Tsunade, you're really drunk!

Just when Hiashi was feeling happy and proud for Neji, Neji didn't care about it at all. At this moment, he just wanted to do his best and keep trying to break through the limits of his current vision.

From the edge of the training ground, it expanded forward little by little, continuing Fang Yuan's vision until the end.

His eyes rested on a tree beside the training ground.

This is a big tree with a thick trunk and lush branches and leaves. At the junction of the trunk and the branches, you can see an oval-shaped bird's nest made up of hundreds of small branches piled together.

In the nest, there were a few little sparrows that kept stretching their necks upwards, pecking their mouths open and close. Although no sound could be heard, Neji knew that these little guys must be hungry.

Next to the bird's nest, an adult sparrow fed small insects into the mouths of the young birds one by one, but there were not many insects left, so it was only enough to feed two young birds, and the other young bird continued to chirp.

The sparrow spread its wings and flew out of the tree.

Ningji waited and waited until the sparrow flew back. He witnessed with his own eyes the feeding of the last crying baby bird. Only then did Ningji close his Byakugan and look at Hiashi, his uncle.

"Uncle, thank you."

As he said this, Neji lowered his head to the ground.

He knelt down not because he was the patriarch of the Hyuga clan, but out of his inner gratitude to him and because of his uncle, Hiashi, who had taken care of him for so many years.

Hiashi quickly helped Neji up, tears in his eyes. The joy in his heart now was no less than the joy when Hinata and Hanabi were born.

After a while, when both of them calmed down again, Hiashi began to tell Neji about the next task that would be given to him with a serious look on his face.

"Ningji, in the next few days, you must maintain the same state as before. You must not reveal that you have escaped from the caged bird curse seal. The bandage on your forehead must be worn as before."

"It seems that Lord Tobirama is more interested in the firearms you and Tenten created, and is currently improving and researching those items."

"It will probably not be long before a mission is sent out, requiring our Hyuga clan members to actually experience the improved firearms, evaluate them, and give their opinions."

"It just so happens that the experiment requires a lot of data model calculations, so we can send two or three hundred ninjas from the branch families. Especially you, as one of the creators of firearms, you must go to the scene, and you may even be one of the leaders of this mission."

"Today, all members of the Hyuga clan add up to only more than a thousand people, and more than five hundred of them are stationed at the border of the Land of Fire and outside Konoha Village."

"This time, the experiment commission will require at least two hundred people. There will only be two hundred people left in the clan land, and we have less than a hundred main family ninjas left, and dozens of them are already old and half-dead."

"I need you to use the Pure Eye Seal to break the seals of the caged birds of the more than 200 branches one by one during the mission."

"With your current chakra, you should be able to perform the Pure Eye Seal about ten times a day, but it will be very energy-intensive."

"During this period, Lord Tobirama and Orochimaru will come to help you from time to time, but because their main task is to improve firearms, I'm afraid the burden of the task is still on your shoulders."

"The duration of the experimental mission is about one month. If it drags on any longer, the elders of the Zong family will probably become suspicious."

"When you return, it will be the day when our Hyuga clan will completely abandon our old customs!"

Hiashi told Neji all the plans he, Tobirama and Orochimaru had made during the day. At the same time, he handed the copy of the Pure Eye Sealing Scroll to Neji.

Neji took the scroll and nodded heavily.

"Uncle, I understand. Don't worry, I will definitely free all the ninjas from the branch family, let them embrace freedom under the sun again, and cut off the shackles on them."

Rizu nodded in satisfaction.

"During your mission, I will try my best to hold back these old guys from the Zong family. Just go ahead and do it."

"Even if something goes wrong, the village will take action at that time."

"But by then, it might be a completely different scene..."

After hearing what Hiashi said next, Neji was a little confused about what it meant. It was obvious that although Ningji, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, had seen some darkness, he still didn't understand the involvement of the interest chain of the top leaders of Konoha Village. There were many things that he didn't quite understand.

Hiashi chuckled twice, thinking how silly of himself. No matter how precocious and talented Neci was, he was still just a child. It was normal that he didn't understand many things. His subsequent words were obviously too much talk, and he subconsciously treated Neci as an adult.

But now that it has been said, why not let Neci know a little more? After all, the fact that Neci presented firearms to Chiye and handed them over to the village has already made this little guy start to be exposed to these things.

"Ningji, you must remember what I am going to say next. This has nothing to do with the Hyuga clan, but it has extremely important meaning to you personally."

Neji perked up immediately and pricked up his ears.

"Uncle, please speak."

Seeing that Neji had regained his spirits, Hiashi began to analyze the situation for him.

"I know that ever since you were abducted by the Root and rescued by Qianye, you have always regarded Qianye as the person you respect and admire the most."

"Even the firearms were learned because of Qianye's training guidance for Hinata, which led her to switch to archery. After you learned the news, you directly gave up the training of the soft fist for so many years, and only spent a small part of your time every day training our Hyuga's soft fist. This is because Qianye once said, 'The soft fist can be used to protect yourself when being approached.'"

"am I right."

Neji glanced at the book "Uchiha Chiya Quotations" that he had copied by hand next to his pillow, and suddenly felt his cheeks turn red, but he still nodded silently.

"Uncle is right. I really admire Master Qianye, but this is just my wishful thinking. After all, I am not Master Qianye's disciple..."

After Neji finished speaking, he lowered his head in frustration, but Hiashi kept shaking his head.

"Ningji, you have to understand that Chiya has four disciples under his name, Hinata, Sasuke, Shino, and Gekkou Hayate."

"They were simply guiding their future training directions, and this was only because of the exchange of interests between him and us ninjas after the Sandaime abdicated."

"He never really considered them as his disciples. He only checked their progress and gave them guidance every once in a while out of consideration for their personal relationships."

"All of this can be seen as an exchange of interests and a bond. If it weren't for the help of our major ninja clans, he wouldn't have been able to force Hiruzen to abdicate so easily. But at the same time, he wouldn't have been able to achieve his current results so easily. It would have taken him at least a few years longer."

After hearing this, Neji subconsciously wanted to refute. He felt that his uncle was vilifying his idol.

"How could that be? Master Qianye is not such a person! It is obvious that Sarutobi Hiruzen is unworthy of his position, especially that guy Danzo! He..."

Seeing that Neji was getting more and more angry and his tone became a little hurried, Hiashi quickly raised his hand to interrupt him.

“Stop, stop, stop. I’m not saying anything bad about Qianye. Wait for me to finish what I’m saying. I know you’re anxious, but don’t be anxious yet!”

"If anyone in Konoha wants to say something bad about Qianye, I will definitely not agree. He was the one who helped me get the position of Hokage's assistant!"

Neji then calmed down a bit, and continued to look at Hizashi gloomily.

"Go ahead." There was a hint of complaint in his tone.

"Everything I just said was not to say that Qianye did a bad job, but to praise Qianye for being good in these aspects and worth learning from!"

Neji tilted his head in confusion, as if to say "Do you want to listen to what you are talking about?"

Rizu then began to explain.

"Ningji, you have to understand that the relationship between people will change because of many things. It may get better or worse."

"Just like when you didn't know the truth about your father's death, didn't you also hate me every day?"

"After knowing the truth, although he no longer resented me, there was still a gap between us."

"But now, I will use my Pure Eye Seal to erase the caged bird curse on you, and only then will you be willing to call me uncle and stop calling me clan leader."

"Can you see the connection?"

Neji felt like he seemed to understand, but he didn't quite understand. Maybe it was still a little difficult for him to understand as he was a bit slow in thinking in this area. What's more, he was just a child.

"I should understand a little bit."

"But what does that have to do with me?"

Hiashi took a sip of water, as he felt a little thirsty after talking too much, and then continued to analyze the details and logic with Neji.

"Many of Qianye's things are done for himself, for the people around him, for the Uchiha, and for the development of the village."

"But some of them are things he is willing to do out of pure appreciation."

"For example, he likes to eat barbecue at Qiu Dao Barbecue Restaurant, so he would go there often. And because of his frequent visits, many people in the village often go to Qiu Dao's barbecue restaurant to eat, because that is Qianye's favorite barbecue."

"Just because of Qianye's love, the Qiu Dao family's barbecue restaurant has seen a surge in customers and doubled its revenue."

"This is the effect of his unintentional act. If other people like something, it may not have any impact, but if it is him, it is different. This is the celebrity effect."

"Likewise, he admired you and even thought that the firearms you developed had great potential, so he gave it to the Second Hokage Tobirama and Orochimaru to improve and develop together."

"Under Qianye's appreciation, even if the old guys in the Zong family dare to force me to step down, they won't dare to touch you at all. Do you understand?"

Ningji understood now and nodded decisively.

"I understand, uncle, what you mean is that the binding of real interests can make people closer because people will remember the good things about others."

"And the firearms that Tiantian and I created, unintentionally, created a non-profit connection between me and Lord Qianye. This relationship is even more precious."

"do you mean this?"

After listening to what Neji said, Hiashi nodded with satisfaction.

As expected of Hyuga's number one genius, he understands things so quickly~!

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