Cultivation Plan (2)

After living in seclusion in Konoha for an entire year, Uchiha Yue used the combat experience he had accumulated—especially the experience gained from fighting Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage, who had been controlled by Uchiha Madara—to diligently improve his strength. He had already taken the path of an all-round ninja to its very limit. As an all-round ninja, Uchiha Yue had summarized and incorporated every skill he possessed into the Falling Moon Style Secret Technique, completely creating a school of his own.

Thus, Uchiha Yue now possessed the strength of an elite jonin. Even without using the Mangekyou Sharingan, he could contend with the true powerhouses of the Shinobi World—those Kage-level experts—for some time. Just like when he had previously fought the Third Kazekage: without using the Mangekyou Sharingan and while unleashing all his strength, Uchiha Yue had been able to force the Third Kazekage into a disadvantage during their initial clash.

This showed the power of an all-round ninja. Even with a gap of two entire ranks, Uchiha Yue, relying on his elite jonin-level strength, could suppress the Third Kazekage at his peak—and that was a Third Kazekage who had not been poisoned. However, precisely because Uchiha Yue had taken the path of an all-round ninja, it was extraordinarily difficult for him to further increase his strength.

Of the three training plans Uchiha Yue had previously devised, the inferior option was to comprehensively improve his own abilities, further advancing along the path of an all-round ninja and moving toward perfection.

However, the reason this training method was called the inferior option was that progress through it was extremely slow.

Even Uchiha Yue, whose body had now begun developing in every aspect, had no idea how long this training method would take to raise his strength by another tier—to the so-called