Thunder Beasts ran rampant!
Konoha's position on the southern bank of the Moon River was on the verge of collapse!
But as one of Konoha's pillars, a force capable of standing toe-to-toe with the Uchiha who dominated the northwest, how could the Hyuga clan, remade by the Great Collective, possibly be easy to deal with?
The consciousness link not only removed the shackles the Caged Bird had once imposed upon the entire clan, but the shared experience and knowledge also rapidly spread secret techniques such as "Rotation," which had previously never been taught to branch family members.
Thus, setting aside the Susanoo cheat code Yamada had activated for the Red Eye clan, the Hyuga clan—which had abolished the distinction between main and branch families—had instead gained an even greater proportional increase in combat power!
—Through the consciousness link, the areas observed by every Byakugan on the battlefield could be effectively overlaid.
And once this cheat-like reconnaissance field was combined with the Eye System's enhancement, it meant that, to the Hyuga clan, there were no secrets anywhere across the entire combat zone!
This overwhelming advantage in intelligence gathering and information transmission not only allowed them to gain local numerical superiority in any area, but more terrifyingly, it completely overturned the traditional ninja combat pattern of early probing followed by a single decisive strike.
The omniscient eye hanging high overhead, with no blind spots, meant that enemies facing the Hyuga clan no longer had any secrets at all!
Substitution Technique, Clone Technique, Transformation Technique, Body Flicker Technique... every baiting tactic an ordinary person could think of had basically lost all meaning under reconnaissance of this level.
The combination of wide-area scouting and X-ray vision meant that once you triggered an alert, you could never escape the Hyuga clan's surveillance until you left