A Powerful One-Star Ability!

Uchiha Mai closed all the doors and windows, bathed, and changed his clothes before clicking on the system interface. When it comes to gacha, one must be pious.

Metaphysics, after all—since he had already transmigrated into the Naruto world, he had no choice but to believe.

The dog system's interface was simple, crude, and lacked any intelligence; it only provided answers in the form of subtitles when Uchiha Mai had questions.

[Host: Uchiha Mai]

[Stylishness: 304]

Next was the gacha interface. Currently, only the half-star and one-star card pools were unlocked. Previously, Uchiha Mai had pulled Mayweather's Shoulder Roll and Flying Armbar from the half-star pool.

A person's destiny, of course, depends on personal struggle, but one must also consider the course of history. The two skills he had drawn were the course of history.

Relying on his own hard work and struggle, Uchiha Mai used these two techniques as a foundation to further study the concepts, techniques, and tactics of boxing and jiu-jitsu.

It could be said that he benefited immensely, which would be of great help for his future learning and even the development of other taijutsu. After all, this was the essence summarized over decades of professional development.

These were highly extensible skills; as long as you were hardworking enough and not too stupid, you could become a genius through acquired effort.

If half-star skills were this remarkable, then one-star skills... heh heh.

Uchiha Mai rubbed his hands together, found the gacha interface in his mind, clicked into the one-star skill pool, and spent 300 points for a single pull.

The dog system might be crude, but it was quite conscientious; a one-star pool was guaranteed to yield a one-star reward.

If this were designed by a certain Goose Factory or Pig Factory, the one-star pool might look like this: a 1% chance to obtain a one-star skill, a 9% chance to obtain a one-star reward fragment (collect 10 to redeem one one-star reward), a 9% chance to obtain a half-star reward, and an 81% chance to obtain a half-star reward fragment...

The simple and unadorned dog system made Uchiha Mai, who had been poisoned by pay-to-win games, exclaim that it was truly conscientious.

A flash of light swept through the card pool, followed by some cheap special effects, and a card with a five-pointed star engraved at the top appeared in the center of the pool.

Uchiha Mai clicked on the card with his mind to confirm the information about the reward.

[Lightning Five-Chain Whip · One-Star

Legend has it that this is a fist technique created by a certain martial arts master surnamed Ma. It is as fast as the wind and as swift as thunder; when mastered, one can strike five punches in five directions in an instant.]

"What kind of scam is this!"

Uchiha Mai cursed loudly, nearly spitting out a mouthful of old blood. In a fit of rage, he kicked over the chair in front of him. What kind of trash skill was this?

Did it really think he didn't watch Bilibili in his past life?

Uchiha Mai had seen the videos of that martial arts master surnamed Ma—all that talk about "traditional martial arts should stop at the point," "not talking about martial ethics," "rat tail juice," and "left front kick"...

To summarize in four words: a charlatan seeking attention.

Boxing champion Mayweather's Shoulder Roll and the jiu-jitsu Flying Armbar—skills with such high practical value, lethality, and extensibility—were only rated as half-star.

A piece of bullsh*t fist technique spouted by a charlatan was actually rated as one-star?

This dog system should be materialized into a refrigerator, smashed, poured into a cement bucket, and dumped into the sea.

After a bout of annoyance, Uchiha Mai still claimed the ability. Even a mosquito's leg is meat; he wanted to see what kind of trick this thing was hiding!

The card turned into specks of starlight that dispersed into Uchiha Mai's limbs and bones, and a stream of knowledge flowed into his brain. Uchiha Mai was instantly stunned on the spot.

A few minutes later, Uchiha Mai suddenly raised his hands and threw a few punches in succession, then brought his hands together in front of his chest and quickly formed a few hand seals.

"This... is it actually this good?" Uchiha Mai muttered in astonishment.

The Lightning Five-Chain Whip provided by the dog system was not the version performed by the charlatan Master Ma. Instead, it was the version Master Ma had boasted about—the one that didn't actually exist.

This version of the Lightning Five-Chain Whip, while called a skill, was actually more akin to a training method or a talent.

In some novels, martial arts are divided into three types: performance, training, and combat. Mayweather's boxing techniques and the Flying Armbar could be classified as combat.

The one-star skill Lightning Five-Chain Whip, however, was a training method; its lethality was not high.

But once learned, it could significantly improve the speed and flexibility of the practitioner's upper limbs. And the more proficient one became, the greater the improvement.

Uchiha Mai could clearly feel that his punching speed had increased by a notch, and his hand-seal speed had improved from two seals per second to seven seals every three seconds.

It might not seem like much, but one had to realize that Uchiha Mai had only just acquired this ability and hadn't even practiced it once.

Striking speed, upper-limb flexibility, and hand-seal speed were all extremely important qualities for a ninja.

Ninjas are generally strong in offense but weak in defense; being able to strike before the enemy meant the possibility of dealing heavy damage or even killing the opponent first while remaining unscathed.

A divine skill!

Dog system, I wronged you!

Uchiha Mai immediately beamed with joy, truly a case of turning his back on someone faster than flipping a page.

At the Genin stage, besides Kekkei Genkai, taijutsu was the best way to improve combat capability. This wave of enhancement had truly hit the mark.

Uchiha Mai withdrew his mind from the system, hastily cooked a bowl of noodles, finished his dinner, and went into the courtyard to practice the Lightning Five-Chain Whip.

All that flashy ninja tool throwing technique that Uchiha clansmen used to look down on the ninja world? That was all side-door stuff, completely useless.

When it came to the late stages, Kekkei Genkai was the most useful, followed by ninjutsu and taijutsu.

This set of fist techniques was indeed profound. After practicing it a few times, Uchiha Mai felt that his strength had indeed improved a little bit more.

This kind of positive feedback was like the visible experience bar in a game, making one unable to stop. As long as effort yielded corresponding rewards, the vast majority of people were willing to work hard.

Just as Uchiha Mai wanted to practice a few more times, a series of urgent knocks suddenly rang out from the gate of the courtyard.

"Who is it?"

Uchiha Mai asked instinctively, retracting his fist and walking to the gate to open it, only to find no one there when he peered outside.

"Why is there no one again?" Uchiha Mai muttered.

"Mai-nii, I'm down here." A childish voice drifted up from below.

Uchiha Mai looked down to see a four or five-year-old toddler with a button nose, munching on a skewer of red bean dango, looking up at him.

Uchiha Shisui.

This genius, who never made a direct appearance in Shippuden and only surfaced in the memories of others, was only four years old at this moment.

Uchiha Shisui's age had always been a subject of controversy; a characteristic of Japanese manga is that while they are rich in creativity, they lack detail, often leading to self-contradictory settings.

Kishimoto is just a manga artist, what the hell does he know about Naruto.jpg

In any case, in the world Uchiha Mai had transmigrated into, Shisui was four years old this year.

"Oh, it's Shisui. What's the matter?" Uchiha Mai asked with a smile.

Shisui took a bite of his red bean dango, sucked on his sugar-coated fingers, and said, "I just passed by the Clan Head's house.

The Clan Head gave me a skewer of dango and told me to come get you."