Uchiha Mai closed all the doors and windows, bathed and changed clothes, then opened the system interface. One had to be devout when it came to drawing prizes.
Mysticism, you know. Having transmigrated into the world of Naruto, he had no choice but to believe.
Every interface of the damn system was simple, crude, and unintelligent. It only answered Uchiha Mai's questions in subtitle form.
[Host: Uchiha Mai] [Style Points: 304]
Next came the draw interface. Only the half-star and one-star card pools had been unlocked so far. Earlier, Uchiha Mai had drawn Mayweather's Shoulder Roll and the Flying Armbar from the half-star pool.
A person's fate naturally depended on their own hard work, but they also had to take the course of history into account. Drawing those two skills had been the course of history.
Through his own effort and struggle, Uchiha Mai had used those two techniques as a foundation to further study the concepts, tactics, and techniques of boxing and jiu-jitsu.
It could be said that he had benefited immensely. They would also greatly help him learn and even develop other taijutsu in the future. After all, these were the distilled essence of decades of development in professional fields.
They were highly expandable skills. As long as one worked hard enough and was not too stupid, one could become a self-made genius.
If half-star skills were already this impressive, then one-star skills... heh heh heh.
Uchiha Mai rubbed his hands together, found the draw interface in his mind, entered the one-star skill card pool, spent 300 points, and made a single draw.
Crude as the damn system was, it was still quite generous. A one-star pool was guaranteed to produce a one-star reward.
If this had been designed by some goose factory or pig farm, the one-star pool might have worked like this: a 1% chance of obtaining a one-star skill, a 9% chance of obtaining a one-star reward fragment—collect ten fragments to exchange for one one-star reward—a 9% chance of obtaining a half-star reward, and an 81% chance of obtaining half-star reward fragments...
The plain and unadorned damn system made Uchiha Mai, who had suffered deeply at the hands of pay-to-win games, praise its generosity.
Light flashed through the card pool. Then, amid a cheap special effect, a card engraved with a five-pointed star at the top appeared in the center of the pool.
Uchiha Mai mentally tapped the card and checked the reward's information.
[Lightning Five-Chain Whip · One Star A boxing art allegedly created by a traditional martial arts master surnamed Ma. Swift as the wind and fast as thunder, once mastered, it allows the user to throw five punches in five directions in an instant.]
"You've got to be kidding me!"
Uchiha Mai cursed loudly, nearly spitting blood. Furious, he kicked over the chair in front of him. What kind of garbage skill was this?
Did they really think he had not watched Bilibili in his previous life?
Uchiha Mai had seen videos of that traditional martial arts Master Ma. "Traditional martial arts stop at the right moment," "no martial virtue," "mouse tail juice," "left front kick"...
In eight words: a fraud putting on a show.
Mayweather's Shoulder Roll and the Flying Armbar from jiu-jitsu were abilities with extreme practicality, lethality, and room for expansion, yet they were rated only half a star.
And some fraud's bullshit boxing style, made up on the spot, was rated one star?
This damn system ought to materialize into a refrigerator already, get smashed to pieces, stuffed into a cement barrel, and dumped into the sea.
After venting for a while, Uchiha Mai still claimed the ability. Even a mosquito leg was meat. Let's see what kind of bullshit you've got tucked in your pants!
The card turned into specks of starlight and dispersed into every part of Uchiha Mai's body. A stream of knowledge also poured into his mind, and he froze on the spot.
A few minutes later, Uchiha Mai suddenly raised his hand and threw several consecutive punches. Then he brought both hands together before his chest and rapidly formed several hand seals.
"Is... is this really that good?" Uchiha Mai muttered in astonishment.
The Lightning Five-Chain Whip given by the damn system was not the version performed by that fraud, Master Ma. It was the nonexistent version Master Ma had bragged about.
This version of Lightning Five-Chain Whip was called a skill, but it was actually closer to a training method or talent.
In some novels, boxing was divided into three types: performance methods, training methods, and fighting methods. Mayweather's boxing techniques and the Flying Armbar could be classified as fighting methods.
The one-star skill Lightning Five-Chain Whip, meanwhile, was a training method. Its killing power was not particularly strong.
But after learning it, the user's upper-body speed and flexibility would improve significantly. And the more proficient they became, the greater the improvement.
Uchiha Mai could clearly feel that his punching speed had increased slightly just now. His hand seal speed had also risen from two seals per second to seven seals in three seconds.
The increase might not have seemed like much, but Uchiha Mai had only just obtained this ability. He had not even practiced it once.
Attack speed, upper-body flexibility, and hand seal speed were all extremely important qualities for a ninja.
Ninjas generally had strong offense and weak defense. If one could strike before an enemy did, one might severely wound or even kill them first while remaining completely unscathed.
A divine skill!
Damn system, I was wrong about you!
Uchiha Mai immediately beamed, truly turning his back on his previous opinion without a hint of shame.
At the Genin stage, aside from Kekkei Genkai, nothing improved practical combat ability more than taijutsu. This enhancement had hit exactly where it mattered.
Uchiha Mai withdrew his thoughts from the system, hastily cooked a bowl of noodles, and headed into the yard to practice Lightning Five-Chain Whip after dealing with dinner.
That flashy Uchiha-style Shurikenjutsu supposedly allowing the Uchiha to dominate the Ninja World was all a crooked path, completely useless.
Once things reached the later stages, Kekkei Genkai was still the most useful. Below that came ninjutsu and taijutsu.
This boxing art truly was profound. After practicing it several times, Uchiha Mai could feel that his strength had indeed increased a little more.
This positive feedback was like a visible experience bar in a game, making it impossible to stop. When effort brought corresponding rewards, most people were willing to work hard.
Just as Uchiha Mai wanted to practice a few more rounds, urgent knocking suddenly rang out beyond the courtyard gate.
"Who is it?"
Uchiha Mai asked instinctively, withdrew his fist, walked to the front gate, opened it, and looked around, but found no one knocking.
"Why is there nobody again?" Uchiha Mai muttered.
"Brother Mai, I'm down here." A child's voice came from below.
Uchiha Mai looked down and saw a tiny child of around four or five, with a button nose and a skewer of red bean dumplings in his mouth, looking up at him.
Uchiha Shisui.
This genius, who had never appeared directly in Shippuden and only showed up in other people's memories, was only four years old at the moment.
Shisui's age had always been disputed. Japanese manga was known for having plenty of creativity but lacking in details, and its settings often contained contradictions.
Kishimoto was just a manga artist. What the hell did he know about Naruto.jpg
Anyway, in the world Uchiha Mai had transmigrated into, Shisui was four years old this year.
"Oh, it's Shisui. What is it?" Uchiha Mai asked with a smile.
Shisui took a bite of his red bean dumplings, then sucked on his fingers covered in white sugar. "I just passed by the clan head uncle's house.
The clan head gave me a skewer of dumplings and told me to come get you."
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