As the influence of Takamagahara continued to ferment, the outside world became increasingly tumultuous, but Shinji didn't pay too much attention to it, because when he deliberately revealed Takamagahara to the village, he had already prepared himself to welcome all sorts of troubles.
After all, time waits for no one!
Compared to the internal conflicts of the shinobi world, the Hegemon that could descend at any moment was the true blade hanging over his head.
In this tumultuous atmosphere, another few days passed.
Shinji and Mumei cooperated seamlessly, quietly and soundlessly advancing their own Infinite Tsukuyomi plan in secret.
And after nearly a week's effort, Mumei, using the cover of Takamagahara, successfully marked nearly six thousand Hidden Leaf shinobi with Yachihoko.
It must be known that those who could experience Takamagahara were all screened by the village, and the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled had basically been eliminated, so although Hidden Leaf, as the largest shinobi village in the shinobi world, had a true scale far exceeding these six thousand, these six thousand were roughly the essence of Hidden Leaf.
In addition, under pressure from the other four great shinobi villages, in the subsequent few days, a small number of shinobi from the other four great shinobi villages were also added to the group experiencing Takamagahara.
For example, Darui from Hidden Cloud, Kurotsuchi from Hidden Stone, Ameyuri Ringo from Hidden Mist.
As for the Hidden Sand side, due to the Fourth Kazekage's death in battle and Elder Chiyo's death in saving Gaara, the newly appointed Fifth Kazekage Temari led Gaara and others to temporarily return to Hidden Sand Village to stabilize the situation. So after learning of the intelligence about Takamagahara, although they joined the other villages in pressuring Hidden Leaf, the personnel experiencing Takamagahara were still on the way.
And in order to win over Ryuzetsu, who possessed considerable strength, and Chino, the Hidden Leaf higher-ups specially granted them permission to experience Takamagahara.
Other small shinobi villages such as Takigakure, Hoshigakure, Yukigakure, etc., also sent applications to Hidden Leaf one after another, but the conditions hadn't been negotiated yet, so Hidden Leaf hadn't relented for the time being.
Privately, Shinji and Mumei were also continuously perfecting their Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.
According to Shinji's initial conception, his low-spec version of the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan was to prevent accidents after he became the Ten-Tails jinchuriki. Or simply, if the Ten-Tails didn't revive as smoothly as expected, it was the backup plan to be adopted.
So based on this original intent, his Infinite Tsukuyomi plan had to meet one requirement, which was that it must be sufficient to influence the "battle situation."
This "battle situation" could be against the Ten-Tails, Black Zetsu, even the Sage of Six Paths, Otsutsuki Kaguya, these Otsutsuki, or it could be against the Hegemon of Terror!
And to meet this point, the amount of chakra collected by Infinite Tsukuyomi must at least approach that of the Ten-Tails.
For this, Shinji and Mumei had privately conducted multiple estimates.
If using ordinary tailed beasts as an example, the chakra amount of about one thousand to one thousand five hundred Hidden Leaf shinobi would be sufficient to match it.
Ignoring the differences in chakra amounts for each tailed beast, it would roughly require the chakra amount of nine thousand to thirteen thousand five hundred Hidden Leaf shinobi to match.
But calculating the tailed beasts' chakra couldn't be done with simple arithmetic addition and subtraction.
For instance, the Nine-Tails, as an outlier, its chakra amount crushed the other eight tailed beasts, so even if Naruto's body only had half a Nine-Tails, as a Nine-Tails jinchuriki, his performance in chakra amount clearly surpassed the other jinchuriki by a large margin.
So if truly comparing, one Nine-Tails' chakra might be equivalent to three to five ordinary tailed beasts' chakra.
And the Ten-Tails' situation was even more special!
Because the Ten-Tails was the incarnation of the God Tree, it couldn't simply be seen as a collection of nine tailed beasts. Simply put, it was more like a product after the nature fusion of the nine tailed beasts' chakra, so its chakra amount would inevitably far exceed the total sum of the chakra amounts of the nine tailed beasts individually.
Therefore, Shinji simply couldn't estimate how many shinobi Mumei would need to mark with Yachihoko to obtain chakra approaching the Ten-Tails, but this number was absolutely above thirteen thousand five hundred, and it was very likely even five times or ten times this number.
After all, almost every living being in the entire shinobi world possessed chakra, and shinobi or summoned beasts were merely the individuals among them who could utilize chakra, so the chakra possessed by shinobi and summoned beasts wasn't the entirety of the shinobi world's chakra.
In the apartment.
Shinji, sitting on the bed and leaning against the wall, said to Mumei next door, who was also leaning against the wall, using Jikibi: "So six thousand is just a starting point."
Mumei next door nodded lightly: "I understand!"
In the recent few days, because she had used Yachihoko to mark an unprecedented number of targets, she was still somewhat excited and thrilled.
It must be known that in the chaotic Warring States period, there weren't so many high-quality shinobi delivering themselves to her door to be marked one by one.
So although she didn't dare to use Yachihoko to extract the chakra of these six thousand plus people, just by sensing, she had already been shocked by the total chakra amount of these targets marked by Yachihoko.
But after listening to Shinji's analysis just now, the excitement in her heart gradually calmed.
At the same time, the more she understood the blueprint that Shinji had planned in his mind, the more she was deeply attracted by Shinji's vision and courage, because Shinji was completely different from those Uchiha clansmen she knew before who only valued immediate interests.
Shinji, on the other hand, asked somewhat worriedly: "In terms of marking, no problems, right?"
Mumei hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, after fusing the First's cells, my pupil power is still slowly increasing, marking six thousand plus targets is nothing at all, I don't feel any strain."
"That's good!"
Shinji let out a slight sigh of relief.
The upper limit of the number of marks for Mumei's Yachihoko was also one of the issues he was worried about. If the upper limit of marks for Yachihoko was only a few thousand, then no matter how much he planned, his Infinite Tsukuyomi plan wouldn't be able to continue.
However, from Mumei's tone, the number of six thousand was still far from the limit of Yachihoko, so this aspect didn't need to be worried about too much for the time being.
"According to the village higher-ups' planning, there should be several more batches of Hidden Leaf shinobi rotating in to experience Takamagahara later, so just from the village side, the final number that can be marked should reach around ten thousand."
"For the other four shinobi villages, although the village has only given a small number of spots currently, as those few villages taste the benefits, they will inevitably request the village to increase the spots."
"And the ones sent by the other four villages will inevitably be elites among elites, with average quality definitely above ordinary Hidden Leaf shinobi, so even if the quantity is smaller, the marked chakra amount shouldn't be less."
"Right, I can also target some other small shinobi villages. They don't have as perfected a system as the five great shinobi villages, so even if I let Mumei forcibly mark them, the number who can detect the anomaly is probably not many."
Propping his chin with his hand, Shinji secretly calculated the next plan.