Chapter 69: Turbulent Ninja World (Ch 697971590)

The loss of Konoha and Sand Ninja had little to do with Yichen, as he still had to continue his patrol mission at the border. However, the gains of Rock Ninja this time had a lot to do with Yichen.

This time, under Ohnoki’s arrangement, Konoha suffered another setback. In addition, the ransom of the Sand Ninja was successfully received, so Ohnoki directly rewarded all the Anbu teams participating in the operation with an A-level mission.

And because Yi Chen played a certain role with his perception ninjutsu, he was given an additional record of an A-level task.

Moreover, the rewards for these two A-level tasks are higher than those for ordinary tasks.

More importantly, at the border, Xiao said something to Yichen, which roughly means: Yichen’s strength has improved rapidly, especially his physical skills have been improved. The village has decided to promote Yichen to a special jonin and let Yichen lead an Anbu team alone. At this stage, Yichen needs to learn how to be a good team leader from Zidian and improve his strength as much as possible.

As for when the appointment will be made, it is hard to say. First, the village leaders must reach a consensus. Second, the Anbu must prepare suitable members to ensure that the 18th team can perform its tasks normally and that the team that Yichen wants to form has suitable members.

The following patrol missions did not encounter any more accidents. The target of each country was Konoha, and Konoha itself was somewhat preoccupied with itself. The location where Yichen and others were patrolling was close to the Sand Ninja who were in the process of handing over power. So it was always calm.

After the remaining mission time was over, Team 18 returned to the village.

Sure enough, after returning to the village, Xiao announced the village’s decision to promote Yichen to the special jonin.

The village rewards the promoted Chunin with a chance to learn and practice Ninjutsu. For the Special Jonin, the village is much more open and can make their own choices appropriately.

You can choose a more common B-level ninjutsu, but the village only provides ninjutsu, not teaching or medicinal food.

You can choose between medicinal food and teaching ninjutsu, but in that case, you have to redeem the ninjutsu yourself.

It can be exchanged for supplies and silver, and this option is usually only chosen by members of large families.

You can choose 12,000 contribution points, which is cheaper than an ordinary B-level ninjutsu.

You can choose to work in certain positions. After all, ninjas place great emphasis on personal abilities, and the people who are most familiar with ninjas are the ninjas themselves. However, this is not a choice that members of the Anbu can make.

After some hesitation, Yi Chen chose contribution value.

The B-level defensive swordsmanship that Yi Chen wanted to redeem required 25,000 contribution points. Before, Yi Chen had 10,000 in his account, and now with a team A-level task and a personal A-level task, it has reached 14,000, and there is still 11,000 short.

So Yi Chen chose 12,000 contribution points and then exchanged them for this B-level swordsmanship.

Although according to Zi Dian, his basics are still far from enough to be able to practice B-level swordsmanship, it would be nice to get it in hand in advance.

Upon learning of Yi Chen’s promotion, Zi Dian gave Yi Chen some pointers on how to be a captain, and let Yi Chen take command in a subsequent mission.

This made White Cat and Little Stone extremely jealous. As a result, every time White Cat finished a task, he would immediately ask Yi Chen to take Tuanzi to his residence.

Yichen knew that White Cat was afraid that Tuanzi would have fewer opportunities to stay with Yichen after he was no longer in the same team. So Yichen discussed with the people in the barrier team and decided that Tuanzi, as a ninja beast, could be brought into the natural energy seal area by his colleagues in the barrier team in his absence.

More than two months passed, and after the 18th team completed two missions, Yi Chen received a notice to form the 7th team under the 3rd Anbu Team.

It turned out that the captain of the 7th team had retired from the Anbu and became a guiding jonin. The other original members were also arranged separately. The other three members of the newly formed 7th team of Yichen were all new to the Anbu and were about the same age as Yichen.

After receiving the notice, Yi Chen arrived in advance at the Anbu training ground where the former 7th team often trained. Seeing that it was still early, Yi Chen took out the puppet used for sword training from the sealed scroll and arranged it. He could come here often in the future, and this set of training props was specially placed here.

All members of Team 7 can use it in the future, and you can go back and buy a new set for yourself.

Looking at the human-shaped puppet, Yi Chen took out the wooden spear and began to test the results of his training during this period.

Taking a deep breath, Yi Chen stabbed the puppet 26 times in succession. The first 19 hit the target, but the last 7 were not accurate enough and started to go further and further off.

Yi Chen was quite satisfied with the result. Although in terms of the number of times, his progress was only twice that of when he was at the border, the difference in strength was definitely not just one or two times.

That is to say, if we only talk about physical skills, the current Yi Chen can easily suppress and defeat his previous ten selves.

Now Yi Chen somewhat understood how White Cat and Little Stone felt when they fought against him. It was just like they were playing with children.

The reason why he was able to improve so quickly was not because Yi Chen had reached the level of White Cat and Little Stone in physical skills, but because Yi Chen’s overall strength had improved too quickly. Apart from anything else, Yi Chen’s chakra level was already very close to that of a jonin.

The improvement in strength brought by the high-level chakra is the main reason for Yi Chen’s great change. If Yi Chen was not in a period of rapid improvement in strength, if he wanted to reach the current level in swordsmanship, he would have to spend at least ten times as much time.

It was precisely because of this that Xiao originally wanted to wait until Yi Chen’s strength improved a bit before letting him form the 7th team.

But no one expected that the situation in the ninja world would change again.

Konoha White Fang committed suicide!

This incident surprised everyone. Danzo had never expected this result. Although he wanted to suppress White Fang, his purpose was to control White Fang. At the very least, he wanted to keep White Fang away from the position of Hokage.

But White Fang did not compromise, but chose to commit suicide, which was not what Danzo wanted to see. In fact, Danzo regretted it the first time he received the news. Now that the ninja world has been at peace for a short time, Konoha has lost a Kage-level fighter, which may cause Konoha to fall into the quagmire of war again.

Although Danzo wanted to start a war, he also knew that Konoha’s strength was far from recovered. Starting a war now would likely cause Konoha to lose its position as the leader of the ninja world.

The one who regretted more than Danzo was Sarutobi Hiruzen. He hated himself for not stopping the rumors in time, and hated himself even more for being selfish at the time. He also wanted to see White Fang in trouble.

But what worries Sarutobi Hiruzen the most right now is how to face the ninjas in the village.

Civilians can be bewitched, but few ninjas are stupid. White Fang’s suicide is equivalent to slapping Sarutobi Hiruzen in the face in public.

This incident was enough to cause Sarutobi Hiruzen to lose the support of most of the ninjas.

In the original work, when White Fang committed suicide, World War II had already passed for a while. At that time, Konoha’s strength had recovered, so White Fang’s suicide had less impact.

Moreover, the signs of a third world war were also emerging at that time, and Sarutobi Hiruzen could easily direct the main conflict towards other countries and temporarily secure his position as Hokage.

But the result was that he had to step down as Hokage as soon as the war was over. How much of this was due to the White Fang incident, no one could tell.

This matter is very easy to understand. Which ninja can guarantee that he can complete the task with 100% success, and which ninja can achieve the same military exploits as White Fang.

But even under this premise, Bai Ya was still forced to death by the village leaders. What kind of outcome would he face if he offended the village leaders one day?

So Sarutobi Hiruzen faced the biggest crisis since he became Hokage. But this time he had one thing to be happy about, that is, he had a staunch ally, that person was Danzo.

This time Danzo would never agree to let Sarutobi Hiruzen step down, because everyone knew that Danzo was the mastermind, but Sarutobi Hiruzen was the Hokage, so he had to bear greater responsibility.

But if Sarutobi Hiruzen stepped down because of the White Fang incident, then the mastermind behind this incident, Danzo, would also lose the qualifications to become Hokage.

So after White Fang’s death, the countries in the ninja world were ready to make moves. While the four countries of lightning, water, wind, and earth were constantly testing Konoha because of its successive losses, Konoha was engaging in an internal strife of alliances.

The measure that Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo finally took was to divert the conflict, but the target of their diversion was not the Shikoku, because at that time it was difficult for Konoha to guarantee that it could face the Shikoku toughly without losing the upper hand.

So they turned their target of conflict into the Uchiha clan.

When the story of White Fang was spreading widely, Konoha’s police department came into conflict with the public due to several quarrels during law enforcement.

Then, miraculously, the public focused on seeking justice from the Uchiha.

In this way, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo survived a major crisis in their political careers.

After this incident, there was some rift between the ninjas of Konoha and the higher-ups, but this rift was mostly directed at Danzo.

Because after the White Fang incident became less popular, Sarutobi Hiruzen publicly stated that White Fang’s death was due to his negligence as the Hokage, and he had a great responsibility. At the same time, he clarified White Fang’s injustice, and then said that he would personally teach White Fang’s posthumous child after it was born.

With this operation, Sarutobi Hiruzen gave everyone the impression that the mistake was made by Danzo, and I was just taking the blame for him as the Hokage.

And Danzo couldn’t stand up to refute this matter, so he successfully took the blame again.

These were disputes within Konoha. Outside Konoha, the four major countries each gathered a group of ninjas and harassed a place within the Land of Fire.

Especially the Land of Lightning, which directly destroyed several border outposts of Konoha as soon as they took action.

At that time, Konoha was slow to react due to its own reasons, which led to other countries seeing an opportunity. They followed suit and set their sights on taking over Konoha’s outpost.

Yi Chen was appointed as the team leader in advance under this environment. Due to the conflict with Konoha, the workload of the Anbu increased, resulting in a shortage of manpower, and Ohnoki had to urgently expand the Anbu.

Yi Chen was a little confused when he first heard the news. His actions almost killed Qi Mu Wuwu Kai?

It’s not a big problem to let Yichen lead the team alone, but Yichen is still quite scared to face Konoha. There are really too many bugs in Konoha Village.

“Why don’t we sort out in advance what bugs Konoha already has?” Yi Chen complained in his mind.