Naruto: I, the villain template, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 156 is simply for pleasing oneself.

The Mountain Country serves as a vital passage between the Rain Country and the Grass Country.

This is related to future plans. Yun Chuan plans to use it as a springboard to annex the Grass Country, and it is imperative to take it down.

Moreover, the Land of Waterfall and the even more distant Land of Bears, which they will face on this trip, are also targets that Kumokawa will definitely have to take down in the future.

The Land of Waterfall is the toughest to conquer. It's a small country with tailed beasts, and its terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Even the Five Great Nations would struggle with it.

Therefore, this trip is not only to take over Kagerou Village and the Land of Mountains, but also to plant a nail in the flesh and blood of Takigakure Village.

Once he has annexed these territories, he can use the chaos of war to attract enough people, making his true intentions impossible to conceal...

"No."

Thinking of the increasing number of spies within Dawn City, Yun Chuan shook his head and thought to himself, "The Five Great Nations have been entrenched in the ninja world for too long, and their intelligence networks are not to be underestimated."

"It is estimated that during this process, we will be targeted by the five major powers."

However, by the time they realized it, it was too late.

If we take the Land of Rain as the center and unite all the surrounding small countries into one, and then carve out a piece of land from the Land of Wind, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Fire, we can have a size comparable to the five great nations and be considered a great nation.

In this way, even if they wanted to manage it, they would be powerless to do so.

As long as the five major powers cannot establish trust, their mutual suspicion and wariness will only lead to verbal warnings and threats or commercial competition blockades, which will be of no use to him who is steady and pragmatic.

This plan, named the "Back Garden Project" by Yun Chuan, will be completed within the next five years at the latest.

After that, in short, the sixteen-pointed star.

—"Make alliances with distant states while attacking nearby ones, sow discord and divide, devour and nibble away, advance step by step."

It encompasses the elites of the world, expands its internal strength, builds organizational structures, unifies the internal structure, ensures that everyone performs their duties, and that all actions are subject to command.

Establish the highest goal, formulate a common program, improve the action plan, adjust the economic structure, strive for self-sufficiency, continue to focus on developing the domestic economy and military strength, and take the initiative to strike when the opportunity arises.

"Kumokawa-sama."

Ye placed the beverage bottle on his pectoral muscles, turned to look at Yun Chuan, and said respectfully, "I have a question, but I don't know if I should ask it."

"Um?"

Unexpectedly, this subordinate, who never liked to think, was actually thinking. Yun Chuan pulled himself out of his thoughts and subconsciously raised an eyebrow, jokingly saying, "Since you've already said it, what else is there to ask?"

Ye scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, and then asked in a low voice, "Why don't you turn the people of Yangyan Village into our own kind and directly use 'blood' to forcibly control their lives and deaths, instead of going through all this trouble?"

"Once they become 'ghosts,' their lives and deaths will be entirely in your hands. Crush any dissent or resistance, and the final result should be the same."

Upon hearing this, Yahiko, who was trying to imitate Yoru, paused in his action of placing the beverage bottle on his chest, his pupils trembling slightly as he looked at Yoru, whose face was calm and respectful.

At this moment, he saw through the seemingly ordinary exterior of that short sentence and sensed the cruelty and brutality that came from the depths of his flesh and blood.

He can now relax in the hot springs with Ye here peacefully simply because they are both from Yunchuan.

When facing other people, the nature of the "demon" remains cold and cruel.

As a chill ran through Yahiko's heart, seemingly realizing he had gone too far, Yoru lowered his head even further and explained in a flustered tone, "I'm so sorry, Lord Kumokawa, I was too talkative, I..."

"Because that's too boring."

Before Ye Cheng could finish speaking in a flustered manner, Yun Chuan interrupted him, meeting their gazes with a smile and saying, "That kind of world is too boring."

Idealists believe that mutual understanding between people will naturally eliminate conflicts. For example, Jiraiya, who had great dreams but lacked the power to achieve them, could only place his hopes on the ethereal prophetic child.

Realists consider using overwhelming power to end conflicts. For example, Sasuke wants to use overwhelming power to settle the past, establish a new order, unify the ninja world, and control the entire ninja world by himself.

Between idealists and realists lies Hashirama Senju, who hopes for mutual understanding but doesn't fantasize that it can all be achieved. He believes in each generation doing its own thing, using overwhelming power to end the chaos and establish a new order.

Although his descendants were not as capable as he had hoped, and continued to wage wars after his death, it was still better than the Warring States period when almost all children went to war at the age of five or six, with an average age of less than thirty.

Of course, this applies to large countries, but small countries that became victims suffered even more than during the Warring States period.

When those five war machines collided, only the small country caught in the middle was crushed and its flesh and blood pulverized.

Naruto, with the idealism of an idealist but the pragmatism of a realist, thinks of mutual understanding and forgiveness between people, and of ending the endless hatred between nations.

Even though he knelt on the ground begging the Fourth Raikage not to execute Sasuke, who had kidnapped Killer Bee, and spoke arrogantly in a pleading tone, saying that he did not want Kumogakure and Konoha to fight each other because of Sasuke, he was still rendered speechless by the Fourth Raikage's words, "It's not too late for you to forgive me after I kill Sasuke."

Ultimately, peace was achieved only through overwhelming power; the various hidden dangers in the ninja world were only suppressed but still existed.

Aside from idealists and realists, there are terrorists like Madara and Obito who use Infinite Tsukuyomi to put everyone into an illusion. Whether they will starve to death is not a consideration; once everyone dies, there will be no more conflict.

Nagato, on the other hand, lies somewhere between realism and terrorism. He wants to achieve his own peace by using overwhelming power, but he doesn't want to establish order; rather, he wants to destroy it.

Although he wasn't going to go to such extremes as killing off all of humanity, he planned to kill tens of thousands of people first to create some excitement, to make the world feel pain, and to usher in a brief period of peace. Once the pain subsided, he would kill tens of thousands more, and then peace would return.

Yoru's idea was exactly the same as Nagato's.

To this, Yun Chuan could only say...

"Boring."

Yun Chuan leaned against the stone wall behind him, raised his hand to support the back of his head, and said listlessly, "Just thinking about it makes me feel that such a future is nothing but boring."

Seriously, these guys, what do they think he's doing all this for?

Like other villains, when questioned by "righteous people," he only retorts with, "How do you define evil?"

Then he went on to say something like, "No, what I did was not evil. This is my belief, my goal, what I represent is justice, what I pursue is truly great, and what I strive for is truly important."

But Yun Chuan's desires and malice are simple and pure.

Whether it remains unchanged or stagnant like still water, it will only make Yun Chuan feel extremely bored.

He wasn't after any peace or anything like that, nor was he interested in bringing happiness or well-being, or becoming a savior in anyone's eyes.

He simply found it interesting to be enemies with the five great nations, to shatter the unchanging future, to overturn the chess game between the Sage of Six Paths and the old toad, and to watch a completely new ninja world emerge in his hands.

It's just to please myself.

Unfortunately, no one could see his true nature.

"Boss, you..." Yahiko looked at Yun Chuan, who seemed to have changed, with confusion.

But Yun Chuan ignored it and let his consciousness sink into his mind.

[Triggering an achievement-type quest: [The Darkness of Ninja]]

[Mission Details: Participate in the conflict between [Kagerou Village] and [Takigakure Village] and spread the name of [The Darkness of the Ninja] throughout the ninja world]

[Task Level: Blue]

[Task Deadline: 5 calendar days]

[Completion Reward: 4000 Points]

"oh."

Yun Chuan pulled his consciousness away from his mind, removed the towel from his face, looked up at the dazzling night sky, and chuckled, "It seems our actors are all in place."

It seems Danzo is destined to take the blame.

(End of this chapter)