Chapter 424: The Mist Withdraws from the War
The Dharma King of the Ten Directions Earth Treasury was gone, but her Twin Trees Garden and the Immortal Zombie remained in the Mist Village.
The numerous vengeful souls inhaled into its body began to run rampant. The air echoed with the Immortal Zombie's sharp shrieks. Unable to effectively control the natural energy within, the Immortal Zombie's body swelled up like an inflatable.
Forty meters, fifty meters... soon, the Immortal Zombie grew to a height of over ninety meters.
Mei Terumi had originally wanted to stop it, but she found that she couldn't stop this thing at all. This thing had lost control!
The converted masses were all in tears, chanting sutras in low voices, believing that the Immortal Zombie was bearing all their sins.
Mei Terumi couldn't just watch these civilians die. She immediately ordered them to retreat.
These people were not fools, and at this moment, they all ran for their lives.
"Lady Mizukage? What should we do now?" A few loyal Mist ninja also rushed in. They tried to attack the Immortal Zombie, but its body was filled with natural energy converted from vengeful souls. Unless it was a sage art attack of the same level, ordinary attacks were completely ineffective.
At this moment, where could they find a sage art attack?
Entering a hundred-meter range would make one feel dizzy. By the time they got close, their heads would be numb. At that point, never mind attacking, even the will to live would disappear.
Obito and Zetsu, hiding in the shadows, quietly retreated.
Mei Terumi was very unwilling, but there was nothing she could do.
The village was doomed.
She gave an order, and all the Mist ninja evacuated the village.
After its body expanded to a height of one hundred and twenty meters, the Immortal Zombie reached its limit. There was no super-artistic great explosion; instead, it fell to the ground very quietly.
The Immortal Zombie's body quickly dissolved. The jutsu was dispelled, but the natural energy would not disappear. Where the Immortal Zombie fell, there was no earth-shattering tremor, no dust flying into the air.
The Immortal Zombie abruptly turned into air and disintegrated.
Mei Terumi sent ninja back to investigate and found that the Mist Village's hospital, school, square, training grounds, and many other buildings were all still there. Even the accumulated water from the Underworld Colliding Wave had quickly receded with the Immortal Zombie's disappearance. It seemed that the village's environment was no different from before, except for two towering great trees, everything was normal.
The Mist's sensory ninja were astonished.
They tried to detect the situation in the village, but in their sensory field of vision, all they saw were large clumps of natural energy filled with resentment. If this energy was not dispelled, humans living in it would go mad in less than three days! The entire village would become like Jugo.
Dispel it? Easier said than done. How to dispel it? Even Ino didn't know how to dispel it, so how would Mei Terumi know?
Without needing the elders and advisors to suggest it, Mei Terumi also knew they had to move. They had to abandon the village they had lived in for decades and start anew.
The Land of Water was already isolated overseas. To the north was the Land of Lightning, to the west was the Land of Fire, and to the southeast were the vast seas.
There were indeed some islands on the sea, and it seemed like there were many choices, but it was really difficult to find a suitable place to live.
In the end, it all came down to the fact that the battle between Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and her sons, Hagoromo and Hamura, had been too fierce. The planet had already suffered heavy damage during the process of planting the God Tree, and it would take hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years to recover. On top of that, their battle had turned the world upside down, and there was also the moon, which appeared out of nowhere, interfering with the magnetic field. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis were common occurrences throughout the planet, and suitable places to live were very limited.
Mei Terumi gritted her teeth and accepted the missions from the Land of Water. No matter what, the reputation of the Mist had to be maintained. On the other hand, she sent people to find a suitable island to live on. Ninja could endure harsh living environments, but the villagers who were the foundation of the ninja village could not. A ninja village needed ninja, but it needed even more villagers.
Her current situation was a bit like Tsunade's after the death of the Third Hokage, taking over a mess.
Both had a younger generation that had not yet grown up, both had their villages maliciously attacked, and both were women standing at the forefront, shouldering the burden alone.
When Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage, she had used women as men and men as beasts, desperately taking on missions. Jonin like Kakashi and Might Guy were so busy they couldn't even touch the ground.
This was all to unite the people and, at the same time, show their strength.
It was like a gangster blocking your door. If you lock your doors and windows and hide in your room, the gangster will definitely think you are timid and become even more audacious. If you stand at the door with a knife, cursing loudly and showing a willingness to fight to the death, the gangster will not dare to act rashly.
It was the same for people, and the same for ninja villages.
The missions could not stop, and a new home had to be found immediately.
Moving was easier said than done, but how to move with empty hands?
The villagers' belongings were all in the village. They had evacuated in too much of a hurry and now had nothing. Some villagers didn't even have shirts and were standing in the cold wind with bare chests. What to do?
Go back to the village to get them? That place was now a life-forbidden zone. Ordinary people couldn't get in at all. Even ninja with strong willpower couldn't last long.
Make Zabuza Momochi put down his Executioner's Blade and go carry tables, chairs, and benches for the villagers? Carry pots, pans, and bowls?
The converted masses stood up at this moment. According to them, as long as one silently recited the name of the Dharma King of the Ten Directions Earth Treasury, one could temporarily resist the erosion of negative energy. The villagers' daily necessities were out of the question, but it was possible to retrieve some money and clothing.
Mei Terumi was disgusted, but she had no choice. She could only wave her hand and let the villagers go back to get their daily necessities themselves.
Three days later, they embarked on a journey to find a new home.
Participate in the great ninja war? Don't be ridiculous. In this state, what was the point of participating?
Following the Sand Village, the Mist Village had also completely withdrawn from the whirlpool of the great ninja war. They could take on some daily missions to make a living, but they could not hope to participate in the great war.
Now, only three parties remained: the Leaf Village, the Cloud Village, and the Rock Village.
After occupying Red Spot Island, the Leaf army did not continue to attack.
It wasn't that they were being merciful, but that they didn't want to push the Mist to a desperate corner.
Even a rotten ship has three pounds of nails. The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, had indeed dominated his era, but the Kages of the other four great ninja villages were not incompetent. The strength of these village founders was generally half a tier higher than the current Kages. Who knew what kind of ultimate weapons they had left behind?
Ino had gained a lot and didn't want to take any risks.
The Konoha ninja had vented their anger and were also very satisfied with this result.
The Land of Fire had expanded its sphere of influence to the doorstep of the Land of Water. Whether it was the Daimyo or the elders, magistrates, and big merchants, they were all very satisfied and gave Konoha a considerable mission fee.
The Daimyo would engage in negotiations between countries, which had nothing to do with the ninja. The Konoha ninja had the absolute upper hand, and that was enough.
After handing over the management of Red Spot Island to the officials of the Land of Fire, the Konoha ninja withdrew from the Land of Water and returned to the village.
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