After taking over the snake uncle's foundation, Sasuke came to surrender on his own initiative.

At this moment.

Located at the end of the Ninja World, in the famous Konoha Ninja Village.

The core senior executives, including advisor Danzo Shimura, Koharu Utatane, En of Mito Kado, as well as more than a dozen elite jonin such as Kakashi, gathered in the Hokage Building to discuss strategies on how to deal with the difficulties facing Konoha.

Everyone expressed their opinions passionately.

Especially Shimura Danzo, when it was his turn, he, who was usually taciturn, spoke eloquently, which was unusual. It seemed that without Sarutobi Hiruzen, he, the assistant Hokage, immediately began to take charge.

At this critical moment, the already ambitious Danzo Shimura would naturally not be satisfied with the status quo.

Their ambitions grew even more, and they longed to sit on the throne of the fifth Hokage.

In his opinion, as long as he can successfully defeat the Otogakure, he will surely become famous in Konoha. He will imitate Minato Namikaze in the past and use the power brought by this victory to become the strongest candidate for Hokage, no doubt about it!

In his opinion, the main reason why Otogakure was able to successfully attack Konoha and then retreat was because of the powerful leader Otogakure.

Zabuza Momochi, who possesses the Mangekyō Sharingan, is not much of a threat. Danzo is not afraid of him from the bottom of his heart and thinks that his strength is at most equivalent to that of Uchiha Shisui who died in his hands.

"Since they were able to successfully launch a sneak attack on Uchiha Shisui, a mere Kirigakure rebel ninja should be no problem for them!"

This is what Danzo really thinks.

After all, even an unknown taijutsu jonin of his own could fight Zabuza to a draw, so Danzo, who was confident that he had the strength of a level one Five Kage, was naturally not afraid.

But facing Otontake who could quickly kill his old friend, although Danzo did not show it verbally, he was somewhat frightened in his heart.

Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen's rival for half his life, knew only too well how powerful he was.

Even though this old friend of mine is old and frail.

Even though Danzo secretly transplanted the first generation's cells into himself, restoring his body to youthful vitality, his fighting power was at its peak, or even better.

Even though he had the 11 Sharingans that Itachi gave him transplanted into his arms, he had 12 lives.

But as long as Sarutobi Hiruzen is in power!

Danzo didn't dare to harbor any rebellious thoughts at all, and at most he could only send Kakashi to assassinate the other party.

This shows his fear of Sarutobi Hiruzen's strength and methods.

Even though the leader of the Sound Village is extremely powerful, he is after all just a ninja from a small village.

Although Konoha Village currently has no ability, no ninja can defeat this powerful opponent alone.

But what Konoha lacks the least is civilian ninjas.

They can rely on countless methods such as sneak attacks, assassinations, sieges, etc., sacrifice some civilian ninjas without any backing, and easily eliminate the leader of the Sound Village.

“Sarutobi Hiruzen failed mainly because he was too conceited, and we must never repeat the same mistake.

The Sound Village seems powerful, but its real strength is limited to the Sound Ninja leader. The other members are not to be feared.

As long as everyone agrees that I become the acting Hokage, I, Danzo, will lead the Root Ninjas and lead the Konoha Ninjas to defeat the Sound Village in one fell swoop!

At that time, the leader of the Sound Village will be surrounded and killed by the elite jonin led by me. Except for a few elites like Momochi Zabuza, the other ninjas of the Sound Village will not be able to pose any threat to us...

We in Konoha will definitely avenge our past humiliation! I, Danzo, will avenge Hiruzen! I will kill that guy named Ototake with blood!"

The root leader stood up from his seat, described the beautiful vision with great enthusiasm, and made a final summary speech.

"Destroy the Sound Ninja and spread the name of Konoha!"

"Kill Yin Zhu and avenge the Third Generation!"

"Revenge!"

"revenge!"

"..."

The Konoha ninjas present were also very excited after hearing this, and shouted in unison that they wanted to destroy the Sound Village to avenge the Third Generation. The atmosphere was extremely warm.

Of course, this is not true for everyone.

At the huge round conference table, consultants Utane Koharu and Mitokado En, who were sitting next to each other, looked at each other secretly, with a look of "as expected" on their faces.

Then, they looked across. Coincidentally, Kakashi and Jiraiya on the opposite side also looked over at the same time.

The four of them looked at each other, and after a brief eye contact, they all nodded imperceptibly, as if they had secretly reached some tacit understanding.

Immediately.

"Cough cough!"

Mitomon En coughed loudly twice and raised his right hand in a frail manner, "Everyone, be quiet. I have something to say, old man."

A fierce look flashed across Danzo's eyes, "This old guy, I knew he was going to come out and mess things up!"

But he's not worried.

He had already made sufficient preparations for this day.

Among the middle-aged generation of ninjas in Konoha who could hold up the pillar, Orochimaru had already defected, Tsunade had left the village, and Jiraiya had expressed at the beginning of the meeting that he would never be the fifth Hokage.

The remaining young generation, such as Kakashi, are a little immature and cannot bear the title of "Kage", nor can they carry the banner of Konoha.

Therefore, the most likely candidate for the Fifth Hokage would be selected from among his senior advisers such as Danzo.

"How are these two idiots, Menyan and Xiaochun, going to compete with me, Danzo?"

Danzo slowly folded his hands across his chest, a disdainful arc appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he sat as steady as a clock, looking quite confident.

"It's Consultant Men Yan!"

"Listen to what Consultant Men Yan has to say."

The enthusiasm and excitement in the entire conference room slowly died down.

But the next few voices in the conference room made Danzo's face change again and again. When he heard the last person's speech, his face was blacker than coal.

"I propose that Tsunade return to the village to succeed the Fifth Hokage."

"I second this old lady."

"I second the motion! Then the task of finding Tsunade will be left to me, Jiraiya."

"Jounin Hatake Kakashi, second the motion!"

"Jounin Sarutobi Asuma, second the motion!"

"Jonin Akimichi Chojo, second the motion!"

"..."

"Nara Shikaku, the leader of the jonin squad, seconded the motion..."

Bang——! ! !

Wood chips flew everywhere, and a huge hole suddenly appeared on the solid wooden round table in front of consultant Danzo Shimura.

Danzo put away his fist, stood up angrily, waved his sleeves, then slammed the door and left with a dark face.

Only then did he realize that he had overlooked the existence of a person.

It wasn't until this person expressed his opinion that Danzo remembered.

But it's too late.

Nara Shikaku, the captain of the Jonin squad, is not only qualified to succeed the Hokage, but also holds a pivotal position and influence in Konoha.

After all, in such a huge Konoha Village, all the Jonins are under the charge of Nara Shikaku alone!

The jonin election, which he had placed high hopes on, became a complete joke to Danzo.

......

When a person becomes famous, he or she will often be the target of curiosity and malice from strangers.

The so-called popular right and wrong.

Yin Zhu was very surprised and a little helpless. He actually became famous for such a unique track.

However, his name was feared by the people of the Ninja World, and even hated by the people of the Land of Fire. No matter how curious ordinary people were, they would not dare to approach such a dangerous ninja who had committed a terrifying act.

However, what made him laugh and cry was that recently many people had the courage to come to contact Sound Village.

Some people actively sought to make acquaintance with this powerful ninja who became famous in one battle, hoping to pay a certain amount of protection fees so that their caravans could be protected by his Sound Ninjas when passing through.

As for such businessmen, Yin Zhu waved his hand and handed them over to Dou, who was good at dealing with various matters.

All income will be publicly owned.

The other group of people were wandering ninjas who came here on their own initiative.

Most of these people are Genin who have a certain talent for chakra cultivation. Although Yinzhu looks down on them, he accepts them all under his command based on the principle that even the smallest bit of meat is still meat.

After all, he still remembered that he still had a [Hidden Dragon Rising] force mission to complete.

The mission requires developing the Sound Village into a medium-sized ninja village. This requires two Sound Ninjas who have reached the elite jonin level in the system, five jonins, twenty chuunins, and five hundred genins.

Therefore, Yinzhu would rather have too much than too little, and although he himself was too lazy to manage them, Dou was in charge of the literature and Zabuza was in control of the martial arts, so even the most dishonest and restless wandering ninja could not make any waves.

The wandering ninjas who came to the Sound Village for refuge were not just one or two, but batches after batches.

The Third Hokage of Konoha was successfully attacked and killed with the power of a small ninja village, and finally escaped unscathed. These deeds sound like myths, but with the presence of great ninjas such as Sand Village and Kumogakure, it would have been impossible to hide it, so Konoha remained silent.

This is obviously the default.

This time, all the well-informed countries in the ninja world were shocked.

The peaceful ninja world was suddenly disturbed.

The big ninja villages are wary of the Sound Village, and the small ninja villages laugh at Konoha, while at the same time envy the Sound Village for producing a powerful ninja like Sound Takeku.

Only the Daimyo of the Land Country lives in fear every day, fearing revenge from Konoha and the Land of Fire...

And those wandering ninjas who were living on the edge of their seats saw a new star rising in the ninja world.

Small ninja villages may be destroyed at any time, so these wandering ninjas look down on them. The big ninja villages have high standards, so they won't accept them even if they want to join.

Therefore, these weak ninjas who accidentally obtained the chakra training method but had no systematic ninjutsu teaching simply gave up and began to wander around the various countries in the ninja world to make a living.

Hence the name 'wandering ninja'.

As a result, the newly rising Sound Village became a hot spot in the eyes of wandering ninjas.

......

When they heard that Otogakure would welcome any ninja who came to seek refuge there, the wandering ninjas from the surrounding countries were immediately excited! They all rushed to the Land of Rice.

Even some underground black market bounty hunters and small mercenary organizations, many ninjas have given up their crimes and chosen to join the Sound Village.

Just half a month after Yinzhu returned to the village, the number of Yinninjas in Yin Village exceeded the thousand mark. This exaggerated growth rate not only did not stop, but intensified.

As a result, Yinzhu's confidence in conquering the surrounding small countries increased.

After all, even if the territory is conquered, there still has to be someone to guard and take care of it, right?

But right now, the only ninjas that he had who were truly capable of fighting were Zabuza and other Sound-Ninjas who had been endowed with the Sharingan by him. Among them, the Sound-Ninja Trio and the Quartet could only be said to have the strength of barely Chunin to elite Chunin.

As for the target of the next attack, Yin Zhu had already made a clear choice in his mind long before launching the "Konoha Destruction Plan" that fulfilled his master's dream.

However, before launching this war, he still needs to resolve the external threats.

On this day, Kabuto, who had been busy for half a month, finally appeared again and brought the latest information about Konoha.

He stood below Yin Zhu, his respect mixed with a deep sense of doubt and suspicion.

"According to our spies, your guess is correct. Jiraiya, one of the three ninjas, seems to be preparing to leave the village in the near future to seek Tsunade's help to fight against you. He is expected to leave tomorrow.

As for Konoha, no abnormal trend of starting a war has been found yet. The old fellow Shimura Danzo seems fierce and wants revenge, but in fact he may not stand up for the dead Third Hokage. "

"Very good! I am very satisfied with the work you did." Yin Zhu nodded slightly to show his approval.

It was almost inevitable that Jiraiya planned to leave the village to look for Tsunade.

He didn't want to be Hokage, and he didn't want to see the martial arts school Shimura Danzo take the throne, otherwise his teacher's life's work would be in vain. But Konoha couldn't be without a Hokage, so he had to find Tsunade and let his friend be the fifth Hokage.

......

To the east of Otogakure is the Kingdom of Hot Springs, and Hot Springs Village is secretly controlled by Otogakure.

As the most famous hot spring commercial country in the ninja world, the prosperous economy of Yu Kingdom is what Yinzhu needs. But it is precisely because of this that he secretly controls it instead of attacking it with great fanfare.

After all, having the wealthy Hot Spring Country as an economic backer and Otogakure which does not have such a strong economic backing are two completely different concepts.

The former will seriously threaten the interests of neighboring major countries.

As for the latter, Otogakure is just a village similar to Amegakure, and at most the existence of Otogakure will make the five major ninja villages feel fearful.

Although the Sound Village is supported by ninjas who are as powerful as the Five Kage, it is unable to break the blockade of the big countries and develop due to the weakness of the country and economy.

Such a ninja village, like Yuyin, is like a tree without roots. It is destined to be strong for a while, but it will eventually decline. Over time, it will quickly decline along with the weakening of the strength of the ninja village leader.

In the eyes of the five major countries, such ninja villages do not need them to find ways to destroy them, they will slowly die out on their own.

Rain Country is a great example of this.

During World War II, under the leadership of the demigod of the ninja world, the aggressiveness of the Rain Country was terrifyingly strong.

But how honest are they now?

Now that the situation in the east has been grasped early on, Yin Zhu's attention is now set on the west of Tian Kingdom.

To the west is a barren land.

There is no country here, and it doesn't even have a name on the map of the ninja world.

This peninsula is as big as two or three fields, but is sparsely populated because it has been a mass grave since the Warring States Period and has always been regarded as an ominous place by surrounding countries.

It is worth noting that to the west of this peninsula is Takikuni, and to the west of that is the Kusagakure Village which Ototake has "visited" many times.

Since the territories of these small countries are mostly long and vertical, the distance between the Land of Fields and the Land of Taki is actually not far away, and is only separated by an eggplant-shaped peninsula.

And Ototake's next target is the country where Akatsuki member Kakuzu was born.

It's the country of Taki that owns the Nanabi!