Chapter 685: Tsuchikage Takes the Field Personally
Rain Country, Six Paths Castle.
A team of ninjas wearing turbans and Sunagakure forehead protectors walked into Six Paths Castle.
The arrival of the Sunagakure team did not attract the attention of the Shinobi clan ninjas or the residents of Six Paths Castle.
Since the news that Sosuke defeated Sarutobi Hiruzen spread, Six Paths Castle soon became more lively than before.
Many people came to buy houses, and they bet that the Shinobi clan could withstand the pressure from Konoha.
At that time, Six Paths Castle will not only be the safest place in the Rain Country, but may even be one of the safest places in the ninja world, and housing prices will definitely soar.
There are also many people selling houses, and even more, many people think that a small ninja organization like the Shinobi clan cannot withstand the anger of the five major ninja villages.
Even if the leader is strong enough, the final winner will only be Konoha if the war continues.
The people of the Rain Country are very familiar with this process, after all, they have experienced it once.
In addition to those who want to take the opportunity to make a fortune, there are also many ninjas who are curious about Sosuke who can defeat the third generation of Hokage, and come to watch the excitement.
Of course, the intelligence ninjas of each ninja village or ninja force are also indispensable.
"This Six Paths City is really lively. How long has this town been built? Three years? It's incredible." A Sand Village ninja sighed.
He felt that this Six Paths City was more lively than the Sand Village, which was obviously just a town created by a small force that had just risen.
"Lively? This kind of liveliness is not a good thing." Yashamaru shook his head slightly.
At the moment when the five major ninja villages stopped fighting, the Six Paths City, which had a huge conflict with Konoha, could be called the vortex center of the entire ninja world.
Due to the potential shown by the Ninja Sect, not only Konoha, but also the ninja forces around the Ninja Sect probably don't want the Ninja Sect to have an easy time.
"Let's start our mission, don't waste time, we don't have much time." Yashamaru said.
They came to Six Paths City not to speculate in real estate, but to alienate the Ninja Sect and Iwagakure, and win Iwagakure to their side.
The Sand Village nodded and began to look for Iwagakure ninjas.
In fact, it was not just their team that came to Sunagakure, but the other team did not wear Sunagakure clothing, but entered the Six Paths Castle in disguise.
The two teams needed to do different things.
The mission of the Yashamaru team was to contact the head of the Iwagakure in the Six Paths Castle, and then tell the other party about the dangers of the Ninja Clan, and initially express the intention to cooperate.
But this was just the first step.
Although interests came first and everything else came second, Iwagakure had cooperated with the Ninja Clan for a long time after all, and Luo Sha did not expect Yashamaru to convince Iwagakure directly by talking.
The Sunagakure team that came in disguise was the key.
They would frame the Ninja Clan and use this to alienate the relationship between Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan.
When there was a gap in the cooperation between Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan, if Sunagakure increased its efforts, the cooperation between the Ninja Clan and Iwagakure would be difficult to maintain.
However, in order not to be exposed and not to let the action be discovered by Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan, time was very important.
If Sunagakure was rejected by Iwagakure just before, and something happened to the Ninja Clan the next day, Iwagakure would easily suspect Sunagakure.
The estrangement and Yashamaru's contact with Iwagakure must be carried out at the same time.
This, coupled with the covert actions of the Sand Village, greatly reduced the possibility of exposure.
The Iwagakure could only find that only one team of Sand Village entered the Six Paths City that day and went to find them.
In order to reduce the possibility of exposure, the two Sand Village teams did not even contact each other at all, but only agreed on the time to start.
Only when they could not complete the task at the agreed time would they contact each other and inform the other party that the task was temporarily suspended.
That's why Yashamaru said that they didn't have much time.
Of course, it's not too troublesome to find someone openly, otherwise this task would be too difficult to complete.
"Huh? There are ninjas who are good at puppetry in the Six Paths City?" A puppeteer Jonin was stunned when he saw the arm of a Shinobi clan ninja.
Although the arm looked like a real arm, a prosthesis was still a prosthesis after all. For someone like him who deals with puppets every day, he can still recognize it if he looks closely.
The Sand Village puppeteer was very surprised. Transforming the human body is not a simple technology.
The Shinobi clan ninja saw the Sand Village ninja staring at his arm, and wanted to promote his own surgery.
Now, because the production of prosthetic limbs is limited, and only Scorpion can perform the surgery, except for the people of the Ninja Clan, a very expensive fee is charged.
After seeing the forehead protector on his head, the Ninja Clan ninja gave up the idea of selling.
The Sand Village is the holy land of puppetry, and it is the most developed ninja force in the entire ninja world.
And their Ninja Clan's prosthetic limbs are obviously also a kind of puppet technology. It would be bad if the Sand Village stole the commercial secrets.
Although the Sand Village puppeteer was curious, he had to suppress his curiosity and continue to perform the task.
With the quick action of Yashamaru and others, they soon found Iwagakure.
Then Yashamaru revealed his identity as the brother-in-law of the fourth generation Kazekage at the right time, and met the person in charge of Iwagakure in the Six Paths City very smoothly-Iwagakure Jonin Kagumi.
"After taking control of the Rain Country, the Ninja Clan quickly launched an action against the Bird Country, and the plan was very big..." Yashamaru began to tell the Ninja Clan's wolfish ambitions as planned.
But what Yashamaru didn't expect was that Huoguang didn't show an angry look and scolded him for destroying the friendship between the Ninja Clan and Iwagakure. Instead, he showed a smile with a hint of surprise. Yashamaru paused for a moment, and continued after making sure that he had said the right thing.
Huoguang waited politely for Yashamaru to finish speaking before speaking, "You are so right, I think so too, I didn't expect that there are other forces that have noticed the ambition of the Shinobi Clan."
Yashamaru:?
Is there any need to alienate the Shinobi Clan and the Iwagakure Village? It's just a superficial cooperation.
These two forces have never been together, how can they be separated?
Yashamaru was a little confused, how could the one-stop alienation plan just take the first step, and it ended.
"Yashamaru-sama." Just as Yashamaru was about to talk to Huoguang about the cooperation between the two villages, a Sand Village ninja on standby outside came over with an anxious look on his face.
"Sorry, excuse me for a moment." Yashamaru said apologetically, and then walked towards the Sand Village ninja.
"It's bad, another team was arrested by the Shinobi Clan ninja, and the plan failed." The Sand Village ninja whispered.
Yashamaru: ...
This plan is really smooth and not smooth.
"Don't be nervous, Iwagakure doesn't seem to want the Shinobi Clan to continue to be strong." Yashamaru comforted.
If he is caught, he will be caught. If he can reach an agreement with Iwagakure, then the mission will be completed.
Then Yashamaru talked a lot with Huo Guang.
The two of them rebuked the ambition of the Ninja Clan together, worrying that the Ninja Clan would have a bad influence on the ninja world that had just entered peace.
However, whenever Yashamaru mentioned cooperation, Huo Guang became vague, and did not express his position until the end, just saying that he would ask the Tsuchikage for instructions.
Yashamaru was not angry because of this. After all, he came to seek cooperation and had already made such preparations.
It is better to say that the current situation is already very good, and they almost completed the mission with just this team.
Huo Guang sent Yashamaru away and quickly convened a meeting of Iwagakure, and then sent the matter of Sand Village to Iwagakure Village.
"Huo Guang did a good job this time." Ohnoki smiled after reading the intelligence.
Iwagakure also had the idea of cooperating with Sand Village, but in the matter of cooperation, the party being asked must have more advantages.
So Huo Guang's move was very good, showing that Iwagakure was dissatisfied with the Ninja Clan, and also showing a posture of uncertainty and hesitation.
"In this case, there should be no problem with Sand Village, but it is a little difficult to open up the situation with the small ninja village of Kusagakure." Ohnoki showed a thoughtful expression.
During the Third Ninja World War, Iwagakure had secretly reached a cooperation with the Kusagakure leader, and Kusagakure secretly helped Iwagakure.
Later, Konoha intervened and destroyed the cooperation between the two parties. The former Kusagakure leader turned into a monster and was killed. The Kusagakure and Iwagakure turned against each other, and the Kusagakure helped Konoha to fight against Iwagakure.
With the strength of Iwagakure, it is of course easy to take over Kusagakure. Not all small countries have strong people like Sosuke.
But you have to look at the owner when beating a dog. Now Kusagakure is barely a younger brother of Konoha, and you can't use force casually.
In fact, for Iwagakure, the joining of Kusagakure is not important, that is, it can save some cannon fodder middle and lower ninjas and will not affect the overall situation.
What Ohnoki really cares about is Konoha's attitude, or the information of the Ninja Sect hidden under Konoha's attitude.
If Kusagakure is determined not to take action against the Ninja Sect, is it possible that it is the will of Konoha?
How did Sarutobi Hiruzen lose that battle, and why did he let Mu Yue succeed to the throne of Hokage directly?
"Since we will be on the opposite side of the Ninja Clan in the future, why not take advantage of the friendship that still exists and use it to get information." Ohnoki had a flash of inspiration in his mind.
He found that he was in a blind spot in thinking, and had been thinking about finding out the battle process from the Ninja Clan and Konoha.
In fact, as an ally of the Ninja Clan, he didn't need to do so. He sent someone or went to the Ninja Clan directly, saying that he wanted to see the strength of the ninja master and have a friendly competition.
Given the current relationship between Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan, could Sosuke still refuse?
The relationship between Iwagakure and the Ninja Clan is not like that between the Ninja Clan and Konoha. Even if the strong man on the Iwagakure side loses, the Iwagakure side can ask the Ninja Clan to keep it secret.
In this way, even if the information is obtained, it will not lose face, and it will not be like Sarutobi Hiruzen.
As for whether the Ninja Clan will reveal the news after the war, it doesn't matter.
They have already started the war, so why care about this negative news?
"I'd better go there." Ohnoki thought about it and felt that it was more reliable to go by himself.
Sarutobi Hiruzen lost to Sosuke, and other people might not be able to test Sosuke's true ability if they went to fight.
He was confident that his strength would not be worse than Sarutobi Hiruzen, and he would definitely be able to get the information that Sarutobi Hiruzen could get from the battle.
Thinking of this, Ohnoki quickly convened a high-level meeting to discuss the matter.
After a discussion, Ohnoki's proposal was recognized by most of the high-level leaders.
Although Iwagakure was ready to turn against the Ninja Clan, it hadn't turned against them yet. What danger could there be in having a friendly exchange with an ally? At most, they could bring more guards.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had a grudge against the Ninja Clan, could successfully return to Konoha, so their Third Tsuchikage would certainly not be left in the Ninja Clan.
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