Konoha!
Inside the room at the top of the central tower within the Uchiha Clan Estate suspended in the void, Sasuke Uchiha and Kurama Yakumo were diligently studying new knowledge and ninjutsu with grim determination.
Not far away, Wang Ming played a game of chess against himself on the board before him, thoroughly enjoying it.
His cultivation of Kurama Yakumo and Sasuke Uchiha was merely something Wang Ming did out of boredom on a whim, and he never truly invested much heart into it.
Drawing from his experience of traveling across multiple worlds, he would never truly trust the protagonist of any given world.
The silliest thing to do was to trust a protagonist's character.
Protagonists were the most fond of backstabbing.
Teaching Sasuke Uchiha was not about making him tremendously powerful, but rather about using Sasuke Uchiha to gradually whitewash a portion of his own power.
For instance, sage art!
Sage art was actually just a technique of inhaling and exhaling the natural energy of heaven and earth, not all that intricate, yet for Wang Ming to perform it, he still had to weave a logically self-consistent lie.
After successfully using Sasuke to whitewash sage art, Wang Ming couldn't be bothered to manage Sasuke any further. He simply instructed Yashiro Uchiha to bring a vast number of ninjutsu scrolls to Sasuke Uchiha for his cultivation.
Every time Yashiro Uchiha looked at Sasuke Uchiha, his mood was exceptionally complex.
The Uchiha clan annihilation night had occurred, and the bulk of the responsibility lay with Fugaku Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha, making life inside the family estate for Sasuke Uchiha far from pleasant.
Everyone understood that none of this was Sasuke Uchiha's fault, but understanding was one thing, and emotions were another.
They could restrain themselves from cursing or making things difficult