Hyuga Chiba Returned to His Loyal Sunagakure

Chiba currently only needed a constant supply of Chakra to support the consumption of his Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

Under these circumstances, the greater the potential of the New Tailed Beast, the better.

Besides, collecting Tailed Beasts and activating the conventional Sage Mode had always been part of his plan.

"It's time to go deal with what's outside."

After calming down, Chiba willed it, and his consciousness returned to the real world.

"After this, my Tenseigan's Second Awakening progress has increased by another 30%. Added to the previous 20%, that makes 50%..."

After sensing the Tenseigan's Second Awakening progress, Chiba felt even more delighted.

Compared to the New Tailed Beast that had not yet truly been born, the Tenseigan was his real foundation.

"However, the downside is that the Tenseigan's power is simply too great. Even Kage Level fighters like Rasa and Orochimaru, as well as Tailed Beasts like Shukaku, are no longer my opponents."

Chiba could not help but think regretfully, "Now that I no longer lack Chakra, even fewer people can threaten me."

"Otherwise, after this incident, I should have been able to gain even more Second Awakening progress for the Tenseigan."

Of course, Chiba would not deliberately let himself suffer setbacks or intentionally create powerful enemies he could not handle just to gain more Awakening progress.

As for what came next, he would leave it to time.

"Then now..."

Returning to his senses, Chiba turned his gaze back to the surrounding Sand Ninja, as well as Rasa and Orochimaru, and declared in an unquestionable tone, "From today onward, all of Sunagakure shall become my spoils of war and obey my every command."

"And... Orochimaru, in exchange for sparing your snake life, the Otogakure you established will also become part of my territory from this moment on."

"Who agrees? Who objects?"

In truth, Hyuga Chiba currently had two greatest goals. The first was to continuously increase his strength in order to face the future threat of the Otsutsuki Clan.

The second was to see what his Tenseigan would become after its Second Awakening, Third Awakening... and beyond.

And these two goals complemented each other.

On the other hand, Hyuga Chiba himself had little interest in ruling Sunagakure or unifying the Ninja World.

But with the atmosphere having reached this point, if he did nothing, he would feel as though he had come here for nothing.

Perhaps influenced by the idea of Unification of the World from his past life, whenever he looked at the Ninja World's scattered and chaotic state—divided into different villages and countries that constantly fought one another—he always felt uncomfortable.

Of course, this did not mean Chiba intended to become a caretaker for Sunagakure, Otogakure, or even the entire Ninja World.

Once they truly became a burden to him, he would abandon them without mercy.

At that moment, as Chiba's words fell, the entire scene went silent before erupting into an uproar.

"What did he say?"

"Our Sunagakure is now his... spoils of war?"

"What a bizarre way of putting it!"

"Is he joking? Does having power mean he can do whatever he wants?"

"But he does have the power to do whatever he wants."

"Is our entire Sunagakure going to become Hyuga Chiba's private property?"

"The Daimyo of the Land of Wind will never agree to this!"

"I have an idea. If we rename Sunagakure to 'Sand-Hiding Village,' then we won't have to worry about Sunagakure becoming Hyuga Chiba's spoils of war, right?"

"Good idea, but I'd like to make a slight adjustment. We'll name you 'Sunagakure,' and you can become Hyuga Chiba's spoils of war."

"Are you people even thinking clearly?"

For the Sand Ninja of Sunagakure, everything that had happened today was far too sudden and incomprehensible.

What caught them most off guard was that one second, they had been citizens of Sunagakure, and the next, they had become part of Hyuga Chiba's spoils of war?

In principle, no Sand Ninja could possibly accept such humiliating terms.

This was even more excessive than any so-called treaty that forfeited sovereignty and humiliated the nation.

But unfortunately, the "principle" was now in Hyuga Chiba's hands.

"Orochimaru-sama!"

"Are we really going to let Otogakure become part of Hyuga Chiba's territory?"

"Orochimaru-sama, that is your life's work! It is the home of us Sound Ninja!"

"And from what Hyuga Chiba said, even if we surrender Otogakure, it seems he still will not let us go?"

The Sound Four were also asking Orochimaru in utter panic.

Had they known Hyuga Chiba was so terrifying, they should have persuaded Orochimaru to target him from the beginning.

After all, Hyuga Chiba's target from the start had been Sunagakure's One-Tail Shukaku.

Orochimaru's group had merely formed a temporary alliance with Sunagakure to deal with Konoha. They had gained no tangible benefits, so why risk their lives?

"Orochimaru-sama, as long as you can escape, I am willing to use my life to stop Hyuga Chiba."

Kimimaro spoke to Orochimaru with a determined gaze.

"Escape? Why would I escape?"

After stretching out his long tongue and giving himself a wash across the face, Orochimaru said in an oddly excited tone, "You fools, if Chiba-kun truly wanted to kill us, we would have died long ago."

"And before his Tenseigan, even if you sacrifice your life, Kimimaro, you will not be able to stop him."

"Rather than fleeing, I want to know what Chiba-kun intends to do next."

Chiba had clearly had the chance to kill every one of them earlier, yet he had chosen to show mercy.

After successfully obtaining Shukaku's Chakra, he could have left immediately, but instead, he had proposed that Sunagakure become his spoils of war and that Otogakure become part of his territory.

All of this made Orochimaru believe that Hyuga Chiba most likely had some terrifying objective that no one could possibly anticipate.

Compared to a certain Kami who possessed another God's Eye and shouted "Almighty Push" all day, yet whose Akatsuki still remained obscure to this day, Orochimaru was now even more interested in the Hyuga Chiba before him.

Most importantly, Orochimaru was not easy to kill, so he had the right to take risks.

As for Otogakure, Kimimaro, and the Sound Four?

They were nothing more than pieces Orochimaru had created or cultivated for his own purposes.

Even if they all disappeared, he would not care too much.

"So now... what choice will you make?"

Quickly snapping out of the many thoughts in his mind, Orochimaru turned his gaze toward Rasa, whose expression had become incomparably grim.