Konoha, I have the Herrscher of the End core in my body.

Three years later, Ninja School, playground.

"The next match is Uchiha Sasuke vs. Inuzuka Kiba."

Following Iruka's announcement, Inuzuka Kiba jumped out with an excited look on his face. As for Sasuke, he still had a blank expression. After the Uchiha clan was destroyed three years ago, Sasuke's expression at school had hardly changed.

"Ya, come on, give him a taste of his power."

"Come on Sasuke, defeat them."

With the appearance of the two, the boys and girls in the class immediately began to confront each other. The boys were all cheering for Inuzuka Kiba, hoping that he could defeat Sasuke. Even though the Uchiha clan was destroyed, Sasuke's popularity in the class did not decrease. On the contrary, because of his unchanged expression over the years, he was considered very cool by most of the girls.

It can be said that all the girls in the class, except Hinata, are attracted to Sasuke. This is naturally intolerable for the boys. Whenever they have the chance, they will find ways to trip up Sasuke and embarrass him. Among them, Kiba Inuzuka is one of the representatives who dislikes Sasuke.

Even though he has never defeated Sasuke so far, he still enjoys challenging him.

When almost all the students were cheering for Sasuke or Kiba, only Naruto, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata and others seemed a little out of place.

Shikamaru had no interest in such competitions at all. If surrender was not allowed and he had to fight, he would probably give up every match.

As for Choji, he sat next to Shikamaru, eating potato chips non-stop, and didn't care at all about who would win between Sasuke and Inuzuka Kiba.

As for Naruto, he also had no interest in such a competition where he already knew the result. At this moment, his attention was focused on the battle between the next class, Rock Lee versus Neji Hyuga.

Neji, Rock Lee, and Tenten are only one year older than Naruto and the others. Apart from academic subjects, they often attend classes together, such as the kunai throwing class and the current competition class.

"Xiao Li, give up. You are no match for him."

"That's right, if you can't even make a hand seal, you should just give up being a ninja."

When Rock Lee challenged Hyuga Neji, many of his classmates were mocking him. During this period, Rock Lee was truly the last in the class, being ranked last in both academic and physical training classes.

There have even been many teachers who suggested that Xiao Li give up on becoming a ninja. Xiao Li is now in fifth grade and will graduate in a year, but up to now, he can't even perform hand seals smoothly.

The twelve ninja hand seals are taught when students first enter school. After such a long period of time, even if one has poor talent, one can basically perform the twelve hand seals perfectly. However, Xiao Li just can't do it.

Another thing is kunai throwing. His poor accuracy made the teacher on the side a little scared. Even if the accuracy of others was poor, at least the kunai would fall near the target. But for Xiao Li, before he threw it, no one knew where the kunai would fall. As a result, Xiao Li had to take the kunai class alone afterwards to avoid hurting others.

"Give up, you are no match for me." Looking at Rock Lee who had been pestering him, Neji felt helpless. It's not that he had never used heavy hands on him, but he would only challenge again as soon as Rock Lee's injury healed.

"I will never give up. I will definitely become an excellent ninja." Rock Lee shouted loudly, got up again and rushed towards Neji, then his body flew out again.

"Now, I'm afraid no one would have thought that Rock Lee would become one of the Twelve Strongest Creatures. Even Neji wouldn't have thought that he would become his teammate."

Rock Lee is one of the few people Naruto admires in the ninja world. In this ninja world that mainly relies on bloodline, he is one of the very few who succeeded through hard work.

In the entire ninja world, it can be said that Might Guy and Rock Lee are the most diligent practitioners. Even Naruto and Sasuke cannot compare to them. The long-term and extensive physical training is something that not everyone can persist in, even Naruto now.

As far as Naruto could see, Rock Lee's current training was incomparable to that of others, but unfortunately, even so, his strength had not improved much. His ability to withstand beatings had probably only increased a lot, allowing him to spend a lot of time fighting with Neji.

"There are still about two years left. I think I'll meet Might Guy during this period."

With Rock Lee's current situation, it is impossible for him to graduate and become a Genin. Only when he meets Might Guy can he bring out his talents. As for the exam for the Three Body Technique, with Guy as his guarantee, it doesn't matter even if he knows no ninjutsu at all.

"Uchiha Sasuke wins, seal of reconciliation."

While Naruto was paying attention to the battle between Rock Lee and Neji, Sasuke and Inuzuka Kiba had already decided the winner. Then, at Iruka's request, Sasuke made the seal of reconciliation with Inuzuka Kiba with an impatient look on his face.

In the ninja school, there are the Seal of Opposition and the Seal of Reconciliation, which are used before and after the competition respectively. What is the Seal of Opposition? You can find out by looking at the seals made by the statues of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama in the Valley of the End.

"The next match is between Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino." After Sasuke and Inuzuka Kiba made the seal of reconciliation and returned to the team, Teacher Iruka announced the opponent for the next match.

"Although this may seem a bit ridiculous to other ninja villages, this is exactly why Konoha is so powerful."

Konoha is the benchmark of the five major ninja villages. Whatever policies and systems are implemented here, other ninja villages will imitate them one after another, from the initial ninja village system to the ninja school and medical ninja system.

However, other ninja villages only imitated the form but not the essence. Take the teachers in the ninja schools for example. The blood education implemented by other ninja villages, even if it was not as exaggerated as the Blood Mist Town in the Mist Village, the students' battles were indeed fought with real swords and guns, and even death was allowed.

But in Konoha, there is no such system. The use of weapons in battles, disability and death are not allowed. The ninjas trained in this way are not as strong as those in other ninja villages when they are Genin. But as time goes by, Konoha has the advantage.

The education of blood will certainly cultivate a group of ninjas with strong strength, but more people with good talents may die before they grow up.

Just like Rock Lee and Might Guy, they would never have grown if they were in the other four major ninja villages, but in Konoha, they became the backbone of Konoha, and among them, Guy was even called Emperor Guy, and he almost kicked his way out of the finale.

After all, people who can show their talents at a young age are a minority, and they just grow up earlier than ordinary people. Just like Kakashi and Might Guy, when they were in ninja school, the gap between the two was so huge, but now, they are theoretically at the same level.

With these growing forces, coupled with Konoha's powerful medical system, this is the real reason why Konoha was able to maintain its position as the number one among the five major ninja villages even when the Third Hokage came to power and continued to persecute its own people.

"It's really more comfortable outside. It's a pity that my main body can't come out. My next target is Kusagakure Village and Uzumaki Karin. I'm sorry that I've waited so long before taking action."

Naruto's shadow clone flying in the air looked at the simple map in his hand, identified the direction of Kusagakure Village, and flew towards there.

As for Uzumaki Karin, Naruto remembered her when he was recalling the information about the ninja world. However, in order to ensure that everything would go smoothly, he did not take action until three years later, when his strength had improved again. After all, the opponent was a ninja village, so it was better to be careful.