Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

It's not just Konoha that has changed, but everyone in Konoha has changed as well.

Even the usually lazy Tsunade felt the pressure and began to roll inward. Aoba knew that the era he wanted was about to come.

Of course, it wasn't just Konoha that was changing. Kirigakure was also quietly undergoing huge changes.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Hidden Cloud Village was leaderless, Uchiha Madara annexed the Hidden Cloud Village.

It must be said here that Kamikawa Aoba's actions against the daimyo set a good example for the major ninja villages.

At present, although there has been no public announcement of separation from the Daimyo, the major ninja villages have already clearly followed orders and not announcements. The Daimyo's rule over the ninja villages is already in name only.

Among them, the most direct one was the Kirigakure. After Uchiha Madara took control of Kirigakure, under the stimulation of Konoha, he directly killed all the daimyo of the Land of Water and forcibly took over all the power of the Land of Water.

But this is just the beginning. Having seen the strength of the new generation of Konoha's ninja army, Uchiha Madara does not think that those stereotyped ninjutsu armies can pose any threat to him.

But it can also be felt that the Kirigakure's ninja army is far inferior to that of Konoha.

Uchiha Madara had fought Aoba several times but never got the upper hand. This made him want to win. Not only did he want to defeat Aoba in terms of personal strength, he also wanted to build the Hidden Mist Village into a powerful ninja village that surpassed Konoha.

Thus, after annexing Yunyin, he immediately went out in person to carefully select from the large amount of spoils.

Then he personally trained them. It took more than half a year to train an elite ninja army.

However, the internal strife before the Kirigakure was really a huge blow to its vitality. It was impossible for it to hold on with just an elite ninja army.

Therefore, he turned around and destroyed the Daimyo. He completely controlled the Water Country. Then he mobilized the resources of the entire Water Country, selected excellent seedlings, and began to cultivate them from scratch.

Although Uchiha Madara was proud, he was not completely ignorant of the facts. He knew very well that if a ninja village wanted to be strong, talent was the most important thing.

Kirigakure had lost too many talented people before, and he wanted to fill this gap now.

This is not an easy thing to do. Fortunately, children in the Naruto world mature early. There are many who start killing at the age of seven or eight, and become famous at the age of ten.

Therefore, in theory, a group of middle-level combat forces can be trained in three to five years.

But Konoha can't rely on this alone. Moreover, training new people requires a lot of resources. So Uchiha Madara also imitated Konoha and took all the minerals within the scope of Kumogakure and Kirigakure into Kirigakure's possession.

Then he opened various mines to make money and worked hard to build the Kirigakure Village.

But after all this happened, Uchiha Madara realized a key problem. That is, reviving a large ninja village is much more difficult than fighting with Senju Hashirama.

In order to fight against Hashirama Senju, he made countless preparations in advance and thought of dozens of tactical countermeasures.

But now he discovered that building a ninja village was a hundred or a thousand times more complicated than the toughest battle he had ever encountered.

Every day he is entangled with countless little things that seem trivial to him, but if they are not dealt with, they will cause discomfort to those who are stuck.

This left him no time to improve himself.

Of course, Madara has other Sharingan in his hand. Although he doesn't have the Mangekyō, he has three magatama developed to the extreme.

But it’s not my own eyes, and it’s not an easy task to reactivate them into a kaleidoscope.

Sometimes Uchiha Madara would involuntarily think about how Kamikawa Aoba managed to improve himself and progress in tandem with the development of the village.

As for Konoha and Aoba, they are actually facing similar problems.

Fortunately, there are still many people in Konoha who can help, so his work is not as difficult as Madara's.

But Qingye is not without worries.

Up to now, the fusion of his Eternal Eye was still as slow as ever. The key point was that he didn't know what the reason was.

He checked himself countless times. The final result was that everything was normal. The completion of the Eternal Eye was in progress. The only problem was that the speed was too slow, so slow that it was unbearable.

He knew that Sasuke in the original story took no more than three months. But he had already spent half a year and hadn't even completed 10% of the progress.

He knew very well that the guy must have done something wrong, but he didn't understand how the other party could prevent the fusion of his Eternal Eye without any direct contact with him.

Now Aoba has shifted his training to the fusion of the tailed beasts' chakra.

Now he already has the chakra of the One-Tail and the Eight-Tail in his body. As long as he wants, he can get more tailed beast chakra at any time.

But he didn't do that for the time being, mainly because it was not easy to completely master the chakra of the tailed beasts.

After this period of training, he has been able to successfully mobilize the chakra of the Eight-Tails and One-Tails in his body for combat.

But they still don't belong to them.

Simply put, these two types of chakra are like two independent power furnaces in his body.

Under his control, but essentially external, it doesn't quite match his body.

Aoba's goal has always been not to become a new Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, but to become the Ten-Tails itself.

Therefore, he needed to merge the chakra of the tailed beast with his own. In his expectation, this process should be much more difficult than the fusion of the Eternal Eye.

But in fact, the fusion of the Eternal Eye was stuck. However, the fusion of the tailed beast's chakra was smoother than expected.

The first chakra he got, after a long period of absorption and refining, had gradually begun to merge with his body.

Of course, this does not make Qingye really become a tailed beast. In fact, the tailed beast marks carried by these tailed beast chakras have long been worn away by Qingye. What remains is pure original chakra.

Theoretically, Qingye can shape it into any form. However, he is a human being and has no special hobbies for transforming into monsters.

As the last trace of One Tail's chakra completely merged with Aoba's body, Kamikawa Aoba felt that some subtle changes had taken place in his body.

However, Qingye did not have time to experience those changes for the time being. All his attention was now attracted by another thing.

That is, after he completely integrated the One-Tail Chakra, the integration progress of his Eternal Eye seemed to speed up a bit.

"Um!!"