The Sudden News

Two and a half hours later.

Qian successfully finished nurturing his Byakugan.

By now, the night was deep.

Qian was just about to rest.

Suddenly, a segment of memories surfaced in his mind.

The abrupt change made Qian, who had just lain down, sit up at once.

One had to know that at this point in time, he had only three shadow clones left outside, stationed respectively in Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and the Leaf Hidden Village.

Each of them bore an extremely important mission. Unless something was truly urgent, they absolutely would not dispel the Shadow Clone Technique on their own initiative.

By the same logic, once one of them did dispel itself, it meant the matter was very important, to the point that they had no choice but to contact him.

Qian's expression turned grave. He immediately closed his eyes and carefully browsed through those memories.

At once, he confirmed the source of these memories: they had been sent by the shadow clone left behind in Konoha.

Because of that, before he had even finished reviewing the memories, he already had some guesses about the message it wanted to convey.

After all, in the current Konoha, aside from the conflict between Namikaze Minato and Orochimaru, he truly could not think of anything else that would require his shadow clone to pass on a message in such a hurry.

Not to mention, judging by the time, Namikaze Minato should also have made his move by now.

With that thought in mind, Qian continued browsing through the shadow clone's memories.

Sure enough, it was just as he had expected. Just moments ago, the shadow clone staying at home had suddenly noticed unusual movement in the village, as if a battle had broken out somewhere.

Although the battle had not yet spread too