Chapter 207: Yūhi Kurenai's Dream Space! (Second update, requesting subscriptions and monthly passes)
Increasing the number of ninjas and the success rate of their development clearly wouldn't be enough if we only relied on the ninjas of Konohagakure.
Unless everyone stopped doing missions and focused on making babies.
"We need to expand our recruitment pool."
Sarutobi Hiruzen said, "We should screen all the children in the village, and even provide subsidies to some families."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
As for subsidies, it was because some families couldn't afford the cost of training a ninja.
After all, even for ninjas who didn't specialize in Taijutsu, the cost of just food and drink was beyond the reach of ordinary families.
There were also expenses for tonics, medicinal baths, and so on.
From the age of six to graduation at twelve, the six years of expenses were no small sum.
Additionally, there were some families who were actually unwilling for their children to become ninjas.
This was because ninjas were people who walked on the edge of a blade; their income was high, but they risked their lives for it.
Sarutobi Shinya added, "And from the orphanages, we should also select as many as possible."
Sarutobi Asuma listened and shook his head, "That's too few!"
"How many people are there in Konoha in total, and how many are in the orphanages?"
"For the foreseeable future, it's like a drop in the bucket."
Tsunade let out a soft snort, "We need to take things one step at a time. Even if there are many people to train now, we might not be able to afford it!"
Sarutobi Asuma quickly chuckled, "Sister Tsunade is right, we need to take things one step at a time."
"However, we must also make long-term plans and preparations."
"We need to expand our recruitment pool, not just in terms of the number of recruits, but also geographically!"
"The village has a limited population, but the entire Land of Fire has a large enough population base!"
Everyone present was surprised to hear this.
Tsunade immediately said, "Asuma, that might provoke the Daimyo's sensitive nerves. It's probably not the right time yet!"
The others also nodded one after another.
Now was not a good time.
Konoha might become an enemy of the Ninja World and be attacked.
At that time, perhaps a Fourth Great Ninja War would occur first, and then Sarutobi Asuma would become a great villain, a major antagonist, and then Uchiha Madara and the others might take advantage of the situation.
Namikaze Minato quickly advised, "Asuma, let's take things one step at a time. We can talk about what you mentioned after we've dealt with Uchiha Madara and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya."
Seeing everyone's tense expressions, Sarutobi Asuma chuckled, "Don't worry, I have the patience for it."
"Besides, the Land of Fire won't be short of orphans, will it? Or the poor?"
"We can help the Daimyo deal with these people."
"Furthermore, there are hundreds of thousands of natives on the South Sage Continent, which is also a massive base."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Namikaze Minato pondered for a moment and said, "Then we'll divide this into several steps."
"First, we'll start with the village, then the orphans and some poor people from the Land of Fire."
"As for the South Sage Continent, getting those natives to recognize us probably won't be that simple."
Sarutobi Asuma nodded, "Conquering them is simple."
"Educating them is indeed not simple. The village should prepare suitable teachers first!"
"Also, we can send a batch of medical ninjas over first."
"As for the education issue, I'll go there and try first."
When dealing with the natives, he'd have to play some tricks.
However, for ordinary people, he, Sarutobi Asuma, could indeed be considered on par with a Sage or a god!
With the general direction of affairs decided, everyone dispersed.
What followed were specific measures to be carried out step by step.
However, the ones who were most concerned were Namikaze Minato, the Fourth Hokage, and Sarutobi Shinya, the head elder of the Sarutobi Clan.
Considering his sister-in-law was pregnant, Sarutobi Asuma asked Yūhi Kurenai to specifically assist him in this matter on his behalf.
Thus, the pioneering work began to spread on a small scale within Konoha.
As the plan progressed, the atmosphere in Konoha changed once again, becoming even more prosperous and vibrant.
Even the Hyuga Clan, whose atmosphere had seemed rather somber, "came alive."
Time flew by, and another month passed.
On Summoning Island's Chuan Terrace, Honoka and the others began their move to the South Sage Continent.
For this, Sarutobi Asuma planted a Sage Tree on Summoning Island and established a teleportation altar on the spot.
After much thought, Sarutobi Asuma felt that this place couldn't be abandoned.
For the purity of the Sage Domain and for more convenient teleportation, a much larger indoor teleportation altar was built near the Hokage's office building.
It not only allowed for the transmission of abilities through the Sage Tree's roots but also enabled ninjas to input Chakra for large-scale long-distance teleportation.
And with this, Konoha's development seemed to have entered another lane.
Time flowed, and only the deep starry sky seemed to remain unchanged.
South Sage Continent.
Above a village.
Sarutobi Asuma, along with Yūhi Kurenai, Shizune, and Kurenai's disciple, the somewhat weak-looking Kurama Yakumo, hovered in mid-air.
Under the night sky, the village was peaceful, with only the occasional barking of guard dogs.
At this time, most of the inhabitants of this native village had already fallen asleep.
Sarutobi Asuma said, "Kurenai, try your new technique!"
"Don't worry, with me here, they won't get hurt."
"Moreover, to compensate them, you can help them solve the problems they urgently need to address."
Yūhi Kurenai nodded and said, "I'll be very careful."
"And this time, I won't create multiple dreamscapes. It should be fine."
Previously, she had used this technique against some bandit ninjas controlling mountain villages in the Land of Rivers. Because she used multiple dreamscapes, three of the bandits died in the second dreamscape without ever waking up.
Clearly, such multiple dreamscapes carried significant danger.
However, she had no intention of using multiple dreamscapes on these native villagers now.
"I'm starting. Yakumo, you'll join us in the dreamscape later."
Yūhi Kurenai said.
Kurama Yakumo immediately nodded, "Yes, Teacher!"
Yūhi Kurenai said no more and quickly formed three hand seals.
Sage Art - Genjutsu - Dream Space!
Instantly, the power of Sage Art enveloped the entire village, and a dreamscape connected everyone in the village, from men and women to the elderly, including infants, and even the livestock.
Then, a dreamscape encompassing the entire village appeared.
Sarutobi Asuma, Shizune, and Kurama Yakumo also appeared in the dreamscape through their Chakra link with Yūhi Kurenai.
At this moment, the dreamscape was at the break of dawn.
Standing in the air, Shizune clearly felt the difference, "The temperature is higher than at night. If I didn't know this was a dreamscape, I wouldn't be able to tell at first glance."
"Teacher's Genjutsu has reached the point where it can manipulate the five senses," Kurama Yakumo commented.
Awakening her Kekkei Genkai, she had a deeper understanding than Shizune.
She could clearly feel that her five senses had changed after entering this dreamscape.
Although she easily saw through it, it was already incredibly astonishing.
Among the Kurama Clan, besides herself after awakening her Kekkei Genkai, no one else had achieved such mastery in Genjutsu.
"Not quite, Yakumo!"
Yūhi Kurenai laughed, "Teacher doesn't have the ability to manipulate the five senses, but rather it's the deception of Genjutsu, combined with influencing people's minds and the secretion of some bodily hormones, thereby affecting the five senses."
"Of course, the villagers below will feel it more realistically than us, because this dreamscape wasn't created by Teacher, but rather by projecting the subconscious of everyone in the village!"
Sarutobi Asuma and the others were "outsiders" who entered through Chakra, so they clearly knew they were in a dreamscape.
However, the villagers below, who were starting to wake up, get out of bed, and prepare for the day's labor, were completely unaware.
Touch, hearing, smell, taste, sight – all completely real.
The barking of dogs, the sound of the wind, the crying of babies.
The coughing of the elderly.
Footsteps.
And the fragrance of flowers, the stench of manure...
This dreamscape was full of life!
Soon, the strong young men of the village went out to work.
But before long, panicked shouts could be heard from afar, and everyone in the village gathered at the village entrance.
Sarutobi Asuma and the others looked on curiously.
Since Yūhi Kurenai hadn't artificially woven this dreamscape, everything was a projection of the subconscious.
Therefore, even Yūhi Kurenai, as the caster, didn't know what would happen next.
Sarutobi Asuma and the other two, also invisible in the air, arrived above the village.
It turned out that the young and strong villagers who had gone out to work were returning in a panic because that group of detestable wild boars had reappeared in their fields.
"We must eliminate these wild boars, or our harvest this year will be only 30% of previous years, or even less!"
"Yes, we must eliminate them!"
"These damn bastards!"
...
The villagers roared in anger.
The village chief immediately gave the order, and all the village's young and strong men, along with the robust women, grabbed various tools as weapons and headed straight for the fields in a massive wave.
Only the elderly remained in the village to look after the children.
Sarutobi Asuma and the other two immediately followed.
As expected, in the farmland below the mountain, a group of wild boars with fangs were happily foraging.
"It seems this is the urgent problem this village needs to solve," Yūhi Kurenai said with a smile.
However, wild boars were not easy to deal with, let alone a herd of them.
And the weapons of these villagers were extremely primitive.
Chopping axes, spears, scythes, bows and arrows, and fishing nets.
Dozens of villagers working together might be able to deal with this group of wild boars, but they would definitely suffer heavy losses themselves.
As expected.
The wild boars charged, trampling the villagers. Even the fishing nets couldn't hold them for long.
"Kurenai, Shizune, it's your turn!" Sarutobi Asuma said with a smile.
Yūhi Kurenai and Shizune nodded in unison, then dispelled their invisibility and descended from the sky.
Rumble!
The ground cracked, and dirt flew.
With one kick each, Yūhi Kurenai and Shizune stomped the heads of two large wild boars charging at the villagers into the dirt, blood spraying everywhere.
Both of them had used Monster Strength; their power was so immense that the boars' heads couldn't withstand it at all.
Then, the two of them worked together, one punch per boar, and quickly subdued the entire herd.
Kurama Yakumo, watching from the air, couldn't help but exclaim, "Amazing!"
Envy filled her eyes.
Her body was too weak to achieve such a feat.
Meanwhile, the villagers were dumbfounded.
Who were these two people, dressed so differently from them?
Were they gods descended from the heavens?
They seemed to have fallen from the sky just now!
So powerful!
They took down a fierce wild boar with just one punch!
This was something no ordinary person could do, right?
Even those powerful hunters couldn't do this!
The villagers stood frozen, a tempest raging within their hearts.
After Yūhi Kurenai and Shizune dealt with the wild boars, the villagers finally snapped out of their daze. Then, they looked at the two women with timidity, even fear.
Yūhi Kurenai and Shizune slowly turned around. Their slender figures, fair skin, and beautiful faces once again shocked the villagers.
After a while, the village chief stepped forward, his emotions incredibly complex, and asked, "You two are..."
Yūhi Kurenai replied, "We are Sages from Konoha's Sage Domain!"
Konoha's Sage Domain?
Sages?
The village chief and the villagers had never heard of such a thing.
Shizune said, "We come from a very distant place. Seeing that you were in trouble, we descended to help you."
As she spoke, she stepped forward to treat a wounded villager.
Yūhi Kurenai was the same.
Soon, all the injured villagers had recovered.
Yūhi Kurenai and Shizune exchanged a smile, then ascended into the air.
The villagers stared blankly, then with a rustling sound, all knelt down in worship.
Sorry, I rewrote this chapter after deleting two thousand characters at the beginning, so it's late.
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