Because he had warmed and nurtured his Byakugan ahead of time that morning, by the time he finished his cultivation plan for the day, it was already very late.
After that, he moved through three villages in succession, spending some time on the road, and then spent more time synchronizing the memories of those three Shadow Clones.
By the time he returned to the outskirts of Konoha, it was already the next day.
To be precise, it should have been around three in the morning.
Without question, this was the latest he had ever returned on one of his rest days.
Standing in the forest outside Konoha, Qian could not help but yawn.
Then he activated Ame no Minaka's ability and silently passed through Konoha's Perception Barrier, as well as that wall, entering Konoha.
However, the moment he entered, he discovered something unusual.
In an instant, Qian's mind cleared.
He stopped and glanced at the Konoha patrol team nearby. Compared with the past, there were more people.
And...
Qian turned his head and looked at the watchtower on the wall behind him.
Under the bright moonlight, he could clearly see that the number of lookouts and sentry ninja there had also doubled.
Every sign indicated that Konoha's alert level had been raised.
Qian did not know what exactly had happened in the village for them to make such a choice, but he became much more careful on the road ahead.
And what he saw afterward also confirmed his guess.
It was not just the village outskirts; the security inside the village was even tighter, and the number of teams responsible for night patrols had clearly increased.
Among them were even quite a few ninja from the Inuzuka clan, patrolling with their ninja hounds.
Looking at the squad of ninja passing