But with Kangetsu around, that decline never happened, because he had forcibly bestowed the women of the Dongcheng Clan upon the people living in Scarlet City at the time, whether they belonged to the Four Clans or the Uchiha Clan!
As a result, Scarlet City's population had surged, and so had the Uchiha Clan's. Although the children tested poorly for aptitude, that was only by the Uchiha Clan's standards. Compared with other clans, their aptitude could be considered extraordinarily high!
This development had greatly tempted the Uchiha members outside Scarlet City who had been unwilling to go along with it at the time! That was how the Uchiha Clan had come to be as it was today!
With the Dongcheng Clan's remarkable fertility, its women could give birth roughly once every year and a half! This had brought the Uchiha Clan's population to sixty thousand! After all, most of the Uchiha clansmen back then had been men, and many had no wives of their own. That was what had led to such explosive growth!
However, although the Uchiha Clan now had many members, a large proportion of them were children!
Of those sixty thousand people, a full forty thousand obeyed Kangetsu, and all forty thousand were concentrated in Scarlet City!
That was why Kangetsu's words carried so much weight in the Uchiha Clan!
Kangetsu sheathed the Black Blade in his hand, walked straight past the two Uchiha clansmen kneeling on the ground, and continued forward!
Inoue and the others behind him also followed Kangetsu past the two men!
But as the last person passed them, he barked coldly, "Get up and come with us! Are you planning to wait here for the Senju Clan to arrive?"
As those words fell, Kangetsu stopped. His scarlet eyes fixed on a spot-a black