Chapter 62: Shattering the Tablet

"You're overestimating me, brother-in-law," Dan replied, shaking his head. He had no interest in reviving the Uchiha clan, let alone activating the Mangekyou, the Eternal Mangekyou, or the Rinnegan.

"Alright, I won't pressure you," Fugaku said, mistaking Dan's refusal for modesty. He patted his bother in law's shoulder and dropped the subject. But then he brought up a more serious topic.

"Dan, let me ask you. If one day, our Uchiha clan really takes the path of armed rebellion, what do you think our chances of success are?" Fugaku asked, his face grave, hoping for an honest answer from Dan.

"Maybe 30 percent at most," Dan estimated, not factoring in his own strength.

"You think the same as I do," Fugaku said, a bitter smile appearing on his face. He explained to Dan that even if the Uchiha clan overthrew the Konoha leadership and defeated the Anbu, Root, and all the ninja supporting the Hokage, they would only have completed half the coup. After that, the newly ascendant Uchiha would face internal and external threats. The other ninja in the village would despise the Uchiha, and the other four major ninja villages would inevitably start a war, jointly attacking Konoha. At that time, the Uchiha would be in a situation where the whole world was their enemy.

Fugaku had always pessimistically believed that an Uchiha coup was a self-destructive act. "Dan, you must remember. The hope of saving the Uchiha clan lies in this tablet left by the Sage of Six Paths, not in a coup," Fugaku said, pointing at the tablet and earnestly advising Dan.

Dan nodded, understanding his brother-in-law's intentions. He walked over to the tablet and squatted down. Fugaku, seeing this, thought that Dan wanted to study the tablet's content more closely. But what Dan did next was completely unexpected.

With a flash of cold light in his eyes, Dan quickly raised his fist and, without a word, delivered a powerful punch to the tablet. The impact shook the entire secret chamber, dust falling from the ceiling and walls. The gust of wind from Dan's punch even extinguished the flames in the wall sconces, plunging the chamber into darkness.

"Dan, what did you do?!" Fugaku exclaimed, relighting the sconces and anxiously looking at the tablet. To his surprise, the tablet was unscathed, not even a crack appearing.

The Sage of Six Paths had left this tablet for the Uchiha, hoping that his descendants would understand his good intentions and eliminate their hatred, eventually achieving peace in the ninja world. To ensure that the tablet could be passed down for thousands of years without damage, the Sage of Six Paths must have applied some kind of technique to it, making it as hard as steel to prevent it from being destroyed by those with ulterior motives.

Dan frowned. It was just a tablet left by a dead man; he didn't believe he couldn't break it. So, he clenched his fists again, both of them this time.

"Dan, stop!" Fugaku shouted, rushing forward to stop his brother in-law. But it was too late.

Dan didn't hesitate. He summoned his Stand, The World, and activated its time-stop ability. In the next five seconds, he and his Stand delivered hundreds of punches to the tablet, using all his strength without reservation.

When time resumed, Fugaku's hands were tightly gripping Dan's wrists, relieved that he had stopped

Dan's reckless action in time. But then, he heard a cracking sound. Turning his head in horror, he saw that the tablet left by the Sage of Six Paths was covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

As the illusion technique on the tablet collapsed, the mysterious text disappeared, and the entire tablet crumbled into rubble.

Fugaku's mind buzzed. He released Dan's wrists, his strength seemingly drained from his body. His eyes lost their color, and he fell to his knees. The clan leader of the Uchiha picked up a handful of rubble, staring at it for a long time before accepting the harsh reality that the tablet was destroyed.

"Dan, tell me, why did you do this?" Fugaku asked, his eyes filled with anger, disappointment, and deep confusion.

Looking down at his brother-in-law, Dan replied indifferently, "Does it make sense for a clan leader to stake the fate of the entire clan on a tablet of unknown authenticity?"

"This is the tablet left by our ancestor, the Sage of Six Paths!" Fugaku retorted angrily.

"So what?" Dan was unfazed, not even putting the Sage of Six Paths in his eyes. "No matter what the so-called ancestor said, that's all in the past. The future of the Uchiha clan should be paved by us."

Fugaku was stunned by these words. He didn't know whether they were arrogant or ambitious. His pupils contracted, his lips parted as if to say something, but he was speechless.

"Brother-in-law, have someone make a new tablet. From now on, in our hands, the Uchiha will write a new history," Dan said, leaving these words behind. He took advantage of Fugaku's stunned silence to turn and leave.

Shattering the tablet was not an impulsive act for Dan, but a carefully considered decision. Although he couldn't understand the text on the tablet, his knowledge of the plot allowed him to infer the remaining content. It was probably about how only when the Yin power of the Uchiha and the Yang power of the Senju come together can one obtain the power of all creation.

In the past, Madara must have deciphered this revelation using the Eternal Mangekyou, carefully planned the battle at the Valley of the End, and successfully bit off a piece of Hashirama Senju's flesh to transplant into himself. Through this method, Madara successfully obtained Hashirama's Yang power and eventually activated the Rinnegan.

As for the content of the tablet that can be seen with the Rinnegan, it was undoubtedly the true history of the ninja world that had been tampered with by Black Zetsu, the so-called "Moon's Eye" plan.

In a way, this tablet of the Uchiha clan was the source of the world's destruction. So Dan decided to smash it to prevent more people from being fooled into pursuing the Moon's Eye plan.

Dan, although he didn't agree with the values of the ninja world and enjoyed seeing a ninja village like Konoha burn and be destroy, he also couldn't accept the illusion world of the Infinite Tsukuyomi. A world where everyone's minds are controlled and live forever in a false dream, what fun is there?

What he pursued was absolute freedom, from the spirit to the body, without any restrictions.

After Dan left, Fugaku was stunned for a long time. After a while, he slowly stood up, his expression changing several times before finally making a decision. His eyes suddenly revealed the pattern of the Mangekyou.