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Chapter 114 The Daimyo of the Land of Wind and Illusion

The capital of the Land of Winds.

As a desert kingdom, the capital of the Wind Kingdom, built on the largest oasis, shows no signs of wind and sand.

The city is surrounded by clear streams left by snow-capped mountains, and many desert plants grow in the city. On the outskirts of the city are lush green grasslands and forests, as well as endless wheat fields.

At first glance, it's hard to imagine that this is a country located in a desert region.

However, this is quite normal. As one of the five great nations, the Land of Wind cannot possibly have all of its territory as desert. Otherwise, it would not be able to support the country's status as a major power in the ninja world.

Even a place like Egypt has such fertile lands along the banks of the Nile, and the Land of Winds naturally also possesses a portion of fertile lands that support the operation of the entire country.

The so-called desert regions, apart from a few oases, can only exist as mineral resource areas and strategic depth for the country.

"No wonder the relationship between Sunagakure and the Land of Wind has never been good. I heard that Sunagakure was originally a group of ninjas gathered in the desert, while the main citizens of the Land of Wind actually lived near the capital."

"The inhabitants of the entire desert probably make up less than 20% of the population of the Wind Kingdom."

Looking at the scene before him, Uchiha Touyu couldn't help but feel a little emotional. The residents living near the resource-rich capital city and those living in the desert were very different in terms of ideology, personality and culture.

From this perspective, the rift between the Sand Village and the Land of Wind is almost irreparable.

"Although the divide between the two is hard to bridge... at least the priorities should be clear. Even if the Sand Village in the desert is a minority, it should still be the true leader of the Land of Wind."

For Uchiha Touyu, he naturally wouldn't agree with the idea of ​​the minority obeying the majority; his stance would be determined by his own self-interest. The best state for the Land of Wind would be for it to be under the leadership of the Sand Village, or rather, under Uchiha Touyu's control.

As they approached the capital of the Land of Wind, they saw several guards at the gate. Uchiha Hiyu glanced at the guards and sensed a faint amount of chakra emanating from them.

These soldiers had very little chakra. Although they were all strong, adult men who were 1.78 meters tall, the amount of chakra they possessed was at most comparable to that of third or fourth-year students at the Ninja Academy.

With this level of chakra, one can hardly use the Three Body Technique more than a few times, and has basically said goodbye to combat ninjutsu such as the Five Elements Escape Technique. However, if used simply to enhance the physical body, coupled with some sword and taijutsu skills, it would be enough to make one person fight ten ordinary people.

Furthermore, once you possess chakra, you gain some resistance to ninjutsu such as genjutsu and transformation techniques. Even if this resistance is very weak, it's still a difference between 0 and 1.

In theory, if such soldiers formed a large army, apart from some ninjas with special ninjutsu, even ordinary Jonin would have to turn around and run away.

This was also one of the trump cards of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, used to intimidate the Sand Village's fighting force.

However, in Uchiha Touyu's view, it was only because of the protection of the guardians and the monks of the Land of Wind that these soldiers had a chance to fight. Otherwise, if the Sand Ninja used a few decapitation tactics, no matter how large the army was, it would be meaningless.

He walked straight through the city gate. Even though Uchiha Touyu was still wearing a ninja vest, the soldiers acted as if they hadn't seen anything and let him in. As far as their chakra was concerned, it was only slightly more difficult for Uchiha Touyu to manipulate them with genjutsu than for ordinary people.

After entering the city, Uchiha Tou didn't bother to carefully observe this most prosperous city in the Land of Wind, but instead headed straight for the daimyo's mansion in the city center.

Although the Daimyo Mansion was built in the city, it still had its own independent city walls and castle tower. Uchiha Hiyu could even sense the sealing barrier that enveloped the entire Daimyo Mansion.

"This barrier is much stronger than the one in Sunagakure. It seems that the daimyo of the Land of Wind is quite cautious."

The ability to establish such a barrier clearly owes much to the help of the monks from the Land of Wind. Of course, the barrier's effectiveness is also related to the fact that the Daimyo's mansion is far smaller than the ninja village.

With the same resources and chakra, the smaller the range, the better the barrier's effect. Even Uchiha Touyu had a headache looking at the barrier in front of him.

Uchiha Touyu wasn't particularly skilled at ninjutsu like barrier techniques and sealing techniques. First of all, there weren't many ninjas who knew these kinds of ninjutsu, so naturally, there wasn't much that Uchiha Touyu could learn from the souls of ninjas.

Another, and most important, point is that a large part of barrier techniques and sealing techniques are theoretical. Even if one learns these theories through soul possession, the speed of learning is not much faster, so they were naturally overlooked by Uchiha Touyu.

"However... never mind, my goal isn't just to control that daimyo of the Land of Wind!"

With this in mind, Uchiha Tou didn't hesitate and stepped directly into the Daimyo's mansion without even using genjutsu.

The two warriors guarding the gate of the Daming Mansion were immediately startled and shouted:

"Who goes there? How dare you trespass into Daming Prefecture?"

"Wait, his attire is... he's a ninja!"

These two sentences became the last words of the two samurai at the door. Uchiha Hiyu gently reached out his hand, and lightning crackled and transformed into a sharp blade, severing the heads of the two men.

The highly concentrated pure Lightning Release chakra even directly scorched the wounds of the two people, so much so that even though their heads were severed, not much blood flowed out.

Seeing Uchiha Hiyu kill someone in the street, and that the person killed was the gatekeeper of the Daimyo's mansion, the passersby at the gate of the Daimyo's mansion were either dumbfounded, or wet themselves, and a few were so frightened that they screamed.

At the same time, as Uchiha Hiyu stepped into the Daimyo's mansion, the barrier around the entire mansion rippled, and the ninjas and monks guarding the mansion rushed out one by one as if a hornet's nest had been disturbed.

A faint smile appeared on Uchiha Tou's face, and crackling electricity spread across his body, transforming into an indestructible armor.

"Hmm... let me think... what ninjutsu should I use to deal with my opponent?"

Just as Uchiha Touyu was still thinking, the guards from the Daimyo's mansion rushed out and surrounded him, thrusting their swords, spears, and halberds at him without saying a word.

A series of crackling sounds rang out as the swords, spears, and halberds were shattered in two by the lightning armor on Uchiha Touyu's body. Uchiha Touyu casually drew his short sword and swung it, and the many guards in front of him were cut in two amidst screams.

However, at this moment, several flashing golden chains instantly flew out and wrapped around Uchiha Tou's body, causing his chakra to fluctuate.

The monks surrounding Uchiha Touya formed hand seals and shot out golden chains, which looked quite like the Vajra Locket of the Uzumaki clan.

However, compared to Kushina Uzumaki and Karin Uzumaki who could use 4 to 8 Vajra Seals at once, only four of these monks could use such chains, and each of them could only use one.

"No wonder he was able to suppress Shukaku, that tailed beast. Is he also skilled in sealing techniques?"

Trapped, Uchiha Hiyu muttered something, and with a loud bang, he exploded into a ball of lightning, clearly just a clone.

What a cautious ninja Uchiha Touyu was! How could he just brazenly charge in without knowing the opponent's specific ninjutsu?

"Oh no, that's a lightning clone!! Where is its real body?"

The monks and guards looked around in shock, when suddenly they felt the ground tremble.

The ground tremors caused the entire castle tower of the Daimyo's mansion to shake slightly. With a cry of surprise, several ninjas who looked quite powerful jumped down with an elderly man in rich robes.

"We've finally met, Lord Daimyo."

Amidst a faint laugh, a large amount of golden sand gushed out from the cracks in the ground, slowly floating in mid-air. Above the golden sand, Uchiha Touya, wearing a mask, was revealed.

"Magnet Release: Magnet Release! Sand Village ninja... are you planning a rebellion?!"

The old man in his luxurious robes, though outwardly fierce, spoke up, but unfortunately, Uchiha Touyu clearly didn't care about such insignificant resistance.

The only thing that surprised Uchiha Touyu was that the daimyo in front of him seemed to have some chakra. Not to mention how strong he was, he was at least a little better than an ordinary genin, and was about the level of a chunin like Iruka.

"This chakra is impressive, and it's not a transformation jutsu; it's definitely your true self. I'm quite surprised. You're actually a pretty good ninja?"

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind never imagined he could conceal his chakra from Uchiha Touyu. He coldly uttered:

"I'm not a ninja, I just possess chakra. Is chakra a power exclusive to ninjas?"

This world is, after all, a world where great power belongs to individuals. As the daimyo, who holds the highest position of power, he can certainly see this very clearly, and is naturally very interested in the power of chakra.

However, ordinary people have almost no talent in chakra. The soldiers at the gate who possess chakra are already considered quite good among ordinary people.

Being able to cultivate chakra to the level of a Chunin is quite an achievement, even in a ninja village. Uchiha Touyu hadn't expected that this daimyo would have such good talent.

Of course, this level of talent is only amazing among ordinary people. Perhaps when facing an assassination attempt by an elite Jonin, this Daimyo could struggle and delay for a second or two with his own strength, but for Uchiha Touyu, he could pull this Daimyo into a genjutsu the moment they met.

"I'm truly surprised. I never expected the Sand Village to come knocking on our door like this, just because I cut your budget?"

"Given your record against Konoha, it's only natural that your budget was cut!"

"It's not just a matter of cutting expenses. Your intentions in developing your own monks and guardians are obvious to everyone."

"If they continue to be weakened like this, in another ten years or so, the Sand Village might not be destroyed by foreign enemies, but instead be slowly dragged down by you, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind!"

Indeed, this was the case. In the original story, when Naruto Shippuden began, the Sand Village was even forced to launch the so-called Konoha Crush Plan. It should be noted that even in the so-called Ninja World War, there was no precedent for launching a surprise attack on an opposing ninja village while it was being invited to the Chunin Exams.

Even though the five great ninja villages are all shameless, and peace agreements are less valuable than toilet paper to them, their combat methods, such as the Konoha Crush plan, which completely treat trust as garbage, are absolutely below the bottom line.

The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, was indeed not very rational, but the fact that he was driven to such a state only shows that the situation in Sunagakure at that time was truly dire.

This was only because Rasa, the gold miner, was mining gold every day and providing subsidies to the village's finances. If it had relied solely on mission income and funding from the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, the Sand Village would probably have collapsed by then.

Upon hearing Uchiha Tou's words, the daimyo of the Land of Wind's expression changed slightly, and he snorted:

"Pure nonsense! Fine, perhaps I was indeed at fault for cutting your funding too much. In any case, you are still a powerful force belonging to the Land of Wind..."

Uchiha Touyu was slightly taken aback. He hadn't expected that the daimyo before him seemed to be preparing to compromise!

However, upon closer examination, this is quite normal. Admittedly, if Sunagakure directly rebelled against the Daimyo, it would at least suffer heavy losses, and could easily end up being completely wiped out.

However, if the Sand Village cannot afford such a price, can the Land of Wind afford it?

If Sunagakure is truly forced into rebellion, no matter what its ultimate fate is, the Land of Wind will never be able to maintain its status as one of the Five Great Nations of the Shinobi World. If it's lucky, it might even split into smaller countries; if it's unlucky, it might be completely divided up by the other four great nations.

The daimyo of the Land of Wind intended to slowly weaken the Sand Village's power, but he never truly considered taking the Sand Village down with him!

In this situation, it's perfectly normal for him, as a political being, to want to compromise.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Touyu had no intention of compromising with him. Or rather, Uchiha Touyu's target was the other ninja forces in the Land of Wind. These monks, wandering ninjas, and even chakra soldiers were all the best sustenance for Uchiha Touyu to continue his progress.

Otherwise, the most perfect approach would be to activate invisibility and manipulate the five senses, find the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, and then unleash a Mangekyou Sharingan attack. Those monks can see through the ordinary genjutsu of the Sand Village, let alone the Mangekyou Sharingan. Why bother coming here in such a grand manner?

Just as the Daimyo of the Land of Wind was about to say something, a red light flashed in Uchiha Tou's eyes. The genjutsu from the Sharingan instantly took control of the Daimyo's mind, igniting the rage in his heart.

"The Sand Village dares to betray me! Their crime is unforgivable!! Everyone, listen to my command, kill this guy!"

(End of this chapter)