Tsunade's Compromise, the Deeply Bound Konoha Sacred Land

Tsunade's breathing grew heavier and heavier.

She finally understood why Lumen had insisted on challenging Hashirama.

Defeating Kumogakure could only prove that Uchiha possessed the strength to crush a major ninja village.

Only by defeating the God of Shinobi could he make the entire Shinobi World acknowledge that he had reached a pinnacle no shinobi had ever touched.

Reforming Uchiha, establishing the Temple, cultivating a large number of powerful fighters, securing commercial rights in the Land of Lightning, then binding Konoha through a hundred-billion project.

What had once seemed like scattered actions had, at this moment, become completely linked together.

Every step had been paving the way for Lumen to ascend to godhood.

Tsunade suddenly recalled the prophecy Jiraiya had once mentioned.

It was a vision the Great Toad Sage had seen in a dream.

Someone stood above all living beings in the Shinobi World.

Countless followers gathered at his feet. The Five Great Countries bowed their heads, the major ninja villages submitted, and the entire Shinobi World looked up at a single figure.

When Jiraiya had recounted that dream, Tsunade had only found it absurd.

The Great Toad Sage's dreams had always been vague, and prophecies did not necessarily come true. Making the Five Great Countries and every ninja village bow at once sounded more like baseless fantasy.

But now, Lumen had already defeated Hashirama, who possessed seventy or eighty percent of his strength from when he was alive.

The Uchiha Shrine even possessed four pairs of Mangekyo, ten Kage Level fighters, and dozens of Jonin.

Combined with a cultivation system capable of breaking through the Kage Level barrier, nearly endless lifespans, and the vast resources of the Land of Lightning.

That dream, once so absurd that no one believed it, seemed to truly have a chance of becoming