[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut":3,"chapter-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut-this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-181":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Mizukage Is Strong, but Far Too Cautious",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2194492,3774,"Chapter 181","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-181",181,"\u003Cp>Watching Tsunade leave, Ryosuke did not choose to stop her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just sipped the light tea that Tsunade had personally served just now, his eyes full of strange ripples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who do not plan for the whole situation cannot plan for a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who do not plan for all ages cannot plan for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For many years, the chaos in the ninja world has never stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if you study it carefully, you will find that there is a point that cannot be bypassed no matter what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is—Konoha of the Land of Fire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, this is also an unavoidable thing; after all, the world Ryosuke is in is called \"Naruto,\" and throughout the timeline of the entire world, there must be one or two Konoha characters dominating the changes in the entire ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even all the crises in the entire ninja world, summarized, are actually crises that spread from within Konoha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost all the top-tier villains in Naruto, one by one, have intricate connections with Konoha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ryosuke Mizunuki wants to realize the ambition in his heart and be completely worry-free; Konoha is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how it develops in the future, Konoha's unrivaled combat power and scale in the ninja world are there, which is something Ryosuke Mizunuki cannot ignore.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What's more, there is something that Ryosuke must obtain through Konoha's hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing is also something Ryosuke Mizunuki has always been longing for but unable to reach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is—Sage Art!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in fact, Ryosuke's urgent desire to obtain Sage Art is actually to find a path toward becoming stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he has mastered countless trump cards, strong as Ryosuke Mizunuki is, he clearly understands one truth in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is: his strength has reached a bottleneck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bottleneck is by no means something that can be solved by the accumulation of \"quantity,\" but a problem of \"quality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In layman's terms, no matter what kind of ninjutsu Ryosuke continues to develop, even if he plays with Ice Release until it blooms, or even develops other Kekkei Genkai, it will be of no avail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The improvement of \"quality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To put it bluntly, it is a problem of the level of power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, Ryosuke Mizunuki's current strength has reached the pinnacle of the ninja world, which is the limit of a \"ninja.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To go further, he can only find ways to advance toward the level of a \"sage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this step is a chasm for everyone in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Ryosuke's heart, he has divided the combat power of the ninja world into several levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding low-end combat power, Ryosuke's cognition is no different from the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is nothing more than the three levels of Jonin, Chunin, and Genin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the so-called Special Jonin or Elite Jonin, they have actually not exceeded the level of Jonin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there is no need for separate grading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going further up, in the concept of the ninja world, people will commonly call the strong at this level \"Kage-level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from here on, Ryosuke has his own set of standards in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kage-level\" still has strong and weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the weakest, Ryosuke calls them \"Quasi-Kage,\" that is: although they have broken through the level of Jonin and can deal with ordinary Jonin like cutting vegetables and melons, they are still unable to cope when facing real Kage-level powerhouses, and can only barely fight them for a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Ryosuke's heart, the current Tsunade and the current Kisame Hoshigaki are at this level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And above Quasi-Kage is the real \"Kage-level\"; the strength of this level is enough to reach the level symbolized by the Five Kage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this level can almost encompass the vast majority of Kage-level powerhouses, such as: the Sannin in their prime, most of the Kage in the five great ninja villages, and even most of the people in the Akatsuki organization can be summarized at this level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninjas at this level are already enough to be called the strongest batch of people in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To summarize the strength of this level, it is: they can crush ordinary ninjas, but they still cannot ignore them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And going further up is the ceiling of the current combat power of the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although these people may also bear the title of \"Kage-level,\" their real strength has long surpassed ordinary Kage-level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even one of them is enough to fight against a ninja village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level Ryosuke calls \"Ninja World Pinnacle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, Third Raikage A, Hanzo of the Salamander, Third Tsuchikage Onoki, Nagato Uzumaki in his prime, Ryosuke Mizunuki himself...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They can all be attributed to the existence of this level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For them, ordinary numbers have lost their meaning; this is the true pinnacle of combat power in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And above the Ninja World Pinnacle, they are already rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ryosuke calls them \"Break-the-Rules Level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are no more than four people in the entire history of the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are: Tobirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, Naruto in the period of Perfect Jinchuriki plus mature Sage Mode, and Sasuke in the period of single Rinnegan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, these four people can also be directly summarized as two people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is the two sons of Hagoromo Otsutsuki—Asura and Indra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, at this level, they can no longer be called humans; it is not an exaggeration to say they are \"half-human, half-sage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reaching this level, even if all the combat power of the ninja world is added together, they can be easily swept away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the final level is the legendary Six Paths level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six Paths Obito, Six Paths Madara, Hamura Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki, Kaguya Hime...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The existence of the Six Paths level is one word—God!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the Six Paths level, everything is unimportant; they can suppress the existence of the Break-the-Rules level with one hand at will, and destroy the entire ninja world with a wave of their hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note, destroy the entire ninja world. It has a qualitative difference from being able to sweep all the combat power of the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is Ryosuke's division of strength in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this division of strength is just Ryosuke's own idea and does not represent the absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are also some special existences that can use special methods to win against the strong with the weak and obtain a temporary increase in combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, Jiraiya, who is only an ordinary Kage-level powerhouse, can also reach the combat power of the Ninja World Pinnacle for a short time after opening Sage Mode and merging with the two toads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In general, it is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quasi-Kage can fight against Kage-level powerhouses for a short time and can easily deal with Jonin-level ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kage-level can crush Jonin, but cannot ignore Jonin; as long as the number is sufficient, ordinary ninjas can also exhaust Kage-level powerhouses to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninja World Pinnacle can fight against a village with the power of one person, ignoring the disadvantage of numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Wang Qian's)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninja World Break-the-Rules can suppress the ninja world alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six Paths can easily destroy the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, when the strength reaches the Ninja World Pinnacle, the difficulty of wanting to continue moving forward can no longer be solved by \"talent\" and \"hard work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this step is equivalent to transforming from a human to a \"half-human, half-sage\"; even a genius like Tobirama Senju, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To break through this bottleneck, the only way Ryosuke Mizunuki can think of is a \"cheat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of method to achieve a qualitative change, Ryosuke can currently only think of two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either learn Sage Art, or go dig up a pair of Eternal Mangekyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from this, there is no other way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to obtaining the Eternal Mangekyou, learning Sage Art is much more reliable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are only two pairs of true Eternal Mangekyou in the entire ninja world; one pair is completely hopeless, and the other pair will not appear for another few decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically, this path has been completely locked for Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>",1356,"2026-06-17T05:01:41.164Z","2026-06-17T05:05:37.377Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a11131250ff95094a4c660929270f27a8c3839a5b4149a71a6dedf44aecf5825","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-182","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-180",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]