Although the Hokage world had the miraculous existence known as ninja, those who mastered the power of Chakra were ultimately still a minority.
So the Hokage world had also gradually developed all kinds of technology during its development, and even ninja had benefited greatly from it.
So if one used "what benefits technological development brought" as the topic, one could probably pad out a very long thesis.
However, when Isshiki settled down to study the technological development of the Ninja World, he developed deep doubts.
It was not that the Ninja World's technological development had shocked him. As a member of the Otsutsuki, overlords of the universe, Isshiki had once seen many powerful technological civilizations among the stars in records. The Ninja World's level was clearly not enough to shock him.
What puzzled Isshiki was the strangeness of the Ninja World's technology tree. A portion of its science and technology was at a rather backward level, while some were developing normally.
Scientific weapons were extremely backward in the Ninja World. Compared with all kinds of technology in daily life, they could be said to be extremely backward.
Isshiki quickly figured out the key point. It was because the development of the Ninja World's technology had been influenced by external factors.
If the Ninja World had not been invaded by the Otsutsuki, if the Sage of Six Paths had not later created Ninshu, if ninja who mastered Chakra had not appeared, perhaps it would have walked a completely different path.
Not to mention rare existences among ninja like Kage-level powerhouses, just a Genin who had only mastered throwing hidden weapons, some simple Taijutsu, and the Three Basic Techniques was not someone an ordinary person could contend with.
With such a powerful and convenient existence, the development of firearms and other hot weapons would naturally be greatly affected. Since ninja were enough, why spend effort making so many things?
However, compared with the current Ninja World, it was hard to say which path would have been better. After all, that path only existed as a hypothesis. How could it be verified?
But to Isshiki, what did the current problems of the Ninja World have to do with him? He only wanted to find someone who could bear his Karma, then revive and plant the God Tree again.
The reason he thought about this problem was also because he wanted to see whether he could use it to come up with some good method to attract people into his organization, thereby completing his goal.
And Isshiki really did think of one.
Choosing between weapons and daily life? He wanted them all!
Did ninja not have Chakra? Then he would combine Chakra with technology, creating Chakra technology aimed at both ninja and ordinary people.
Chakra technology could allow ordinary people without ninja power to possess ninja methods through Chakra technology products, while also strengthening the power of ninja.
In terms of weapons, he could develop all kinds of weapons that released Ninjutsu, as well as ninja tools with special abilities. In other areas, he could also combine Chakra with the effects of certain other Ninjutsu to create all kinds of different products.
These things were not very difficult for Isshiki. They were only some basic technologies, deeply engraved in his memory.
They did not help him much and could not improve his strength. They would only waste time. But for the current Ninja World, they would absolutely be a great transformation.
He could use the slogan of Chakra technology changing the Ninja World and making the Ninja World better to recruit subordinates. There would definitely be quite a few talented people interested in coming to him.
Next, Isshiki would establish a core organization. The members of the core organization would definitely know about his plan to a certain extent, so they could better help him carry out the plan.
"What kind of name should I choose?" Isshiki began thinking about the organization's name.
An organization that wanted to recruit talent naturally could not be without its own name.
Although it sounded a little funny, the organization he had currently created truly had no name. Because it had been something he did casually, Isshiki had been too lazy to think about it.
But now that Isshiki wanted to seriously establish an organization, he naturally could not be so casual. It had to have an organizational name.
Suddenly, Isshiki seemed to think of something in the dark, and immediately decided on the organization's name.
"Kara Organization. Let's call it this."
The reason he called it Kara Organization was first because Isshiki felt he had woven a beautiful shell for this organization to attract talented people to join, and second because Isshiki himself liked it.
It was his own organization. Was he not free to call it whatever he wanted? Could it be that he still had to consult other people's opinions?
At this moment, Isshiki had already thought of how to develop his organization.
He called over Sugiyama Minato, the only cadre currently still in the Land of Rivers.
"I need more experimental subjects. Also, our organization must recruit more new people. They do not all need to be ninja. I need some people who understand science," Isshiki said calmly while shaking a goblet in one hand.
He wanted to use Chakra technology to infiltrate the entire Ninja World. It was not enough for him to simply bring out the technology.
He needed to cultivate some people into technical experts, then use that to penetrate the Ninja World.
As for more experimental subjects, this involved the current problem of Isshiki not having enough people under him.
Kinoshita Tsukasa had gone and never returned. He was most likely already dead. Darcy was acting undercover in the Light Ninja Village. At present, the only cadre he had available was Sugiyama Minato, which made Isshiki feel it was somewhat insufficient.
He did not plan to use the next batch of experimental subjects who arrived to create his own vessel either. Instead, his goal would be to create weapons like the Three Great Cadres.
Of course, if he encountered someone extremely suitable, Isshiki would still choose to cultivate them as his vessel.
After all, the purpose of him creating Kara Organization was to expand his targets and find a vessel that could allow him to revive. It was impossible for him to abandon that because of the organization's development. Would that not be contradictory?
Isshiki was able to detect the compatibility of experimental subjects. However, in the past, he had always carried the hope of succeeding in one shot, which was why he had not deliberately created those failures in his eyes.
To Isshiki, this could also be considered a kind of compromise.
From not using natives at the very beginning, to now using natives and preparing to recruit large numbers of people, even actively allowing some natives to possess Otsutsuki power.
"As long as the plan can succeed, everything is worth it." Isshiki gently took a sip of red wine.
For an Otsutsuki like him, what he pursued was not eternal life, nor was it ruling some number of planets, but continuously planting God Trees, harvesting God Tree fruits, and then consuming them until he became the supreme Otsutsuki God among the Otsutsuki Clan.
This was what Isshiki believed all Otsutsuki should pursue.
As long as he could harvest the God Tree fruit, even if he suffered a huge loss in the Ninja World this time, it would not matter. As an Otsutsuki, his journey was still very long.
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This year was probably Nagato's busiest year.
This time was different from before. He had chosen to step out of the shadows and walk under the sunlight, so there were many more things Nagato had to do.
Not only was the Light Ninja Village managed by him, he also had to pay attention to the situation in other places.
For example, the Yugakure side under Kakuzu and Musashi, and even Amegakure was something Nagato had to pay regular attention to in order to avoid problems.
Fortunately, Nagato's body was healthy now. If it had been his previous appearance, he probably would not have been able to endure work of such high intensity.
While working hard to complete his own plan, Nagato even considered recruiting people for Akatsuki. The person he was investigating was Darcy, who had previously displayed considerable strength.
Of course, it was impossible for Nagato to personally watch him every day. Most of the time, he had others watch him.
However, what puzzled Nagato a little was that this Darcy seemed to have something wrong with his brain. He was like someone with split personalities, always speaking from opposing positions. One sentence might be furiously cursing the Five Great Ninja Villages, while the next said that the Five Great Ninja Villages were actually not bad.
This made Nagato hesitate for a time, unable to decide whether he should recruit Darcy.
Sasori and Hiruko were also shining and contributing in the Light Ninja Village. Sasori had expanded the technology of Human Puppets to replacing the limbs of ninja.
Not only did it give some severely injured and disabled ninja the possibility of a second spring, it also made some ninja who were not satisfied with the strength of their bodies replace their limbs.
After all, puppet limbs could hide many hidden weapons and were harder than the flesh and blood of normal people. They had many advantages.
During battle, it would also be very difficult for enemies to imagine how their opponent's arm could suddenly produce two blades, a giant wheel, sleeve arrows, and the like.
Actually, originally, not many people went to Sasori for this surgery. Only some people who had been disabled in the first place went. But after some people who completed the surgery had obvious improvements in strength, many others were attracted.
For ninja, strength was very important. Replacing one hand with a puppet hand was better than losing one's life later.
Some people simply replaced all four limbs. Sasori immediately felt that this person was pleasing to the eye and probably capable of understanding his eternal art, so he immediately gave him a twenty percent discount.
If Nagasawa saw the Light Ninja Village in this state, perhaps he would complain that the Light Ninja Village was walking far too ahead of its time, actually already starting "the flesh is weak, mechanical ascension."
Hiruko was also unwilling to fall behind.
Aside from absorbing Kekkei Genkai, the Chimera Technique also had powerful biological modification functions.
For example, he could modify your arm into the arm of a certain Summoning Beast with enhanced power or special abilities. Other body parts worked too.
Hiruko could even help modify internal organs.
However, on Hiruko's side, there were not as many people modifying limbs as Sasori had. After all, this was already somewhat inhuman. With Human Puppets, if the workmanship was fine and it was covered up a little, one still looked human.
But if you had a thick arm covered in dense golden fur, it would look somewhat nonhuman no matter what.
However, Hiruko's business was actually no worse than Sasori's, and was even better, because quite a few ninja all said whether he could strengthen kidney function.
After all, even if the inside of the body became a little inhuman, no one could see it. Their image was preserved.
A large number of Ninjutsu and Secret Techniques, together with Sasori's Human Puppet modifications and Hiruko's biological modifications, caused the strength of the Light Ninja Village's ninja to rapidly swell.
This was precisely what Nagato wanted to see.
If they were to fight the Five Great Nations head-on, then they had to increase their side's strength as much as possible.
In order to increase the strength of those small-nation ninja, Nagato had also gone to great lengths.
However, for the moment, only the Light Ninja Village could do this. Yugakure could not.
Yugakure's increase in strength mainly relied on gathering ninja from previous ninja villages, as well as Ninjutsu and Secret Techniques similar to those on the Light Ninja Village side.
Because the Light Ninja Village side had Musashi, Biwa Juzo, and Kakuzu.
Although their strength was powerful, none of them could effectively and quickly increase the strength of a ninja village, unless Kakuzu was willing to offer up his Earth Grudge Fear. Perhaps that could give birth to several good fighters.
But this was obviously impossible. Kakuzu could not possibly hand over something that kept him alive.
After all, Sasori and Hiruko only used their technology to help with modifications. They were not offering up their Puppet Technique or Chimera Technique for free.
After waiting several months for things to be digested and for Yugakure to stabilize, Nagato quickly decided on a new target.
That was the Land of Frost, neighbor to the Land of Rice Fields.
The Land of Frost was like the previous Land of Rice Fields. It also did not have a ninja village, but the Land of Frost's economy was better than the Land of Rice Fields. It was much richer and stronger than the Land of Rice Fields.
The Land of Frost's location could be called an ideal location among the small countries of the Ninja World.
Because the Land of Frost only bordered the Land of Fire on one side, and even that was not much. Other than that, it was not close to any great nation.
This meant that when great nations fought, the probability of the Land of Frost being chosen as a battlefield was very low. In reality, this was also the case. It was precisely because it was rarely dragged into the wars of the great nations that the Land of Frost could develop prosperously.
Places like the Land of Rice Fields and the Land of Hot Water carried such risks. If Konoha and Kumogakure went to war, there was a high possibility they would fight in their countries.
Even more unlucky was the Land of Rain. It bordered three of the Five Great Nations at the same time and belonged to the type of place that armies had to contend over. It was often ruined by war.
Because it was rarely affected by war, and because to its east was the weak small country, the Land of Rice Fields, which had no ninja village, while to its west was the Land of Waterfalls, which had a ninja village but kept hidden, the Daimyo of the Land of Frost had not established a ninja village and instead focused entirely on developing himself.
This was one of the reasons Nagato had taken a liking to the Land of Frost. The Land of Frost was comparatively wealthy and had a lot of funds that could be used to develop a ninja village.
The current situation was no longer comparable to before. The Land of Rice Fields, which originally had no ninja village, had suddenly established a ninja village with two to three thousand ninja.
And this ninja village just happened to not be a peaceful village. Not long after its establishment, it had already displayed ambition and gone to the border of the Land of Hot Water to demonstrate.
Although in reality, it was a play Nagato had staged in order to allow the Land of Hot Water's ninja village to expand, Nagato did not believe that the Daimyo of the Land of Frost felt no threat.
The Daimyo of the Land of Frost was not the same kind of goods as the Daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields, who only knew pleasure and did not want to manage anything.
Nagato did not deliberately prepare some completely new routine. He was prepared to use the same old method from the Land of Rice Fields.
Threats, kidnapping, and every usable method would all be used to control ministers, and then they would be taken by the ministers to the Daimyo.
Although the routine was old, it was useful. It could rapidly complete Nagato's plan.
If he really carried out the kind of meticulous plan that considered all kinds of loopholes and subsequent effects, then his plan probably would not be able to proceed for a very long period of time.
Furthermore, Nagato was also afraid that if too much time passed, the strength of the Five Great Nations would also increase, which would instead make the plan even more difficult. It was better to strike them unprepared as early as possible.
As for the personnel for the Land of Frost, Nagato decided to send Kisame, Zetsu, and Konan together.
The Light Ninja Village had stabilized, and Konan could not play too large a role there.
Not only Konan, in the future, Nagato would also have the other members do this. After things stabilized, one Akatsuki member suppressing one small ninja village would be enough.
To oppose the Five Great Nations, one or two small ninja villages were not enough.