Was the Shinobi World chaotic now? To be honest, it was actually far more stable than when the daimyo controlled the countries.
Although there were politicians among the shinobi, unlike those noble classes who had ruled for over a thousand years, they still possessed at least a little conscience and a few moral boundaries.
It was already fortunate that, after ruling for so many years, those daimyo nobles had not created something like the Celestial Dragons of the Pirate World.
The turmoil in the Shinobi World was inseparable from the friction between the daimyo and the ninja villages.
Now, the major ninja villages and countries were contracting their spheres of influence. Everything within them was being reshuffled, and benefits were being redistributed.
This was actually a good thing. Society always progressed through the redistribution of interests.
However, for those who had once benefited from the system, it was no good thing.
"Can the current peace truly be called peace?"
Land of Rain, Hidden Rain Village.
Nagato's body had recovered very well. He no longer looked like a hollow-eyed, kidney-deficient wreck.
Even his legs had recovered. Forget walking normally—he could even use the Body Flicker Technique.
Anything produced by Orochimaru was bound to be top-quality!
Orochimaru was quite protective of his own. Nagato and Konan were Jiraiya's disciples, so technically, they should have called him Uncle Master.
He and Konan returned to the Hidden Rain Village. The Land of Rain had now merged into Konoha and become part of Konoha Country.
Since the intelligence network they had left behind was still intact, he also requested Kakuzu and Zabuza Momochi back.
Konoha's land reclamation project had been temporarily shelved. There was an entirely new world to develop, so there was no time to deal with wastelands.
In truth, given tens of thousands