The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

"It should be nearby..."

Just as Hanzo and Kaoru Terumi were preparing to head to the Capital of Sichuan, they were in a secluded and uninhabited forest in the eastern part of the Land of Fire.

Madara looked at the location recorded in the scroll in his hand and muttered to himself.

In the past few days after leaving the family, Madara has searched many shrines left by the family.

But to his disappointment, the murals in these shrines did record some past events of the Uchiha clan.

But most of them are just the owner of the shrine bragging about himself, or some power struggles that have occurred within the Uchiha clan.

It's fine as an interesting little story, but it's far from being a big secret worth mentioning.

But even when it comes to daily chores, Madara has never been very patient.

But when it comes to the things he cares about, Madara has extraordinary patience.

For example, in the original time and space, it took almost half a lifetime to lay the groundwork for his Eye of the Moon plan.

In addition, during the Fourth Ninja World War, Madara, who was in a dirty state, wanted to fight head-on with Hashirama, and also waited for the opportunity for Obito Six Paths to fall into weakness under the siege of the coalition forces.

Madara would rather sit aside and watch the fight.

Therefore, despite going to several previous shrines, I didn't get any useful information.

But Madara was still very patient and continued to move towards other shrines.

"This... should be a shrine left by an ancestor about nine hundred years ago."

This is the oldest shrine that Madara has visited so far, and therefore, Madara is full of expectations for this shrine.

Over the past 900 years, the shrine built of wood and stone has long since decayed and disappeared.

Therefore, in front of Madara's eyes, there is a green land.

However, it seems that adding a basement to the shrine has become a habit of the ancestors of the Uchiha clan.

The black eyes in Madara's eyes gradually turned scarlet. Using the powerful insight of the Mangekyō Sharingan, Madara carefully searched the surrounding areas for possible basements.

One step...two steps...three steps...

"It should be right here."

Madara was half kneeling on the ground, stroking the ground in front of him with his right hand.

Then, a touch of blue chakra covered Madara's right arm.

"Rumble..."

A dull voice sounded.

As the soil overturned and weeds scattered, a moment later, a square piece of black-gray metal emerged from the deep soil under the tug of Madara's chakra, revealing the basement entrance it had covered.

"Bang!"

Madara landed the metal on the ground next to him, and then looked at the dark basement. He did not go in immediately, but stood quietly and waited for about ten minutes.

This is also the experience Madara gained from previous shrines.

The basement has been sealed underground for hundreds of years.

The ancestors of the Uchiha clan used special materials to build the basement. After hundreds of years, the basement did not collapse, but because it was not ventilated for a long time, there would always be some strange and even poisonous gases.

Like the basement at the beginning, when Madara stepped in, if he hadn't reacted quickly, he might have revealed where he was.

So in the subsequent shrines, Madara learned the lesson.

After waiting boredly for a while, Madara thought to himself that it was almost done, so he walked towards the entrance of the basement.

Walking down the stairs into the dark basement.

Although the surrounding area was dark, Madara could still see everything in the basement with his Sharingan eyesight.

This basement is completely empty.

Only in one corner of the wall were some remnants similar to those left by rotten wood.

Madara shook his head sadly.

Among these wreckage, there may be some records and scrolls left by the owner of this shrine.

Unlike the scrolls collected in the Uchiha clan's residence, they have always been well maintained.

The scrolls here have been left unattended for a long time and have disappeared into nothing.

Madara could only turn his gaze to the three surrounding walls.

Fortunately, there were some murals painted on one of the walls in the basement of this shrine, so Banbai didn't have to make a trip.

Although the murals have not decayed like those wreckage, they have faded a lot with the passage of time and become very dim.

Even the Mangekyō Sharingan is difficult to see clearly in the dark environment.

Madara then walked down the stairs to the ground, cut off some branches, lit them with fire escape, and then returned to the basement.

Under the dancing firelight, the murals on the wall finally revealed its true face of Mount Lu.

The beginning of the mural is a somewhat strange Sharingan.

The reason Madara confirmed it was the Sharingan was because of the magatama surrounding the eyeball.

As a member of the Uchiha clan, Madara is very familiar with the magatama in the Sharingan, so even if the mural is dim, he can still confirm that it is indeed the magatama in the Sharingan.

As for the strangeness, it's because... in this eyeball, with the pupil as the center, there are nine magatama scattered around it.

This left Madara a little confused.

He had never heard of the Nine Magatama Sharingan.

"Is it the kaleidoscope pattern unique to the owner of this shrine?"

Madara frowned secretly.

To be honest, he felt that the possibility was very small. Madara instinctively felt that the Nine Magatama's Sharingan might involve a huge secret.

He squinted his eyes and observed carefully again.

Suddenly, he discovered that among the nine magatama that were divided into three groups: the inner circle, the middle and the outer circle, there seemed to be a thread connecting them in series between each group of magatama.

It is said to be a line, but in fact, in this dim mural, it is just a slightly darker color on the wall where the line is located.

If it weren't for the Mangekyō Sharingan's vision, Madara might not have noticed it.

"This is...the circle pattern of the samsara eye?"

Madara murmured.

"The magatama of the Sharingan, and... the circle pattern of the Rinnegan?"

Madara seemed to have thought of something, but also vaguely felt that something was missing to connect them together.

After thinking for a long time, Madara moved his gaze downwards again.

Below the eyeball mural is a simple big tree.

The tree is divided into nine branches, and each of the nine branches is connected with nine unique animal-shaped patterns.

The patterns were blurred, but after careful identification, Madara could still barely identify these beasts.

"Raccoon dog, cat, turtle, ape..."

As he watched, Madara realized what these nine beasts were.

It is the Nine Tailed Beasts.

Although Madara has not paid much attention to the information about tailed beasts, he still knows some basic information about the appearance of tailed beasts.

"The Rinnegan and Sharingan, the tailed beast... and the tree?"

This information is very fragmented, but Madara knows clearly that this is definitely a shocking secret that cannot be compared to the trivial things recorded in the previous shrines.

"If that strange creature has a plot against the Uchiha clan, then it should be in this area..."

Madara's eyes immediately locked on the nine magatama carved on the eyeball...