Tengai Shinsei

Long Ye looked at Pakura and said with a smile, "Five years passed in the blink of an eye, yet you haven't changed at all."

In Long Ye's eyes, Pakura looked exactly the same as she had five years ago.

Perhaps five years was too short to leave even the slightest trace on her face.

Pakura seemed delighted by Long Ye's words, and a sincere smile appeared on her face.

"By the way! I just got back and found the Shinobi World engulfed in the flames of war. What exactly happened?"

Long Ye began asking about the changes in the Shinobi World's situation over the past few years.

Pakura began describing everything that had happened in the Shinobi World over the past five years, sparing no detail...

Things had indeed unfolded just as Long Ye expected. The war currently sweeping across the entire Shinobi World was a conflict between the Death God Church and the Allied Shinobi Forces.

The only thing that surprised him was that the war had not been initiated by the Death God Church, which was regarded as a cult, but by the Allied Shinobi Forces of the Five-Nation Alliance.

But after thinking about it, he understood.

The Death God Church had continued to grow, already threatening the Five Nations' position as the leaders of the Shinobi World.

If it continued to spread, the Five Nations would eventually collapse from within. At that point, the Death God Church would rule the Shinobi World through ideology without needing to wage war at all.

Thus, this war had been forced into existence by the relentless pressure of an external power.

The war's scope was so vast that it had clearly surpassed the Third Shinobi World War. The Shinobi World had already recognized it as the beginning of the Fourth