While Ereshkigal was raising hell in the Underworld, the present world had also fallen into a frenzy of activity. Every nation's lingering historical problems had to be resolved, every nation's status had to be settled, the cultural differences between nations had to be addressed, and so on and so forth. There was a mountain of work.
This was the downside of launching the plan ahead of schedule. With Konoha's strength, unifying the Shinobi World had actually been possible several years ago, but it was precisely because they had worried about this that they had kept holding off, intending to assimilate the Shinobi World first.
Unfortunately, plans could not keep up with change.
Still, it was not too bad. Shiro and the others had also prepared a backup plan to deal with the current situation. The so-called backup plan was, in truth, simply to imitate the sages of old: standardize the script, standardize the roads, and unify weights and measures.
The pressure in this regard was not small. After all, the cultural differences between regions were simply too vast. In many places, the local culture had evolved according to local circumstances. It was impossible to impose a single blanket solution, yet they could not leave everything completely unchanged either.
Because of that, over the past two days, Minato's group and the Daimyo's Mansion had practically been worked to madness.
The others were not idle either. Orochimaru had basically recalled all his clones and thrown himself wholeheartedly into cloning Tailed Beast Chakra and creating a vessel for the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, while Enkidu ran all over the world, driving runes one after another into the earth.
Although the work of extracting Chakra could be replaced by the God Tree, unless there was truly no other choice, Shiro did not want to do so.