[Name: Hyuga Ningyuan (Ningyuan) Gender: Male Age: 5 Skills: Sleep Level 1 (8/100) Diet LV1 (1/100) Talent: None General Experience Points: 2]
It was a crude System Interface that looked as though it had been typed up in a Word document. There was not much on it, so Hyuga Ningyuan took it all in at a glance.
His many years of experience playing games, using phones and computers, and reading novels let him immediately understand the system's functions.
By performing an activity, he could gain specialized experience and General Experience.
As for what that experience could be used for, specialized experience naturally leveled up the corresponding specialty, while General Experience could presumably be added to anything.
But why was my talent listed as none? Isn't Mother Earth supposed to bestow some gifts? Something like many children and great fortune, heaven-defying comprehension, heaven rewarding diligence, twice the results with half the effort? And what about these Byakugan? Doesn't Hyuga blood count as a talent?
And Sleep and Diet can count as skills too? They can even be leveled up?
Hyuga Ningyuan was only surprised for a moment before immediately realizing how absurdly powerful those two functions were.
Sleep seemed like an ordinary skill, but it was divided into light sleep and deep sleep. It was said that five minutes of deep sleep could make up for the exhaustion accumulated over eight hours in a day.
Yet people spent most of their sleep in light sleep, with deep sleep lasting only a tiny fraction of the time. That was why people needed eight hours of sleep to recover from a day's depletion.
If the Sleep level could be raised, could I enter a state of deep sleep anytime, anywhere?
To others, it would look as though I had merely taken a nap, but in reality, I would have recovered from an entire day's exhaustion!
This skill was incredibly useful. Whether for studying, research, or work, its value was second to none.
Moreover, Hyuga Ningyuan was still a Ninja Academy student, and he would become a ninja in the future. He might even have to go to war.
On the battlefield, going three days and three nights without sleep was commonplace. If he had a high-level sleep skill, where five minutes of sleep matched someone else's eight hours, his safety would be greatly improved!
Besides, was deep sleep really the endpoint of sleep?
Beyond sleep, there were still meditation and embryonic breathing!
Oh, right. Meditation and sleep aren't the same thing! Hyuga Ningyuan remembered that he had mixed the two up.
Meditation and embryonic breathing were advanced skills of meditation.
Still, it did not matter. If he could unlock a Sleep skill, then he could unlock a Meditation skill as well.
He just did not know where the limit of leveling lay. Would it stop at the limits of a skill, or could it rise to the level of a concept?
If it was only the former, then this system could only be considered decent.
But if it was the latter...
Come to think of it, how exactly is this experience calculated? Why did Sleep give eight points while Diet only gave one? Hyuga Ningyuan considered the connection between sleep and the number eight. He had probably slept for eight hours.
As for General Experience, perhaps one point was earned for each activity.
For the Sleep skill, eight hours gave eight points. One hundred points would take one hundred hours, meaning he could see results in twelve days. That was actually quite fast.
But the problem was, as the Sleep level increased, would his sleeping time decrease accordingly? Would leveling this skill become difficult then?
I wonder whether sleep quality matters. Maybe five minutes of deep sleep gives more experience than ten hours of light sleep! Hyuga Ningyuan comforted himself before beginning to consider how to properly use his system.
First, he had to go to school. Going to school should be able to unlock skills too.
If he could unlock a [Learning] skill, that would naturally be best. Improving his learning ability was equivalent to improving his comprehension. Then, even without the Sharingan, he could copy other people's ninjutsu.
But if he unlocked [Language Arts] or [mathematics]...
It was not that those would be bad, but mathematicians truly could not save the ninja world.
Well, not necessarily. Not if he could develop a nuclear bomb.
I need to find the pattern behind unlocking skills, but before that, I need to determine my priorities.
He could learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu and see whether using shadow clones to perform activities could earn experience.
If it could, he would first raise the Shadow Clone level, then have a million shadow clones grind skills together.
However, creating shadow clones required a large amount of Chakra. The Hyuga Clan had plenty of Chakra, but they were nowhere near as monstrous as the Uzumaki Family, so the Chakra Extraction Technique needed to be leveled up as well.
When shadow clones returned, they brought back a huge amount of memories. Someone with a weak body simply could not withstand it, so his physical strength also needed to improve.
Since he was improving his physical strength anyway, he might as well learn some Taijutsu.
Raising his Taijutsu level could simultaneously improve his physical strength, reaction speed, and movement speed.
And improving his physical strength could in turn increase his Chakra reserves.
One investment, multiple returns. The priority of leveling Taijutsu was still quite high.
But then a contradiction arose.
If he worked hard at Taijutsu and improved too quickly, would the Main Family or Danzo notice him?
Even with a normal training load, system assistance should allow him to improve beyond ordinary people.
But Hyuga Ningyuan was only lying low to protect himself. He was not truly content to lie flat. A normal amount of Taijutsu training could not satisfy him!
So, how could he improve his Taijutsu without letting others discover that he was working hard?
Find a forest and train in secret?
If someone discovered him, the problem would become even bigger. Who was he guarding against by acting so sneaky? Was he dissatisfied with the clan? Or dissatisfied with the village?
Someone, check his memories.
Oh, he needed to arrange for the Mind Body Disturbance Technique too.
Taijutsu, Taijutsu... Hyuga Ningyuan pondered for a long time before his eyes suddenly lit up.
He remembered a movie he had watched in his previous life, called The Master. In it, Chen Shi was invited by Zheng Shan'ao to watch dancing. Zheng Shan'ao said that the exquisite use of muscles in the dance steps of White Russian women was almost akin to the principles of boxing.
Martial arts, dance... I can't practice martial arts, but I can dance!
When Madara comes out and invites me to dance, I'll pull him into a round of Platinum Disco!
The benefit of the information explosion and five thousand years of history from his former world was that no matter what difficulty one encountered, one could always find a solution in that vast database.
I can use Ghost Step to train my legs and footwork, Social Shake to train my fists and palms, Finger Dance to train hand seals, Gun Dance to train weapons, and Peacock Dance to improve flexibility. Once his train of thought opened up, Hyuga Ningyuan immediately realized that replacing martial arts with dance had tremendous potential!
Moreover, using dance in place of martial arts had another advantage: it concealed him and made it easier to lie low!
After all, to ninjas, dancing was an improper occupation. Who would take a ninja who loved dancing seriously? And who would imagine that a dancer was secretly a martial artist?
Just like Killer B, who loved singing rap. Before he displayed his strength, no one took him seriously at all.
That's right, Sasuke. I'm talking about you.
Besides, Hyuga Ningyuan himself quite liked dancing. Before his transmigration, he had lived in an era when Kun Dance, square dance, Subject Three, and Social Shake were all wildly popular.
Ningyuan did not dance because he disliked it. It was simply that commuting to and from work had drained all his energy, leaving him with neither the time nor the strength.
But...
To borrow a line from Stephen Chow: When did this pork butcher not want to become a dancer?
Not just a dancer! For no apparent reason, wish after wish from his childhood, dream after dream buried by reality, began to rise before his eyes.
He wanted to go into space, become a scientist, and fly a fighter jet!
He wanted to learn the erhu, the piano, and the violin!
He wanted to perform Night of Confession before hundreds of millions of viewers and stun the world!
Was being reborn really just for me to become a blood-sucking, ruthless ninja who killed without batting an eye? If so, this second life would be far too boring!!
I had not merely come from Earth to the world of Naruto. I was also a twenty-eight-year-old shut-in whose ideals had been completely buried by reality, returned to the age of five!
This was an age of youth, hope, and limitless possibility!
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