"Clan Leader!"
The two elders kneeling on the ground suddenly raised their eyes. When they saw the teasing poem on the wall, their faces instantly turned pale, their eyes rolled back, and they nearly fainted on the spot.
Although they also felt that the legend of the Sage of Six Paths was vague and illusory, they absolutely did not dare to blaspheme it so openly.
Things like this, if you believe in them, they exist; if you don't, they don't.
You can choose not to believe, but you must not desecrate them.
Let alone inscribing a mocking poem like this. Such behavior had already violated a great taboo of Uchiha rituals.
In the void above, the moment Arisu saw the poem clearly, his mind trembled, and his face instantly darkened a few shades.
"Outrageous! You actually dare to tease me?!"
Arisu's mind shook, and his vision went dark.
After hearing it, Arisu was shocked but unwilling to believe it.
Earlier, when Uchiha Yui accused him of sitting idly by while chaos ravaged the human world, everything she said was true, and he could still accept it calmly.
But this kind of teasing, mocking poem was a blatant offense.
Even with Arisu's detached state of mind, his heart still stalled for a moment, and his vision dimmed.
"Good, good, good. Indra, so this is your descendant, your reincarnation?"
"Even Otsutsuki Kaguya wouldn't dare tease me like this, yet you do. You're even more outrageous than Kaguya."
"What nerve. Does she think she has ten heads? This kind of courage is even greater than in her previous life ."
Arisu looked at those lines of poetry.
Then he carefully read the words again. The brushstrokes were bold and unrestrained, the tone free and unbound, carrying a certain kind of charm.
Arisu fell silent for a moment.
He actually gave a slight nod.
In his heart, he sighed, 'Good poem, truly a good poem…'
"That said, it's written quite well."
Arisu clasped his hands behind his back.
"Ah!?"
The two elders finally snapped out of their extreme panic.
"Clan Leader! This is blasphemy! This is an unforgivable crime!"
"Clan Leader, quickly! Use ninjutsu to erase those lines! If the clan members see it, there will surely be an uproar!"
"If it spreads and the daimyo of various nations and the major ninja clans learn of it, the Uchiha will definitely be condemned by public opinion!"
The two pressed their foreheads to the ground, bowing repeatedly with both hands. Cold sweat streamed down from their temples.
Uchiha Yui lowered her eyes and looked at the poem on the wall. A trace of hesitation, barely noticeable, flickered across her cold features.
The anger stirred by the injustices of her childhood and the suffering of the ninja world faded. As her rationality returned, she also realized she had gone too far.
Cursing the Sage of Six Paths was just venting her true feelings, but such blatant teasing had indeed crossed the line.
Even though she was the Uchiha clan leader and held great authority, she could not completely ignore the beliefs of half the clan.
Uchiha Yui felt a bit of regret in her heart.
But on the surface, she still maintained the pride of a clan leader, only her tone softened slightly. "Hmph, I understand."
As her words fell, she raised her hand and picked up the gunbai fan. Chakra wrapped around its surface, and with a light wave, blazing flames engulfed the poem on the wall.
The stone wall was scorched by chakra fire, instantly turning charred black. Those carved marks were burned away in the blink of an eye, leaving behind only a blurred scorch mark.
After finishing all this, she did not follow the clan's ritual to kneel and pray.
She simply walked to the incense table, casually took out three sticks of incense, lit them, and carelessly stuck them into the burner.
She didn't even bother to check whether they were placed properly before turning and flicking her sleeve, walking straight out of the Hall of Six Paths.
Suspended in the void, Arisu took in everything.
Watching her shift from unrestrained defiance to slight regret, the corner of his lips curled into a faint, almost imperceptible sneer, "Hmph, little girl. In the end, still immature."
"You can't even keep your emotions from showing. Your thoughts are so easily exposed in front of others. With this kind of temperament, I'm afraid you can hardly bear the responsibility of leading the Uchiha clan."
As his words fell, Arisu let out a cold snort, flicked his sleeve, and his figure turned into dense mist, leaving the Uchiha's Nanhe River region.
Today was the day when the entire ninja world worshipped the Sage of Six Paths together. This custom had been passed down for a thousand years and had long become like the Spring Festival of the mortal world in a previous life, a grand festival shared by all ninja clans, with none daring to neglect it.
What had happened on the Uchiha side was simply too "defying the heavens."
With a bit of curiosity in his heart, Arisu wanted to see whether other ninja clans had also developed such rebellious thoughts like the Uchiha.
Streams of light shifted, and Arisu's figure appeared one after another at the ritual sites of several major ninja clans.
The joint altar of the Sarutobi and Shimura clans.
The two clans lived adjacent to each other, holding their ritual together in one place. On the platform, braziers burned fiercely, and the Sarutobi and Shimura clans were performing shamanistic dances.
Next was the Hyuga clan.
Members of the main family and branch families gathered at the Hyuga sacred grounds, all lowering their heads and bowing.
Led by the head of the main family, they performed the grand ritual of three kneelings and nine kowtows before the tablet of the Sage of Six Paths.
The ceremony was complex and solemn, and even children were held down by their parents, not daring to make the slightest noise.
The Uzumaki clan's ritual was even more devout.
The shrine maidens of Uzushiogakure wore white robes, holding sacred bells as they danced gracefully on the altar, also performing shamanistic rites.
As for the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, the Hatake clan, Inuzuka, Yotsuki, Hagoromo, Kaguya, and the Take clans, there was no need to mention them.
All the way through, the reverence of these major ninja clans was exemplary.
The surprise in Arisu's heart lessened somewhat. Then his figure moved, rushing toward another great clan of the ninja world, the Senju clan's territory.
'Uchiha Yui, Indra's reincarnation, is already the Uchiha clan leader and no longer young.'
'By that logic, Asura's reincarnation should have already begun to show promise. Perhaps, like her, he has also taken control of the Senju clan.'
Arisu's figure silently appeared outside the Senju clan's ritual grounds, quietly pondering.
At this moment, the Senju clan's ritual had already ended.
Arisu simply went straight to find the Senju clan leader.
But when he saw the Senju clan leader, Arisu frowned.
Because he realized that the Senju clan leader was not this generation's reincarnation of Asura.
Arisu frowned and immediately spread his perception across the entire Senju clan territory.
The invisible sage-like perception around him spread out at once, sweeping over the whole Senju clan like rippling water.
"Found it. Over there."
In just an instant, Arisu locked onto the ancient and solemn Senju shrine deep within the clan. In the direction of the Hall of Six Paths, there lingered a faint soul belonging to Asura's reincarnation.
With a flash, Arisu silently landed outside the shrine. Two hushed voices happened to drift into his ears.
"Sigh, the young clan leader is really pitiful. He can't even refine chakra. He's almost thirty, yet still a completely ordinary person…"
"Yeah, yeah. The clan leader couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply sent the young clan leader to guard the shrine and watch over the Hall of Six Paths. At least he has somewhere to stay."
"You can't say it like that. Being an ordinary person isn't so bad. At least you don't get dragged into conflicts between clans or have to go to the battlefield to die."
"You're wrong. In this chaotic world, without strength, you don't even have the qualification to live peacefully, let alone survive."
The two voices gradually faded into the distance.
Arisu paused slightly.
When he had just sensed things earlier, Arisu had already felt something strange.
He had actually failed to capture any chakra fluctuations from Asura's reincarnation.
At first, he thought that this generation's reincarnation possessed exceptionally high-level methods of concealing their aura.
But on second thought, no one in this world could completely hide their presence in front of him.
Only now did Arisu suddenly understand.
It wasn't that it was well hidden.
It was that this generation's Asura reincarnation had never had chakra from the beginning, just an utterly ordinary mortal.
Arisu restrained all of his aura, stepping into the Hall of Six Paths like a phantom.
Inside the hall, the lighting was soft, and incense smoke curled in the air.
A thin figure of a man was holding a cloth, carefully wiping the portrait of the Sage of Six Paths. His movements were respectful and serious. This person was Senju Syura.