He was in Konoha, exuding an aura of dominance.

Inhale, exhale.

Onoki felt that if things continued like this, he would have a heart attack.

Damn it, what's wrong with this bastard? His brain works so fast.

He realized with a start that he absolutely couldn't follow his lead!

"And what about you? What have you done for the village? You've even wasted a lot of the village's resources!"

Old Purple looked at him with a strange expression: "I am the Jinchuriki of the Four-Tails, and I can skillfully use the power of the Tailed Beast."

I won't argue with your point of view on anything else, but as I stand here, do you dare say I'm wasting a lot of the village's resources?

If you've got the guts, try pulling out the four tails. If you can do that, I'll lie down on the ground and wait for you to do it.

"Hmph, in any case, my will will not change. Iwagakure must change. I will use my will to shroud Iwagakure and urge everyone to persevere and move forward without slackening!"

Old Zi issued an ultimatum.

Such scenes have frequently played out in the Iwagakure office over the past two years.

The ninjas of Iwagakure noticed that Rōshi had changed completely since he returned from Konoha.

He began to pay close attention to children who were bullied from a young age, especially orphans, and even the descendants of fallen heroes suffered discrimination and bullying in the ninja world.

Looking back at history, he discovered that when Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage and God of Shinobi, was still alive in Konoha, none of the other four great ninja villages dared to start a war.

At that time, the four major ninja villages even formed an alliance in practice, tacitly resisting the pressure from Konoha.

That was the most peaceful time in the ninja world.

Finally, he came to a conclusion.

As long as there is a will above everyone else in Iwagakure, anyone who disagrees will be eliminated or forcibly instilled with that will.

Indiscriminate attacks on everyone.

Once a goal is set, everyone's attention will be drawn to it, and a certain degree of peace can be achieved!

He was weak and could not achieve the terrifying power that the God of Shinobi once possessed, which influenced the entire shinobi world. However, his strength was still among the top in Iwagakure, especially after his transformation and return to Iwagakure from Konoha.

In the entire Hidden Stone Village, only the Tsuchikage can surpass him in terms of raw strength. If they were to fight, even the Tsuchikage would not be able to defeat him.

This is also why Onoki was helpless against him.

I fought it, but not completely.

They could only watch helplessly as he unleashed the Will of Conqueror that he had comprehended in Iwagakure.

As it turned out, his theory was correct. For the past two years, most of the attention in Iwagakure has been focused on him. Those who were keen on bullying others had all been taught a lesson by him to some extent, and all eyes were now on him.

But that's not enough.

He knew that as long as the weaknesses of Iwagakure remained, this situation would be broken when he grew old or someone surpassed him in strength.

So he needs money, lots and lots of money! Money to improve the village!

Therefore, while spreading his will of dominance throughout the village, he also ordered the ninjas gathered around him to conduct a major investigation into the nobles of the Land of Earth.

In a few blinks, they arrived at the steep cliffs behind Iwagakure Village, gazing at the distant green beyond the village.

silence.

In terms of talent and strength, he was far inferior to that child whose talent surpassed everyone in the ninja world. Over the past few years, he had often heard rumors about him.

His greatest strength and age were his advantages, followed by his methods with the nobility.

Everyone was speculating about how much money he had gotten from the nobles.

He was curious too.

So, for the sake of the village, for that future where everyone sees themselves as a goal to surpass, approach, or overthrow and replace, Igogen-kun! I will learn from you little by little!

"Yotsuba, help me."

"You've said too much."

Inside the sealed space, the carefree Four-Tails grinned: "Besides, I'm also very curious about the future you described."

For the past thousand years, the tailed beasts have been free, and any humans who dare to disturb them are crushed into dust and mincemeat.

Only two outliers emerged in the last era; otherwise, the Tailed Beasts' carefree days could have continued.

Later, it was captured by humans and stuffed into the stomach of a so-called human jinchūriki, which made it quite agitated for a while.

Although the situation is still the same, life is much more interesting than before.

Now it understands why some humans enjoy cricket fighting and rhinoceros beetle fighting. These little gadgets are really fun. Who researched them?

Grass Hidden Village.

Sakumo Hatake frowned, his brows furrowing and his facial muscles shrinking like a dehydrated orange.

As a traditional ninja who is not so traditional, it is understandable that Isogen is too bloodthirsty, as long as he does not attack the villagers.

Even if they attack the villagers, as long as no one dies, everything is fine.

They can maintain contact with ninjas from other ninja villages.

To be honest, if this person wasn't Isogen, he would have reason to suspect any other Jonin in the village.

But the fifty strings... can only be described as universally acclaimed.

Even so, he was still worried that Isogen might be deceived, after all, ninjas were combat personnel who specialized in intelligence work.

"No, he's a very nice person. He even gave some of the nobles from my Land of Earth to help me get some local specialties."

Orochimaru's eyes lit up when he heard "local specialties".

Chapter 87 Parent-Child Rice Bowl

We won't go into the details of what the Land of Earth's local specialties are for now.

At present, the handling of the situation in Kusagakure Village is more worthy of further study.

Kusagakure is, after all, a ninja village in the Land of Grass. Although it is weak, it has all the necessary merchants and commoners.

Furthermore, given their location at the border between the two countries, where they are always very agile, it is almost certain that they will head towards Iwagakure after suffering such a great loss.

So, under the watchful eyes of the people in Kusagakure who could make this decision, Ichigen gave the order to the Iwagakure ninja he had trained.

"Give us a heads-up: if anyone from here shows up in the Land of Earth with a rosy complexion, you're doomed!"

The Iwagakure ninja nodded repeatedly.

The speed of his statement puzzled those present.

Even if three out of the four people from Konoha who appear here could instantly kill all of you, you don't need to be so afraid, right?

The young people in our village all dare to rebel!

If the Iwagakure ninja present heard this, they would only awaken their Byakugan.

Two years ago, they would have bravely charged the enemy.

Ignorance breeds fearlessness.

However, this courage had long since been cut short in the past two years when Isogen would occasionally go out and unleash his Conqueror's Haki in a wide area.

They were ninjas from Iwagakure who patrolled the border and had witnessed a mountain that was originally located at the border between the two countries turn into a basin after Isogen left.

You expect us to deal with a monster like that?

Let's discuss how to assassinate the Third Hokage.

Ninjas are human too.

The idea that ninjas are emotionless, cold assassination tools is pure nonsense.

If ninjas were truly that powerful, then the major ninja villages should be like the Hidden Cloud Village, whose name is written as "ninja village" but is read as "gangster village," with very few rogue ninjas.

Even the Gold and Silver Brothers who launched the surprise attack when Konoha and Kumogakure signed the agreement were not essentially traitors. Although they killed the Second Raikage, their motivation was that they thought the Second Raikage was weak.

He betrayed his superiors, but not his village.

Therefore, they didn't see anything wrong with their attitude towards dealing with Yu Ge of the Fifty Strings... their flattery was acceptable, as long as the village didn't directly issue the attack order, their behavior was in accordance with everything.

"Next, I will present a portion of my research findings."

Ishigaki puffed out his chest, like a child showing off his new toy.

Of course, he was just a child.

"I named it Precision Targeted Detonation. As the name suggests, this technique involves targeting a specific group of people to carry out an explosion."

"The principle is also very simple: it is to further locate the relatives of the chakra owner by using the information contained in the chakra."

"You can also call it by another name: Oyako no Rice Bowl!"

Upon hearing the explosion, everyone was uninterested and did not react.

Explosions, detonating tags—ninjas are all too familiar with those.

They heard that the information contained within the chakra was used to pinpoint relatives.

Everyone stared wide-eyed.

No, what did you say?

Before disbelief and fear could fully develop, the people of Kusagakure were mostly still confused.

However, the next second, they came to their senses.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Like popping the cork of a wine bottle, rhythmic popping sounds echoed throughout Kusagakure.

They were in the streets, rooms, basements, lawns, forests, rivers... everywhere people lived in Kusagakure.