Chapter 209: Izanagi and Izanami

If not for Uchiha Gen, given Madara’s personality, he would rather wait a few more years and drag out his lingering existence until he picked a qualified successor.

Now, he could only pick the tallest dwarf among short men, choosing Uchiha Fugaku, who was barely acceptable to his eyes.

With Uchiha Gen’s heaven-defying growth speed, he really couldn’t guarantee what negative impact this kid might cause to his plan.

Even though Uchiha Gen didn’t have a biological brother like him who could open the Mangekyō Sharingan and donate his eyes to help him achieve the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, even without the Mangekyō Sharingan, he was still among the top-tier powerhouses in the Shinobi World.

Considering his age, with the assistance of the Mangekyō Sharingan, it was entirely possible for him to grow to a point where no one could control him.

After all, in this era, there were no peerless powerhouses like Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara anymore.

Furthermore, what he had done before had inevitably offended Uchiha Gen. Since he couldn’t control him as his successor, once his own successor appeared, they would inevitably clash with Uchiha Gen.

Madara had to hurry up and cultivate a sufficiently powerful and qualified successor to inherit everything of his, possessing enough strength and trump cards to contend and play games against Uchiha Gen.

Fugaku was the most suitable choice.

“Therefore, you should feel even more fortunate that this old man’s only choice is you.”

Uchiha Madara lowered his eyes and gazed at Fugaku.

“I will help you obtain eyes as powerful as his, and I will also help you inherit everything I leave behind, gaining the power of Creation of All Things that Uchiha Gen does not possess. That will be the beginning of you surpassing Uchiha Gen, and once everything succeeds, you will gain everything you want.”

“I want it now! Otherwise, I’ll return to the village right now. Even if I am no longer the son of the clan head, I am still an Uchiha Jonin, and I can still compete for the position of elder, status, and wealth within the clan.”

“But if you lose me, you can only continue to hide in such a dark and sunless place, clinging to life day after day, falling from the former Uchiha Madara into a sewer rat!”

Uchiha Fugaku spoke toughly once more.

He had already given up so much, yet up to now, he had gained nothing. Therefore, for a moment, even though the other party was the once-nearly-invincible Uchiha Madara, his tone remained tough.

“I said, what should be given to you, I will give to you. Everything of mine is yours.”

Uchiha Madara was not angry; he merely gazed at Uchiha Fugaku with a pair of aged eyes, making a clearer evaluation of him in his heart.

Capable and possessed of potential, yet indecisive despite being fond of scheming. Seeming composed and wise, decisive in daily actions, and quite resourceful, he could become an excellent superior in the hearts of most people.

But when it came to major matters, Fugaku couldn’t tell the relative importance of things.

Even at this point, he actually still felt that he had room to choose.

It was only because he didn’t have the intention to kill him; otherwise, in a different scenario, Uchiha Madara dared to guarantee that Fugaku would definitely not be able to walk out of this cave alive.

This young man could be an extremely outstanding executor capable of standing on his own, but he was not suited to become the leader commanding a faction.

Because before major events, he lacked a sufficiently clear vision.

However, for Madara, this was just right.

The deficiencies in Uchiha Fugaku’s capacity and vision meant that he wouldn’t escape his grasp time and time again like Uchiha Gen.

He only needed to do well as an executor. In other aspects, he could rely on Black Zetsu, the embodiment of his own consciousness, to make up for it and guide him so that the Eye of the Moon Plan wouldn’t deviate.

“Now, return to the Land of Fire with Zetsu. Once you get there, he will tell you what to do. These few eyes are handed over to you. Don’t tell this old man that, as the son of Hisaku, that fellow didn’t impart Izanagi and Izanami to you before you prepared to defect. With these few eyes around, your safety won’t encounter any accidents.”

Meanwhile, in Konoha, the clan head’s residence.

Uchiha Gen and the Grand Elder walked out of the vermilion-red gates together.

The muffled sound of the closing doors not only isolated two spaces, but also seemed to isolate two eras.

“These are Izanagi and Izanami. Throughout successive generations, these two techniques have been jointly managed by the Grand Elder and the clan head to ensure they are not leaked externally.”

In history, Izanagi once caused an internal war with incomparably painful losses within the clan. Later, ancestor Zhili created Izanami, quelled the civil war, and led the clan through this period of growing pains.

Therefore, the technique of Izanami was always mastered by the clan head’s lineage, allowing them to always possess the ability to suppress the Grand Elder’s lineage.

The Grand Elder handed the two scrolls into Uchiha Gen’s hands, with the magnificent yet already desolate clan head’s residence behind him.

“Then why—the clan head didn’t use them?”

Uchiha Gen looked at the Grand Elder and asked with hesitation on his face.

In the original timeline, Obito and Danzo both relied on Izanagi to treat Sharingan as resurrection coins, and Itachi Uchiha had also used this technique to forcefully rewrite Sage Kabuto’s consciousness, with an effect comparable to Kotoamatsukami.

Yet precisely as the clan head, Uchiha Fugaku, when facing the disaster of clan extermination, would rather take his wife and die at his son’s hands than use this technique.

Even if he had to pay the price of a triple tomoe Sharingan, that was still better than dying.

Izanagi could be used to run for one’s life, and Izanami was even more terrifying.

If it could have the effect that Itachi Uchiha used against Sage Kabuto, Uchiha Gen asked himself that he wouldn’t be able to defend against it either and could only dodge.

That was why when he entered the house earlier to talk with the old clan head, he only used a Shadow Clone.

Facing Uchiha Gen’s doubt, the Grand Elder merely shook his head.

“Regardless of whether it is Izanagi or Izanami, no matter how strong the power is, it is ultimately performed by relying on the Ocular Power of the Sharingan.”

“This old man knows Izanagi; if he really makes a move, his strength will definitely not be your opponent, we just need to wait for five minutes. As for Izanami—”

“How could a forbidden technique performed by a pair of triple tomoe Sharingan have the qualifications to contend with the Ocular Power in your eyes? It would be a different story if it were a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan.”

“Besides, the difficulty of cultivating Izanami is not low at all. In the history of the clan, only ancestor Zhili who created this technique has successfully performed it. Uchiha Hisaku probably doesn’t have that ability.”

I see.

Uchiha Gen slowly nodded.

After coming out of the clan head’s residence, Uchiha Gen did not rush to check these two techniques, but instead detoured to Uchiha Sumi’s home.

Learning that Uchiha Gen was coming back, Uchiha Sumi couldn’t care about choosing some auspicious day and decided to marry Yuna in these few days.

Being in a hurry to get married was for no other reason than that the latter was already pregnant.

In a few more months, her belly would show, and it would be inconvenient.