Chapter 566: Yunyin and Yanyin Retreat

The situation in the Sand Village is the same. The support and commissions from the Wind Country have also been transferred to Konoha.

Including the River Kingdom, which has always been a vassal of the Fire Kingdom, Konoha now consists of four countries and one village. The ninja power of the Fire, River, Wind, and Field Kingdoms all comes from Konoha.

Konoha also officially broke the restriction of one country and one village.

Before Konoha, even though the Land of Lightning had two vassal states, the Land of the Moon and the Land of Hot Spring, these two countries also had their own ninja villages, and the Moon Ninja Village and the Hot Spring Village were only consistent with the Land of Cloud in terms of actions, diplomacy, etc.

It should also be noted that Kadoki's plan for the unification of the ninja world was not to eliminate the secular state power, but to hold the ninja power of the entire ninja world in the hands of Konoha.

Although there are other national regimes outside the Fire Nation, all ninja power comes from Konoha Village in the Fire Nation. They can only be vassals of the Fire Nation and naturally have no power to engage in military confrontation.

Over time, the regimes of these vassal states will naturally die out, but this is the job of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

Although Konoha has not discussed the matter of unifying the ninja world with the Daimyo of the Fire Country, it is clear that the Daimyo of the Fire Country will only support it with both hands.

You can sit at home and the land will come to you. The Daimyo of the Land of Fire only needs to allocate more funds to Konoha. Where can you find such a good thing?

After destroying the Otogakure Village, Minato and his ninja army rested for a few days. Just as they were about to assign their subordinates their respective tasks, an uninvited guest arrived.

Passing through the territories of the Moon Kingdom and the Hot Spring Kingdom, Raikage Ai, his beloved brother Killer Bee, and his eight thousand ninjas arrived at the border between the Land of Rice and the Hot Spring Kingdom.

Ai stated that based on the long-term friendly relationship between Kumogakure and Otogakure since ancient times, he strongly opposed Konoha's attack on Otogakure Village, and believed that the so-called "Konoha Collapse Plan" was just a trap set by Konoha, and was willing to help Otogakure Village rebuild their homes.

Kadoki never expected that his plan would not be seen through by other ninja villages. It was enough to be able to provide Konoha with a righteous cause.

Besides, after something happens, there will always be some clues leaked out, and Konoha must have spies from other ninja villages hiding in it.

But the Hidden Cloud Village jumped out in this name and tried to seize the Land of Rice, which is a bit like forgetting the pain after the wound has healed.

Perhaps Ai was gambling, betting that Konoha would suffer heavy losses in the Konoha collapse plan and would be unable to hold out against Kumogakure for a long time.

No matter which one it was, there was no reason for Minato to give up the victory.

As a result, Konoha and Kumogakure engaged in several days of stalemate and small-scale reconnaissance battles on the border of the Land of Rice. The Konoha Ninja Army was not at all inferior to the Kumogakure with a larger number of people, and Minato once again defeated the AB combination alone.

Especially Ai, his proud Thunder God Armor was greatly restrained when facing Minato's Wind Style Rasengan, and his extreme speed could not catch up with Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique.

Although the AB combination was defeated by Minato, they were certainly unwilling to let the Kumogakure withdraw its troops.

It was originally expected that Kumogakure would continue to fight Konoha for a long time, but two sudden events disrupted Kumogakure's deployment.

The first thing is that shortly after the destruction of the Sand Village, the third Tsuchikage Ōnoki shouted for revenge for the Sand Village and led 10,000 Rock Ninjas directly south to attack the Wind Country, but was defeated by Kadoki alone.

Fighting against 10,000 Rock Ninjas alone was a feat that was last achieved by the Third Raikage.

But the Third Raikage died of exhaustion, but Kadoki did not.

Ten thousand Rock Ninjas were defeated head-on by Kadoki alone in a very short period of time, suffering heavy casualties.

The Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki was also seriously injured in the battle with Kadoki. If Kadoki had not intentionally let him go, Ōnoki and his Iwagakure ninjas would never have been able to return to the Iwagakure Village.

At the same time, an astonishing news quickly spread in the ninja world: Umino Kadoki awakened the Rinnegan and Wood Release, and became another Six Paths Sage!

Immediately afterwards, the Iwagakure Village submitted a letter to Konoha to discuss the signing of an alliance treaty.

When the Third World War ended, Iwagakure simply signed a ceasefire agreement with Konoha.

The Six Paths Sage was born again, and coupled with the subsequent actions of the Iwagakure, the entire ninja world was instantly in an uproar, and Umino Kadoki once again came into the sight of the entire ninja world.

Everyone was paying close attention to Kadoki's movements, and for a time Kadoki was at the top of public opinion in the entire ninja world.

The second thing was that after defeating Iwagakure, Kadoki asked Kimimaro to take his two thousand "skin-changing sound ninjas" back to the Land of Rice.

After Kimimaro arrived in the Land of Rice, he immediately joined the battle against the Hidden Cloud Village.

Kimimaro is very powerful. In state two, his combat power is close to the level of Kage. The two thousand Otonin he leads are the most elite part of the Otogakure Village.

With the addition of new forces and the news about Jiaomu's strength, Ling Ai had no choice but to retreat.

The news may be exaggerated, but it is an indisputable fact that Ōnoki was seriously injured and the Iwagakure suffered heavy losses.

Even if this news was seriously distorted, it was certain that Iwagakure had retreated from the Kingdom of Wind. Ai was still clear about Kanoki's previous strength. Once Kanoki was free and came to the battlefield of the Kingdom of Field, Kumogakure would have no choice but to retreat.

So Ai decided to retreat and wait and see whether it was true that Kadoki had become the Sage of Six Paths.

Even if it is not true, Konoha's current strength is too strong, and it is definitely not something that Kumogakure can fight alone. Kumogakure needs to wait for the next opportunity.

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With the successive retreat of Iwagakure and Kumogakure, the disputes in the ninja world during this period have been settled.

Jiaomu presided over the "division of spoils" of this war in the Kingdom of Wind.

Since Kusagakure and the Kingdom of Wind do not border each other, Kadoki did not allocate an enclave to Kusagakure. Instead, he copied many of the Sand Village's unique ninjutsu secrets that he had looted and gave them to Kusagakure.

The Kusagakure Village is the village in the entire ninja world that is best at "copying" other countries' ninjutsu. These ninjutsu are enough to instantly enrich the Kusagakure Village's heritage.

As for the Sound Ninja side, although the Sound Village no longer exists, Kadoki has no habit of refusing to pay his debts.

However, Kimimaro and his two thousand ninja soldiers were sent by Kadoki to the Land of Rice for support, so Orochimaru's reward could only be sent to him by Konoha.

In order to thank Orochimaru for his great help, Kadoki thoughtfully took out some of the scientific research results of Sand Village.

In addition, Kadoki also gathered the captured old, weak and sick members of the Sand Village and sent them to Orochimaru.

Although he is old, weak, and sick, he is still a ninja after all, and a rare experimental subject.

I believe Orochimaru will be satisfied with this reward.

After the spoils were divided, Kadoki left behind the six people who followed him this time, Tenzo, Uchiha Tetsuka, Uchiha Itachi, Hinata Aki, Sarutobi Yumebi, and Aosan, along with the five thousand Konoha ninja troops, and Tenzo took over the temporary command and was responsible for garrisoning the Kingdom of Wind.