The younger generation might only have known Yanbai through legends.
But the current Kage were different.
None of them dared underestimate Yanbai.
Yanbai's policy of striking at people's hearts had proved highly effective.
Beneath the Humanoid White Rose, the landmark of Earth, Fire, and Lightning Memorial Park, stood a memorial tablet.
That tablet bore an epitaph for the Third Raikage A.
Though epitaphs were meant for the dead, they were written for the living to read.
An epitaph reflected the attitude of the living.
Yanbai had not deliberately smeared the Third Raikage. The epitaph was thoroughly objective, like a blade piercing the divide between life and death, listing both the Third Raikage's great achievements for his nation and his heinous crimes in instigating war.
It also served to intimidate the other Four Countries.
And it made the Land of Fire remember the wounds and cruelty of war, as well as the hardship, blood, and tears of the soldiers and shinobi who had defended it.
Even now, the Kage of the major shinobi villages still felt uneasy whenever Yanbai came up. That old immortal was simply too formidable.
No one could withstand a confrontation with him.
Yanbai was an exceptionally dangerous individual.
Accepting Yanbai's invitation was an enormous risk. They might very well never return.
But refusing his invitation would only get them killed sooner.
Perhaps Yanbai was waiting for them to refuse, waiting for them to display hostility.
Since they would die either way, they might as well go and take a look.
Whatever one did, one should never work against human nature.
Meanwhile, the Third Kazekage was in Sunagakure, in the Land of Wind.
He had been smiling over Sunagakure's latest account books in his office when another Meteor Shower Invitation arrived.
Compared with the terror he had felt