In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 264 Daimyo
Uchiha Madara is already very old.

At the beginning, Uchiha Madara got the opportunity to open the Rinnegan with the help of a piece of flesh of Hashirama Senju, but it also requires a huge amount of chakra to carry and nurture the Rinnegan.

If there is not enough chakra, then what is sucked away is the vitality.

This is also the reason why Madara transplanted the Rinnegan into Nagato.

Nagato, who possesses both Uzumaki and Senju bloodlines, has the chakra and vitality to carry the Rinnegan for a long time. Even so, Nagato was almost sucked dry by the Rinnegan and the Outer Path Demon Statue.

If Madara had not transplanted the Rinnegan to Nagato, at his age, he would not have been able to bear the loss of so much vitality.

Most of the Uchiha's strength lies in their eyes, and the rest is in fire escape, physical skills, etc.

Now that Madara has lost his original eyes, he can only temporarily use a pair of three-magatama to make up for it. His other means of combat have also declined due to his aging.

No matter how proud Uchiha Madara was, when he was young, he had to rely on White Zetsu to temporarily provide him with some vitality to strengthen him.

But for Madara, these are enough to deal with the Three-Tails.

Because he is Uchiha Madara.

Even without the Mangekyō Sharingan, the huge half-body Susanoo still emerged with Madara's chakra.

With a swing of the sword, the rivers and seas turned upside down, and the tailed beasts roared.

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Sand Village, Kazekage Building.

The Third Kazekage started work early, reviewing documents and looking through the intelligence coming from the capital of the Kingdom of Wind.

The old daimyo of the Wind Country passed away, and a new daimyo took over.

The previous daimyo spent his days in debauchery and ignored state affairs. Even though the Wind Country had some foundation, it led to the near collapse of the country's finances. During his tenure, he cut military spending on the Sand Village twice.

The current daimyo seemed to be causing some headaches for the Third Kazekage.

Because in the process of rising to power, this person made a lot of promises to those aristocratic forces in the country in order to win over those people.

By then, I'm afraid we will have to feed these nobles first before we can get the military funds for the Sand Village.

Fortunately, the resources that the Sand Village plundered from the Ninja World War two years ago have not been consumed yet, and the canal, new puppetry production line and chakra energy vehicle created by Shimizu have also greatly changed the financial situation of the Sand Village and brought huge profits.

The Third Kazekage glanced at last year's annual financial report summary that had just been annotated next to him.

Now the village's economic production capacity has entered a positive cycle. Even without the military funding supported by the daimyo, the Sand Village can still maintain its position.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this that the daimyo and those nobles felt that they had lost control of the Sand Village, so they took such actions in response.

Thinking of this, the Third Kazekage remembered those Wind Country nobles who wanted to intervene in the interests after the canal was built.

The Third Kazekage couldn't help but feel a headache.

Forget it, I'll call Chiyo and Ebizo to discuss it later, and call Shimizu over as well.

Luo Sha is not smart enough, but Qing Shui has a unique vision and way of thinking.

Although this kid is talented, he is still young, and it is time for him to see more of the dangers of politics.

But since Qingshui was called, Luosha must be called as well.

Although the Third Kazekage recognizes Shimizu's abilities more and prefers Shimizu to be his successor, it does not mean that Rasa is out.

He is still one of the candidates for Kazekage.

The Third Kazekage will not show favoritism. He will give you what you deserve. Whether you can win over him depends on your own abilities.

"Go and invite Elder Chiyo and Elder Ebizo, and then call Shimizu and Rasa over as well." The Third Kazekage knocked the bell on the desk and called an Anbu over and said.

Shimizu was the first to arrive, as he happened to be coming to the Kazekage Building to report on the matter of the bloodline puppet.

He even ran into the Anbu as soon as they walked out of the door.

"Oh? You came so quickly, is there something going on?"

The Third Kazekage was a little surprised that Shimizu arrived so quickly, and he guessed that it was a coincidence.

"Scorpion has come up with something incredible."

Shimizu handed the scroll that Sasori gave him yesterday to the Third Kazekage.

"This is……"

"A new method of creating human puppets."

Qingshui paused and said:
"A human puppet that can inherit the corpse's abilities before death, including the bloodline limit."

The Third Kazekage looked a little surprised, but far from shocked.

It was because Qingshui had brought him so many surprises in the past one or two years.

Although I'm not numb to it, I've become resistant to this kind of thing.

"So you're here to ask for further research and development again?"

The Third Kazekage asked while quickly calculating in his mind how much money would be appropriate.

This technology, like Qingshui’s past projects, has great prospects and we would have to invest in it.

"This doesn't require much money. Scorpion's experiments are almost complete. We just need to capture a few bloodline ninjas to do some experiments."

The Third Kazekage paused.

This is worse than asking for money.

Which ninja village would not keep a close eye on its own bloodline?

"After the meeting starts, ask your teacher Ebizo about this matter. It would be easier to handle if there are any bloodlines outside the five major ninja villages. The village is in a period of rapid development now. Before the dividends of the last war are digested, it is better not to conflict with other major ninja villages."

The Third Kazekage thought for a moment and said to Qingshui.

Ebizo's position in the Sand Village is similar to that of Danzo in Konoha, and he is responsible for intelligence work. The difference is that he does not have to take the blame for the Kage, nor does he have an entire department as his own private armed force like Danzo. The level of his absolute power is not high enough to threaten the position of the Kage.

Not long after Shimizu and the Third Kazekage finished discussing these things, Rasa, Ebizo, and Chiyo arrived at the Kazekage's office.

After everyone arrived, Luo Sha took a few more glances at Qingshui.

He has been digging for gold in the mine recently and has rarely appeared in the village, but he has been paying attention to various information about the Sand Village.

Especially the news about Qingshui.

This younger generation, who is four or five years younger than him, has emerged as a rising star in the past few years. Since joining the puppet army, he has grown rapidly. He was accepted as a disciple by Chiyo and quickly became the youngest jonin in the history of the Sand Village.

Especially in the two years after the end of the war, starting with the construction of the canal, his presence was indispensable to every major event in the village, and he often appeared in these events as the most indispensable person.

Gradually, Luo Sha came to regard Shimizu as his biggest rival in the future fight for the position of Kazekage.

But that is only the future.

In Luo Sha's opinion at that time, given Shimizu's age, no matter how outstanding his abilities were, due to the limited training time, his strength would be far from being able to become a Kage.

(End of this chapter)