Naruto: Getting Stronger by Drinking, Chapter 888

Konoha's terrifying land prices alone were enough to prove everything.

After more than a year of development, the price of land in Konoha's core districts alone was enough to buy more than half of the Land of Fire!

Even at such exorbitant prices, dignitaries from countries around the world continued to flock to Konoha.

The wealth and resources of the entire world were gathering in Konoha.

If this continued, the gap between the major shinobi villages and Konoha would only grow wider.

In the end, even without Saiki Yuu, Konoha would no longer be something the major shinobi villages could contend with.

To put it bluntly, Konoha could crush them to death simply by throwing money at them!

As a result, the major shinobi villages had begun making small moves in secret, attempting to reverse this trend.

And the key to reversing it was Saiki Yuu.

Saiki Yuu's strength was simply too terrifying. Given the current disparity between the major shinobi villages and Konoha, they would be utterly swept aside!

Within the Shinobi World, the only powers that might possibly contend with Saiki Yuu were the legendary Wood Release and Mangekyō Sharingan.

Wood Release had vanished along with the death of Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage.

And now, even the Uchiha Clan had completely submitted beneath Saiki Yuu's feet.

That immediately brought the secret schemes of the major shinobi villages to a halt.

Under the current circumstances, trying to make any moves at all would simply be courting death!

The Black Blade in Saiki Yuu's hand had earned its fearsome reputation atop mountains of corpses.

For now, they could only wait for an opportunity. As for when that opportunity would come, no one knew.

None of this had anything to do with Yuu, however.

Yuu had no desire even to