Tenseigan

Because Naruto's gaze had been drawn to Hinata, he did not eagerly jump out the moment Iruka finished speaking.

Without Naruto taking the lead, Iruka could only have the students introduce themselves according to their seating order.

However, when it was Uchiha Sasuke's turn, he kept glancing in Hinata's direction during his introduction. Hinata knew that Sasuke had probably regarded her as a competitor.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and my goal is to earn everyone's recognition and become Hokage!"

When it was Naruto's turn, he declared his ambition to become Hokage, just as expected.

And just as expected, it drew laughter from his classmates.

Then came Hinata's introduction.

"My name is Hyuga Hinata."

"All right, Hyuga, you may sit down."

Iruka waited for a moment before realizing that Hinata only intended to say that much.

He could only have Hinata sit down. Once everyone had finished introducing themselves, Iruka began explaining the origins of the Ninja Academy and the Will of Fire.

Naruto, seated beside Hinata, was so fired up that he wished he could become Hokage immediately.

"He was adorably stupid."

Hinata no longer knew what to say.

If anyone else had experienced what Naruto had, they would probably have turned evil and taken revenge on the Hidden Leaf Village long ago.

Not long after Iruka began explaining the Will of Fire, the Third Hokage arrived in the classroom.

After all, everyone present was the future of the Hidden Leaf Village. There was no reason for the Third Hokage not to make an appearance.

However, after Iruka finished explaining the Will of Fire, the Third Hokage explained it all over again...

Hinata: "..."

Fine. She was not here to learn anything anyway.

She was merely going through the motions. Whatever they wanted to talk about had nothing to do with her.

While the Third Hokage spoke about the Will of Fire from the podium, Hinata shifted her attention to the System Panel.

More precisely, to [Immortal Body] Level 2.

Over the past two years, Immortal Body had finally leveled up.

Hinata had guessed correctly. [Byakugan] had leveled up alongside [Immortal Body].

The upgraded [Immortal Body] possessed terrifying vitality, enough to regenerate from a single drop of blood!

Besides its vitality, Hinata felt that it had other abilities as well, though she would need time to uncover them.

The changes to [Byakugan] after reaching Level 10 were even greater.

After leveling up, its abilities had become extremely similar to the Tenseigan's—or rather, it had become the Tenseigan.

It did not require Chakra. Instead, it consumed Hinata's physical and mental strength.

With the physical and mental strength granted by Hinata's Immortal Body, she could probably keep the Tenseigan activated indefinitely without any noticeable drain.

Furthermore, Hinata discovered that her Tenseigan seemed a little too powerful.

And it was not just a little too powerful. Hinata always felt that a single Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion could split the earth beneath her feet in two.

Most importantly, it was not an illusion...

But none of that mattered. What mattered was that after awakening the Tenseigan, Hinata had gained not only control over repulsion and attraction, but also the ability to manipulate space.

This delighted Hinata. In the future, lacking spatial abilities would make dealing with those Bizarre Creatures extremely inconvenient.

Although she had a Bizarre Creature capable of creating subspaces, using power that was not her own was inconvenient after all.

The only thing troubling Hinata now was that Immortal Body and Byakugan had both leveled up, yet the experience bar for [Great Void Sword Qi] still had not filled.

During that time, Hinata had dragged the Cun Jin Cultivation Method onto Great Void Sword Qi and let it absorb the Cun Jin Cultivation Method, but its experience bar still did not fill.

Great Void Sword Qi was always short of the final 10% before it could reach Level 10.

Hinata was now learning the Hyuga Gentle Fist.

She discovered that while practicing the Hyuga Gentle Fist, Great Void Sword Qi's experience bar increased by the tiniest amount.

Though it was only a tiny amount, it gave Hinata hope.

Still, Hinata estimated that even if she thoroughly mastered the Hyuga Gentle Fist, it would not be enough to level up Great Void Sword Qi.

Therefore, after thoroughly mastering the Hyuga Gentle Fist, Hinata planned to learn the Konoha Steel Fist. Once she finished learning the Konoha Steel Fist, she planned to visit other ninja villages.

What gave Hinata a headache now was that after Immortal Body and Byakugan leveled up, their experience bars stopped moving altogether.

Hinata thought for a long while before realizing that Immortal Body and the Tenseigan had probably evolved to their limits and had nowhere further to evolve.

This gave Hinata quite a headache.

The Tenseigan was easier to deal with. Hinata had already thought of a way to fuse the Rinnegan and the Tenseigan. She did not know whether it would work, but at least she had a direction.

However, there was no way to find a method for upgrading Immortal Body anytime soon.

Hinata had considered whether absorbing the power of Bizarre Creatures could transform abilities such as Immortal Body.

But after experimenting, she found that it simply would not work!

Hinata had once risked absorbing a small portion of a Bizarre Creature's energy.

But once that energy entered her body, it seemed to encounter a mortal enemy and began wreaking havoc on Hinata's cells.

To living beings, this energy was like a deadly poison. It simply could not be absorbed.

Gradually, Hinata abandoned this method.

Then Hinata set her sights on the God Tree—or rather, Otsutsuki Kaguya!

After Otsutsuki Kaguya ate the Chakra Fruit, her life level evolved. She had become truly immortal.

Her vitality was probably only a fraction weaker than Hinata's. If Hinata could devour her, it would likely be a great boon.

But the problem was that Immortal Body had upgraded—or rather, evolved—by devouring God Tree cells.

Would devouring Otsutsuki Kaguya, the God Tree's incarnation, again be of any use?

Should she split open the moon and devour Otsutsuki Kaguya to find out?

Not to mention what would become of the Shinobi World without the moon, the Sage of Six Paths alone would probably never agree.

Though whether he agreed was not important, the Shinobi World could not be without the moon. Her home was still here.

Still, Hinata knew she was being too greedy.

Even a Level 1 Immortal Body was already outrageously powerful. The immortality of a Level 2 Immortal Body made Hinata almost impossible to destroy.

Moreover, Hinata herself was already incredibly powerful. Not just anyone could kill her.

Her pursuit of an upgraded Immortal Body was merely because she wanted to see what kind of existence she would become once Immortal Body reached Level 10.

Although she had temporarily set aside the thought of upgrading Immortal Body, Hinata had not given up.

After all, as long as she was not killed, she could live forever—and she would not be killed...

Hinata withdrew her attention from the System Panel because the Third Hokage's speech had ended.

She swept her gaze around the classroom and discovered that the children had not grown tired of listening at all.

Back when she attended school, if the principal had talked from the podium for this long, she would have been sleepy long ago.