The judgment shook the world like a mountain collapse. Far away in Rōran, Rikusei felt the storm that had rocked the Shinobi World through publications from every nation.
Under the cover of night, Konoha, this peerless ferocious beast, had opened its maw to the entire Shinobi World for the first time, swallowing up all hopes and greed alike.
The Land of Earth, whose territory had changed, was like the Land of Wind in that it no longer truly lived up to its name.
The mountainous territory stretching for thousands of miles had been transformed by the Rinnegan and Wood Release, becoming completely renewed and genuinely fit for habitation.
However, the names Land of Earth and Land of Wind, like the Land of Fire, had circulated throughout the Shinobi World for centuries. Changing what people called them would take a long time.
Separated by nearly ten thousand miles, the two Kage of Wind and Earth independently chose to copy Konoha, adding the word "Ninja" to their original national names.
Earth Ninja Nation, Wind Ninja Nation.
Beneath the laboratory's incandescent lights, Rikusei lightly shook the newspaper, skipping over the interviewer's excessive flattery as he continued reading about Konoha's internal affairs.
A few days before the trial assembly, the Alliance Research Institute had, quite coincidentally, announced that the key to becoming a Sage had officially been mastered by shinobi.
Without much hesitation, they immediately began the first large-scale trial of the Sage Pills under the witness of the Black Receivers.
Those qualified to participate in the trials were originally elites from every ninja nation.
Their immense chakra reserves determined their status and, naturally, influenced their say in matters.
The wondrous feeling of Natural Energy entering their bodies and merging with chakra truly left the trial subjects exhilarated. The explosive public reaction directly overshadowed