To say Konoha achieved a total victory wouldn't be entirely accurate.
The Third Hokage was completely exhausted in this battle. His already aging body was thoroughly paralyzed, and he would only be able to move around in a wheelchair from now on.
He could no longer continue to serve as Hokage.
As for the other ninjas, over 50 died, more than 100 lost arms or legs, and countless others suffered major and minor injuries.
Furthermore, centered around the arena, all the buildings within a 5-kilometer radius were completely destroyed.
Many other places were also heavily damaged.
Fortunately, after Gaara underwent Tailed Beast Transformation, he was guided out of the village by the Uchiha clan's Sharingan.
Currently, there was no Mangekyo Sharingan in the Uchiha clan, and the visual prowess of a three-tomoe couldn't control a Tailed Beast.
The fact that they could use hypnosis to guide him was largely thanks to Gaara's extremely poor mental state.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to hypnotize Gaara once he released the Tailed Beast's true form at all.
Outside the village, Naruto teamed up with Sasuke and defeated Gaara.
On the other side, the summoned three-headed giant snake was still dealt with by Jiraiya.
After the war ended, the reconstruction began.
However, Jokichi knew nothing about reconstruction work, and there was no need for him to worry about it.
Although some higher-ups initially asked him to use Wood Release to build houses, he refused.
His excuse was that he had overdrawn his chakra during the battle and couldn't muster any strength right now.
Even though he looked as vigorous as a dragon and tiger while saying this, and anyone with eyes could tell he was lying.
But Jokichi made it clear he didn't want to go, and no one made things difficult for him.
Because this war ended because of him.
He was a hero.
Moreover, possessing formidable power meant possessing privileges.
No one wanted to sour their relationship with such a powerful ninja.
...
At night, the moonlight was bright.
Jokichi was in his bedroom tallying his spoils of war.
First up was Kimimaro's bone.
[Ding! Detected special material "Kaguya Arm Bone", can forge special items "Diluted Otsutsuki Crystal", "Combat Instinct". Do you wish to forge?]
"Is that it?"
Jokichi was surprised.
Kimimaro, who possessed the Otsutsuki bloodline, could actually only forge two items.
However, thinking about it carefully.
There weren't any memes surrounding Kimimaro. The only things that could be forged were the potential he inherently possessed.
Being able to forge two items was already pretty good.
After figuring this out, Jokichi felt relieved.
"Forge."
Chanting silently in his mind, two items instantly appeared in his hands.
A thumb-sized white crystal.
A fist-sized glowing sphere of light.
[Diluted Otsutsuki Crystal: A crystal containing the Otsutsuki bloodline. It can alter your body's cells and even DNA structure, granting you the Otsutsuki bloodline.]
[Combat Instinct: Contains the master's combat instinct. Once integrated, you will also possess the same combat instinct.]
[Ding! Detected that the host possesses the homologous item "Diluted Otsutsuki Crystal". The "Diluted Otsutsuki Crystal" can undergo a fusion upgrade. Do you wish to fuse?]
"...No."
Hyuga, Kaguya, Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki all inherited the Otsutsuki bloodline.
But the bloodlines of the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki were closer to the changes brought about by the Divine Tree's fruit.
Whereas the Hyuga and Kaguya leaned more toward the inherent power of the Otsutsuki clan itself.
Jokichi had long anticipated that the crystals of the Hyuga and Kaguya clans could be fused and upgraded.
Moreover, he could roughly guess what functions it would have after the fusion upgrade.
It would probably be like Kaguya Otsutsuki, possessing both the Byakugan and the Macabre Bone Pulse.
Of course, just fusing two Hyuga crystals and one Kaguya crystal couldn't possibly result in a constitution equal to Kaguya Otsutsuki's. At most, it would be a weakened knock-off version.
Jokichi planned to take a trip to the Land of Water.
To see if he could find the graves or ashes of the Kaguya clan.
If worse came to worst, he would go to the former settlement of the Kaguya clan and see if he could find any leftover hair or nails.
If everything went smoothly, he should be able to forge even more Kaguya crystals.
Then, he would figure out a way to pluck the hair of everyone in the Hyuga clan.
By then, perhaps he could fuse a Macabre Bone Pulse that possessed the Tenseigan and was on the level of the Otsutsuki.
As for the Combat Instinct...
This was good stuff, so Jokichi directly absorbed it.
Next, he took out Rasa's blood.
[Ding! Discovered special material "Money-Powered User's Blood", can forge special items "Magnet Release Crystal", "Sealing Pot", "Money Printer". Do you wish to forge?]
"..."
Jokichi was slightly speechless.
A "Money-Powered User", really?
And what the hell is the use of a Money Printer!
The Naruto world had its own financial system. Printing a small amount of cash to use might be fine.
But if you printed too much, it would just become a pile of waste paper, the kind that's too stiff even to wipe your butt with.
However, useful or not, he'd forge them first and see.
As the thought fell, the next second, three items appeared in his hands.
Needless to say about the Magnet Release Crystal, it was identical to Gaara's and could be fused and upgraded.
However, Jokichi had no need for it, so he didn't fuse it for now.
He turned his gaze to the other two items.
It was a pot about the size of a basketball but quite flat. It was carved with many ancient patterns, full of the aura of time.
[Sealing Pot: A sealing vessel possessing powerful energy. It can seal chakra, or creatures that are aggregates of chakra.]
After reading the description of this item, Jokichi fell into deep thought.
He remembered that when Rasa suppressed Shukaku in the past, he also held a pot.
However, this thing should be different from that one.
Because, according to the system description, this thing seemed to be an existence without an upper limit, just like the Sword of Protection.
So, could this thing seal the Dragon Vein?
If it could, then perhaps he could forge an item related to time.
Actually, when he first understood the system's forging rules, Jokichi had thought about forging an item related to the Dragon Vein.
However, the system's rule was that only things held in his hands belonged to him and could be forged.
And the Dragon Vein was a very dangerous existence. Once touched, it was very easy to be sucked into the turbulent flow of time and space.
But now, with this Sealing Pot, he could seal the Dragon Vein inside it, making it his own item.
When the time came, leaving aside forging items related to the Dragon Vein.
The power contained within the Dragon Vein itself was incredibly formidable.
You have to understand, in the Naruto world, not even Kaguya Otsutsuki possessed the power to travel through time.
The Dragon Vein's power was absolutely not weaker than the Ten-Tails.
For a moment, Jokichi's thoughts ran wild, thinking of many things.
He even considered using the Dragon Vein to return to his past world.
After a long while, his thoughts returned to calm.
Jokichi placed the Sealing Pot back into the system space.
No matter how many conjectures he had, they were just conjectures. Thinking too much now was useless. Tomorrow he would go to the Third Hokage and apply to travel outside the village.
When the time came, he would head straight to the Land of Wind to find the Dragon Vein.
Compared to the Tailed Beasts, the power of the Dragon Vein was much more attractive.