Conspiracy, Killing Intent Approaching the Clan Grounds

Three days after the duel ended, news suddenly arrived from the front lines: the Senju Clan was massing their main forces.

According to intelligence reports, a figure resembling Senju Butsuma had appeared on the main battlefield.

Upon confirming the news, Uchiha Tajima immediately made a decision, choosing to personally venture to the battlefield despite the risks.

Of course, he wouldn't go alone.

Sensing that a decisive battle was imminent, Tajima mobilized most of the clan's remaining forces.

In the Sengoku period, the prosperity of each clan was incomparable to that of the village era.

Take the Uchiha Clan for example; they had established four great legions responsible for dealing with enemies from various directions.

Within the clan alone, the number of standing ninja exceeded 800, with each of the major legions having over a thousand ninja.

Kyosuke roughly calculated that the total number of ninja in the clan was at least over five thousand.

Compared to the great ninja villages of later generations, which could field tens of thousands of ninja in war, this was enough to destroy a small country.

However, the problems weren't limited to the Senju Clan.

News came from the Southern Legion: the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans were frantically gathering, showing every intention of fighting the Uchiha to the death.

The Legion Commander, Uchiha Rei, sent a plea for reinforcements, but Tajima completely ignored it.

"No reinforcements. If you can't defend, drag the enemy down with your lives."

It was said that on the day he received the reply, Uchiha Rei tore up the letter in front of everyone, calling Uchiha Tajima an idiot with the brains of a pig.

This information was highly confidential, and Kyosuke only learned of it through casual conversation with Izuna.

Looking at the empty street, he couldn't help but sigh.

After three days of effort, Kyosuke had basically mastered the Body Flicker Technique, at the cost of his entire body aching and large areas of bruising appearing in certain parts of his body.

During this time, Uchiha Madara had sternly warned him that forcefully activating the Body Flicker Technique before his body strength reached the required level was equivalent to slow suicide.

In other words, he was advising him to give up practicing it.

Kyosuke retorted with a single sentence that shut him down: "Once on the battlefield, it's life or death. If I can't use it at a critical moment, I fear I won't live long enough for slow suicide."

Faced with young Kyosuke's sharp tongue, Uchiha Madara, who was not good with words, had no way to respond.

In his anger, he hadn't shown his face to Kyosuke for three days.

"Like a child," he had commented.

Tajima was unwilling to deal with the southern front, but who was Uchiha Rei? He was the fierce competitor who had vied with Tajima for the position of Clan Head back then.

A second letter arrived, and soon after, news came of the stationed legion dispatching themselves without authorization.

Upon hearing the situation, Tajima flew into a rage and cursed loudly in front of everyone.

The problem was that Uchiha Rei couldn't do anything to him, and conversely, Tajima couldn't deal with that white-haired old man either.

The large-scale participation of the legions left the clan's defensive strength increasingly depleted.

"If enemies attack, the history of the ninja world might be rewritten."

What was originally a joke, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.

A year ago, his squad had successfully infiltrated enemy territory and intercepted the offspring of the three clans who were being transferred.

It could be said to be a very successful "extermination" attack.

To say the enemy wouldn't hate them would be unbelievable.

Moreover, the decisive battle between the Uchiha and the Senju shouldn't have happened at this time.

Uchiha Madara was about to turn 11 years old, not far from his meeting with Senju Hashirama.

Madara at that time should have been on the battlefield, and the situation didn't seem to have reached a point of no return.

This meant that the two clans shouldn't have been engaging in large-scale slaughter at this time.

"Assuming the Senju's scheme is a feint, then their goal..." Looking at the empty street, Kyosuke seemed to understand.

The Senju weren't aiming for a decisive battle; they wanted to lure Uchiha Tajima to the battlefield.

The Southern Legion and the three clans making their move almost simultaneously, despite the lack of concrete evidence, his intuition told him there must be a connection between the two.

"Senju's scheme."

"Three clans gather."

"Senju. Nara assassination!"

Not good!

Kyosuke's expression turned serious as he got up, heading straight for the clan's main residence.

Whether it was true or not, they had to make preparations.

If his fears were realized, it would be too late to react.

"I hope I'm just overthinking things."

Uchiha Clan Grounds, Southern Entrance.

Trucks were parked along the roadside, undergoing inspection by the guard patrol.

"Thank you for your hard work." The head of the convoy was an old acquaintance who had been transporting goods for decades, so the patrol let them pass without much fuss.

"Wait!" Suddenly, the captain of the guards called out to the convoy.

"There's an order from above to intensify the screening." The captain seemed rather helpless as he said this.

He didn't know what had gotten into the Young Clan Head, but he was saying that enemies might infiltrate the clan grounds.

Infiltrate the Uchiha Clan grounds?

In all the millennia, no one had ever achieved such a feat.

In his opinion, it was probably just a child trying to show off, but unfortunately, it was always people like them, the lower-ranking ones, who suffered.

Just as the captain was about to say something, a strong sense of unease suddenly surged from the depths of his heart.

Before he could react, he found himself completely unable to control his own body.

"But then again, they're all old acquaintances. If there's a problem, won't we starve?" The captain of the guards smiled and waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to let them pass quickly.

"No, they have a problem!!!" Seeing his body move uncontrollably, he felt an urge to end it all.

Unfortunately, he was like an observer at this moment, completely unable to control his body.

In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the problematic convoy, swaying unsteadily, entered the clan grounds.

"This feeling, it's unmistakable, it's a Secret Technique from the Yamanaka clan!"

"What do they want?!"

The poor captain of the guards "personally" escorted the convoy westward. Judging by their direction, they were heading towards the more densely populated residential areas of the clan.

Most of the ninja had gone to the battlefield, leaving only the old, weak, women, and children in the residential area. Even an idiot could understand the invaders' objective.

"Damn it, move my body!" The captain of the guards shouted desperately, but in the face of the Yamanaka clan's Secret Technique, his resistance was as weak and laughable as a child's.

Soon, the convoy penetrated deep into the heart of the clan grounds.

Looking at the lively children on both sides of the street, his heart felt as if it were bleeding.

"We're almost there." Suddenly, a murderous whisper came from behind.

Not far ahead was the Uchiha's generational nursery school.

To completely eradicate the target, choosing to start there was the best option.

"Damn Uchiha, you will pay the price today."

Listening to the children's laughter around them, the invaders shed their disguises and collectively charged into the ancient-looking Uchiha nursery school.

What appeared before them were not the mission targets, but a group of lifelike clones, and...

Explosive Tags, covering the entire school and burning fiercely.