Medical Scroll

What does this mean? Don't believe yourself? As soon as you acknowledge Kabuto, the truth will be revealed. How can I prove what I'm saying is true?

Xing Ran didn't know that Nonō had already met with Kabuto. However, Nonō's words quickly resolved this issue.

"Kabuto also didn't receive orders from Danzo to assassinate anyone among the Stone Ninja," Nonō said, which made Xing Ran slightly relieved.

This meant they had already met, and judging by her tone, they had already acknowledged each other.

"That order will come. I'm not sure exactly when Danzo will issue such an order. Whether you believe it or not, I've told you about the danger, and I feel at ease. I don't care what you do in the end," Xing Ran said somewhat shamelessly, unable to provide evidence.

He only sought a clear conscience and to satisfy his own desire to learn. In any case, he had said all he could; the rest was up to them.

Nonō fell silent again after hearing Xing Ran's words. Time ticked by, and Xing Ran, watching it all, felt anxious for Nonō. Why were they still lingering here? They should hurry home to find their respective mothers and avoid being discovered.

"Why are you helping us like this? Do you have any requests?" After a long pause, Nonō suddenly asked, leaving Xing Ran speechless.

After holding back for so long, her big move was just to make him state his own needs first? Indeed, there were no purely good people in this ninja world. To go through all this trouble for others and claim to be doing good deeds without expecting anything in return—who would believe that?

Yet, Xing Ran genuinely just wanted to prevent tragedy from happening again and ease his own conscience. It could be said that he embodied the principle of "if you have the means, help the world." He had gained Superman's power and wanted to act as he pleased. What was wrong with that?

"No requests. You can leave now, I need to sleep." He knew this was a normal reaction for a ninja, to be absolutely vigilant towards strangers and the unknown. But knowing it didn't make being questioned after doing a good deed any less annoying. He gave her a perfunctory smile and showed her the way out.

Seeing Xing Ran's impatience, Yakushi Nonō was truly bewildered. Did people who did good deeds without expecting anything in return truly exist in this world? Heh, she had only met one such person in her life, and that was herself.

Thinking of this, Nonō's lips curved upward unconsciously, and the atmosphere suddenly lightened. She realized that this handsome young Konoha ninja before her was quite agreeable.

Her long years as a spy had made Nonō forget how to smile for a long time. Seeing Nonō's smile, Xing Ran was somehow influenced by it, and his perfunctory smile became more sincere.

"You are a good person. This is my thank you gift. Farewell, until we meet again." Nonō put her mask back on, tossed a scroll as thick as a forearm to Xing Ran, and walked towards the window she had come through.

Xing Ran instinctively caught the thrown scroll. Just as he was about to ask what it was, Nonō, who had already climbed onto the window, turned her head and said, "Oh, right. Even though you're a good person and helped us, Kabuto doesn't trust you. Ah, it's all the spy work that has affected his growth..."

Yakushi Nonō had just finished her previous sentence to Xing Ran, but before she could finish the latter half, she had already disappeared into the darkness again, as if explaining to Xing Ran or perhaps blaming herself for her inadequacy.

Xing Ran looked at the empty windowsill. The night breeze blew the curtains, and they quickly settled back down. Silence returned to the room.

The handsome young man's lips twitched. He tried hard to force a smile. Being called a good person—was this considered biting the hand that feeds you? Whether in his previous life or this one, good people rarely had good endings.

The most representative example was right before him. Nonō, who had kindly raised an orphan left behind by war, was a truly good person. In a normal destiny, she would have died miserably.

He weighed the scroll in his hand. It wasn't light, so the contents were likely substantial. He wondered what it could be.

He opened the scroll. It was filled with dense text and anatomical illustrations, completely filling the scroll.

This was a Medical Ninjutsu scroll.

And from the interspersed text within the lines, it was evident that this was not just a Medical Ninjutsu scroll; it also contained a large amount of Yakushi Nonō's cultivation insights.

Xing Ran possessed Super Brainpower, albeit a less developed version. However, he learned ninjutsu very quickly. For ordinary ninjutsu, as long as he had the learning materials, he could master it in about half a day.

What prevented him from becoming like Kakashi, who had learned over a thousand ninjutsu, was the secrecy culture of this world.

The ninja world had noble ninja clans and commoner ninjas.

The difference was not just the number of people with the same surname but also the inheritance of knowledge. As a noble clan, they had access to far more ninjutsu than commoners, making it easier to find suitable techniques and increasing their chances of becoming strong. In a virtuous cycle, the clan's strong individuals would multiply, and the collected ninjutsu would also increase.

Commoners were different. To learn a new ninjutsu, other than the Three Body Techniques learned in the ninja academy, they had to rely on their own efforts.

Whether it was apprenticing or using mission contributions to exchange for opportunities to learn ninjutsu in the village, there was always a process of giving before receiving, which was far inferior to noble clans.

Don't even mention that apprenticing was easy. While it wasn't like the previous life where you'd spend three years as a servant, three years as child labor, and three years as an assistant to learn true skills, serving the master by running errands was unavoidable in the early stages.

Even Naruto had a difficult time. Jiraiya, who was Naruto's grand-master, had emptied Naruto's savings before teaching him any real skills.

Therefore, an act like this, handing over one's own insights and ninjutsu scrolls to others, was definitely a great gift.

Unfortunately, this great gift made Xing Ran depressed. The reason was that his chakra nature was limited to the Yin Release chakra inherited from his clan and his own Earth Release chakra. Such excellent material was not very useful to Xing Ran.

"What a shame. Sleep." Xing Ran re-rolled the scroll and lay back down on the bed, soon falling into a deep sleep.

In the middle of the night, Iwagakure entered a world of water amidst flashes of lightning and thunder.

It hadn't rained this heavily in Iwagakure for a long time. When Xing Ran woke up the next day and opened the window again, the fresh, negative-ion-filled air instantly filled the entire room, along with Xing Ran's chest.

"What wonderful air..." Xing Ran languidly leaned on the windowsill. A light drizzle still fell from the sky. It wasn't a good day to go out, making Xing Ran feel very lazy.

The dusty environment that permeated the Land of Earth made Xing Ran feel as if he were in the smog of his previous life. But today, the rain had washed the world clean again. The air, which had hardly been polluted by industry in this world, pulled Xing Ran back to reality.