At this, the other four were speechless.
Even the weakest are stronger than the leader of the Akatsuki Organization—what kind of monster is this?
Seeing their reaction, Asana's lips curved slightly. These guys had been intimidated by her. Now was the time to bring out the bracelets.
"Ahem! But you don't need to despair. We still have a way to improve our strength," Asana cleared her throat and said.
"A way to improve strength? What is it?" C asked.
"This!" Asana pulled out a bracelet.
"This bracelet is a key to an alternate dimension that our Hokage-sama found.
Possessing this bracelet allows your spiritual body to enter an alternate dimension where time flow is relatively static. You can cultivate to your heart's content before your Chakra runs out. Often, after cultivating for several days inside the bracelet's space, only an hour passes in the outside world.
Training in this space can greatly accelerate the progress of Ninjutsu and Taijutsu cultivation.
The only drawback is that entering the space consumes a large amount of Chakra; roughly, after one hour of external time, your Chakra will be drained by the space, and prolonged cultivation also places a heavy burden.
Therefore, Hokage-sama's suggestion is to only use the space for one hour of cultivation per day."
"Is this bracelet really that miraculous?" Chiyo asked after picking up the bracelet.
"If you don't believe me, you can try it."
Chiyo hesitated for a moment before putting on the bracelet.
The others all sat down, waiting for Chiyo's experience.
After Chiyo entered the space, everyone could clearly perceive her Chakra gradually depleting.
About an hour later, Chiyo's Chakra was exhausted, and she withdrew from the space.
Chiyo sensed that her Chakra was drained and immediately took a soldier pill.
After a while, Chiyo couldn't help but exclaim: "This is truly amazing! I cultivated for about 5 days in the space, yet only an hour passed outside."
"Is it really that powerful?"
"I want to try it too."
"Me too!"
Asana smiled slightly and gave each of them a bracelet.
An hour later, the other three also experienced the magic of the space.
"Elder Asana, how many of these bracelets does Konoha have?" Chiyo asked.
"Currently, there are only 200. Our Village's Ninja are also using these bracelets for cultivation, so we don't have many spare ones."
"Our Sunagakure wants all 200 of these bracelets," Chiyo said.
"You're dreaming! Elder Asana, our Kumogakure would like to purchase these bracelets. What do you think?"
"Our Kirigakure wants them too," Mei Terumī quickly said.
"And our Iwagakure," Kurotsuchi said, not to be outdone.
"Everyone, please calm down. There are only 200 bracelets for now, but more will be produced later.
According to Hokage-sama's intention, these 200 bracelets will be directly given to you, 50 for each Ninja Village. Of course, any subsequent requests will require payment.
However, the manufacturing cost of the bracelets is not high, so purchasing them won't cost much. You can rest assured about that."
After hearing Asana's words, the other four understood.
The Hokage couldn't possibly be so kind as to give them bracelets for free.
The current gift was just to let their Village members experience the benefits of the bracelets, and then they would pay to buy more.
"Elder Asana, if we want to order more bracelets later, do we have to come to Konoha?" Kurotsuchi asked.
"Of course not. Konoha will send merchants to various countries and Villages to sell the bracelets. We hope everyone can help us protect these merchants."
The four suddenly realized Konoha's true intention.
Konoha wanted to openly send its people to various Ninja Villages and countries.
The four hesitated for a moment but did not refuse.
On one hand, they needed the bracelets for cultivation.
On the other hand, the current situation in the Ninja World was chaotic, with the Akatsuki Organization internally and the invading Ōtsutsuki Clan externally. Konoha, as the strongest Village, had to step in to help deal with these threats.
If they were unwilling to help, it could spell big trouble for the other Ninja Villages.
Therefore, allowing Konoha's merchants to establish themselves also served as a form of assurance for the major Ninja Villages.
Konoha might not care about the people of the major Ninja Villages, but they couldn't possibly ignore their own merchants, right?
Thinking this, the people from the four Ninja Villages all agreed.
After the negotiations, Asana arranged accommodation for the four and then returned to the Hokage Office.
Asana told Uchiha En everything about her conversation with them.
Uchiha En smiled after listening and said: "Well done. In this situation, we are their only reliance. Now, we just need to slowly exert our influence and let the people of these four Ninja Villages gradually unite around us."
"Should I tell the Akatsuki Organization in advance to intensify their harassment of the various Ninja Villages?"
"No need. Let nature take its course. Too much action would seem too deliberate."
The next day, Chiyo, C, Mei Terumī, and Kurotsuchi each returned to their respective Villages with 50 bracelets.
Upon returning to their Villages, they informed their respective Kage about the effects of the bracelets.
The Kage of each Village organized a group of people to try them out, and all reached the same conclusion.
After confirming that the bracelets were not dangerous, the Kage of each Village tried them themselves.
Then, they all, without prior consultation, began to massively promote the bracelets.
At the same time, Konoha also began dispatching its merchants to various Ninja Villages.
Most of these merchants were retired Anbu Ninja, and many were former Root Ninja.
With them, Uchiha En could more easily unite the various Ninja Villages.
Thus, the grand curtain for Uchiha En's unification of the Ninja World officially rose.
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