That was when the tiny Village known as Konoha had not yet been established.
The Sengoku period was an era of great contention; nations frequently attacked and formed alliances, where the strong grew stronger and the weak perished.
Society across all nations was in constant turmoil.
From nobles down to commoners, everyone lived in perpetual anxiety without a shred of security, always at risk of becoming meat on the chopping block.
In such chaotic times with extreme war intensity, morality and shame were meaningless; violence and slaughter were the only correct answers for survival.
Natural disasters and famines spread across all nations.
As for the starving refugees, things like claypot rice, wife cakes, and husband-and-wife lung slices—all were made with genuine ingredients, never faked.
Just as this era of great contention seemed about to enter a new, white-hot phase, the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan in the Land of Fire abruptly announced an alliance.
This caused the entire chaotic world to abruptly hit the brakes in a bizarre fashion, falling into a deathly silence.
“Senju and Uchiha alliance?” The other Ninja clans didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Could this be some new type of Sengoku cold joke?” “Just last year, these two strongest Ninja clans in the Ninja World were still fighting to the death, and this year they suddenly allied?” However, as the alliance treaty between the two clans was sent to various nations in the name of the Land of Fire’s Daimyo, everyone watching this event fell silent instantly.
“Who are the two most powerful Ninja clans of the Sengoku period?” “It is the Senju Clan, possessing the power of the Sage Body, and the Uchiha Clan, possessing the power of the Sage Eye.” Thus, the Daimyos of various nations, along with countless large and small Ninja clans, had their minds blown in every sense of the word that day.
They simultaneously ceased their conflicts and slaughter; anxiety, fear, silence, and suspicion filled the hearts of these Daimyos and Ninja clans.
Yomi City.
It was a magnificent giant city that had abruptly risen more than a decade ago at the border of the former Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron, built with a foundation of wood and stone and a skeleton of steel.
Every street, every residential area, and every public facility within the city seemed to have been meticulously measured, distributed in an orderly fashion like the teeth of a comb, making it a pleasing sight to behold.
Even the road surfaces were tamped down inch by inch; carriages traveling on them would not feel the slightest bump.
Merchants came and went in an endless stream, chatting and laughing while doing business with the well-fed residents here.
Various novel, strange, and trendy goods appeared on the shelves of many shops, injecting extraordinary vitality into the city.
Such a prosperous and peaceful scene seemed completely out of place with the overall pattern of the entire Ninja World.
Everything was as beautiful as a paradise.
Located in the center of the city was a magnificent complex of buildings surrounded by a tall wall built with a large amount of earth and wood, standing dozens of meters high.
Due to the obstruction of the high walls, one could only see the tops of the tall buildings inside, but even so, one could see the grandeur and magnificence of those structures.
In particular, the giant tower guarded by numerous sturdy buildings gave the impression of a palace floating in the clouds, not something of the mortal world.
Among the building complex within the high walls, there were samurai armed with katanas, wearing layered armor, and almost fully equipped.
There were also Ninjas wearing black standard-issue clothing with trench coats over them, moving like the wind.
These two completely different violent professions, both being special groups capable of using Chakra in the Sengoku period, had been integrated and merged in an intimate manner.
Among them, the number of samurai was the largest, numbering about a thousand.
The number of Ninjas was not as high as the samurai, but there were still two hundred.
These integrated Ninjas and samurai patrolled between the building complexes along planned routes as if guarding against a strict siege.
In the center of the building complex stood a tower-like high pavilion.
At this moment, on the top floor of this high pavilion, General Oda Yayoi stood with his hands behind his back, staring unblinkingly at the huge map hanging on the wall.
This was a precise map encompassing the entire Ninja World, with mountains and rivers dotted across it like stars.
The borders of various large and small nations were drawn in a strict manner, including the Family crests of the many Ninja clans located within these large and small nations, all painted on it.
These Ninja clan crests were scattered unevenly across the nations of the Ninja World, but nearly half of the crests were marked with a red ‘×’, meaning these Ninja clans had been completely erased from the Ninja World in this chaotic Sengoku era.
The Land of Fire had the most; in just the last few decades, about thirty large and small Ninja clans had been erased within this great nation.
Similarly, the number of Ninja clans located in the Land of Fire could be said to be the highest among all nations.
This meant that the intensity of war within the Land of Fire was far higher than in other nations.
However, all of this was over.
The reason was that the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, two powerful Ninja clans that had once been opposed to each other, had reached a reconciliation.
Yayoi’s gaze swept across the two most prominent Ninja clan crests within the Land of Fire on the map.
“Senju…
Uchiha…” A rare look of gravity and contemplation appeared on Yayoi’s face.
Memories from his past life, both familiar and strange, began to flood in like a tide.
The recent rumors about the alliance between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had been causing a stir, meaning that the Ninja Village called Konoha, which he was familiar with from his memories, was not far from being established.
The ceaselessly chaotic Sengoku era was also about to usher in a new turning point.
For many nations and Ninja clans, this would be a test unlike any before.
For the nation he currently controlled—the Land of Night—it was the same.
“According to the timeline, I’m afraid it won’t be long before Konoha Village is established within the Land of Fire, and then the other four great nations will follow suit…” The System of one Village per nation was already unstoppable.
Anyone standing in front of this System would be crushed by the torrent of the era.
Yayoi naturally wouldn’t overestimate his abilities to try and stop it; he was just thinking about what kind of benefits he could obtain when such an era’s turning point arrived.
The reason Yayoi was certain that the torrent of the one Village per nation era was unstoppable was not because he had foresight, but because he possessed a ‘Wisdom Eye’ that transcended this era.
This ‘Wisdom Eye’ had nothing to do with one’s cognition or intelligence; it was purely because he knew the direction of this future era.
That’s right, Yayoi was a Transmigrator.
He still remembered his past life as a social worker who had been working for three or four years after graduating from college.
There was nothing special about his experience; he just went home from work one day, slept, and arrived in the world of “Naruto” in the form of a fetal Transmigration.
The terrible thing was that he didn’t arrive in the plot era he was familiar with, but in the chaotic Sengoku era he didn’t know much about.
A dark era where a four or five-year-old child could wield a blade to kill and needed to go to the battlefield.
Coupled with the fact that he didn’t come from any Ninja clan, but rather had the most miserable start as an orphan, beginning with a broken bowl and begging everywhere.
If he hadn’t met a wandering Ninja who took him in later, even surviving would have been a problem.
Fortunately, although he didn’t have a good Ninja clan background, he possessed a special talent not inferior to a Bloodline Limit.
He didn’t know if it was a special treatment for living two lives, but the Chakra he refined possessed a life vitality that ordinary Ninjas did not possess.
To put it intuitively, his Chakra didn’t need to form a ‘Jutsu’ to possess an extremely strong self-healing ability without hand signs, and he could also use his own Chakra to treat others, similar to the Uzumaki Clan.
This vitalized special Chakra would also subtly transform his Physique over time, comprehensively amplifying his Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and Genjutsu.
It was precisely because of this that he could rely on the Chakra knowledge taught by the wandering Ninja, combined with the original manga and a Transmigrator’s small imagination, to struggle his way up and gradually establish himself in the chaotic world.
Unfortunately, when he was ten years old, the wandering Ninja who took him in was seriously injured and died during an underground black market bounty mission before he could be treated.
Afterward, he returned to his solitary life, continuing to mingle in the underground black market.
Slowly, his strength grew stronger, and his reputation in the underground black market became bigger.
When he looked back, he didn’t know when a large number of talents had gathered around him, and thus a mercenary organization destined to cause a bloody storm in the underground black market was born.
After six years of development, from being alone at the beginning, then a dozen people, and then slowly developing into a super-large-scale mercenary unit of hundreds of people, plus a logistics team composed of tens of thousands of ordinary people, he established a city that could accommodate tens of thousands of people at the border of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron—Yomi City.
With a core stronghold, and using this town as the center, his influence continuously radiated outward.
Within the borders of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron, he naturally possessed massive momentum, almost monopolizing the war market of these two nations.
Unsurprisingly, such actions drew deep fear from the Daimyos and noble classes of both nations.
But by this time, Yayoi’s wings were already fully grown.
Facing the suppression of the two nations’ Daimyos, could he avoid this edge?
After two years of war, he successfully breached the Daimyo mansions of both nations, suppressed multiple resistance forces within the two nations, and took out a roster to systematically purge the names on it.
During these two years of war, his influence also transformed from mercenaries, growing like a snowball and attracting more talent to defect to him.
Therefore, after successfully suppressing the resistance forces within the two nations, he took control of the military and politics of both nations with almost no effort.
His subordinates could quickly merge into the bureaucratic System and run the nation.
Subsequently, he established a shogunate, used the title of ‘General’ to replace the title of ‘Daimyo’, and officially ruled the territories of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron.
The Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron also perished from the Ninja World; on the corpses of these two nations, the ‘Land of Night’ came into being.
Nine years had passed since the establishment of this new nation, the Land of Night.
Yayoi was now twenty-seven years old, in his prime.
After nine years of integration, the ‘remnants of the previous dynasty’ within the Land of Night had basically been eliminated.
Various departments operated in an orderly manner within the nation, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, hating endless fighting and slaughter.
Even if there were still old forces wanting to restore the past, they couldn’t stir up any waves.
With internal unification, enemies would turn from the inside to the outside.
Although the land of the Land of Night could not be considered fertile in the Ninja World, there were still hungry wolves eyeing this piece of land.
For example, the Hagoromo Clan, which was defeated in the Land of Fire four years ago and subsequently fled to the Land of Night, had once had designs on the Land of Night.
To kill this foreign hungry wolf, Yayoi spent a lot of effort to finally exterminate the Hagoromo Clan that had migrated to the Land of Night, obtaining many good things from it.
Relying on this achievement, Yayoi truly sat firmly in the position of General of the Land of Night, making the many hungry wolves coveting this land dare not bare their fangs at will.
Just as Yayoi was thinking about these things, a knock on the door sounded.
“Come in.” Yayoi’s gaze remained on the map, calculating the next plan.
After the sound of the door being pushed open, a young man in his twenties, similar in age to Yayoi, walked in from outside.
He wore a mask on his face, covering the area below his eyes, revealing only a pair of pale green, eerie eyes.
“Lord Yayoi.” “It’s Kakuzu, is there anything?” Yayoi’s gaze swept toward the young man who entered, a flash of satisfaction in his eyes.
This young man was Kakuzu, one of his greatest gains over these years.
He was one of the Sage Duo of the Akatsuki Organization in the original work.
Because he failed to assassinate the First Hokage Senju Hashirama, he was treated unfairly by the high-level officials of Takigakure, and finally fled with the forbidden techniques in the Village, becoming a rogue Ninja.
But now, he had not yet experienced betrayal, and had been recruited by him in advance, becoming a high-level official of the Land of Night at the level of a right-hand man.
According to the classification of Ninja Ranks in later generations, Kakuzu’s current strength was equivalent to an elite Jonin, proficient in both Earth Release and Water Release, and his Taijutsu ability was also quite good.
In this chaotic Sengoku era where everything was strange, Kakuzu could be said to be one of his few ‘acquaintances’.
Today’s era was too far away from the era when the plot started; many Ninjas who were famous for a time did not appear in the later plot.
The most critical thing was that the manga “Naruto” was something he followed when he was in school.
The point he followed up to was the Five Kage Summit, where the one-eyed man who called himself ‘Uchiha Madara’ had just disclosed the Eye of the Moon Plan and announced the start of the Fourth Ninja World War.
As for the later parts, due to graduating and working, he didn’t have the leisure to follow up, so it was left unsettled.
Coupled with the fact that it was still the Sengoku era, this made many things in Yayoi’s ‘prophetic’ mind unusable, and some characters were even unheard of to him.
For example, a Ninja from the Land of Wind named ‘Retto’ was said to be able to use Wind Release to create giant storms, with a range of dozens of miles.
The Ninja named ‘Ishikawa’ from the Land of Earth was called a human earthquake machine, with earth-shattering Earth Release.
His most famous battle was burying a powerful Family with a Bloodline Limit all by himself, collapsing several mountains.
Besides that, A of the Land of Lightning and Byakuren of the Land of Water were also equally famous, worthy of being called human natural disasters.
Yayoi had reason to suspect that these people were the other First Kage who were known as being on par with the First Hokage Senju Hashirama in later generations.
“Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that they appeared in the other four great nations?” “Lord Yayoi, the Seven-Tails you were looking for has been found by the search team sent out.” Kakuzu organized his language and reported to Yayoi concisely.
“Where is it?” Yayoi’s heart stirred.
In this era, although Ninjas were the mainstream, the existence of Tailed Beasts also left a heavy mark in this era.
As one of the Tailed Beasts, the Seven-Tails had always lived in the Land of Waterfalls according to traceable historical records, even though the Land of Waterfalls had been erased.
“Black Steel Forest, the Seven-Tails seems to have been there all along and hasn’t left.” Kakuzu said a place name.