Naruto, my father's name is Uchiha Madara.

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When they finally reached the edge of the sunken area and saw the scene before them.

Even Naruto and Sasuke, who had weathered countless storms, couldn't help but feel a chill run down their spines!

It was a huge, seemingly naturally formed black stone pit.

At the center of the pit stood a mountain of flesh made up of countless huge, twisted, and seemingly still writhing dark purple chunks of flesh!

The chunks of meat had a nauseating state, somewhere between a solid and a viscous liquid.

Its surface was covered with thick, pulsating, dark red veins, emanating an intense, suffocating aura of evil and the stench of sulfur.

A thick, oil-like black liquid kept seeping out from between the pieces of meat.

It dripped to the bottom of the pit, making a "drip, drip" sound.

It stood out remarkably clearly within the deathly silent shrine.

The entire mountain of flesh was enormous, almost occupying the entire pit, and the oppressive feeling it exuded was like a tangible hammer, striking the souls of the three people hard.

It seemed to be asleep, yet it also seemed as if it might awaken at any moment and drag the whole world into eternal darkness!

"This...this is...the body of a demon?"

Naruto gasped, feeling a churning in his stomach.

The moment Ziyuan saw the writhing mountain of flesh, her body trembled violently.

An irresistible fear and disgust, originating from the depths of her blood, instantly overwhelmed her!

She let out a short, suppressed gasp and instinctively covered her mouth.

His face was ashen, and he could barely stand. He only managed to stay upright by grabbing onto Naruto's clothes.

She felt her soul screaming, wanting to get away from this filthy and evil existence!

Sasuke's Sharingan was fixed on the writhing mountain of flesh, his crimson pupils filled with unprecedented vigilance and solemnity.

He could clearly "see" that the mountain of flesh contained an unimaginably vast and chaotic evil energy.

Like an abyss about to erupt! And what sank even deeper into his heart was—

"Look at the wall!" Sasuke whispered.

Naruto and Shion, who was barely able to stand, followed Sasuke's gaze and looked at the walls surrounding the deep pit.

With the help of their Sharingan's perception, they were able to see the blurry murals on the wall.

The murals are extremely bizarre and terrifying: they depict countless twisted humans wailing in agony and being swallowed by darkness.

It depicts enormous monsters, like mountains of flesh, ravaging the land.

It depicts a priestess wearing a magnificent crown and radiating holy light, using all her strength to cast a beam of light into the monster's body.

It forcibly separated its massive body from some kind of void of darkness...

At the very end of the mural, the separated monster's flesh is depicted being sealed within this deep pit by countless enormous chains and glowing runes.

That void of darkness was sealed within the shrine of the Land of Demons...

"This is... the sealing process from back then?"

Naruto murmured, "The content of the mural confirms what Shion said earlier."

But Sasuke's gaze was fixed on the location of the huge chains and runes on the mural that sealed the flesh of the demon.

Then he quickly compared the scene in the deep pit in front of him.

His face became more and more ugly.

"The seal... has been broken!" Sasuke's voice was filled with icy coldness.

Naruto and Shion were startled and looked at the deep pit again.

They could clearly see the enormous rock chains that should have been wrapped around the mountain of flesh, shimmering with a faint sealing light.

Most of them are already broken!

The fracture site shows irregular cracks, clearly indicating that it was forcibly destroyed by some powerful force!

The ancient runes on the walls used to maintain the seal were mostly dull and even cracked and peeled off!

Only a few spots still stubbornly flickered with a faint light, like candles in the wind, struggling to suppress the terrifying energy emanating from the mountain of flesh!

The entire sealing system was already riddled with holes and on the verge of collapse!

The body of the demon was still barely bound at the bottom of the pit by the remaining chains and runes.

But its "awakening" is probably only a matter of time!

It might even be in a semi-awake state!

"It was Huang Quan who did it!"

Naruto clenched his fists, his eyes burning with rage: "That bastard! He not only let the spirit of the demon escape, but he also destroyed the seal here!"

Ziyuan looked at the crumbling seal and the nauseating, writhing mountain of flesh at the bottom of the pit.

Intense fear chilled her to the bone, but a deeper sense of responsibility, that of a priestess, overwhelmed the fear at that moment.

She took a deep breath, trying to stop her voice from trembling: "Naruto... Sasuke-kun... we... we must reinforce the seal immediately! Otherwise... otherwise, when the spirit of the demon finds this place..."

Before she finished speaking——

Om-! ! !

A faint yet incredibly clear fluctuation of the soul.

Like a pebble thrown into stagnant water, it suddenly appeared in the direction of the ancestral hall entrance!

Immediately following was that familiar yet repulsive aura of evil chakra, a mixture of death and resentment.

Like a cold, venomous snake, it spread rapidly in!

"Hehehe... It seems my guests have already arrived, unable to wait any longer?"

Huang Quan's hoarse, cold, and mocking voice echoed eerily in the empty and deathly silent shrine, like a maggot clinging to a bone.

Chapter 237 In response to those people's expectations!

The chilling voice of Huang Quan, like the flicking tongue of a venomous snake, echoed eerily in the empty, deathly silent shrine.

Like icy claws, it instantly gripped the hearts of Naruto, Sasuke, and Shion!

Naruto shouted sharply, his azure eyes as sharp as an eagle's.

A powerful sense of perception surged and spread like an invisible tide!

However, the feedback he received shocked him deeply—

Apart from the writhing mountain of flesh in front of them, which exuded a terrifying aura.

And the three of them at the edge of the deep pit—there were no other obvious signs of life or chakra fluctuations inside the shrine!

How can this be? !

Sasuke's Sharingan instantly turned blood-red, and the three tomoe spun rapidly.

Take every inch of darkness and every crevice in the rocks into your perception!

His expression was more solemn than ever before, and his Sharingan also failed to detect any trace of the hidden person!

The other party... seemed to have merged into this evil itself!

"over there!"

Ziyuan's trembling voice was filled with extreme fear.

Her finger pointed to the bottom of the pit, where the shadow of the enormous mountain of flesh of the demon loomed!

Naruto and Sasuke's gazes suddenly focused on that direction!

In the shadow of the base of the flesh mountain, which constantly oozes thick black liquid and rises like the foot of a mountain.

An extremely frail figure was leaning against the cold rock.

The man was wearing a tattered black robe that was already soaked in filth.

But at this moment, the robe hung as empty as if it were on a withered branch.

His exposed skin was a sickly, bloodless, deathly pale.

It was tightly wrapped around the protruding bones, like a dried mummy.

In the deep-set eye sockets, there were only two faint, cloudy points of light, yet they shimmered with a mad and greedy glint.

His chest barely rose and fell.

He exuded an aura of decay that was both eerily unsettling and suggestive of impending death.

However, when Naruto's senses swept over this "skeleton"?

An unprecedented chill, like the sharpest ice pick, pierced deep into his soul!

That wasn't just ordinary chakra coldness!

It was a kind of... pure, solidified from countless deathly resentments, greedy desires, and abyssal evil...

It was as if what I was perceiving was not a living thing.

It is an evil aggregate forcibly combined and supported by the resentment of countless dead souls!

Powerful, chaotic, and chilling to the bone!

"The Underworld?!"

Naruto's pupils constricted as he stared in disbelief at the almost inhuman figure: "You bastard! You're the one who released the spirit of the demon and destroyed the seal here!"

Leaning against the shadow of the mountain of flesh, "Yellow Springs" let out a chilling, bellows-like "hoho" laugh.

His voice was dry and hoarse, yet carried a strange, mocking air of complete control: "Me? Heh... you could say that. After all, I can now... also be called 'Wraith'."

He struggled to lift his eyelids, his cloudy gaze sweeping over the three of them: "Or rather, I am a vessel that carries the will of 'that great one'... a vessel that is about to complete its mission."

"Something's wrong with him!"

Sasuke's voice was icy cold, his Sharingan locked tightly on "Yomi".