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

Chapter 197 Battle Ends

After examining his non-existent conscience, Uchiha Tou returned to the battlefield.

Although it's called a battlefield, in reality, despite everyone being under an illusion, there haven't been many casualties so far.

But things are different now. After Uchiha Touyu arrived on the ground, he put his hands together without hesitation and activated the Summoning Jutsu. Several huge, coffin-sized Chaos Treasure Boxes quickly appeared around Uchiha Touyu.

"We can distribute these things, then design some memories, and at the same time fake a battlefield..."

Seven or eight days passed quickly. Even with Uchiha Tou's mental strength and chakra, maintaining such a nationwide genjutsu for so long left him feeling exhausted.

However, similarly, with the four Chaos Treasure Boxes operating at full power, they were like a giant meat grinder devouring machines. Of the two or three million ninjas and chakra soldiers, only three-tenths remain.

Whether it's the four great ninja villages or the soldiers of the four countries, their numbers have drastically decreased. And after drawing such a huge amount of energy, the soul energy inside the four Chaos Treasure Boxes has reached its limit.

The original form of the Hunyuan Treasure Box was the Box of Bliss, which was considered a decent treasure in the ninja world. However, if placed in the Book of Demonic Inheritance, it would only be considered the most ordinary refining material.

Even though continuously refining flesh and soul can improve the Hunyuan Treasure Box to some extent, the improvement it can bring to a magic weapon in just over ten years is minimal.

The original Bliss Box could only hold around a million souls. Now it has been transformed into four Chaos Treasure Boxes. Although the upper limit of its capacity has increased slightly, it is not much larger. Two to three million souls are enough to completely fill the Chaos Treasure Boxes.

"So next up is the final battle with Nagato Uzumaki... Thank you for your hard work. Now you can find a safe place to hide."

The "you" that Uchiha Touyu mentioned are the current Kage of the other four major ninja villages and their Kage Guards, namely Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Pakura, Yugito, and his harem.

It was thanks to these people helping to deal with the ninjas that the four Chaos Treasure Boxes were able to operate continuously. However, these people are not in good spirits right now.

Uchiha Touyu felt alienated from the Naruto world, treating most ninjas and ordinary people as NPCs and monsters. Naturally, he had no aversion to killing monsters for gold. Regardless of whether they were from Konoha or any other village, as long as Uchiha Touyu was unfamiliar with them, they were all just easy targets.

Even if he is familiar with Uchiha Touyu, if his interests are really affected, Uchiha Touyu will definitely kill him without hesitation for even a second. He can be described as a born demonic cultivator.

However, the Kage of the four great ninja villages, as well as the ANBU fodder of Uchiha Touyu, did not have the same mentality as Uchiha Touyu. Even though they had been mentally controlled by Uchiha Touyu to some extent, it did not mean that they had truly become emotionless puppets.

On the contrary, in addition to their submission to Uchiha Hiu, these women also have deep feelings for their village and care a great deal about the ninjas of their village.

Seeing their village's ninjas turned into expendable resources, and with the added consequence of their own actions, was incredibly damaging to their mental state. Over the past few days, even though these women were only responsible for throwing people into the Chaos Treasure Box, it had already driven them to the brink of nervous breakdown.

Upon hearing Uchiha Hiyu tell them to leave, the women breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly departed.

Uchiha Hiyu immediately created four clones, which transformed into the appearances of Tsunade, Yugito, Pakura, and Mei Terumi, respectively. At the same time, he retrieved the four Chaos Treasure Boxes and released some of the genjutsu.

At least now, ordinary ninjas can see the four Kage of the ninja villages confronting Nagato Uzumaki.

The ordinary ninjas, waking from the illusion, seamlessly transitioned into the real battlefield in a single second, as if they had truly experienced an incredibly fierce and epic battle. Each of them looked tensely at the four village leaders and Nagato Uzumaki facing off.

Then the ordinary ninjas' expressions changed. In the genjutsu, Nagato's earth-shattering power surged into their minds again, making them all pale and trembling.

"Run! Don't get in our way! With our strength, we can't possibly get involved in this war!"

"So many people have already drained a lot of Nagato's chakra. This time... we should be able to win, right?"

"Enough of that. I actually thought Akatsuki was a peace-loving organization... Nagato Uzumaki kills people without batting an eye. Killing ninjas from our villages is one thing, but he also wiped out all the soldiers from the other four great nations. That's close to 200 million people!"

At this point, the surviving ninjas shuddered. Killing was a common occurrence for most ninjas, but killing in the tens of thousands was something that even these ninjas found terrifying.

If it weren't for the fact that Nagato Uzumaki seemed to be running low on chakra after the massacre, the remaining ninjas would have preferred to just surrender!

Amidst the deafening roar, Tsunade, as the Hokage, rushed forward immediately, colliding with Nagato Uzumaki's Shinra Tensei, once again unleashing a massive shockwave that blew away many ninjas who were close to the battlefield.

The ninjas who were speaking were horrified. They could no longer speak and turned around immediately, using all their might. They activated ninjutsu such as Body Flicker Technique and ran faster than the others.

The "battles" of the past few days have taught them that when faced with powerful attacks, ordinary ninjas like themselves are better off running away faster!

And so, the Kage of the four great ninja villages and Nagato Uzumaki engaged in a fierce battle. The aftershocks of the battle reached hundreds of meters away. Ordinary ninjas could only see flames, lightning, storms, giant trees, and an invisible repulsive field flashing across the battlefield, and could not see their figures at all.

Although these four Kage of the ninja villages were merely clones created by Uchiha Touyu, through dual cultivation, Uchiha Touyu was able to fully master all four of their ninjutsu, and even displayed power surpassing that of the original Kage.

Moreover, even the clones' chakra is close to that of a tailed beast. This level of chakra is definitely a standard ninjutsu cannon, and the battle scenes can be made incredibly grand, seemingly not much weaker than Nagato Uzumaki.

As long as they look similar, that's enough.

The "heart-stopping" battle lasted for several hours, and almost half of the Land of Rain in the east was destroyed before the massive chakra aura that permeated the entire battlefield finally disappeared.

Meanwhile, the tens of thousands of ninjas remaining on the battlefield had already scattered. Because both sides in the "battle" were moving rapidly, these ninjas could only try their best to escape to the outer perimeter in order to avoid being caught in the aftermath of the battle. Some of the faster ones had already escaped the Land of Rain.

The battle lasted for several hours, but it took more than ten days to gather the defeated soldiers back. However, this saved a lot of trouble. Originally, there were some inconsistencies between the battlefield of the Rain Kingdom and the illusion, but after more than half a month, no problems could be seen.

However, what truly surprised the ninjas of the four great ninja villages was that they actually won! The terrifying Nagato Uzumaki was ultimately sealed away by the combined efforts of the Kage from the four great ninja villages.

Although they didn't kill the person outright, generally speaking, powerful ninjas sealed in the ninja world have virtually no chance of starting over. Kaguya Otsutsuki possessed an immortal body, which allowed her to endure the long thousand-year seal. Ordinary ninjas, once trapped in the seal, would only die within a few decades, even if their lifespan was slowed down.

Yes, Uchiha Tou orchestrated this grand scheme. In the end, Nagato Uzumaki wasn't someone who needed to be killed, but rather sealed away—so that he could be harvested a second time and brought out this sealed demon king again.

The Fourth Shinobi World War ended just like that, but the casualties caused by this war shocked the five great nations and all the ninja villages.

The armies of the five great nations were almost completely wiped out, and only two or three out of ten ninjas who participated in the great war survived. After the battle, the Akatsuki organization and Iwagakure were also purged. The members of the Akatsuki organization were almost completely wiped out, and Iwagakure was also defeated by the combined forces of the four ninja villages and directly divided up.

Anyway, four ninja villages are already enough. Uchiha Tou didn't think there was any difference between five villages and four villages in the entire ninja world. As long as the entire ninja world was not unified, he would have plenty of excuses if he wanted to take over.

The base beneath Konoha, where the roots originally stood.

At this moment, the original base is not completely abandoned, but has become a real training base for the Anbu. However, it seems that "Konoha Root" dug too deep back then, and there are still some hidden places that have not been used until now.

The person who knows the most about Konoha Root these days isn't even Orochimaru, who was once Root's deputy, but Uchiha Touu, who used genjutsu to trick almost all of Root's ninjas. So when he was preparing to find a secluded place to digest his gains, he immediately thought of this place where he had spent a long time.

After informing Tsunade, Uchiha Touyu took his four "large coffins" and hid underground, becoming a groundhog. He had no choice; after absorbing some resources from Iwagakure and Akatsuki, the four Chaos Treasure Boxes had truly reached their limit. Without Uchiha Touyu's suppression, they would explode at any moment.

As for what the consequences of this thing's explosion would be, even Uchiha Tou himself wasn't quite sure. If he was lucky, it would just be a big explosion; if he was unlucky, the massive soul energy, blood energy, and chakra might condense into some troublesome monster.

In fact, Uchiha Touyu could absorb it directly now, but he has already prepared for the transition to cultivation. He has absorbed a lot of energy now, and a large part of it will definitely be wasted when he transitions to cultivation.

If the transition to cultivation were still a long time away, there would be no need to say more. But now that Uchiha Touyu has gathered a huge amount of offerings, he will definitely be able to obtain some high-level inheritances from the Book of Demonic Inheritance. The transition to cultivation is just around the corner, so he naturally won't waste his energy for nothing.

In the basement filled with sealing runes, Uchiha Hiyu placed four "large coffins" in the center of the four sealing runes to suppress the energy inside the Chaos Treasure Box. Then, he sat cross-legged in the center and concentrated his spiritual power in the dark space where the Book of Demonic Inheritance was located.

In the pitch-black space, endless black energy intertwined and coalesced, condensing into a terrifyingly large black snake. Horns grew on the snake's head, winding and turning, and it emitted a chaotic hiss that seemed to be a mixture of hundreds of sounds.

On the black python's body, through each scale, one could see human faces. The faces on the scales constantly changed, each one representing a victim who had died at the hands of Uchiha Hiu. The entire snake seemed to be formed from millions of human faces, giving it a terrifying and eerie feel that could drive a normal person's sanity to the brink of collapse.

"Tsk... I didn't expect that having more offerings would lead to this kind of change. Is it turning into a Cthulhu style this time?"

"Speaking of which, that thing could be considered a kind of demon or monster! But I don't want to go down that path where I might go crazy at any time."

Cultivation based on the "King" system is a relatively new and emerging style. Its advantage is that it allows for much faster progress compared to ordinary cultivation. However, its disadvantage is that it also greatly increases the likelihood of turning someone into a madman or a monster.

Cultivating demonic arts is dangerous enough as it is; if you add a type that counters your own, you'll probably turn into an indescribable monster in no time.

With a hint of worry in his heart, Uchiha Touyu immediately initiated the sacrifice. The Book of Demonic Inheritance in the sky trembled slightly, and this time a new anomaly appeared.

A thin chain grew from the book and wrapped itself around the giant python that was constantly slithering and roaring on the altar. The enormous and eerie python was instantly turned into a dead snake after being entangled by the thin chain and was directly whipped up by the Book of Demonic Inheritance.

The crackling and creaking sounds continued, accompanied by the struggling body of the black python and its silent roars. Moments later, the entire black python was completely absorbed by the Book of Demonic Inheritance.

At this moment, the Book of Demonic Path Inheritance slowly opened its pages. Compared to the past when it merely transmitted some information or let some blood flow, this time the Book of Demonic Path Inheritance dropped an entire page, which landed in front of Uchiha Touyu.

(End of this chapter)