Even with outside assistance, to achieve this, he must have awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Even if he hadn't originally opened it, after executing so many of the clan, friends, and family, the unimaginable darkness would also prompt his Sharingan to mutate and evolve into the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Ichihime handed the other bowl of ramen to Ruri, who accepted it unceremoniously, sitting down to have lunch.
"Ichiraku Ramen, huh? It's been a while since I've tasted it."
Ruri felt quite nostalgic, the taste was a bit more delicious than before.
"Right, it's one of the few memorable food places I remember in Konoha."
Ichihime happily devoured her ramen.
"The Konoha Anbu just said you made contact with the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."
Ruri suddenly mentioned.
"Just a greeting, I'm not interested in the power of the Tailed Beasts."
Ichihime replied with a smile.
Ruri sighed.
"This isn't about being interested or not, I told you not to stir up trouble. Konoha is very sensitive right now, especially regarding the Tailed Beasts. A small slip could trigger a conflict."
"Are you scared, Mom?"
"No, I just don't want unnecessary trouble."
Ruri answered this way.
Afraid of Konoha? There really wasn't anyone in today's Konoha worth fearing, even the so-called Ninja Professor, the Third Hokage, was only someone to be slightly wary of.
But coming to Konoha this time was to retrieve the Uchiha Clan's ancestral heritage, not to fight, so avoiding unnecessary trouble was only natural.
Now was not the best time to confront Konoha.
"Where to next? Wait for those things to be packed up, then leave?"
Ichihime finished her ramen, put it in the bag, then prepared to find a trash can to throw it away.
"Next, we go to the Nankai Shrine."
Ruri glanced towards a corner of Konoha.
That was where the Uchiha Clan had relocated after leaving Konoha.
Very close to the Nankai Shrine.
"Nankai Shrine?"
Ichihime tilted her head.
"It's where our Uchiha Clan holds meetings for years, there is something important there to take away."
"Important thing?"
"You'll know when we get there."
Ruri also finished her ramen, stood up from the Water Tower.
Ichihime had to stand up and follow Ruri to the Uchiha Clan Land.
The once bustling streets were now very quiet, not a single person in sight.
All the shop doors were closed, but the bloodstains on the street and doors and windows had been completely cleaned up.
But this place might be put indefinitely on hold, or await someone someday to come and dismantle it for other uses.
Nankai Shrine was at the back of the Uchiha Clan Land, near a stream, surrounded by lush woods.
Ruri led Ichihime along the stone staircase path upwards, quickly reaching the top, passing through the Tori, seeing the gigantic structure standing there.
Upon entering, dust accumulated inside, it hadn't been cleaned in a long time.
In the main hall's meeting room, Ruri walked to the seventh stone slab from the right, using a unique hand seal to trigger the mechanism.
The stone block, under the effect of Jutsu, immediately floated up, suspending in mid-air, revealing a hidden passage down to the bottom.
"Come on in."
Ruri went ahead into the secret passage, Ichihime curious followed her inside.
The underground chamber was brightly lit, not the pitch-black as imagined.
At the forefront, a stone tablet lay horizontally there, with burning flames on either side, these fires illuminating the entire underground chamber.
Following Ruri to stand in front of the stone tablet, she saw the stone tablet was engraved with codes completely unintelligible, which seemed to require a special way to correctly interpret them.
Ruri explained, "This is a stone tablet passed down through generations of the Uchiha Clan, the words on it need the Donjutsu from the Sharingan to be interpreted correctly. The higher the level of the Sharingan, the more content you can see. In the past, I could only see part of it, but now, my Donjutsu should be enough to support seeing more content."
As for whether she could see all of it, Ruri couldn't determine that either.
Because when she first awakened her Sharingan, the content she could see was very limited.
Even with the Mangekyo Sharingan, the content probably remains quite limited.
A more advanced Sharingan would probably be needed to comprehend the entire stone tablet.
After all, this stone tablet was something left by the Ninja Sect founder of a thousand years ago, the Six Paths Sage, who was also a distant ancestor of the Uchiha Clan.
Ruri didn't hesitate, activating her Mangekyo Sharingan, meticulously scanning the stone tablet.
Sure enough, she saw more content than before.
For example, about the application of the Mangekyo Sharingan, about some little-known historical development of the Uchiha Clan, and even discreetly mentioned the millennia old love-hate entanglement with the Senju Clan.
The struggle between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan had started a thousand years ago.
Extending until the end of the Warring States Era decades ago, it was an immensely long and bloody struggle.
In this, Ruri learned that the Uchiha Clan's ancestor Indra represented 'yin', and the Senju Clan's ancestor Asura represented 'yang'.
The information cut off completely at this point.
Ruri felt a sharp pain in her Mangekyo Sharingan, couldn't help but close her eyes, taking a slight breath.