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It only took two days for the street fighting to end.

All the Kumo ninja who openly dared to resist were killed under Konoha's strong push.

There may be many Kumo Ninja Village ninjas who are still hiding among the civilians, but that has nothing to do with the overall situation.

There are no large blood successor families in Yun Ninja Village, and everything important belongs to the village.

The ANBU, intelligence department, data room, ninjutsu sealing room, material warehouse and forging furnace are six extremely valuable "strategic locations". Except for the secret warehouses of the ANBU and the intelligence department which were destroyed by the ninjas who stayed behind, the rest Everything is under Konoha's control.

Although before that, some Kumo ninja saw that the situation was not good and took away some valuable things and ran away, but the majority still fell into the hands of Konoha.

At this point, the Cloud Ninja Village can be said to have been removed from the Ninja World.

Uchiha Fugaku plans to occupy Kumo Ninja Village and establish a "Konoha Branch" here.

However, under Jiraiya's strong opposition, the plan was finally abandoned.

After searching for a whole day and taking everything they could find and take away, Konoha quickly began to withdraw.

Cloud Ninja Village is finished, which is good news.

Even if the military advisor Tudai withstood the pressure from the north and even drove the Iwa ninja out of the Land of Thunder, it would be impossible to rebuild a Kumo ninja village.

But the bad news is that too many people know the news.

Konoha does not have enough time to digest its harvest, so it must evacuate the Kingdom of Thunder and return to its own territory to avoid being benefited by latecomers.

Of course, Konoha's gains from capturing the Cloud Ninja Village were already large enough.

Even if they are forced to give up some benefits, they can still make a lot of money in this war. After making up for the huge war expenses, they can still have a huge balance.

For Konoha, the next thing to do is to keep the gains obtained through various political games.

And this is actually not difficult to do.

The nearly overwhelming battle in the [Death Fight Arena] was enough to make the entire ninja world highly fearful.

Before finding out the identity of "Otsutsuki Ichiraku" and his relationship with Konoha, any high-level executive of the Otsutsuki Village with a normal mind would not act rashly.

The threat of force is already the limit, and the probability of being transformed into substantive action is infinitely close to zero.

As long as it has a period of stable development and digests this harvest, Konoha's overall strength will rise a lot again.

Konoha benefited from being a temporary ally, and the mood of the Iwa Ninja Village was not so good.

Also attacking the Kingdom of Thunder, the army of Iwa Ninja Village was trapped in the northern part of the Kingdom of Thunder and was unable to make new progress for a long time.

Instead, a large amount of manpower and funds were wasted here, causing a huge burden on the finances of Iwa Ninja Village.

If they cannot capture the Kumo Ninja and make up for themselves by sucking the blood of the Kumo Ninja, the development of Iwa Ninja Village will inevitably be in trouble.

In the next few years, it is unlikely that the strength will decline, but the development speed will fall behind, causing the Sun Ninja and Mist Ninja behind to catch up or even surpass it, but it is possible.

Since the establishment of the Ninja Village Era, the five major Ninja Villages have occasionally declined in strength due to wars, but overall, they are making progress.

Whoever's progress is one step behind will fall behind step by step until the gap is completely widened.

Sand Ninja Village is the best example.

If it weren't for the fact that Kirigakure Village's strength had declined significantly due to the events in the "Blood Mist" period, the Sand Ninja's ranking as the last one would have been absolutely undisputed.

Even if it is just to maintain the current status of Iwa Ninja Village, we must gain enough from this war.

Whether it's money or anything else.

Only with enough profits can we make up for the losses in this war, and even use more resources to train future generations.

Through this war and watching the previous battles in the [Death Battle Arena], Onoki also had new ideas about the future of Iwa Ninja Village.

"Perhaps, the idea of ​​cannon fodder-style explosions is wrong? Is the elite route the future?"

Onoki hesitated.

Starting from the first generation of Tsuchikage, Iwa Ninja Village has been firmly following the idea of ​​​​"Bakui style".

Through a large number of low-quality, low-cost "cannon fodder ninjas", the numerical advantage is established.

In one-on-one situations, especially at the level of genin and chunin, the ninjas of Iwa Ninja Village are recognized as the weakest.

However, the advantage of Iwa Ninja is that due to the greatly lowered standards for ninja entry and promotion, the number of ninjas is often several times that of other ninja villages.

Especially for genin, the other four major ninja villages combined may not have as many genin as the Iwa Ninja Village.

If you can't beat one-on-one, you will always have an advantage if you beat two-on-one or three-on-one.

Moreover, even if the promotion ratio of ninjas in Iwa Ninja Village is very low, based on the huge base, the absolute number of jounin and even elite jounin is not inferior at all, only slightly less than that of Konoha and Kumo ninja, but far more To the Sand Ninja and the Mist Ninja.

Of course, again, with very few exceptions, the jounin of Iwa Ninja Village is generally weaker than the jounin of the other four major ninja villages.

But in terms of top combat power, Iwa Ninja Village obviously has a disadvantage.

Apart from Ōnoki himself and the two jinchūriki, only Ōnoki's son Huangtu could still hold up the field.

As for Deidara, his talent is indeed worthy of high hopes, but it is far from mature.

Originally, Onoki didn't think there was any problem with this.

With the advantage of numbers, even a large number of genin can kill the "strongest man in the ninja world" with their lives.

In the Third Ninja World War, tens of thousands of Iwa Ninja fought for three days and three nights, and killed the Third Raikage, who was known as the strongest in the world, with their lives. This was the most proud achievement of the Iwa Ninja Village in recent years.

If the Fourth Raikage Ai and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki Rabbi hadn't quickly taken over the situation, turned the tide, and defeated the ambitious Iwa Ninja through several battles, maybe the village of Kumogakure would not have existed after that. .

However, in this war, Iwa Ninja Village mobilized a large number of troops, but they were held back by a mere military advisor.

This forced Ohnoki to rethink the weaknesses of the violent force.

In addition, in the [Death Fight Arena], Onoki watched the entire battle, taking note of the performance of both sides, especially the white-haired young man.

That kind of understatement killed Raikage Ai, and used weird means to cause the tailed beast to explode in advance before it was activated, killing the eight-tailed Jinchuuriki.

Coupled with the terrifying chakra giant that is 120 meters high.

Onoki couldn't help but wonder, could an opponent of this level really be defeated by the sheer number of people?

If they were all cannon fodder like chunin and genin, even if tens of thousands of people were filled in, they wouldn't be able to consume much chakra from the opponent, right?

Even Onoki himself, who has always been extremely confident in his own strength, dare not say that he will definitely be able to defeat that mysterious enemy.

No, it was more than that. It should be said that once there was a fight with the mysterious white-haired young man, Ohnoki believed that he would be more likely to lose.

If it were just Susanoo, it would be fine. Onoki believed that his Dust Release was enough to break Susanoo's defense.

The [Blood Successor Knockout], who has the strongest attack in the entire ninja world, has such confidence.

However, Ohnoki really didn't understand the opponent's method of killing Raikage Ai and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki.

It is precisely because of the unknown that I am even more afraid.

Thoughts about the white-haired young man swirled around in Ohnoki's mind and were quickly thrown aside.

Although a strange and powerful person who has not appeared in the intelligence system of Iwa Ninja Village is an important event that must be investigated clearly, its priority is much lower compared to the future of the village.

The white-haired young man himself did not make Onoki feel unhappy, but the touch he caused made Onoki seriously think about whether the development direction of Iwa Ninja Village in recent years has really gone wrong.

From the Third Ninja World War to the present, Onoki has realized more than once the importance of top powerhouses to the battle situation.

Judging from the current development direction of the violent soldier flow in Iwa Ninja Village, it is much more difficult to give birth to top powerhouses than in a village that develops normally.

In fact, since the establishment of Iwagakure Village, it has always been a weak point in the field of top experts.

It wasn't until the second-generation genius Tsuchikage Mu turned out and developed [Blood Successor Elimination - Dust Release] based on the principle of [Blood Succession Limit] that this changed.

Theoretically speaking, as long as you don't encounter inhuman beings like Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, the average Kage level powerhouse will need at least two or three to join forces to barely compete against a powerhouse who has mastered the Dust Release.

Unless you are risking death together, in a one-on-one situation, using the "Light and Heavy Rock Technique" to fly high in the sky, and then using Dust Release to carry out ultra-long-distance attacks, this tactic can be said to be extremely rogue, and basically It is difficult to meet an opponent.

After the second-generation Tsuchikage Mu and the second-generation Mizukage Kiden Gengetsu died together, Onoki inherited the position of the third-generation Tsuchikage. It has been decades now, and there has never been a "hard battle" experience. Naturally, he is facing the top I don’t care much about cultivating strong people.

——Anyway, it is enough to have myself here. A few more shadow-level experts will not be as useful as imagined. Instead, it is better to use these resources to cultivate thousands or even tens of thousands of ordinary ninjas.

The resources consumed to train a Kage-level warrior are enough to train at least two to three thousand genin.

After experiencing the baptism of several wars, under normal circumstances, two-thirds of the three thousand genin will die in the war, but among the remaining 1000, at least 500 will be promoted to chunin. It will decrease, but it will also increase to a certain extent.

Of course, this method of promotion through excessive overexploitation of potential through life and death battles in wars would only reach the chunin level for ordinary ninjas.

Those with better talents can only reach jounin at most, which has exhausted all their potential and there is no way to continue to advance.

It is simply impossible to cultivate a shadow-level powerhouse through this route.

In addition to the inheritance of the Jinchuuriki, in fact, Ohnoki has been having a headache about his successor.

The son Huang Tu who was focused on training at the beginning was really unable to take the position of leader due to his personality.

Deidara, who has high hopes, will need at least a few years to grow up.

It is not that there are no other geniuses in the village who are not inferior to Deidara, but due to the allocation of resources, these geniuses are generally not well cultivated and are instead thrown into the battlefield and left to fend for themselves.

Even those who survived, most of them have exhausted their potential and stopped at being jounin or even just chuunin.

It is simply impossible to cultivate a shadow-level powerhouse.

"Oh, it's too late to turn around now..."

Onoki sighed.

Due to the "explosion style" thinking that has continued for many years, the potential of the slightly older ninjas in Iwa Ninja Village has basically been exhausted in the war.

Life and death battles are indeed the best way to stimulate people's potential, but without sufficient accumulation, relying solely on fighting on the edge of life and death to stimulate potential will not be very effective.

The speed of promotion is indeed very fast, but it is an excessive overdraft of potential.

Geniuses who originally had the chance to reach the Kage level, if cultivated in this way, may even find it difficult to reach the elite Jonin level.

Not to mention, in this process, a considerable proportion of geniuses will die before they grow up.

The battlefield is not a children's play house. The matter of life and death itself is fair to both geniuses and mediocre people.

The probability of a genius dying on the battlefield is no lower than that of an ordinary ninja with mediocre talent.

After all these years, apart from Deidara and Kurotsuchi, among the slightly older ninjas in Iwa Ninja Village, there are no longer any who are worthy of further training.

If you search further, you may have to look for children under the age of 12, who are not yet adults even by the standards of the ninja world.

And cultivating a top player requires more than just talent, resources, and excellent mentors.

In addition, another very important point is time.

Especially for children, the time required for physical development is generally fixed. Even if you are stuck at the age of 12 to find potential goals, under the premise that the speed of progress is completely ideal, it will still be at least seventeen or eighteen years old. , it is possible to cross the threshold of film-level, and it is normal to not take this step until you are in your 20s.

Six or seven years, or even more than ten years, does not seem to be of much significance to the current changing situation in the ninja world.

There are so many things that can happen in such a long time.

Rather than investing huge resources in a completely uncertain future, it would be better to invest these resources in the present.

After all, future earnings are uncertain.

But the current threat is tangible.

Onoki knew very well that after the fight in the [Death Fight Arena], the Cloud Ninja Village was finished.

And the one who can gain the greatest benefit is undoubtedly Konoha.

No one can guarantee that after Konoha has obtained massive resources from Kumo Ninja and quickly transformed them into strength, it will immediately turn its guns and start a journey to unify the ninja world.

After figuring this out, Onoki couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"It seems like there is a choice, but in fact there is no choice at all. There is only one way to go..."