According to the village's arrangements, they would still need to remain stationed at the front for another half month to a month, after which they would return in batches.
The reason for this buffer, Qian estimated, was that the village was also afraid some other mess might crop up, so they wanted to wait until the situation had completely stabilized before letting them go back.
In addition, the Uchiha Clan had also passed him a message: the Third Hokage—Sarutobi Hiruzen—was very likely going to step down.
Next, the village would begin the selection of the Fourth Hokage, and they told him to watch his words and actions and not casually voice his opinions.
At that, Qian merely curled his lip and thought, In a few years, you'll all be breaking with the village and staging a coup, and now you're telling me to speak carefully? What a joke!
Jokes aside, however, Qian still decided not to get involved in this matter.
Although he knew very well that the Fourth Hokage would be Namikaze Minato, he did not want to cozy up to him.
Putting aside the fact that he had not yet decided whether to lend the man a hand during the Nine-Tails Incident...
If he did not interfere, and history followed the course of that other timeline, Namikaze Minato would not sit in the Hokage's seat for long either.
When that time came, everything he had done for this would all go down the drain.
In that case, he might as well do nothing.
Besides, his personality did not allow him to play these games either.
Compared with maintaining relationships, Qian was still more willing to spend his time improving his own strength.
There was a saying from his previous life: when you were strong, the whole world would