New Life Means Casting Off Burdens and Setting Out Lightly

This peace in the Shinobi World was, naturally, a lasting peace. There was ample evidence for it.

First, decadent and lazy mindsets had been purged by death.

As the flames of war spread, order was utterly destroyed.

In war, violence ruled everything, and violence did not reason. Anyone lazy, pleasure-seeking, unwilling to improve, or lacking in resolve was eliminated.

The entire Shinobi World was purged by violence from the bottom up. At first, the bastards at the top could still gloat heartlessly, but violence soon gradually spread into society's upper ranks.

In chaotic times of war, everyone needed capital to survive. But capital was no longer money, houses, factories, or mines.

There was only one kind of capital in wartime: talent.

Everyone had to possess talent of their own. The most important was talent for combat, followed by talent in production techniques and organizational management.

Further down the list were talents for performance, disguise, deception, and so on, though these were far less important.

Those with talent for performance were especially vulnerable to harm, particularly beautiful women.

Um... handsome pretty boys seemed to have it even worse.

In short, as order shattered and was rebuilt, everyone was treated as a resource—collected, selected, refined, and reorganized into new centers of order: nations.

The process took only a year. In the midst of extreme chaos, order was preliminarily rebuilt.

Compared to the thousand full years of chaos after Otsutsuki Kaguya was sealed, civilization in the Shinobi World had clearly made tremendous progress.

This was the national identity laid down by Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, as well as the civilizational foundation strengthened by Aburame Tetsumaru's unification of the Shinobi World.

Rapidly formed national organizations greatly curbed the damage caused by war and disorder.

The Shinobi World's population fell rapidly in the early