Traveling the World
Travel the world
The combined forces of Stone Ninja, Konoha, Mist Ninja have launched a massive manhunt for the Raikage, shaking the entire Shinobi World. [Read full text]
The Cloud Ninja in the crossfire, were naturally struck as if by a bolt from the blue. In their shock and fury, the Raikage's son, who was stationed at the border, was so enraged that he even wanted to declare war on all three sides at the same time. However, great power rivalry is not something that can be achieved by acting on impulse.
Regardless, the Raikage's death is a fact, and with the morale of the Cloud Ninja greatly low, it is absolutely unwise to rashly launch a war against other forces. With the Kage of a village dead, the Cloud Ninja government will temporarily be managed by those old fogies.
At present, the first thing the Cloud Ninja should do is reduce expansion, consolidate its military strength, and guard against foreign invasion. Furthermore, it should adopt different approaches towards the Stone Ninja, Konoha, and Mist Ninja. Although all three are responsible for the Raikage's death, declaring war on all three of the Five Great Shinobi Villages simultaneously is clearly impossible. Of course, it cannot remain inactive either, otherwise such weakness will only embolden the smaller countries that were originally subservient to the Cloud Ninja.
First, the Cloud Ninja compromised with the Mist Ninja, who were isolated overseas and there was really no benefit in fighting the Mist Ninja.
Fighting the Stone Ninja would be too difficult, not only because of the long distance, but also because the Iwa ninja are located in a mountainous area.
In the end, the Cloud Ninja chose to direct all their attacks at Konoha, and even the evil Stone Ninja compromised for this.
The following year, although the Stone Ninja and Cloud Ninja did not join forces, they tacitly marched on Konoha at the same time.
The two matches corresponded to the Battle of Kannabi Bridge and the Yellow Flash versus the new A-B Combo from the Cloud Ninja in the original work, and as expected, Konoha won a great victory.
However, all of this was irrelevant to Shunren. Since the battle against the Raikage, Shunren's strength had greatly increased, and his first action was to demonstrate his power to intimidate the Konoha High Command and warn them not to provoke him again.
For the next year, the Konoha High Command wisely refrained from causing him any further trouble, allowing Shunren to stay at home in peace. In addition to his carefree life, he could also take this time to properly digest the results of the Bloodthirsty Bead absorbing the Raikage's blood essence.
The life's worth of power of a Kage Level ninja is no joke. Just look at the immense cost that Stone Ninja, Konoha, and Mist Ninja combined their strength to kill the Raikage.
After fully absorbing this immense power, Shunren's strength successfully reached the Kage Level. As a result, Shunren had even more confidence in Konoha. In fact, it could be said that if the Konoha High Command were to provoke him again now, it wouldn't just be a simple intimidation; he wouldn't back down from a direct confrontation!
However, in reality, Konoha had no time to bother him at that time, because in the final year of the Third Shinobi World War, Konoha fought three major battles against Stone Ninja, Cloud Ninja, and Mist Ninja. Although they won the final victory, Konoha suffered heavy losses and was severely weakened.
That's perfect. In Shunren's view, as long as the Konoha authorities don't actively cause him trouble, he won't idly attack Konoha. After all, he's living a good life in this village, so why should he cause chaos?
It was winter, the wind was biting, and the outside was covered with a thick layer of snow.
Weather has almost no effect on a ninja's physique, but in order to resist the cold, the Chakra in a ninja's body will automatically be activated, which will make them feel tired over time.
However, in this tiring season, the cheerful laughter of a girl could be heard coming from outside the courtyard.
"Whoosh~"
Shunren was dozing in his room when a snowball came flying at him. Without even looking up, he swatted it away with his backhand.
"Hehehe~ Shunren, come play with Little Izumi ~" Izumi is four years old this year, which is a lively and active age for a ninja. And without realizing it, Izumi no longer deliberately calls him "Papa" or "Dad", but he also doesn't call him brother or any other honorific title. Instead, he strangely calls Shunren by his name directly.
Because of this, Hezi nagged Quan quite a bit, but unfortunately, the clever and mischievous Quan would agree on the surface but then turn around and do her own thing again, no matter how many times she told her. Over time, Hezi couldn't do anything about it.
However, in the eyes of the Shunren, this was not a big deal. A name was just a code, a title. As long as there was no malice, it didn't matter what they were called.
Shunren naturally declined Quan's invitation; he had never liked fooling around with kids, and this was no different now.
"Go play by yourself. If you're bored, go play in the water," Shunren said.
Quan pouted unhappily and complained, "Mommy drained the water from the hot spring early this morning, and it hasn't been changed yet."
Shunren's eyes flickered. He suddenly recalled something Hezi had mentioned to him not long ago. It was said that the benefits that the Uchiha gave to their core disciples had been stopped last month. These included things like money, medicine, and ninja tools. The special medicinal pool that had a soothing effect on ninjas was also among them.
Shunren wouldn't care about these little things anyway; he didn't need to worry about living expenses at all, because the rewards from the several S-rank missions he had done were enough to support him for several years. As for medicine, with his current strength, he rarely had the chance to get injured, and ninja tools were even more unnecessary.
Shunren knew that the Uchiha were conveying their dissatisfaction by doing this. Half a year ago, the Uchiha leadership had invited him to contribute to Fugaku's election for Hokage. Knowing the final outcome, Shunren thought the Uchiha were daydreaming and unequivocally refused the invitation. Fugaku and his men, mindful of Shunren's abilities, didn't dare to force him. However, there are always some fools among the lower ranks, hence these pointless tricks.
Shunren couldn't even be bothered to look at the brainless actions of some idiots in the Uchiha.
"Quan, go call your mother, we're going out for a walk."
"Alright! Where are we going to play this time? The Fire Temple in the Land of Fire, the Mount Huaguo in the Land of Earth, the ancient ruins of Rōran in the Land of Wind, the Cloud Valley of Clouds and Lightning in the Land of Lightning, and the Glacier Island in the Land of Water. Hmm, it seems like we've been to Five Great Nations in the world~" Izumi pointed to her lips with her little finger. With the limited knowledge she had, she only knew about the famous sites of the Five Great Nations.
Over the past year, Shunren has taken Quan and the others to all of the places mentioned above.
"On such a snowy day, we should still take a soak. Let's go to the Land of Hot Water; the hot springs there are quite nice." Shunren smiled slightly and gently gestured with his hand in front of him.
"Yin Release: Projection!"