Chapter 199 Continuous Progress (The Finale)
After resolving everything, Souji returned to Konoha.
The affairs of establishing the Land of Ninja are proceeding in an orderly manner.
There were no more enemies, either openly or covertly, and everything was stable and going smoothly.
It took about six months to achieve good results in all the necessary foundational work.
With everything in place, Souji naturally chose an auspicious day to summon all the important figures in the ninja world, announce the official establishment of the Ninja Kingdom to the world, become the first Ninja King of the Ninja Kingdom, and marry Hyuga Tsukiyo, a woman from the Hyuga clan of Konoha.
To demonstrate that he would treat all ninja villages fairly as the Ninja King, Souji did not stay in Konoha.
The capital of the Ninja Kingdom was established in the former neutral country of the Ninja World, the Land of Iron.
Souji used powerful Earth Release ninjutsu to build the Ninja King's Castle overnight.
On the same day, Minato succeeded to the position of Fifth Hokage.
The Five Kage hold a position second only to the Ninja King in the Land of Ninja.
As originally planned, they will assist the Ninja King in managing their respective 'provinces' in the future.
Although Minato initially struggled with operations and administration because he was completely unfamiliar with them, Souji trusted him and kept giving him all the work, instead of letting Minato learn slowly and gradually handing over Hokage affairs like the Third Hokage did in the original story.
It was tough, but Minato was indeed talented and had high emotional intelligence.
With rigorous training, he quickly grew up.
As Hokage, although he is still somewhat immature, he is already capable enough to stand on his own and manage things in an orderly manner.
Although he had suffered a lot beforehand, and even with his Kage-level strength, he looked haggard, Minato still achieved his dream of becoming Hokage and married Kushina.
Souji sincerely congratulated him.
Because the Ninja Country was unified, the movement of people from different regions became much easier.
In some particularly harsh environments, such as the Land of Rain, the Souji allows Juju to leave by applying and then freely travel to any region to start a new life.
The environment of the Land of Rain was indeed not suitable for living.
In the past, the residents of the Land of Rain had no choice but to stay in the Land of Rain because even if they went to other countries, they would find it difficult to start a new life with nothing.
Now that the Ninja King Mochizuki Souji has given his permission and made the necessary arrangements, a large number of people will naturally migrate out of the Land of Rain very soon.
Hanzo, the leader of Amegakure, had no objection to this.
Despite being portrayed as a villain in the original work, from the perspective of the Land of Rain, Hanzo is indeed a great hero who fights against foreign enemies.
Hanzo truly loved his hometown and its people.
Therefore, even though the large-scale outflow of population would have a significant impact on Amegakure, it was all for a better living environment, and Hanzo was happy to see it happen.
After this, the Land of Rain will become a resource-rich area.
A place where rain almost never stops is terrible as a place to live, but as a resource-rich area, it has so much potential for development.
If considered as a resource-rich area, Amegakure's approximately one thousand ninjas, combined with the population remaining in the Land of Rain, would be more than enough to meet the labor demand, and would even generate a fairly good income.
As a result, everyone in the Land of Rain was very satisfied.
Furthermore, the population of the Rain Country that migrated to other places consisted of quite a few skilled technical personnel.
To cope with the incessant rain, the Land of Rain has developed technologies far superior to those of other places.
These technologies are not ninjutsu, but rather lean towards science and industrial technology, as evidenced by the numerous high-rise buildings and metal industrial city styles of the Land of Rain.
While it's impossible for every resident of the Rain Country to be a top-tier talent capable of conducting research and development—such high-level work—there are quite a few skilled workers with certain technical expertise.
Previously, no one in the ninja world cared about these skills, but Souji believed they were very valuable.
Under his arrangement, the residents of the Land of Rain who went to various places quickly found jobs where they could use their skills, and with their performance, they gained recognition and successfully settled down in their new environments.
Aside from Hanzo, Yahiko and the other two were also quite pleased with this development.
The three of them initially formed the Akatsuki organization, and later decided to follow Souji, with the fundamental purpose of pursuing peace in the ninja world and enabling the residents of the Land of Rain to live a better life.
All of these have now been accomplished.
Yahiko and the other two were satisfied and continued to work in the Kage Club.
Their strength steadily improved, and their combat power was now considered quite good among Konoha Jonin.
It was believed that they would soon reach the powerful strength of the original timeline.
Although the ninja world has entered a period of peaceful development, large-scale wars will not break out, and there are no more combat missions such as assassinations and sabotage as in the past, no matter what era it is, there will always be a few illegal and evil deeds in the shadows, and small-scale battles will always exist.
When Souji became the Ninja King, all the Ninja Villages submitted to him.
He could arrange talents at will, and the Kage Club expanded and added many members.
The position of Souji was also given to the first member of the Kage Club, Sasori of the Red Sand.
The Kage Division is now essentially a special forces unit directly under the Ninja King Mochizuki Souji.
It adopts a small, elite-only approach, with each official member being a Kage-level powerhouse.
They are ready to travel to various locations at any time to deal with powerful lawbreakers who are difficult for ordinary law enforcement forces to handle.
Although Sasori didn't say it outright, Souji could tell that Sasori was quite happy to be made the new captain-general of the Anbu.
After all, Sasori is very young and cares a lot about this kind of identity.
Similarly, Sasori and Chiyo still rarely meet, but this is just a young person's little act of rebellion, and Souji won't insist on interfering as the head of the family.
However, after the previous battle, Souji vaguely felt that the relationship between the two should have eased a little, and Sasori was no longer the one who completely rejected him.
Rebellious teenagers always deserve a beating.
A beating would do the trick.
As for the puppet of the Third Kazekage, Sasori eventually abandoned it completely and buried it in the tomb arranged by Souji.
Sasori abandoned the pursuit of eternal beauty through human puppets, but still wanted to achieve it.
He focused on creating new puppets, attempting to find a way to achieve it through continuous creation.
However, compared to the beginning, there is clearly less twisted obsession.
Ultimately, Sasori's initial creation of the puppet stemmed from his obsession with the loss of both his parents and the lack of familial companionship.
Now his relationship with his grandmother Chiyo has improved, he has a boss who constantly bosses him around, colleagues who are somewhat agreeable, and meaningful work that earns him recognition from others.
A fulfilling life, while not a complete replacement, certainly alleviates the emptiness in one's heart caused by the lack of family affection.
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and several of his contemporaries who were once Konoha advisors, now live a leisurely retirement.
Jiraiya, one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha, still felt a deep attachment to Tsunade, but ultimately embarked on a journey to find inspiration for his novel, leaving Konoha and traveling throughout the ninja world.
His novel, The Strong-Willed Ninja, didn't sell very well despite Jiraiya's fame because it tells the old-fashioned story of an ordinary boy becoming a hero.
However, it is considered a classic by a small number of readers.
However, Jiraiya's next novel, Icha Icha Paradise, was a huge hit and sold amazingly well!
In particular, the series of works published after his success, the Icha Icha Paradise series, the Uzumaki Couple Chapter, became a hot topic and a best-selling novelist in the ninja world because the protagonists of the story were based on the Fifth Hokage Minato Namikaze and his wife.
Although Tsunade still hasn't completely overcome her hemophobia, in this peaceful and stable world, she is much less despondent than before.
As the Minister of Medical Affairs of the Land of Ninja, she teaches her disciple Shizune and later Karin, as well as many new-generation medical ninjas, cultivating many outstanding medical talents and leading medical ninjutsu to many innovations and advancements.
With ample funding, Orochimaru researched and developed various ninjutsu and ninja tools, achieving remarkable results in a short period of time, and becoming the undisputed number one in the ninja research community of the Land of Ninja.
Souji did not send anyone to monitor Orochimaru, and Orochimaru did not do anything that crossed his bottom line.
Although Orochimaru is good at pretending, a proud person like him will never continue to pretend when he really doesn't want to.
Whether he has other ideas or not is always obvious.
Orochimaru is still quite interested in the new era of the ninja world; in his words, it's still worth watching.
As for whether he will ever get tired of it, and when that day will be?
No one, including Orochimaru himself, knows.
The sacred tree provides a stable supply of resources and energy.
The nine tailed beasts have regained their freedom, or they may continue to accompany their jinchūriki.
The ninja world no longer focuses solely on combat, but applies ninjutsu to other areas, which, as expected, has indeed had a significant impact on ordinary people.
However, because we were prepared in advance, everything was under control.
The level of ordinary Chunin and Genin is not about fighting and killing, so they do not have much of an advantage over ordinary people.
The number of ninjas is also far less than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, if arranged properly, they can indeed be controlled.
Ordinary people also train in chakra and ninjutsu under instruction.
Adults progress more slowly and it is foreseeable that they will not reach a very high limit in the end.
However, if they are only using simple ninjutsu, that is more than enough.
As for children and young people who are already growing rapidly, their speed of learning ninjutsu is much faster, and they are in no way inferior to the children of the original ninja villages.
Except for a very few ninja clans, bloodlines are not particularly special.
Unless a grandmother is a Kage-level ninja like Sasori, even a Jonin's bloodline does not provide much of an innate advantage for their descendants in training ninjutsu.
Overall, there is almost no difference between the descendants of ordinary ninjas and the descendants of ordinary people.
The descendants of ninjas are not necessarily faster, while the descendants of ordinary people can occasionally produce amazing geniuses.
It won't take too long, about ten years.
Once this generation grows up, we can basically eliminate the distinction between ninjas and ordinary people.
In the Land of Ninjas, everyone is an ordinary person, and at the same time, everyone is a ninja.
Thus, after a brief period of chaos, the Land of Ninja quickly brought the situation under control and gradually got back on track.
About a year after the establishment of the Land of Ninja...
Tsukiyo and Kushina both gave birth to sons, and Souji and Minato both became fathers.
Souji and Tsukiyo's son was named Mochizuki Hayakumo.
Minato and Kushina's son... his name is still Naruto, but his surname is Namikaze.
Naruto Namikaze.
Souji never suggested the name Naruto; it was Minato and Kushina who came up with it themselves, which seems to be an inevitable fate.
A few years later, Hayabusa and Naruto both turned five.
Hayakumo inherited the personalities of Souji and Tsukiyo, and even at a young age, he showed signs of composure.
As for Naruto Namikaze, although his surname is different, his personality is not much different.
Because his father, Minato, is busy with his duties as Hokage and has little time to spend with Naruto, Naruto often does some naughty things to attract the attention of adults, which is the same as in the original timeline.
However, with his mother Kushina, who was free to move around, Naruto in this world did not develop an inferiority complex.
In Souji's eyes, he was just a simple-minded and mischievous brat.
Souji, adhering to his previous agreement with Fugaku Uchiha, took Fugaku's eldest son, Itachi Uchiha, who had a significant presence in the original timeline, as his student, recognizing the Uchiha clan, which was not to be underestimated in Konoha, as a member of the Sharingan.
At that time, Itachi had just turned three years old and had just started attending the junior class at the Ninja Academy.
It was still a long way from him actually becoming Souji's student and receiving training.
It was just that the matter was now completely confirmed.
The fact that the clan leader's eldest son became a student of the Ninja King Mochizuki Souji was a very exciting thing for the Uchiha clan.
This signifies the end of an era in which they, despite their considerable strength, faced constant exclusion and suppression.
The Uchiha clan is now highly valued by the Ninja King!
Even if the Sharingan isn't used in combat, it still has many applications.
Souji highly values the Uchiha clan, who possess the Sharingan, and Itachi is an unparalleled genius whose talent is no less than Minato's, which cannot be ignored.
Therefore, Souji didn't hesitate to form a master-disciple relationship with Itachi that never ends well in the ninja world.
No matter how talented Itachi is or how much he grows, his combat power can never surpass Souji's.
Since he can't turn the tide, there's nothing to worry about.
In addition to Itachi Uchiha, Souji also selected two genius children from ordinary backgrounds to continue the tradition of three children per class.
Even though the environment was completely different in this world, Itachi Uchiha's essential temperament was not much different.
However, because the Uchiha clan was not ostracized or suppressed, Itachi's growth environment was much better.
A few years later, when he was eight years old, it can be seen that his temperament was still calm and quiet, but he did not have the cold and depressed temperament he originally had.
Itachi was indeed a genius.
He entered the Ninja Academy at the age of three and learned almost everything he was taught. He continued to do so, ranking first in his grade every year.
Nowadays, all schools in the ninja world not only teach chakra cultivation and the Three Body Techniques, but also provide education in various kinds of knowledge and skills, just like modern education on Earth.
Itachi not only possesses exceptional talent in ninjutsu training and high intelligence, but he also excels at learning knowledge and skills.
Coupled with his handsome appearance, he has always been a top student and heartthrob at school.
As Souji's student, Itachi was naturally very close to Soun and Naruto, like brothers.
In addition, when Itachi was five years old, and Soun and Naruto were two years old, even Sasuke Uchiha was born.
Although they were born in the same year but now two years apart, Naruto and Sasuke still inexplicably became very close.
Then, Sarutobi Konohamaru, the eldest grandson of the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, was born.
New generations are constantly being born in the ninja world.
Finally, the day arrived when Soun and Naruto turned twelve and took the Chunin Exams...
The Chunin Exams of today are completely different from those of the past.
Infiltration, reconnaissance, and combat—the essential skills that ninjas used to have—are no longer required.
Instead, there are numerous written tests on cultural knowledge subjects, similar to the entrance exams for junior high school at Lanxing Modern.
Souji stood atop all the mountains of Hokage Rock, watching from afar as Hayakumo calmly worked on his problem, and Naruto, who first stared blankly, then gave up and started scribbling nonsense.
Footsteps sounded behind me.
The one who arrived was Sasori, Souji of the Anbu.
The rebellious and immature teenager of the past, after more than ten years, still looks arrogant, but has grown into a slightly less rebellious and immature young man.
Sasori also turned his gaze to the distant ninja academy, where the children were wielding pens and battling wits with their exam papers.
"Mochizuki Souji, is this the ninja world you envisioned?"
"Although it is indeed much, much better than before..."
"However, in recent years, I have seen many problems in various places that cannot be ignored."
"And you will die one day.
Without you, the Land of Ninja will likely find it difficult to find someone like you who can control everything..."
Sasori spoke in a deep voice, his voice clearly showing concern.
However, Souji's voice was quite relaxed, on the contrary.
"It would be best if such a person appeared, but it wouldn't matter if no such person appeared."
"Wouldn't that mean..."
Sasori didn't quite understand.
How can you talk about something so important as if you don't care?
Souji laughed:
"When I took you to the Underworld to find the First Hokage, do you remember what I said back then?"
"The changes I have made can neither eradicate war nor achieve absolute peace, because they are inherently against human nature."
"Just like the First Hokage ended the Warring States period and established the era of the ninja village, even if he couldn't achieve perfection in everything, he did make progress and became better than before."
"Therefore, my goal has never been perfection, but progress.
I have eliminated the distinction between ordinary people and ninjas.
Naturally, it is impossible for everyone to support me or for everyone to benefit.
As a result, countless problems will arise..."
"And these problems will be solved when someone establishes a new era, thus achieving another step forward."
"Progress, being better than before, that is the greatest value and significance!"
Sasori's eyes flickered slightly, and he murmured:
"Progress, being better than before, is the greatest value and significance..."
Souji's gaze remained fixed on the new generation of ninjas striving for success.
"If progress continues like this, perhaps one day humanity will be able to achieve true and lasting peace without the aid of illusions or other external forces..."
"No... Just like the First Hokage and me, people can make the right choices at crucial moments, and the times progress as a result."
"Through continuous progress, humanity will surely achieve true peace and build a world far better than it is today!"
"I believe I can ...
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