Naruto: The Strongest Sage

The old man was very strong.

How strong Minato Namikaze is is not shown much in the original plot. Most of the time, he is just Flying Thunder God and rolling balls to conquer the world.

But Kamikawa Aoba never underestimates Minato Namikaze. In fact, among the four dead Hokage, Aoba thinks that Minato Namikaze's strength ranks second. Only after Hashirama Senju, stronger than Tobirama Senju and Hiruzen Sarutobi.

This guy is not only Flying Thunder God, but also various other ninjutsu. The reason why he gives people the impression of a unique trick is because this trick is more efficient.

He even knows the Eight Trigrams Seal and the Shiki Fuujin, let alone other ninjutsu

When Team 7 arrived, Minato was standing alone at the Sixth Training Ground, facing the sunset in the distance, with his back to everyone.

Team 7 saw this and quickly discussed tactics. Then, Naruto rushed up directly.

Minato heard the movement behind him, turned around and looked at Naruto rushing over, with a smile on his face.

On the other side, after Aoba and Sakura came out of the laboratory, they saw a little dispute outside.

Baiyun Zaojian, the captain of the security department of the institute, was stopping a familiar figure.

Aoba saw that the man was the resurrected Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

At this time, the Third Hokage was a little embarrassed to be stopped by Baiyun Zaojian. Although he had real registration information. But the institute belongs to Konoha's top secret department.

Baiyun Zaojian noticed that he had never seen this face before. So he stopped him directly.

"Okay, Zaojian, he is one of us. He is a ninja who just returned to the village from the Anbu on a confidential mission."

"Yes, Lord Aoba." Baiyun Zaojian inherited Aoba's swordsmanship and was considered half of Aoba's disciple. He was also the head of the security department of the institute and a direct subordinate of Aoba. He respected Aoba very much.

Seeing Aoba come out, he immediately let the third generation leave.

After seeing Baiyun Zaojian leave, Aoba asked Sakura to go back first.

"Do you want to come in and take a look?" Aoba asked casually.

"No need. My current identity is not suitable for knowing those highly confidential things."

The third generation was a Hokage and knew the confidentiality clause. He was just curious and stood in front of him to look at him, but didn't think about going in. As a result, he was caught by Zaojian.

Aoba nodded, and then the two left together.

"During the day, I went to the advanced ninja school you founded. I'm curious, how did you convince the ninja clan?"

This is the most incomprehensible point for the third generation. Open up ninjutsu and improve the strength of civilian ninjas. This seems simple, but in his understanding it is impossible.

Because limiting the strength of civilian ninjas has never been just an order from the Hokage. It is the result of the compromise between the Hokage and the major ninja clans.

This is just like the control of knowledge by the aristocratic families in ancient China. In order to ensure their status, the ninja clans cannot allow civilian ninjas to grow without limits.

Those who can grow up from civilian ninjas basically have a unique set of skills that cannot be copied. Kai is one of the representatives. Baiyun Zaojian is also one, but if there is no Aoba, the upper limit is limited.

Civilians are always civilians, and ninjas are always ninjas. This is the foundation of the concept during the reign of the third generation. It is also the root cause of the decline of Konoha.

But the third generation found that the current Konoha openly teaches various advanced ninjutsu. But there seems to be no opposition within Konoha.

At least from the observation during the day, there is no problem on the surface.

"This question is complicated, and it may take a whole day and night to finish. To put it simply, it can be summarized in one sentence, which is called the general trend."

"The general trend?"

"Yes, it is the general trend. As long as the ninja clan realizes one problem, that is, if they don't make changes, they will be eliminated. Then they will learn to accept everything in front of them."

"Eliminated? But you didn't clean up any ninja clan. Even the Sarutobi clan..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt a little ashamed when he said this. He was actually ready for the Sarutobi clan to be purged. But during the day, he went back to take a look.

He was surprised to find that only some radicals of the Sarutobi clan were purged. Most of the clan members survived. Even Asuma became the clan leader.

You know, he wanted Asuma to come back to inherit this position before, but the other party didn't care.

"Haha, having power in your hands and not using it is different from not having power in your hands. I don't need to really do anything. Just let them believe that I will do it. After

After all, they are all Konoha's strength, and there is nothing wrong in protecting the interests of the tribe. There is no need to kill them all. "

Sarutobi Hiruzen was hit again. But he probably understood the core of Aoba's approach, which is fairness.

Fairness is the most luxurious existence in the world. Or rather, it has never really existed.

Even in Konoha now, fairness does not exist. Children of civilians go to school at the same time as children of ninjas. The same teachers, the same learning environment. Is it fair?

If the major ninja clans did not start teaching the method of extracting chakra in advance, start physical training in advance, and start practicing family secrets in advance, then all this would be fair.

But the result is that fairness is not exists.

Even the so-called advanced ninja schools are only relatively fair to civilian ninjas. Because most of the ninjutsu exchanged there are already in reserve in the ninja families.

Civilian ninjas need to spend points to exchange, or use their own unique ninjutsu to exchange. But the descendants of the ninja clan can learn it from birth. Is this fair?

However, even so, this policy is still supported by countless civilian ninjas. Because even if there is no absolute fairness, they have already got a chance to make progress.

This is also Qingye's ultimate goal.

The number of civilian ninjas is huge. This opportunity Although the competition is not big, someone will always stand out. Then a virtuous circle will be formed. Gradually narrowing the gap between civilians and ninjas.

At the same time, in order to avoid being eliminated, the ninjas need to work hard to innovate and develop new things. Only in this way can healthy competition be formed.

And all of this needs to be based on a stable and strong system. Aoba promoted various political and livelihood reforms in Konoha to create an environment for such competition. At present, it has achieved initial results. But it is still far from what Aoba expected.

Sarutobi Hiruzen actually didn't fully understand it. But at least he knew One thing. That is, the young man in front of him is much better than himself in many things.

In just two years. Konoha has taken off in an all-round way. Sarutobi Hiruzen remembered the Baiyun Zaojian who stopped him just now. When he was in power, the other party was just a special ninja.

But during the confrontation just now, Sarutobi Hiruzen could even feel a hint of danger.

Even if his current body has not fully adapted. But this is a peak young body. The power he can exert is only stronger than before his death.

Judging from the leopard, the current Konoha is indeed different from the past.