Land of Earth, Iwagakure.
Over the past few years, the Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki had remained constantly on guard against Akatsuki, though he could only rely on Iwagakure's own strength to prepare against them.
Since the major nations could not trust one another, even though Ohnoki knew Konoha might possess more intelligence regarding Akatsuki, given the universally acknowledged scarcity of information in the Shinobi World, Iwagakure had no way of acquiring any data from Konoha.
Chapter 189