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Chapter 168: Convincing Tsunade, the assessment begins! (Subscribe)

Research base.

When Xingxia Xiu mentioned his meeting with Danzo today, Tsunade frowned immediately after hearing it.

"Danzo's actions will inevitably trigger a new round of war."

"Even if we collect the tailed beasts in secret, they will be exposed sooner or later, and then the village will be besieged."

"Collecting the tailed beasts is not a wrong idea in itself," said Xingxia Xiudao.

"War will break out sooner or later."

"Benefits, hatred..."

Tsunade frowned in thought.

Xing Xiaxiu said quietly, "Any ambitious person will not be content with the status quo."

"As the leader of the village, he not only represents his own will, but also the collective will, or the collective interests."

"Sometimes, individual will represents the collective will, but more often, the collective will suppresses individual will. Even if the leader doesn't want to, the collective will will drive him to strive for greater benefits and go to war."

"To put it simply, if a village wants to grow, it must expand outward. And the growth of a village doesn't depend on the individual will of the village leader, but on the entire village. It depends on each ninja clan and each ninja. They want to grow their clan and earn money... If the leader is mediocre, then he will soon be abandoned by the village. This is the conflict between individual will and collective will."

Tsunade nodded slowly, understanding what Xingxia Xiu said and agreeing with his opinion.

Xingxia Xiu continued: "When the first generation distributed the tailed beasts, it balanced the strength of the major ninja villages. In addition to its own powerful strength, it actually matched the interests of the major ninja clans."

"Having experienced the conflicts of the Warring States Period, they also need a peaceful time to recuperate and grow stronger within the new system."

"So, even though Uchiha Madara and the Second Daemon opposed this practice, it was eventually implemented."

Tsunade said solemnly, "But with the passing of my grandfather, the balance was broken. At the same time, the strength of the major ninja villages grew, and their ambitions grew. They all wanted to expand, and thus the First Ninja World War occurred."

Xingxia Xiu nodded: "That's right."

Tsunade then asked, "So, is it possible to prevent war by collecting the tailed beasts?"

Xing Xiaxiu said: "Impossible."

"War will come sooner or later, but the period of peace may be longer."

"And even if the entire ninja world is unified, war will not be eliminated."

"Human nature means that fighting will never go away, it will only change in form."

Tsunade frowned upon hearing this.

Xingxia Xiu smiled and reached out to smooth it out: "Tsunade, we can't expect to do things in one go."

"Every generation has its own mission. We cannot expect to accomplish everything. We must trust those who come after us!"

Tsunade looked up at Xingxiaxiu and said, "So what should we do?"

Xingxia Xiu and Tsunade looked at each other affectionately: "Let's set a small goal first, to end the war, at least to ensure that there is no war while we are alive, and not to let our descendants step onto the battlefield before they grow up."

Tsunade blushed when she heard that, but then nodded heavily: "Okay!"

"Where do we start?"

Xingxia Xiu said: "It started from your competition for the position of Hokage, from the collection of tailed beasts, and from my mastery of the roots."

"But there's no rush now."

"We'll slowly set up."

"Ok!"

……

7 month 8 day.

The first round of the Chunin Examination officially begins.

Many Genin came to the ninja school which served as the examination venue and entered the classroom.

The situation in the classroom is captured by the camera and then transmitted to the screen on the other side.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, Hoshita Hide, Tsunade and others are all here.

"I heard that these three children from Rain Village were also taught by you."

Seeing Nagato and the other two, Sarutobi Hiruzen said.

Xingxia Xiu nodded: "Yes, Sandaime."

"Nagato's child should also have the blood of the Uzumaki clan, and is born with six nature changes."

This startled Sarutobi Hiruzen slightly, but he immediately smiled and said, "It looks like the next test will be very exciting."

In the examination room, Minato Namikaze entered one after another and found a seat to sit down.

In addition to them, there are actually quite a few people that Xingxiaxiu is familiar with.

For example, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza.

These people are only one or two years older than Minato, so they can be said to be of the same age.

In addition, there is Mikoto, the mother of the future Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke.

She is only one or two years older than Minato Namikaze.

With all the candidates in place, the examiners appeared. The first written exam was presided over by Akabane Nozomi, who had been recruited by Hoshita Hide to become a Root agent, codenamed Shadow.

Akabane Nozomi looked unremarkable. After handing out the test papers, he glanced at the many Genin taking the test and said calmly, "Exam rules: no noise, no leaving your seat until the papers are handed in."

"let's start!"

Many candidates began to disperse with their heads down, and a rustling sound echoed in the classroom.

The difficulty of the test paper is actually not that great. Generally speaking, in Konoha, as long as you listen carefully in class, you will basically have no problem passing.

For example, the examinations on bloodline limits and bloodline elimination are just conceptual ones.

The slightly more difficult ones are probably the questions about mathematical calculations.

For example, the calculation of the shuriken throwing angle.

For example, some calculations for trap placement.

Many people can use shuriken very well, but they may not be able to calculate.

Some people have no problem setting traps, but when it comes to calculations, they are blind.

Of course, these problems are not difficult for Minato Namikaze, a top student.

As for everyone else.

The Aburame clan released bugs to steal the answers, and Minato Namikaze turned a blind eye.

The white eyes can see through directly.

Some people also use the art of clones and transformation to make their clones turn into various small animals to peek at other people's answers.

Anyway, the examiner only said that we couldn't make noise or leave our seats, but he didn't say that we couldn't use ninjutsu to peek at others.

For a moment, the Genin in the examination room showed off their skills.

All this happened under the watchful eyes of Xing Xiaxiu and others.

But this is within the rules.

Ninjas don't have so many worldly constraints.

Within the rules, all means can be used.

This is also the hidden test point of the first exam.

If you can't qualify under such circumstances, then being eliminated may be a good thing.

It means you are not suitable to be a ninja.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and when the time was up, Akabane Nozomi announced, "Stop writing!"

Everyone stopped writing immediately.

"very good."

"You all passed!"

Akabane Nozomi's words stunned everyone.

Hello, the test papers haven’t been corrected yet!
Minato Namikaze seemed to be thinking about something, and realized that the score on the paper was not the key point of this assessment.

Akabane Nozomi didn't say much and turned and left.

Then another person walked into the classroom.

"I'm the examiner for the second round, Mimura Yemaki."

Meicun Yejuan said calmly: "The next second match is a group practice."

"Pay attention, you must follow me to the examination room later."

"If you don't arrive within the specified time, you will be disqualified from the second round!"

"You have five minutes!"

"action!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Meicun Yejuan had disappeared from the spot.

"Kushina, Shinnosuke!"

Namikaze Minato shouted softly and took the lead in using the body-flickering technique to catch up.

Uzumaki Kushina and Sarutobi Shinnosuke also followed.

Not only them, but other Genin also used instant body movement techniques to catch up.

However, the Genin who participated in the assessment soon discovered that Meimura Yeju was too fast and they could not catch up at all. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared.

"Find the traces he left behind!"

Someone drank lightly.

"Damn it, he used a clone!"

"Which side?"

Obviously, the second round of assessment started as soon as we left the house.

(End of this chapter)