With the Land of Fire taken care of, Konoha no longer had any worries holding it back and pushed ahead with its reforms at full strength.
When the various Families first saw the envoy arrive, they had hoped the Fifth Hokage would clash with the Land of Fire's envoy. Yet the Fifth Hokage kept putting off meeting him, and now the envoy had left in a hurry.
This left the various Families utterly baffled. Only after making some inquiries did they learn that the Fifth Hokage had quietly won over the Land of Fire's Daimyō.
Their hopes were dashed. With the tide in Konoha now turning, they had no choice but to bow their heads. They simply could not understand how the Fifth Hokage had persuaded the Daimyō to accept such outrageously defiant reforms in Konoha.
Now that the major matters were settled, Ye Feng could not be bothered with the rest. The overall direction had already been set, so presumably nothing would go wrong.
What Ye Feng urgently wanted to understand now was what exactly had caused that sudden increase in his comprehension in the Land of Fire.
After returning, Ye Feng had thought about it for a long time and narrowed it down to two basic possibilities. One was that he had received sincere gratitude from those people and gained something in return, similar to the power of faith in Buddhism.
The second was that Ye Feng had gained merit by punishing evil.
Ye Feng soon found a target for his experiment: the refugees he had brought back from Black Wind Stockade many years ago.
Ye Feng could be considered their benefactor. Now that Konoha intended to become self-sufficient, it needed a large population to support it all the more. If he brought those people back, they would