The Otsutsuki Road from Kirigakure

At this moment, Black Zetsu felt a sincere admiration for Uchiha Madara. Uchiha Madara, who had been played around by him almost all his life, could still give such a brilliant performance when he was old, and even escaped from the hands of a real Otsutsuki!

So, Black Zetsu immediately asked White Zetsu to meet up with Uchiha Madara, and then induce Uchiha Madara to move the base to where he is now. They definitely could not stay in the Frost Country any longer.

The Land of Grass is also an excellent location for developing an underground base. According to Uchiha's plan, he will need a spokesperson in the future to walk in the ninja world on his behalf, monitor the Rinnegan and eventually resurrect him. The best choice for this spokesperson is someone from the Uchiha clan of Konoha Village.

Therefore, the Grass Kingdom, sandwiched between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom, is also a good location to establish a base.

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A few days later, White Zetsu brought Uchiha Madara, who had almost recovered, to the Land of Grass and opened a new underground base near the Kanmubi Bridge.

After placing the Outer Path Statue and using the summoning technique to summon the flame fan and sickle that he had lost in the Frost Country, Uchiha Madara ordered the White Zetsu clones to continue collecting intelligence on the ninja world outside the Hidden Mist Village and to help him find a suitable successor.

He didn't want to provoke the Hidden Mist Village where the Fourth Mizukage named Otsutsuki Seiji was for the time being. Who knew if the other party would find his lair again? Uchiha Madara still didn't figure out how the passing ninja from the Hyuga clan controlled by Seiji detected him!

After arranging everything, Uchiha Madara, who was already old and weak, became even more tired. He hunched over, walked slowly to the seat directly under the Outer Path Demon Statue, leaned on the handle, and fell into a deep sleep.

Hashirama...wait for me!

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Time flies by like a white horse.

It seems like a ruthless giant, taking firm and fast steps, running forward without hesitation. It is also like fine sand slipping through fingers, slipping away quietly through fingers and becoming out of reach.

Three years passed by in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the 42nd year of the Hidden Mist.

During these three years, although the four major ninja villages of Konoha, Sunagakure, Iwagakure and Kumogakure have been recuperating, quietly restoring and accumulating their own strength, small conflicts have often broken out between them. However, all parties are still trying to maintain a state of restraint, and there is no sign of a new round of Ninja World War breaking out.

However, the Hidden Mist Village, which is also one of the five major gangsters in the ninja world, is located in a land far away from the ninja continent. It ignores the disputes in the ninja world and continues to develop. Its overall strength has undergone a drastic change.

The strength of the Kirigakure ninjas has been greatly improved in the past few years. Overall, there are nearly fifty jonins added, and even the number of elite jonins has increased by nearly twenty. Even many Kage-level powerhouses who were almost extinct in the Kirigakure Village before the last Ninja World War have appeared.

Under Kiyoshi's occasional guidance, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen who serve as the Mizukage's guards have achieved the feat of all of them possessing Kage-level strength without relying on ninja swords.

It can be said that the high-end combat power of the Hidden Mist Village is definitely ranked first in the ninja world at present, and can basically suppress the current leader of the ninja world, Konoha Village.

However, in terms of other levels of combat power, it is indeed slightly inferior to other ninja villages except the Sand Village. This is mainly due to the previous policy of the Kirigakure on ninja training, which resulted in the overall number of Kirigakure ninjas being relatively small among the five major ninja villages.

However, this is not a big problem. Since the reform of the Ninja School, there has been a huge explosion in the number of newly trained ninjas. It’s just that the time period is not long enough and the effect has not yet been fully reflected.

In a few years, the overall strength of the Hidden Mist Village will surely surpass that of the Konoha Village as the strength of the village increases and decreases, and it will become the true number one in the ninja world.

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In June of the 42nd year of Kirigakure, it was the graduation season for Kirigakure Ninja School. It was also the graduation season for the first batch of students who had experienced the new six-year academic system after the reform of the Ninja School.

Before the reform, the Hidden Mist Village, driven by the "blood mist" policy, followed the example of the Konoha Village, which won the Ninja World War at that time, and implemented a three-year school system.

That is, they start school at the age of 6 and graduate at the age of 9.

After the Third Mizukage Bing gradually transferred power to Kiyoshi and abolished the "blood mist" policy, Kiyoshi began to reform the ninja school. Moreover, after he succeeded the Fourth Mizukage, he officially increased the academic system of the ninja school from three years to six years.

To be honest, if the sole purpose is to train machine-like ninjas who can only kill and carry out tasks, three years is probably enough.

However, this is not the kind of ninja that Qingji wants. In Qingji's view, the ninja school is the stage to lay the foundation for ninjas before becoming a Genin, and this foundation, as the foundation of a ninja, must be laid solid.

What the ninja school teaches is not only the ninja knowledge about chakra, but ideological education is what Qingsi values ​​more. Those "mature" Kirigakure ninjas are not easy to change, but the future flowers of Kirigakure in the ninja school have gradually become the shape of Qingsi.

However, Qingji would definitely not be like the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and other Konoha high-ranking officials who came up with a brainwashing will of fire like "Wherever Konoha dances, fire will continue to burn."

Even later on, it further evolved into burning others to fulfill oneself, resulting in the four clans, headed by the Sarutobi clan, supplemented by the Tenshin clan, the Mitomon clan and the Shimura clan, which could only be called medium-level ninja clans when the village was built, becoming the four clans that benefited the most from Konoha Village.

The Sarutobi clan, the leader among them, later became the largest ninja clan in Konoha Village in secret!