I am the most popular character in Naruto!

Minato felt a mix of emotions upon hearing Hiruzen Sarutobi's words. He understood that Hiruzen was right, but he was unwilling to accept that he was right.

"I truly hope that one day in the future, someone will create a peaceful world, a world without such conflict..."

Minato sighed. He was also a Kage, and although he felt some regret about the annihilation of the Uchiha clan, he had accepted the current situation.

"Will do."

Hiruzen Sarutobi stared intently at Chiaki, who stood to the side gazing at the full moon. "With Chiaki here, I believe she can create such a world."

"Are we placing too much hope on Qianqiu?"

Minato said helplessly, "I don't think Chiaki has the ability to create a peaceful world. I believe in Chiaki's strength, but her personality..."

Seemingly having overheard their conversation, Chiaki turned around and stared at Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze with her beautiful eyes.

The two men blushed. They had been overheard gossiping behind their backs, and even though they were both Shadow-level experts, they felt embarrassed.

"You want a peaceful world?"

Qianqiu slowly walked towards the two of them and asked them in a deep voice.

Hiruzen Sarutobi coughed and nudged Minato Namikaze.

Minato awkwardly stepped forward and, forcing a smile, said to Chiaki, "Yes, we believe you are the most likely candidate to create a peaceful world."

"Do not."

Qianqiu shook his head, a hint of sadness in his eyes, and said, "I cannot create a peaceful world."

"why?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi was starting to lose his balance and asked Chiaki, "You clearly possess strength far surpassing most people, and a heart that yearns for peace..."

"If that were all there was to it, Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju would have succeeded long ago."

Chiaki pursed her lips and said, "Back then, their strength was already overwhelming. If the two of them joined forces, I think sweeping across the entire ninja world wouldn't be a problem, right?"

The Susanoo-clad Buddha, the two of them destroying four countries is no joke.

Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded awkwardly. In fact, he was also a little confused. With the abilities of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, Konoha could have become the strongest in the world long ago. He really didn't know what the First Hokage was thinking.

Oh……

Guilty sin.

We must not make unwarranted comments about the achievements of our ancestors.

"But why don't they do it?"

Minato looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with surprise. He didn't have a clear understanding of the relative strength of the two old men, only knowing that Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha were both Kage-level.

The only person Minato had encountered before was Madara Uchiha in his old age, and he didn't feel that Madara was that powerful.

"Because it's meaningless."

Qianqiu stated the answer directly, "It makes no sense."

"They can sweep across the ninja world and gain a brief period of peace."

"and then?"

“Those who have ambition will still have ambition, and the ninjas who have been wiped out will rise from the ashes and once again overturn the ninja world.”

"Pointless."

Chiaki's gaze fell on Danzo, who was standing to the side. Obito had left because of Zetsu's power, and both Zetsu and Obito had paid a heavy price.

As they were leaving, Zetsu casually captured Itachi Uchiha, intending to train him as Obito's successor in the Akatsuki organization during his recovery period.

Poor Danzo was simply left standing there.

"Like him?"

Minato glanced at Danzo with disgust, then said mercilessly to Hiruzen Sarutobi, "Third Hokage, I will not spare Shimura Danzo. According to you, he also threatens the safety of Konoha."

"I see."

Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Danzo a complicated look, and finally closed his eyes with regret.

"Qianqiu, then tell me, how exactly can we create a peaceful world?"

After casually deciding Danzo's fate, Minato returned to the previous topic.

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Chiaki with the same curiosity, but Chiaki shook his head.

"I do not know."

"If it were me, that would probably be the only way I could think of..."

Like in some fan fiction, he created a huge enemy, just like Madara Uchiha, to force all the ninjas in the ninja world to unite and resolve their inner conflicts.

In reality, such behavior is ineffective; hostile ninjas will still be hostile, and the underlying issues will remain unresolved.

"Unless... there truly is a prophetic child in this world who can use genuine emotions to influence others..."

Chiaki's gaze fell on Minato, and she chuckled as she spoke.

"Did I really treat this place as a virtual world?"

Is this really realistic?

Chapter 572 On the Right Track

The Uchiha clan was wiped out, and the powerful clans of Konoha fell.

This major event became the biggest hot topic in Konoha Village, and it can be said that it firmly held the top spot on the trending searches for almost a year.

As the only surviving member of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Sasuke had a difficult year.

He declined Chiaki's offer, gave up living in the Senju family mansion, and chose to stay alone in the Uchiha clan's territory.

Out of humanitarian spirit, or perhaps out of a sense of indebtedness, Hiruzen Sarutobi took good care of Sasuke Uchiha, providing him with a large sum of money to ensure that Sasuke was at least well-off and could still maintain the dignity of a Konoha clan.

Within the Uchiha clan's compound, ninjas would also be assigned to clean up, carrying out cleaning duties for the public areas.

Fortunately, the ninjas were a group of people who valued completing the mission. They didn't deliberately steal cards and left the troublesome place after diligently finishing their cleaning work. Otherwise, with Sasuke's abilities alone, he would never have been able to protect the Uchiha clan's territory.

Oh, right.

As for why it was Hiruzen Sarutobi who provided the compensation, it was because after the massacre of the Uchiha clan that day, Minato decisively killed Danzo Shimura, which led to the elders uniting to retaliate.

With her fiery temper, Little Chili wanted nothing more than to drag Nine-Tailed Fox out and tear apart all those self-righteous elders, so they could no longer bully her husband.

On the surface, however, the Nine-Tails within Kushina had been transferred to Naruto, so she was unable to use the Nine-Tails' power and could only use her half-baked Jonin strength to fight.

It was obvious that with her Jonin strength alone, she was no match for those elders, and the matter could only be dropped after Minato's persuasion.

As the matter continued to escalate, it even reached the daimyo of the Land of Fire.

The daimyo was furious and demanded that the Hokage thoroughly investigate the matter.

Minato said, "Screw it, let whoever wants to do it, I'm not doing it anymore."

Ok……

That's definitely not the original quote, but that's the gist of it.

Minato said he couldn't accept it if the Daimyo blamed him for this.

Minato then resigned, expressing his desire to follow in the footsteps of his mentor Jiraiya and search for the legendary prophesied child.

After all, it wasn't just Jiraiya who said that; Chiaki also said something similar.

In other words, the Child of Prophecy must exist, and as long as this Child of Prophecy is found, there is a possibility and hope to achieve the ideal peaceful world.

At the same time, Minato realized that he was not strong enough, and that Obito's invasion of the ninja village led to the annihilation of the Uchiha clan. He felt he was to blame, so he decided to deal with him as well.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was speechless. He had high hopes for Minato, but given the current situation, Minato's mentality had collapsed, so he couldn't ask him to do anything more.

Moreover, he already felt indebted to Minato, so it would be a good thing for Minato to improve his strength and adjust his mindset before returning.

Therefore, news spread quickly that the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was away improving his strength, while the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, was in charge of domestic affairs. Later, rumors circulated that the Goddess of Life, Chiaki Senju, had gone into seclusion and was suspected of having perished.

In any case, Konoha's position as the leading power in the ninja world began to become precarious.

These rumors spread far and wide; even Orochimaru, who founded the Sound Village in the Land of Grass, personally came to Konoha to inquire about Chiaki's situation.

However, it was obvious that Chiaki was perfectly fine, and all of this was just a smokescreen thrown by someone with ulterior motives to reduce Konoha's influence. Orochimaru came and went in a hurry, and after knowing that Chiaki was alright, he put his mind at ease and focused on developing his Otogakure.

At the same time, he casually accepted Hongdou, who occasionally visited Qianqiu, as his disciple and gave her a scroll to cultivate diligently.

Anyway, since Orochimaru knows it, Chiaki will probably know it too, so he simply entrusted Anko to Chiaki's care.

Upon learning that Anko had been fostered by Chiaki, the Mitarai clan immediately informed the Yuhi clan, who quickly used Anko's connections to send Kurenai over as well.

As for illusion magic, Chiaki isn't very good at it, but Otohime is!

As the princess of the Land of Whirlpools, and skilled in sealing techniques, she could easily master mere illusion techniques by analogy.

So after the arrival of red beans and red, the Thousand Hands Old House became lively.

Always adept at changing one's stance according to the wind, Hyuga Hiashi immediately shamelessly shoved Hyuga Neji and Hyuga Hinata in. If Hyuga Hanabi hadn't been so young, he probably would have brought his sister-in-law in as well.

The heads of other families naturally followed suit. Since the Ino-Shika-Cho trio had a good relationship with Chiaki, and Chiaki didn't object, they simply sent all their children over.

Later, for some reason, Chiaki's place inexplicably became a training ground for geniuses. It seemed that only geniuses were qualified to stay at the Senju family mansion and receive Chiaki's guidance.

Based on Qianqiu's estimation, it must have been the decision of the clan leaders outside, to prevent ordinary people from lowering the standards of their children.

Hmph, such prejudice.

Fortunately, Chiaki has the cooperation of Otohime and Mirai, which allows her to teach so many geniuses. Otherwise, this reputation would probably be ruined.

Whether it's ninjutsu or taijutsu, genjutsu or medical ninjutsu, Qianqiu teaches whatever the children want to learn.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was very pleased with this. To him, these children, these geniuses, were the hope for Konoha's future, the seeds for the future growth of the great tree that is Konoha.

The only thing that troubled him was that one of the seeds seemed a little off...

Oh, not just one, but two.

One of them was named Naruto Uzumaki. He should have been called Naruto Namikaze, but Chili Pepper presented the proposition that the Uzumaki clan's bloodline needed a successor, a proposition that Minato could not refuse. She also promised Minato that she would have another daughter with the surname Namikaze, so Minato simply accepted it.

Naruto is such a troublemaker. After Minato took Kushina away from Konoha to travel the world, he became even more lawless.

The worst part is that Qianqiu doesn't care about him and thinks that this is the best state for him.