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Chapter 13: The entire ninja world is in complete chaos.

Hidden Rock Village stands amidst mountains and wilderness, with all the buildings predominantly earthen yellow. In this village where collectivism prevails, even the houses where everyone lives are largely identical in appearance.

Among them, the most magnificent is undoubtedly the core of the village, the Earth Shadow Building.

Inside this building, which is ten times taller than an ordinary villager's house, the contemporary Tsuchikage Onoki is giving his eldest son, Koto, a frustrating reminder that he is not living up to his potential.

"Tell me, what did you deduce from this letter?!"

Faced with his father's questioning, Huang Tu thought for a moment, then smiled somewhat sheepishly, "Hmm, this Hozuki Shingetsu... has pretty good handwriting?"

"You unfilial son! You unfilial son! I sent you to see how well he writes!"

Onoki almost fainted from breathlessness.

"Oh, Father, please don't be angry. I'll do whatever you say."

Seeing this, Huang Tu quickly stepped forward and gently patted his father's back, still wearing a simple, honest smile.

"Cough cough... Sigh, forget it, maybe I should have given up a long time ago, and I shouldn't have called you over. Honestly, why did I even think of letting you try? With your brain, you probably couldn't figure out the mystery even if you racked your brains. Forget it, just stay out of here!"

After catching his breath, Onoki looked at his honest son and reluctantly gave up some of his obsessions.

However, when he looked down at the letter in his hand, he still felt the same emotions as the Third Hokage and the Third Raikage.

"These young people are truly formidable!"

As the Third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure and the only master of the "Bloodline Elimination" Dust Release technique in the ninja world, Onoki is known as the "Two Scales".

However, over the years, this Tsuchikage has discovered that his scales seem to be losing their balance over Iwagakure.

There's no other reason than that there's no one to carry on the legacy!

Although Onoki is not yet forty years old and is still in the prime of his life as a ninja, there are hardly any other decent people in the entire Hidden Stone Village besides him.

Leaving aside his generation, the few remaining geniuses all died while learning the "Bloodline Elimination" Dust Release from the Second Tsuchikage, leaving only a few average-looking old guys to keep things going for him.

According to the ninja world's ten-year generational cycle, now is the time for the younger generation of Iwagakure to emerge.

Unfortunately, apart from a handful of others, there was basically nothing to see. And those few, including his son Huang Tu, didn't learn his Dust Release technique. At best, this group of people would only reach the level of elite Jonin, and they were simply incapable of leading Iwagakure forward in this unpredictable ninja world.

Aside from the few remaining elders from the Warring States period, his vast Iwagakure village seemed to lack any real foundation!

At times like these, he felt incredibly envious of the other ninja villages.

Leaving aside Konoha, there are the older generation like Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and Koharu Utatane, as well as the heads of bloodline clans like the Uchiha and Hyuga, and the older generation like the Ino-Shika-Cho trio. The younger generation consists of the heirs of various bloodline clans, whose innate bloodline limits ensure they can grow to extremely high levels. In addition, there are young talents like Sakumo Hatake, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru, who are also beginning to show their potential, and judging from their talent, they are at least at the elite Jonin level.

Meanwhile, in Kumogakure, the older generation of the AB duo are in their prime, and the Yotsuki clan, which has unified Kumogakure, also has abundant resources to cultivate its own geniuses. It is said that the Yotsuki child is also extremely talented in training Lightning Release Chakra Mode, and has already been designated as the next Raikage, just waiting for him to come of age to take over.

Sunagakure also has genius puppeteers like Monzaemon and Chiyo. Not to mention that the Sand Secret Technique invented by that guy Shamon has found a successor. He can even innovate and create the "Magnetic Release" ninjutsu.

Even the Hidden Mist Village, a secluded island village plagued by internal strife, produced a figure like Hozuki Shingetsu.

All of this must have filled Onoki with deep emotion.

Slightly calming his wandering thoughts, Onoki turned his attention back to the letter, pondering what kind of opportunity this matter might bring to Iwagakure.

"Emperor of the Land... Ha, you underestimate me far too much!"

In the letter, Hozuki Shingetsu again mentioned the establishment of a four-nation alliance, but unlike Kumogakure, the position of alliance leader naturally fell to the mature and prudent Ono. Naturally, the title of this alliance leader had to be changed to "Earth Emperor".

Of course, this also has a touch of Hozuki Shingetsu's quirky humor to it.

When he wrote about "Emperor of the Land," he inexplicably thought of "Land," and Onoki's physique is not exactly different from that of "Land," but rather exactly the same.

However, the wicked humor behind this was something he couldn't share with outsiders. Of course, Onoki was unaware that Hozuki Shingetsu was secretly mocking him.

Having lived through the Warring States period and faced Madara Uchiha directly, he naturally saw the danger behind Hozuki Shingetsu's suggestion. So after a little thought, he made the same decision as the Third Raikage: to continue fueling the fire by spreading rumors that various countries were expanding their military and planning to start a war, while simultaneously using the guise of humanitarian aid to lead the surrounding small countries to establish the "Shinobi World Peace Alliance," and declaring himself the leader.

However, he wasn't in a hurry to establish an alliance for the latter matter.

He planned to wait until the Raikage, that brainless muscle-bound barbarian, made the first move before he acted. He was certain that the idiot would be unable to contain his ambition and would strike first. With the precedent of Kumogakure taking action, the alliance with Iwagakure would surely proceed much more smoothly.

The same applies to Sunagakure.

Although he had no ambition for the title of "Wind Emperor," the excuse was presented to him. Even Shamon, who was thinking of peacefully farming and developing his skills, began to integrate the surrounding small countries under the instigation of Chiyo, Monzaemon, and others.

The various small ninja villages in the ninja world who were watching the show probably never dreamed that this was clearly an attempt to exaggerate the threat posed by Konoha, but in the end these major powers not only failed to stop Konoha, but instead came to annex them.

They had secretly added fuel to the fire when the rumors were circulating, thinking it was better to watch the drama unfold, but they never expected that the fire would eventually burn them.

In a sense, this can be considered a case of "when the city gate catches fire, the fish in the moat suffer as a result."

Soon, fueled by the four kingdoms of water, mines, wind, and soil, and by some ambitious individuals, rumors began to spread everywhere.

Today, it's said that Kumogakure is using the excuse of a genin going missing in Konoha to launch a massive invasion with 100,000 troops; tomorrow, it's said that Onoki, the Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, has fused seven chakra natures to reach the unprecedented level of "Kekkei Genkai," capable of instantly killing the other four Kage with a single breath, making him a veritable immortal in the ninja world; the day after tomorrow, it's rumored that Kirigakure's reason for closing itself off is the discovery of a new fruit that grants ordinary people abilities comparable to those of bloodline ninjas, and now Kirigakure's 100,000 bloodline ninjas are sharpening their swords, waiting for the right moment to march west.

In short, the prevailing sentiment is one of chaos, disorder, and alarmist rhetoric. So much so that various village leaders are considering establishing a new "Strategic Deception Department" specifically to deal with these rumors.

Otherwise, this is really unbearable. Given the current situation, there are possibilities in the ninja world including, but not limited to, the resurrection of the Sage of Six Paths, the reincarnation of the Goddess of the Rabbit, and the appearance of aliens.

If things continue like this, the ninja world will probably be destroyed very soon.

The smaller nations of the ninja world, however, did not have this problem, because they discovered that amidst the frenzied public opinion in the ninja world, war had actually arrived.

While they were still speculating, with a "let's watch the show" attitude, wondering which of the five elements—fire, thunder, earth, feng, and water—would be the unlucky ones to be ganged up on by the other countries, they suddenly realized something was amiss.

In particular, the Frost Ninja Village, gazing at the envoy from the Cloud Ninja Village right at their doorstep, fell into deep thought.

Good news, fighting has broken out!

Bad news is coming my way.

After the Hidden Cloud Village successfully fired the first shot, other ninja villages also began their own steps to establish regional alliances.

Aside from the secluded Kirigakure, even Konoha, out of a sense of defensiveness and the feeling that it would be a loss not to annex smaller countries, began to establish its own regional alliance.

As a result, the ninja world was thrown into complete chaos.

(End of this chapter)