Flying Thunder God Technique

The group Xia Yan had been considering was indeed troublesome.

Konoha had no shortage of talented people, but those who were more emotional than rational and were also poorly regarded—no matter how he looked at it, there was only one such group.

That was the Uchiha Clan, which controlled the Konoha Guard Division!

It had to be said that the Uchiha were truly fertile ground. Their talent and potential were beyond imagination.

But therein lay the problem. Their situation was also extremely dire. Xia Yan even felt that too much contact with them would bring trouble upon himself.

They had long since split internally. One side clamored that they had been treated unfairly and considered using violence to gain the village's recognition.

The other believed violence could not solve anything and wanted to speak openly with the village through peaceful means.

In Xia Yan's view, though, neither path would end well for them.

Going to war with Konoha?

Konoha was indeed weak, but how much strength could the Uchiha currently bring to bear?

If Xia Yan remembered correctly, the Uchiha might not even possess a Mangekyo at this point.

Even if they did, there would only be one pair—Uchiha Fugaku's.

Granted, the Uchiha would possess more than one pair of Mangekyo in the future, but two of those pairs had been led astray after being brainwashed.

And as for Uchiha Fugaku's personality, one only had to look at how, in the Original work, he meekly waited for Uchiha Itachi to cut him down after the entire clan was wiped out.

So their Kage-level strength could practically be ignored.

As for the strength of the middle and lower strata, even if the Uchiha's members were elites, how many ninja did Konoha have?

Moreover, Sarutobi Hiruzen had inherited Senju Tobirama's strategies for