After spending two months living an uninhibited and comfortable life in the peninsula, Hiroshi Tamura finally headed to the Land of Rivers with everyone.
Because the rivers in the Land of Rivers all flowed outward and contained many torrential sections, sailing up them was impossible; they could only disembark and proceed on foot.
Fortunately, everyone was a shinobi and deeply skilled in traveling on foot.
Even the Rock shinobi, famed for their short legs, displayed astonishing endurance, arriving at Sunagakure's camp here on the second day after landing—namely the former Kikyō Mountain Castle, which Sunagakure had not only repaired but significantly expanded and fortified, making it worthy of being called a mountain fortress.
Similarly, the Konoha frontline four hundred kilometers away welcomed many new faces.
With the Four Village Allied Forces gathering here, Konoha naturally could not ignore it.
The tragic battle on the peninsula earlier had left all of them feeling immense pressure, and now the Daimyos of the Four Great Nations had already issued orders dispatching their subordinate samurai armies to march out and coordinate in combat, evidently attempting to seize the opportunity to carve up the Land of Fire.
No one could resist the temptation of expanding their territory, but the primary reason the Daimyos of the Four Great Nations made such a decision lay in the bizarre death of the Daimyos of the Land of Fire and the succession of the new Daimyo.
Although on the surface things looked fine without major issues, their investigations had uncovered faint traces pointing directly to the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi of Konoha.
This time, the Daimyos of the Four Great Nations could no longer sit still; they were already dissatisfied with the emergence of the shinobi village era as a helpless compromise, and now the shadows of the shinobi