The first to launch an attack were those five Blood Dragon Eye awakeners.
They knew well the Sharingan's resistance to Genjutsu, so they didn't use the Blood Dragon Eye's basic Genjutsu abilities.
They roared in unison, using sharp weapons or their own teeth to savagely slash open their arms and chests, and blood immediately gushed out.
Eerily, that blood didn't drip down; the moment it left their bodies, it seemed to be manipulated by an invisible force, rapidly condensing and transforming into sharp blood-colored arrows, spears, and even twisted whip shadows.
Carrying a pungent bloody scent and an evil fluctuation that disturbed Chakra, it shot towards Sho U like a torrential rain.
This was the Blood Dragon Eye's second ability, the Blood Control Secret Technique.
"Ten Shadows Technique: Tiger Burial!"
With a thought from Sho U, the shadow beside him twisted violently.
The swift and fierce figure of the Shikigami, Tiger Burial, wielding twin blades, instantly leaped out from the shadows.
It roared silently, its twin blades dancing into a cold flash of blade light, precisely and efficiently meeting the incoming blood attacks.
Blood arrows and blood spears collided with the metal blades, producing a "hissing" corrosive sound and the clashing of metal, most of which were intercepted and shattered by Tiger Burial.
At the same time, Uchiha Shao Yu himself moved! At some point, an all-black, ordinary-looking but exceptionally sharp Kunai had appeared in his hand.
His figure turned into a blurry black lightning bolt, charging directly into the crowd.
The Mangekyo Sharingan provided unparalleled dynamic vision and anticipation, allowing him to weave through the dense attacks and the frenzied crowd like a swimming fish, evading fatal lunges and crude weapons at every hair's breadth.
His movements were concise, efficient, and lethal.
Puchi!
Kacha!
"Ah—!"
Kunai slashed throats, severed tendons, and pierced hearts.
Fists and feet struck vital points; the sound of shattering bones and shrill screams rose and fell one after another.
Sho U was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep; every move he made inevitably took a life or rendered someone completely powerless.
His actions were not the least bit sluggish, calm to the point of being cruel.
Tiger Burial fought alongside him, twin blades flying, harvesting enemies who tried to ambush from the side or rear.
Although the members of the Chinoike Clan were full of hatred, long-term imprisonment had left their bodies weak, their Ninjutsu inheritance was likely incomplete, and they lacked effective cooperation and tactics.
Otherwise, they would have dealt with the people of the Hidden Cloud Village and fled long ago; why would they stay in this hellish place?
In the face of the absolute strength gap and the Mangekyo's insight, their resistance seemed so pale and powerless.
The battle, or rather the massacre, did not last long.
Soon, the basin was filled with corpses lying in all directions.
Blood soaked the grayish-black ground, mixing with the already thick smell of blood in the air, making one feel nauseous.
The last old man who tried to grab Sho U from behind was pierced through the heart by Tiger Burial's blade and collapsed twitching.
Over twenty Chinoike Clan members, including the five Blood Dragon Eye awakeners, were all killed.
Inside the basin, there were no survivors left; only the whistling wind and the roar of distant lava remained, as if mourning the family that had completely disappeared into the dust of history.
Uchiha Shao Yu stood in the center of the pile of corpses, his body splattered with blood, and the Kunai in his hand was also dripping blood.
His expression was calm, as if he had just done something insignificant. He put away the Kunai, and Tiger Burial also turned into a shadow and returned.
He walked over to the corpses of the five Blood Dragon Eye awakeners and knelt down.
The Mangekyo Sharingan carefully observed those five pairs of Blood Dragon Eyes that had lost their luster but still maintained their dark red, eerie color.
"Another Dojutsu Bloodline Limit..."
Sho U whispered to himself and took out a processed Sealing Container he carried with him.
His movements were skilled and precise, carefully extracting the five pairs of Blood Dragon Eyes in their entirety, placing them in a special preservative solution, and then sealing them into a scroll... The bloody wind of the Valley of Hell had not yet completely dissipated, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of heavy blood mixed with sulfur.
Uchiha Shao Yu stood among the corpses, the Sealing Scroll in his hand slightly warm, with four pairs of dark red Blood Dragon Eyes recently extracted and soaking in preservative solution lying quietly inside.
However, just as he was preparing to put the last pair of Blood Dragon Eyes into the container and completely seal these Dojutsu relics from the extinct clan, a sudden change occurred.
The pair of Blood Dragon Eyes held in his left palm, which had already lost some of their life's luster, lit up.
But just as Sho U's fingers were about to touch them and put them into the container.
Buzz!
An extremely faint yet exceptionally clear throb, as if acting directly on the depths of his soul, came without warning from that pair of Blood Dragon Eyes, following Sho U's fingers and instantly flowing through his entire body.
More accurately, it directly triggered the core of power belonging to the Mangekyo Sharingan deep within his eyes.
That throb was not malicious, nor was it a temptation; it was more like... a faint resonance between powers of the same origin?
An instinctive attraction when a dormant bloodline encounters similar traits?
Uchiha Shao Yu's movements suddenly stopped.
The strange bands of light in his eyes accelerated their flow uncontrollably, his gaze locked tightly onto the dark red eyeballs in his palm.
At this moment, at such a close distance, especially at the delicate moment when Sho U had just personally ended the lives of the Blood Dragon Eye hosts and their Dojutsu Power had not yet completely dissipated, an indescribable interaction occurred between the two powers belonging to the same Dojutsu category.
Sho U could clearly feel that the faint and eerie trace of Dojutsu Power remaining in the Blood Dragon Eyes in his palm was being invisibly pulled and attracted by his own Mangekyo Sharingan.
It was as if his Mangekyo instinctively wanted to absorb or even assimilate this similar yet different power trait.
Uchiha Shao Yu's gaze, after a moment of hesitation, was quickly replaced by a cold and determined desire for exploration.
He was never one to fear risk.
From defecting from Konoha, to challenging the Raikage, to now... exploring higher levels of power was a pursuit carved into his very bones.
"Let's try..."
He whispered to himself, no longer hesitating.
Lifting his right hand, he carefully pinched one of the Blood Dragon Eyes with his fingertips, and then, with an almost ritualistic focus, slowly pressed this cold, slimy eyeball, which carried a residual evil aura, toward the pupil of his own Mangekyo.
Of course, he wasn't actually going to shove a foreign object into his eyeball.
The moment the Blood Dragon Eye touched his eyelid, Sho U proactively met the residual alien power within the Blood Dragon Eye with his own Chakra and Mangekyo Dojutsu Power in an extremely subtle and tentative way.
The moment of contact!
Boom—!!!
An impact far stronger than before, like a volcanic eruption, exploded within Sho U's mental world and his eyes.
Dark red and crimson light frantically intertwined, collided, and tore apart before his eyes.
The residual Dojutsu Power of the Blood Dragon Eye was filled with the resentment of being imprisoned, a twisted desire to control blood, and an eerie sense of life force extraction.
While Sho U's own Mangekyo Dojutsu Power contained the pride of the Uchiha and his own cold will to pursue power and protection.
Two powers belonging to the same Dojutsu domain, yet completely different, underwent a fierce conflict and a degree of forced fusion within the special furnace of his eyes.
"Ugh—!"
Sho U couldn't help but let out a muffled groan, his body shaking violently.
A sharp pain, as if being burned by a branding iron and pierced by an ice pick, came from his left eye.
His vision was instantly covered by alternating patches of blood-red and darkness, and in his ears, he seemed to hear the venomous curses and wails of countless Chinoike Clan members before their deaths.
There was also a strange, eerie perception and desire to control blood that tried to burrow into the depths of his consciousness like a venomous snake.
Intense pain! Chaos! The risk of contamination!
But Sho U gritted his teeth tightly, his right eye also instantly activating the Mangekyo, with double the Dojutsu Power running at full capacity.
The extreme energy control and mental stabilization abilities brought by the "Six Eyes" characteristic played a key role at this moment.
Forcibly suppressing, channeling, and analyzing that invading alien Dojutsu Power, he forcibly stripped away and annihilated the chaotic resentment and negative emotions within the Blood Dragon Eye's power, retaining only the most core essential rules and energy information regarding blood manipulation.
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