"Ugh~"
Yamanaka Kei took a spoonful of Deer Antler Goji Berry Porridge and his expression changed, almost spitting it out on the spot.
A thick medicinal taste rushed from his mouth straight to the top of his head!
It nearly blew the top of his head off.
This bowl of highly nutritious porridge didn't just contain the goji berries and deer antlers visible on the surface; the broth used to cook the porridge also included many medicinal herbs to balance the properties, making it more mild and nourishing.
The effect...
He felt a faint heat rising from his abdomen, and a warm current quickly surging through his limbs.
Yamanaka Kei quickly used his Medical Ninjutsu skills to make a judgment.
This stuff was definitely stronger than the Blue Pill!
No, even if the Nara family had its own pharmaceutical research institute and medicinal herb cultivation base, there was no need to go this far!
He looked up at Nara Shikaku, who was shoveling spoonful after spoonful into his mouth, while still keeping an eye on him.
Yamanaka Kei rolled his eyes speechlessly and decisively activated the Infinite Armory.
As the spoon entered his mouth.
He directly wrapped it in Chakra and sent it into the armory for storage.
His body was already in good shape; he should find a chance to dump this stuff later.
Otherwise, Kushina would probably suffer!
"Shikaku, remember to do the dishes, I'm off to work~"
Nara Yoshino saw that Nara Shikaku had finished the nutritious porridge, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.
She changed into a pair of black high heels and a white-bottomed, black-patterned cheongsam.
Draped in a warm White Deer Skin Cloak, she went out the door.
"Did you just use a space-time ninjutsu!"
Nara Shikaku stared at Yamanaka Kei suspiciously, his eyes full of distrust.
"Otherwise? Go out with a stick like you? That's not right~ You're not so weak that you can't even pitch a tent, are you? No way, no way~"
Yamanaka Kei threw the spoon in his hand into the bowl.
Imitating Nara Shikaku's tone just now, he stabbed the boomerang hard into the other party's heart.
"...Let's talk business."
Nara Shikaku was silent for a moment.
With his intelligence, how could he not see that no matter how he answered, this was a huge trap!
Damn space-time ninjutsu, why didn't he have that talent?
"Hehe~ My strength has improved a little bit. Didn't I tell you before that there's a mastermind behind Madara Uchiha? I just happened to run into him on the front line, so I opened Wood Release to wash the ground..."
Yamanaka Kei roughly described what had happened on the front lines and what he planned to do next.
He didn't plan to interfere too much with Iwagakure.
He definitely had to make a trip to Sand Village.
As for Konoha, he also needed to complete the integration and transfer of power within a few days.
Time was tight and the task was heavy.
No matter how strong he was, he was still just one person. There were too many things he wanted to do, and he inevitably felt stretched thin.
"Are you sure you don't want to be Hokage?"
Nara Shikaku's expression was strange after listening to Yamanaka Kei's narration.
"Absolutely, positively, and certainly sure."
Yamanaka Kei nodded. Hokage? Even a dog wouldn't want that.
"You were the one who intimidated the people of Iwagakure, you're the one preparing to intimidate Sand Village, and you're the most important guarantee for the merger of the three villages. You say you don't want to be Hokage, you..."
Nara Shikaku stopped talking mid-sentence, as he had roughly guessed Yamanaka Kei's plan.
Yamanaka Kei smiled without saying a word. In the world of One Piece, there's Imu above the Five Elders.
In the world of Hokage, there's him above the Five Kage. Is there a problem with that?
He wouldn't participate in daily management, nor would he appear before ordinary people.
Normally, they could completely treat him as if he didn't exist.
As long as he held absolute power, his position would naturally be above the Five Kage, and no one could shake it. When he spoke, the Five Kage wouldn't dare not listen!
But if he became a Kage...
Being in the game, there would be too many things to consider!
Why make things difficult for himself?
"Two questions. First, are you sure you possess power that even the combined strength of the Five Kage cannot defeat? Second, are you... immortal?"
Nara Shikaku held up two fingers, raising the two most critical questions.
The first point: if he couldn't do it, then wanting to be above the Five Kage would be completely nonsense.
The second point: in a system that appears equal but is actually unequal, there will always be people who are unwilling to accept the status quo and want to overturn the mountain above them.
If Yamanaka Kei was alive, naturally everyone would be happy.
But once he became old and weak, his strength declined, or he directly passed away, not only would the Ino-Shika-Cho three clans suffer a devastating disaster, but the original ninja village aggregate would probably also fall apart.
With Yamanaka Kei's personality, it was impossible for him not to consider these things.
So...
Was his brother truly immortal?
"Don't worry about the first point. As for the second point... I wouldn't call it immortality, but living for a few thousand years shouldn't be a problem."
Yamanaka Kei stroked his chin, estimating the life force within his body.
The constitution of the Golden Entry [Yin Yang Sage Master], along with a cultivation method that directly absorbs natural energy,
had already allowed him to complete a leap in the level of life.
The word 'eternal life' is too long.
Some people feel that living for a thousand years is already eternal life, while others feel that ten thousand years of immortality counts.
But in Yamanaka Kei's understanding,
eternal life is an extremely high-end term, encompassing the universe in one's chest, containing the world within one's body, coexisting with heaven and earth, and shining with the sun and moon; only then can one barely be considered to have entered the realm of eternal life.
He is really far from that!
"Hoo~ Who are you planning to have as the Fourth Hokage?"
Nara Shikaku took several deep breaths before forcibly suppressing the throbbing in his heart with reason.
Several thousand years!
How many years has the history of the ninja world been until now?
"Hmm... Tsunade and Danzo, which one do you think is suitable?"
Yamanaka Kei quickly went through the existing experts in Konoha in his mind.
Jiraiya is used to being casual, and he has his own persistence, so he is obviously not suitable to become Hokage.
Namikaze Minato has enough strength, but the reputation of the Yellow Flash is not yet big enough, and it would be too troublesome to force him to the stage.
Orochimaru, go do research properly, what are you thinking about?
Thinking about it, it seems that there are only these two candidates, Tsunade and 'Danzo'?
The former has a certain degree of autonomy.
The latter has no autonomy, but with Nara Shikaku and others remotely controlling him in secret, it shouldn't be a big problem.
"'Danzo's' value is only left for balancing accounts and taking the blame. There is no point in letting him take the stage. Can Tsunade's current strength suppress the Third Hokage?"
Nara Shikaku shook his head, first denying Danzo, who was played by White Zetsu.
Danzo started with Root, and everyone knows that this guy is a radical. Pushing him to the forefront at this time of Village Merger is just asking for trouble.
"Uh, is it necessary? If necessary, I'll strengthen her a bit, it shouldn't be a big problem."
"As long as Tsunade can suppress the Third Hokage, at most Three Days! I can completely integrate all the power of Konoha! I will definitely not let anyone hold you back!"
"What about the Village Merger charter?"
"Simple, I can give it to you this afternoon. You should solve Tsunade's problem first."
"Okay."
Yamanaka Kei nodded. Seeing that the business was over, he patted his butt and got up from the dining table.
Before going out, remembering the most important thing, he turned his head and opened his mouth again.
"My kind of longevity has high requirements for talent, you probably can't achieve it. However, Orochimaru's research has been progressing quite rapidly recently. I can't guarantee much, but living for a thousand years shouldn't be a problem, um... maybe even longer in the future."
In fact, Yamanaka Kei had thought about this issue a long time ago, so he never really cracked down on Orochimaru, that research fanatic.
If a person lives too long, watching everyone they know grow old and die,
until everything becomes unfamiliar,
and they can't find a single familiar face,
that kind of longevity would be too cruel and boring.
"Damn..."
Nara Shikaku watched Yamanaka Kei disappear through the doorway, pinched his thigh hard, and then spent half a day messing around with his family's secret techniques before he was sure that the conversation just now wasn't a dream.
A thousand years!
His sworn brother is truly capable!
"Looks like I'll have to come up with a family planning policy when I get back, otherwise... hiss~~~"
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