"System! Open the Shop!"
The Shop interface opened, and Torifu began searching through the items filling the screen.
It wasn't that he didn't want to use the item search. He just had no idea which category the thing he wanted to buy belonged to. After all, it was an exceptionally unique item.
As he browsed, he also kept an eye out for anything else that caught his fancy. Even if he spent sixty thousand, he'd still have 14,300 Calmness Points left.
That was enough to buy a few novel little trinkets.
He kept scrolling. He didn't find the item he wanted, but something else caught his eye.
[Summoning Seed]
That's right. The item Torifu had been talking about all this time—the one that could help him survive Madara Uchiha's rebellion—was the Yunzhong Huachen Experience Card.
To be honest, Torifu had always wondered just how powerful this ancestor was. The system had made a special item just for him—and priced it so high!
His mysterious ancestor had barely been recorded in the clan's history. The only things they said were that he had founded Cloud Release and that he was incredibly powerful!
Nobody had explained just how powerful he was, or whether he was alive or dead.
Anyway, Torifu couldn't shake the feeling that this ancestor wasn't from this world. Maybe, like him, he was a traveler from another world?
After all, there was no such thing as the Kumonaka Clan or Cloud Release in the original Naruto world.
So Torifu's suspicions weren't unreasonable. He wanted to see if he could find any clues while using the Ancestor Experience Card.
Why was he so determined to get to the bottom of it? He was bored! Clearly, he wasn't doing enough missions!
Maybe—just maybe—he really was a Sword Immortal. You never knew!
Take the family heirloom, the Heming Sword, for example. Torifu had compared it with all kinds of ores used to forge top-grade weapons.
But none of those ores had anything to do with the Heming Sword.
"Once I use the Experience Card, I'll definitely end up fighting. I have to do my best to remember what it feels like! Maybe I can even learn a move or two."
An ancestor was an ancestor, after all. If he hadn't had some real skill, he'd have been dead a hundred times over in those days!
And the possibility that he'd been a Sword Immortal from another world only made Torifu more excited.
After closing the Shop, Torifu suddenly felt annoyed again. That damn Shop wouldn't let him save items, and the Ancestor Experience Card was one of those use-it-the-moment-you-open-it things!
If someone was already in his face beating him up and he still hadn't found the item, he'd be done for.
If the system had a customer satisfaction survey, Torifu would definitely rate the user experience as terrible!
But complaining and buying were two different things.
Anyway, everything was ready. All that was missing was Madara Uchiha. Torifu had never met him; Madara had left Konoha long before Torifu was born.
That made Torifu curious. "I wonder if he's anything like the anime."
Even someone as powerful as Madara Uchiha had only been another person's pawn. He'd thought his eyes had shown him true peace, but in the end, it was nothing but a hollow illusion.
"Huh?" Torifu suddenly had a flash of inspiration. "If I can just kill Madara Uchiha before he awakens the Rinnegan, could I prevent all that trouble from happening later?"
Torifu's reasoning wasn't baseless. If Madara died or never awakened the Rinnegan, Black Zetsu's plan would be much harder to pull off.
On the brink of death, Madara had bitten off a piece of Hashirama's flesh and used Izanagi to cheat death. He only awakened the Rinnegan shortly before dying of old age.
But Torifu wasn't sure. Without Madara Uchiha, Black Zetsu might find someone else to carry out the plan.
All he could do was try his best. Besides, what did it matter to him if the world was in chaos? He just had to protect his little corner of Konoha.
Besides, his strength kept growing. Even if danger really did come in the future, he could keep Konoha peaceful.
Once he'd thought it through, Torifu stopped dwelling on it. He might as well use the time to learn a few more ninjutsu techniques.
It was worth mentioning that Hashirama had now awarded Torifu a Forehead Protector, making him an official Konoha shinobi!
A genius shinobi at only seven years old, he was the talk of the village. He was also Lord Hokage's student, and countless powerful clans were eager to curry favor with him.
Torifu didn't particularly mind. They were all from the same village, after all, and getting along with people could only help.
People were always saying, "A genius who survives is still a genius," warning everyone not to show off too much and invite trouble.
But with Torifu's current strength, there weren't many who could successfully assassinate him.
Over the past year, Torifu's Chakra had reached five cards, and his strength had climbed to the top tier among Jonin. He'd also developed plenty of ninjutsu techniques to keep himself alive.
As a result, when Torifu sparred with Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others, he won more often than he lost. Hiruzen and Danzo didn't want to spar with him anymore.
After all, how embarrassing would it be for a seventeen-year-old shinobi to lose to a seven-year-old!
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