Chapter 491: Journey To The Land Of Iron

Another point worth mentioning was that Acala Vidyaraja was also the wheel of command manifestation of Mahavairocana, his wrathful aspect.

From this alone, one could already glimpse Shinichi's ambition.

His Wood Style Sage Jutsu Dharma body was called Vajra Prajna, named after Mahavairocana's tranquil manifestation. In contrast, his Mangekyō Sharingan Susanoo would be called Acala Vidyaraja, named after Mahavairocana's wrathful manifestation.

Tranquility and wrath, two sides of the same whole.

Just as only the union of Dark and Light and the myriad phenomena could give rise to the Rinnegan, only by uniting wrath and tranquility could one attain the self-nature wheel body, Mahavairocana.

The Buddha who represents the truth of the Dharma and the essence of the universe, formless and invisible, yet present everywhere.

And Shinichi, who stood above all of his clones and coordinated everything as the one true original body, was naturally the World-Honored One.

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Genjo traveled at astonishing speed, and after only a few hours, he returned to Konoha at dawn.

After meeting with the third Hokage at daybreak, another day passed, leaving only eight days until the conference in the Land of Iron.

Early that morning, Konoha's delegation officially set out.

The delegation was headed by Shinichi as chief representative, with Minato Namikaze serving as deputy representative.

Genjo accompanied them, along with civilian ninja responsible for advisory and negotiation duties and elite guards, for a total of twenty-five people, as they embarked on the journey to the Land of Iron.

Although the Land of Iron lay far from Konoha, at their pace they would arrive in approximately three days.

However, since the world was still in a state of war, their departure time was kept strictly confidential for safety reasons, and their exact route was likewise classified.

Even the Land of Iron did not know the precise day Konoha's delegation would arrive.

Only when they were close to reaching their destination would Konoha contact the Land of Iron through the intelligence network the two sides had arranged beforehand.

At that point, the Land of Iron would dispatch personnel who had already been waiting in the designated area to receive them and assume responsibility for the Konoha delegation's security after they entered its borders.

Konoha was not the only one taking such precautions, but the delegations from the other Four Great Ninja Villages were following much the same approach.

Compared to the cautious and secretive conduct of the Five Great Ninja Villages, however, the official delegations of the Five Great Shinobi Countries were far more open. They had begun arriving in the Land of Iron one after another several days earlier, and officials from each nation had already started preliminary contacts, probing one another's bottom lines and exchanging intelligence.

Afterward, before the conference officially began, they would rendezvous with the delegations from their respective ninja villages and report everything discussed over the past few days.

Although military affairs and warfare had always fallen under the authority of the ninja villages and the Kage, free from interference by the nations or the Daimyō, the Daimyō were still nominally the rulers of their respective countries and thus the Kage's superiors. In a conference involving changes to the entire structure of the Shinobi World, they naturally had to symbolically dispatch official representatives to attend.

Furthermore, treaty provisions such as prohibitions against attacking civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure fell under the jurisdiction of the nations.

On these matters, the civilian officials of every country also needed to communicate with one another and reach a consensus acceptable to all parties.

Besides the ninja village and official representatives of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, the official representatives and ninja village representatives of the smaller countries throughout the Shinobi World also began making their way to the Land of Iron one after another.

After all, Konoha's original appeal had been an invitation for every nation and every ninja village in the Shinobi World to participate together and witness this conference.

Although the other four great nations and ninja villages had accepted the invitation reluctantly, they had nevertheless declared that they would attend.

Reluctant or not, they had still taken a public stance.

That meant the conference had, in name, already become a grand gathering jointly organized by Konoha together with the Five Great Shinobi Countries and the Five Great Ninja Villages.

If you failed to send representatives, it would be tantamount to showing disrespect to all of the Five Great Shinobi Countries and the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Especially not giving face to the Land of Fire, the strongest nation of the present era, and Konoha, the strongest ninja village.

Moreover, the outcome discussed at this conference would inevitably affect the future direction of the entire Shinobi World's structure.

Faced with such a major transformation, these small nations and small ninja villages had to participate as soon as possible. Even if they could only attend as observers, they at least needed to know what exactly was happening.

Thus, every small nation and small ninja village in the Shinobi World that was able to come had come. Even the Land of Snow in the far north had its Daimyō send his younger brother, Kazahana Doto, to attend.

Even the Land of Demons, a nation with no ninjas, which never interfered in outside affairs and had maintained a detached stance within the Shinobi World since ancient times, responded to the conference invitation for the first time in history and chose to send a delegation.

This greatly surprised the Land of Iron, the conference organizer.

What surprised them even more, to the point that it prompted General Mifune himself to inquire into the matter, came afterward.

Because the leader of the Land of Demons delegation was none other than the nation's Daimyō and Saiō, shrine maiden Miroku, who held both religious and political authority in one person!

By mid-December, the Land of Fire was still lingering in autumn, with early winter only just arriving, while the Land of Iron, located in the northwestern part of the continent, was already covered in silver. Vast snowfall blanketed the mountains and plains, leaving the world white as far as the eye could see, with a biting chill that pierced to the bone.

After three days of travel, the Konoha group crossed the border of the Land of Fire and finally stepped onto the soil of the Land of Iron.

According to the plan, they had intended to contact the Land of Iron's reception personnel at the next town, Foji Town, the very place where Isshin had first set foot in the Land of Iron years ago, and then proceed to the capital of the Land of Iron.

Unexpectedly, before that could happen, they first encountered a group of unexpected people in a snow-swept valley.

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