Chapter 281 Konoha’s Joint Chunin Exam (Ch 727981427)

The people least surprised by the actions of Akatsuki are their neighbor, the Sand Village. The Fourth Kazekage Rasa has long known the strength of Nagato and Yahiko. If he were the leader of Akatsuki, he would return to the Rain Country sooner or later.

But Luo Sha is still worried about the close relationship between Akatsuki and Iwagakure. Iwagakure is indeed so powerful that people are beginning to be afraid of it.

But to say that they are afraid, it is not the case, the living environment in the Wind Country is too bad. Precisely because of the poor living environment, Luo Sha does not think that the Akatsuki organization will attack the Wind Country.

You know, the River Country where the Akatsuki organization is located is also an ally of the Wind Country. Although this alliance relationship has never been taken seriously by Luo Sha.

As for the invitation from Konoha to the joint Chunin Exam, Luo Sha sneered at it. Luo Sha’s perspective on the situation in the ninja world was completely different from Konoha’s. Konoha saw the rise of the Rock Ninja, who had the greatest hope of challenging his dominance.

But Luo Sha didn’t think so. What Luo Sha saw was that the Rock Ninja was attracting Konoha’s firepower and was acting as the first bird to stand out, while he, the Sand Ninja, was developing quietly in the dark.

Although the current Sand Ninjas look weak, if you think about it carefully, there are three Kage-level Sand Ninjas, and their strength is not inferior to that of the Rock Ninjas. Moreover, the puppeteer Ryosuke, who participated in the Chunin Exam of the Rock Ninja Village and won the first place by defeating the Rock Ninjas, has now become an elite Jonin under the intensive training of Rasa.

Such a young elite jonin has a bright future. Moreover, Luo Sha also handed the Third Kazekage puppet to Ryosuke. Although Ryosuke cannot fully exert the power of this puppet now, Luo Sha said that there is no need to rush. In a few years, when the conflict between Konoha and Iwagakure breaks out, Ryosuke’s strength is expected to be further improved.

Moreover, although the Sand Ninja was tricked by Danzo’s poisonous insects before, it also helped Rasa to eliminate dissidents. Now Rasa is a real Kazekage who has the final say.

In addition, his descendants seemed to have good talents. The first child that Jialuo gave birth to for him was a daughter, Temari, who had good talents.

Although the second son, Kanjiro, is less talented, he will pursue the path of a puppeteer and become Ryosuke’s apprentice. It is possible that he will achieve something.

The newly born third son, Ikuro, is even more gifted. Rasa is considering whether to let this son become the One-Tail Jinchūriki.

As expected, having more children can improve the strength of the village. It’s a pity that Garuru died of dystocia when giving birth to Gaara. Otherwise, she could have had more children.

Now Rasa is imitating the Iwagakure ninja of the past, watching the chaos in the ninja world and reaping the benefits himself.

However, they still had to participate in the joint Chunin exam held by Konoha, which made Konoha feel that it was no big deal if they fell into their trap, and it was just the right time to paralyze the enemy.

The Akatsuki organization of the River Country conquered the Rain Country. This made the Fourth Raikage itchy and he wanted to rush over and take part in it, but unfortunately his home was too far away.

If the Yu-yu Village conquered the Moon Country’s ninja village, then the Fourth Raikage could openly invade under the pretext of restoring the Moon Country.

“What a pity.” The Fourth Raikage sighed, and secretly cursed Luo Sha for being useless and not knowing how to seize such an opportunity.

As for Konoha, is it also going to hold a joint Chunin Exam?

The Fourth Raikage didn’t even bother to read the wording on the invitation and simply ignored it. Whether to attend or not is entirely up to your mood. Why would you reply to such a thing? Why would you give Konoha time to prepare?

…

The Akatsuki organization originally came from the Rain Country, so when they returned to the Rain Country this time, other countries didn’t say much. Because they were wary of each other, no one stood up to seek justice for the dead Hanzo.

Konoha did not wait for a reply from the Cloud Ninja, but unexpectedly received a letter from the Iwagakure Ninja, who expressed that he also wanted to participate in the joint Chunin exam held by Konoha.

It would be bad for Konoha to neither refuse nor agree to the Iwagakure’s actions.

Strictly speaking, the Iwagakure and Konoha are still in the peace signed during the Third World War. The Iwagakure did not officially fight Konoha during the Fourth World War, and naturally did not tear up the peace treaty.

So it was difficult for Konoha to refuse the Iwagakure’s request to participate. At the same time as Konoha proposed to participate in the Chunin Exam, there was also a new ninja village in the River Country: Akatsuki. That’s right, Yahiko established a new ninja village in the River Country, and the name of the ninja village was Akatsuki.

Yahiko directly cancelled the ninja qualifications of the original ninjas of the River Village and sent them back to farm. Yahiko planned to find children again in the entire River Country. He planned to educate and train these children and make them true members of the Akatsuki Village.

As for Nagato, after he disbanded the Rain Village, he did not establish a new ninja village. He felt that one ninja village, Akatsuki, was enough. He established the Dark Akatsuki organization and began to recruit rebel ninjas like Biwa Juzo.

Some of the former members of the River Village who were sent away by Yahiko, and some of the former members of the Rain Village, were incorporated into the Akatsuki organization by Nagato and served as peripheral members of the organization.

…

Today, in Yi Chen’s opinion, the situation in the ninja world is no longer the same as when he first came here.

When I first came here, the ninja world was full of strong forces, and Konoha’s strength far exceeded that of any other major country.

Now it is a competition among many strong countries, including Konoha, and no country can completely crush any other major country.

However, among these major powers competing for hegemony, the Fire Nation still has the strongest overall strength, and Konoha Village still has the greatest potential.

After the Fire Nation, there are the three major ninja villages of Rock Village, Sand Village, and Cloud Village. These three countries are in the second echelon. They are not qualitatively different from the Fire Nation, but their overall strength is much worse.

After that, there is the Land of Water where the Mist Village is located, and the Land of River and the Land of Rain where the Akatsuki Village is located. The former lacks top-level forces, while the latter only has top-level forces to show off.

These are the major forces that rank among the top in the ninja world.

One embarrassing thing about the competition among multiple powers is that they are all wary of each other and dare not risk their lives to fight with any of them.

So even though Konoha’s strength declined severely, the situation in the Ninja World became calmer. This was the situation in the Ninja World when the First Ninja World War ended, and the Ninja World maintained a long period of peace.

It was in this calm situation that the Konoha top leaders decided to take political measures to buy time to restore their strength.

…

Yi Chen finally brought a group of disciples back to the Iwagakure. This time, Yi Chen himself did not gain much from the trip to the Rain Village. He only used the Sage Mode once and the Light Release once in actual combat.

But Yi Chen’s disciples gained a lot. The most important thing was that they all witnessed the battle between the top ninja masters in the ninja world.

With such a clear goal, Yichen believes that everyone’s enthusiasm for practice will be greatly improved, and they will have a more accurate plan for their future.

Among them, Kanako, Uchiyama Takuda and Kawakita all gained direct benefits, and they made progress in their respective areas of expertise. The one who made the most obvious progress was not Kanako and Uchiyama Takuda, who were guided by the teacher, but Kawakita.

Yi Chen could see that Chuanbei had gained a lot and urgently needed time to digest his insights.

Next are the six children who have just graduated. Whether it is the three members of Yichen’s Team 5 or Deidara and his three friends, they have successfully changed their mindsets and have truly become ninjas in terms of their character.

After returning to the Iwagakure, Yi Chen first sent a letter to Konoha, stating that the Iwagakure would also participate in the Joint Chunin Exam.

Yi Chen just didn’t want to make the Konoha high-level officials feel comfortable, so even if it would cause trouble for them, he would send a few teams of Genin to join in the fun.

However, writing a letter to Konoha reminded Yi Chen of Uchiha Zaojie.

So, taking the letter that Fugaku asked him to give to Uchiha Soukei, Yi Chen found Uchiha Soukei who had just finished school at the Ninja School and was about to go home (that is, Oonoki’s home) to play with Mizunoe Haku.

“Two days to call it a revival!” Yi Chen shouted to Uchiha Zaojie from a distance.

Hearing Yi Chen’s call, Zao Jie subconsciously turned his head. After seeing that it was Yi Chen, the Fourth Tsuchikage, he snorted, but did not stop and continued to run towards home.

Yi Chen didn’t care and chased after him in an instant: “It’s only been two days since Zhongxing, why are you running so fast?”

“Hmph, my name is Uchiha Zaojie.” Zaojie did not answer, but emphasized his real name.

Not many people knew his name, and he had promised not to tell anyone, which made him feel uncomfortable. What made him even more uncomfortable was that he seemed to have accepted the name Zhongxing for a few days, because it was when he was using this name that he made many friends.

Yi Chen followed Zaojie’s footsteps while chatting with him casually.

Soon, the two arrived at Oonoki’s house.

Yichen doesn’t come here often, but everyone here knows him. Seeing Yichen coming, Onoki’s family members all bowed to him. Although they were curious about why Yichen came back with Master Zhongxing, they were tactful and didn’t ask.

Yi Chen waved his hand and said, “Is Captain Zi Dian at home?”

A housekeeper came to tell Yi Chen that Zi Dian was not there and she had gone out for postpartum recovery training.

Yi Chen asked again: “Where is Xiao Heitu?”

Heitu is the daughter of Huangtu and Zidian. A little girl was named Heitu by Ohnoki. Yi Chen was speechless.

As soon as Yi Chen finished speaking, a little boy ran out holding a baby girl.

The person who came was Mizunotsuki Haku, well, now called Tiantian Chengbai, and the baby girl he was holding was Kurotsuchi.

Behind the two of them followed Deidara with an unhappy expression. He also came to find Ohnoki today. He wanted to learn some powerful moves, but Ohnoki was working in the Tsuchikage Building today.

Yi Chen looked at Mizunoe Shiro a few more times and found that she really looked like a girl.

“Deidara, you go play with Bai and Kurotsuchi for a while, I’ll chat with Zhongxing.” Yi Chen instructed Deidara.

“Hmph.” Deidara was a little unhappy. He was not here to take care of the child, but he dared not disobey Yi Chen’s words. He still remembered how Yi Chen looked when he was angry.

Whether it was the unstoppable light escape or the colorful five-attribute fairy technique, Deidara felt extremely terrified. So Deidara’s body honestly took Bai and Kurotsuchi away, leaving Zaojie, who also looked unhappy.

Yi Chen led Zao Jie to a relatively open place, and the two sat down. After a while, Yi Chen said, “Uchiha Zao Jie, do you still remember the agreement we made back then?”

“Humph.” Zao Jie said nothing. Of course he remembered the agreement, but now it seemed that he was going to lose the bet.

Back then, Yi Chen and Zao Jie agreed that if the Fourth Generation was from the Uchiha clan, or if the Uchiha clan moved back to the center of Konoha before Zao Jie graduated, Yi Chen would lose.

But the fourth generation is the Yellow Flash, and the fifth generation is Tsunade, neither of them has anything to do with Uchiha. And the Uchiha clan is still on the edge of Konoha.

Seeing Yi Chen was also silent, Zao Jie thought Yi Chen was mocking him, so he said stubbornly: “I haven’t graduated yet, and our bet hasn’t expired yet.”