Chapter 271

"What!?"

Sasuke was so startled that he stood up abruptly from his seat.

"You started back then?"

"That's right, because this is the goal I've been working towards from the very beginning. Now that you know what I'm going to do, I'll naturally start doing it from the beginning. Do you expect me to tell you?"

Li Yue's answer surprised Sasuke.

Yeah, it seems like he doesn't need to tell me what he's doing at all, but the thing is, he should at least let me know.

"You haven't already fallen for someone, have you?"

Sasuke looked at Li Yue with some fear. He had told Li Yue before that he would do anything if Li Yue gave him power. Now he had learned Bankai. Although Li Yue had just called him a piece of trash again, he believed that he was not weak now, especially since he had mastered the same eyes as that man. However, that man's Mangekyo was in his eye Mangekyo, while his was on the Tsuba.

"I have my eye on a few, but I'm still observing them."

Li Yue didn't intend to hide anything. He did have his eye on a few people, but he was still figuring out how to proceed, since there was no rush.

However, the Third Hokage was quite pleased to hear Li Yue's words, because the fact that the person observing them had started early meant that the person observing them was from Konoha. This greatly increased the chances of Konoha people being selected, rather than those from the other three villages.

Without hesitation, Onoki asked the question immediately after hearing it.

"Butler, we from Iwagakure have also brought some people with us. Would you consider taking a look at the girls from our village?"

If Li Yue chooses Konoha, how can they possibly play? Wouldn't Konoha be doomed? Their trip here would have been a complete waste. They absolutely have to seize this opportunity!

"That's right, that's right, Mr. Butler. Since you're only observing, why not observe a few more people, like our people?"

The Raikage, a big, dark-skinned man, also pressed his hand on the table and spoke.

"After all, the people of Konoha aren't necessarily good people either. The Uchiha clan has been ruined by them, so how good can the people in this village be?"

While showing Li Yue their Cloud Village, they also took the opportunity to sow discord in Leaf Village, saying, "Look, Leaf Village can't even tolerate the Uchiha clan, so how can there be any good people in their village?"

It has to be said that the Third Hokage was indeed anxious when the Raikage said that. He didn't expect the Raikage to attack Konoha from this angle.

"Raikage, you can't say that. Konoha did make mistakes in the Uchiha clan matter, but that was only caused by one person. We can't generalize and assume that everyone did a bad job."

"Who knows? After all, even the village chief can't control what his subordinates do. Who knows, the village chief might have his own ideas too."

"..."

The Raikage's sarcastic tone silenced the Third Hokage completely. Was this kid deliberately picking a fight?

However, what Raikage said made no mistake; Li Yue understood perfectly what Raikage meant.

"Of course, I'll also visit the people in your village."

Li Yue spoke directly. The Third Hokage looked at Li Yue and slightly opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but Li Yue did not give him the chance and directly stated his reasons.

"A thousand years ago, before the inherently evil Asura Clan caused war in the ninja world, everyone belonged to the Ninja Sect. There were no villages at all, so people from any village could come. This is because your ancestors were ninjas led by Indra a thousand years ago. There were no villages, no ninja clans, and no wars. The current situation is entirely due to the inherently evil Asura."

Although I already knew through spies that Li Yue was very unhappy with Asura, the ancestor of the Senju clan, hearing Li Yue criticize Asura to his face was a really different experience. Especially when Li Yue said that everyone was one family a thousand years ago, the feeling was even more subtle.

They didn't care what Li Yue said about the Senju clan and Asura; all they wanted now was for Li Yue to visit their village. This time, they had brought the young people from their village with them.

Some of them participated in the Chunin Exam, while others did not. We need to go and check on them.

Amidst the Third Hokage's helpless sigh, Li Yue got up with Sasuke and went out to check on the people brought by the other villages.

To be honest, Li Yue's knowledge of the people in the five major villages wasn't very comprehensive. Konoha was one thing, as it was the village where the protagonist lived and where the cameras were mostly filmed, so Li Yue knew most of the people there. He was also very familiar with all twelve Konoha 12. But he really couldn't keep up with the other villages because the characters from those villages appeared very little. Apart from a few well-known ones, Li Yue genuinely didn't recognize the rest of the characters.

For example, in Sunagakure, Li Yue only knew Temari, Chiyo, and the deceased Pakura as female ninjas. He didn't know anyone else. In Kumogakure, he only knew Wood Person the Two-Tails and the very large Samui. In Iwagakure, Li Yue only knew Kurotsuchi, the Leg Shadow. As for Kirigakure, he only knew Mei Terumi, the Mizukage who was eager to get married.

The people from Kirigakure didn't come, because the internal strife has probably just ended, or it may not have ended yet.

Only three villages remained of those who came, and none of the three villages that Li Yue knew were suitable for Sasuke.

Temari is Shikamaru's official partner, and Li Yue doesn't think there's any need to break them up. The two of them started flirting during the Chunin Exam. Pakura is already dead, Chiyo is an old woman, Wood Person is very old, and Samui is also quite old. So, it seems that the only one who can be chosen is Kurotsuchi.

Perhaps there are other characters in these villages whom I don't recognize.

486. It's time for new members to join the group again.

I don't know them, I don't know most of them.

Li Yue didn't recognize most of the people from the three villages, except for Kurotsuchi. After all, most of the people she knew were quite old, and they weren't foolish enough to let people with a large age gap participate in the matchmaking event. So, all the people who came to participate in the matchmaking event were around the same age as Sasuke, some were slightly Little Ichi, but there were definitely no people much older.

To increase their chances of success, they brought quite a few people with them, but how many of them are truly geniuses? And just because someone isn't a genius doesn't mean Li Yue doesn't know them! After all, in the Ninja World, if you're not a genius, you're just cannon fodder. If you're lucky, you'll end up like the Leaf Gate Guardians, living an ordinary life.

Not knowing the person means Li Yue needs to learn more about them; otherwise, it's difficult to make arrangements without knowing anything.

As for why Sasuke was being asked to find a Sasuke, it wasn't just a simple matter. It was laying the foundation for unifying the ninja world in the future. Unifying the ninja world was a goal that Li Yue had set from the very beginning. All of this was to give Uchiha Madara was still in the underworld, a surprise when he was resurrected in the future.

Unifying the ninja world requires a foundation, one of which is military strength. Ninjas speak with strength; if you are not strong enough, they will not talk to you. Once you are strong enough, you need to maintain relationships, and the simplest and most direct way to maintain relationships is through marriage.

This is why Li Yue kept emphasizing to the four village chiefs that everyone was one family a thousand years ago. Since everyone was one family, there was no such thing as separate villages. He kept emphasizing this point so that everyone in the future would understand that there were no separate villages, and that all ninjas under heaven were one family.

As for villages, they're all the work of the inherently evil Senju clan, and Ash the wicked! If he hadn't insisted on separating villages, things wouldn't be like this now. Look at how many people have died in the ninja world since this lousy one-country-one-village system was established, and how it's any different from before.

Oh no, there are differences. Before, it was just a battle between families, with groups of a few hundred people at most. Now it has become a battle between villages, suddenly turning into a battle between tens of thousands of people. Especially since it also involves battles between Tailed Beast, the commotion is getting bigger and bigger.

Now, what Li Yue needs to do is to select one person from each of the four villages, including Konoha, and place them in Sasuke's household. These people will then serve as the channels for communication between the various villages.

"I'm not interested in them!"

Looking at the girls standing in front of him, Sasuke crossed his arms, his expression cold, conveying his disdain.

"They are all weak!"

As soon as Sasuke spoke, the expressions of all the girls in front of him darkened.

From a purely rational perspective, Sasuke's statement makes sense. During Sasuke's third match in the Chunin Exam, everyone present was sitting in the stands watching, so they knew how strong Sasuke. He single-handedly tore apart a Jinchuriki easily took control of it. In other villages, even Jonin couldn't do something like that. Those who could fight against Jinchuriki were either Kage or those who could become Kage, or, if all else failed, members of the Sealing Team, who specialized in sealing large areas or sealing rampaging Tailed Beast. But Sasuke did it all by himself, and with incredible ease.

Therefore, in terms of combat power, Sasuke has reached the top level in each village, so it's not wrong to call them weak.

The problem is, they're not weak for their age group. Normal ninjas at that age are that strong. Even geniuses have to conform to the basic rules of the ninja world. It's Sasuke who completely defies the common sense and rules of the ninja world!

"I don't think any of these people are good enough, so we shouldn't waste our time on them."

After expressing his opinion on the people in front of him, Sasuke looked up at Li Yue beside him and expressed his views, but Li Yue ignored him.

Whether you waste time or not is not up to you, nor is it up to you whether you like it or not.

"Who becomes the wife of the Otsutsuki family is up to me, and you should understand that."

"..."

Sasuke looked at Li Yue speechlessly. He was truly speechless. It was always the same. He had absolutely no say in choosing his marriage partner. Although Li Yue had told him about this before, he still wanted to try, but unfortunately, his attempts always ended in vain.

In particular, he had told Li Yue that he could do anything as long as he had the power. But after he actually got the power, especially after mastering Bankai, Sasuke, who thought he was awesome as soon as he had a little power, started thinking about whether he could get rid of Li Yue's control.

Although his power was given to him by Li Yue, his personality made him unwilling to be ordered around by Li Yue all the time, especially since Li Yue always called him a piece of trash. Therefore, after obtaining his power, he challenged Li Yue in the world of Bleach.

Unfortunately, Li Yue didn't even have to lift a finger; she simply used her Reiatsu to knock him to the ground, unable to get up.

LOL, even if he mastered Bankai, he still wouldn't be qualified to stand in front of Li Yue, he couldn't resist at all.

Sasuke wanted to challenge Li Yue, was immediately defeated, so he has no way to resist Li Yue now.

"Damn it, why can't I stand in front of Li Yue even after mastering Bankai? Just how strong is he?"

Sasuke clenched his fists, Wrath that he couldn't even manage to challenge Li Yue.

Li Yue, on the other hand, focused her attention on the girls in front of her, preparing to listen to their self-introductions.

After all, although he wanted to select people from every village, he also had to be selective. If just anyone could be selected, wouldn't that make him, the steward of the Otsutsuki, seem rather low-class?

So, Li Yue began to listen to their self-introductions.

Five female ninjas came from Sunagakure. Li Yue knew Temari, but she was Shikamaru's official partner, and Li Yue had no intention of breaking them up, so he didn't choose her. Instead, he took a liking to two Little Ichi girls, one named Matsuri and the other named Yukata. When they saw Sasuke, they showed very classic infatuated expressions.

On the Cloud Village side, Li Yue took a liking to a girl named Li Zuoyi, because she was the only Cloud Village girl who wasn't dark-skinned. There were just too many dark-skinned people in the Cloud Village. However, Li Yue couldn't help but complain about the girl's name and wondered if she had ever played mid-lane in a professional League of Legends team.

As for Iwagakure, Li Yue had his eye on Kurotsuchi, the future Tsuchikage. However, this future Tsuchikage had no intention of participating in the marriage contest. It was her grandfather, Onoki, who arranged for her to participate. Kurotsuchi had no interest in being Sasuke's wife and instead kept asking Onoki to step down and give her the position of Tsuchikage.

It has to be said that this granddaughter is really filial.

She didn't want to participate in the matchmaking event, but the Third Tsuchikage wanted her to because Kurotsuchi wasn't considered strong in Iwagakure at the moment; she was just an ordinary ninja. Compared to the future Kurotsuchi who could carry the banner, she was still far from being strong.

Moreover, even in the future, when she takes up the mantle, she will still be just an ordinary Kage. In the era when she was Kage, an ordinary Kage was essentially a weakling, unless you knew Uchiha slam and Uchiha strike.

Unfortunately, she couldn't, so the Third Tsuchikage hoped she could have an easier life. As the Tsuchikage, Onoki knew best what ninjas did and how dangerous those things were. Therefore, if possible, Onoki hoped his granddaughter could have an easier life. As for Iwagakure, he could stay for a few more years until Iwagakure produced someone capable of carrying the banner, then pass the torch to them.

Originally, Iwagakure had someone capable of leading the way, but unfortunately, that guy felt that Onoki was always controlling him, so he defected—in a very joking way. Yes, that's right, it was the explosive Art Deidara, one of the art duo from Akatsuki Organization.

Although Kurotsuchi was unwilling, the Third Tsuchikage had his own ideas, so she reluctantly became one of the candidates.

As for Leaf Village, Li Yue naturally chose Sakura, since everyone else already had their own official pairings, and Li Yue couldn't easily change that. Although Li Yue was training Sasuke to give Uchiha Madara a surprise and incidentally change the ninja world, he wouldn't break up any pairings unless the original male lead disgusted Li Yue.

After all the people from the four villages were selected, the four village chiefs were all a little confused, because none of the selected people could be considered geniuses in their villages. If they had to name one genius, it would probably be Kurotsuchi. Compared to the other selected people, Kurotsuchi was relatively more capable. The rest were people who rarely appeared on screen.

They couldn't understand Li Yue's thoughts, and neither could Sasuke. Therefore, faced with Li Yue 'Li Yue choice, they could only think: the butler must have had a deeper meaning in doing this!

Moreover, being selected does not mean immediate success; further tests are required, since initially it is merely being chosen.

Nevertheless, all four village chiefs were quite happy, especially Kazekage's Rasa, because out of these four villages, only their family had two people selected. Two people being selected meant that the probability of their village's people ultimately succeeding was twice that of the other villages! Even a little more probability would make him happy.

So, the next step is to wait for these chosen girls to pass the test.

The news of the selected girls spread quickly, and everyone in Konoha knew about it, including the two Akatsuki Organization members who had entered Konoha under the guise of gathering information.

Kisame Hoshigaki didn't care, but Uchiha Itachi's expression was truly subtle. He had doubted Li Yue 'Li Yue authenticity at first, but now he had no doubts about it at all. However, when he heard that Li Yue had chosen five girls to test his younger brother, and that she would marry his brother once they passed, he was quite surprised.

This means that once those girls pass the test, he will soon be able to see Sasuke's daughter or son.

He originally thought he would die at Sasuke's hands and leave his eyes to Sasuke so that Sasuke could have the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, but now he feels that he can live a little longer.

He did it for no other reason than to live a little longer and witness the birth of Sasuke's daughter or son, who would be the next generation of Uchiha. As a sinner of the Uchiha, he could die content once he saw the birth of a new Uchiha.

Of course, another reason is that Sasuke can use the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan needing it now, so he doesn't know what use his eyes would be if he died. He can't die until he figures out how his eyes can help Sasuke, especially how to help Sasuke master the power of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. If he dies, it will most likely be a pointless death, and he won't be able to Sasuke at all. So he has to live!

Li Yue was unaware of Uchiha Itachi's thoughts, because he didn't know that Uchiha Itachi had entered Konoha. According to the original storyline, Uchiha Itachi returned to Konoha after the Konoha Crush Plan, not during the Chunin Exam.

But even if Li Yue knew, she wouldn't care, because the other party's presence wouldn't affect her at all.

Instead of paying attention to the girl after making his choice, he stopped caring about her and focused his attention on the Chat Group.

Because the time for new members to join the group once a month has arrived.

[I am hungry: So, do people like me join here every month?]

[Fat Woman in Black Stockings: That's not quite right. It's true that people join every month, but not everyone who joins is like you.]

[I am the real alcohol: So, not everyone lives in a world full of crises like we do, right?]

[The Fat Woman in Black Stockings: That's right, not every world has Bleach, and not every world is like Xia Shi's world, a post-apocalyptic world.]

[I am hungry: That's lucky!]

[I am the real alcohol: Hmm.]

Although it was just one word, you could tell that Gin's feelings were truly complicated.

After all, knowing that his world had a Bleach could control time, he couldn't live in peace and could only wait for the research institute established by Li Yue to figure it out.

[Meme Lord: Speaking of which, how's the occupation of the five regions of Japan going now?]

Seeing that Xia Shi was also there, Li Yue asked about the Pitch-black World.

[I am hungry: Hmm? What's the situation in the five regions? The Osaka region was taken by Raijin-sama, very quickly, and then Sendai -sama went to Dendro Archon region himself.]

[Meme Lord: Huh? Nahida went by herself?]

[I am hungry: Yes, we went with the Dendro Archon Goddess. She said she wanted to show off too. When we got outside the Sendai Dendro Archon, she stretched out her hands and suddenly summoned a giant Wood Person, which then knocked the Sendai Dendro Archon.]

[Meme Lord:...]

Li Yue was surprised that Nahida made the first move.

However, compared to Li Yue, another person in the Chat Group was even more shocked after hearing Xia Shi's words.

[This is Hip-Hop: What did you say? Who summoned the Wood Person?]

Uchiha Madara immediately jumped out after hearing someone summon the Wood Person.

Summoning Wood Person? Isn't that Hashirama's Wood Style? Only Hashirama and he should be able to summon Wood Person golems!

[I am hungry: It's the Dendro Archon! She clapped her hands, and a giant Wood Person appeared. The Dendro Archon Goddess said that Mr. Li Yue taught her this.]

[This is Hip-Hop: Hashirama?]

[Meme Lord: Hmm... it was indeed me who taught her.]

Li Yue explained with a hint of helplessness.