Chapter 160 (Patreon)

The shinobi Yujiro had summoned exchanged uncertain looks. None of them knew what he intended to do next.

Yujiro chuckled as his gaze moved across Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi.

Then, without the slightest warning, he said something that made all three Uchiha tense.

“I’ve had my eye on your clan’s Sharingan for quite some time.”

Fugaku’s expression changed instantly. Shisui and Itachi became equally wary, but Yujiro merely laughed at their reaction.

“[Gene Recombination]—target: the Uchiha clan!”

Yujiro activated the ability he had obtained upon reaching the intermediate stage of the Fourth-Level Limiter.

A nearly imperceptible current rippled across his body.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for acquiring the Uchiha clan’s constitution!”

“Ding! The Host possesses the Uchiha constitution as well as the power of Indra. Conditions have been met. [Gene Recombination] activated. Genetic enhancement commencing!”

Yujiro felt a faint stinging sensation in his eyes.

An instant later, before the stunned gazes of the three Uchiha, his dark pupils turned crimson. Three black tomoe slowly revolved around each pupil.

The Three-Tomoe Sharingan!

“Th-Three tomoe?!”

Fugaku stumbled several steps backward, staring at Yujiro in disbelief.

“What just happened?!” he cried, clutching his head as if the sight before him had overturned everything he knew.

Shisui and Itachi were no less shaken. Their eyes widened as they stared at the fully matured Sharingan that had appeared without warning.

Kakashi and the shinobi gathered around him had fallen silent as well.

What they had witnessed lay entirely beyond their understanding—and it had happened directly before their eyes.

“Isn’t the Sharingan a dōjutsu that only members of the Uchiha clan can possess?” Minato asked, looking at Yujiro in confusion.

“It’s only the Three-Tomoe Sharingan,” Yujiro replied casually. “Why are all of you so surprised?”

He made no further move, merely standing there as though waiting for something.

Sure enough, another change came a moment later.

The three tomoe within each of Yujiro’s eyes began to rotate. They merged and stretched, forming a pair of strange, intricate patterns unlike those of any Uchiha present.

The Mangekyō Sharingan!

“The Mangekyō?!”

Fugaku had only just regained his composure, yet the sight before him left him frozen once again.

He could scarcely believe what he was seeing.

Yujiro was not an Uchiha. Yet his ordinary black eyes had first transformed into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, only to evolve directly into the Mangekyō Sharingan moments later.

How could something like that possibly happen?

Sharp breaths sounded throughout the training ground.

The scene before them was simply too unbelievable.

“Ding! Evolution from the Three-Tomoe Sharingan to the Mangekyō Sharingan successful!”

“Ding! The Mangekyō Sharingan is continuing to evolve!”

“Don’t be impatient,” Yujiro said, as relaxed as ever. “There’s still more.”

The patterns within his Mangekyō shifted once again.

The change itself was subtle, but the ocular power radiating from his eyes rose to an entirely different level. Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi all possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, so they sensed the difference immediately.

Fugaku’s face went pale.

“This is… the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan?!”

He had once used his Mangekyō Sharingan to decipher the stone tablet preserved within the Uchiha clan’s shrine. Because of that, he knew the secret behind the Mangekyō’s final evolution.

“The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan?” Shisui repeated, bewilderment flashing through his eyes.

Itachi’s expression also revealed a trace of confusion. Neither of them had learned the tablet’s deepest secrets.

“The process required to awaken those eyes is cruel,” Fugaku explained gravely. “However, once they are awakened, their light will never fade. Their wielder will no longer lose his sight from using the Mangekyō.”

He stared at the ominous pattern within Yujiro’s eyes.

“And the Susanoo created by those eyes possesses power far beyond an ordinary Mangekyō’s.”

Everyone looked at Yujiro as though they were staring at a monster.

Wasn’t this far too terrifying?

Only a few minutes had passed, yet Yujiro had already progressed from ordinary eyes to the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

This no longer defied common sense alone. It defied reason itself.

They had always known that Yujiro possessed power comparable to that of a god. Even so, this was on an entirely different level.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host. The Mangekyō Sharingan has successfully evolved into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan!”

“Ding! [Ability Simulation] activated. Targets: Fugaku Uchiha, Shisui Uchiha, and Itachi Uchiha.”

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for acquiring [Ocular Power Enhancement], [Kotoamatsukami], [Amaterasu], and [Tsukuyomi]!”

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for awakening Susanoo!”

Pitch-black chakra erupted from Yujiro’s body without warning.

The moment Fugaku saw it, his composure shattered yet again.

“Susanoo!”

Pale bones formed around Yujiro in the next instant, followed by interwoven tendons and dense layers of muscle.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for activating Susanoo’s first form!”

A massive skeletal frame enclosed Yujiro. Black chakra surged from between its bones, flickering like flames.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for activating Susanoo’s second form!”

Susanoo transformed again.

Muscle and sinew spread across the skeleton, and its already enormous body rose higher. At the same time, a colossal black samurai sword materialized within its right hand.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for activating Susanoo’s third form!”

A layer of jet-black tengu armor formed over Susanoo’s body, causing its defensive power to rise dramatically.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for activating Susanoo’s fourth form!”

The ground trembled.

An immense Susanoo towered over the training field as Yujiro’s body slowly rose from the earth and entered the crystal at the center of its forehead.

“So powerful… Is this truly the strength of a god?”

“Lord Yujiro’s power is unbelievable!”

The surrounding shinobi, including Kakashi and his companions, stared blankly at the enormous warrior before them.

By now, they had stopped wondering how Yujiro had acquired the Sharingan.

There was only one question left in their minds.

Just how powerful was he?

Yet Susanoo’s transformation was still not over.

“Ding! Congratulations to the Host for activating Perfect Susanoo!”

BOOM—!

An overwhelming aura exploded from the black Susanoo and swept across the entire training ground.

Everyone present staggered beneath the pressure.

The colossal figure began to grow again.

Higher and higher it rose as an endless torrent of dark chakra surged around it. Its shadow swallowed the training field, then stretched across the hills beyond.

At last, a Perfect Susanoo that seemed to connect heaven and earth stood in the mountains behind Konoha, its immense form blotting out the sky.

With a low rumble, the wings upon its back slowly unfolded.

Seen from a distance, it resembled a dark war god—or a demon that had descended upon the mortal world.

The people gathered in the hills were not the only ones who witnessed its appearance.

The terrifying pressure spread throughout Konoha.

Across the village, shinobi and civilians alike stopped whatever they were doing and raised their heads toward the mountains.

There, looming over Konoha, stood a black figure that seemed to have emerged from the depths of the underworld.

Every person who saw it stared in stunned disbelief.

Perfect Susanoo!