"Why weren't you and Asuma assigned to the same class?" Hyuga Ningyuan asked curiously, turning his head.
They were childhood sweethearts. Wouldn't that have been the obvious arrangement?
After all, class assignments were just a matter of Hiruzen Sarutobi saying the word.
"I don't know!" Yūhi Kurenai thought for a moment, then shook her head. "Aren't classes assigned randomly?"
"Fine, then I guess he was just unlucky!" Hyuga Ningyuan nodded, but he did not believe that for a second. Random? My ass!
Hiruzen Sarutobi had said class assignments were randomly determined based on grades, yet all the core members of the six clans had been assigned to his own son and daughter-in-law's classes.
Maybe it was because Hiruzen Sarutobi did not know what his son was thinking?
"Alright, class is starting!" The second period was mathematics. Hyuga Ningyuan did not need to attend as usual, but Yūhi Kurenai still had to listen carefully.
"Class is a complete waste of time. Besides, I listened through an entire lesson last period and didn't unlock a skill!" Looking at the blank System Panel, Hyuga Ningyuan felt that attending class was nothing but a waste of time.
So was it because I already knew everything taught in class that it didn't give me a skill?
Maybe I should try something I didn't know before?
Hyuga Ningyuan opened his mathematics textbook and found a figure inside.
His name was Jingxiu, a mathematician from the Land of Lightning who had discovered the ninja world's version of pi. The textbook only gave him a portrait: a lean, gaunt young man with sharp features.
Pulling out a pen, Hyuga Ningyuan began extending his neck, then drew his body.
Well, it obviously had to be covered in muscles—eight abdominal muscles, with muscles all over his arms and thighs too.
People from the Land of Lightning were just like that.
At least, that was what the Third Raikage looked like to me.
His drawing skills were nowhere near good. He had never studied art professionally, so while he had intended to draw the David Sculpture, what came out looked like Jerry from Rick and Morty.
But after half an hour of effort, he finally managed to finish it!
[ Ding, you completed a Painting Activity. Painting Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current Rank: LV1 (1/10) ]
"There's something to this!" Hyuga Ningyuan's eyes lit up. He seemed to have grasped the pattern for farming experience.
This time, instead of drawing, Hyuga Ningyuan began working on the exercises at the end of the chapter.
The textbook was thick, with many chapters, so naturally there were plenty of exercises. But they were only first-grade elementary school problems. There were still ten minutes until class ended, yet Hyuga Ningyuan finished every question in five minutes!
[ Ding, you completed a Math Activity. Math Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current Rank: LV1 (1/10) ]
"So it isn't because I already knew it. It's because I did it myself! Only things I personally do can grant experience!"
Hyuga Ningyuan had completed a comparative experiment. He did not know painting, while he knew mathematics, yet both had granted experience and activated their experience bars.
So the main condition for gaining experience was not learning unfamiliar knowledge, but voluntarily carrying out an activity himself.
I just wonder whether willingness matters too?
It probably does. I've always resisted class and studying, so maybe that's why I couldn't unlock a Learning entry?
After another class ended, Hyuga Ningyuan ran to the restroom. He had done so of his own accord, with great enthusiasm, and sure enough, the system chimed again.
[ Ding, you completed a Peeing Activity. Peeing Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current Rank: LV1 (1/100) ]
"That works too?" Hyuga Ningyuan was stunned. So what did increasing Peeing Experience do? Let him pee farther, or make the stream curve through the air?
Hyuga Ningyuan thought of the movie Tough Guy Birth Story, where the protagonist could put out the sun with a single stream of urine. Was it going to be like that?
For the third period, Teruhi Sōun entered the classroom and said, "This period is Ninja Knowledge Class. Take out your Ninja Knowledge textbooks!"
Though he did not like school, Hyuga Ningyuan was an adult after all. He adjusted his mindset quickly, immediately focused his attention, and listened seriously.
Even though he had read the textbook, the teacher's lecture was ultimately somewhat different from the book. He mixed in his own cultivation insights, life experience, and battlefield knowledge while explaining each point. From time to time, he even told the students stories from the Sengoku era.
Who knew whether those stories were made up or had really happened?
But Teruhi Sōun was only twenty years old, while Hyuga Ningyuan had encountered countless elite teachers, expert professors, and even Nobel Prize scholars in his previous life—at least in short videos.
In his opinion, Teruhi Sōun's teaching ability was not very high, only at an entry level. He could teach the knowledge points to students and slightly motivate them to participate in class. That was all.
Still, Hyuga Ningyuan was here to farm skills, so he did not care about that.
After listening attentively for forty minutes, he heard a crisp notification just as class ended.
[ You completed a Learning Activity. Learning Experience +5, General Experience +1. Current Rank: LV1 (5/100) ]
"Learning!" Hyuga Ningyuan's eyes lit up. He had really unlocked it!
It seemed the method for activating the panel was not difficult. As long as he independently and voluntarily carried out an activity, even eating or sleeping could grant experience!
Could leveling up this skill increase his learning speed and efficiency?
Was attending class the only way to level it up, or would self-study count as well?
"Right!" Looking at the skill list, Hyuga Ningyuan noticed something else.
He found that most skills on the list required 100 experience points to level up, but Painting and mathematics only needed 10!
Why was that? Was it because his current proficiency was too low, so the requirements for leveling up were lower too?
"Attending class can farm Learning levels, but class is a complete waste of time. Forty minutes only gives five experience points, far worse than mathematics, where five minutes gives one point. But I've already finished my mathematics textbook!"
After thinking it over, he simply used the break to erase all the answers.
Fortunately, they had been written in pencil, so they were easy to erase.
When class resumed, Hyuga Ningyuan started over from scratch and did every problem again.
[ Ding, you completed a Math Activity. Math Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current Rank: LV1 (2/10) ]
"Holy shit!" Hyuga Ningyuan's eyes lit up. That worked too!
Right. The system only cared whether he had completed an activity. It did not care about the activity's level or whether it was something he had already mastered!
That meant he could become a great mathematician by doing elementary school math problems, master Rock Lee's Flying Dagger by throwing erasers, or develop Snow-Stepping Without a Trace just by walking!
Of course, Hyuga Ningyuan would not actually do that. After all, each elementary school math problem only gave one experience point, and the experience required would definitely increase at higher levels.
One point at a time—how long would it take to level up?
Hyuga Ningyuan let out a long breath. He now basically understood how his system worked and had also thought of the most efficient way to use it!
"Inhale, exhale!"
"Inhale, exhale!"
"Inhale, exhale!"
A minute later, a crisp sound rang out.
[ Ding, you completed a breathing activity. Breathing Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current Rank: LV1 (1/10) ]
Hyuga Ningyuan had found an activity he could perform twenty-four hours a day, one that would not attract attention and could efficiently farm both experience and General Experience.
Breathing!
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