“Show your true strength; reveal your Mangekyō Sharingan.”
Lu Ming’s words spread throughout the Great Arena, causing a massive uproar.
On the training grounds, hundreds of Uchiha Clan members stood frozen in place.
Everyone’s eyes were wide, their mouths agape.
“Man… Mangekyō Sharingan?”
On the high platform, the Great Elder’s hand gripped his cane, trembling.
With a ‘clack,’ the red sandalwood cane fell to the ground as his old eyes fixed on Uchiha Fugaku in the center of the field.
In the crowd, Uchiha Itachi had a massive reaction.
He looked up, his lips slightly parted.
“Father… he actually awakened those legendary eyes of a god? How is this possible!”
Itachi roared in his heart.
He had always thought he understood his father, believing him to be a Clan Head whose strength remained at the Three-Tomoe level for the sake of supporting the family.
But he never expected that his usually yielding father hid a trump card capable of subverting the landscape of the Ninja World!
Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Yashiro, and other high-ranking members of the Police Force were dumbstruck.
“The Clan Head… has the Mangekyō?” Yashiro swallowed hard, his voice trembling.
Facing the gaze of the entire audience, Uchiha Fugaku’s body stiffened slightly in the center of the field.
He looked at Lu Ming opposite him, his brow furrowed deeply.
He had hidden it for so many years, not even revealing a hint to his wife or son; where on earth did Lu Ming get this information?!
Since things had come to this, there was no point in hiding any longer.
“Whew—”
Fugaku let out a breath and closed his eyes.
When he opened them, the air above the Great Arena fell silent.
The three pitch-black tomoe originally in Fugaku’s eyes began to spin rapidly, intertwining.
Accompanying a surge of Chakra that shot into the sky, the three tomoe finally connected together, transforming into a pinwheel pattern.
Mangekyō Sharingan, Activate!
When that pattern was displayed before everyone, the Great Arena erupted in noise!
“It really is the Mangekyō! Heavens, it’s really the legendary Mangekyō Sharingan!”
“The Clan Head actually hid it so deeply. That is the divine power that only Uchiha Madara possessed!”
“This is great! Besides Shisui-sama, our Uchiha actually have a second pair of Mangekyō.”
“With this kind of invincible power, why should we fear the Konoha High Command!”
Fanaticism!
Those clan members who had defected because of Lu Ming’s dominance felt their hearts shift when they saw those eyes representing the Uchiha faith.
In the Uchiha Clan’s perception, the Mangekyō Sharingan was equivalent to being invincible!
“Lu Ming-sama is in danger…”
A Genin who had been shouting support for Lu Ming turned pale, his legs shaking.
“The power of the Mangekyō is not something an ordinary Ninja can contend with. Lu Ming-sama hasn’t even awakened the Sharingan; he’s bound to lose now!”
“Indeed! No matter how strong Lu Ming-sama’s Taijutsu is or how exquisite his Genjutsu, before the absolute ocular power of the Mangekyō, it’s all in vain!”
Listening to the discussions of the clan members around him, Fugaku felt the power within his body and let out a cold laugh.
“Lu Ming, I didn’t want to expose these eyes, but you forced me.”
Fugaku looked at Lu Ming.
“Now that you’ve witnessed this power, you should understand that your tricks are nothing more than child’s play before the Mangekyō!”
Facing the pessimism of the crowd and Fugaku’s pressure, Lu Ming’s expression remained as usual.
“God-like power?”
Lu Ming scoffed.
He drew the short sword from his back, the blade pointing directly at Fugaku.
“Fugaku, stop flattering yourself. It’s just a pair of eyes; do you really think they can save your position as Clan Head? Today, I will trample you under my feet!”
Before his voice had even faded, Lu Ming moved.
Lu Ming charged out, launching a fierce assault!
“So fast!”
Uchiha Shisui stood up from the high platform.
The Body Flicker speed Lu Ming erupted with was not inferior to his own!
“Overestimating yourself!”
Fugaku snorted coldly, the insight of the Mangekyō Sharingan being pushed to its limit.
In his eyes, Lu Ming’s movements were slowed down.
He predicted Lu Ming’s attack trajectory, raised the Kunai in his hand, and met Lu Ming’s slashing short sword.
Clang—!!!
The blade and Kunai collided, erupting in a deafening crash!
A circle of airwaves centered on the two of them expanded outward.
Several nearby Genin were flipped over by the blast, rolling several times before stopping.
“What?!”
Fugaku retreated half a step upon contact.
A monstrous strength surged into his arms through the Kunai; his Chakra defense was vulnerable before this power.
Fugaku was struck full force.
His feet gripped the ground, but he couldn’t resist the impact.
His legs plowed two furrows into the bluestone floor as he was jolted back!
Everyone’s eyes widened.
“You… you must be joking!”
Uchiha Inabi cried out in shock.
“The Clan Head activated the Mangekyō, how could he be pushed back in a clash of strength?!”
“This is not power a human should possess!”
Yashiro sucked in a breath of cold air.
Before Fugaku could steady himself, Lu Ming’s attacks followed in succession!
“Is this all the power you have, Fugaku? Is your Mangekyō just for show?!”
Lu Ming laughed loudly.
The short sword in his hand turned into a web of blades, each strike carrying immense power, locking onto Fugaku’s vital points.
The dense sound of clashing metal rang out in the Great Arena, sparks flying everywhere.
Fugaku grit his teeth!
His Mangekyō Sharingan could predict Lu Ming’s attack routes, and his brain could issue response commands, but his physical fitness couldn’t keep up with the close-quarters combat!
Lu Ming’s sword momentum was too fast!
Fugaku brandished his Kunai, barely managing to defend, unable to find even a gap to weave signs and release Ninjutsu.
With every strike he blocked, the webbing between his thumb and forefinger split further, blood dripping down his wrist.
“Crack!”
Accompanied by the sound of shattering, the Kunai in Fugaku’s hand was jolted with cracks under Lu Ming’s slash!
“Damn it!”
Fugaku broke into a cold sweat as he looked at his nearly broken weapon.
Using the force of Lu Ming’s slash, he rolled back several times to open up some distance.
The entire clan was dumbfounded.
The Clan Head, possessing the Mangekyō Sharingan, was being suppressed and put at a disadvantage in a clash of Taijutsu and Kenjutsu!
“I can’t let him get close again!”
Fugaku panted heavily.
His hands turned into afterimages as he completed the hand signs, his chest swelling as he converted the Chakra in his body into fire nature.
“Fire Release: Great Fire Destruction!”
Fugaku opened his mouth, and intense flames spewed forth.
It was a sea of fire!
The flames, accompanied by high heat, engulfed the training ground where Lu Ming stood!
The heat distorted the surrounding air.
Even from dozens of meters away on the high platform, the clan members could feel the heatwave.
“What a terrifying Fire Release! Is this the power augmented by Mangekyō Chakra!”
“Lu Ming-sama has been swallowed up! There’s nowhere to hide from flames of this scale!”
Just as everyone thought Lu Ming was about to be turned to ash in the sea of fire.
“Zheng—!”
The sound of a blade’s ring echoed from the center of the fire, piercing through the roar of the flames and entering everyone’s ears.
A flash of blade light shot up from below towards the sky!
Rip!
Under the gaze of the entire audience, that sea of fire was sliced in half from the middle by this single strike!
The flames rolled back towards both sides.
And in that split fire passage, Lu Ming held his short sword, stepping over the scorched earth as he walked out slowly.
Not even a corner of his clothes was singed, and every strand of hair was perfectly intact!
“He… he sliced through the fire?!”
Fugaku’s eyes widened as he watched Lu Ming walk out.
He knew that ordinary Taijutsu and Ninjutsu would no longer work against this monster before him.
“It’s over, Fugaku.”
Lu Ming didn’t give Fugaku another chance to breathe.
His legs exerted force as he leaped into the air.
Chakra was poured into the short sword in his hand, and lightning began to flicker on the blade.
“Die!”
Lu Ming gripped the sword with both hands and slashed down toward Fugaku’s head!
The power of this strike was immense!
At the critical moment of life and death, the corners of Fugaku’s eyes split, and bloody tears slid down his cheeks.
He threw his head back and let out a roar.
“Susanoo!!!”
Chakra erupted from within Fugaku!
Under the condensation of Chakra, a skeletal arm manifested around Fugaku!
This skeletal arm was incredibly massive.
Lu Ming’s downward slash struck the skeletal arm.
Sparks flew everywhere, and airwaves rolled!
The slash was blocked by the skeletal arm, without even a crack left behind!
The shockwave swept outward from the two of them, crushing the weapon racks and wooden stakes around the Great Arena into powder.
“He… he blocked it!”
“What kind of monster is that?! The Chakra materialized into a skeleton!”
The entire clan fell into a frenzy looking at that skeletal arm!
“This is the ultimate power of the Mangekyō! This is the power of a god!”
“The Clan Head is invincible!”
The entire clan erupted in noise.
Their worship of the Mangekyō brought Fugaku’s prestige back to its peak.
Looking at that skeletal arm, the same thought surfaced in everyone’s mind— facing this kind of power, Lu Ming was bound to lose!