Reborn in Konoha; I Think I’m Cultivating Immortality

The Shinobi World was shrouded in the shadow cast by Konoha and Hui.

No, it wasn't just the Shinobi World anymore.

The Shinobi World referred specifically to the realm of shinobi and the hidden villages.

But the shadow Konoha and Hui cast didn't just unsettle shinobi and hidden villages, it loomed over the entire world.

The daimyos of the Four Great Nations, upon learning of this situation, were both panicked and enraged.

As for why it was only the Four Great Nations and not the Five Great Nations...

The current daimyo of the Land of Fire was nothing more than a puppet controlled by Hui. He had lost the right to be angry.

Previously, the daimyos of the Four Great Nations had treated the shinobi wars and conflicts between the hidden villages as nothing more than entertainment.

What did shinobi battles have to do with their nations?

The First Shinobi War?

The Second Shinobi War?

It was irrelevant to them!

After all, shinobi existed to serve the nations, and the hidden villages were established to serve the nations as well.

Take the Land of Earth as an example.

To the daimyo of the Land of Earth, even if Iwagakure was wiped out by Konoha, so what?

If Konoha's wanted to accept commissions on this land, they still needed the daimyo's approval.

To them, shinobi were merely tools hired with money.

It made no difference whether the tool was called Iwagakure or Konohagakure.

And it didn't matter whether the tool operated within the Land of Earth's borders or outside them.

In the end, shinobi were just tools they could hire with money.

The wars between shinobi?

Merely a competition for missions.

But now, everything seemed different.

Hui, the man known among shinobi as the "God of Shinobi," and Konoha seemed intent on ushering in a new era.

An era where daimyos were no longer needed.

Where nations were no longer needed.

They intended to annihilate all nations in the world.

How could the daimyos tolerate such a notion?

They were utterly enraged.

"Destroying the nations? What a ridiculous idea!"

"Shinobi are nothing more than tools for the nations, and a tool daring to turn against its master is absurd, utterly delusional!"

"God of Shinobi? I don't care what those shinobi call him. If he wants to destroy the nations, then he must be destroyed!"

"Shinobi trying to annihilate nations? it's the joke of the century!"

One by one, the daimyos shouted defiantly, not taking Konoha or Hui seriously at all.

After all, they were just ordinary people who couldn't comprehend the power of a so-called "God."

As for the hidden villages, they were speechless upon hearing such remarks.

These daimyos truly didn't know the meaning of fear.

They were speeding toward their own demise.

In the face of this situation, the hidden villages had no desire to intervene.

They had their own survival to worry about.

How could they spare the energy to concern themselves with the daimyos' affairs?

If not for the fact that their villages' economies and supplies were under the daimyos' control, they wouldn't even care to listen.

This reminded them of Konoha.

Of the Land of Fire.

Konoha's rapid development couldn't have happened without economic and resource support.

After all, with Konoha's massive population, the daily consumption of food alone must be staggering.

If they relied solely on their own agriculture, how much land would they need to cultivate enough food?

But the areas surrounding Konoha didn't show much farmland.

There was only one possible explanation.

The Land of Fire had been supporting Konoha's development with everything it had.

Yet Konoha was aiming to abolish the concept of nations.

Why would the Land of Fire support Konoha's growth?

Shouldn't they be trying to suppress Konoha's development instead?

Shouldn't they even hire shinobi from other nations to eliminate Konoha?

That should've been the rational choice.

And yet, the truth was the exact opposite.

Konoha's development had received the full support of the Land of Fire.

It defied all logic.

It was outrageous.

But no matter how absurd it seemed, it was the truth.

There was only one possible explanation left.

The Land of Fire had already fallen under Konoha's control.

The daimyo had become nothing more than a puppet of Konoha.

Only this possibility could explain the current situation.

The leaders of the other hidden villages fell into deep thought.

It seemed like such a simple matter.

But why had they never considered it before?

Why did a hidden village have to be subordinate to a nation?

Although a hidden village might not be able to govern a nation directly, it could control the people who held the reins of governance.

The power of an entire nation could be brought under the village's control.

The resources of the nation could be used to fully support the development of the village.

Why couldn't such a thing happen?

The leaders of the hidden villages pondered this for a long time.

Then, as if enlightenment finally dawned upon them, they understood.

It was because hidden villages weren't necessarily a match for nations.

They lacked economic sources.

They lacked supplies.

If they rashly moved against a daimyo, they would face the nation's full retaliation.

Their economic support would be severed, their supply chains cut off.

Within three, five, or ten days, they'd run out of food. Without food, the shinobi would lose their strength, how could they possibly continue to fight?

Sure, they might be able to quickly eliminate a single daimyo.

But eliminating one daimyo wouldn't solve the underlying issue.

A daimyo wasn't merely a person, it represented the authority of the entire civilian government of a nation.

Kill one daimyo, and there would be countless others ready to take their place.

Unless they wiped out all key figures of authority within a nation, they would face endless retaliation.

And killing these people wasn't so simple.

This world didn't just have hidden village shinobi, it also had clan shinobi, rogue shinobi, and samurai.

Daimyos had plenty of money and maintained their own elite "guard shinobi" for protection.

Just like the Land of Fire's "Twelve Guardian Ninja."

Most of those twelve weren't even from hidden villages.

And there were many such people scattered throughout the shinobi world.

They guarded the daimyos with their lives.

Assassinating a daimyo was no easy task.

This was why the hidden villages had long been constrained by the daimyos, forced to obey their commands.

To the nations, hidden villages were merely external militant forces, intelligence agencies, or special operations units.

After figuring this out, the leaders of the hidden villages began wondering how Konoha managed to do it.

They pondered for an even longer time, and finally, they seemed to understand.

Konoha was different.

Hui was different.

Konoha's control over the Land of Fire wasn't sudden and forceful. And it certainly didn't happen overnight.

They speculated that Konoha's domination of the Land of Fire had been in the making for a long time, gradually woven into place.

Perhaps this plan had started five years ago.

Maybe ten years ago.

Maybe even fifteen years ago.

And besides the plan itself, there was another crucial factor, Mochizuki Hui.

Hui was unlike any other shinobi.

His strength alone was enough to challenge an entire nation's army and all its forces.

If they cut off his economy and his food supplies, rendering his shinobi unable to fight,

It wouldn't matter.

He could handle it all by himself.

He alone could overturn an entire nation.

He alone could defeat all their forces and slay every last daimyo.

So what could they possibly use to resist him?

After realizing this, the leaders of the hidden villages could only sigh helplessly.

Such a feat…none of them could ever accomplish it.

And this, in fact, was also the reason why the daimyos of various nations were starting to panic.

They had never witnessed the power of the "God of Shinobi," Hashirama Senju, for themselves.

But their elders had.

The records in their archives described him vividly.

The evaluation recorded for Hashirama Senju was that he alone could stand against an entire nation.

It was said that if not for Hashirama's benevolent nature, history wouldn't have merely shifted from the Warring States Period into the Hidden Village Era—

The world might have transitioned straight into the era of "Shinobi Nations."

And now, a new "God of Shinobi" had appeared.

Unlike Hashirama Senju, this one sought to create a new era.

An era without nations.

How could they not panic in the face of such a figure?

How could they not be enraged by someone like Hui?

This time, Konoha wasn't just facing the shinobi world.

It was facing the entire world.

Konoha's enemies, aside from the Land of Fire, which was under its control, were everywhere.

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