Chapter 331: The Ninja Who Dared to Swing His Sword at the Mizukage

In the ninja world, it is not easy to become the leader of the five major ninja villages.

It is even more difficult to select the right candidates to become the Five Kage.

First of all, this person must have enough strength to intimidate the villains in the village. Secondly, he must be recognized by the interest groups within the ninja village in order to secure his position as leader.

The last and most crucial thing is luck, which seems unimportant but is very important.

Scorpion, who had just become the Fifth Kazekage, is the best example. Scorpion was able to kill the Third Kazekage and confront the Tailed Beast head-on, proving that he had the ability to become a Kazekage.

Chiyo and Ebizo, the elders of Sunagakure, are his strongest supporters and can help him secure the position of Kazekage.

But if the order had not been given to let Sasori control the Sand Village, Sasori would still be just a wandering ninja.

Therefore, Bai Ye believes that in order to become one of the Five Kage, one must possess the three elements of strength, background, and luck. If one lacks the above three elements, one can only become the leader of a ninja village by launching a coup.

However, apart from his own Akatsuki organization, there has been no successful case of seizing power in the entire ninja world.

Whether it was the rebellion launched by Kinkaku and Ginkaku in the Hidden Cloud Village decades ago, or the recent coup launched by the Uchiha, they all failed without exception.

The reason is very simple. If they were really sure of victory, they would not launch a coup.

Only when you are lagging behind your competitors in all aspects will you take risks and make a last-ditch effort.

However, the Hidden Mist Village is an exception. Unlike other ninja villages that emphasize strength and background, the Hidden Mist Village implements the cruel law of the jungle to the end. Not only do they have to kill their companions and opponents during the graduation examination.

There was no such thing as an election when running for the Mizukage.

As long as one has the strongest power in the Hidden Mist Village, one can become the new Mizukage. This election method made the Mizukage the shortest-lived of the Five Kage, and indirectly led to serious internal friction in the Hidden Mist Village.

Although it possesses strength that is not inferior to Iwagakure and Kumogakure, it is unable to become an offshore balancer outside the mainland of the Ninja World. In the endless infighting, it has become a second-rate ninja village like the Sand Village.

After expressing his feelings about the past and present of the Hidden Mist Village, Bai Ye held his chin and thought about the suitable candidate for the Mizukage.

After the struggles of two generations of Uchiha Madara and Obito, there are not many ninjas in the Hidden Mist Village who can run for the position of Mizukage.

One of them is Mei Terumi, who has the support of the Master and has mastered double bloodline limits.

One of them is Mangetsu, who was born in the Mizukage family and obtained the dual swords, Ayagi Kizuna. The rest of the ninjas either do not have the ability and qualifications to become Mizukage, or have become rebels.

This does not mean that Kirigakure is losing talent. On the contrary, there are many Kage-level ninjas in Kirigakure.

The genius Kimimaro of the Kaguya clan and the Kirigakure Anbu Kisame will both have the strength of Kage in the future, but these people left the Kirigakure Village for various reasons and worked for other ninjas.

Apart from anything else, there just happens to be such a rebel ninja from the Hidden Mist Village in the Hidden Rain Village.

This rebel ninja was none other than Biwa Juuzou, who was dissatisfied with the tyranny of the Fourth Mizukage and escaped from the Hidden Mist Village. He was the original owner of the beheading sword.

……

After thinking of Biwa Juzo, Bai Ye did not waste time and immediately left the Akatsuki base.

Biwa Juzo is currently Nagato's subordinate. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be staying with Nagato at a construction site somewhere in the Rain Country, devoting his youth and sweat to building the Rain Country. Speaking of Nagato's experience of recruiting Biwa Juzo, Bai Ye can only say that Biwa Juzo and Nagato are really destined to be together.

During one of Nagato's missions, he and Biwa Juzo encountered a group of robbers at the same time. After they chose to join forces, Nagato invited Biwa Juzo.

Biwa Juzo, who didn't know where to go at the time, simply agreed to Nagato's request. It was not until he arrived at the Hidden Rain Village that Biwa Juzo realized something was wrong. In this way, he became a member of the Akatsuki organization in a daze.

Not long after, Bai Ye arrived at a large water conservancy project in Yuyin Village.

Nagato is using Shinra Tensei and Banko Tenbi to move bricks, while Biwa Juzo is using water jutsu to transfer the accumulated water to the ditch next door. The cooperation between the two sides is very skillful and tacit, just like old friends.

After patiently waiting for Nagato and Biwa Juzo to finish their work, Bai Ye came over to the two of them and greeted them with a smile:
"Nagato, long time no see, how have you been lately?"

Nagato nodded, then turned to look at Bai Ye, frowned and said, "I'm doing fine, but Bai Ye, what are you doing here? Don't you usually hate going to the construction site?"

"Just came to see you..."

Nagato showed a vigilant look, then sighed helplessly: "Usually it is Yahiko and I who go to find you. How could you take the initiative to find us? Tell me what's the matter?"

Seeing that Nagato saw through his trick, Bai Ye stopped pretending and pointed at Biwa Juzo and said:

"Nagato, I am going to the Hidden Mist Village recently and I am in need of a guide. I just happened to hear that you have a subordinate from the Hidden Mist Village, so I came to borrow him from you."

"Borrowing someone?"

Nagato's expression changed, and then he said: "Bai Ye, what are you doing going to the Hidden Mist Village this time? You are not going to attack the Mizukage, are you? Every time you go to other ninja villages, nothing good happens..."

After hearing this, Bai Ye didn't know how to refute Nagato.

He seems to have a trouble-making physique. Wherever he goes, there will be disaster. Every time he went to Konoha, the Nine-Tails Rebellion broke out in Konoha. Every time he went to the Sand Village, the village had a new Kazekage.

Seeing Bai Ye fall silent, Nagato knew that he had guessed right.

Bai Ye’s trip to the Hidden Mist Village this time must be a big move, maybe he will attack the Hidden Mist Village, but every action by Bai Ye is for the Akatsuki organization, and the ultimate beneficiaries are all members of the Akatsuki organization.

After sighing softly, Nagato said: "Bai Ye, Biwa Juzo is now in your hands. He is a good man, and his strength is not that strong. I hope your plan will not involve him."

Biwa Juzo is a good guy who is not very powerful... Bai Ye was speechless.

When did Biwa Juzo of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen be considered a good person? Moreover, Biwa Juzo was also quite powerful, possessing the strength of an elite jonin.

But compared with Nagato, it is nothing. Nagato and himself are the two strongest people in Akatsuki.

Nagato waved his hand and walked towards Biwa Juzo. Before Biwa Juzo followed Bai Ye to carry out the mission, he wanted to teach Biwa Juzo some things to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

Biwa Juzang was already confused and had no idea what was going on.

Having been with Nagato for many years, he had no idea who Scorpion was, but he still had a lot of impressions of Byakuya.

Although Bai Ye is only the director of a department in the Hidden Rain Village, he is very powerful. His status in the village is slightly higher than that of the leader Yahiko, and he is the person in power behind the scenes.

(End of this chapter)