First Meeting with the Third Hokage

Uchiha Yuan returned home, lay straight down on the bed, slowly closed his eyes, and spun the roulette in his mind.

His vision shifted. The roulette vanished, and countless points of light scattered in every direction before gathering into new words.

"You have logged into the Cuiwei Realm."

"The Cuiwei Realm? A completely new world?" Uchiha Yuan's interest was instantly piqued.

"The Cuiwei Realm has eight continents in total. You were born on the Yellow Wind Continent in the southeast."

"The Yellow Wind Continent is vast, made up of hundreds of small nations. You are the Princess of one such small nation."

"Wait! Why am I a Princess? Shouldn't I be a prince?" Uchiha Yuan complained.

But obviously, the Text Game paid him no mind and silently continued advancing the plot.

"Your Father King and Queen Mother love you very much, and you grow up safe and happy."

"Today is your sixteenth birthday, and a grand banquet is held in the Imperial Palace."

"Your Father King is assassinated at the banquet, and your brothers come to blows over the throne."

"The nations near your country take advantage of the chaos and invade. Your country falls, and you are captured as well."

"You become spoils of war and are awarded to a meritorious general."

"The general sends you to the Jiaofang Division, where you learn the skills to serve men."

"Three months later, you are brought back by the general. The general dresses you up splendidly and sends you into the hands of a young Young Master."

"You become the young Young Master's maidservant."

"One day, you discover that the young Young Master is actually a legendary Immortal Cultivator."

"You begin secretly observing the young Young Master's cultivation."

"One day, when the young Young Master is halfway through cultivating, something unknown happens. Blood suddenly pours from his seven orifices, his whole body convulses, and he dies on the spot."

"You suppress your fear and take from the young Young Master a ring he has always worn on his hand. Through days of observation, you know all of the young Young Master's treasures are kept inside this ring."

"You flee into the depths of a mountain and, copying the young Young Master, drip your own blood onto the ring."

"The ring opens. Inside are a dozen or so Crystal Clear Stones, two small Jade Bottles, three Jade Slips, as well as some clothing, gold, and silver."

"Through trial and error, you confirm that what is recorded on the Jade Slips is the Cultivation Technique the young Young Master cultivated."

"You begin cultivating."

"You discover that you seem to be a genius at cultivating immortality. You learn especially quickly, and it takes you only three days to get started."

"Two months later, you break through to Qi Refining Layer One and officially become a cultivator."

"Ten years later, you reach Foundation Establishment."

"You fly back to your country."

"You originally thought that at the Foundation Establishment stage, you should be able to sweep through these mortal armies and reclaim your country, but you overestimate yourself. Although mortals cannot cultivate immortality, there are still powerful martial artists among them."

"You are defeated by a Grandmaster Martial Artist."

"Your cultivation is crippled."

"You are sent to the Jiaofang Division again."

"Unable to bear the humiliation, you choose to commit suicide."

"Game over!"

"Obtained Stat Point x5, Storage Ring x1."

After the Text Game ended this time, Uchiha Yuan was incomparably glad this was only a Text Game.

Otherwise, he would have had to truly experience everything that unlucky Princess in the Text Game had gone through.

Putting aside those miserable experiences, though, the rewards from this game seemed pretty good.

Thinking this, Uchiha Yuan claimed the rewards, and a gray, hazy ring appeared in his hand.

The ring's design looked extremely simple. At first glance, it was like an utterly ordinary little iron band—and the kind that had been sitting around for a very long time.

Uchiha Yuan was very satisfied with the Storage Ring's appearance. Such an inconspicuous little thing probably would not draw anyone's attention, right?

Uchiha Yuan copied the unlucky Princess in the Text Game and performed a round of blood-dripping recognition of ownership.

Just like that, the ring opened.

The space inside looked to be two meters in length, width, and height—in other words, eight cubic meters.

There was nothing in the space.

Uchiha Yuan immediately transferred everything from the Sealing Scroll into the Storage Ring.

After that, Uchiha Yuan tried it out and found that compared to taking things from the Sealing Scroll, taking things from the Storage Ring was clearly much more convenient.

As long as he willed it, the items in the ring would appear in his hand.

After playing with the Storage Ring for a while, Uchiha Yuan added the 5 points he had just obtained to Chakra.

Now Uchiha Yuan's panel had become like this:

Chakra Amount:49

Physique:30

Eye Power:70

Vitality:7

Nature Affinity:3

Level:lv12(19/20)

Stat Point:0

The next day, Uchiha Yuan arrived at the Ninja Academy as usual.

Today's class was a theory lesson. The teacher was explaining how to set and dismantle traps.

This class was fairly important. Who knew how many traps there were on the battlefield? Having some understanding of traps could more or less improve one's chances of survival there.

But what Uchiha Yuan had not expected was that halfway through the lesson, an Anbu suddenly came to the classroom and informed the teacher that there would be a temporary sparring session between Class One and Class Two, and that Hokage-sama would personally come to observe.

Before the teacher could even speak, the students below had already erupted.

These children, brainwashed by the Will of Fire, all became as excited as if they had been injected with adrenaline the moment they heard they would be able to see the Third Hokage.

To keep himself from seeming too out of place, Uchiha Yuan also put on an excited expression.

"Stop making noise! Everyone, go to the training field and get ready now!"

At the teacher's command, the students scrambled toward the training field, and halfway there, they even ran into the students of Class One, who were also rushing over.

This was Uchiha Yuan's first time seeing the ninjas who would serve as Konoha's mainstays in the early part of the original story.

The Third Hokage's son, Sarutobi Asuma; the daughter of Konoha's Genjutsu master Yūhi Shinkō, Yūhi Kurenai; the Third Hokage's future family tutor, Ebisu; the bodyguard of the Fourth and Fifth Hokage, Shiranui Genma; Konoha's interrogation unit captain, Morino Ibiki; Konoha's Sublime Green Beast, Might Guy, whom Madara Uchiha had recognized as the strongest taijutsu ninja; as well as Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin, the two future disciples of the Fourth Hokage.

Tsunade's disciple Kato Shizune, however, was nowhere to be seen. At this time, Tsunade had already left Konoha, so Shizune should have left together with her.

Just as Uchiha Yuan was sizing these people up, cheers suddenly rang out from the crowd. He looked up and, sure enough, the Third Hokage had arrived.

This was Uchiha Yuan's first time seeing the Third Hokage, with only a dozen or so meters between them.

Uchiha Yuan looked at the Third Hokage before him, dressed in a white Hokage robe with a red ninja outfit underneath and wearing the Hokage bamboo hat, while putting on the same adoring expression as the other students.

He was different from the Third Hokage who had already entered old age when he first appeared in the original story.

The current Third Hokage was only just over fifty, still in the prime of his fighting years.