Reviving Dead Fish Was a Bug

He rushed back to Hai Yi's home as quickly as possible and told Hai Yi everything in detail.

"Hahaha, that's just Grandma Qiu's personality. Don't take it to heart, Xing Ran. Taking a master isn't easy. If you want to learn real skills, you need the perseverance to overcome hardships and obstacles. Grandma Qiu is a good person..." Hai Yi clearly knew something, yet refused to tell Xing Ran. He just kept stressing that Xing Ran should not give up so easily over such a minor setback.

Early the next morning, Xing Ran arrived at Grandma Qiu's shop. Unlike yesterday, it was the morning rush, when everyone was buying groceries.

Grandma Qiu's shop was incredibly busy.

At the entrance, Grandma Qiu, wearing the same clothes as yesterday, had just seen off one customer when another woman with a child entered the shop.

This time, Xing Ran had put points into the shamelessness attribute. He gritted his teeth and entered the shop as well.

He planned to shamelessly help Grandma Qiu sell fish, move her with his hardworking nature, become her final disciple, then marry a rich, beautiful woman, become Hokage, and reach the pinnacle of life.

However, this idea—which he had agonized over all night, even delaying Hai Yi's training method—turned to ashes the instant Xing Ran stepped through the door.

Where the hell was that lonely old woman struggling to keep her little shop afloat that they had promised him?

One Grandma Qiu sat at a small table by the entrance, using a calculator to keep accounts. Don't be surprised that the Naruto world had calculators; it even had surveillance equipment. One Grandma Qiu was enthusiastically promoting today's fresh ingredients to the woman who had just entered. One Grandma Qiu was petting a cat, another was cleaning, and yet another sat in yesterday's reclining chair, basking in the sun while eating breakfast.

A curse nearly slipped out of Xing Ran's mouth. Yesterday, he had seen only one Grandma Qiu in the shop and thought he had a chance. Now that he thought about it, he was still too young for the Naruto world. Naruto wasn't the only one who could cheat with Multiple Shadow Clone.

As a senior expert Medical Ninja of the Yamanaka Clan, Grandma Qiu possessed powerful Yang Release, Chakra reserves, and Spiritual Power. She could perfectly offset the negative effects of Multiple Shadow Clone. Besides, selling fish was only busy in the mornings and evenings. After using Shadow Clone once, she only needed a brief rest before she could continue working... So he really had interrupted Grandma Qiu's rest yesterday!

Xing Ran quickly realized where he had gone wrong. He shamelessly approached the Grandma Qiu eating breakfast with the expression of the village fool from Old Li's family. He did not mention becoming her disciple. Instead, he flashed a toothy grin, announced that a community volunteer had come to care for a lonely elderly woman, and offered to do whatever work needed doing.

Grandma Qiu stared at Xing Ran for quite a while, then revealed a smile missing her front teeth. She immediately dispelled every Grandma Qiu Shadow Clone except the one keeping accounts. The meaning was obvious: do not meddle with the money; leave everything else to him.

Xing Ran forced out an insincere smile and instantly got into character. Superman's abilities really were not bad. They were perfectly suited for manual labor. No wonder the Superman from Steel Body had quit being a reporter and gone off to do physical work.

Finally, near noon, customers stopped entering the shop. Xing Ran let out a breath, then looked expectantly at Grandma Qiu, like an elementary school student who had finished cleaning the classroom on duty just as the teacher passed by, eagerly waiting for praise.

"You did a fine job, young man. This fish is about to die. Take it." Looking like a generous local tycoon bestowing charity, Grandma Qiu handed Xing Ran a bagged fish, then wore an expression that plainly said, Take it away quickly. Don't let me see it again.

And so, Xing Ran was once again inexplicably driven out of the little shop by Grandma Qiu.

Damn it. He had not realized that old hag was such an actress. Even Superman's Super Brain had not caught on. He had really been dismissed as free labor!

Xing Ran's face flushed red with anger. He grabbed the fish and slammed it onto the ground, then stomped on it twice, still unable to vent his fury. The feeling beneath his foot told him that the fish was not merely about to die—it had been dead for a long time. What a stingy old woman.

Xing Ran wanted to leave with a flick of his sleeve, but he was unwilling to accept it. He had worked all morning. Even if he had no merit, he had at least put in the effort. This dead fish was still payment of a sort. Others might not value his efforts, but he could not deny the results of his own labor. Even though he had money now, money could be wasted, but the fruits of labor should not be wasted like this.

Xing Ran decided to take the fish home and eat it, treating it as a harsh lesson for himself. In this ninja world, he was not only young, but his acting skills still needed improvement.

However, although Young Master Xing Ran intended to eat the fish, he could not truly wrong himself. As the future God of Gamblers who would never lack money, how could he eat dead fish?

Yakushi Nonō's scroll also contained records of using Medical Ninjutsu to restore vitality to dead fish.

As a transmigrator from a nation of great food lovers, Xing Ran naturally had to freshen it up before eating the fish. Yes, fresh as in freshness.

Medical Ninjutsu was a type of ninjutsu in which the user stimulated cells through Chakra to heal a patient's wounds. Through shape transformation, it could also detoxify or attack.

As a practice tool during training, dead fish were extremely common and practical.

The difficulty of Medical Ninjutsu lay in Chakra control. With strong control, one could quickly master the more advanced Mystical Palm Technique, but most ninja were stuck at this stage.

If a ninja could use a basic ninjutsu like Healing Technique to control every cell in a fish's body and restore its vitality for a period of time, restoring the godlike reflexes of fish and making the fish appear to have come back to life, then congratulations: that ninja's Yang Release Chakra control had reached the standard for training in Mystical Palm Technique.

In the original story, Medical Ninjutsu could revive dead fish and then advance to the point of reviving dead people. Such an incongruous phenomenon was simply a bug. Xing Ran only learned the truth after studying Medical Ninjutsu.

Now that Xing Ran could already use Mystical Palm Technique with ease through Superman's brain, there was no reason he could not manage something as trivial as freshening up a fish.

Just as Xing Ran had expected, after repeatedly experimenting a few times, he quickly fixed up this unlucky fish, which had died such a miserable death, until it was once again lively and vigorous. While the fish was still bursting with energy, Xing Ran used the advanced technique of manipulating shuriken and, within minutes, sent it to the afterlife in a pot.

After eating the fish, Xing Ran fell into thought. If all he wanted was to reach the level where he could use Mystical Palm Technique for emergency treatment in actual combat, then he had already graduated. But becoming a Medical Ninja was not simply for battle. He wanted to use vast medical knowledge as a foundation, then set his sights on Orochimaru's research materials, ultimately solve the soul problem in Reincarnation Technique, and eliminate Superman's weaknesses of low magic resistance and a weak soul before Infinite Tsukuyomi.

To be continued.

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