In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.
That afternoon.
Moon Island.
At the central clearing.
Qian was taking a brief midday rest.
Suddenly, a stretch of memory appeared in his mind.
Qian's eyes snapped open, then closed again as he quickly began to browse through it.
The memory did not belong to anyone else. It was from one of the Shadow Clones he had left in the village.
That was right—one of them.
In order to learn in time what impact the last incident had had on Konoha, before returning to Moon Island this time, he had specifically left behind two Shadow Clones to record the village's situation at the same time.
After they learned some important news, they would take the initiative to release the Shadow Clone Technique and have one of them synchronize the memories to him.
The main reason he had arranged it this way was to save Chakra.
Although he had the Flying Thunder God Technique, making a round trip to the village was not especially difficult and would not take much time, but the Chakra consumption was real.
Granted, he now saved up quite a bit of Chakra every day, but no matter how much Chakra he had, that was no reason for him to squander it at will.
It was one thing when he had gone about proper business three days ago. Though he had moved through three villages in succession and spent a great deal of Chakra, those were all necessary expenses.
But spending a huge amount of Chakra to make a round trip to the village just to pass along a single piece of news was rather extravagant.
So Qian had used the most convenient plan, and the one with the best cost-performance ratio: splitting off two Shadow Clones