It Must Be Authentic

At the border of the Land of Fire, Qingcheng, along with Tsunade, a group of Konoha Ninja, and a group of Police Force personnel, were still heading towards the Konoha Earth Flow.

The Flying Thunder God Squad was also part of the Konoha Ninja Allied Forces. Genma Shiranui and the others were tasked with gathering intelligence.

The Kuroki Clan and Kamizuru Clan, along with a group of Konoha Ninja, have returned to Konoha. Both clans were new to Konoha, Qingcheng wouldn't allow them to fight.

In the battle against Ōnoki's Hidden Stone Village, Qingcheng faced little pressure. Having plundered so much money from Hidden Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning, it was safe to say the advantage was on his side; Konoha's economy was completely unbreakable.

Economy is the foundation of strength. Training commoner ninjas in the village requires a lot of start-up capital. Commoner ninjas have very little Chakra, which is far less than that of clan ninjas.

Even the Uchiha Clan, whose Chakra reserves aren't particularly high, are miles ahead of ordinary ninjas. The first reason is the clan's Ninjutsu they can learn, and the second is their physical attributes. Clan ninjas have elders who select appropriate medicinal herbs to help their juniors strengthen their bodies and increase their Chakra reserves.

Even the Uchiha Clan is in the same boat. These expensive medicinal herbs require a lot of money, and ordinary ninjas don't have that kind of money to buy them. They might not even have the recipes.

To compare Chakra levels, a commoner ninja has only 1, a typical clan ninja has 10, the Uchiha Clan has 15, and a pure- Senju Bloodline can have up to 100 Chakra.

As for why Qingcheng knows so much about the Senju Clan, don't ask. The answer is simple: the Uchiha Clan and Senju Clan have been fighting for hundreds of years. The Uchiha Clan as tough as iron, while the Senju Clan as blacksmiths.

Speaking of which, Qingcheng has to say, is there anyone who understands the Senju Clan better than the Uchiha Clan? They were old rivals, fighting from the moment they met, gritting their teeth and fighting even when they couldn't win, until finally they were all defeated by Wood Release Ninjutsu.

Upon hearing the explosion at the Konoha Camp, Qingcheng immediately used his Perception Technique to detect that a battle had broken out on the border, and the explosions were quite powerful.

Qingcheng thought to himself, "Has the war already begun? It's that short Ōnoki coming over." Then he turned to Tsunade and said, "It's all your fault, you naturally stupid Tsunade! I told you, I'd use the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave first. The Hidden Stone Village are opportunistic bandits; those guys won't give up what they've got. What if our border ninja suffer heavy losses? Don't they need to pay out compensation?"

Tsunade activated her Perception Technique and, seeing the explosions coming from the border, said seriously, "Those are piles of Explosive Tag. Don't tell me you didn't sense them. Are you deliberately trying to cause trouble? Uchiha Clan, you're born to cause trouble."

Qingcheng looked at Tsunade's serious face and then said, "Your Perception Technique is not good. It must be because you haven't worked hard enough. After all these years, has your strength increased or not?"

Tsunade saw Qingcheng looking down at her and instantly realized he was looking down on her. She roared angrily, "I Mind's Eye of the Kagura! You say my Perception Technique is no good? My grandmother is the princess of the Uzumaki Clan! How dare you, an Uchiha Clan, come looking for trouble with me? How do you know I haven't been working hard? My strength has been improving all these years!"

Tsunade possesses a quarter of the direct Uzumaki Bloodline and three-quarters of the direct Senju Bloodline —all top-tier attributes. Qingcheng has already obtained these rewards from Tsunade, so he knows very well just how powerful Tsunade bloodline is. But using Tsunade as a medical ninja is a complete waste of her talent.

Therefore, Qingcheng loved to teach Tsunade whenever he had free time, urging her to improve her strength. Tsunade possessed pure Wood Release Bloodline, so reaching at least the Super Kage Level, or even approaching the Pseudo-Six Paths Level, wouldn't be too difficult for her.

"As long as the Sage Body and Wood Release Bloodline are properly developed, reaching Hashirama's level in the Future is possible! Even Pseudo-Six Paths Level is achievable. It would be a powerful force to use against the Otsutsuki Clan or to start the Fourth Great Ninja War."

There was another reason why Qingcheng kept pushing Tsunade: he was planning for a second child. The stronger Tsunade became, the richer the system's rewards would be, allowing him to train for several years less and significantly increase his strength—a win-win situation.

Just then, a group of people appeared from afar, led by Nara Shikadai and a large group of Konoha border ninja.

Shikadai saw that the team brought by Qingcheng numbered at least eight thousand, and included Tsunade, Kakashi, the head of the Police Force, Shouhon Yihan, Konoha's top mission ninja Kurofuji Kumo-ma, and Konoha's Elite Jonin, Hayakumo Sōma. "This is already considered a high-ranking force from Konoha,"

Nara Shikadai smiled slightly and respectfully said, "Hokage- sama, I've heard about your war against the Raikage. You single-handedly defeated the A and Killer B from Kumogakure and captured the Second Jinchuriki. I have the utmost respect for you. As for the battle with Hidden Stone Village, the two sides bombarded each other with Ninjutsu in the morning, and then bombarded each other with Explosive Tag in the afternoon, and even exchanged insults through loudspeakers."

Upon hearing Shikadai's words, Qingcheng said with a serious expression, "Did you win the bombing? Did you win the verbal battle? Did the Stone Ninja on the other side insult my sage?"

Looking at Qingcheng's serious face, Shikadai thought to himself, "Hokage Hokage's aura is terrifying. If we had lost the argument, would he have beaten me up on the spot? Luckily, we both won."

Shikamaru Nara immediately nodded and said with a serious expression, "Reporting to the Hokage, we Konoha Ninja used even more vulgar insults, completely overwhelming the Stone Ninja on the other side. We even gave a friendly greeting to the 18th Sage who Ōnoki of the Two Scales, including Ōnoki's grandfather, the First Tsuchikage, who was also insulted by us Konoha Ninja."

Hearing this, Qingcheng realized that the Konoha Ninja had won the verbal battle. Friction in the Shinobi World, once it escalates into a war of words, is simply a straightforward exchange of insults, with each side pointing at the other village's Kage and shouting abuse. Often, before the actual war even begins, the eighteenth generation of those village Kage have already been killed.

Seeing Tsunade, Qingcheng then asked, "Head of the Shikadai Clan! Did those Hidden Stone Ninja insult the First Hokage? If so, repeat it to Tsunade, making sure it's a truthful account without cutting corners."