In Konoha, I collected corpses on the battlefield for ten years

Hinata Hizashi had grown accustomed to being used as a tool to balance the Uchiha clan during the terms of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze, and he had long since become indifferent to it.

And now...

Fugaku Uchiha invited a group of Konoha's Jonin and various major families to gather at the Uchiha clan to celebrate the first birthday of his youngest son, Sasuke Uchiha.

It must be said that the Uchiha clan of the past could not have pulled off such a grand affair.

But now it was different. The ninjas of Konoha all knew about the relationship between the Uchiha and Qifeng, and coupled with the fact that both Shisui Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha were Qifeng's disciples, their status naturally rose accordingly.

In the entire Konoha, probably no one except the Sarutobi clan had a closer relationship with the Uchiha than Qifeng.

Regardless, Qifeng's current identity was still Hiruzen Sarutobi, a member of the Sarutobi clan, and he even had a disciple, Asuma Sarutobi, as a standard bounty measuring tool.

The Sarutobi clan had experienced both the Hiruzen Sarutobi era and the Qifeng era. It was only because the Sarutobi clan didn't have the ambition to expand that they hadn't become one of Konoha's prominent clans.

It's also worth mentioning that the current head of the Sarutobi clan was Hiruzen Sarutobi's eldest son. After the disbandment of the Anbu, he returned to the clan and took over the clan's affairs.

Presumably, there wouldn't be any accidental deaths this time, which could be considered leaving a legacy for Hiruzen Sarutobi.

As time passed...

Qifeng becoming Hokage truly brought tangible changes to Konoha.

As someone who had been through it all, he knew exactly where Konoha's shortcomings lay and how to improve and strengthen it.

He personally went to see Orochimaru and expressed his willingness to support his research, even revealing some of his own special abilities. He retained Orochimaru while requiring him to submit some research results every so often.

Furthermore, he forbade him from harming the people of Konoha and the Land of Fire; he didn't care about anything else.

The benefit was that he could provide Orochimaru with more support, even exempting him from participating in missions.

In this way, he left a true great scientist in Konoha.

Moreover, he was the kind of scientist who, given time and recognition, could bring about tremendous changes to Konoha.

In addition to retaining Orochimaru, Qifeng also cured Tsunade's hemophobia, allowing her to continue contributing to Konoha's medical field.

Hemophobia was actually a mental illness, and it wasn't difficult to subtly modify and correct it with the illusion techniques of the Sharingan.

As for Jiraiya, there was really no way to help him; he had to go out and collect material.

Qifeng also strongly supported him in publishing his new novels, similar to "Make-Out Paradise."

Besides these two veteran Kage-level powerhouses,

Qifeng also successively developed several people with the potential to become Kage-level powerhouses.

For example, Shisui Uchiha, who currently only lacked the evolution of his Three-Tomoe Sharingan into a Mangekyo Sharingan.

There was also Itachi Uchiha, who showed extremely strong talent at a young age.

Of course, the most important one was Kakashi Hatake, who was the closest to being a Kage-level ninja, but successive heartbreaks and the Sharingan transplanted from Obito had caused his strength to enter a complete stagnation period.

And he had truly become the chakra measurement unit of the ninja world.

To this end, Qifeng told Kakashi the true identity and situation of Obito, causing Kakashi a great shock.

But it also rekindled his desire to become stronger, hoping to settle things with Obito once and for all.

Therefore, he asked Qifeng to help him seal his Sharingan and once again picked up the White Fang sword technique, embarking on the path of seeking strength again.

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...

Three years passed in a flash.

On the Hokage Rock behind the Konoha Hokage Building, the head sculptures of the five Hokage looked particularly solemn.

And on this very day.

In the sky above Konoha, far from the ground, several figures suddenly appeared, all wearing uniform attire.

The leader among them was Pain, the nominal leader of the Akatsuki organization!

And beside him were the other five paths of the Six Paths of Pain.

Their purpose here was very simple: to obtain Konoha's Nine-Tails.

To this end, they had gathered all the forces of the Akatsuki organization and even made many backup preparations.

"It's time to put a perfect end to this chaotic world. As the leader of the five great hidden villages, Konoha, your existence is the center of conflict in the ninja world."

Pain muttered to himself.

The reason for standing in this high place was to prevent being discovered by Qifeng and the Nine-Tails.

And their mission this time was roughly divided into several steps.

The first step was for Pain to punish Konoha in the name of "God," creating large-scale destruction and sensation.

The second step was for the Akatsuki members, who were currently ambushing near Konoha, to attack Konoha from all directions after the commotion caused by Pain appeared, creating chaos in Konoha while diverting Qifeng's attention, forcing him to take the entire Konoha into account and slowly fall into a passive position.

The third step was to gather the power of all Akatsuki members to seal Qifeng and then slowly use the Rinnegan to gradually extract the Nine-Tails chakra.

The fourth step was an optional step. If they failed to seal Qifeng successfully, the alternative plan would be activated, and Nagato's main body, hidden somewhere, would implement it.

After repeating the plan in his mind again, Pain was ready to act.

He looked indifferently at the prosperity below.

Many scenes flashed through his mind.

Once, his happy family was mistakenly killed by Konoha ninjas who had strayed into their land. The Rain Country was caught between two major powers and suffered greatly. Yahiko died in front of him, and the one who did it was the leader of the Rain Hidden Village, who was said to have been instructed by Konoha.

Now, he was going to create a truly peaceful world.

And this was destined to not be achieved through peaceful means.

Therefore, he was going to gather all the power of the tailed beasts and use the absolute overwhelming terrifying power of God to flatten the entire ninja world!

However...

Just as he was about to activate the power of the Rinnegan, a person suddenly appeared beside him.

Pa!

He patted Pain on the shoulder.