After reading through the Will of Fire, all Bai Ye saw was people being devoured.
For children who had not yet come of age, whose values had not yet fully taken shape, they could easily be influenced by it.
Based on his guess, Hashirama Senju's original intention in establishing the Will of Fire had been to make all the clans in the village cast aside their prejudices and family interests, then dismantle the clans entirely and integrate into Konoha just like the Senju clan.
But was that possible?
It was utterly impossible!
Thus, beginning with the Third Hokage, the Will of Fire changed.
Perhaps the early Hiruzen Sarutobi had also realized that his rule had stirred dissatisfaction in many people. He chose to step down and hand power to the civilian ninja Minato Namikaze, yet he could not bear to relinquish everything and still retained control of the Anbu.
When he took office for the second time, the Will of Fire completely became a tool for him to rule the village.
"But Clan Head Bai Ye, isn't the village we live in today able to endure until now because the Will of Fire has always run through it? Isn't it also because of the Will of Fire that it has remained the Number One Ninja Village?"
A bitter smile flashed across Shisui's face. He tried to refute Bai Ye, but could not find any point to argue against, so he could only bring up these vague matters to debate him.
He was not arguing for anyone else. He was arguing for the convictions he had upheld all these years.
"What truly made the village number one was not some so-called Will of Fire. It was people like you and me, people willing to fight for the village—civilian ninja, clan ninja,