Taking Stock of the Harvest Inferno Bloodline Awakens
Obito Uchiha had successfully executed his vengeance against the Hidden Mist Village.
And for Uchiha Yi, the journey to the Land of Water had yielded an equally astonishing harvest.
Kirigakure was shattered.
The civil war left the village fractured, its military strength gutted, its political structure unstable. A tragedy where no victor truly existed had been born.
The conflict finally ended, and exhaustion spread among the survivors.
Even those still harboring hatred found themselves too weary to continue. The sheer weight of death had crushed the will for endless bloodshed.
Barring unforeseen calamities, the Hidden Mist would not possess the strength to wage war against the Five Great Nations for at least one or two decades.
A long period of recovery awaited them.
"It was the right decision to come to Kirigakure," Uchiha Yi murmured.
"Such enormous gains in such a short time…"
He had withdrawn from the battlefield now. No longer roaming among corpses like a reaper cloaked in fire, the so-called "Mist Reaper" finally had a moment of stillness.
And with stillness came reflection.
It was time to convert gains into power.
After tallying everything the souls harvested across the Land of Water and the accumulated reserves on the system panel the total reached an astonishing figure:
Five thousand soul points.
Even Uchiha Yi felt stunned.
Before he could decide how to allocate them, a cold mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
His eyes lit up instantly.
This upgrade was monumental.
Previously, collecting soul fragments required constant movement across small areas. One or two trips were manageable but hundreds became tedious.
Soul fragments rarely clustered. Often they appeared scattered one here, two there making retrieval inefficient even with his Fire Release mobility techniques.
There had been many instances where he simply ignored distant fragments out of inconvenience.
Otherwise, his total would be far higher.
He opened the system panel.
A list of abilities unfolded before him some derived from Fire Release mastery, others from Mangekyō-level phenomena, and several rare hybrid techniques born from his unique chakra constitution.
Many techniques were still underdeveloped.
And that created a dilemma.
Five thousand soul points seemed abundant but divided across dozens of skills, it would vanish quickly.
He began eliminating options.
Large-scale Fire Release techniques such as Great Fireball and Dragon Flame Bomb were powerful but predictable. Their hand seals and casting motions made them unsuitable against elite shinobi.
They were discarded from priority.
Some extreme-temperature techniques were also set aside. Abilities pushing thermal output beyond safe thresholds could harm even the user if overdeveloped too early. Without a body capable of enduring bijū-level heat, reckless upgrades would be suicidal.
He also ignored abilities focused purely on ideology or persuasion. Emotional influence techniques had limited combat value.
Area-destruction techniques like Meteor Volcano were already sufficient at their current level. Their destructive scale exceeded most battlefield needs.
Then came the defensive options.
Two stood out.
One was an external Fire Release barrier.
The other was a full-body chakra cloak.
After consideration, Uchiha Yi prioritized the cloak.
Survivability came first.
Especially after witnessing Kamui firsthand.
He would never again allow himself to be that vulnerable.
After narrowing everything down, the remaining core abilities were:
— Fire-element body transformation
— Ignition-type curse flame (single-target burn)
— Mangekyō black flames (Amaterasu)
— Fire resistance enhancement
— Sunfire Cloak (chakra armor)
Among them, the most crucial was the fire-element body.
Unlike ordinary Fire Release, this ability fused chakra with cellular structure, allowing partial elementalization. It also enhanced physical durability an invaluable trait in the shinobi world, where even legends could fall to a well-placed kunai.
Thus, the priority was obvious.
He began investing soul points.
As the upgrades finalized, a tidal wave of heat surged through his body.
Not burning evolving.
His chakra network expanded violently, flames coursing through his tenketsu like molten rivers. Muscles hardened, bones densified, and even his blood seemed to glow faintly.
The transformation was unmistakable.
His fire nature had undergone a qualitative change.
It was no longer merely Fire Release.
It was something closer to a kekkei genkai.
A proto Inferno Release.
A mutation that pushed Fire Release toward a higher evolutionary branch.
Uchiha Yi inhaled slowly.
Power pulsed through him in waves.
He could feel it his control over flames had deepened drastically. Heat responded to thought. Fire bent to will.
Even the surrounding air began to shimmer.
He raised his hand.
Golden flames ignited silently along his fingers.
Not the violent crimson of ordinary Fire Release.
Not the pitch-black devouring blaze of Amaterasu.
This was different.
Refined. Dense. Sovereign.
A flame that obeyed completely.
With a flick of his wrist, he sent a streak of fire into the sky.
Moments later, the cloud layer above began to glow.
The dark overcast sky gradually turned crimson-gold, as if sunset had been forcibly summoned.
The phenomenon wasn't true weather manipulation not yet but it demonstrated something profound:
His chakra could now influence the atmosphere itself.
A domain-like pressure radiated outward.
The clouds burned with reflected firelight, painting the heavens in molten hues.
For a brief moment, the devastated Land of Water was illuminated by artificial dusk.
Uchiha Yi stared upward, eyes blazing.
"So this is the threshold…"
Not a full bloodline limit.
Not yet.
But a step toward one.
Far away, beyond sight, history continued to move.
And somewhere within the Uchiha lineage
A dormant connection stirred.
A bloodline resonance.
One tied not only to the Uchiha, but to another name whispered in shadows:
Saint Roselith Seraphina.
A branch lineage intertwined with ancient chakra anomalies an inheritance yet to fully awaken.
And above it all
Uchiha Yi exhaled slowly.
The flames around him dimmed but the heat within remained.
The harvest of Kirigakure had only just begun to reveal its true value.
And the next evolution… was inevitable.
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