Konoha Village.
"Lady Tsunade! Advisor Utatane needs you to review this document immediately... Lady Tsunade, please wake up!" Shizune shook Tsunade's shoulder vigorously.
In times of peace, the Konoha Hospital didn't have that many patients, so Shizune had returned to the Administrative Division to assist the Sixth Hokage with her work.
Tsunade looked up at her groggily, her eyelids half-open. She let out a heavy sigh; this dull, tedious office life was going to suffocate her.
It would be one thing if there were major events, but there was simply nothing important happening. Looking around, it was all trivial disputes, which made it impossible for her to work up any enthusiasm.
"Hmm? What's happening?!"
She suddenly stood up and looked sharply out the window. The next second, the ground began to shake violently. It shook for over ten seconds. Thinking an enemy was invading, she rushed out, only to find no problems whatsoever.
The village was still the same village, the distant mountains were still the same mountains. It seemed nothing had changed, yet if one investigated carefully, they would discover that there was something invisible and intangible added to the air.
Ino sent her wife and child home, looked at the village she hadn't seen in half a year, and sensed the rich natural energy in the air. After sighing with emotion for a moment, she went to find Tsunade.
Explaining the Dragon Balls was simply too troublesome, so she dumped all the responsibility onto Master Six Paths.
"Because of the battles, the planet beneath our feet was too damaged. I found the legendary Treasured Tool of the Sage of Six Paths and repaired the land and ocean."
The Sage of Six Paths possessing seven Dragon Balls was a very reasonable thing, right?
Ino's words left the advisors half-believing and half-doubting, but the changes that appeared successively over the next few days proved that her words were not false.
The earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions that had occurred frequently before all disappeared. Plants in the natural environment were growing rapidly, the size of wild beasts increased, and the few newborns in the village looked extremely healthy.
The farmers also discovered that the fertility of the soil had suddenly reached a peak.
Amado Sanzu, who could be considered the chief scientist of the shinobi world, faxed a report to Konoha overnight. He believed that the planet's overall environment had miraculously been restored to the level of thousands of years ago.
The planet shouldn't have undergone such changes. According to his models, the general environment should only get worse, not better. The probability of it improving was infinitely close to zero, yet this event had happened right before their eyes. It was truly unscientific, and he couldn't quite understand it.
Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze, the two retired Hokage, felt it the most deeply.
Having had half their chakra drained, they could no longer use Sage Mode. Minato had never really used Sage Mode seriously anyway, so it didn't affect him much.
But losing half his chakra and being unable to use Sage Mode had a massive impact on Jiraiya.
Now that the environment was filled with rich and harmless natural energy, he no longer needed the assistance of the two sages, Fukasaku and Shima, to enter Sage Mode. The cells that had become necrotic due to the massive chakra drain also showed a trend of regaining vitality.
The experts felt it most clearly. After a dozen days passed, the Chunin and Genin could also feel the changes in themselves.
Their vision was sharp, their movements agile. Where they used to jump eight meters high, they could now jump to a height of twelve meters. Before, a thrown kunai would stick straight into the target; now, with a flick of the wrist, the kunai could punch a hole right through it.
The fresh ingredients Ino brought back from Mount Paozu also caused a sensation in Konoha Village.
Ninjas had large appetites and needed to ingest a lot of nutrients from food. Meat was the best choice.
To let Mirai Sarutobi win at the starting line, Asuma spent a fortune to buy a pterosaur with a wingspan of fully six meters from Ino.
That very afternoon, in the courtyard of the Sarutobi clan, he used a chakra blade to dismember the pterosaur.
Tsunade played the family card heavily, repeatedly recounting the bond between master and disciple, and finally bought two T-Rex legs and a tail from Ino. She wasn't doing it for any child; she was purely craving the food.
These two got discounts, but the rest weren't treated so politely. Ino's own family needed to eat too. When friends like Sakura and Choji came knocking, she quoted an astronomical price.
However, when Might Guy came looking to buy some ingredients to nourish Rock Lee's body, she rarely offered a twenty percent discount. The condition was that Might Guy had to cooperate with her in training the Kaio-ken. Guy Sensei agreed immediately.
Without King Kai's permission, Ino wouldn't teach the Kaio-ken to Might Guy, but she could learn from his physical training methods.
According to her estimation, Guy Sensei's "Constitution," "Strength," and "Speed" attributes were definitely more than 10 points; they were likely 11, or even around 12 points.
Ino clocked in at work daily. When she had nothing to do, she went to Kaguya's super-gravity dimension to exercise.
The gravity in this space was higher than ten times, but less than fifteen times, which was just right for her current stage.
At the same time, she commissioned Amado Sanzu to help her manufacture an adjustable gravity chamber. At this stage, the effect of practicing in this kind of high-gravity environment was undoubtedly the best.
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Obito robbing temples, Obito snatching the Daimyo's treasures, Obito being a womanizer who ruined quite a few young maidens... Under Ino's suggestion, whether it was the intelligence peddlers in the gray areas or super shinobi villages like Konoha, the narrative was consistent: all the blame was shifted onto Obito.
Although Obito was "no longer in the martial world, the martial world was still full of his legends."
Ino took the opportunity to harvest a large amount of "Scapegoat Points." She increased her "Constitution" to 12 points, "Strength" to 11 points, and "Speed" to 12 points, repeatedly excavating her body's potential.
Simultaneously practicing the Eight Inner Gates in the super-gravity environment—with her good physical fitness, progress was fast. When she opened the Sixth Gate, combining it with King Kai's teachings, a new skill finally appeared on her interface.
Kaio-ken!
She threw all her remaining Scapegoat Points into it, upgrading Kaio-ken from lv1 to lv2.
She couldn't add any more after that. Kaio-ken lv2 was equivalent to a two-fold Kaio-ken, which was the limit of her current body. To increase the Kaio-ken further, she had to raise her physical fitness even higher.
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The total number of ninja had been reduced by nearly half by the White Zetsu army and the subsequent Infinite Tsukuyomi and God: Nativity of a World of Trees. Facing pressure from the Daimyos and samurai groups, the remaining ninja could only huddle together for warmth.
Konoha had practically integrated the five great shinobi villages. At this juncture where the planet had been restored to its original state, it was like a pig standing in the wind—even if it stood still, it could fly. The smiles on the villagers' faces grew day by day. The ninja of the four great shinobi villages still retained a sense of belonging to their original villages, but in the current general environment, no one dared to stand up and talk about disbanding or returning to the era of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
The bird that sticks its head out gets shot. No one had the confidence to defeat Ino. Nowadays, even the Third Tsuchikage held a concurrent title of advisor in Konoha. The daily work of Iwagakure was handed over to Kurotsuchi, while he himself was in a state of semi-retirement.
The resistance of the ninjas from the four great shinobi villages toward Konoha Village was rapidly decreasing. After all, it was all just doing missions to make money; what did it matter where you worked?
With the bottom-level ninja won over and the high-level ninja too afraid to make a move, the situation slowly stabilized.
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