Everything Uchiha Yang had said was part of the revenge plan, but the plan itself didn't go into much detail about why they should do it or what they would gain.
Uchiha Yang had gotten a little carried away while talking, completely oblivious to the increasingly impressed looks everyone was giving him.
"Alright, I'm done. I'll be going now."
Uchiha Yang felt that after saying so much, he'd earned the money they'd paid him. He simply turned and left.
"The clan meeting is over. Everyone may return home."
Once the main attraction of the meeting had left, Uchiha Madara had achieved his goal, and the gathering could naturally come to an end.
"What a shame. Why aren't you a ninja?"
Uchiha Rei, who had been sitting for so long she hadn't risen yet, stared at Uchiha Yang's retreating figure and sighed deeply.
"Maybe because he isn't a ninja, he hasn't given up. Instead, he's put his mind to other things."
The Uchiha Great Elder's tone was full of regret.
If Uchiha Yang were a ninja, with a mind like his, he would be the sort of enemy who gave people the most trouble.
After leaving the meeting hall, Uchiha Yang belatedly noticed that everyone had been looking at him a little differently.
It seemed he'd said too much after all.
Uchiha Yang reflected on himself. He couldn't do that again next time. This time was an exception only because Uchiha Madara had paid him so much.
When he got home, Uchiha Yang took his maid Xia Lian and went fishing in the hills again.
[Brain: Seeing our master lazing around like this, ah! I feel like he's wasting his life.]
[Legs: With all this time spent fishing, he might as well practice Water Walking. Seeing this lake makes me want to walk across it. If I can move over water without chakra someday, that'll mean I've succeeded.]
[Hands: I'm sick of holding a fishing rod. I want to hold weapons. I want to wield swords and spears.]
Uchiha Yang was dozing in his reclining chair when the voices woke him.
[Nonsense. You're all talking nonsense. Anyone who spends every day training is bound to have something wrong with their head eventually.]
[You're responsible for training my strength, so naturally I can't fall behind either. I'm training my mind. Work and rest need to be balanced. Do you understand?]
[There are several of you and only one of me, so in the end, I'm the one who has to bear everything.]
Uchiha Yang wore an expression that said, You actually think I'm slacking off? I'm very disappointed in you.
[Brain: So I really was born to a stepmother. I don't understand my master at all. Boohoo, I'm not worthy of being my master's brain anymore.]
[Sharingan: Training your mind? Is that really a thing? It sounds so sophisticated.]
[Hands: As expected of our master. It seems my perspective really was too narrow.]
[Fire Affinity: I'll train hard and do my best to kill someone, contributing my strength to my master.]
[Water Affinity: You bootlicker. You won't die well.]
[Fire Affinity: I call it speaking from the heart. Unlike someone who doesn't even know how to talk.]
[Lightning Affinity: Fight! Fight!]
[Wind Affinity: Can't you be more like me and stay quiet, just waiting for our master's orders?]
[Sharingan: Could it be that you're just so useless that our master hardly ever needs you?]
[Earth Affinity: +1 to the above.]
[Mouth: By the way, don't any of you need to train? You keep chattering away. Not like me—I only know how to sympathize with our master's hard work.]
Everyone fell silent at once.
Uchiha Yang chuckled to himself. As expected, the mouth was the sharpest of them all. One sentence had shut them all up.
He hadn't been entirely bluffing when he'd spoken to them earlier.
In the future, Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Shisui, and Uchiha Itachi would all possess immense power, but none of them would have the mindset to support it. As a result, they wouldn't be able to control their own destinies.
"Xia Lian, do you think the fish are all asleep today? I've been waiting forever, and not one has taken the bait."
Uchiha Yang suddenly yawned. His fishing rod hadn't moved at all, making him wonder if he'd already caught every fish in the lake.
"Master, it's probably because you didn't put any bait on the hook."
Xia Lian hesitated for a long time before finally telling him the truth.
"What? Who ate my bait?"
Uchiha Yang froze in embarrassment, then quickly lifted his fishing rod and found the hook was indeed bare.
"Put some bait on for me. Tonight, I'm going to catch every fish in this lake, all the way back to their great-great-grandparents."
Uchiha Yang declared his intention, baited the hook, and cast it into the water, then settled down to wait for a bite.
Xia Lian saw through him but didn't say a word. She quietly watched her master fish. To her, as long as he was safe and well, all was right with the world.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Izuna had already set his plan in motion.
Ten elite Uchiha jonin, along with Uchiha Izuna, made up a force that only great clans like the Uchiha and Senju could muster.
Even a clan like the Hyuga, which could rival the Senju and Uchiha, would have to think long and hard before assembling such a force.
The Uzumaki Clan's settlement was close to the coast of the Land of Fire.
The climate there was mild, making it an excellent place to settle.
It took Uchiha Izuna three days just to get there. He took a detour to avoid being discovered, and killed anyone he came across along the way to prevent the mission from being exposed.
"The Uzumaki Clan's territory is just ahead. Their sensory barrier is famous far and wide. The moment we touch it, we'll be exposed."
"But the plan already has a solution."
Uchiha Izuna smiled confidently.
The reason the brain knew how to deal with this barrier was that it often read the dusty books in the secret room while its master slept.
Books unrelated to strength weren't very important to the strength-obsessed Uchiha, but the brain loved reading and enjoyed all kinds of books.
For instance, the books the master often kept under his mattress. The brain considered those even more interesting.
The solution was a Sealing Jutsu that the Uchiha Clan often overlooked.
This Sealing Jutsu could seal the user's chakra, making him appear like an ordinary person. The seal lasted five minutes, then wore off on its own.
The technique's drawback was that it couldn't seal anyone else, so the Uchiha Clan had left it gathering dust in a corner.
The Uzumaki Clan's barrier could only sense chakra to identify intruders, so this Sealing Jutsu was the perfect counter to their Barrier Ninjutsu.
There was one danger: for five minutes, they would be ordinary people. If someone discovered them during that time, they would be helpless prey.
It was an extremely dangerous five minutes, but the brain had reduced the risk to a minimum.
First, they would use the Transformation Technique to disguise themselves as members of a merchant caravan. Then they would seal their own chakra. With the caravan's cover, getting through those five minutes would be easy.
Sure enough, after disguising themselves as caravan members, Uchiha Izuna and the others entered the Uzumaki Clan's barrier with ease.
Once they had successfully entered the Uzumaki Clan's territory, Uchiha Izuna and the others could hardly wait to wreak havoc there.
In their minds, those five minutes seemed unbearably long.
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