Chapter 7: Early response

At that time, Uchiha Tenxiu, facing the sudden crisis, did not choose to sit idly by.

Instead, he immediately began to act.

He no longer cared about hiding, intending to reveal his “precocity” and appropriately display some “talent” within permissible limits.

Thanks to Uchiha Tenxiu genuinely possessing precocity, and having gathered a group of spirited youths around him early on.

Among them, there were even a few trustworthy individuals.

Therefore, some plans and actions could be carried out.

Otherwise, without these trusted companions.

Even if he revealed his talent, he might leave some loose ends, allowing others to trace it back to him as the director.

And now.

This precisely resolves the core issue.

Regarding this.

Even the current Uchiha Tenxiu couldn't help but exclaim, “When dealing with people and matters, one should prepare early.”

In his previous life, he was at the bottom, with no means to gather people who could help him, only able to drift along and cope with the constant difficulties, with no one to assist him.

And now.

Just a small, unintentional action from his past could resolve his current predicament.

No wonder, the existence of a Transmigrator.

Appearing as the greatest cheat.

It is not without reason.

Uchiha Tenxiu thought this, and couldn't help but feel a little proud of his series of actions at the time!

At that time, with helpers for his actions, Uchiha Tenxiu’s clever mind quickly came up with some ideas and began to implement them.

As a Transmigrator, he had also struggled in society, enduring much hardship. As a reflective person, he often self-reflected, slowly pondering the sources of various societal evils and various schemes from enemies.

Occasionally, he would also read the so-called ‘Heavenly Fang Divine Posts’.

To gain some so-called insights.

Uchiha Tenxiu then summarized the Uchiha Clan’s actions this time.

Naturally, he understood that although the hidden orchestrator within the Uchiha Clan this time was Senju Tobirama, that inhumane beast.

However, the Uchiha Clan’s “Elite” Ninja plan itself exploited the wickedness within human nature, conforming to the inevitable behavior of the Uchiha Clan’s high-ranking members in this Ninja Village era.

Because with the end of the Sengoku period, the practice of each Uchiha Clan centering itself and uniting the entire Uchiha Clan to fight against other Uchiha Clans, which involved survival, has been greatly weakened by the Village. Compared to before, if a Uchiha Clan was not united, it would inevitably face extinction. Therefore, private ownership and public ownership are mixed.

Whether it is Ninjutsu or resources, the capable advance, and the incapable fall. In the face of the entire Uchiha Clan’s survival, there is no such thing as family affection. Everyone must contribute everything they have, and in return, they can receive all the Uchiha Clan’s cultivation.

However, at this moment, individual families, even if they leave the Uchiha Clan, will be protected by the Village. There are not too many dangers to make every member of the Uchiha Clan feel these crises, so the process of complete privatization has naturally begun, initiating a free mode.

Furthermore, it had already reached the stage of the first Uchiha Clan industry differentiation and profit distribution.

And there were no strict individual supervision methods.

The old system had completely collapsed.

After all.

If the Uchiha Clan wanted to punish a member, they would be questioned by Senju Hashirama, that “goody-two-shoes,” and Senju Tobirama would take the opportunity to interfere in the internal affairs of various Uchiha Clans, unlike the future Third Hokage who allowed each Uchiha Clan absolute self-governance.

So, with less reverence.

If you don’t accept my management.

And cannot cooperate with me wholeheartedly against external enemies.

Then why should I give you so many benefits to win you over.

Therefore, under the watchful eye of the God of Shinobi, the strongest Ninja in the world, the degree of punishment by each Uchiha Clan towards its own members reached a historical low point. However, relatively, they were naturally unwilling to invest large amounts of Uchiha Clan wealth into small families.

They were even more afraid of attracting Senju Tobirama’s attention.

Making him think they had ulterior motives.

In addition to this.

The Land of Fire had enjoyed five years of peace.

Many recently born children basically had no concept of “war” in their perception; at most, there were only occasional disturbances outside the Land of Fire.

Even adults were affected by this.

With a diminished sense of crisis.

And the presence of internal spies.

It was naturally impossible to adopt the wartime approach of putting all the Uchiha Clan’s resources and focus on potential war preparations.

Not to mention whether the Uchiha Clan could bear such a large investment.

Even if they could.

But times had changed.

This was the Ninja Village era.

It was an era where the Village and Ninja Uchiha Clans cooperated with each other.

It couldn't be unilaterally borne by the Uchiha Clan.

Whether it was to show sincerity to the Village, or to ensure that even if war came, other families’ children could go to the battlefield while they only needed to command from the center.

Even if the situation was critical.

Weren’t other Uchiha Clans still contributing!

At worst, we still have the God of Shinobi!

Furthermore, the high-ranking members of the Uchiha Clan all hoped to create preferential treatment for their own children compared to others’ children.

They all hoped that the Elder positions established by the Uchiha Clan when Konoha was founded would continue to be passed down in the future.

Without any unnecessary changes.

Then, ensuring the inheritance of their own rights meant creating a gap between themselves and other ordinary Uchiha members of the Uchiha Clan.

After all, the Uchiha Clan speaks through strength.

As long as their own strength is always stronger than others, the Elder position will always belong to them.

So, how to create this gap?

Of course, it’s through cultivation intensity.

This is the real world; a Ninja naturally cannot simply take a Chakra cultivation scroll and cultivate all the way to become a so-called top-level Ninja—that’s just fiction.

In the real world, various cultivation elixirs can accelerate cultivation, enhance a Ninja’s foundation, not to mention various applications, various secret techniques that surpass the current Ninja level, and means to kill enemies across ranks. These are all held as the most core, high-level secrets within the Uchiha Clan.

As long as these are sealed off.

The disparity will naturally become visible to the naked eye.

Because in the face of the so-called “Elite” Ninja policy, the high-ranking members of the entire Uchiha Clan almost unified their will.

A single individual or two could not possibly change this measure.

And since I cannot change the general trend, then I will join it.

Uchiha Tenxiu understood that to change his fate of being eliminated, he must never confront it head-on; that would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. He could only reveal his talent and use the high-ranking members of the Uchiha Clan to deal with the high-ranking members of the Uchiha Clan.

After all, simply revealing talent, Uchiha Tenxiu, who had just begun cultivating back then, might not necessarily have been able to surpass the children cultivated at great cost by other Uchiha Clan high-ranking members!

He still needed some help from the Uchiha Clan’s high-ranking members.

So, why would the Uchiha Clan’s high-ranking members stand by Uchiha Tenxiu and help him?

On what grounds?

Just because you are a genius?

Wouldn’t it be more reason to suppress you.

To let their own children gain an advantage.

To let their own family continue to hold the Uchiha Clan’s advantages?

Uchiha Tenxiu would not think that just because he was a genius with enough talent, merely showing it would earn him the favor of the Uchiha Clan’s high-ranking members. On the contrary, he would only think that his talent might precisely be something they disliked.

Who can say for sure?

Regarding this.

Uchiha Tenxiu, however, cleverly leveraged the situation. He first investigated all information about the Uchiha Clan’s high-ranking members, then began to arrange for his companions to secretly build momentum for him. He also explained to them the potential future situation, subtly hinting that those who did not receive elite Ninja training would all be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder in the future. After these precocious companions were thoroughly frightened, Tenxiu seized the opportunity to propose a system of “elite leading later elites” to ensure that his companions would exert all their effort to help him.

With companionship and guaranteed benefits, it also prevented these companions from having a moment of madness and betraying him.

Next.

Uchiha Tenxiu then made several small inventions and began to visit the Seventh Elder of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Raimon.