Naruto: I am Ninja World Ghost Story, who are you?

He never expected that refusing the Hokage's 'kind help' a while ago would bring him such retribution so quickly.

The man in black, his gaze unwavering, stepped forward and said coldly, "The country cannot tolerate further turmoil. Those who intend to resist, die!"

Three soft thuds rang out, and the man in black left expressionlessly, leaving behind three corpses inside the house.

It wasn't until the next morning, when the housekeeper knocked on the door, that they found it wide open and filled with a strong smell of blood.

"what--"

Screams echoed throughout the mansion, and countless guards rushed in, only to find Morimura Shun, one of the candidates for daimyo, dead. They were all ashen-faced.

"It's over."

Onoki also found a suitable candidate, decisively dispatched ninjas to assassinate the former daimyo of the Land of Earth, and found other competitors to 'persuade'.

The same applies to Kirigakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure.

Soon, less than half a month after the Five Shadows Summit ended, the five great powers completely elected new Daimyo in just one week.

Although each daimyo was happy, they were actually more wary of the ninja's strength.

They've been fighting as ordinary people for so long, and they have quite a few ninjas and samurai under their command.

However, the Ninja Village only took a few days to completely select these five daimyo.

Simply appalling!

However, they dared not disobey the demands made by the five great ninja villages, and handed over various supplies to support the development of the five great ninja villages. They also agreed to the joint development plan of the five great nations.

After all, economic development is entirely beneficial to the five major countries.

Just as the ninja world was entering a period of stability and preparing to develop its economy, Konoha Village began to take action again.

"Now that the situation has stabilized, let's set off!"

Kakashi has already made plans and will send a team to Orochimaru's Otogakure to rescue Sasuke!

This matter was communicated to the other four countries in advance to avoid any misunderstandings.

Orochimaru learned of this through spies left behind in the village and couldn't help but grin, saying, "Obito, we need to retreat."

Uchiha Obito: "?"

The main reason he hasn't taken any action lately is that Nagato is no longer cooperating with him, and the Three-Tails among the Tailed Beasts hasn't been revived yet, so there's no point in capturing the Tailed Beasts now.

But if he remembered correctly, Orochimaru had assured him not long ago that Konoha wouldn't lay a hand on him...

"What are you all standing there for? This time the village is serious! Tsunade is here too." Orochimaru never imagined he would be so afraid of Tsunade one day.

Upon hearing that it was Tsunade, who possessed the power of the Sage of Six Paths, who was in charge, Obito stopped lingering and hurriedly packed his bags with Orochimaru, preparing to flee.

His gaze fell on the pile of experimental subjects being held in the base, and he couldn't help but ask, "What about these people?"

Upon hearing this, Orochimaru revealed his ruthless nature, "Leave it for those people as a gift."

Orochimaru then spoke of his plan: he intended to find an island beyond the ocean to live on.

Black Zetsu and White Zetsu exchanged a glance, then gathered most of the remaining usable White Zetsu clones and Orochimaru's luggage, placing them into Obito's alternate dimension.

Later, Orochimaru found Itachi and Sasuke. Itachi was delighted to hear the news, as the village was a better option than being threatened by both Orochimaru and Obito here.

However, Orochimaru would never let Sasuke go. He captured Sasuke and threatened Itachi to go overseas with him.

A cautious person like him naturally wouldn't believe that the village would really let him go.

After all, the fact that the wanted poster reappeared in the gold exchange was enough to show that the village was not as pedantic as he had imagined.

Although it perfectly aligned with his wishes, he never imagined that such a day would actually come.

Orochimaru, unable to notify everyone in time, looked regretfully at a base belonging to the Hidden Sound Village and left behind a white snake, intending to pass on a message to someone he had once regarded as a vessel for the Hidden Sound Village.

And he will become the leader of the deserters from Otogakure!

In this way, Konoha cannot easily take action against Otogakure, otherwise it would be seen as a move to start a war, which would provoke the ninja world that has just returned to peace.

It was already evening when Honglian received the letter. She looked at the contents of the letter in disbelief and couldn't help but run towards the village.

The bull stayed by her side, protecting her.

Back in the village, after some questioning, Honglian finally understood that she had been abandoned...

The next afternoon.

The Konoha ninja team arrived, and Tsunade stood in the outer area of ​​Otogakure. The super strong aura generated by the combination of her 'Yang Power' and her Otsutsuki physique converged and propelled her forward.

In an instant, all the ninjas in the Hidden Sound Village felt that a very terrifying figure had appeared outside.

Suppressing her fear and unease, Guren led the Otogakure ninja forward: "Fellow Konoha ninja, why did you bring your troops to my Otogakure without informing us? Do you intend to start a war?!"

She repeated Orochimaru's words almost verbatim.

"I'm asking you, where's Orochimaru?" Tsunade's tone was somewhat impatient when she saw that the ninja who came out was a woman she had never seen before.

She used her abilities directly to begin sensing the situation within the village.

Only then did they realize that there was no chakra belonging to Orochimaru in the village.

The Konoha team not only included Tsunade, but also Tobirama Senju, Kurenai Yuhi, Izumi Uchiha, Rei Uchiha, and others, as well as Kabuto Yakushi, whom Guren didn't want to see—the guy who betrayed Orochimaru.

In reality, Orochimaru made him stay in Konoha and assured him that nothing would happen to him, which is why Kabuto Yakushi stayed.

Honglian feigned composure and shook her head slightly: "I don't know."

Then she announced something else.

"Orochimaru has not been the leader of Otogakure since yesterday; he is now a traitor who betrayed Otogakure."

"What?!" Tsunade was shocked that this guy had such a keen sense of smell. He knew about something that was only discussed and decided yesterday at noon?!

She turned her head incredulously, scanning the group of ninjas, but after looking for a while, she couldn't believe anyone was Orochimaru's spy...

Wait a minute!

Tobirama Senju and Tsunade had the same thought, and their gazes turned to Kabuto Yakushi.

"It's you?"

boom!

Tobirama Senju unleashed a powerful aura formed from his vast chakra, pressing down on Kabuto Yakushi.

"Why! Why did you betray Konoha! Why did you tip off Orochimaru?!"

The only way to learn the news so quickly is through psychic abilities.

Now that the beings in the spirit world no longer keep in touch and have returned to their respective areas of life, there shouldn't be any way for them to send messages anymore!

So there's only one point.

That's Kabuto Yakushi, who also signed the Ryuchi Cave contract!

Since Tobirama Senju doesn't believe Anko would do such a thing, the only possibility is Kabuto Yakushi!

A glint of white light flashed in Kabuto's eyes as he steadied Sasuke, saying, "Sasuke might be better off with Orochimaru."

"What nonsense are you spouting! Orochimaru only took Sasuke away because of his body, not to train him!" Tsunade raised her fist, wishing she could punch Kabuto Yakushi to death, her tone filled with rage.

"But have you forgotten what happened back then?" A wise glint flashed behind Yakushi Kabuto's glasses.

"Instance [Six], Fourth Battle".

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Izumi and Uchiha Rei shuddered, as if recalling some unpleasant memories.

Tobirama Senju recalled the events based on the information he had recorded at the time.

In an instant, he seemed to understand what Kabuto Yakushi meant, and calmly said to Tsunade, "Let's go and find the base hidden in Otogakure to see if there's anything Orochimaru left behind."

Honglian panicked upon hearing this: "You can't..."

"Hmm?" Tobirama Senju turned around, a flash of red light appearing, a complex shape unique to the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Honglian stopped moving, secretly thinking how fortunate she was to have brought the important members and data back to the village yesterday as Orochimaru had instructed, otherwise everything would have been lost.

"let's go."

Under Tobirama Senju's command, the Konoha troops departed one by one, and Guren finally caught her breath, turning her gaze to the distance.

That's the direction from which you can see the sea only after passing through the Land of Waterfalls or the Land of Earth.

Afterwards, the group visited various bases belonging to Orochimaru and witnessed countless inhuman and horribly tortured experimental subjects.

These experimental subjects launched an attack as soon as they saw Tsunade and the others.

Even if the test subjects possess Jonin-level skills, without the control of their own consciousness, they are just a bunch of mindless fighting minions.

Moreover, in the face of absolute power, even those with independent consciousness are nothing but minions.

Therefore, the group that spent more than ten minutes "helping" Orochimaru clean up the base had all sorts of expressions on their faces.

“Only some unimportant experimental data was left at this base. It seems Orochimaru was well prepared.” Tobirama Senju walked over with a document in hand. The space around him was filled with strangely shaped corpses.

"It's all because of Kabuto! Why did you let him go in the first place?!" Uchiha Rei said indignantly.

Except for Tobirama Senju, everyone involuntarily began to nod.

After all, not many people pay attention to the content of dungeons they've already cleared.

"It's because Orochimaru might die at Sasuke's hands, and Itachi is also in Orochimaru's hands. Orochimaru will definitely try every means to cultivate Sasuke, so that the moment he develops the Mangekyou Sharingan, he can take over his body, and then take Itachi's eyes in one fell swoop, thus achieving eternity."

Tobirama Senju's voice suddenly broke through the murmurs of the crowd, and Tsunade exclaimed in disbelief, "Itachi would agree?"

Tobirama Senju shook his head: "Itachi definitely won't agree, but he must have some reason to agree."

"Furthermore, news came from Nagato that Obito, Zetsu, and a man named Kisame have all left the organization. So it's quite possible that they joined forces and escaped together."

Kurenai Yuhi: "Why do you say that?"

Tobirama Senju glanced at Kurenai, walked forward, came to a corpse, squatted down, picked up the body and showed it to her: "Look at this body, doesn't it look a bit like Kisame's portrait?"

The man with half a shark face had blood dripping from his mouth and his body was charred black. He was burned alive by Kurenai Yuhi using the Flame-Flame Fruit.

Tsunade stroked her chin: "I see. So, Obito and Orochimaru collaborated on experimental subjects?"

“Yes!” Tobirama Senju responded and continued with the others to the next base to see if there were any clues about Orochimaru.

They had given up hope of pursuing them.

At the port of the Land of Waterfall, a small steamer that could hold a dozen people appeared. Orochimaru stood in it, while the other four Sound Ninja were steering the ship. Sasuke sat on the deck with a complicated expression. Itachi glanced forlornly at the continent that was gradually leaving, and then looked at Sasuke from time to time. Kisame stood next to Itachi, his right hand exposed and a little pale. Obito and Black Zetsu were discussing their future plans.

Just as the group was preparing to search for a suitable continent to live on at the other end of the ninja world, the world barrier of the ninja world involuntarily opened a crack, and terrifying waterspouts and dark clouds of thunder formed in the surrounding seas...

Chapter 125 Discuss? No, I'm just informing you.

Amazon Lily, having lost the protection of Empress Hancock, has become an ordinary pirate nation.

Two years ago, the Celestial Dragons' promise has kept the Navy inactive until now, and the death of 'Mamaya Michael Saint' has plunged the Navy into an investigation.

Not only the Navy, but also the CIPHER POL of the World Government, have successively sent people to Wano Country to conduct covert investigations.

With Kaido's explicit statement and the absence of any so-called righteous pirate crew or Empress Hancock within the country, further conflict and war with Wano Country were avoided.

Meanwhile, over the past two years, members of the Navy have been coming to Amazon Lily from time to time to question Empress Hancock about her return.

The fact that Amazon Lily is suspected of killing a Celestial Dragon is one of the reasons why it has remained intact to this day.

Today, in the calm zone surrounding Amazon Lily, naval ships are once again sailing in from the sea.

A vice admiral with a punk-style hairstyle, deep red hair, and wearing a Navy Headquarters cloak stood on the deck.

He had his usual katana hanging at his waist and was looking at Amazon Lily not far ahead.

"Report! Vice Admiral Momonga! We're approaching Amazon Lily."

"Have any suspicious individuals boarded the boats bound for Snake Island recently?"

Upon hearing this, the naval member immediately picked up another Den Den Mushi and began to examine the surveillance Mushi, which was placed inside the Kuja Pirates' ship and was equipped with video recording capabilities, as agreed (not to attack Kuja Island).

"Some are lieutenant generals!"

The flying squirrel's serious expression softened slightly. He took a deep breath, thinking that he might have brought too few people today. "It's Empress Hancock, isn't it?"

"No. It's a black-haired...man?" The navy member looked at the black-haired figure playing on the Den Den Mushi with a puzzled expression. The other party seemed to have noticed the Den Den Mushi's surveillance function but didn't seem to care about its appearance.

“A man? That’s impossible.” The flying squirrel knew very well that Amazon Lily was against the presence of men, but seeing that they were about to reach Amazon Lily, he took a deep breath: “We’ll find out by asking around later.”

As the naval warships slowly approached the port of Amazon Lily, many members of the Kuja Pirates picked up their weapons and stood ready for battle.