Body Flicker!
Jiraiya leapt to the top of a large tree.
In the distance, he saw Stardew Valley, with neat houses and clean streets, and even a sizable village wall built around it.
For a small place that was clearly an agricultural village, it had constructed a large complex of buildings.
"Something isn't right." Jiraiya's curiosity was piqued.
He wanted to sneak into the village first and scout it out carefully.
Just as he formed hand signs for an Earth ReleaseNinjutsu, before Jiraiya could sink into the ground, he felt a strange fluctuation of Chakra in the distance.
"Such powerful Chakra!"
Jiraiya quickly approached the target.
In a forest, three children who were clearly young were confronting four strange-looking Ninjas.
The powerful Chakra he had sensed came from the one with red hair among the three children.
"Such strong Chakra, red hair? Could it be the Uzumaki Clan?"
Jiraiya watched the red-haired child but did not reveal himself immediately.
Instead, he suppressed his presence and circled around to the back of the four strange Ninjas.
"I'll knock out these four strange guys first, then ask these kids for the details."
Jiraiya thought to himself, reaching to his lower back to pull out a Kunai.
Unexpectedly, when he saw the red-haired boy's face, Jiraiya froze instantly.
"Rin? Rinnegan?!"
The Toad Sage's prophecy echoed in Jiraiya's mind like a thunderclap.
"The eyes that contain energy?"
"Capable of bringing great change to the Ninja World?"
White Zetsu, who had been searching for Nagato everywhere, finally found the Rinnegan.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Fucheng, who was searching for Danzo, was also gradually closing in on Danzo's trail.
At this moment in the Land of Grass, Danzo Shimura sat at the head of the room, exchanging detailed intelligence with a RootNinja who was infiltrating the Rain Ninjas.
"Isn't Hanzou planning to go to war with the Land of Earth? Why have they become close again?" Danzo Shimura, currently transformed into a nobleman of the Land of Grass, sat grandly in front of a screen with several RootNinjas.
This Rain Ninja spy, also transformed into an ordinary merchant, knelt to Danzo's right.
He carefully described the series of actions taken by Hanzou over the recent period.
"We are the first batch of Rain Ninjas to infiltrate the Land of Grass; Hanzou should still be on the way."
The Rain Ninja spy explained, "After Hanzou's failed invasions of the Land of Wind and the Land of Fire, the domestic economy suffered a severe blow. The Land of Rain cannot support him in starting another war."
Danzo nodded and continued to ask, "Then what is his purpose this time?"
"It's mineral resources! My lord."
The other party answered while taking out a document.
"Although Hanzou signed a ceasefire agreement with the Land of Iron, in essence, the Land of Iron was defeated. Hanzou spared Mifune and the other high-ranking officials and samurai troops of the Land of Iron, but the Land of Iron is also facing a large amount of war reparations."
A cold glint flashed in Danzo Shimura's left eye. "Is it that the Land of Iron cannot pay the reparations?"
The Rain Ninja spy nodded. "The Land of Iron cannot afford the large reparations, and the Rain Ninjas are in urgent need of improving their domestic economy, so in the end, there was this [Labor for Reparations] plan."
Danzo sneered, "The Land of Rain takes low-cost raw mineral materials, exchanges them for Ninja tools, weapons, and metal products from the Land of Iron, and then resells them to the Land of Earth? Hanzou's connections are quite extensive."
Looking at the secret scroll in his hand, Danzo Shimura completely understood this transaction between the Land of Iron and the Land of Rain.
He became more confident in disrupting Hanzou's meeting.
"You go back first. On the day of the meeting, try to stay away from Hanzou, and be careful not to be affected by any Ninjutsu."
Hearing Danzo Shimura's order, the other party immediately bowed and thanked him.
A burst of white mist dissipated, and the Rain Ninja spy who had just been sitting there turned into a puddle of water.
At this moment, Danzo Shimura appeared to have victory in his grasp.
"By creating an Explosion Release effect from the Rock Ninjas at the meeting site, I don't believe Hanzou can just watch his subordinates get hurt without taking action."
Hanzou sat in the carriage, looking slightly dejected. The dilapidated streets of the Land of Grass were filled with an atmosphere of decay, making Hanzou, who had faced repeated failures, even more stifled.
The accompanying Rain Ninjas had also transformed into the appearance of a merchant caravan from the Land of Rain.
They had come to the Land of Grass this time to meet with the Rock Ninjas; Hanzou had shown great sincerity.
Hanzou was using the little remaining cash reserves of the Land of Rain to purchase mineral resources from the Land of Earth at twenty percent above the market price.
However, these Rock Ninjas from the Land of Earth were strictly controlling the mineral and metal trade between the two countries because of past border confrontations.
"If we can't reach an agreement, we'll just kill them." The new advisor of the Land of Rain, sitting next to Hanzou, said with a ruthless look.
Hanzou sighed and frowned. "Don't say such angry things. We don't have the finances or supplies to support a major war. Fighting the Land of Earth now is not as cost-effective as just robbing the Land of Grass. We won't do meaningless things."
As they were about to reach their destination, although the streets were bustling, Hanzou suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
This was the sixth sense that a Ninja who had fought in the Ninja World for decades firmly believed in!
"Stop! Leave here, go back first..."
Before Hanzou could command the Rain Ninjas to retreat, an Earth ReleaseNinjutsu created a huge high wall.
It directly separated Hanzou and his many subordinate Rain Ninjas into two battlefields.
A huge explosion!
Resounded from both sides of the earth wall.
On the rooftops on both sides of the street, multiple voices shouted out chaotic attack calls: "Explosion Release: Landmine," "Explosion Release: Earth Explosion Encirclement," and "Earth Release: Earth Wall."
The Rain Ninjas, ambushed by the explosion, were instantly killed or injured all over the ground.
Even the Rain Ninja advisor accompanying Hanzou was injured in his right arm by the blast.
"Counterattack! It's an ambush by the Rock Ninjas!"
Turning back the clock to before Hanzou entered the city.
Danzo Shimura, who had been waiting for Root reinforcements, looked at his subordinates with extreme anger.
"Where are the people? Why haven't they arrived yet?"
The masked Ninja known as "Kinoe" controlled his body in extreme pain.
It seemed Danzo had a special method to control his muscles and bones to spasm from a distance.
"Dan, Danzo-sama, the reinforcements really haven't reached the designated location. I released two waves of Ninja Hawks, but there was no response."
Although his muscles were spasming in extreme pain and his body was still trembling, the RootNinja was still lying on the ground answering.
"Trash! You are all trash!"
Danzo's eyes flashed with malice. "Twenty Root members, including nine Jonin, and you can't even handle such a small matter."
Before the pained "Kinoe" could crawl up, Danzo had already walked from his seat to stand in front of the few RootNinjas.
"No need to wait for these trash. We'll do it ourselves!"
"What about the ambush outside the city?" The RootNinja "Otsu" nearby approached Danzo and reminded him softly.
Danzo Shimura's anger flared. "The Rock Ninjas from the Land of Earth can run if they want this time; anyway, we've disrupted Hanzou's trade, and we'll have plenty of opportunities to deal with the Rock Ninjas in the future!"
The Rock Ninja team waiting for the Land of Rain, at this moment, did not know they had escaped a disaster.
Boom!
A group of Ninjas from the Land of Earth were inexplicably crushed into the ruins by a collapsing house.
"Enemy attack!"
Fortunately, most of the buildings in the Land of Grass were wooden-framed, which did not cause fatal injuries to the Ninjas.
But just as the Rock Ninjas rushed out of the courtyard.
They saw a group of Rain Ninjas on the street, charging at them, gnashing their teeth.
"Defend!"
With a shout, the three Rock Ninjas in the front row simultaneously used an Earth ReleaseNinjutsu to strengthen their defense.
A thick earth wall, plus more than thirty sharp rock spikes, formed the first line of defense.
The Kunai and Senbon of the Rain Ninjas clattered against the hard rock.
"I knew it! These Rain Ninjas have no good intentions!"
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