Flames, lightning, and blades flashing through blood.
Yellow sand, puppets, and a battlefield ravaged by war.
A young Konoha Ninja lay pressed against an enemy, their bodies tangled together.
Both their blades had pierced the other's body.
"Fucheng, wake up! Whatever you do, don't fall asleep!"
"You've lost too much blood. Be careful—you might not wake up if you fall asleep."
Uchiha Yashiro shook the half-conscious Uchiha Fucheng gently, calling to him in alarm.
Yashiro used a large amount of hemostatic medicine and bandages, pressing down on Fucheng's wound to stop the bleeding.
The pain jolted Li Fucheng, half-conscious and half-asleep, wide awake!
What remained in his mind was still the terrifying, pale-blue current.
His final fixation was a fragment of a memory: "pulling a crab trap out of the creek."
Before he could reach the bank, he had been electrocuted in the river.
Frustration, anger, pain, and the shock of being reborn surged together, boiling inside him.
"I, Li Fucheng, actually got electrocuted to death by a bunch of trash illegally fishing with electric gear?"
As a "Liu Huaqiang"-style small-town kingpin, Li Fucheng didn't have many secrets to success.
He relied on having a lot of relatives and brothers, on the solidarity of Li Village, and on his rough-and-ready "flexible methods."
In this small county town in the western region, he had used his clan's influence to build a life where he never had to "watch anyone's expression."
He owned two private coal mines, a coal-washing plant, and the biggest hotel in town. He even had more than thirty storefronts along the main streets.
The label of "township entrepreneur" might not sound impressive, but his reputation as the "Guo Fucheng" of Li Village Town was well-known.
Even the Li Village relatives who followed him had nearly become the wealthiest group in the area.
Who would've thought he'd die at the hands of a bunch of drifters illegally electrofishing?
The pain and the merging memories quickly helped Fucheng understand his situation.
He, Li Fucheng, had been reborn!
He had been reborn in the body of someone named Uchiha Fucheng.
His biological older brother was Uchiha Fugaku, the Mangekyō master with the least presence in Naruto!
Li Fucheng grumbled inwardly, Having a brother like that is really awkward.
Fugaku was only two years older than him. At eighteen, Uchiha Fugaku hadn't inherited the position of Uchiha Clan Head.
What was more, Fucheng couldn't stand Fugaku's indecisiveness.
Having lived a second life, he naturally couldn't let that foolish older brother become the one calling the shots in the Uchiha Clan.
Facing the few Uchiha before him, Fucheng kept his composure.
He only said hoarsely, "Yashiro, don't worry. I'm not badly hurt."
He didn't dare show too much emotion. The people around him were all members of the Uchiha Clan. To avoid anyone noticing that something was off, he had to get away from them as soon as possible.
Fucheng was willing to keep a low profile, but some of the Uchiha Ninja didn't see things that way.
An Uchiha Ninja with a scar across the bridge of his nose looked at Uchiha Fucheng with disdain. "Yashiro, don't waste your time on this brat. He's already got the Three-Tomoe, but he can't even beat a Sand Ninja. What a disgrace."
Uchiha Yashiro was a little angry. "Watch your mouth!"
The other two Ninja beside him looked indifferent, as if the second son of the Uchiha Clan Head's branch was nothing special.
Uchiha Bailian, whom Uchiha Fucheng had saved at the cost of his own life, wore a fierce expression, his teeth clenched.
He wanted to risk his life for Uchiha Fucheng.
But he'd only awakened the Two-Tomoe. No matter how fierce his glare, it wasn't much of a threat.
Fucheng stood up, holding his wound, and pointed at Uchiha Yan's nose as he scolded him without a hint of courtesy. "Don't think that being Uchiha Setsuna's grandson gives you the right to talk down to me. I'm still from the Uchiha Clan Head's main branch. Even if I hit you in front of everyone, Uchiha Setsuna would do no more than complain to Fugaku."
Fucheng's gaze was ferocious as he spoke, making Uchiha Yan retreat a step in fear.
Uchiha Yan felt he'd lost face, and glared back at him defiantly.
Yashiro stepped between them and looked at Fucheng with concern. "Your wound's deep. I'll take you off the battlefield."
Uchiha Bailian also watched Fucheng with concern.
"Let me carry Lord Fucheng. I'll take him to the medical Ninja in the rear."
"This wound isn't going to kill me!"
Fucheng waved him off. "I'll head back to the rear for treatment myself. I don't need you to look after me."
He lowered his head and looked at Uchiha Yashiro. "Yashiro, take Bailian and the others to support the northeast first. I just spotted a hidden Explosive Tag trap near the black boulder."
Fucheng's expression was grave. "You need to recall the Konoha Ninja in that direction as soon as possible. Quite a few of the younger Ninja were heading toward the trap."
Yashiro was worried, but Fucheng insisted on retreating alone.
"I'm fine. This wound won't stop me from heading back for treatment." After saying that, Fucheng didn't linger. He held his abdomen and headed straight for the rear.
Fucheng wasn't confident about the memories he'd just absorbed. He was worried that a change in his personality and behavior would give away the truth to Uchiha Clan members who knew him well.
The prompt that rang in his mind made him realize: "After being reborn, my cheat has arrived!"
[Recognition Points: 73] [Recognition Points] quantified the positive emotions the host received from their community, friends, and family, such as recognition, admiration, expectations, and affection. (With determination, change fate; with emotion, break the odds.)
Looking at the [Recognition Points], Fucheng was puzzled.
These [Recognition Points] are a little strange. Did Heaven want me to be a good person this time around?
Fucheng raised his eyebrows slightly. "I was the richest man in Li Village, after all. Who'd dare say I, Fucheng, wasn't the biggest good guy around?"
[Try to change the fate of an important character to obtain a Fate Dice.]
A strange six-sided die appeared in his mind.
The die was a cube that seemed to be made of flesh and blood. Each face had a different number of Sharingan. The most terrifying face had six blood-red Sharingan, all rolling around in their sockets.
With this prompt, Fucheng finally understood what the [Recognition Points] were for.
Changing an important character's fate would reward him with a Fate Dice numbered from one to six.
By spending [Recognition Points], he could roll the Fate Dice and receive a final reward based on the number rolled.
1 point: A small amount of lifespan.
2 points: A physical item reward.
3 points: A physical enhancement reward.
4 points: An ability or skill reward.
5 points: A talent or bloodline reward.
6 points: A random cross-world reward.
The more Fucheng looked, the more excited he became. "With this talent—this cheat—even Otsutsuki Ichiraku will have to serve me ramen himself."
There were far too many characters in this world whose fates he could try to change.
Like the Explosive Tag trap he'd found in the northeast.
If an enemy Jonin hadn't badly wounded Fucheng on the way, then it wouldn't have been Nawaki who got blown up when they reached the trap—it would've been Fucheng himself.
He'd just been reborn, so he needed to play it safe for now.
Otherwise, just the chance to change Nawaki's fate would give him plenty of ways to win Tsunade over.
Fucheng shook his head. "Why think so much? There'll be plenty of chances to change fate. First, I need to make sure I stay alive."
As he checked the wound in his abdomen, he found that the mysterious energy from his rebirth had already made it much shallower.
"As for whether Yashiro can save Nawaki this time, that'll depend on his own luck."
He'd sent Yashiro to warn them simply because he wanted to do what he could and leave the rest to fate.
[Successfully changed Uchiha Fucheng's fate.] [Fate trajectory: Died in the Second Shinobi War] [Reward: Uchiha Fucheng's Fate Dice]
"Me? Did Fugaku's biological younger brother originally die here during the Second Shinobi War?"
Fucheng narrowed his eyes.
"Changing my own fate counts as a reward, too? That gives me plenty of room to work with."
In his imagination, he could find the indecisive Uchiha Fugaku and forcibly sterilize his biological older brother.
Or he could use his charm as a younger brother-in-law to steal his sister-in-law, Mikoto, away?
Either one would probably change the fates of Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke in an instant...
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