Kusa Kage!

"Someone infiltrated Kusagakure?!"

Shinji was slightly surprised when he heard the news.

Konoha was completely different from the Konoha that had held the Chunin Ninja Exams in the original timeline.

Back then, the only people in Konoha who could truly be considered Kage Level were probably Third and the sinister Danzo.

The other adviser Elders, such as Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, were already old, and their strength had declined severely. Tsunade and Jiraiya were away from the village.

As for Jonin such as Kakashi, Might Guy, and Asuma, as well as noble clan heads and department heads like Hiashi and Shikaku, they still fell somewhat short of Kage Level in terms of sheer strength.

Only after opening the Eight Gates could Might Guy truly reach Kage Level, but the Eight Gates was a Forbidden Jutsu, and its use was subject to considerable restrictions.

Under those circumstances, Orochimaru had dared to launch the Konoha Crush Plan!

By contrast, the current Konoha had Jiraiya and Tsunade back, and all Five Kage gathered there. There were so many Kage Level experts that they could not be counted on both hands. For a moment, Shinji genuinely could not think of anyone who would dare infiltrate Konoha and cause trouble at a time like this.

"Could it be the Akatsuki Organization? Are they really that impatient, already preparing to launch another great war so soon?!"

Shinji frowned inwardly.

Before transplanting the First Hokage cells, he had relied on Karin successfully awakening the Rinnegan, and his attention to Sasuke, Ōtsutsuki Indra's reincarnation, had sharply declined.

But after transplanting the First Hokage cells, he discovered that Karin's Rinnegan alone was not enough to guarantee that he could awaken the Rinnegan himself. In the end, he still needed Ōtsutsuki Indra's Yin Release Chakra within Sasuke to perfectly