God-Tier Reaction

"Battle ended, obtained High-Level Neural Reflexes."

Shangguan Yue felt his mind clear and a chill wash over his mental sanctum. When he opened his eyes again and looked into the air, everything seemed unchanged, yet it felt as though everything had transformed.

Shangguan Yue reached out to swipe the light screen. As he watched the display flicker before him, he felt a strange sensation.

"What's going on? Why is the screen scrolling so slowly? This shouldn't be happening!

Chuuni, did you change the scroll speed? It's so slow, are you trying to show this to my grandmother?"

"I didn't! I've been wronged! Just go and fight a challenge yourself, and you'll understand."

Shangguan Yue activated the battle mode once more.

"Selection: Uchiha Fugaku."

Reappearing on the Challenge Platform, Shangguan Yue stood perfectly still this time, while the Uchiha Fugaku opposite him lunged with his blade.

Shangguan Yue dodged with ease, just as before, but!!!

"Everything has changed. It's too slow, far too slow!

Is this the reflex capability required to command the Flying Thunder God? It's truly formidable."

Shangguan Yue could clearly see every detail of Uchiha Fugaku's sword swing. How to put it? It felt as if everything had slowed down, just as if he had activated the Sharingan.

Yet, he hadn't activated the Sharingan at all. This was merely his new baseline; his normal state of dynamic perception was now comparable to a One-Tomoe Sharingan.

Most importantly, his body could perfectly mirror his perception—his movements followed his intent.

"In that case, let's test the Sharingan."

A single tomoe manifested in each of Shangguan Yue's eyes. Sure enough, the effect was multiplied. It wasn't a simple addition, but an exponential stacking of power.

The next second, to Uchiha Fugaku, it seemed as if Shangguan Yue hadn't moved from his spot at all, yet his own consciousness began to blur.

As he collapsed to the ground, watching Shangguan Yue sheath his blade, he had no idea when he had been decapitated.

"Battle ended, obtained Fire Style: Great Fireball."

"Hmm? I didn't expect to pull the Great Fireball on my first challenge after half a month. That saves me quite a few Luck Points."

Shangguan Yue exited the Challenge Space with satisfaction. "Chuuni, tell me, why is the reorganized data so trash? I haven't seen a single Chunin."

"Your current strength is too weak, so the reorganized opponents are limited to this level. Wait until you are stronger, then we shall see."

"How boring. It seems I must graduate from the Ninja Academy quickly so I can stop holding back my strength.

And this Challenge Platform—the abilities obtained from opponents are crippled, and the bloodlines are even worse.

If I want greater gains later, I must wait until I am powerful enough to use the Otsutsuki Clan's Devour.

It's fortunate that I am a Devour Space; I can just toss those bloodline ninjas inside and absorb them.

Only then can my bloodline rapidly recover and reach the true Otsutsuki bloodline."

He looked at his remaining Luck balance, which was only around 300. That was only because he had become the first-year valedictorian, which granted him a bonus of 50; otherwise, it would have been even lower.

There was no help for it. When fighting clan disciples, he could at least trade a round or two, and if Shangguan Yue was in a good mood, he might spar with them slowly.

If he was in a bad mood, he would finish them in a second. As for the commoner students, they weren't even worth mentioning; they were always instant kills. He couldn't stand the sight of "chickens pecking at each other."

Consequently, his Luck Points dwindled. Shangguan Yue discovered that the comprehensive evaluation for obtaining Luck Points was quite strange.

It was as if he were a clown performing for others; if he performed well, the audience gave more, but if he performed poorly, they gave little or nothing at all.

For instance, if he toyed with an opponent of his own level for a while before defeating them, he could earn two or even three points.

But with commoner students, he usually wiped out a whole group in an instant because he couldn't be bothered to waste time.

The result of that was, even if there were thirty or forty of them, he would only receive 20 points at most.

Furthermore, during this period, few people actually attended the Ninja Academy. Most clans preferred not to send their descendants there.

However, times had changed. Hiruzen Sarutobi was gradually increasing the importance of the Ninja Academy through various interest distributions and political maneuvering.

Only then did the annual enrollment slowly begin to rise. This year, the most notable students were the young clan heads of the Senju and Uchiha clans, along with the young heads of the Hyuga clan's main and branch families.

The fact that they all enrolled together created a power bloc that countless people yearned to climb and befriend.

Those with ulterior motives scrambled to have their children enroll at this exact time, which led to the exceptionally high enrollment numbers this year.

It could be considered a good start. But aside from Class A, the students in the other classes were truly not worth mentioning.

Compared to him—a Genin the moment he enrolled—the difference was like heaven and earth. Fortunately, the Balance didn't seem to care how it communicated with the Hokage world.

Regardless of strength, as long as the requirements were met, he could obtain Luck Points, so Shangguan Yue wasn't picky. As long as they were heads, he wanted them.

The pity was that he could basically only challenge them once. To challenge them again, he had to wait for them to achieve a breakthrough in strength.

For example, advancing from a trainee to a Genin, or from a Genin to a Chunin—those kinds of stage-based breakthroughs.

For ordinary people, they only reached the Genin stage upon graduation.

Therefore, to Shangguan Yue, most of these classmates were one-time transactions; only those clan disciples allowed him to "farm" them repeatedly.