Chapter 642

Watching the Konoha ninja directly hypnotized, Aizen smiled again; in his view, people of this level weren't worth a thing—if all of Konoha consisted of such individuals, he could handle them all alone.

Watching the lively Konoha, Aizen still felt uncomfortable; accustomed to solitude, his first instinct even when facing such a vibrant village was to leave.

If not for Lin Cheng's control, Aizen would have already left Konoha under his own puppet will.

Quietly entering Konoha, Aizen's arrival seemed to arouse no suspicion from anyone.

Looking at Konoha's current decorations, Lin Cheng struggled to determine which era it was, since for Konoha, only the Boruto era and the founding period were easily identifiable.

Thus, between the Second and Sixth Hokage, even Lin Cheng couldn't identify the era by Konoha's appearance.

But that didn't mean Lin Cheng had no way to tell—he could determine the current era simply by seeing the Hokage Monument.

Along the way, Aizen continuously used Mirror Water Moon to alter how others perceived his attire; in truth, for Lin Cheng, the Shinigami's Shihakushō remained a troublesome garment for Aizen.

If not for the necessity of wearing Shihakushō, Lin Cheng would have preferred Aizen to wear ordinary clothes for reconnaissance.

Though unaware of Konoha's exact era, from the smiles on the villagers' faces, Lin Cheng could tell it was at least after the Third Hokage's time.

This era, while familiar to Lin Cheng, was also the most troublesome—one of the most turbulent periods in the Naruto World.

Akatsuki, Uchiha Obito, and others schemed in the shadows; merely Akatsuki's members were mostly S-rank puppets in Lin Cheng's system.

Though the power gap among S-ranks was immense, for Lin Cheng, this might be bad news.

After all, such people could interfere with his plans, and emotional value remained more important to him.

Thus, Lin Cheng needed to identify which strong individuals existed in this era to execute his plan.

Though after the Hueco Mundo incident, Lin Cheng had gained tens of billions of emotional value, to him, it was still too little.

An S-rank individual required at least one hundred million emotional value; in Lin Cheng's view, the Otsutsuki clan's monsters demanded at least SS-rank puppets to defeat.

Even Aizen, one of the strongest among S-ranks, was inadequate before SS-rank beings.

Therefore, if Lin Cheng wanted to trigger a true major event, SS-rank beings must appear—otherwise, given Naruto World's bizarre combat scaling, mere S-ranks were already insufficient.

Amid the crowd, Aizen gradually reached the base of the Hokage Monument; though the monument's base housed the Hokage's office, for Aizen, unless someone was overwhelmingly powerful, even noticing his presence was beyond them.

Seeing the six statues on the Hokage Monument—one already destroyed—Lin Cheng's lips twitched slightly; he didn't need to think long to know the current era.

Only before the Fourth Shinobi World War did the Hokage Monument display a destroyed statue.

That was when Danzo had failed to seize the Hokage position and had planned to carve his own statue onto the monument.

But since Danzo was ultimately killed by Uchiha Sasuke, Konoha eventually abandoned repairing his statue.

Though unaware of when Danzo's statue was finally removed, Lin Cheng understood the trouble of this era.

At this time, the Naruto World's strongest warriors would all emerge, and the Otsutsuki clan's aberrations would appear one by one.

Each of them surpassed Aizen's power; for Lin Cheng, the situation was far from favorable.

Yet upon seeing this era, a smile appeared on Lin Cheng's face.