Upon seeing the Third Mizukage, Ziyun immediately feigned seriousness and said...
Who attacked?
The Third Mizukage, unaware of the gravity of the situation, looked at Ziyun with a puzzled expression, while simultaneously opening his tightly closed eyes a crack.
In truth, Ziyun didn't know why the Third Mizukage kept his eyes closed. Could it be that he also Observation Haki?
However, the Third Mizukage's eyes are now open, even if only slightly, it's enough for Ziyun.
"I."
Ziyun smiled slightly and immediately transformed into his own appearance.
Immediately, a pair of Sharingan with Mitsudomoe appeared in Ziyun's eyes.
Sharingan: Genjutsu!
The pupils in the Mangekyō Sharingan spun wildly, and then the Third Mizukage's eyes transformed into the shape of Mitsudomoe.
The Third Mizukage, that unlucky fellow, hadn't even realized what was happening before he was easily controlled by Ziyun.
After all, it all happened so fast that the Third Mizukage couldn't react in time.
It's not really the Third Mizukage's fault.
After all, little did he know that Ziyun had entered Kirigakure from the Land of Water without arousing any suspicion from the Kirigakure Ninja, so the Third Mizukage had no guard up at all.
"It went surprisingly smoothly."
Seeing that the Third Mizukage was so easily controlled, Ziyun laughed.
He possesses the Perfect Sage Body, Sharingan Genjutsu allows him to easily control the Third Mizukage, a Kage Level powerhouse.
By controlling the Third Mizukage, the plan was already half successful. All that remained was for the Kirigakure ninjas to kill each other.
Ziyun then began to peruse information about Kirigakure and some past documents.
In fact, Ziyun already knew this information, because White Zetsu had investigated almost everything.
Ke Ziyun still wanted to find out for herself, just in case White Zetsu tried anything funny.
Fortunately, White Zetsu is very honest, and the intelligence is almost always accurate.
Ziyun dared not be disobedient; if he did, Ziyun would probably go looking for trouble with Madara Uchiha.
As White Zetsu's intelligence indicated, there are three major clans with Kekkei Genkai within Kirigakure: the Hozuki Clan, the Kaguya Clan, and the Yuki Clan.
These three great clans have many geniuses, such as Hozuki Mangetsu, the older brother of Hozuki Suigetsu in the original work, who Hozuki Mangetsu who can use seven Ninja Blade.
There are other geniuses, such as the second batch of users of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, like Juzo Biwa, Munashi Jinpachi, and Suikazan Fuguki. These people are still kids, around 9 or 10 years old.
However, at Kirigakure Academy, these people already had outstanding grades and were all top-ranking geniuses.
As for the current Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Ziyun had never heard of them, but Ziyun had no intention of recruiting them.
Because they are already adults, for Ziyun, childhood geniuses are the easiest to control and brainwash.
Once they lose faith in the ninja village, they will become completely corrupted and wholeheartedly serve the Kumogakure and themselves.
As for adult geniuses, Ziyun doesn't plan to keep them; he'll just kill them all.
Let the Third Mizukage take the blame.
" The Kirigakure Anbu, heed my command..."
Ziyun then took control of the Third Mizukage and issued orders.
Such a large ninja village is bound to have internal conflicts, especially among the powerful clans with Kekkei Genkai.
The Kaguya Clan, the Yuki Clan, and the Hozuki Clan, three major clans, already had considerable internal conflicts.
There were also considerable conflicts between these powerful clans and commoner ninjas.
By exploiting these contradictions, it's easy to make them erupt and turn against each other.
To be even more straightforward and brutal, one could simply do what Obito Uchiha in the original story: have the children kill each other at the Ninja Academy.
In short Ziyun has many ways to control Kirigakure and achieve his goal of exploiting it.
He spent about a week in Kirigakure, meticulously planning everything, including how to incite the bloodline clans of Kirigakure to kill each other.
How to make the geniuses of Kirigakure feel the village's malice towards them.
Having made these detailed plans, Ziyun felt there was no need for her to stay here any longer.
So Ziyun left behind a Wood Clone and departed.
The Wood Clone was a system reward Ziyun received when he met Madara Uchiha; it was considered the highest-level Clone Technique.
The Wood Clone can use all of Ziyun's abilities and Ninjutsu, including the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Combine-Combine Fruit.
This is why the Wood Clone is the highest level of Clone Technique; a single Wood Clone possesses at least 80% of Ziyun's strength.
Of course, leaving this Wood Clone here also serves a purpose: to assist the Third Mizukage in killing those Kekkei Genkai.
Ziyun didn't know the strength of the Third Mizukage. What if he suppressed him too fiercely and was killed by a rebellion from Kekkei Genkai?
So, just to be on the safe side, Ziyun left behind a Wood Clone, 02.
Moreover, this Wood Clone can help Ziyun train his Dark-Dark Fruit abilities.
Ziyun is eagerly anticipating the development of the Dark-Dark Fruit into a technique similar to Blackbeard's in the original work, which can be used to hunt other Devil Fruit abilities.
In this way Ziyun can generously distribute the Devil Fruit to his Anbu.
Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Ziyun is now fifteen years old.
The Shinobi World has been very peaceful for the past three years, with none of the Five Great Shinobi Villages making any major moves.
After all, the Second Shinobi World War had severely weakened Konoha, Iwagakure, Sunagakure, so these Three Great Shinobi Villages were all working to recover their strength and avoid any conflict.
As for Kirigakure, it has completely closed itself off from the world, just as Ziyun had planned.
As a result, the people outside the Shinobi World had no idea what had happened in Kirigakure over the past three years.
Only those who live in Kirigakure know that in the past two years, Kirigakure has become a hellish battlefield, even more terrifying than hell itself.
For some unknown reason, the Third Mizukage suddenly changed his personality and raised his sword to attack the three major clans.
Taking advantage of the conflict between the three major families, the three families fought each other for three years, leaving almost no members of their clansmen remaining.
As for the first batch of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist of the Mist, they have already been successfully tricked and killed by the Third Mizukage.
"It's time to close the net."
Ziyun sensed the information transmitted back by the Wood Clone and felt that the time was almost right.
Over the past three years, the major clans of Kirigakure have suffered heavy losses, with many dying or being crippled. They have become utterly disillusioned with the Third Mizukage's rule.
Even the geniuses of Kirigakure were completely disillusioned with the Third Mizukage and the village.
These geniuses are preparing to join forces to assassinate the Third Mizukage.
Even with Ziyun's Wood Clone, the entire Kirigakure Jiraiya couldn't defeat the Third Mizukage.
Moreover, there are still quite a few people within Kirigakure who support the Third Mizukage, such as some commoner ninjas who have long been unhappy with the powerful clans and geniuses.
Seeing these Kekkei Genkai being killed, these commoner ninjas were quite happy and stood in the camp supporting the Third Mizukage.
However, just as Ziyun was about to set off, Tsunade suddenly found Ziyun.
" Fourth Lord Raikage, I have made my decision. I will take revenge on Konoha."
Tsunade found Ziyun and told him her thoughts.
"With just you? Even with the Senju Clan on your side, do you think you can succeed in taking revenge?"
Ziyun countered with a question.
After three years of training, Tsunade has acquired the strength of Kage Level shinobi, and has also signed a contract with the summoning beast Katsuyu, and has even developed the Yin Seal.
At this point, Tsunade had almost reached the peak of her strength from the original story.
However, even for Tsunade, who possessed peak strength, it was still not enough to seek revenge against Konoha.
It's important to understand that although Konoha suffered heavy losses, they could still easily deal with a Kage Level shinobi.
Over the past three years, Jiraiya and Orochimaru have grown considerably, and both are now genuine Kage Level shikigami.
In addition to the emerging talents of Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Fugaku, Konoha also boasts a number of geniuses.
Not to mention Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, both of whom were Kage Level shikigami.
Although Konoha suffered a truly humiliating defeat in the Second Shinobi World War, in terms of military strength, it was still second only to Konoha in the entire Kumogakure Shinobi World.
Moreover, the gap between the second and third, fourth, and fifth places is also very large.
That's why I'm asking you for a favor.
Tsunade's tone was very sincere this time, making Ziyun feel that she was being genuine.
"What kind of help?"
"Make me stronger!"
Tsunade's tone was resolute.
She hasn't been idle these past few years; besides gambling, she's also been diligently cultivating herself.
Meanwhile, Tsunade and the Senju Clan are also investigating the true cause of Senju Nawaki's death.
Finally, they found a piece of evidence that wasn't quite evidence—that the C-rank mission Nawaki received had indeed been tampered with by the Konoha High Command.
As for who specifically did it, it has not yet been determined.
Whether or not the investigation Jiraiya important; those four Konoha High Command have always been in cahoots.
This time, we won't wrong Shimura Danzō this big pot among themselves.