Dance Instead of Martial Arts

[Name: Hyuga Ningyuan (Ningyuan)

Gender: Male

Age: 5

Skills:

Sleep LV1 (8/100)

Diet LV1 (1/100)

Talents: None

General Experience Points: 2]

This was a system interface so crude it looked like it had been typed up in a Word document. The content wasn't much, so Hyuga Ningyuan took it all in at a glance.

Years of gaming, phone-scrolling, computer-use, and novel-reading experience let him instantly grasp the system's function.

Engage in an activity, and you'd earn specialized experience and general experience.

As for what that experience could be used for—specialized experience naturally went toward leveling that specific skill, while general experience could be added to anything.

"But why is my talent 'None'? Mother Earth couldn't spare a little gift? Something like 'Many Children, Many Blessings,' 'Heavenly Insight,' 'Heaven Rewards Diligence,' 'Half the Effort, Double the Result'? And what about this Byakugan—doesn't Hyuga bloodline count as a talent?"

"And also, sleep and diet count as skills? They can be leveled up?"

Hyuga Ningyuan was only surprised for a moment before he immediately realized the absurd potential of these two functions.

Sleep seemed like just an ordinary skill, but sleep was divided into light sleep and deep sleep. It was said that five minutes of deep sleep was enough to make up for the fatigue accumulated over eight hours of waking activity.

The problem was that most of a person's sleep time was spent in light sleep, with deep sleep being extremely scarce. That was why people needed eight hours of sleep to recover from a day's wear and tear.

So if the sleep level could be raised, could he enter deep sleep at will?

Others would think he'd just dozed off, but in reality, he'd already recovered a full day's exhaustion!

This skill was incredibly useful. Whether for studying, research, or work, its value was top-tier.

Moreover, Hyuga Ningyuan was currently a Ninja Academy student. He'd become a ninja later, and might even end up on the battlefield.

On the battlefield, going three days and three nights without sleep was common. If he had a high-level sleep skill, five minutes of sleep could match eight hours for others—his safety would be massively improved!

Besides, was deep sleep the end of the line for sleep?

Above sleep, there was meditative absorption and embryonic breathing!

"Oh right, meditation and sleep aren't the same thing!" Hyuga Ningyuan realized he'd confused the two.

Meditative absorption and embryonic breathing were advanced skills of meditation.

But no matter—if he could unlock a sleep skill, he could unlock a meditation skill too.

The question was where the limit of leveling lay. Was it just the skill's ceiling, or could it reach the conceptual level?

If it was the former, the system was merely decent.

If the latter...

"Speaking of which, how does this experience work? Why is sleep 8 points, but diet only 1 point!" Hyuga Ningyuan thought it over. The relationship between sleep and 8 was probably that he'd slept for eight hours?

As for general experience, maybe each activity gave one point.

For the sleep skill, eight hours gave eight points. One hundred points would take one hundred hours, or twelve days, to see results. That was pretty fast.

But the problem was, as the sleep level increased, would sleep time decrease accordingly? Would leveling the skill become harder then?

"I wonder if it's related to sleep quality. Maybe five minutes of deep sleep gives more experience than ten hours of light sleep!" Hyuga Ningyuan comforted himself, then began pondering how to properly use his system.

First, he had to go to school. School might also unlock skills.

If he unlocked a [Study] skill, that would be ideal. Boosting learning ability meant boosting comprehension. Then, even without a Sharingan, he could copy others' jutsu.

But if he unlocked [Language] or [Math]...

It wasn't that they were bad, but a mathematician couldn't save the ninja world.

Well, not necessarily. If he could create a Nuclear Bomb...

"I need to find the pattern for unlocking skills. But before that, I have to set priorities."

He could learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu and see if using shadow clones for activities could earn experience.

If it worked, he'd first raise the Shadow Clone level, then have a million shadow clones all grinding skills at once.

But releasing shadow clones required a lot of chakra. The Hyuga Clan had a decent amount, but not as absurd as the Uzumaki Family, so the Chakra Extraction Technique also needed leveling.

When shadow clones dispersed, they brought back a flood of memories. Someone with a weak constitution couldn't handle it, so physical strength had to be improved too.

Since physical strength was being improved, he might as well learn Taijutsu.

Raising the Taijutsu level could simultaneously boost physical strength, Reaction Speed, and movement speed.

And improving physical strength could increase chakra reserves.

One investment, multiple returns—Taijutsu grinding had high priority.

But here came the contradiction.

If I train taijutsu too hard and improve too fast, will the Main Family or Danzo notice?

Even with normal training volume, the system's assistance should let me surpass ordinary people.

But Hyuga Ningyuan's slacking off is just to protect himself—he's not truly giving up. Normal taijutsu training can't satisfy him!

So, how do I boost my taijutsu without letting anyone discover I'm working hard?

Find a forest and train in secret?

If I get caught, the problem's even bigger. Who are you sneaking around to guard against? Are you dissatisfied with the clan? Or the village?

Come here, let's check your memories.

Oh, I'll need to arrange the Mind Body Disturbance Technique too.

"Taijutsu, taijutsu..." Hyuga Ningyuan pondered for a long time, then suddenly his eyes lit up.

He recalled a movie from his past life called The Master, where Chen Shi was invited by Zheng Shan'ao to watch dancing, and it was said that the White Russian women's footwork used their muscles so exquisitely it was almost like the principles of boxing.

"Martial arts, dance arts. If I can't practice martial arts, I can dance!"

"When Madara comes out and invites me to dance, I'll pull him into a Platinum Disco!"

The beauty of the information explosion and five thousand years of external history is that no matter what trouble you face, you can find a solution in the vast database.

"For legwork and footwork, I can use Ghost Step; for punches and palms, Social Shake; for hand seals, Finger Dance; for weapons, Gun Dance; for flexibility, there's also Peacock Dance." Once the idea opened up, Hyuga Ningyuan realized that replacing martial arts with dance had great potential!

Moreover, using dance to substitute for martial arts had another benefit: hiding yourself and making it easier to slack off!

After all, to a ninja, dancing is a waste of time. A ninja who loves to dance—who would take him seriously? Who would ever think that a dancer is actually a martial artist in secret?

Just like that rapping Killer B—before he showed his strength, no one took him seriously at all.

That's right, Sasuke, I'm talking about you.

Besides, Hyuga Ningyuan himself actually liked dancing. The era he came from before transmigrating was exactly when Kun Dance, Square Dance, Subject Three, and Social Shake were all the rage.

Ningyuan didn't dance because he disliked it—it was just that commuting to and from work had drained all his energy, and he simply didn't have the time or stamina.

But.

To borrow a line from Stephen Chow: "Even I, the pork butcher, once dreamed of becoming a dancer!"

"Not just a dancer!" For some reason, the wishes he'd made as a child, the ideals buried by reality, began to surface before his eyes.

I wanted to go to space, to be a scientist, to fly a fighter jet!

I wanted to learn the erhu, the piano, the violin!

I wanted to play Night of Confession in front of billions of spectators and stun the world!

"Reborn into this life—just to be a ninja who grinds his teeth, drinks blood, and kills without mercy? That would make this second life far too boring!!"

I didn't just come from Earth to Naruto—I'm a 28-year-old shut-in whose ideals were completely buried by reality, returning to the age of five!

This is an age of youth, full of hope, where everything is possible!