Land of Rain.
In a stone forest filled with jagged, bizarrely shaped rocks, two teams were locked in an inseparable struggle.
Most surprisingly, Sarutobi Enjun, leading the group, suddenly erupted with combat power approaching the Jonin level, forcefully holding back the enemy leader.
"Has Enjun... taken some forbidden medicine, or used some forbidden technique?"
"Why can't I see any abnormality in him?"
Atop a giant boulder in the distance, Hyuga Hizashi watched Sarutobi Enjun with suspicion and uncertainty.
He understood his teammate's strength.
Among Chunin, he was considered elite, but still a level below himself.
How could he possibly possess such power now?
However, his Byakugan could see very clearly that Sarutobi Enjun's body did not look like it was bearing the massive burden of using forbidden techniques or medicines.
"That power doesn't belong to him."
The Byakugan couldn't see it clearly, but Uchiha Gen's Three-Tomoe Sharingan could.
On Sarutobi Enjun's body, there was a powerful foreign chakra that didn't belong to him, emitting a strange spiritual fluctuation that was temporarily enhancing his output.
In terms of quality alone, this chakra was even close to that of Orochimaru back then!
If not for the concern that Sarutobi Enjun's body couldn't withstand a more powerful chakra output, that chakra could have given him even more of a boost!
What was going on?
A name suddenly flashed through Uchiha Gen's mind, only to be interrupted by Hyuga Hizashi.
"Gen, we should go."
Hyuga Hizashi suddenly reminded him.
Sarutobi Enjun could get a boost, but the other teammates didn't.
The situation for Uzuki Ruri and Akimichi Choza was currently not optimistic.
After a long reconnaissance mission and a thrilling escape, they were now wounded; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were at their wits' end.
"Alright."
Uchiha Gen nodded slightly, held his breath, and tightened his grip on the hilt of his Sengoku Ninja Sword.
A pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan and a pair of Byakugan each exerted the insight of top-tier conventional ninjas at this moment.
In just an instant, they both found an opening simultaneously and moved forward in a flash.
"Uchiha Style: Halo Dance!"
"Gentle Fist Art: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!"
In an instant, two figures like tigers out of a cage, one in front and one behind, went straight for the Sunagakure leader ninja.
The blade, wrapped in nimble flames, slashed across the chest, instantly dealing a heavy blow to the Sunagakure leader.
This was followed immediately by a sky full of palm shadows enveloping him.
Attacked in an instant, and an attack that precisely grasped a flaw.
The Sunagakure leader was just like Uchiha Gen facing White Zetsu's hidden scheme before.
In his desperation, he had no time to form hand seals for defense, nor time to pull back and retreat.
And since he didn't know any instant seal-less ninjutsu, his end was already predetermined.
"Bang!"
A palm print carrying softness within strength slammed into his chest, sending his body flying and embedding it into the stone wall.
Uchiha Gen was even faster, following close behind and pushing a Rasengan forward, pressing it onto the Sunagakure leader's body.
"Boom!"
Blood splattered, and a pit over a person's height was blasted into the stone wall, where mangled flesh and crushed stone merged into one.
The enemy leader had been killed!
"Gen! Hizashi!"
Sarutobi Enjun leaned on his staff, which was transformed from a summoned monkey, and spoke with pleasant surprise.
When they encountered the enemy, he really thought the squad was going to be wiped out.
Although they received support through a teammate's special means, the situation remained critical and difficult to sustain.
Fortunately, the message delivered by the summoned white snake was swift enough for Uchiha Gen and Hyuga Hizashi to arrive in time to support them.
With strong reinforcements having arrived, the morale of the teammates naturally soared.
Meanwhile, the remaining Sand Shinobi, seeing enemy reinforcements and their strongest captain killed in a sneak attack, naturally lost morale and attempted to retreat.
However, how could Uchiha Gen and the others give these people a chance?
If they ran away, wouldn't the intelligence they had gathered here be directly leaked?
A few minutes later.
Two heads wrapped in white cloth were thrown to the ground, falling into the mouths of a swarm of snakes.
After finishing these tasks, Uchiha Gen finally let out a long breath and looked at Sarutobi Enjun.
His pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan rotated slowly, as if looking through Sarutobi Enjun to see the person behind him.
He asked, "Enjun, is it Senior Kato?"
"Eh? How did you know it was Senior Dan?"
Sarutobi Enjun scratched his head.
"Orochimaru-sensei mentioned to me that the Spirit Transformation Technique is unpredictable."
"Senior Kato must have attached his spiritual body to you, using his chakra to assist you in battle."
Uchiha Gen wiped his Sengoku Ninja Sword, his gaze sharp as a torch.
Sarutobi Enjun added, "You guessed that too, Gen."
"Senior Dan said for you to turn off your Sharingan and relax your mind a bit; he wants to meet you."
As the representative of Yin Release, the Sharingan provides a massive boost to the spiritual domain.
While the Three-Tomoe Sharingan was active, Kato Dan could not possess Uchiha Gen.
The Spirit Transformation Technique was a huge threat to other ninjas, but for an Uchiha who was also extremely skilled in spiritual contests, they weren't necessarily afraid of it.
"Alright."
Uchiha Gen turned off his Sharingan upon hearing this.
He only deactivated the Sharingan, suppressing the ocular power he was emitting; he hadn't actually gouged out his eyes, so he wasn't worried that Kato Dan would do anything to him.
Moreover, this powerful Jonin was an ally with an excellent reputation, so he wouldn't do such a thing.
A few seconds later, Uchiha Gen felt his consciousness sink, and a wisp of thought drifted into his mental world.
This was a dark red space.
In the sky, a full moon hung high, its color as bright red as blood, with three black tomoe rotating at a steady speed.
This was Uchiha Gen's mental world.
"It must be due to the influence of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan's ocular power that my mental world appears like this."
Uchiha Gen looked up, observing the ocular power fluctuations within the full moon in the sky that were identical to his own Sharingan, and made a silent conjecture.
The mental world differs for everyone depending on their situation; for example, Naruto's mental world is a sewer where the Nine-Tails is imprisoned.
Perhaps high-level Sharingan genjutsu like the Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique and Tsukuyomi, or even Mangekyo ocular techniques, are related to how one utilizes the mental world.
Maybe it involves pulling the enemy's spirit into one's mental world, or projecting one's own mental world outward to trap them in a world of illusion.
Because here, the strength of ocular power can be exerted to its maximum potential.
Uchiha Gen scanned his mental world for a few moments before shifting his attention to a handsome man with long pale blue hair standing in front of him.
In his previous life watching the anime, he only thought this guy was quite handsome.
But now in a living world, Uchiha Gen discovered that this guy's looks had reached a certain level, being no less handsome than Uchiha Tatsumi.