Hashirama Senju knew his strength was worlds apart from Hagoromo Otsutsuki's.
Still, he was plenty strong. And with his Impure World Reincarnation body, he had a virtually endless supply of Chakra and never grew tired. If he really had to build a Mountain Range to shield the Shinobi World, he felt he could do it. It would just take a great deal of effort.
For the sake of the Shinobi World, Hashirama was willing to make that effort.
"If you take the Land of Rain, are you planning to move against the Land of Wind next?" Tobirama Senju quickly grasped Uchiha Yi's intentions.
"That's the idea. The Land of Wind has always had its sights set on the Land of Fire." Uchiha Yi nodded slightly. He had not forgotten Sunagakure.
In both the Second Shinobi World War and the Third Shinobi World War, Sunagakure had been a central force in the fight against Konoha.
Then there was the so-called Konoha Crush Plan. Sunagakure's ambitions were plain to see, though they were not entirely hard to understand.
The Land of Wind was vast, but it was also genuinely poor. Worse, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind sent missions to Konoha while cutting Sunagakure's military funding. It would have been stranger if Sunagakure had done nothing.
"The Land of Wind?" Hashirama recalled the first Five Kage Summit. To be honest, the First Kazekage had been quite a character.
"The Land of Wind isn't a bad choice, but we'll need to prepare well in advance," Uchiha Yi said, narrowing his eyes. "If we can truly bring prosperity to the Land of Wind,
the civilians will naturally side with us.
As for what the Sand Shinobi think, that's beyond our control."
Uchiha Yi did not care what became of Sunagakure. What he wanted