Xuan knew that after this incident, his absolute dominance over the Uchiha clan's northern territory was completely cemented. With Uchiha Shinji under his direct control, his word was the final law on all matters in the north.
Returning to his courtyard, Xuan lay down on his futon and silently opened the System interface in his mind. The first thing he checked was his point balance: 133,000 points! He sucked in a breath of cold air. He was genuinely, undeniably rich now.
After thoroughly indulging in the intoxicating feeling of wealth, Xuan began browsing the redemption store. Watching various S-rank Ninjutsu scroll past his eyes, he thought to himself, I want them all... but redeeming the Mangekyō Sharingan is the absolute priority.
He quickly navigated to the Mangekyō redemption page. The description read:
\[Mangekyō Sharingan: S-Rank. Supreme Kekkei Genkai. Cost: 100,000 points.\]
After a moment of thought, Xuan asked internally, System, if I redeem the Mangekyō Sharingan, will I receive a canon Mangekyō that already appeared in the original story, or a completely new one?
\[The Mangekyō Sharingan is a unique Kekkei Genkai. The abilities manifested by each individual are completely different. Identical Mangekyō Sharingan do not exist.\]
Hearing this answer, Xuan felt a massive wave of relief. If he spent 100,000 points only to get Obito's exact eyes—realizing his right eye granted Intangibility and his left granted Kamui—he would probably cry himself to death since he had already bought those abilities separately.
System, redeem the Mangekyō Sharingan.
\[Mangekyō Sharingan. Cost: 100,000 points. Confirm redemption?\]
Confirm.
Just as Xuan was brimming with anticipation, excitedly wondering what his unique Mangekyō abilities would be, the familiar warm current of a successful transaction failed to appear.
\[Ding! Insufficient materials. Host lacks the 'Power of Resentment'. Redemption temporarily unavailable!\]
What?!
Xuan froze, a strong premonition of being scammed welling up in his chest. Hey! What happened to the Mangekyō?! The page clearly says it only costs 100,000 points! It didn't say a single damn word about needing the 'Power of Resentment'! Are you ripping me off?!
\[Ding! The 'Power of Resentment' is an absolute prerequisite for awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan. In the original work, an extreme level of resentment and emotional trauma is required to awaken it. Under the System's mechanics, the quantity does not matter; the host simply needs to possess it to qualify for redemption. However, the System has detected that the host possesses zero Power of Resentment, thus rendering redemption impossible. Because the Power of Resentment is a personal emotional state, the System does not sell it, and therefore it is hidden from the item description.\]
Rip-off... This is an absolute rip-off. Is this System deliberately messing with me? Xuan's mouth twitched violently.
After hastily asking the System a few more clarifying questions, Xuan finally understood the situation.
In the original story, the Mangekyō Sharingan was incredibly rare. Every single time someone awakened it, they had to suffer an unimaginably extreme emotional stimulus. For example, Uchiha Itachi awakened it after witnessing Shisui's suicide; Sasuke awakened it after personally killing Itachi and subsequently learning the devastating truth; Obito awakened it after watching the love of his life, Rin, be impaled by his best friend, Kakashi.
These traumas were progressively more intense and agonizing. This overwhelming Power of Resentment forced the three-tomoe Sharingan to evolve into the Mangekyō.
Throughout the Uchiha clan's long history, despite having countless clansmen, those who actually awakened the Mangekyō were as rare as phoenix feathers. The simple reason was that the required emotional threshold was far too high. In the System's terms, it required a massive amount of the 'Power of Resentment'.
However, with the System's assistance, Xuan didn't need to experience that apocalyptic level of trauma. Roughly speaking, just experiencing a normal level of grief over the death of a close friend in front of him would be enough to fulfill the minimum requirement.
The scam was... Xuan literally didn't have any.
Firstly, his parents in this life had died on the battlefield before he ever even met them. Forget grief; his memories of them were virtually non-existent.
Since then, plenty of people had died right in front of him, but he felt absolutely zero sense of belonging or attachment to the Uchiha clan. He felt nothing no matter how many of them died, let alone generating extreme emotions like 'resentment' or 'remorse'.
Thinking it over carefully, the only people he had a relatively good relationship with—whose deaths might actually cause him to feel genuine resentment—were Senya Hotaru and Uchiha Madara, both of whom were far away at the main clan compound.
He rubbed his temples in exasperation. Asking him to go murder his little maid? Give him a break. He might be ruthless and somewhat of a sociopath at times, but he wasn't crazy enough to personally slaughter the people closest to him.
As for Uchiha Madara...
Xuan curled his lip. First of all, while he might be able to kill Madara in his current state, doing so would completely shatter the timeline. Furthermore, considering Madara's suffocatingly thick plot armor, Xuan highly doubted he would actually succeed.
Damn System. Does this mean I'm locked out of the Mangekyō forever? Xuan cursed viciously in his mind.
\[Ding! Answering this question requires a fee of 1,000 points. Pay?\]
Xuan blinked. Did I just trigger a hidden prompt? But the price tag was absurdly steep—1,000 points just to answer a question! Still, he was a wealthy tycoon now. He didn't care. As long as it gave him a path to the Mangekyō, money was no object.
Pay the points!
\[Ding! Given the host's unique psychological circumstances, an alternative method is available to awaken the Mangekyō. It requires the 'Heart's Core Blood' of a close blood relative as a catalyst. By paying an additional 10,000 points, the System can convert this catalyst into the relative's Power of Resentment, thereby forcefully unlocking the Mangekyō.\]
Hearing the System's voice, Xuan was utterly dumbfounded. It actually has a bypass function?! Immediately after, sheer joy flooded his heart. Disregarding everything else, he rapidly calculated how he could obtain the 'Heart's Core Blood' of a close blood relative. This wasn't just ordinary blood; it was a single drop of foundational essence blood condensed at the absolute center of a person's heart. In other words, to extract it, the target absolutely had to die.
Various schemes spun rapidly in his mind. First, who were his close blood relatives? Since it required a "close" relative, distant cousins wouldn't cut it. Slaying random Uchiha clansmen off the street was useless.
Since his parents had been dead for years, his absolute closest living blood relatives were Uchiha Madara's family.
"Uchiha Tajima!"
Xuan's eyes gradually narrowed, a freezing, lethal light glinting in his pupils. He sneered coldly. "Perfect. I can settle the old and new debts together. But this means I'll have to return to the clan compound first, and then track him down on the frontline."
He silently calculated the feasibility of various assassination plans in his head. After meticulously pondering the details for two hours, he finally closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. Tomorrow, I'll review the intelligence from the frontline. The affairs in the north need to be wrapped up as quickly as possible.
The next morning, as the first rays of sunlight pierced the horizon, Xuan woke up on time. After getting dressed, he walked out into the courtyard and noticed that Yui's door was still tightly shut. Frowning, he didn't bother knocking and simply kicked the door open with a loud bang. A startled scream echoed from inside.
"I must say, Young Miss, you are an incredibly unprofessional maid. You actually slept in later than me. It seems you are in desperate need of some rigorous training."
Xuan casually closed the door behind him and looked at Yui, who was shivering and clutching her futon tightly against her chest.
"W-What are you doing?!" she asked, her voice trembling.
Seeing her frightened reaction, Xuan's initial slight annoyance suddenly morphed into a completely different kind of heat. He smiled wickedly. "Your very first lesson is this: when a Master wakes up in the morning, he naturally wakes up with a bit of a fire. And it is your primary duty to extinguish that fire."
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