As the moon came to a halt.
The shinobi of the Five Great Nations began conducting another round of surveys.
They devoted nearly all their efforts to proving that the moon would not fall again...
Meanwhile.
After using a single Great Crimson to raise his power to its absolute limit... Gouki, who had also expended a tremendous amount of strength, entered a temporary hibernation...
And Gouki's actual body... Hyuga Sho.
Appeared before Kimimaro and the others.
Otogakure... belonged to the Land of Rice.
Back then, Hyuga Sho had given Kimimaro and the others an order...
To reclaim the Land of Rice.
Because of the moon's disturbance.
The shinobi of Kumogakure had withdrawn.
After pursuing and killing many of them along the way, Kimimaro and the others successfully reclaimed the country.
However...
Whether Kumogakure would invade again was another matter.
"Sir, you're back?"
Two and the others greeted Hyuga Sho.
Everyone gathered inside the newly rebuilt Otogakure, waiting for Hyuga Sho to speak.
"From this point onward, we will develop the Land of Rice. Using it as our center, we will spread across the entire Shinobi World and raise the overall standard of the Shinobi World!"
Hyuga Sho casually tossed something out.
A human head flew from the Dark Release: Space-Time Hole in his palm.
Whose head could it be if not that of the daimyo of the Land of Rice?
Daimyos were nothing but obstacles.
Hyuga Sho had simply killed him.
He would turn the Land of Rice into a nation of shinobi.
Then he threw a scroll to everyone.
When unrolled, the scroll was extremely long.
It recorded all the shinobi intelligence and techniques Hyuga Sho had gathered over the years.
Of course...
It also included every technique from E-Rank to S-Rank.
"Copy this scroll and print it as