Chapter 75: The Tampered Stone Tablet

After informing the Great Elder about the candidates, all that was left was to wait for the team to assemble. But thinking back, just waiting wasn't a good idea, so Ling couldn't help but ask how long it would take before they could set off.

Then when he got the answer, he took his younger brother and took a few short-term missions and ran away from the family, thinking that if he could help his younger brother open his eyes during this period, he would not take his younger brother to the Kingdom of Thunder.

Unfortunately, although Madara's mental strength has improved greatly, he showed no intention of opening his eyes in these short-term missions. Moreover, when Ling returned from completing the mission with his brother to hand over the task, he was blocked at the mission by Uchiha Akihiko and Uchiha Hiroshi with stern faces.

The two of them didn't pay any attention to Ban who started to get angry the moment he saw them, and just carried Ling on both sides and walked away. It was only after Ling was carried for a while in a daze that he reacted and spoke out to stop them, and then he stopped anxiously.

"If I hadn't sensed that it was you, I would have thought that I was kidnapped in the tribe..." Ling sorted out his clothes and sighed, "Even if you have researched something, there is no need to be so anxious, right?"

"It's about the stone tablet..." Uchiha Akihiko lowered his voice, "Someone moved the stone tablet."

Ling paused while tidying up his clothes, his expression suddenly turned cold, "No wonder... Wait for me, I'll come right after I tell Ban."

"Hurry up," Uchiha Hong said with a sigh, "someone actually sneaked into the ancestral hall, a group of..."

Hearing the unclear swear words coming from Uchiha Hiro, Ling did not delay any longer. After a quick sense to identify the direction, he walked towards Madara.

"Brother."

Hearing Madara's somewhat unhappy voice, Ling reached out and rubbed his brother's head, and the coldness on his face faded a little, "Okay, don't be angry, Akihiko and I have some urgent matters, can the task still be handed over to Madara?"

After hearing this, Madara frowned even more. "Yes, I can do it alone... But brother, if your peers have to come to you for everything, then what use is there for you? In this case, it would be better to be alone, right?"

Ling couldn't help but frown when hearing this, "Ban, there is a reason why the saying that human power is limited must be passed down. Even if your talent is enough for you to handle all accidents, there will be times when you need companions...

Madara, those who walk alone without companions are doomed to not last long. If possible, I hope you can make a friend who is equally strong and who shares your thoughts, even if he is from a foreign race..."

Ban glanced at the two anxious people at the corner of the street, and curled his lips obscurely, "Brother, you worry too much. At least at the same age, I am not as successful as you were back then, and it is impossible to make friends with outsiders."

Ling was even more helpless, but when he was about to say something, Ban gently pushed him, "Brother, please go and do your work. Although those two are not as capable as you, they usually act with moderation. They were so abrupt today, there must be something important going on. If you want to talk to me, you can wait until you get home tonight. Now you should take care of them first."

"...Okay, I'll trouble you to hand in the task."

"Well," Spot nodded, "Have a safe trip, brother."

Madara watched Ling quicken his pace towards the two people at the corner of the street, and after a brief conversation, he followed the other party with a cold expression, used his chakra to step onto the roof and walked away. He did not look at the three people anymore until he could no longer see them. Then he lowered his head and looked at the task scroll in his hand. After a brief silence, he sneered and walked into the task office.

Ling naturally had no idea about Ban's subsequent reaction. He just followed the two of them and took a shortcut to the ancestral hall. After informing the clan members who were guarding it, he went straight to the place where the stone tablet was placed underground.

After leaving the sight of the tribesmen, Uchiha Hiro spoke first, but his voice was not loud, "The day after you took your brother to do the mission, Akihiko showed me the bamboo book he had carved for you.

Honestly, I didn't think there was anything wrong at the time. I just thought that our radical-minded ancestors had changed the information that was to be left on the stone tablet when recording it - after all, everyone knows that our Uchiha people have some problems with their brains after opening their eyes.

But when I saw what was recorded on the stone tablet with the power of the eyes, I knew something was wrong. Akihiko was not a perception ninja, so he might not have noticed it, but it was different for me. The moment I used the Mangekyō Sharingan to read the contents of the stone tablet, the malice on the stone tablet almost made me feel so sick that I wanted to vomit.

Under such malicious circumstances, I simply couldn't continue reading it alone, so I had to pull Akihiko over to watch it with me to prevent any accidents. But when I finished reading it all and started burning it, Akihiko told me that some of the various kaleidoscope eye techniques recorded at the end were abnormally blurred.

But when we asked the tribesmen who were guarding outside, they said that no other tribesmen had come since Zhao Yan came last time - but the modified stone tablet could not be faked, so someone must have come in."

"Hong is right," Uchiha Akihiko also nodded, "and the way you blurred the pupil power record was very clever, it looks as if it was worn out by time. If it wasn't for the fact that it was relatively clear last time I saw it, and you asked me to record it twice, I certainly wouldn't care even if I saw something different this time."

Ling had a gloomy face and touched the stone tablet with his left hand, but in his perception, this stone tablet was just an ordinary stone tablet. After discovering this, Ling realized that if he wanted to be more aware of the problem with the stone tablet, he must have the Sharingan, but he...

The hand holding the hilt unconsciously exerted force. After taking a deep breath, Ling spoke in a low voice, "...What pupil technique is blurred?"

"They are those who use relatively peaceful eye techniques, and a small number of eye techniques that are aggressive." Uchiha Hong glanced at the bulging veins on the back of Ling's right hand, "If you don't come back, we are going to report it directly to the family."

"Well, we should report it to the family, but it will be useless if it is just a simple report like that." Ling retracted his hand, his expression had returned to his usual calm, but the corners of his lips, which usually had a warm smile, now bent down at a cold angle, "The ancestral hall has always been a place to inform the ancestors, even if there is no important information stored, it is full of spells, and the clan members will be sent to guard it for a long time.

Being able to avoid the vigilance of the guarding tribesmen is nothing, but being able to avoid these spells is different. We can also infer two possibilities from this.

The first is that a member of the clan with earth attributes who harbored hatred towards the clan and concealed the fact that he had opened the Kaleidoscope, and who was particularly familiar with the ancestral hall rituals, took advantage of the situation and secretly modified the contents of the stone tablet."

"It's unlikely." Uchiha Akihiko shook his head. "There aren't many people with earth attributes in our clan, and there's only one of our generation, Hong. Even if we know the technique well, it's impossible for us to enter here without destroying the technique at all. At most, we can destroy it silently and then repair it when we leave.

But that would definitely leave traces. After discovering something was wrong, Hong and I immediately checked the techniques here. All the techniques were connected intact, and there were no traces of the surrounding rock formations being altered by the chakra."

"Then it can only be the second one," Ling let out a long breath, "There is a person, or even a group of people, who know some mysterious escape technique, have a very high level of attainment in the technique, and may have obtained the Mangekyō Sharingan, who are targeting us Uchiha, and they also have great ill will towards us.

Although it may be a bit harsh to say this, I would rather believe that a member of the clan had a grudge against the clan and attacked the stone tablet. After all, the most disturbing situation is the unknown. "