Looking at the people's varied expressions, Tsunade furrowed her brows and asked in a low, worried voice:
"Are we really just going to tell them this intelligence...?"
They had obtained over two hundred million taels of silver, sure, but would something happen because of it?
With Kirigakure in such a weakened state, it was not only the other major shinobi villages that were tempted—even the smaller shinobi villages were itching to make a move!
Yet Ye Ning showed no concern at all. He patted Tsunade's plump thigh, sending ripples through it as he reassured her:
"Don't worry. Nothing will go wrong."
Ye Ning was completely confident about that.
Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure might have seemed quite tempted now, but once they returned and thought things over carefully, they would quickly make the right decision.
Kirigakure appeared to have undergone a major purge and suffered a decline in strength, but in reality, defeating Kirigakure—or even reaching the territory of the Land of Water—would be an extremely difficult task.
The reason was still the same—the Land of Water's unique geography.
That special geographical position destined Kirigakure and the Land of Water to be places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Unless they possessed overwhelmingly superior strength, the major shinobi villages had no way of tearing a piece of flesh from Kirigakure.
As long as Kirigakure was not brain-dead enough to cross the sea on its own initiative and enter the inland nations, it could rest easy.
As for the smaller shinobi villages eyeing it greedily...
There was even less reason to worry about them.
Kirigakure's strength was indeed far inferior to major shinobi villages like Konoha and Iwagakure, but it had once been one of the Five Great Shinobi Nations. A starved camel was still bigger than a horse;