Yunqing Mysteriously Deified

Hearing Yunqing's words, En Uzumaki scratched his head and laughed foolishly. "You flatter me, hahahaha."

If you had any sense, you wouldn't be laughing, Yunqing thought speechlessly as he looked at En Uzumaki.

To be honest, if those two were in the twenty-first century, they would both be civil servants with family business dividends. One of them would even be a shareholder. If they still couldn't live well, then heaven truly had no justice.

Thinking about Ye Nan and En Uzumaki's circumstances, Yunqing could not help but sigh. No matter how difficult things got for those two, they still lived far better than most people.

Meanwhile, Ye Nan and Pakura had nearly finished talking, and naturally noticed the underground organization here.

As they wandered about, stopping and going along the way, Yunqing and Pakura ran into many people they knew.

Sunagakure was neither particularly large nor particularly small. If you truly wanted to run into someone, who could you not meet?

And if you did not want to meet someone, it was not particularly difficult either.

"Lord Kazekage, sometimes I think you're truly great."

The two ate as they walked when Pakura suddenly spoke.

"I suppose so. In terms of strength, among all the Kazekage throughout history, I can indeed be called great."

Yunqing paused, then chewed on some roadside snack of unknown origin and answered ambiguously.

Pakura smiled and shook her head. "No, I mean in other respects. You truly are great.

"The changes in Sunagakure are enough to prove your greatness."

Pakura meant, Though I'm not that old, I've been the Kazekage's assistant for a year. I've picked up some political sense, and I've experienced what Sunagakure used to be like.

Even I, someone born into a Ninja Clan, felt that Sunagakure was too impoverished. What about those commoners and lower-ranking ninja? How could they have lived?

I may not have read much, but don't try to fool me.

"Haha, great? Not at all. I merely did what I should have done.

"Pakura, remember this: we are mortals. We make mistakes. Do not fear or worship any one person too much.

"Otherwise, when that 'greatness' collapses, your beliefs will collapse with it."

Yunqing gave a self-mocking smile and spoke in an oddly sinister tone.

"When greatness collapses?"

Pakura was immediately frightened.

Having spent a long time around Yunqing, she understood his preferences. She knew he was responsible, that he had desires, that he put Sunagakure first, and that he had his own occasional temper.

She had never considered what would happen if greatness collapsed.

"Don't believe me? Then tell me, was Hashirama Senju great?"

Yunqing asked with a grin.

"Of course he was great! He created the one-country, one-village system, so we no longer have to fight from the moment we are born or worry that our clans might be wiped out at any time."

Pakura raised her head, stars practically shining in her eyes as she spoke with "slight" admiration.

Yunqing was speechless. His assistant, who also possessed secret techniques, actually admired the Kage of an enemy village.

No wonder you got yourself killed in the original story. With that level of political awareness, it would be hard for you not to die.

Yunqing thought viciously. Then he sighed and continued, "The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was addicted to gambling. If Mito Uzumaki and Tobirama Senju had not been there, he would have gambled away the entire Senju Clan.

"Furthermore, Hashirama Senju had a weak personality. He was a total goofball. At the Five Kage Summit, he bowed his head to the other Kage and harmed quite a few people."

"Addicted to gambling, weak personality, a goofball, harmed quite a few people..."

Pakura felt as though her worldview was crumbling a little.

The God of the Ninja World she admired was actually a gambler—and a goofball? That could not be possible.

The God of the Ninja World! Shouldn't he have been a cool, handsome man who could make the Kage of the other Ninja Villages submit with a single glance at the Five Kage Summit? How could he bow his head?

Seeing Pakura's disbelieving expression and the look in her eyes begging Yunqing to admit that he had been lying, Yunqing maliciously nodded and told her that he was sorry, but as unbelievable as it was, it was all true.

"That is why I say you must not worship any one person too much, much less deify them. Otherwise, once you truly come to understand them, you will realize that belief is truly fragile. Touch it, and it shatters."

Yunqing smiled as he helped Pakura rebuild her values correctly.

"Also, what you said today made me think of a question: just how many people in Sunagakure have deified me and turned me into some great figure, just like you have?"

Yunqing's expression changed, and his tone became serious.

He truly feared the deification and glorification of a person. That kind of influence was simply too terrifying.

It was fine as long as the deified person made no mistakes, but once they did, the consequences would be catastrophic.

Violence could destroy a person's body, but it could not destroy their spirit.

The person who had been deified would truly destroy the entire world.

Think of a certain Stalin from the former Soviet Union—he was a living example.

The result of deification was the direct planting of the seeds of the Alliance's collapse.

"There should be quite a few, right? I remember that someone at the Ninja Academy even came up with things like the Three Thoughts and Two Corrects."

Pakura said something that terrified Yunqing.

Girl, say that again. What was that? Three Thoughts, Two Corrects? Dear heavens, what exactly happened? Which big shot dared to play around like that?

Was this trying to shove this old man into a pit of fire?

Just imagine it: decades later, after his "death," someone in Sunagakure would stir up trouble using his ideas. In the end, they might be brought down yet still step down safely, while he would be left carrying the blame.

Yunqing instantly lost his composure and began pondering how to resolve this problem.

"Lord Kazekage, did I say something wrong?"

Seeing Yunqing's dark expression and the terrifying aura radiating around him, Pakura asked weakly. She realized that she seemed to have triggered some kind of bad G-spot.

Hearing Pakura's words, Yunqing immediately came back to his senses. He retracted his aura, and his expression cleared as he replied gently, "No, you did very well. It's just that some people triggered a task they shouldn't have touched."

"By the way, Pakura, do you like gold and silver jewelry?

"As a reward, I can give you some."

Looking at the jewelry shop Rasa and Karura had opened ahead of them, Yunqing asked with a smile.

The words on Pakura's lips instantly changed after she heard "gold and silver jewelry." "I do! Of course I do! Let me tell you, I saw a piece of gold jewelry last time that I really wanted to buy, but I didn't have enough money."

Watching Pakura's eyes sparkle as she became immersed in her fantasy world, Yunqing could not help but sigh.

Women... you really are all born in the year of the dragon. The moment you see something shiny, you can't walk anymore.

Thinking of his enormous savings with nowhere to spend them, Yunqing led Pakura straight inside.

Seeing that it was the Kazekage, Karura personally received them, with Rasa accompanying her.

Especially after hearing that Yunqing was buying something for Pakura, Karura brought out the gold and silver jewelry she had kept in her personal collection.

There were bracelets called "Fated for Three Lifetimes," rings called "See You in the Next Life,"

and everything else imaginable. Pakura blushed as she spent a long time picking through them, making Yunqing want to swear.

This was too outrageous. Those prices with so many zeroes—were they here to scam idiots?

Everyone knew that Rasa was a Magnetic Sand Gold-type ninja. Your family only needed to take a stroll through the sea of sand to pan for gold.

And yet you sold them for such ridiculous prices. Were you trying to add a tax?