"Hyuga Ningyuan, who is Yūhi Kurenai?" Obito asked curiously the moment Ningyuan finished speaking.
What woman had such great charm that one would say marrying a wife meant marrying Yūhi Kurenai?
Ningyuan raised an eyebrow and pulled his deskmate to her feet.
"I-I'm Yūhi Kurenai!"
"Ehhhhh—" The whole class instantly erupted. Every boy immediately looked toward Yūhi Kurenai, and some sitting in the back even stood up, ready to rush forward for a closer look.
After looking, they felt there was nothing wrong with that statement. Yūhi Kurenai really was adorable!
As for the girls—
"What's so special about that? I'm cute too, okay!"
"Yeah, we're not bad either!"
"What nonsense." Obito curled his lip and turned to Kakashi. "I think he's even more full of himself than you are!"
Kakashi rolled his eyes. What did that have to do with him?
At such a young age, instead of studying hard, he was already thinking about marrying a wife. I thought the famous Hyuga Clan would produce a worthy opponent.
Now it seemed he was nothing special!
"Ahem!" Teruhi Sōun tapped on the desk. "Quiet down, quiet down! Let Yūhi Kurenai introduce herself!"
"Uh, I'm Yūhi Kurenai. I like spicy food and dislike sweets and cake. My dream for the future is to become a great kunoichi like Lady Tsunade!"
"You're done for. You have no chance!" Kotetsu Hagane said to Izumo Kamizuki. "You like sweet things, but she likes spicy food!"
"What does that have to do with me?" Izumo Kamizuki rolled his eyes irritably.
To be fair, he really was a little heartbroken. He knew he had no chance, but what if there had been one?
After Yūhi Kurenai sat down, Hyuga Ningyuan leaned over and whispered, "Believe it or not, you're about to become famous. Within half a day, everyone in this school will come to see you. When you go home tonight, your doorstep will be crowded with visitors. Within three days, all of Konoha will know your name!"
"How could that be possible!" Yūhi Kurenai refused to believe it. "Just because of one sentence from you?"
"Just because of one sentence from me!" Hyuga Ningyuan smiled. "Never underestimate people's love of gossip!"
"Uh..." Yūhi Kurenai blinked, not quite understanding.
"Just wait and see!" Hyuga Ningyuan said, then closed his eyes and opened the System Interface.
A little flirting now and then was enough. Too much would be counterproductive.
What a strange person. Yūhi Kurenai blinked. I'm ignoring you!
[You completed a walking activity. Walking Experience +1, General Experience +1]
He had received that after walking from the Hyuga Clan residence to the assembly formation. Combined with his earlier sleeping and eating, Hyuga Ningyuan had begun to grasp some of the system's functions.
A task counted as one activity from beginning to end, awarding one instance of experience.
So here was the question: while walking, he had also been talking, flirting, and holding hands. Why had none of those counted as skills?
Was it impossible to perform two activities at the same time? Or did those activities not count because they had a beginning but no end? Or did the system only record the primary activity over a period of time?
"Hands together!"
"Physical energy!"
"Spiritual energy!"
If one started extracting Chakra from scratch, it could take a great deal of time—one or two days at the least, three to five days at the most.
However, his predecessor had already suffered through that hardship for him. The current Hyuga Ningyuan possessed muscle memory, and the moment he closed his eyes, he felt it.
A little physical energy and a little spiritual energy merged into a mass of Chakra.
"Seems... not that hard!" Feeling the warm mass in his abdomen, Hyuga Ningyuan was certain it was not an illusion.
Next came trying to control that Chakra.
The method of control was simple: just think.
After all, part of Chakra was spiritual energy. Naturally, it could be controlled, shaped, and moved through thought.
But the textbook also said that hand seals were the method for controlling Chakra.
Hyuga Ningyuan tried forming the rat seal and observed the changes in his Chakra. Then he understood the difference between mental control and seal-based control.
Chakra controlled through thought was merely controlled Chakra.
But when controlled through hand seals, the Chakra was processed—or, in other words, programmed.
If he mentally moved Chakra into his mouth and spat it out, it would only be a mass of non-elemental Chakra. But if he spat it out using hand seals, he could spray water or fire.
Opening his eyes, Hyuga Ningyuan flipped open his Shinobi Knowledge textbook to the section on chakra pathways. As he read, he also sensed his own Chakra.
The human body had five locations capable of releasing Chakra: the palms of both hands, the soles of both feet, and the mouth. Of these, the chakra pathways in the mouth were the widest, followed by the feet, then the hands.
That was why large-scale techniques were often released from the mouth. The next most common method was pressing both palms to the ground and injecting Chakra underground.
There were also techniques that released Chakra through the pathways in the feet. For example, the Second Hokage's Water Release: Water Colliding Wave generated water directly beneath his feet.
The Body Flicker Technique probably released Chakra through the feet as well.
Tree climbing and water walking also involved releasing Chakra from the feet.
But that was ordinary people's experience. Hyuga Ningyuan was from the Hyuga Clan, and his family's Chakra was special—it could be released through every acupoint on the body.
"Chakra released into the air can remain for forty-four seconds!"
"Chakra also seems to have a certain ability to interfere with matter." Hyuga Ningyuan tore a small scrap of paper from his notebook and placed it on the Chakra in his palm. The Chakra actually lifted the paper scrap.
Hyuga Ningyuan turned his head and saw Yūhi Kurenai staring wide-eyed, seemingly astonished.
"What is it?" Hyuga Ningyuan asked.
"How did you do that?" Yūhi Kurenai curiously pointed at his palm.
"Hold up a piece of paper?" Hyuga Ningyuan thought for a moment. "That's just how the Hyuga Clan's Chakra is!"
"Oh, oh!" Yūhi Kurenai nodded. A bloodline trait—then there was no need to be curious about it.
"So ordinary shinobi Chakra doesn't have this trait." Hyuga Ningyuan considered it and concluded that the ability to support matter was probably unique to the Hyuga Clan.
That was why the Hyuga Clan had techniques like Void Palm. Since their Chakra could directly interfere with matter, they only needed to concentrate it and strike it outward to injure people.
He suddenly understood why the Hyuga Clan did not bother with elemental ninjutsu. It really seemed unnecessary.
Others needed to undergo Elemental Transformation for their Chakra to become destructive, but the Hyuga Clan did not need anything so complicated. Their Chakra came with it naturally.
"Tailed Beast Chakra, Activated Chakra!" Hyuga Ningyuan extended his train of thought. His family's Chakra was special, but it was not unique.
Tailed Beast Chakra could also interfere with matter, and its effects were even better, with far greater destructive power, because Tailed Beast Chakra was attributes plus Chakra.
Activated Chakra was the Chakra of Hoshigakure shinobi, altered by radiation interference and mutated in nature, which also gave it the ability to interfere with matter.
Thus, Hoshigakure shinobi developed the Mysterious Peacock Method. Not only could it form Chakra into beasts to attack enemies, it could even form wings and fly!
These two types of Chakra gave Hyuga Ningyuan two paths for developing Chakra.
The first was Chakra Elemental Transformation. Once the Hyuga Clan's Chakra underwent Elemental Transformation, its power would definitely surpass ordinary people's Chakra. It might even rival Tailed Beasts.
The second was to further deepen this ability to interfere with matter, then combine it with Shape Transformation. When the time came, it would not only form wings for flight—it could also be shaped into a Gundam!
Who said only the Uchiha Clan could pilot Gundams? The Hyuga Clan could do it too!
If he developed elementalization, activation, and shape to their limits, they might not be inferior to Wood Release!
After all, wasn't he also descended from the Six Paths Clan?
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