After Uchiha Yue finished speaking with Uchiha Fugaku and learned that Fugaku was determined to leave, there was little Yue could do. Moreover, Fugaku's intention to take that elite Uchiha Clan force back to Konoha had angered Yue somewhat. Thus, after that conversation, Yue rarely spoke to Fugaku in the frontline camp and instead kept to his training.
However, Uchiha Fugaku was not as unyielding as Uchiha Yue. Even if Yue had no desire to deal with him, Fugaku still had to swallow his pride and send Yue copies of the intelligence he held. This showed just how beneficial absolute strength could be. At the very least, with Yue possessing the Mangekyō Sharingan, Fugaku did not dare break with him. He had no confidence in dealing with Yue while he possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Meanwhile, through his daily training, Uchiha Yue's strength continued to improve bit by bit. In particular, the combat experience he had accumulated within the Land of Water had caused cracks to appear in the bottleneck that had held him back for so long. Feeling those cracks, Yue became even more confident that he could break through and become a true Kage-level powerhouse.
Unfortunately, a true breakthrough required an opportunity, and Yue had yet to encounter one.
Still, Yue was confident that he could obtain a method for training in Sage Mode before becoming a true Kage-level powerhouse. As long as he acquired a Sage Mode training method and mastered his own Sage Mode, Yue was confident that, with Sage Mode and the Mangekyō Sharingan, he could surpass Kage-level strength for a period of explosive power. That would at least give him some confidence when he faced Uchiha Madara in the future.
Of course, Uchiha Yue had always kept his feet on the ground. In his view,