Uchiha's Counterattack

Speaking of the issue of strength improvement, it is actually quite embarrassing. Xia Nan knows that his combat power is inflated. He has plenty of AOE clearing moves, but when it comes to single-target attacks and combat experience, ordinary jounin can beat him by a few blocks.

.This is not meant to belittle himself, Xia Nan knows it well.

The Burning Fruit is really very powerful against ninjas. Elementalization + high temperature = inability to get close. The most important thing is that it can fly.

Therefore, Xia Nan often doesn't need to use much brainpower. As long as he keeps a distance and uses full firepower, it is enough to mindlessly vent firepower towards the ground like an aerial gunship.

This is Xia Nan's advantage, but it is also his disadvantage.

Take the last encounter with Yun Nin in the canyon as an example. Xia Nan's biggest problem is that he is weak in melee combat. Once he encounters an enemy who is evenly matched and can also fly, his only choice is to use more exaggerated attacks to overwhelm the opponent.

, forcing the opponent to defend or even bow his head.

Generally speaking, this method is very effective.

But the battle with Erwei made Xia Nan realize that when he encounters an evenly matched enemy, especially when the advantage of the Burning Fruit is no longer there, Xia Nan's coping ability will become a shortcoming, and he will only use more exaggerated tactics.

Moves and more powerful explosions are used to try to regain one's advantage.

On the surface, there may be a short-term suppressing effect on the enemy, but this method cannot be used for a long time. Xia Nan's physical consumption will be consumed several times as much as before. At the same time, Xia Nan's fighting rhythm will be disrupted, and she will follow the enemy.

With his strength and counterattack, and more exaggerated counterattacks time and time again, the more experienced side will eventually turn Xia Nan into a monkey playing around.

Therefore, on this basis, Xia Nan believes that his top priority is not to continue to strengthen himself, but to hone his combat skills. This is also the reason why he decided to invest a large amount of destiny points and funds in the construction of the village in the early stage.

But at the beginning, Xia Nan planned to use 3 months or half a year to develop the village, and the remaining time would go out to the village to find people to hone his fighting skills. But later, Xia Nan suddenly realized that this idea was impossible to realize, and the reason was

In addition to the fact that the village has developed much faster than he expected, the complexity of affairs and the number of conflicts that need to be dealt with also take up too much time than he expected.

Xia Nan regretted becoming the Fifth Hokage at first. He was almost tied to the Hokage Building and couldn't go there. There were documents everywhere that he had to take the lead in signing. There were a lot of affairs for him to deal with all over the village.

Zaemon has been suffering from gastritis recently as he is busy with affairs in the old neighborhood. It is common for Shirazumi to stay up late helping to deal with internal affairs and to be mentally unwell. Kuroizumi trains and manages the military police almost day and night.

All members of the Uchiha family have not had a good day's rest since February of the first year of Konoha. The whole family has a population of several hundred, men, women, and children. Uchiha can be seen on the streets of Konoha anytime, anywhere, day and night.

The price paid behind this is that the entire Uchiha clan is under great pressure, with almost no rest days, and the average annual vacation is less than 6 hours per month.

Of course, Xia Nan didn't want to complain, let alone show off the Uchiha clan's efforts.

Not to mention anything else, Jiraiya has been working hard 24 hours a day for a full year and 241 days since he became the principal of the ninja school. Tsunade has not been out much since she opened the ninja hospital. She has two calls a day.

That is to say, the trips to and from the hospital and the Ninja School are never interrupted, and her little assistant Shizune is even suspected of suffering from anxiety due to excessive stress.

The total population of Konoha Village is more than 60,000 and close to 70,000. In addition to the elderly over 50 years old, tens of thousands of people have been working continuously for more than two years. It is precisely because of the leadership of the top management that they can attract the attention of the people below.

to hope for a positive response.

Nowadays, New Konoha has been reborn from the ashes, and it has taken on a new look thanks to the joint dedication and efforts of all members. It is a true sense of sharing joys and sorrows that is condensed with blood and sweat, and cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

Therefore, behind the seemingly rapid development and vitality of New Konoha, there are too many people's dedication and efforts. Everyone works hard with hope, regardless of wind, rain and frost, all year round, and the 15-hour work system is

No one ever complained about anything.

Xia Nan saw all this and knew in her heart why they were willing to fight so hard.

This is to allow Xia Nan to fulfill the promise he made and give them a new Konoha Village and a future full of hope.

So Xia Nan sometimes feels extremely stressed.

He is not afraid of the enemy's hatred. To be honest, it is a fire thing for him. But what he never thought is that the enemy's resentful eyes are not scary. What can really crush a person's psychological defense is

The looks of expectation and hope from everyone around him.

Especially when your ability does not match this expectation and hope - really, if you make a mistake even if it is a small thing, others may not blame you, but your spirit will feel particularly broken.

, all kinds of self-denial, complaints, anxiety, self-doubt, etc. all came to my mind.

Some people can make it through and become great people, while some people can't make it through and become great people.

Xia Nan has seen this kind of thing a lot in the past. He even once believed that the most terrifying thing in the world is not violence, gunpowder, the dark side of people's hearts, etc., but comes from chasing ducks to the shelves. You obviously don't have the ability but you are...

I was forced to work hard, bearing a huge psychological burden day and night, and did everything carefully.

In your world view, you will think that everything you do if you do it well is a matter of course, and if you do it poorly, you deserve death. The most terrifying thing is that you will never get any satisfaction from it, and your spirit will never be able to

Relax and always be passively driven forward again and again until you die of despair and exhaustion on the road, or... free yourself.

No matter which one you choose, there seems to be no hope. You can only drag your tired and numb body, your spirit is almost collapsed, and the words "Come on, you can do it!" and "Work hard" still echo in your ears.

, We all believe in you!", "It all depends on you! Don't let us down.", "You are the Optimus Prime of this family, how can you fall?", "You are everyone's hope!",

"Rush, keep walking!".

The more hope there is, the more oppression there is.

The more oppressed it is, the more it collapses.

In the end, you can only turn your eyes red and roar with a broken face.

——Get out! Get out of here!

——I’ve had enough of this day!!

…………

Situations like this are really common.

Xia Nan slowly closed her eyes, thinking this.

To be honest, he has had such troubles for a while, but his problems are much bigger than ordinary people. After all, he is the Hokage and the leader of the Uchiha clan. With one head and two shoulders, he carries the fate and future of tens of thousands of people.

I was really careful every step of the way, as I was deeply afraid that if I made a wrong decision, I would be doomed.

Now, at this moment.

Xia Nan could finally understand Fugaku's mood at the time. It was the pressure from the family that crushed this kaleidoscope strong man. He was not a dove but a crushed hawk. Every face he saw every morning was not a dove.

Faces, but expectations, responsibilities and pressures.

No wonder in the end, the Fugaku clan leader would rather die to help Itachi, and just asked him to take good care of Sasuke.

It is estimated that for the Fugaku clan leader at that time, death was no longer a terrible thing, and it might even be the relief he longed for from the bottom of his heart. Mikoto-sama must have noticed this, so she stayed with her beloved.

The husband walks towards the finish line together.

Of course, Xia Nan still hates and even disgusts Uchiha Itachi. If it were any timeline and any world, he would never relent if he saw him destroyed again and again.

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