Regicide!

Land of Water, Kyoto Palace!

Smack!

The Land of Water Daimyo, his face white as snow and utterly devoid of humanity, hurled the folding fan in his hand at the messenger reporting before him and roared:

"What are those lowly wretches trying to do? Are they not afraid of our punishment?"

The messenger had come to report that another noble territory had been purged by Kirigakure.

Purged!

It meant killing every noble, bureaucrats, and subordinate who worked for them.

The process was brutally crude and savage.

It could not be helped. The entire Shinobi World operated like this.

Things like laws differed from country to country and from noble territory to noble territory.

Some places even had things like the "right of first night." Just how chaotic was that?

Tang Ping's answer to this was a clean sweep.

He would wipe out all that trash.

Just like his slogan.

For a Blue and Pure Ninja World!

So, those people could only die.

Of course, with the intelligence-gathering abilities of ninja, it was obvious at a glance if a noble was truly kind. Such nobles could be spared and released after being given basic possessions.

He was not some completely inhuman tyrant. If it was convenient, he did not mind showing a little mercy.

He had formulated the strategy; Terumi Mei was merely carrying it out.

After the purges were complete, Priestesses would take office alongside assistants trained by them.

Assistants!

They were a new group Tang Ping had established after careful consideration.

Priestesses would recruit orphans and raise them at their side, teaching them reading, writing, and the ability to handle affairs.

These people possessed neither Chakra nor Priestess Power, but they could help the Priestesses deal with simple matters.

It was precisely this group that freed up a tremendous