Ninja school teacher, I can become stronger by teaching.

Chapter 682 Joint Confrontation
The news that Mu Yue was going to succeed the throne of Hokage spread quickly not only in Konoha and the Land of Fire, but also soon spread to the surrounding countries of all sizes.

The five major ninja villages basically have some intelligence forces in various parts of the ninja world, so when the news came out, the other four major ninja villages received the information from the intelligence ninjas one after another.

The country of earth, the village of Iwagakure.

"The Hokage election was completed so quickly, no wonder Konoha has not taken any action. So this is the plan." Oonoki understood something after reading the information.

The news that Sarutobi Hiruzen was defeated by Sosuke was able to spread throughout the ninja world in a short period of time, and Iwagakure played a big role in it.

For the current Iwagakure, Konoha is a big trouble, and the Ninja Clan is a small trouble. The best thing would be for these two troubles to fight each other.

Unfortunately, things went against one's wishes. Konoha did not respond at all, even though the news had already been widely discussed by the people of Konoha.

"Although the impact can be eliminated to a certain extent, the price is too high. Could it be that this battle caused Sarutobi Hiruzen to suffer serious injuries that are difficult to heal?" Ohnoki fell into thought.

Letting Mu Yue, who currently has the most power, succeed as Hokage is indeed a good move, but this is only for the entire Konoha.

For Sarutobi Hiruzen himself, this decision was a huge loss. Not only did he lose the power of Hokage, but he also gave people the impression that he was resigning due to personal reasons.

If it were Oonoki, he would most likely choose to play dead, do nothing, not respond, and not pass on the throne.

Ōnoki thought about it, then carefully looked through the information collected by the ninjas, trying to analyze new content from it.

He really wanted to know the details of the battle between Sarutobi Hiruzen and Sosuke, but since there were not many people accompanying them and they were all elites of their respective forces, there were no spies.

Even though Ohnoki asked the intelligence department to try their best to collect relevant information, in the end they only got some fragmentary information from Rokudo Castle.

As for Konoha, probably because it was the defeated party, it issued a strict order to keep the matter confidential, and Iwagakure was unable to find out any relevant information from Konoha.

"There is still too little information to make a judgement." Oonoki shook his head and sighed.

"Konoha probably has no intention of fighting the Ninja Clan, so is there any other force that can be used..."

Ohnoki thought for a while and took out the map of the ninja world, making a mark in the Land of Grass and the Land of Wind.

The Rain Kingdom borders six countries in total, three of which are big countries and three are small countries.

The three great nations are the Kingdom of Wind, the Kingdom of Fire, and the Kingdom of Earth.

The three small countries are the Country of Birds, the Country of Grass, and the Country of Rivers.

Among them, the Land of Birds and the Land of Rivers are small countries without ninja villages, and a branch of the Ninja Clan has already appeared in the Land of Birds. In Ohnoki's mind, it is already tacitly accepted that it is the sphere of influence of the Ninja Clan.

There is no doubt that the Ninja Clan is a very ambitious organization.

If the Iwagakure Village had not been keeping an eye on the Ninja Clan, they probably wouldn't have known that the Ninja Clan had already completed the integration of the Rain Country's ninja power, bringing the Rain Country's ninja power to its highest peak in history.

In the eyes of people who don’t understand, Rain Village and the Ninja Clan are two different forces.

But Ohnoki knew that after Hanzo's death, the Rain Village would belong to Sosuke, even though the official leader of the Rain Village was not Sosuke.

Although they have clearly completed the integration of domestic forces, they still act like two different forces. There must be some ulterior motive.

Oonoki estimated that it would not be long before the Ninja Clan would take action against River Country.

The situation in River Country is similar to that in Bird Country. There is no ninja village but there are some ninja clans. However, the ninja power of River Country is much stronger than that of Bird Country.

Ohnoki didn't want to see the Ninja Clan continue to grow stronger.

When the Ninja Clan was causing trouble in the Land of Birds, Iwagakure was at a critical moment of the war and Ōnoki had no time to care. Now that the war is over, how could he continue to watch the Ninja Clan grow in strength?

At this time, the Grass Kingdom and the Wind Kingdom, which also bordered the Rain Kingdom, became natural allies of the Earth Kingdom.

The Ninja Clan becoming the sixth largest ninja force will not only grab the Iwagakure's cake, but the Sunagakure will also be affected.

As for the Kusagakure Village, there is one more super big brother around, and it is almost taking over everything.

On this side, Ohnoki wanted to use Sunagakure to deal with the Ninja Clan, and on the other side, Rasa was also thinking about something similar.

"This Ninja Clan must be difficult to deal with, otherwise how could Sarutobi Hiruzen keep pretending to be dead and pass the throne directly to Hanyu Mugetsu." Luo Sha thought after putting down the information.

The news of Sarutobi Hiruzen's defeat spread quickly throughout the ninja world, and the Sand Village also contributed to this.

Luo Sha himself was almost beaten to death by Mu Yue, so he was of course extremely unhappy with Konoha. If he could defeat him, Luo Sha would have wanted to send troops to attack Konoha's homeland immediately.

So after learning about this negative news about Konoha, Rasa tried his best to help spread the news, and was very worried that there were ninjas who didn't know about this shocking scandal in Konoha.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have let the intelligence ninja help spread the news. Instead, it helped Hanyu Muyue." Thinking of this, Luo Sha's face darkened.

Normally, Mu Yue shouldn't have succeeded to the throne of Hokage so soon.

It was obvious that because something happened to Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mu Yue had the opportunity to succeed to the throne early.

This made Rasa very unhappy. He felt that all his actions did not cause much trouble to Konoha, but instead helped his enemy get promoted and directly reached the pinnacle of power in the ninja world.

In order to become the Kazekage, he spent countless efforts, stabilizing the internal situation and fighting off external enemies before he finally secured the position of Kazekage. However, Mu Yue was carried to the position of Hokage directly while lying down.

How could Luo Sha be in a good mood after hearing this?

"Since we can't stir up trouble with Konoha, we can only try Iwagakure. We must destroy the cooperation between Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan."

Luo Sha calmed down and stopped thinking about Mu Yue. Instead, he thought about how to curb the development of the Ninja Clan. After all, he was a Kage and could not bring too many personal emotions into his work.

It is unrealistic to take revenge on Mu Yue. The most urgent task is to prevent the Ninja Clan from growing stronger.

Theoretically speaking, it would be very easy for a large ninja village like Sunagakure to establish a small country's ninja force.

But Konoha showed this attitude, which made Rasa dare not underestimate the Ninja Clan.

It is impossible to attack one village alone, so at least the Iwagakure Village must be involved.

Rasa has enough confidence to turn Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan against each other.

There is no eternal friendship between ninja villages, only eternal interests.

Luo Sha didn't believe that Iwagakure would be willing to have part of its interests taken away by the rising ninja clan.

Then Luo Sha remembered something and called his trusted subordinates to ask:
"Does Ye Cang have some connection with the Ninja Clan?"

"It seems so. She has brought some ninjas to Rokudo Castle twice to listen to Sosuke's lectures, and she also seemed to have asked Sosuke for advice on ninjutsu." The Sunagakure Jonin thought for a moment and replied.

Luo Sha's eyes lit up and he immediately said, "Collect some relevant information and closely monitor Ye Cang's actions."

Luo Sha is really annoyed with Ye Cang.

He was the Kazekage, but just because he made a small mistake in decision at the end, Ye Cang publicly reprimanded him mercilessly without giving him any face at all.

If he hadn't personally gone into battle to replace Ye Cang, Ye Cang would have definitely died on the battlefield. He used the Magnetic Escape to provide double protection, but was almost killed by Mu Yue's punch. Ye Cang's Burning Escape didn't have such defensive capabilities.

Although his idea of ​​removing Ye Cang was not to save Ye Cang, that was actually the case, and Ye Cang ended up scolding him.

He just happened to be dealing with the Ninja Clan, and he could get rid of Ye Cang at the same time. Anyway, Ye Cang could not be used by him, and keeping him would be a hidden danger.

……

The country of thunder, Yunyin Village.

"How strong is this Sosuke that he could force Sarutobi Hiruzen into this state." After reading the intelligence, the Third Raikage became very interested in Sosuke.

Originally, he was not interested in the Shinobi Sect. First, the Rain Country where the Shinobi Sect was located was far away from the Thunder Country. Second, there were too few ninjas in the Shinobi Sect, and to the Third Raikage, it seemed like just a small fight.

Therefore, when the Ninja Clan held a youth martial arts tournament in the Rain Country, the Third Raikage did not send any ninja to participate.

Now the Third Raikage found that he might have underestimated the leader of the ninja sect who was known as the Ninja Master.

Take the Third Raikage himself for example, in a one-on-one situation, he was not absolutely sure of defeating Sarutobi Hiruzen, let alone defeating Sarutobi Hiruzen to the point where he didn't want to be Hokage anymore.

"It's hard to say, maybe Sosuke may be the strongest in the ninja world today." Tsuchida analyzed.

"Sosuke has never lost a battle since he appeared. Whether his opponent is a famous master like Kakuzu or a legendary ninja like Hanzo, he has never been in a difficult battle. His true strength is still unknown."

After the news of Sosuke's defeat of Sarutobi Hiruzen spread throughout the ninja world, Sosuke's reputation reached a new peak.

At first, most people questioned whether this was a rumor, and even the intelligence ninjas from the major ninja villages thought so.

But when Konoha didn't respond and remained silent, their thoughts changed.

Sometimes not answering is also an answer.

If it was really a rumor, how could Konoha remain indifferent? After all, it concerns the reputation of the Hokage.

"He founded the Ninja Sect and inherited the Six Paths. Could he really be the legitimate successor of the Six Paths Sage Ninja Sect?" The Third Raikage had a thoughtful expression.

In the eyes of many ninjas, the Sage of Six Paths is just a legendary mythical figure.

But the Third Raikage knew that the Sage of Six Paths was a real ancestor of ninjas and not a fictional mythological character, because there were descendants of the Sage of Six Paths in the Hidden Cloud Village, and they even possessed the Sage's ninja tools.

The Third Raikage was well aware of how powerful the Six Paths Ninja Tools were. The descendants of the Six Paths Sage used the Six Paths Ninja Tools to stage a coup, and even the Second Raikage was killed by them.

The ninja tools left by the Six Paths Sage alone were so powerful. If the Six Paths inheritance in Sosuke's hands was the Six Paths Sage's ninjutsu, how powerful would it be? The Third Raikage could hardly imagine it.

But there are too many doubts.

Since there was an orthodox successor to the Ninja Sect, why was there no one like Sosuke who stood up to restore the Ninja Sect during its thousands of years of extinction?

The Ninja Sect has really disappeared for too long. Some ninjas think that the Ninja Sect is a new force created by Sosuke, not knowing that the Ninja Sect was founded by the Six Paths Sage in ancient times.

Even though the Ninja Clan founded by the Six Paths Sage is the origin of Ninjas.

However, the Third Raikage thought it was normal. According to the records in ancient books, ancient ninjas and modern ninjas are completely different.

Ancient ninjas do not need to accept commissioned missions. Their duty is to maintain world peace and create a world without war where everyone can live in peace.

As for modern ninjas, war is almost one of their important sources of funds, and war commission fees are the most expensive.

……

The Kingdom of Water, the Hidden Mist Village.

Mizukage's office.

"Yakura, what do you think we in Kirigakure should do in the current situation?" The Third Mizukage sat in the office chair, put down the information and asked Karuju Yagura with a smile.

"Do nothing?" Karuta Yagura answered uncertainly.

"It seems that you have gained something from the last defeat." The Third Mizukage nodded slightly.

If it were the former Karatachi Yagura, he might want to take this opportunity to join other ninja villages in causing trouble and weaken the strongest Konoha.

"During the Third Shinobi World War, we have already seriously offended Iwagakure, Sandagakure and Kumogakure."

"They need Kirigakure's power, but that doesn't mean they will forgive our past actions. So we can't immediately join forces with them to deal with Konoha. Even if we succeed in the end, Kirigakure won't have a good outcome."

"At the same time, we can't really help Konoha too much, because Konoha's development momentum is too good. Konoha can be strong, but not too strong."

The Third Mizukage knew very well that the alliance between the ninja villages was unreliable. Today he could sell the Fuudo Thunder for profit, and tomorrow Konoha could take action against Kirigakure for profit as well.

If Konoha is really strong enough to fight one against four, then does Konoha still need Kirigakure as an ally?

Obviously, there is no need for that. If one person can keep it all, why would anyone come to share a piece of the pie?

Karuji Yagura nodded thoughtfully.

He had thought about this, but not as much as the Third Mizukage.

"Of course you don't have to help, but you can just do some superficial work. I've already asked someone to contact Konoha, and you can be the envoy and watch the ceremony with Konoha." said the Third Mizukage.

Konoha and Kirigakure are still in their honeymoon period, so if they didn't say anything, their intentions would be too obvious.

"Okay." Karutagi Yakura agreed without asking.

As for his defeat to Mu Yue, Goju Yagura has already come to terms with it. After all, the Fourth Kazekage was almost killed by Mu Yue's single punch, and Mu Yue used more than one punch to defeat him. In this way, he is stronger than the Fourth Kazekage.

"Isn't the Ninja Clan taking any action either? Sosuke alone must be of great value." Karajima Yagura asked curiously.

If we can successfully utilize the Ninja Clan, we might be able to take over a large Ninja Village.

"Let's wait and see. The Ninja Clan will be in trouble soon, and might even become the center of a vortex." The Third Mizukage shook his head.

The news of Sarutobi Hiruzen's defeat put Sosuke and the Ninja Clan at the center of public attention. It is hard to say whether this is a blessing or a curse for the Ninja Clan.

Although the five major ninja villages often attack each other, if there is a force that really tries to challenge their status, they may give priority to suppressing that force.

Just like the Rain Village back then.

No matter how much the five major ninja villages fight each other, the overall pattern of the ninja world is ultimately dominated by the five major ninja villages, and this has not changed since the ninja village era.

If the six major ninja forces dominate the ninja world, then more than one family will suffer losses.

The Third Mizukage felt that no major ninja village would want such a drastic change in the ninja world.

(End of this chapter)