Technique anyway.

"No matter how you look at it, it's a kind of accumulation! At least now my genjutsu can confuse a ninja at the Rinnegan level for a second or two, which is a little bit of practical use at the Six Paths level."

"And most importantly... the effects of the five senses control illusion and the Tsukuyomi illusion have become much stronger."

Uchiha Hiyu narrowed his eyes, and his chakra and eye power reconnected with the giant crystal ball in the sky. He could feel that not only was the effect of his genjutsu enhanced, but the consumption of chakra was also greatly reduced.

Thanks to the power of the Kotoamatsukami Sharingan, the genjutsu that could originally only last for two or three days in the Land of Grass can now last for four or five days, almost doubling in length.

"The Iwagakure ninjas are almost here... So let's test the effects of my miniature Infinite Tsukuyomi!"

The crystal ball in the sky emitted a red light, and its immense illusionary power instantly enveloped the entire Land of Grass. In an instant, the image of a four-pointed shuriken appeared in the eyes of every ninja in the Land of Grass.

Even the three Mangekyou Sharingan-level Uchiha Fugaku, Obito, and Shisui couldn't resist the immense power of the genjutsu after losing their Mangekyou Sharingan. They were delayed by only a second or two before the pattern of four-cornered shuriken appeared in their eyes.

"Next, we'll proceed according to the list... Well, let's go find the ninjas from Iwagakure first!"

This time, the Hidden Stone Village sent a total of 2 ninjas to the Land of Grass. The leader, Uchiha Touyu, was not recognized, but he should only be a quasi-Kage level ninja. Such strength naturally could not escape Uchiha Touyu's genjutsu manipulation.

About ten minutes later, Uchiha Hiyu carefully checked and confirmed that all the ninjas in the Land of Grass had been controlled by him. He then began to manipulate the entire war through his five senses.

First, he had these ninjas bombard the battlefield with ninjutsu, creating a huge battlefield. Then, Uchiha Hiyu directly teleported to the battlefield with the Hunyuan Treasure Box, controlling the ninjas to automatically come to the front of the Hunyuan Treasure Box and absorbing them completely.

"Hmm... There's only a battlefield but no corpses, not even limbs or blood... Oh well, it doesn't matter. After all, ninja corpses are a resource in this world. Even if they're a little clean, Iwagakure will probably just think Konoha cleaned them up."

Uchiha Touyu glanced at the situation on the "battlefield" and then stopped caring about it. He only stopped the operation of the Hunyuan Treasure Box when there were less than a hundred ninjas left in the entire Iwagakure village.

Subsequently, Uchiha Hiyu began to input a large amount of virtual memories into these surviving Iwa ninja, basically how they fought against Konoha ninja, how they were defeated, how they escaped, and how they were ultimately left with only these less than a hundred survivors.

Having dealt with the Iwagakure village, Uchiha Touyu used genjutsu to summon Konoha ninjas, took out the list given to him by Tsunade, and began selecting ninjas to be sacrificed.

An overly aggressive Uchiha ninja, a mid-to-low-ranking ninja over 40 years old, a ninja suspected of various offenses after investigation, a ninja who has lost all potential...

By piecing things together, Uchiha Tou managed to find more than 300 Konoha ninjas, who were also sent to the Hunyuan Treasure Box.

As for the ninja from the Grass Village, Uchiha Hiu only managed to keep a dozen or so under his control; the rest were all sacrificed. In terms of losses, it was arguably the heaviest among the three ninja villages.

"If we examine it carefully, we probably won't be able to hide it from these ninjas, but I doubt anyone would be so idle as to come and inspect the battlefield."

After refining all the ninjas with the Chaos Treasure Box, Uchiha Touyu glanced at the battlefield. Generally speaking, few people would really suspect that there was a problem on such a battlefield, since there were too many people involved in the war. From this perspective, it could be considered a case of the blind spot.

"Of course, even if something is found during the examination, it doesn't matter. Anyway, I don't think anyone will believe the reason that both sides in the war were under illusion."

After thinking about it carefully, I realized that I actually cared about these "leeks" (a metaphor for easily exploited people) and even gave them a little perfunctory treatment. It's really touching!

Just as Uchiha Touyu was preparing to set up the battleground and dispel the genjutsu, his gaze suddenly swept over Uchiha Fugaku, and he stroked his chin:

"If Fugaku Uchiha were to suddenly pass away... who would succeed him as the head of the Uchiha clan?"

Unlike the Hyuga clan, where the main family ninjas always belong to the main family and the branch family ninjas always belong to the branch family, the Uchiha clan members are much more energetic and often fight each other for the position of clan leader.

To put it bluntly, the head of the Uchiha clan has never had any other requirements. The only requirement is that he must be the most powerful fighter in the entire Uchiha clan!

"Right now, the most powerful Uchiha ninja... besides Fugaku Uchiha, isn't that Obito Uchiha?!"

Obito Uchiha is now eighteen or nineteen years old. He once awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan. Although his eyes were soon taken away by Hiyu Uchiha, they also brought him more chakra, purer Yin Release power, and greater talent and limits.

In comparison, besides Fugaku Uchiha, the only other ninja in the Uchiha clan who awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan was Shisui Uchiha. Both of them had their Mangekyou Sharingan removed and replaced with the three-tomoe Sharingan.

However, Uchiha Shisui had only awakened his powers a few days ago, and he was a few years younger than Uchiha Obito. It was hard to say what would happen in a few more years, but for now, he was no match for the now-enlightened Uchiha Obito.

"Tsk... Is Kenji Uchiha's spring finally here? Oh well... no matter what, compared to Fugaku Uchiha, both Obito Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha would definitely listen to the Hokage more!"

Having made up his mind, Uchiha Touyu looked at Uchiha Fugaku and sighed:

"Farewell, Chieftain. I will take care of your wife and daughters; do not worry!"

After thinking about Uchiha Mikoto, who resembled a Yamato Nadeshiko, Uchiha Touya made up his mind, waved his hand, and directly sent Uchiha Fugaku into the Hunyuan Treasure Box as well.

By the time Uchiha Touyu finished harvesting the leeks, two days had passed. He then used genjutsu to place the ninjas back into their respective locations within the genjutsu, thus dispelling the genjutsu.

The instant the genjutsu dissipated, these ninjas seamlessly transitioned into reality. Some fled for their lives, others pursued the Iwa ninjas with all their might, and the battle resumed...

No ninja noticed anything amiss; in fact, many Uchiha clan ninjas even cried out in grief:

"Kill those Iwa ninja! Those bastards killed our clan leader!"

"We can't let them get away! Kill them all and retrieve the chieftain's body!"

"Idiot Uchiha! Stop dreaming! Even if you surround us, it won't change anything. Your clan leader's body has already been burned to ashes!"

The sounds of rumbling, ping-pong, thunder, rushing water, howling wind, burning flames, and the earth shaking... almost instantly, the ninjas who had broken free from the illusion began an endless battle.

However, it was clear that the remaining Iwa ninja, numbering less than a hundred, were no match for the main force of Konoha. After putting up a brief resistance, they lost more than a dozen of their comrades who were covering their retreat, and only then were the Iwa ninja able to escape.

After spending another day cleaning up the battlefield, the Konoha ninjas returned to their camp and began to compose themselves and start celebrating.

Although even the leader of the Uchiha clan, who was also the commander of this ninja force, Fugaku Uchiha, was dead, the fact that they were able to almost wipe out the Iwa ninja in just a few days, with their own losses amounting to only a few hundred ninjas, was clearly a great victory for Konoha.

Of course, some observant ninjas also noticed many oddities on the battlefield, such as corpses disappearing without a trace, dead ninjas having certain common characteristics, and the development of the battles always having some strange aspects...

They had never considered the existence of something like Infinite Tsukuyomi, nor could they have imagined that all the ninjas were under the influence of genjutsu. Their questions remained buried in their hearts.

At most, one might suspect that a third party might be involved in the war, or that some kind of Root organization might be secretly active on the battlefield. Without finding any results, these suspicions are meaningless.

The war between Konoha and Iwagakure has come to an end. Although Konoha lost several hundred ninjas, it also discarded a lot of burdens and unstable factors. It's hard to say whether it was a loss or a gain.

Of the more than 2 ninjas from Iwagakure, only a few dozen escaped, a crushing defeat that resulted in significant losses in both reputation and profits. However, it was precisely because of Konoha's pressure that the Land of Earth's universal chakra policy was implemented even faster.

Both major ninja villages had their share of wins and losses, but the most unfortunate and miserable one was probably the Grass Ninja Village, which was completely wiped out of the rankings.

The entire ninja village had only a dozen or so ninjas who hadn't died on the battlefield, plus some grass ninjas who hadn't participated in the war due to other missions or other reasons. The number was still less than three digits. This number couldn't be called a ninja village at all; it could only be called a ninja organization.

(End of this chapter)