Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

At the end of the New Year, Aoba, as the village's jonin, began to carry out missions again. However, after the last Kumogakure incident, the entire ninja world seemed to have entered a period of peace.

The only thing that bothered Qingye was that Asuma and his men had brought back a message from outside: Qingye's bounty on the black market had reached 30 million taels.

Qingye, who was extremely short of money, had the idea of ​​selling himself for money at that time.

Thirty million taels is not a small amount. Moreover, as a newly rising Konoha ninja, he has obviously attracted a lot of attention from the outside world.

During one mission, he even met Kakuzu, the money-hungry guy.

To be honest, Angle was one of the most difficult enemies he had ever encountered in the ninja world. In his mind, he was even more troublesome than the Raikage.

This doesn't mean that Kakuzu is definitely stronger than the Raikage. In fact, in a head-on confrontation, Kakuzu would not be a match for the Fourth Raikage. But he is different from a reckless man like the Raikage.

Kakuzu is an all-around ninja. He possesses all five attributes and has so much chakra that he can use himself as a mobile turret.

This is also one of the enemies that Aoba dislikes facing the most. When fighting with the Raikage, both of them are ninjas who are good at ninjutsu. At least they can play to their strengths.

But when fighting with Kakuzu, this guy just stood far away and attacked crazily. It was obvious that Kakuzu had collected intelligence about Aoba in advance. He knew that Aoba was a ninja who was good at short-range close combat.

Therefore, they distanced themselves from the beginning and used long-range firepower to cover the enemy directly. This made Qingye very sick.

Although Qingye's Lightning Flash is a stronger long-range attack method, with his current chakra, he can only use it three times in a row.

What’s annoying is that each horn has five lives.

If it were someone else, he could wait until the other person's chakra was exhausted, but Kakuzu decided to forget it.

In desperation, he used a hidden trump card of his own and avoided Kakuzu's pursuit.

Qingye can fly, or glide. That's right, he can use the wind to lift his body into the sky and fly a certain distance at high speed.

The whole process cannot change direction, so it is basically not effective in actual combat. But it can still be used for escape.

He had two choices at the time. One was to enter Sage Mode and fight to the death with Angle. But fighting to the death with a monster with five lives was really unwise.

So, he finally chose to leave the battlefield.

But Aoba still remembered that fight. When he met Kakuzu, he was already wearing Akatsuki uniform, but he was alone.

It seemed that he either had no companions, or his companions had been killed by him in exchange for bounties. However, the target that Qingye cared about the most was not by his side.

Hidan, a believer in the god of death, possesses an even more ridiculous immortality than Kakuzu. He is a very important part of Aoba's plan.

Qingye had been secretly collecting information about the evil cult a long time ago, but the whereabouts of the cult were actually more secretive than he had imagined.

After all, it was a cult, and it was the kind that held a living festival. The five major ninja villages could not tolerate those guys. The cult had always been developing in secret.

At this time, Hidan had already appeared, but he had not yet teamed up with Angle, so Aoba was unable to grasp his whereabouts.

Kakuzu is very famous in the underground world. After all, he is very powerful, and no one he has set his sights on can escape. This guy is treated as a super VIP in the gold exchange.

After Aoba returned to the village, he reported the encounter with Kakuzu and was given a few days' vacation.

Qingye naturally didn't waste time. He bought a shop on the commercial street and started selling the small props he developed in combination with the sealing technique.

Headphones that can increase perception. Of course, they can also be earrings, earrings, etc. Bracelets that can make strong noises and disrupt the other person's balance.

These two are the main products.

In addition, he also developed some hidden weapons to assist in combat, such as a ring with poison needles and sleeve arrows that could fire continuously.

These things do exist in the Naruto world, but for some reason, they have never become popular.

Qingye has always believed that ninja is an assassin-type profession. These ninja tools should be very suitable for the occasion.

Unfortunately, perhaps because of the existence of chakra in this world, ninjas can use that kind of extraordinary power, so the pursuit of these small props has become weaker.

However, in Aoba's opinion, these things are still very useful for middle and lower-level ninjas.

To be honest, even a village like Konoha that values ​​education is very selfish in its training of ninjas.

Most civilian ninjas only know one or two ninjutsu other than the three body techniques in their lifetime, and their chakra simply cannot afford more ninjutsu.

This is why these Chunin and Genin can only be cannon fodder in war. Facing those powerful elite ninjas, they can't do it even if they want to use numbers.

In battle, most Genin and Chunin still use shurikens, kunai, and other weapons to fight. At most, they buy a few detonating tags as trump cards.

It is impossible to have more because the price of detonating tags is very expensive. It is simply not something that ordinary civilian ninjas can afford.

The most ironic thing is that for a true Jonin-level ninja, the detonating tag becomes less important.

The ninjutsu they released was more powerful than the Explosive Talisman, and the effects were more complex and varied, much stronger than the simple explosion of the Explosive Talisman.

Therefore, ninja tools like detonating tags are actually a bit awkward in the ninja world. Or rather, most ninja tools are a bit awkward.

After Qingye's Ninja Tool Shop opened, there were quite a few customers. However, what he didn't expect was that the headphones and noise bracelets he had high hopes for were basically not sold at all.

However, quite a few items such as rings, bracelets, and sleeve arrows that contained poison needles were sold.

After all the hard work, the Ninja Tool Shop could only break even. After all, making those small props takes a lot of effort and time.

Aoba's first business venture in the ninja world was far from successful.

In fact, he had something better that he hadn't brought out yet. If he brought out the Life Potions, they would definitely sell like hot cakes. He could easily become the richest man in Konoha. But for Karin and her daughter, he couldn't do such a thing.

During the vacation, he went to the riverside to train with Sasuke as usual. During this time, he had almost mastered the Rasengan. The only thing left was to train how to integrate the changes in chakra attributes.

That training is somewhat dangerous. Qingye is preparing to draw up a new training plan.

But that afternoon, when he had just finished training, Karin suddenly ran over.

"Brother Qingye, Mom is looking for you."

Aoba's expression changed slightly. This was a secret signal between her and Karin. It meant that White Zetsu was approaching the laboratory.

"This guy has been holding it in for so long, has he finally been unable to bear it?"

I'm so sorry, I've had a bad cold these past two days and can't hold on any longer, so I can only update once. I'll start updating more when I feel better tomorrow.