"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Zabuza said to the retreating Jūgo.

Just now, when Kai was trying his best to cover the retreat, the Fire and Water Alliance mysteriously turned back. It was originally just a small victory, but it turned out to be a big advantage!

However, Zabuza saw clearly that Jūgo should have had a chance to kill the opponent's "blue beast" just now, and Zabuza also believed that the opponent was "very dangerous" and should be eliminated first...

However, Jūgo only repelled the opponent. Although others saw that Jūgo was also exhausted and unable to pursue, Zabuza found that the retreating Jūgo did not seem to be too exhausted.

"Nothing, I found something interesting." Jūgo said, and glanced at the direction where Kai left from a distance...

At this time, Xiao Li was carrying Kai, and Neji and Tenten were following on the left and right!

Just now, Jūgo saw Neji coming to rescue, so he chose to give up killing Kai.

Although Jūgo did not know Neji, he recognized a certain "seal" on Neji.

Others may not feel it, but there is a technique that resonates with it on Jūgo's body - yes, it is the mark that Orochimaru made on Neji!

In order to avoid the "hidden man" that he had finally laid down being killed by his own people without knowing it, a curse mark was left on Neji's body that the Federation's top leaders could feel.

In this way, even if they don't know who Neji is, they will understand his importance to the Federation, and will not kill him at a critical moment, and will even rescue him in disguised form during hostilities.

Jūgo felt this mark, so he pretended to be exhausted and gave up the pursuit.

Moreover, Kai did not lose consciousness at this time. Jūgo just now vaguely felt that if he really wanted to force the other party into a dead end, there might be other changes. Therefore, when the three young students of the other party blocked him, Jūgo simply pretended to be exhausted and retreated.

"What's wrong? Did it affect the Great Speaker Momochi?" Jūgo asked with some concern.

"Forget it, it's nothing... Since they turned back to the battlefield, the outcome of this battle has been locked. It's not in the interests of the Federation to really kill the important figures of Konoha here." Zabuza shook his head.

In September of the first year of the Federation, three months had passed since the Lightning Country declared war on the Renewal Federation.

During this period, four large-scale local battles broke out in the Ninja World, the Battle of the Grass Country, the Battle of the Frost and Snow Fortress, the Battle of Thunder City, and the last "Battle of Wind and Water Island" next to the main island of the former Water Country...

In the four local battles, the newly born Renewal Federation defeated the coalition forces of the Grass Ninja, Thunder Ninja, and the remnants of the Konoha Ninja and the Water Ninja with the posture of a warrior. Four victories in four battles effectively shocked the Ninja World!

After the Battle of Thunder City, the mess left to the Hidden Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning made the royal families of the various countries gnashing their teeth, but they couldn't help but be cautious. In the Battle of Wind and Water Island, the battle between Jūgo and Might Guy also made the major hidden villages speechless.

In comparison, although Guan Liyuan has also demonstrated a combat capability that is not inferior to the two, there is no "audience" and it has not been effectively spread...

However, under the shock of this record, the local war finally died down before the Fourth Ninja World War.

The Grass Country fell 90% of its territory, and the remaining 10% was nominally to exile the hardliners of the Grass Country to avoid counterattacks, but in fact, the Renewal Federation wanted to leave a buffer zone between it and the Hidden Rain Village!

At present, in the eyes of most members of the Akatsuki organization, their boss is "Pain", so there may be cooperation between Obito and Danzo, and it is impossible to judge whether this is the overall behavior of the Akatsuki organization or their individual behavior.

And now Guan Liyuan thinks it is better not to tease them directly-even if you want to tease them, it is in your personal capacity, and it is too dangerous to directly border them.

Of course, the so-called exile of "hardliners" is actually only some Grass Ninjas who choose to be exiled. In fact, most of the civilians in the remaining 10% of the southern territory have also moved to the north and thrown themselves into the arms of the Renewal Federation...

As for the remnants of the Hidden Rain Village, will they make trouble?

As the northwest region is the focus of garrisoning troops, Guan Liyuan is not worried about this. If they dare to commit suicide, they can just kill them!

In this year, it is rare in the ninja world to have such integrity as the Renewal Federation and insist on not killing prisoners. There is no reason not to kill even the enemy...

In this way, these grass ninjas have no room to survive, and they will naturally take the initiative to intervene in the chaos of the Rain Country, and will also give the Federation's "Central Intelligence Agency" the opportunity to infiltrate the Rain Country by using the identity of grass ninjas.

The Thunder Country, which was originally tough and regarded as the "second tyrant" closest to the overlord Fire Country, was not well prepared in the war and was not adapted to the new fighting style of the Renewal Federation. Not only did it lose battle after battle, but even the combination of Jinchuriki Killer Bee and Raikage Ai was declared "missing".

In addition, the death of the Thunder King and a large number of nobles, and the intensification of contradictions between the noble class and the civilian class, made the Thunder Country exhausted, so it had to switch from offense to defense... The

newly appointed fifth generation Raikage is no longer a member of the Night Moon Clan, but a very young Darui.

Although the family inheritance system of the first four generations of Raikage was broken, it did not cause much turmoil, because Darui was originally the designated successor of the third generation of Raikage.

Darui's character is not as tough as the four Raikages of the Night Moon Clan. Given the current situation of the Thunder Kingdom, if there is no external pressure, a period of inaction and slow management may really allow the exhausted Thunder Kingdom to catch its breath.

However, that is impossible!

Although the civilians are already very tired, the war will in the noble class and the Hidden Cloud Village can no longer be suppressed. Now it is just in the stage of "preparing for war"...

Even in the end, there was only a tacit truce between the Thunder Kingdom and the Renewal Federation, and no reconciliation agreement was signed. It was clearly just a halftime break.

In contrast, with the Earth Kingdom and the Wind Kingdom taking the lead in recognizing the Renewal Federation's dominance in the north, the Fire Kingdom also nominally reconciled with the Renewal Federation, but from time to time urged the Renewal Federation to return the territory of the Water Kingdom.

Of course, the Renewal Federation ignored him, and the Fire Nation didn't care whether the Federation paid attention to him or not. It just supported the exiled forces of the Water Nation and the Hidden Mist Village and caused trouble for the overseas branches.

The southwestern islands of the Water Nation were the only areas that had not yet ceased fighting, but the scale of the war was no longer large and entered a stalemate...

The royal family of the Fire Nation was actually "hesitating between two sides". On the one hand, they were afraid of the lessons of the Thunder City, and on the other hand, they were worried that the further rise of the Renewal Federation would be more difficult to control.

However, Danzo, the spokesperson of the Fire Nation's royal family in Konoha, was not doing well in Konoha at this time and had lost a lot of support.

Itachi, the saint who killed his father and destroyed his family, certainly made many families unable to trust him - after all, this guy was a saint who killed his entire family when he was cruel... But at least he was popular among ordinary ninjas.

And isn't Danzo's Root truly hated by all gods and abandoned by all ghosts? Although

the Third Hokage only revealed part of the truth about the extermination of the Uchiha clan, if this kind of thing is slightly exposed, many big families will know more of the truth - for example, the Root was the mastermind behind the extermination of the Uchiha clan!

If the current Hokage was still Sarutobi Hiruzen, no one would want to pay attention to Danzo, but the saint Itachi was also "feared", and the previous failure of the Rain Country made Danzo more supportive of big families.

However... The battle of Fenghe Island caused Danzo to be greatly questioned, accusing him of not handing over the command to the new Mizukage, the waste, in order to suppress the Hokage!

For a time, all countries entered the adjustment period, and the Renewal Federation was also willing to continue to focus on development. The longer the peaceful days, the better...

But everyone knows that although the Fourth Ninja World War stepped on the brakes before the outbreak, the countdown bell is still "ticking" in everyone's ears!

Even the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind, which did not participate in the war, were preparing something. However, the two western countries were obviously unlucky. One was the Wind King and the Wind Shadow, but they were not in harmony with each other. The other...

Although the Land King respected the Tsuchikage and could even be said to have grown up under the Tsuchikage's eyes, so the relationship between the Hidden Village and the royal family was the most harmonious, and the second generation of Tsuchikage had a strong influence in the country, but... something happened recently that made old man Ohnoki very depressed!

Because of the exposure of the Federation's new tactics, the insect ninjas suddenly became the hot spot "pursued" by all the hidden villages! The

carefully cultivated ninja insects are good at breaking the big with the small, and are the nemesis of large war machines. This is common sense in the ninja world - those thick-skinned big guys are often paralyzed by a few small insects!

However, although the insect-using ninja is not considered a blood limit, it is often a family secret, and is not related to ordinary fire escape and water escape ninjutsu...

For example, Konoha does not have to worry. The Aburame clan, known as the strongest insect-using family, is an old family in Konoha. This makes Konoha still confident after hearing about the "armored forces" of the Federation.

As for the Hidden Rock Village... There was also a very famous "Umikami clan" among the insect-using ninjas before, but in the Third Shinobi World War, the Umikami clan, as the pioneer of the Hidden Rock Village, was defeated by the Aburame clan in the insect-using duel, which led to the entire battle falling to Konoha. Therefore, the Aburame clan has a higher status in Konoha, while the Umikami clan was exiled by the Hidden Rock Village!

Because large-scale battle array equipment is not the focus of the development of the ninja world, and if the insect-using ninja is only a perception-type ninja, it is not irreplaceable. As a combat-type ninja, it has even less advantages, so the second generation of Tsuchikage almost forgot about this clan.

Now that I finally remembered, when I decided to re-activate the "Umikaze Clan", I found that they had "rolled away" and could not be found at all...

Old man Ohnoki was also very confused - after all, they were ninjas, wouldn't they starve to death after being exiled?

But he didn't know that after the "Umikaze Clan" was exiled, it was renamed the "Kamikaze Clan", and this part happened to appear in the original animation... So Guan Liyuan had already recruited them and became a secret member of the armored force.

I believe that if Konoha wants to use the Aburame Clan to destroy the Federation's armored forces, their old rivals will be very willing to let them have a big bite!

The ninja world was in a "peaceful" state, and when it came to the "second year of renewal", Guan Liyuan received a lot of good news on the first day of the new year. For example, the Shenhe clan reported that the armored forces' insect-proof reinforcement had overcome most of the technical difficulties and could be initially transformed;

for example, Orochimaru reported that the research on the "bird in a cage" had made considerable progress and suggested entering the human testing stage;

for example, Obito had made a breakthrough in the development of the perception plug-in for the "chakra armor" and could begin to popularize it throughout the army;

for example, after Tsunade inherited the Castle in the Sky, she used the power of "ninja heart" created by her ancestor Ashura to continuously strengthen her body, not only greatly improving her strength, but also producing a phenomenon of atavism - not growing a tail or something like that, but Shizune discovered that the wooden bed where Tsunade usually rested had sprouted, and it was suspected that wood escape chakra was produced;

and Shion, the former shrine maiden of the Demon Country, who was the reincarnation of the third-generation ninja clan Mahasri, mastered the ability to temporarily burst out Yin and Yang escape chakra, and grew directly from a newbie to a combat force at the level of "beyond the common sense of the ninja world" in one fell swoop. Currently, under Tsunade's guidance, she is supplementing her combat common sense.

If other countries knew that, while they were recuperating and actively preparing for war, the Federation not only expanded the size of its new army, but also gained a "beyond the common sense of the ninja world" level of combat power... Would they regret not going to war directly?

There are even three more who are already similar to the first generation Hokage and Uchiha Madara in their impression, with the strength of "suppressing the troubled times", and all of them have great potential and may break through to the "beyond the common sense of the ninja world" level at any time.

That is, Orochimaru, Hiruko, and Tsunade, who have obtained new bodies and can reorganize their secret techniques - all three are surnameless ninjas. In addition to Tsunade being the granddaughter of Hashirama, Orochimaru is likely to be from the former Senju clan, and Hiruko, judging from his talent, is likely to be the descendant of a civilian ninja who joined Konoha in the early days!

If Hashirama and Madara, who are at the level of "suppressing the troubled times", are still "epic" combat powers recorded in history, then the more powerful Asura and Indra, including the "monsters" in the middle and late stages of the original work, can only be said to be legendary existences - legendary combat powers.

At present, including Guan Liyuan, the Federation already has three legendary and three epic people.

In addition, there is Sasuke, whose strength is not impressive among a group of "monsters", but he also has the potential to be a "legendary".

The continuous emergence of civilian chakra practitioners has also rapidly expanded the size of the new army...

Although the proportion of civilians with excellent chakra training qualifications is extremely small, and there is also a lack of effective guidance - even if the Federation hires most of the original hidden village's Genin and Chunin for "going to the countryside" guidance at high salaries, it is impossible for everyone to have the education level of a ninja school.

However, the base number of civilians is a thousand times that of the five major hidden villages. Even if the probability of a "genius" appearing is a hundred times smaller, it is still a very considerable number!

In March of the second year of the update, when the Federation promoted and encouraged the popularization of chakra for all, the size of the new army had exceeded the number of ninjas from the old ninja villages in the original northern countries after integration...

After all, in the hidden villages, the so-called "geniuses" can also graduate in one year, and the Federation promotes the popularization of "chakra" for all, not the popularization of "ninjutsu". As long as everyone cultivates the chakra of the Genin level and basic physical skills, they can be armed immediately.

Orochimaru estimated that after one and a half to two years of universal implementation, the strength of the Federation's new army would reach its first bottleneck.

First, by then, young people of the right age and talented civilians would have completed their initial training, and those who had not yet succeeded would have to rely on time to accumulate, and the initial "explosive" growth would slow down;

second, resources would begin to limit the expansion of the new army, and the standards of the new army would also be improved in the future. It would be impossible to always equip all the new chakras with chakra armor;

Third, chakra cultivation consumes food, that is, grain. Even if the Federation has strong productivity driven by technology, it is expected that the scale of chakra cultivation among the people in half a year will "force" the Federation to put most of its efforts on the production and research and development of chakra farming tools and other expansion tools.

In other words, the best time for the Federation to start a war is half a year to a year later, and the other parties can only endure for another half a year to a year. It is already the limit...

The next time the war starts, it may be difficult to step on the brakes at the last moment. In all likelihood, it will be a matter of life and death!

Therefore, Guan Liyuan also decided to use the last time before the war to make some advance preparations.

For example, fulfilling the secret alliance with Ye Cang is also to win an ally for the Federation... It may also be a "branch", and more importantly, the situation of the Akatsuki organization in the Rain Country, and the whereabouts of Obito!

Guan Liyuan did not dare to start a war rashly without first clarifying these forces that are inextricably linked to "Uchiha Madara" who thinks he is the mastermind, and the ultimate mastermind "Otsutsuki Kaguya".

If he was like Madara in the original work, and was "taken advantage of by the fisherman", it would be too embarrassing for the forum members, and I would be embarrassed to say that I am an administrator...