The day after getting the obituary of Iwagakure, Yayoi did not waste time and rushed to Iwagakure with only Yaya and Komurasaki.
Since Land of Night is connected to the territory of Land of Earth, it only took Yayoi more than a day to successfully arrive at Iwagakure.
This is a ninja village built among mountains and valleys. It is surrounded by tall rock peaks, forming a stronger natural barrier than the sand dunes of Sunagakure.
The village is dotted with various round towers and fortress-style houses. They look gray and not very beautiful, but they are neat and stable.
Some waterfalls and rivers pass through Iwagakure, which are extremely important water supply points for this village.
At first glance, if I hadn't noticed that there is an extremely strong atmosphere of life here, with a large number of Ordinary People living here, I would have thought that this was an out-and-out military fortress, only for war service.
Just like Konoha, Iwagakure didn't think too much about it when he first built the village. He just regarded the ninja village as a ninja alliance. However, as Konoha continued to open up the road ahead and gathered more and more Ordinary People, other villages followed suit.
Even the important Ninja Academy is the same. In addition to the ninja clan, there are also a large number of civilian children with Chakra qualifications who are enrolled in school to learn ninja skills.
Although these civilian children currently lack the background, with the full support of Tsuchikage, it is only a matter of time before they become the new pillars of Iwagakure.
Not only that, when Ninja Academy imitated Konoha a few years ago, Wu also discussed similar issues with Yayoi in letters exchanged.
In terms of the time when the regime was established, Land of Night may not be as good as Land of Earth, but it has much more foundation than Iwagakure.
In the eyes of many people, Land of Night is like an alternative form of ninja village.
Wu also thinks so. Many things in Land of Night are worthy of reference by Ninja Village.
"This village has changed a lot."
Yayoi looked at the general layout of Iwagakure and found that many places had been significantly changed.
This was not the first time he personally visited Iwagakure. He had been here once a few years ago. At that time, the number of civilians was far less than it is now, and the atmosphere in the village was still more serious.
Now the population of Iwagakure is already larger than the population of many small countries.
"Let's go and visit the new Tsuchikage."
Yayoi took Yaya and Komurasaki to a huge round tower building in Iwagakure, where Tsuchikage Building is where Tsuchikage works.
The exaggerated and huge size far exceeds the surrounding buildings. You can spot it at first sight as soon as you enter the village.
As early as when First Tsuchikage Ishikawa was rumored to be seriously ill, Wu, who was the only candidate for Tsuchikage, although he was not Tsuchikage in name, his substantive power was no different from Tsuchikage. The only difference now is just one status.
The visit to Wu didn't take much time. In addition to Land of Night, there were also many delegations from countries and villages.
Wu, who has actually exercised Tsuchikage's power, naturally needs to receive these envoys one by one. In addition, Tsuchikage Ishikawa has just passed away, and there is inevitably some panic inside Iwagakure. He has been so busy these days that he can hardly keep his feet on the ground.
Therefore, Yayoi just did a routine thing and did not disturb the other party's work too much. He simply expressed condolences and left Tsuchikage Building to go to the temporary residence arranged by Iwagakure in advance to rest.
It is worth mentioning that Tsuchikage Ishikawa's grandson Ōnoki became Wu's assistant and part-time guard at this time. Obviously Wu was training him as the next Tsuchikage.
I just don't know if Ōnoki has mastered Dust Release after so many years of growth.
But what worries Yayoi the most is that even after so many years, Ōnoki's strength has increased, but as for his height...
Yayoi thought that the height of Ōnoki in his old age in the original work was due to his age. Now it seems that in the next few decades, Ōnoki's height will have no room to grow.
After staying at Iwagakure for two days, missions from other countries and villages also arrived one after another.
Konoha, Hidden Sand Village, and Hidden Cloud Village are all the shadows of First. Hidden Mist Village Since the shadow of First has passed away, it is Gengetsu and Second Mizukage who comes in person.
What's rare is that he, who was originally a sworn enemy of Wu, was very calm at this time and did not do anything or say anything out of the ordinary.
On the third day, Tsuchikage Ishikawa's funeral was officially held in the presence of villages from all over the world, paying their last respects to this old man who laid the foundation for Ninja World's peace and military life.
After the funeral, things are not over yet.
Just four days after the funeral, while the delegations from various villages from various countries had not yet left, Iwagakure took advantage of the situation and held the succession ceremony of Second Tsuchikage.
Yayoi can understand this approach.
Tsuchikage Ishikawa's sudden departure caught everyone off guard, but now is not the time to mourn. The undercurrent in the village must be calmed down as soon as possible, so as not to affect the development of the village.
The elders who intervene in important affairs of the Ninja Village based on their status and strength are the unique existence of Five Great Shinobi Nations.
In particular, having the power of a shadow without the official title of a shadow means that it is incomplete.
While the rest of Five Kage are here, the elders of Iwagakure, no matter how dissatisfied they are, do not dare to make any small moves at this time.
If the missions from various countries leave and no longer wants to successfully inherit the title of Shadow, it is very likely that some things will have to be given away.
"Your Majesty General, long time no see."
At the Tsuchikage succession ceremony, Yayoi was arranged next to the Sunagakure delegation.
In addition to Kazekage Retto, Shamon also traveled as a consultant to Kazekage.
"Long time no see, Sir Shamon. What's the matter?"
Yayoi is curious about Shamon's purpose.
In recent years, Shamon has basically hosted the cooperation transactions between Land of Night and Sunagakure.
As far as he knows, Retto has effectively transferred part of his Kazekage power to Shamon. It can be said that Shamon's position as the second most powerful person in Sunagakure is as stable as a mountain.
"It's like this. After several years, Rōran's Dragon Vein has recovered again. Do you think you should find a time to send someone to collect some back for research?"
Shamon goes straight to the topic. I hope Yayoi will send someone to Rōran to collect the Chakra that grew out of Dragon Vein.
As long as the ground of Rōran is not necrotic, even if it is harvested, Dragon Vein Chakra will still recover automatically.
In the eyes of Shamon, this is an 'infinite energy source' that can keep making money for Sunagakure every few years!
In order to prevent Rōran from accidents, he specially sent dozens of elite sand ninjas to protect Rōran, rotating them every three years.
"..."
Yayoi didn't know how to complain about Shamon's words for a while.
Is that something from Hidden Sand Village that you just want to use to make money?
However, Shamon's words really made him tempted.
After several years of hard work, his research on Dragon Vein Chakra has basically been completed.
I have to admit that the special properties of Dragon Vein Chakra do have high practical value.
Taking Barrier Jutsu as an example, he found that Barrier expanded by Dragon Vein Chakra would have special abilities that ordinary Barrier does not have.
He has done experiments with Summoning Technique, and found that the performance of Summoning Technique will be greatly affected by the shield Barrier deployed by Dragon Vein Chakra, leading to failure.
Even if he cast it successfully, he could not summon the Summoning Beast target he imagined.
It was finally determined that within the Barrier formed by Dragon Vein Chakra, the success probability of successfully summoning the designated Summoning Beast is no more than 30%.
Yayoi suspects that this is related to Dragon Vein Chakra's own space-time power.
If we continue along this path and further develop Barrier Jutsu, we may be able to completely disrupt and block the unfolding of Summoning Technique, and even... make the remaining Space-Time Ninjutsu completely ineffective and interfered with in Barrier.
(Chapter 2 will be updated in the evening. I went out to eat first and will continue coding when I come back.)