[{"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-233":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},2194544,3774,"Chapter 233: , the","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-233",233,"\u003Cp>Land of Lightning, Hidden Cloud Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Today was the tenth day since Momochi Zabuza arrived at the Hidden Cloud Village after receiving the diplomatic mission arranged by Mizunuki Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Looking at the unique mountain and cloud scenery of the Hidden Cloud Village outside the window, a hint of profundity flashed in Momochi Zabuza's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unlike the other four major ninja villages built on plains, the Land of Lightning is mostly mountainous, which makes the entire Hidden Cloud Village built on the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The highest point of the village is the core institution of the Hidden Cloud—the Raikage Building.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Most people in the Hidden Cloud Village have dark skin, which is also caused by exposure to strong ultraviolet rays in high-altitude mountainous areas all year round.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The high altitude of the Hidden Cloud also made Momochi Zabuza, who came from an island nation, very unaccustomed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hoo...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Momochi Zabuza took a deep breath, the gaze in his eyes a bit profound.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After arriving at the Hidden Cloud, he visited the Third Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village—Ai—at the first opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hidden Cloud has a long-standing custom, which is that every Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village is called \"Ai\"; whenever the previous Raikage dies, the next Raikage automatically inherits the title \"Ai.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Like the Hidden Rock and the Hidden Sand, this Third Raikage was also the strongest Raikage in the history of the Hidden Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And when the Third Raikage read the letter handed over by Momochi Zabuza, he chose to reject Mizunuki Ryosuke's proposal in the letter almost without any hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To this, although Momochi Zabuza was shocked in his heart at the time, he soon calmed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because before coming here, Mizunuki Ryosuke had instructed him that things would take a turn for the better later.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After being rejected by the Third Raikage, Momochi Zabuza did not leave, but stayed in the Hidden Cloud as an envoy of the Hidden Mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This morning, the news that the Rain ninjas had launched an attack on the Hidden Rock reached the Hidden Cloud, and it soon became a big deal, even Momochi Zabuza, who was an envoy of the Hidden Mist, learned of this news.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His intuition told him that the opportunity he had been waiting for was coming soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Momochi Zabuza took another deep breath, quietly comforting himself in his heart not to be anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Raikage Building, the Third Raikage looked at the intelligence placed on the table noncommittally.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, the state of this strongest Raikage seemed to be a bit bad; white gauze wrapped around his chest, and a trace of bright red blood even faintly seeped through the pure white gauze.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It is hard to imagine that the Third Raikage, whose body was comparable to steel with the support of the \"strongest defense\" Lightning Armor, would suffer such injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Third Raikage Ai did not look at the intelligence at hand, but seemed to be thinking of something else, his face very ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In his view, whoever the Rain ninjas fought with had nothing to do with the Hidden Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this time, the Third Raikage had no intention of taking the initiative to lead the Hidden Cloud to get involved in the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And this was obviously extremely inconsistent with the Hidden Cloud Village's martial ideology of respecting strength and always taking expansion as the priority.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But in fact, the Hidden Cloud Village's unusual behavior had a reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The main reason was that the Hidden Cloud had consumed a large amount of combat power at this moment, causing the entire village's combat power to fall into unprecedented weakness. Even for this reason, even the Third Raikage himself had not yet recovered from his injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Such a loss was no less than the consumption of launching a war against other countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, if one had to say, it was true that the Hidden Cloud had fought a war, but the object of this war was not humans, but a Tailed Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>—The Eight-Tails, Gyuki! The absolute powerhouse among Tailed Beasts, second only to the Nine-Tails!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That's right, the Hidden Cloud had conducted an unprecedented Tailed Beast experiment not long ago, with the goal of developing a perfect Jinchuriki.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But who would have thought that the experiment would eventually fail, causing the Tailed Beast to go on a rampage.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In order to subdue the Eight-Tails, a large number of Cloud ninjas died on the spot, and even the Third Raikage himself suffered not-so-light injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the battle, the Eight-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb broke the Third Raikage's absolute defense and pierced through the Third Raikage's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, the Third Raikage's \"strongest spear\" also cut off one of the Eight-Tails' horns.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After exhausting all his efforts to reseal the Eight-Tails, the Hidden Cloud also fell into a state of weak combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And this was the main reason why the Third Raikage had not yet recovered from his injuries and the Hidden Cloud had no intention of getting involved in the ninja world war.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, with the Hidden Cloud's combative style, it would be impossible to be so low-key at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Third Raikage had no interest in understanding the turmoil in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At present, the Hidden Cloud's primary task was not to plan how to expand, but to recuperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even if the ninja world became a mess, the Third Raikage did not think that anyone could threaten the Hidden Cloud now.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was not the Third Raikage being arrogant, but from the perspective of the Hidden Cloud, the situation was indeed so.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although the geographical location of the Land of Lightning was not as superior as that of the Land of Water, it was much better than that of the Land of Wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>First of all, the Great Nations that the Rain ninjas were counterattacking were the Land of Wind, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Fire, and it had nothing to do with the Land of Lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Secondly, none of the Land of Lightning's current neighbors could launch a war against the Land of Lightning at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hidden Sand in the Land of Wind, thousands of miles away, had no space or any possibility of invading the Land of Lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The three neighbors of the Hidden Cloud in the Land of Lightning were the Hidden Mist in the Land of Water across the sea, the Hidden Rock in the Land of Earth to the north, and the Hidden Leaf in the Land of Fire to the west.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And these neighbors now each had reasons not to threaten the Hidden Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>First of all, the most likely to launch a war against the Hidden Cloud was the Hidden Rock; the Third Raikage also knew that this old thing Onoki was ambitious, and the strength of the Hidden Rock had increased quite a bit over the years, looking full of threats.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But now, the Land of Earth was caught in the war against the Rain ninjas, and Onoki could not start a two-front war at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You know, Hanzo of the Salamander, who held the title of \"Demigod of the Ninja World,\" was not a pushover either.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If he didn't invade the Land of Earth, Onoki would be burning incense; how could the Hidden Rock take the initiative to invade the Land of Lightning?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Secondly, it was the Hidden Leaf, which was close to the Land of Lightning and bordered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hidden Leaf indeed had the strength to invade the Land of Lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But first, the Hidden Leaf was known for not taking the initiative to launch wars.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Secondly, after the Second Hokage and the Second Raikage both fell, the Hidden Cloud and the Hidden Leaf had always maintained an alliance; under the premise of the alliance, the Hidden Leaf would never easily take action against the Hidden Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Finally, it was the Hidden Mist across the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hidden Mist had been invisible in the ninja world for more than ten years, and the probability of the Hidden Mist, which had always had an extremely transparent presence, taking the initiative to launch a war was extremely low; besides, the Hidden Cloud and the Hidden Mist had no grievances in the past and no grudges in the present, so the Third Raikage thought it was impossible for the Hidden Mist to take the initiative against the Hidden Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because of all these conditions, the Third Raikage felt that the Hidden Cloud was worry-free, and coupled with the fact that the Hidden Cloud was now in a weak state, he naturally had no need to stir up trouble in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So he flatly rejected the alliance request proposed by the Hidden Mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yes, the content of the letter sent by Momochi Zabuza was to invite the Hidden Cloud to form an alliance and conduct a series of trades.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And for the Hidden Cloud, at this time, they neither needed an alliance to improve combat power, nor did they need the Hidden Mist's war material trade.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, the Third Raikage naturally chose to reject the Hidden Mist's request.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In short, the Hidden Cloud's current state was to focus on development and restore combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hidden Cloud would not take the initiative to get involved in any dangerous or unnecessary things.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thinking of this, the Third Raikage then threw the intelligence of the war between the Rain ninjas and the Hidden Rock into the trash can.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>·· Seeking flowers ·· ··\u003C\u002Fp>",1588,"2026-06-17T05:01:42.539Z","2026-06-17T09:00:23.248Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f34f0ca2a1f0d0861c04560b1936d2fd9068446ee8ea6739f448ab441427b509","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-234","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-232",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]