After sending a bottle of Water of Life to Hiruzen Sarutobi under the guise of an excuse, Tamura Hiroshi continued to hole up at home, enjoying life while cultivating.
The grand drama he valued was the great undertaking of establishing Lord Danzo's Shinobi Nation, and he had little interest in the initial stages of the Great Ninja War, chiefly because there were no opponents who could spark his interest.
Compared to that, his own cultivation was far more important. Over the past five years, he had pushed the nature transformations of all five basic attributes to their limits, and the wind and fire elements had undergone a transmutation just like Lightning Style, fusing into one.
The nature transformations of both water and earth attributes had also been cultivated to the peak, leaving only the need to transmute them into dominant attributes and then carry out the transformation.
Now that the earth attribute had been strengthened into a dominant attribute via Bloodline Fusion, he naturally needed to quickly complete the transmutation of its nature transformation, especially the transmutation involving gravitational and repulsive forces.
Aside from that, he also needed to guide lightning into his body to forge the Lightning Sage Body.
All of these tasks consumed a great deal of energy, and accompanying his wives consumed a fair amount of energy as well—or rather, essence.
Fortunately, his physique could hold up.
"The fighting over there has been going on for quite a while now. Aren't you going to go take a look?"
Tsunade reclined sideways on a rocking chair, sipping fruit juice handed to her by a certain someone while bringing up the subject of the war.
Both sides had been locked in a standoff at the border for over half a year, and after a few small-scale engagements and tentative