Kazekage Missing

Tsunade stayed in Takigakure for three full years.

During these three years, Takigakure seemed to become her object of observation, Konoha's object of observation.

Everything that happened in this village converged into one word.

Madness.

The village leader, Oguri Hayashi, had gone mad, and everyone in the village had gone mad.

Besides madness, Tsunade couldn't find any other way to explain everything that defied the common sense of the ninja world.

Oguri Hayashi decreed that everyone in Takigakure must work unconditionally for the village for thirty hours a week.

He also decreed that those who worked more than two hundred hours for the village could exchange it for a ninjutsu.

The threshold for obtaining ninjutsu was outrageously low.

In Konoha, you had to complete countless missions for Konoha, pass a political assessment, and then apply, and finally, whether the Hokage approved or not, you could obtain a ninjutsu with a training difficulty of C to B.

As for A-rank ninjutsu? You'd better find a master honestly, as those are secret techniques passed down only to disciples. The Shadow Clone Jutsu, with its A-rank training difficulty, not only had severe side effects but was also unsuitable for those with [normal] chakra. The Chidori and Rasengan were merely A-rank ninjutsu!

It was precisely because of this that when Oguri Hayashi unconditionally taught his Shadow Clone Jutsu to his subordinates, he easily won their hearts. They were extremely loyal to Oguri Hayashi for teaching them this B-rank ninjutsu without any conditions.

Oguri Hayashi was, of course, considering improving their strength to enhance their team's combat effectiveness, which would greatly increase his survival rate on the battlefield.

On the other hand, he didn't place much importance on the rules between different schools and secret techniques.

And in Takigakure, his ideology was thoroughly implemented: anyone who worked over two hundred hours could exchange for ninjutsu.

Furthermore, his ninjutsu had no prerequisites.

And his descriptions of ninjutsu were extremely bizarre.

So bizarre that Tsunade didn't know how to describe his words to her teacher.

He was extremely generous with the Shadow Clone Jutsu and the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu. His introduction was: Shadow Clone Jutsu, a ninjutsu with difficult training, can be used to make one person do the work of two when doing farm chores.

Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, extremely difficult to train, but it's a ninjutsu that allows one person to cultivate the entire village's land.

Lightning Release Body Cultivation Technique, allows you to become as strong as an ox, a ninjutsu that allows one person to plow fields as effectively as an ox...

Such analogies were very common and could be seen everywhere.

He simply wrote a sign and placed it at the village entrance. It wasn't just for Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu and Lightning Release Body Cultivation Technique; Earth Release and Water Release were also listed.

Anything Oguri Hayashi knew, he would generously teach to these villagers, even including the mandatory hour of practicing his style martial arts with him every morning.

This was a village where everyone practiced martial arts and ninjutsu. In this village, obtaining ninjutsu was not difficult at all.

But there were no warriors here.

Unbelievably, the only person in the entire village who could fight was Oguri Hayashi.

The reason they practiced ninjutsu was simply to make their daily lives more convenient.

Those who practiced Earth Release did so to make road construction more convenient; those who practiced Water Release did so to make watering more convenient; those who practiced Taijutsu did so to make farming and logging more convenient.

In this place, no one practiced ninjutsu with the intention of killing enemies; they all did so for a better life. However, precisely because of this, their Earth Release speed was faster than that of the ninjutsu most proficient in Earth Release, and their bodies, through years of Taijutsu practice, were stronger than those of Taijutsu specialists.

They couldn't fight at all. Apart from hunting, they had never fought any ninja. However, precisely because of this, in Tsunade's eyes, they were the most terrifying.

Over the course of three years, Tsunade observed the village cautiously, like a cat. After the external roads were completed two years ago, the village's population began to develop rapidly. Strangers gradually moved in in family units, and the village's population slowly grew from forty to fifty people to the current scale of around two hundred.

There were no spies among the newcomers. Tsunade understood that if she didn't pass on the information, no spy would come to such a village because it held no value.

Without value, a spy wouldn't be wasted here.

Takigakure was completely unresisting to newcomers and never discriminated against them.

This non-discrimination extended to ninjutsu learning.

This large group of ordinary people had no idea how precious the ninjutsu they were learning was. They were only striving to practice it to gain convenience and higher productivity.

Instead, it was this practice attitude, so different from that of ninjas, that created the current miracle of Takigakure.

With over two hundred people in Takigakure, everyone practicing ninjutsu meant that most of them were essentially Genin.

Then, seventy to eighty of them, with relatively good aptitude, became Chunin.

The number of High Ninja was astonishing – more than twenty!

One must remember that High Ninja were already the core backbone of a ninja village. Konoha had only about a hundred High Ninja, and the twelve High Ninja who protected the Daimyo of the Land of Fire were only twelve. In the future, the eighty thousand ninja allied army fighting against White Zetsu would have only eight thousand Chunin out of ten, and out of those eight thousand Chunin, only eight hundred High Ninja would be selected. Then, averaging across five countries, each country would have no more than a hundred High Ninja, and this was an extremely optimistic estimate. Here, more than twenty High Ninja already constituted one-fifth of Konoha's total High Ninja.

And Konoha's High Ninja had the right to vote for the Hokage.

Of course, it's worth mentioning that all the [ninja] here referred to those with corresponding chakra.

In reality, there were no true ninjas. They had not undergone any formal ninja training, could not perform the Three Jutsu or handle ninja tools, nor did they know any tactics or reconnaissance. However, even with just this, Konoha was already salivating.

Facts proved Oguri Hayashi right. He didn't set any learning prerequisites, but ordinary people had no interest in the Three Jutsu. Very few even wanted to learn ninjutsu like the Flying Thunder God Technique. Most people preferred ninjutsu that could help them improve their lives.

Although these people were still using ninjutsu, it was as if they were living in different dimensions as different people.

It was the first time Tsunade understood that ninjas could live this way.

However, with the arrival of a piece of news, the peace here was shattered.

The Kazekage had gone missing.

Oguri Hayashi naturally understood the implications of this information. He pushed open the door of his room and walked out, saying loudly, "Summon all the High Ninja. I have an order to issue."