In recent times, the Sand Ninja and Hidden Sound Ninja, who had been approaching Konoha overtly and covertly under various pretexts, suddenly received orders to withdraw.
"The Konoha Crush Plan has been canceled."
This caused many ninjas, who were eager to make a big splash in Konoha, to show expressions of astonishment on their faces.
They didn't understand what unknown changes had occurred behind this order.
Orochimaru single-handedly controlled the Hidden Sound Ninja, so they could only accept the orders from above, even if they were somewhat dissatisfied, it was insignificant.
As for the Sand Ninja, before they even had time to feel dissatisfied, they were attracted by another major event.
Their Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, had died tragically more than a month ago, and his body, along with that of his guards, was discovered in the desert wilderness.
No one knew who did it; too much time had passed, and all traces had long been erased.
The Sand Ninja were in an uproar over this. Some felt that it was done by their ally, the Hidden Sound Village, because Rasa had gone to secretly meet with the leader of the Hidden Sound Village before he disappeared.
Others felt that Konoha had discovered the Sand Ninja's movements and acted in advance, assassinating the Fourth Kazekage as a preemptive strike, wanting to demand an explanation from the Hidden Leaf Village.
At this time, the Sand Ninja suddenly realized, "Then who issued the order to cancel the Konoha Crush Plan? Or rather, was the order for them to attack Konoha even issued by their Fourth Kazekage? This is all a question."
In this situation, the Sand Ninja Village was in complete chaos.
And Konoha, realizing that something was wrong, also made a series of responses to this.
However, this had nothing to do with Naruto.
At this moment, he and Sasuke were happily accepting all of Orochimaru's assets and power.
Money was secondary; although there was some income, Orochimaru's usual expenses were also very high, leaving little behind.
What was truly valuable were the various Bloodline Limit biological specimens and ninjas collected by Orochimaru, as well as a series of biological experiment data that Orochimaru was currently conducting, and various forbidden Ninjutsu data that had been researched.
With his life in Naruto's hands and various advanced biomedical knowledge as bait, Orochimaru was extremely cooperative at the moment.
He gave Naruto almost anything he wanted, and if he didn't want something, Orochimaru would take the initiative to promote it to see if he was interested, truly adopting the attitude of a retainer.
With Naruto's Flying Thunder God Technique, the group quickly toured all of Orochimaru's bases.
"Wow, we've struck it rich. With this foundation, are we officially embarking on the path to pursuing world peace?" Sasuke said with emotion after the tour.
Although Sasuke didn't know how to achieve world peace, he had learned from Naruto's recent teachings that to achieve this goal, one must first have a base of operations.
On the surface, Orochimaru was just a Rogue Ninja, but he was actually the leader of the Hidden Sound Village, secretly controlling the small Rice Field Country.
Using this as a foundation to develop and strengthen one's own power was indeed feasible.
"It can be considered the first step, but this foundation is too weak, and it's not legitimate. We still need to continue to work hard," Naruto nodded, reluctantly acknowledging it.
Initially, Naruto's plan for the Chunin Exam was just to find a sparring NPC named Orochimaru for Sasuke.
He didn't expect things to progress so smoothly. Thanks to the close cooperation of his good teammate Yakushi Kabuto, Naruto was able to follow the vine and directly capture Orochimaru.
Then, he took over Orochimaru's assets, which could be considered an unexpected surprise.
"World peace? Does Naruto-kun have such ambitions?"
Orochimaru, who was accompanying them, heard the conversation and asked with interest.
The former Orochimaru was just an ordinary Konoha ninja.
He had close friends, beloved disciples, and enough prestige to inherit the Hokage position.
However, the deaths of his parents, followed by the passing of his disciple Nawaki and friend Kato Dan, made Orochimaru lament the fragility of life. From then on, he embarked on a path of pursuing eternal life and mastering all Ninjutsu to strengthen himself, a path of no return.
At this moment, Orochimaru could be considered to have obtained eternal life.
From the depths of his heart, he couldn't help but feel regret. If there had been no war, perhaps those he cherished wouldn't have died, and he wouldn't have ended up where he was today.
However, time cannot be turned back.
Therefore, upon hearing that Naruto wanted to pursue world peace, Orochimaru couldn't help but be interested.
Yakushi Kabuto also showed some emotion on his face. He had always been a spy, constantly playing the roles of others, even losing his own self. Therefore, he was extremely drawn to those with firm goals.
Looking at such people gave Yakushi Kabuto a sense of security.
Once, it was Orochimaru who gave Yakushi Kabuto this power, but now even Orochimaru had been defeated by this young man. Yakushi Kabuto also wanted to know if this young man could also become someone who could guide him forward.
Naruto glanced at Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto, who were watching him, and didn't bother to talk to them about grand principles.
Because, for people with such well-formed worldviews and firm wills, saying too many grand principles is useless; they won't take them to heart.
It's better to be practical.
Directly tell them what they can gain after peace.
Therefore, Naruto simply nodded.
Then he said, "Yes, I do want world peace. Aside from other benefits after peace, the funds and various resources you need for experiments will be much easier to obtain with the support of national machinery."
"At that time, the entire world will no longer have internal friction, the population and productivity will increase dramatically, creating more wealth. As long as a small portion is taken from it, many useful results can be researched."
Sure enough, upon hearing Naruto's words, Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto immediately became interested.
The shortage of various experimental resources and funding has always been a problem plaguing them. What Naruto said to them was more useful than a thousand grand principles.
Unconsciously, Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto developed a great yearning for the peace Naruto described.
However, before they could imagine what kind of scene peace would bring, they heard Naruto say, "Orochimaru, I heard that you once collected Eight Tails' somatic cells when the Eight Tails of Hidden Cloud Village went out of control, and cultivated a large piece of Eight Tails' body tissue?"
"I need it now, please give it to me."
"..." Orochimaru.
No matter what peace will bring, at least now he can't escape the fate of being exploited by Naruto.
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