After arranging the two little ones, Kaze returned to his own small courtyard.
Kaze sat cross-legged in the quiet room of his small courtyard, eyes slightly closed.
His consciousness sank into that chaotic "Breeding Ground" within his body.
The space was much larger than before. In the central area, a scarlet energy ball was suspended.
That was the Kyūbi Chakra Origin, already taking the rudimentary form of a fox, with three tails made of pure energy gently swaying behind it.
[Breeding Progress: 42%]
[Estimated Full Breeding Time: 48 days]
[Breeding Body Status: Stable]
"Soon."
Kaze whispered.
Then he raised his hand, and a mass of dark yellow energy emerged in the void.
That was a portion of Tailed Beast Chakra Origin just extracted from Shukaku's body.
Although it was just a trace of Tailed Beast Chakra Origin, the aura of Shukaku contained within was still clearly discernible.
"Breed."
The dark yellow energy slowly flew towards the scarlet energy ball but didn't touch it.
Instead, it quietly hovered beside the Kyūbi's Chakra Origin.
[Ding: Detected injection of Second Tailed Beast Origin]
[Breeding Space Stability Increased]
[Space Expansion Speed +20%]
[Enable "Origin Resonance" function?]
The system's prompt rang in his consciousness.
"Origin Resonance?"
"Enable."
Kaze's heart moved.
He originally thought the system would only appear when he did crazy things, but he didn't expect such auxiliary functions.
The next second, the breeding space vibrated slightly.
The chaos at the edge of the platform began to churn, and wisps of thin but pure cyan energy seeped out from the void, slowly injecting into the space.
That was... Natural Energy.
Or rather, Natural Energy that was purer and more primitive than the outside world.
Kaze could feel that after entering the breeding space, this energy automatically transformed into a form suitable for "breeding", nourishing the two Tailed Beast Origins.
"It really works."
A gleam flashed in Kaze's eyes.
Since acquiring the "Void Body", he discovered that this constitution could not only adapt to any Chakra.
He also perceived that the air in the ninja world contained Natural Energy.
It was just that the Natural Energy in the ninja world was too thin, and the conversion efficiency was extremely low.
During this time, a portion of the Natural Energy absorbed and converted by Uchiha Kaze was injected into the breeding space.
It accelerated the space's growth, and at the same time, the breeding space was evolving in a special direction.
Growing towards the direction of a... Sage Land!
"Then... let's try."
Kaze hesitated no longer, injecting all the Natural Energy stored in his body into the breeding space.
Cyan light circulated in the space, and those chaotic edges began to expand outward slowly but firmly.
Even fine lines appeared on the platform surface, like... cracks in the earth, or the prototype of some rules.
[Ding, detected host's crazy behavior—Creating a Sage Land, reward: Natural Energy Conversion +100%, Sage Land Origin *1]
As the system prompt sounded, a rhombus crystal appeared in front of Kaze—Sage Land Origin.
Inside this crystal, pure Natural Energy overflowed.
With a thought from Uchiha Kaze, the crystal sank into the ground beneath his feet and merged into it.
The originally empty breeding space began to show spots of greenery.
Natural Energy was also continuously increasing at a visible speed.
...
After a while, Kaze opened his eyes, stood up, and walked to the window.
At this time, the sky had already darkened.
"Lord Kaze."
"Urgent intelligence."
Uchiha Nagasawa's voice sounded outside the door.
"Come in."
With Kaze's response, Nagasawa pushed the door open and entered.
At this moment, Uchiha Nagasawa's face was grave.
In his hands were two scrolls.
"Formal declaration of war from Kirigakure, and... intelligence on massive troop movements from Kumogakure."
Nagasawa said, handing the scrolls to Kaze.
"Kirigakure should have already landed. The Intelligence Department is already strengthening reconnaissance in the east."
"Estimated that intelligence will be sent back by tomorrow morning."
"On Kumogakure's side, they are acting almost simultaneously with Kirigakure, and should have already stepped into the territory of the Land of Fire by now."
While Kaze read the contents of the scrolls, Uchiha Nagasawa slowly stated the additional intelligence.
For the last surprise attack, the answer sheet Konoha gave was quite satisfactory.
But...
The situation this time was more severe!
This was no longer a probe, but a direct war launched against Konoha!
The opponents wouldn't hide either; it was more likely to be contact combat.
"Turning out in full force, huh."
"Is that guy A thinking of solving Konoha in one go?"
The smile on Kaze's lips began to be somewhat unsuppressable.
At this moment, Uchiha Kaze had only one thought... How about destroying all these ninja villages!
"I'm afraid so."
"In addition, the border patrol team also found abnormal Chakra fluctuations on Iwagakure's side."
"Suspected... Ōnoki has mobilized."
Nagasawa nodded, then continued speaking.
"The old fox can't sit still."
"He wants to wait for us and Kumogakure / Kirigakure to both be hurt, then come out to pick up cheap gains."
"Or rather... he also feels now is the best opportunity to act against Konoha."
Kaze threw the scrolls on the table, the madness in his eyes already beginning to spread.
"Then how should we respond?"
"Konoha's current military strength is insufficient to confront three sides simultaneously."
Unlike Uchiha Kaze's madness, Nagasawa had already begun to worry.
"Don't worry, that old guy Ōnoki won't act easily."
"That old guy's relationship with Kumogakure isn't exactly good."
Kaze was calm and breezy.
Worry?
What is worry?
Who should worry?
What he had to think about was how to keep all these guys invading the Land of Fire this time.
Kaze walked to the wall, his finger sliding across the map.
Finally, it stopped at the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Moon (implied/near border).
"Lord Hokage, do you judge that Kumogakure will invade the Land of Fire from here?"
"Then we..."
Uchiha Nagasawa roughly understood Kaze's meaning, and that trace of worry just now was slowly replaced by boiling blood.
"Pass down the order: all Konoha ninjas above Chūnin level, immediately approach here."
"All forces of the Intelligence Department, also use them here."
"As for Kirigakure... ignore them."
"Prioritize swallowing all the forces arranged by Kumogakure!"
Kaze said as a black flame landed on the location of the Land of Lightning on the map.
The next moment, Kumogakure was wiped from the map.
After Uchiha Nagasawa received the instruction, he immediately passed the intelligence to Nara Shikaku.
Other ninjas in the village were left to Nara Shikaku to coordinate.
He himself returned to the Uchiha clan grounds immediately to mobilize all Uchiha ninjas capable of participating in combat.
At the same time, the Yondaime Raikage had already led Kumogakure ninjas into the border of the Land of Fire.
"Lord Raikage, Ōnoki of Iwagakure has moved."
"But... he only brought dozens of ninjas with him."
"Doesn't look like..."
Mabui still felt the Yondaime Raikage's decision was a bit impulsive.
Launching a blitzkrieg with almost no deployment.
Intelligence was even scarcer.
The only thing known was that the Godaime Hokage Uchiha Kaze was very strong...
But not even clear on specifically where he was strong.
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