Walking through the Uchiha Compound, Uchiha Fucheng truly felt the weight of that legendary comment.
"The entire Uchiha Clan are spike-heads, only Itachi uses Rejoice."
Uchiha Fucheng touched the tips of his hair.
"Is it because of hair quality?"
Including Fucheng himself, nearly eighty percent of the Ninjas in the Uchiha Clan had spiky, afro, or Saiyan-style pointed hairstyles.
Among the active-duty Ninjas, Uchiha with spiky hair were especially common.
Before Uchiha Itachi was born, Uchiha Fugaku was the "Rejoice Boy" with the softest, sleekest hair.
Yet Fucheng's current hairstyle looked more like the future Sasuke.
"Eh, whatever, as long as it looks cool."
Fucheng preferred his own spiky hair, and he also liked his face, which had very faint tear troughs and nasolabial folds.
From this perspective, the appearance of Fucheng and Fugaku really did resemble Sasuke and Itachi.
Watching the Uchiha clansmen in the compound becoming more and more motivated, Fucheng felt quite cheerful himself.
"Everyone needs to work hard so the Uchiha Clan can have a future. Otherwise, if it's just me busy all the time, I'd be worked to death even if I attained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan."
As soon as Fucheng entered the room, he saw UchihaMikoto and the three-person team kneeling in the main room, studying Ninjutsu scrolls very seriously.
Since returning to Konoha, Uchiha Hezi, Hatake Shoichi, and Yakushi Nonou had been as happy as if it were a festival.
In addition to the extra Ninjutsu scrolls he had rewarded them with earlier, Uchiha Fucheng also granted them access to study some D-rank and C-rank Ninjutsu.
After the Uchiha Clan's reforms, relying on the ability to copy Ninjutsu, the Uchiha might just be the clan with the widest variety of Ninjutsu in the entire Ninja World.
Immersed in the ocean of Ninjutsu knowledge, they hadn't stepped outside for several days.
When hungry, they would just eat some dry rations or military rations pills.
Once they learned a Ninjutsu, they would go to the backyard training ground to practice it.
After exhausting their Chakra, they would return to the room to rest, recovering Chakra while continuing to study the scrolls.
And so the cycle continued.
In less than a week, excluding UchihaMikoto, the three little ones under Uchiha Fucheng's watchful eye had each mastered more than five C-rank Ninjutsu.
For the three of them, who had just experienced the brutal battlefield, this was equivalent to filling in their important weaknesses in elemental jutsu.
UchihaMikoto, on the other hand, did not need to be too obsessed with Ninjutsu.
She had the new talent of Level 5 superpower. What UchihaMikoto needed was to familiarize herself with various types of Ninjutsu abilities so that when she encountered them on the battlefield, she could counter them by targeting their weaknesses.
What she was mainly training on now was the basic knowledge of "electricity, magnetism, and waves" that Fucheng had arranged for her, as well as the coordinated use of her "Electromaster" ability.
In the intervals of intensive training, UchihaMikoto also had to complete another important task with Fucheng.
That was to search for the next hidden White Zetsu scout around Konoha Village.
Having become familiar with "Misaka Sisters 0001," UchihaMikoto had also grown fond of this mutated clone that possessed some of her own memories and a unique personality.
Not only did the two look similar, but "Misaka Sisters 0001" had also inherited the resilient side of UchihaMikoto's personality.
This gave UchihaMikoto a unique sense of affinity when looking at the "White Zetsu-transformed" Misaka clone.
UchihaMikoto got up to settle Hezi and the others to continue training, then called over the guard standing to the side, the masked "Misaka Sisters 0001."
"Let's go, we'll find another one. It'll be perfect to transform it and keep Sister 0001 company."
UchihaMikoto was full of energy and looked high-spirited.
The two of them left the Uchiha Compound, but this time they didn't head away from Konoha through the main gate.
Instead, they wandered around inside the Ninja village, circling along the outer walls of Konoha Village.
This time, UchihaMikoto was also carrying a special backpack equipped with a fishbone antenna.
Every so often, she would use her electromagnetic wave ability to control the fishbone antenna on her back, releasing electromagnetic waves centered on her for reconnaissance.
On the surface of the fishbone antenna, sparks of electricity that were hard to see with the naked eye would flicker, and it would emit a buzzing vibration from time to time.
During this time, Misaka Sisters 0001 could also act as a small base station for "wave reconnaissance," expanding the detection range in her direction for UchihaMikoto.
The two of them walked and scanned as they went.
When they arrived at an abandoned training ground, UchihaMikoto suddenly made a rabbit-ear gesture as a signal.
Fucheng's eyes lit up.
His pupils instantly changed into the Mangekyo shape.
This was the signal gesture they had agreed upon with UchihaMikoto; the rabbit-ear gesture meant someone was emerging from underground.
In Konoha, a Ninja village where Earth Release was not a mainstream Ninjutsu, emerging from underground was nine times out of ten a White Zetsu.
Fucheng used silent lip-reading to remind UchihaMikoto.
He told UchihaMikoto and Misaka Sisters to wait and not advance for now; Fucheng would sneak over alone in the direction UchihaMikoto had pointed out.
After all, they were inside Konoha Village now; UchihaMikoto's Railgun was powerful enough, but the noise was too loud.
He had UchihaMikoto hold the line, which actually made it easier to operate.
After moving less than fifty meters, Fucheng had just rounded a small hill covered in trees when he discovered a creature suspected to be a White Zetsu.
"Pure white, half its body exposed above ground—it's you!" Fucheng looked at the target location and confirmed the White Zetsu's identity with pleasant surprise.
Just as he was about to strike, he pulled back into the shadows of the trees.
"Something's not right. This White Zetsu seems to be monitoring a tree hole further away?"
Fucheng had his Sharingan activated, and his vision was absolutely sharp enough to detect the slightest details.
He instantly determined that this White Zetsu was monitoring a tree hole in the distance.
In front of the tree hole, which was over a meter wide, weeds were overgrown, and it was covered by vines.
If it weren't for the White Zetsu staring fixedly at that spot, Fucheng wouldn't have noticed it at all.
Since he had seen the tree hole, Fucheng immediately judged from the subtle traces of broken vegetation that this was a special entrance to a secret underground facility.
Underground, entrance, monitored by a White Zetsu?
"Could it be Root?" The thought of Danzo, the 'Pot Shadow' who covered one eye with a bandage, immediately surfaced in Fucheng's mind.
The vines at the entrance of the tree hole suddenly moved.
A small Ninja wearing a Root floral mask cautiously crawled out of the tree hole, carrying an exquisite box inlaid with copper rivets in his hand.
The White Zetsu moved!
It dove directly underground, carefully using Earth ReleaseNinjutsu to approach the RootNinja.
The RootNinja carefully tidied up the tree hole entrance, looked around to ensure there was nothing unusual, and then proceeded toward the outside of the forest with relief.
One step, two steps, three steps...
Before he could even finish his steps, two vine branches emerged from beneath the RootNinja's feet; one wrapped around his legs, and the other sprouted many thorny spikes, instantly drilling into the RootNinja's mouth.
The hidden White Zetsu quickly emerged from the ground like a blur, its entire right arm transforming into a cone-shaped wooden spear that pierced straight through the RootNinja's heart.
Pfft!
As the White Zetsu succeeded, the RootNinja didn't even bleed much; he only had time to let out a muffled grunt through his nose before collapsing to the ground, blood flowing from his mouth and nose.
This White Zetsu seemed to have an abnormal temperament.
It was unusually manic and bloodthirsty; seeing that its opponent was no longer moving, it repeatedly lashed the corpse with its wooden spear arm.
At this moment, Uchiha Fucheng had already arrived silently behind the White Zetsu.
Slash, slash—two strikes.
The newly mastered Hatake sword technique gave the White Zetsu absolutely no time to react, and it was directly severed of both arms and legs by Fucheng from behind.
With his right hand gripping the White Zetsu's neck, Fucheng turned the White Zetsu, which had just become a human stick, to face him.
Sharingan: Genjutsu!
A triple-layered Mangekyo-level Genjutsu.
It directly stared the White Zetsu into a state where its eyes lost focus.
Clearly, this manic White Zetsu couldn't withstand the Mangekyo and directly became a prisoner of the Genjutsu.
UchihaMikoto, who was following behind Fucheng, happily watched the White Zetsu held in Fucheng's hand. She directly touched the White Zetsu's forehead to begin constructing the Misaka Network.
Assimilating White Zetsu clone!
Misaka Network constructed.
The White Zetsu underwent a series of changes, and [Misaka Sisters 0002] was born!
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