The Ninja Villages Show Their Skills

Ye Zhuo lived quite leisurely every day, utterly unconcerned with the worries of the outside world.

The Land of Lightning was vast, and ever since it had been incorporated into the Shadow Empire's blueprint,

the Shinobi World had fallen completely into chaos.

Next, Ye Zhuo could become a sharp blade and strike at the remaining three major ninja villages at any time.

Some matters that had once only been causes for concern now began to unfold one after another.

Orochimaru of Hidden Sound Village had always been concealed there. It had originally been an extremely safe place, with the Land of Lightning, Land of Hot Water, and Land of Iron nearby as shields.

Unexpectedly, all of those places had fallen into Ye Zhuo's hands.

The old rules had been that ninja could fight one another to the death while the daimyo rested easy.

Until Ye Zhuo appeared and shattered every rule of the game, overturning the entire chessboard with one godlike kick.

The outbreak of war was inevitable.

The three major ninja villages ultimately decided to meet in Rain Hidden Village, which lay in the middle.

As a result, the Akatsuki, who had originally been hiding there, found themselves rather uncomfortable.

They had just amassed enough funds to begin their plan of seeking the tailed beasts.

Then Ye Zhuo took the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, and Eight-Tails all for himself, greatly increasing the difficulty of their plan.

Now that the three major ninja villages were all coming here for a meeting, things became even more troublesome.

Vaguely, some daimyo had already spent enormous sums to hire the Akatsuki to assassinate Ye Zhuo.

"Assassinate Demon Shadow?"

Konoha, the Hokage's office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi slapped the table and stood up.

"Demon Shadow's strength is unfathomable. He may very well be comparable to the First Hokage,