Calculating the Time, It's About Time...

"Fuyuki, please remember, you are the clan member most likely to inherit the Main Branch. I hope you take this seriously. Stop obsessing over ninjutsu and summoning techniques, and focus your efforts on cultivating the Gentle Fist Technique!"

Fuyuki, who usually stayed home lazing about to conserve chakra, had the misfortune of running into the Hyuga Clan's most rigid and conservative Great Elder today. Unsurprisingly, he was subjected to a lecture from the old man, who practically had the words "disappointed in your lack of ambition" written all over his face.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have no motivation today, but I'll work twice as hard tomorrow."

Fuyuki lazily turned over, completely ignoring the Great Elder, who had evolved into a super-grumpy nag.

Only one person in the Hyuga Clan could serve as the Main Branch. Even if someone passed the Byakugan purity test, they could never become the Main Branch. These elders, while not bound by the Caged Bird seal, couldn't influence Fuyuki in the slightest.

Because he was the legitimate heir to the Main Branch!

"Sigh."

The Great Elder let out a long sigh, thinking to himself, The Hyuga Clan is doomed.

He then left. Pestering Fuyuki was a task assigned to him by the Clan Head. The Clan Head was usually too busy with daily affairs to supervise Fuyuki's training personally, so he had entrusted the Great Elder with the task.

The result?

Fuyuki had gone from sleeping on the tatami to sunbathing.

Once the Great Elder left, Fuyuki rolled over, and Natsumi, who was by his side, hurried over to help him up: "Young Master, be careful!"

"I'm fine."

As Fuyuki stood up, chunks of green, viscous matter began to fall from his body. Upon hitting the ground, they dissipated into pale blue chakra that returned to Fuyuki's body. "The ultimate secret of the Steel Fist Style is truly no simple matter. If I try to force open the Eight Inner Gates Formation like this, I'll probably end up in the hospital."

It wasn't that his training in the Summoning Technique had hit a bottleneck; it was just that Fuyuki was too young. His physical development limited his chakra reserves, preventing him from summoning powerful High-ranking Elemental Spirits.

To the elders, Fuyuki had been lazy for months, but they had no idea that he had developed a brand-new Gentle Fist Technique—a style that rivaled the Eight Trigrams Palms.

It wasn't so much "developed" as it was Fuyuki using his knowledge of human anatomy to locate the Eight Inner Gates within the body, then using the Gentle Fist Technique to strike them open to increase his chakra. This technique could be used on oneself or on an enemy.

If used on an enemy, one could strike through the first six gates of the Eight Inner Gates in one go, causing the target to drop dead on the spot.

Using it on oneself required a more delicate approach. One couldn't just crudely smash the gate locations; they had to be pried open slowly, lest they get stuck open, which would be a disaster.

Fuyuki was currently short on chakra, so he had revisited a skill he'd conceptualized earlier: using the Gentle Fist Technique to open his own Eight Inner Gates. As it turned out, the idea was perfectly sound, and executing it wasn't difficult at all.

However, this technique, which Fuyuki dubbed the "Eight Trigrams Collapse Strike," had one unfriendly drawback.

The Eight Inner Gates Formation was not a forbidden technique one could learn through talent alone; it required persistence and an incomparably tough will to truly master.

Opening the first gate was merely breaking the brain's limit on muscles, which was nothing to write home about. But from the second gate onward, chakra levels would surge violently. It was like a leopard cat had broken into a fragile human body and was clawing wildly at the internal organs, causing excruciating pain!

This sensation would only become more unbearable as more gates were opened.

Therefore, opening the gates was never the main point; the point was how to make the body adapt to the unbearable pain!

It could only be done through perseverance and an indomitable spirit!

Fuyuki was not Lee or Might Guy; he didn't possess their kind of "melon-headed" spirit.

He used the "Eight Trigrams Collapse Strike" to open the first and second gates, then immediately summoned a group of Yang-attribute Lesser Chakra Elemental Spirits into his body to dull the agony and repair the damaged cells, allowing his body to slowly adapt to the sudden, violent surge of chakra.

The green slime falling from Fuyuki's body was nothing more than the spent Yang-attribute Elemental Spirits.

"Young Master Fuyuki, you are too impatient. Chakra limits aren't so easily raised. You could have waited until your body was fully developed before starting to practice the 'Eight Trigrams Collapse Strike'."

At only six years old, Fuyuki was completely unsuited for the Steel Fist Style. His bones hadn't even fully formed, yet he was already practicing its ultimate secrets. It was reckless, leaving Natsumi feeling both heartbroken and helpless. The young master was pushing himself too hard, and the clan elders knew nothing and understood nothing.

Despite his young age, Young Master Fuyuki possessed the power to repel Orochimaru and the talent to develop his own "techniques."

He was a genius beyond compare, yet he was too lazy to even speak to the elders, treating them as if they were mentally deficient and not worth his time.

"It will be too late by the time my body is fully developed. I can wait patiently for my body to grow, but events won't wait for me!"

Fuyuki flexed his numb arm and replied without looking back.

Natsumi's helpless expression froze as she asked, "Young Master, have you discovered something?"

"I've discovered quite a lot. However, the only thing worth my attention right now is the Uchiha. Do you remember the Hyuga clansmen who came back from the border on leave last week?" Fuyuki didn't tell Natsumi directly that the Uchiha Clan was about to be wiped out; instead, he gave her a subtle hint, letting her figure it out herself.

Whenever something happens that defies common sense, there is a problem!

Although the main force of the Hyuga Clan was at the border, there were still Hyuga clansmen on duty around Konoha. Perception didn't rely entirely on the Konoha Sensory Barrier, as that thing couldn't detect deep underground, so it required sensory ninjas and Hyuga clansmen to compensate for the barrier's flaws.

Knowing that Konoha had ordered the Hyuga clansmen home to rest and had transferred all sensory ninjas to the core of the village under the pretext of assisting the Sealing Squad, it wasn't hard for Fuyuki to deduce what was about to happen in Konoha!

But Fuyuki wasn't training hard to save the arrogant Uchiha Clan; he was doing it to scavenge the remains!

He intended to get his hands on Uchiha Fugaku's eyes!

The Uchiha Clan was beyond saving. There was too deep a rift between them and the village, and neither side was willing to sit down and have an honest conversation. No one could help the Uchiha Clan now.

Every time he recalled the destruction of the Uchiha, Fuyuki found it laughable, especially Uchiha Shisui!

He actually thought that by confessing the power of his eyes to the village, he could save the Uchiha Clan. It was truly naive to the point of being infuriating. Couldn't he have put himself in their shoes and realized just how terrifying his own ability was?!

How could anyone tolerate him? Shisui's very existence was an original sin in the eyes of Konoha's top brass!

The best thing he could have done was use Kotoamatsukami on the Hokage to force a meeting between the Hokage and the Uchiha leadership, then control the Hokage to formally apologize to the Uchiha and promise them a return to the center of power in Konoha, including the right to participate in the next Hokage election.

Why were the Uchiha dissatisfied with the village? Ultimately, it was because the Senju had played dirty, promising that the Second Hokage would be an Uchiha, only for the position to pass to the Fourth, and then back to the Third, with the Uchiha never getting a turn.

During the Nine-Tails Incident, although the Uchiha Military Police Force didn't participate in the direct combat, they sacrificed many lives to save the villagers of Konoha. And what was the result? Persecution from the top brass of Konoha!

As someone with the perspective of a god, Fuyuki always felt that both Konoha and the Uchiha were innocent, and that it was only long-standing misunderstandings that led them to this mutually destructive path.

With the Uchiha wiped out, Konoha lost over a dozen famous Elite Jonin, dozens of Jonin and Special Jonin, and at least a hundred Chunin. It was a true mutual destruction!