Become the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

After leaving the Country of Rain and arriving in the Country of Fire, the weather became much clearer.

Basking in the warm sunshine, Bai Ye secretly sighed in his heart that the Kingdom of Fire was more suitable for human survival than the Kingdom of Rain. It was not only suitable for farming, but the air did not have that damp and moldy smell.

With such rich natural conditions, it is no wonder that Konoha has always been able to fight one against three in previous ninja wars.

Konoha may be weak for a while, but the land and population can make Konoha lose many times, and then slowly grow back with peacetime business.

On the other hand, the other major ninja villages all have major flaws in their geographical conditions, and their only advantage is that they are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As for the small country's ninja villages, not to mention, every ninja village has fatal flaws.

The Country of Rain is a place of the Four Wars, and the climate conditions are naturally unsuitable for production. The Country of Grass is a prison, the Country of Iron is a country of samurai, and the Country of Kawa and the Country of Yu are simply buffer zones, half of Konoha's vassals.

Senju Hashirama, who unified the Fire Country back then, occupied almost most of the best areas in the ninja world, and the remaining places were bad places with extremely high governance costs.

And Bai Ye doubted why Senju Hashirama didn't overthrow the ninja world.

In addition to avoiding retaliation from the four major ninja villages and maintaining a balance of force, did they also take into account the particularity of the ninja profession?

Ninjas are a group of mercenaries, and Ninja Village is a mercenary group.

On weekdays, some low-level commissions can maintain the lives of genin, but for chuunin and jounin, it is certain, if peace is really maintained.

How do ninjas make money? Does it depend on the allocations from daimyo?

Suppressing the thoughts in his heart, Byakuya hurried on his way, while visiting the towns and villages as a traveler, asking about the living conditions of ordinary people in the ninja world.

Seeing this scene, Hanzo fell into deep doubts.

I didn't go out at Baiye to recruit new members, so why did I end up chatting with these ordinary people?

Although ordinary people are the financial backers of ninjas, and ninjas also rely on these entrustments, ninjas and ordinary people are essentially two different types of people.

Even ninjas who have not yet graduated from the ninja school have the strength to challenge several adults.

And a qualified chuunin can easily kill dozens of ordinary people, and the strength gap between the two sides is almost not even the same dimension.

Only some samurai who use chakra can pose a threat to ninjas.

Byakuya was too lazy to explain his intentions to Hanzo. After asking the villagers a few questions, he continued on his way to the black market.

Chatting with the villagers was fruitful, but not huge.

Although there are nobles and daimyo in the ninja world who are nominal monarchs, due to the existence of chakra, the productivity at the bottom of the ninja world has always been very good.

In addition, the strength gap between ninjas and ordinary people is too large, and it is very difficult to use ordinary people to deal with ninja villages and daimyo.

Unless chakra training is popularized in the ninja world, it will be possible for all people to become ninjas.

However, it is impossible in the current environment. Although ninjas look like a bad street, they are actually extremely rare. Only one person in a hundred people can become a ninja.

Most people who have the qualifications to become ninjas live around ninja villages.

To put it bluntly, the most powerful time for ordinary people in the ninja world is when they fall into the Infinite Tsukuyomi and become White Zetsu.

Unless there is a special way to force people to increase their strength.

After Bai Ye thought about it, the only option was curse seal, but the success rate of curse seal was not much higher than that of the wood escape experiment, and the mortality rate was too high.

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From the west of the Fire Country to the east of the Fire Country.

It took half a month for Bai Ye to find the specific whereabouts of Kakuzu, but it was still a step too late. There was no sign of Kakuzu in the black market.

Finding the black market boss, Bai Ye asked directly: "Where did Kakuzu go?"

The black market boss was hesitant, not daring to reveal Kakuzu's whereabouts. Kakuzu's name was too famous in the major black markets.

But after Hanzo lifted his collar, he still answered honestly:

"Two ninja-sama, Kakuzu-sama accepted the commission two hours ago and has already left."

Bai Ye frowned and asked impatiently: "Kakuzu accepted the commission, what commission did he receive?"

The black market boss quickly took out the wanted list and handed it to Bai Ye.

Bai Ye flipped through it casually. The first few pages on the wanted list were Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama, and the reward amounts started at one billion.

Some of the pages were torn out, probably by Kakuzu.

After asking the black market boss who the remaining people were, Bai Ye left the black market with Hanzo and followed the direction pointed by the black market boss.

Looking at the backs of Byakuya and Hanzo, the black market boss breathed a sigh of relief, but began to worry about Kakuzu.

These two ninjas must be seeking revenge.

Although Kakuzu is an extremely vicious person, he has a very good reputation on the black market. Except for those on the reward list, he rarely kills innocent people indiscriminately.

The most important thing is that every time Kakuzu completes a task, they can take a commission from it.

If so, he would have lost a cash cow.

After walking in the forest for half an hour, Bai Ye suddenly stopped. He sensed several powerful chakras in front of him. Judging from the amount of chakra, his strength was at least that of a Jonin.

There is also an extremely mixed chakra, and if nothing else, it should be Kakuzu.

Only Kakuzu has such complex chakra in his body. After all, Kakuzu is a ninja with five lives, and his strength is infinitely close to the Kage level.

Reaching out his hand to signal Hanzo to stop, the two gathered their chakra aura and moved forward.

Soon, Byakuya and Hanzo saw two groups of ninjas confronting each other.

To be precise, it was the bounty hunter Kakuzu who was confronting a group of Uchiha wearing Uchiha uniforms with red eyes. Some of these Uchiha were one-magatama, double-magatama, and even three-magatama Uchiha.

"The battle between Kakuzu and Uchiha is interesting."

Seeing this scene, Hanzo became interested. After following Byakuya for so many days, he finally saw a battle between ninjas instead of a boring investigation.

Bai Ye also became interested.

There is a popular saying in the ninja world that in one-on-one situations, Uchiha is invincible.

But one person in Kakuzu is equal to five jounin. I don’t know if these Uchiha are Kakuzu’s opponents. Maybe Kakuzu will be able to get Uchiha’s heart later.

At this moment, Byakuya noticed a short Uchiha in the crowd, but he had activated the three magatama.

There are not many Uchiha at this age who can awaken the three magatama. Almost every one of them is a familiar ninja in their memory, and at this point in time, except for Obito, there is only one person.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye said to Hanzo on the side:

"Hanzo-senpai, which side do you think has a higher chance of winning? Should we make a bet?"