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

Chapter 188 Pureblood Otsutsuki Clone

Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Obito, and Uchiha Itachi are arguably the three strongest ninjas in the Uchiha clan today. Among the entire Uchiha clan, only these three have sensed the true source of this terrifying aura.

However, when the three of them arrived at the main gate of the Nakagawa Shrine, they were as if they were stuck in a quagmire, unable to take another step inside. Under the pressure of the terrifying aura, all three of them revealed their three-tomoe Sharingan, but they still felt their bones creaking and cracking. It was an auditory hallucination caused by the immense pressure of the aura.

"What exactly happened? What went wrong inside?"

Uchiha Shisui looked at Uchiha Itachi with a somewhat surprised and uncertain expression. Uchiha Itachi just smiled wryly. Theoretically, as the son of the Uchiha clan leader, he should know many secrets.

—But his own father passed away when he was eight or nine years old, so he didn't know what was wrong with this shrine!

"Don't we usually hold big meetings at the Nakagawa Shrine? Is there really some kind of deity there?"

Obito blinked his eyes, uttering a declaration of ignorance that only made Shisui roll his eyes in response:

"How could that be? The shrine enshrines our Uchiha clan's ancestor. It's impossible that our Uchiha clan's ancestor caused such a huge incident! Besides, what kind of gods are there in this world?"

Uchiha Shisui thought he was already quite naive among the Uchiha clan, but compared to Obito, he felt he was just too Uchiha.

"Uh... so this shrine enshrines our ancestors? Hahaha, I really didn't know that!"

As an Uchiha, Obito didn't even know about the shrine that enshrines his own ancestors. His performance left Itachi and Shisui speechless, who could only sigh that he truly deserved to be called the legendary wise second.

"Alright, no matter what, let's wait here for a while! I've already sent someone to inform the Hokage, but the sheer pressure alone is enough to prevent us from entering the shrine. It's probably pointless for ordinary ninjas to come here."

It's important to know that all three of them are Kage-level ninjas. Because they haven't awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, they can't be considered Kage-level powerhouses, but they are definitely not mediocre. Even though the number of strong ninjas in Konoha has exploded in recent years, there are probably no more than ten people who can rival them.

But even they can't get into Shinsha now, so what use would it be if the Hokage came to help?

However, at this moment, the overwhelming and increasingly powerful aura suddenly subsided. The change in aura was so rapid that the three Uchiha were unable to control themselves and almost fell to the ground.

"Be careful... I sense that the other party hasn't left, but rather has restrained their aura..."

Itachi Uchiha spoke cautiously, but Obito Uchiha had already casually reached out and pushed open the shrine door. Only then did he hear Itachi's words, and he froze, turning his head away.

"Um...should I go in and take a look first?!"

Uchiha Shisui covered his face with his hands, and after a moment he sighed:

"Let's all go in together! That way we can look out for each other if anything happens!"

After saying that, he followed Obito into the gate of the shrine courtyard, and Itachi followed Shisui.

After pushing open the gate to the shrine courtyard, the three of them didn't find anything, and then their eyes all turned to the shrine in the center of the shrine.

The ninjas in the ninja world don't really have any concept of ghosts or gods. The Impure World Reincarnation technique can directly pull the dead out of the Pure Land and take a look. Expecting these guys who have supernatural powers to have a sense of awe is really wishful thinking.

They knew that there was a Pure Land in this world, and they also knew that there were immortals in this world. Some of the more knowledgeable ones even knew that there were all kinds of demons and evil gods.

But that's all they know about them. It's impossible to expect them to have any sense of awe. In the eyes of ninjas, these things are just creatures that are more powerful than them—maybe even more powerful than some ninjas!

Naturally, although the shrine is quite large, it doesn't have any priests or shrine maidens; it's just a place for Uchiha people to remember their ancestors.

A cracking sound came from inside the shrine. The three exchanged glances and prepared to be on guard. Even Obito Uchiha, the wise second-in-command, had been through the battlefields of the Third Shinobi World War, where corpses piled up everywhere. He might be a bit slow-witted normally, but when real danger struck, he was still a Konoha Jonin.

The cracking sound was like someone pushing open a floorboard, followed by light footsteps and a creaking sound. The ancestral hall door was pushed open, and a boy who looked no more than seven or eight years old walked out with a smile on his face.

However, upon seeing the boy, the Uchiha trio felt a tremor run through their bodies, as if a unique suppression within their bloodline caused them to instinctively take a step back and assume a defensive posture.

"Who...who are you?!"

Obito looked at the boy in front of him and shouted loudly. Putting aside the suppression that came from his bloodline, just by looking at the boy's appearance, Obito was sure that this guy was no ordinary person.

With pale skin, two small horns on its head, long snow-white hair cascading down its back, and three blood-red tomoe in its dark eyes, it was the exact opposite of the Uchiha Sharingan with its red eyes and black tomoe.

Although the boy's appearance was exquisite, his unusual appearance, coupled with his completely inhuman aura, told the three Uchiha in front of them that this guy was definitely not human.

Most people in the ninja world look similar, but there are a very few ninjas who have undergone genetic mutations, special ninjutsu training, or human modification, and whose appearance is completely different from ordinary people, such as Kisame Hoshigaki, Sakon and Ukon, and Kinkaku and Ginkaku.

But none of them were like this seven or eight-year-old boy in front of them, who gave off a strange and otherworldly feeling at first glance, and could not be compared with ordinary humans in any way.

"Does the cultivation method of the Divine Sect and the Demonic Sect have such side effects? Or is it a result of combining it with the local monitoring system? I remember that ordinary members of the Otsutsuki clan didn't seem to have such strange traits. It's like they've been directly expelled from humanity!"

The strange boy did not answer the Uchiha trio's question, but muttered something under his breath before looking up at them.

Black pupils and blood-red tomoe—features completely opposite to the Sharingan—made the Uchiha trio think deeply. Obito, the most impulsive of them all, stepped forward and shouted:

"Hey, don't talk nonsense! You haven't answered our questions yet!"

"Hehe... To answer your questions..."

The boy raised his head, his eyes swirling with tomoe. Before the three Uchiha could react, they felt dizzy and instantly lost consciousness.

After seeing that the three people were unconscious, the boy finally looked away and looked at his own hands:

"Is this what it feels like to be a pure-blooded Otsutsuki? I easily took down these three guys... But this pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone I created is a bit too small. It seems I need to absorb more chakra to grow stronger."

Clearly, this seven or eight-year-old boy is the pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone separated by Uchiha Touyu. Originally, according to Uchiha Touyu's estimate, he could probably separate a pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone within five years. However, in order to better develop the bloodline potential of the Otsutsuki clan, he spent another three years in the process.

As it turns out, his three years of reflection were not in vain. The Otsutsuki clone in front of him, although only in the form of a teenager or even a child, had chakra of such high quality that it had reached the level of the Bloodstained Net, far surpassing the original Uchiha Tou.

"However, the young Otsutsuki's body, in terms of basic physical abilities... is somewhat inferior to that of the original Otsutsuki..."

Let alone the reduction in strength, speed, and defense due to youth, the fatal flaw of short arms and legs alone can reduce combat power by 30% in battles of the same level.

Therefore, the combat power of this Otsutsuki clone is not much higher than that of the original body. At most, it has changed from a magic warrior to a being that is closer to a pure mage.

However, there is no need to worry about his future cultivation path being contaminated. The Otsutsuki clone in front of him can use a large number of chakra pills to cultivate. According to Uchiha Tou's estimate, in just a few months, the strength of his Otsutsuki clone can double again.

Moreover, this kind of bloodline clone is not something that can't be fused back together once it's separated. In the bloodline fusion state, Uchiha Tou's combat power is much stronger than it was a few years ago!

The sound of footsteps approached, and another person walked out of the shrine—it was Uchiha Touya in his true form.

A day ago, Uchiha Touyu reached a critical juncture in his cultivation and sensed that he was about to break through. He hid in the underground secret chamber of the Nakagawa Shrine and finally broke through the fifth level of the Shinshu Demonic Sect's cultivation method, creating a pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone.

After completely stripping away the pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone, Uchiha Touyu no longer had any chakra energy in his body. However, thanks to his strong foundation, his physical and mental abilities were still far superior to those of ordinary ninjas, so he was not reduced to a complete grunt.

Moreover, as long as he has a thought, he can extract some chakra from the pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone, or even make the pure-blooded Otsutsuki clone return directly to his body, so he doesn't feel any sense of crisis.

Even during the time it took for Uchiha Hiyu to get close to his clone, he had already secretly used the Chakra Refining Technique to reconstitute his spiritual and physical energy into Chakra.

However, without the Otsutsuki gene, even though his physical and mental energy far exceeded that of ordinary people, Uchiha Touya could not extract much chakra, only about the same as an ordinary Kage-level ninja.

Now Uchiha Tou isn't afraid anymore. He doesn't care what impact the chakra will have on his future training system. Anyway, no matter how much chakra he has, he can just stuff it into the Otsutsuki clone.

"Excellent. First, I'll strengthen my clone to its limit and take down Nagato. Then I'll figure out a way to reap the rewards from the big ones, and then I can switch to a different cultivation system!"

"Thanks to Nagato for maintaining stability in the ninja world all these years, the population is now nearing saturation, and it's time to harvest them!"

With a thought, the pureblood Otsutsuki clone transformed into a stream of light and entered Uchiha Tou's body. Uchiha Tou didn't undergo many changes; only his hair turned silver-white. However, his aura was completely different from before.

With a swift movement, accompanied by a spatial ripple, Uchiha Touya vanished without a trace.

The Hunyuan Treasure Box was placed by Uchiha Hiyu in four ninja villages under his control, to be used as a tool for execution.

Although there haven't been any large-scale wars, the jurisdiction of the four great ninja villages has expanded a thousandfold, now encompassing four countries. In addition, almost everyone in those four countries now possesses chakra. So, even if it's just used to deal with death row inmates, the four Chaos Treasure Boxes have absorbed tens of thousands of people in the past few years.

The Naruto world has entered the modern era, but as a world with extraordinary powers, all kinds of criminals are emerging one after another. Especially in recent years, which coincided with the implementation of the national chakra policy, the crime rate has increased by dozens of times, and the four Chaos Treasure Boxes have also had a great time.

In addition to the large amount of chakra, soul energy, and blood energy that Uchiha Touyu previously possessed within the Hunyuan Treasure Box, it can be said that the power of the four Hunyuan Treasure Boxes is almost equivalent to that of a single Divine Tree Fruit.

With his powerful space-time ninjutsu, Uchiha Touyu quickly arrived at the place where Konoha Village kept the Hunyuan Treasure Box, which was Konoha Prison.

There was no other way. Although the Hunyuan Treasure Box was a secret in the ninja village that couldn't be spoken of, it was known to the upper-level ninjas. However, it couldn't be used openly just because of that.

The best place to put them is in Konoha Prison. Once you determine which ninja in the prison is no longer of value, you can just throw them in and refine them into pills.

In the darkest depths of the prison, Uchiha Touya casually formed a hand seal, opening a barrier. As the barrier door opened, a box the size of a coffin was revealed inside.

As a crafted magical artifact, the Hunyuan Treasure Box also has a certain ability to change its size at will. However, the reason why the Hunyuan Treasure Box became so large was not because Uchiha Hiyu manipulated its abilities, but simply because there was too much energy inside. Even with the space compression function, it still expanded the entire Hunyuan Treasure Box.

(End of this chapter)